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From building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals, adding value to your portfolio companies and helping them implement smart exit strategies, David provides both the fundamental strategies and the specific tools you need to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class.

This is the most complete catalogue of cutting-edge negotiating tactics ever published. This blockbuster work is written as a playbook, a field guide, so lawyers, sales professionals, and other dealmakers will actively use it as negotiations proceed. Use the tactics individually or in combinations.

The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

Angel Investing is a comprehensive, entertaining guide that walks listeners through every step of the way to becoming a successful angel investor. From building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals, to adding value to your portfolio companies and helping them implement smart exit strategies, this book provides both the fundamental strategies and the specific tools you need to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class.

Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.

The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned interventions from skilled helpers. Unplugging from technology and reconnecting with the web of life is a powerful antidote to the highly technological and fast-paced realities of so many.

Drawing on first-person interviews, unpublished memoirs, newspaper accounts, contemporary studies, government documents, and recent scholarship, Sin, Sex & Subversion argues that "deviant" sexuality was subversive, and that unique New York "outsiders" of the 1950s set the stage for the following decades and the world we know today. In each chapter, author David Rosen examines a critical moral issue through an in-depth profile of figures such as Liberace, Samuel Roth, Bettie Page, the Rosenbergs, and others.

Joining the Marines in 2002, David Rose signed up to go fight...and to go die. On this grim path, rather than finding a violent death, he would find family, purpose, and a brotherhood amid the misfit world of the war fighter. No Joy sees David recounting madcap tales of Muay Thai bouts in seedy garages, a bizarre stint as a street cop, being on the other side of the badge, becoming a veteran of the psych ward, and more. It's an irreverently told story that doesn't just tell one man's tale, but speaks to the necessary question: What really draws modern young men to war?

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future” (The Wall Street Journal). We...

DARK DELIGHTS FROM FIFTEEN CONJURERS OF THE CREEPY AND CREPUSCULAR! Anthologies of ghost stories haunt bookshelves the world over, so why should you read The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts? The answers are spooky in their simplicity. Firstly, you have to admit there’s no such thing as—oh, you thought I was going to say ghosts? How silly of you! No, not at all. I was going to say—too many ghost stories. We always have been and always will be mesmerised by tales from the other side—the great unknown. We tell ourselves that superstition is dead and that even if we do go on in some ...

When Maecidion dies, the reading of the will is an outrage. Irion, the dead necromancer's kin, watches as coveted heirlooms are given to his enemies. Himself no stranger to black magic, Irion soon embarks on a bitter skirmish to retrieve what should rightfully be his. A composite novel: Tinged with traces of horror and humor, erotica and satire, the world of Mulgara plays host to an ensemble of dark characters.

Enter the world of Artificial Intelligence. Twelve sci-fi stories featuring androids, cyborgs, and other AI intelligence are within this anthology. Whether AI furthers the advances of society or horrifically brings them crashing down, these characters must navigate alongside technology through their daily lives. Featuring 12 stories by the following authors: John Barackman, David Grimes, Adele Liles, Richard Zaric, Caroline Crews, Diana Parrilla, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Rose McClary, Gray Stanback, Kiera Kearsey, and Alisa Darbinyan.

Today, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Snap, Samsung, and a host of startups are racing to radically change the way we see. The building blocks are already falling into place: cloud computing and 5G networks, AI computer vision algorithms, smart glasses and VR headsets, and mixed reality games like Pokémon GO. But what’s coming next is a fundamental shift in how we experience the world and interact with each other. Over the next decade, what we see and how we see it will no longer be bound by biology.

Never mind that Bryn has just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Holt Furst, or that said boyfriend has suddenly disappeared from his apartment above her shop - possibly in a violent kidnapping. Bryndis dutifully heads to the airport to pick up Frida, only to discover that Frida has also disappeared - reportedly swooped up by a chauffeur and whisked away in a limousine. Who would kidnap her niece? Where could they have taken her? Where could Holt be?

F Is for Fear, the sixth book in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. In this audio, you will find a collection of 13 nightmarish tales from some of the most talented independent writers on the scene today. From spiders to snakes to things that dwell in the dark, F Is for Fear contains a variety of phobia-inducing stories that will set your heart racing.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2021 Evening Star: Two bullied school children decide to reveal their true selves to their classmates and suffer the consequences. Conscience Cleaners: A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed. The Room Above: A convicted criminal wakes to an erased memory and finds he is part of a strange government rehabilitation program. Appreciating Hate: Police do a wellness check to a home and find a man who has been systematically working to remove art that glorifies the vile. The Showing: ...

David Rose knows suffering. In his memoir, Nothing is Wasted, he shares the life events that he has walked through—experiences of abuse and bullying and a terrible accident that led to years of medical treatment, ultimately altering the trajectory of his life forever. While his story may seem shrouded in darkness, a brighter light was present throughout his life. In every moment, God was with him, and he was unfolding a glorious plan in Rose’s life. Through it all, Rose learned that God can use the lowest times in your life and turn the pain into something beautiful.

Thick As THVS is a podcast where best friends and directors, Nate Rose and David Elijah Piersaul, give hot takes on movies, music, and media through the lens of their friendship and personal lives.

We are here to recount the 90s era with you! Rewatching 90s nostalgia with banter, drinks, and hopefully some laughs.

Hundra år efter tredje världskriget ligger världen i ruiner. Men snart dyker lite hopp upp vid horisonten i form av ett toppmöte mellan alla stridande parter. Målet är att ena alla mot den gemensamma fienden - ryssarna och deras allierade. Blade och hans vänner har svurit att skydda ledarna vid det stora mötet mot mördarna som kommit för att förstöra mötet och jordens framtid. Men mördarna var villiga att dö hellre än att misslyckas och snart utvecklas toppmötet till en desperat kamp om planetens framtid.