Author: Mindy Klasky
Publisher: Res Ipsa Press
ISBN: 0985457023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Two great romantic comedy heroines working together to solve a mystery! Jane Madison is searching for a job that will fulfill her, enabling her to balance her peerless librarian skills with her witchcraft. Sarah Anderson, clerk of court for the District of Columbia Night Court, is just beginning to figure out what she can do as a sphinx, an ancient protector of vampires. Magic flies when Jane and Sarah team up to track down a rare collection of books. Along the way, both women juggle personal goals, professional careers, and their often-unwieldy love lives! This novella takes place in Magical Washington—the intersection of the Washington Witches Series and the Washington Vampires Series. Where else can a reader find a novella of witchcraft, vampires, and cupcakes? If you like romantic comedy, romcom, chicklit, or humorous and funny stories about libraries, librarians, witches, witchcraft, magic, fantasy, supernatural or paranormal events—like The Ex Hex, Payback’s a Witch, or Practical Magic—you will love this book! Magical Washington includes The Washington Witches Series, the Washington Vampires Series, the Washington Warders, and the Washington Medical: Vampire Ward Series: Girl's Guide to Witchcraft Sorcery and the Single Girl Magic and the Modern Girl Single Witch's Survival Guide Joy of Witchcraft Capital Magic "Dreaming of a Witch Christmas" "Nice Witches Don't Swear" Fright Court Law and Murder High Stakes Trial “Stake Me Out to the Ball Game” The Library, the Witch, and the Warder The Witch Doctor Is In Fae's Anatomy The Lady Doctor is a Vamp 110122mfm
Capital Magic
Author: Mindy Klasky
Publisher: Res Ipsa Press
ISBN: 0985457023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Two great romantic comedy heroines working together to solve a mystery! Jane Madison is searching for a job that will fulfill her, enabling her to balance her peerless librarian skills with her witchcraft. Sarah Anderson, clerk of court for the District of Columbia Night Court, is just beginning to figure out what she can do as a sphinx, an ancient protector of vampires. Magic flies when Jane and Sarah team up to track down a rare collection of books. Along the way, both women juggle personal goals, professional careers, and their often-unwieldy love lives! This novella takes place in Magical Washington—the intersection of the Washington Witches Series and the Washington Vampires Series. Where else can a reader find a novella of witchcraft, vampires, and cupcakes? If you like romantic comedy, romcom, chicklit, or humorous and funny stories about libraries, librarians, witches, witchcraft, magic, fantasy, supernatural or paranormal events—like The Ex Hex, Payback’s a Witch, or Practical Magic—you will love this book! Magical Washington includes The Washington Witches Series, the Washington Vampires Series, the Washington Warders, and the Washington Medical: Vampire Ward Series: Girl's Guide to Witchcraft Sorcery and the Single Girl Magic and the Modern Girl Single Witch's Survival Guide Joy of Witchcraft Capital Magic "Dreaming of a Witch Christmas" "Nice Witches Don't Swear" Fright Court Law and Murder High Stakes Trial “Stake Me Out to the Ball Game” The Library, the Witch, and the Warder The Witch Doctor Is In Fae's Anatomy The Lady Doctor is a Vamp 110122mfm
Publisher: Res Ipsa Press
ISBN: 0985457023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Two great romantic comedy heroines working together to solve a mystery! Jane Madison is searching for a job that will fulfill her, enabling her to balance her peerless librarian skills with her witchcraft. Sarah Anderson, clerk of court for the District of Columbia Night Court, is just beginning to figure out what she can do as a sphinx, an ancient protector of vampires. Magic flies when Jane and Sarah team up to track down a rare collection of books. Along the way, both women juggle personal goals, professional careers, and their often-unwieldy love lives! This novella takes place in Magical Washington—the intersection of the Washington Witches Series and the Washington Vampires Series. Where else can a reader find a novella of witchcraft, vampires, and cupcakes? If you like romantic comedy, romcom, chicklit, or humorous and funny stories about libraries, librarians, witches, witchcraft, magic, fantasy, supernatural or paranormal events—like The Ex Hex, Payback’s a Witch, or Practical Magic—you will love this book! Magical Washington includes The Washington Witches Series, the Washington Vampires Series, the Washington Warders, and the Washington Medical: Vampire Ward Series: Girl's Guide to Witchcraft Sorcery and the Single Girl Magic and the Modern Girl Single Witch's Survival Guide Joy of Witchcraft Capital Magic "Dreaming of a Witch Christmas" "Nice Witches Don't Swear" Fright Court Law and Murder High Stakes Trial “Stake Me Out to the Ball Game” The Library, the Witch, and the Warder The Witch Doctor Is In Fae's Anatomy The Lady Doctor is a Vamp 110122mfm
Performing Magic on the Western Stage
Author: L. Hass
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617123
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617123
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.
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The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
Author: Joel Greenblatt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470624159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available at bargain prices. Now, with a new Introduction and Afterword for 2010, The Little Book that Still Beats the Market updates and expands upon the research findings from the original book. Included are data and analysis covering the recent financial crisis and model performance through the end of 2009. In a straightforward and accessible style, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals the author’s time-tested formula that makes buying above average companies at below average prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. He shows how to use his method to beat both the market and professional managers by a wide margin. You’ll also learn why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone “knows” it. While the formula may be simple, understanding why the formula works is the true key to success for investors. The book will take readers on a step-by-step journey so that they can learn the principles of value investing in a way that will provide them with a long term strategy that they can understand and stick with through both good and bad periods for the stock market. As the Wall Street Journal stated about the original edition, “Mr. Greenblatt…says his goal was to provide advice that, while sophisticated, could be understood and followed by his five children, ages 6 to 15. They are in luck. His ‘Little Book’ is one of the best, clearest guides to value investing out there.”
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470624159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available at bargain prices. Now, with a new Introduction and Afterword for 2010, The Little Book that Still Beats the Market updates and expands upon the research findings from the original book. Included are data and analysis covering the recent financial crisis and model performance through the end of 2009. In a straightforward and accessible style, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals the author’s time-tested formula that makes buying above average companies at below average prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. He shows how to use his method to beat both the market and professional managers by a wide margin. You’ll also learn why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone “knows” it. While the formula may be simple, understanding why the formula works is the true key to success for investors. The book will take readers on a step-by-step journey so that they can learn the principles of value investing in a way that will provide them with a long term strategy that they can understand and stick with through both good and bad periods for the stock market. As the Wall Street Journal stated about the original edition, “Mr. Greenblatt…says his goal was to provide advice that, while sophisticated, could be understood and followed by his five children, ages 6 to 15. They are in luck. His ‘Little Book’ is one of the best, clearest guides to value investing out there.”
The Lost Guild Series
Author: Mindy Klasky
Publisher: Peabridge Press
ISBN: 1950184501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
“A fast-paced adventure series featuring a passionate, heart-winning heroine.” — Booklist The coming-of-age story of Rani Trader, a young woman devoting her life to restoring her lost glasswrights guild. The Glasswrights’ Apprentice: Rani Trader, an apprentice in the stained-glass-maker’s guild, witnesses a murder, and she’s accused of being the killer. On the run, Rani must masquerade through her kingdom’s strict castes, attempting to discover the true assassin. The Glasswrights’ Progress: When Rani is kidnapped from her new home in the royal palace, she must depend on her wits to fight an enemy king in a distant land, a tyrant willing to use innocent children to fight his bloody battles. The Glasswrights’ Journeyman: When Rani’s beloved city is destroyed by fire, the only hope for rebuilding is a royal marriage with a wealthy princess. Rani’s negotiations soon force her to choose between the ominous Spiderguild, the alluring Players, and Rani’s love for her king. The Glasswrights’ Test: Rani Trader has finally been summoned by her exiled guild and invited to test for the rank of master. But she must prove far more than her knowledge of glassmaking, while lives of loved ones hang in the balance. The Glasswrights’ Master: Rani Trader flees her homeland as enemy armies invade. Struggling to control mystical powers rising within her, she negotiates safety for herself, her king, and the royal heir. With armies arraying for the final battle, Rani fights to become the master of her fate—and her lost guild. 121322mfm
Publisher: Peabridge Press
ISBN: 1950184501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
“A fast-paced adventure series featuring a passionate, heart-winning heroine.” — Booklist The coming-of-age story of Rani Trader, a young woman devoting her life to restoring her lost glasswrights guild. The Glasswrights’ Apprentice: Rani Trader, an apprentice in the stained-glass-maker’s guild, witnesses a murder, and she’s accused of being the killer. On the run, Rani must masquerade through her kingdom’s strict castes, attempting to discover the true assassin. The Glasswrights’ Progress: When Rani is kidnapped from her new home in the royal palace, she must depend on her wits to fight an enemy king in a distant land, a tyrant willing to use innocent children to fight his bloody battles. The Glasswrights’ Journeyman: When Rani’s beloved city is destroyed by fire, the only hope for rebuilding is a royal marriage with a wealthy princess. Rani’s negotiations soon force her to choose between the ominous Spiderguild, the alluring Players, and Rani’s love for her king. The Glasswrights’ Test: Rani Trader has finally been summoned by her exiled guild and invited to test for the rank of master. But she must prove far more than her knowledge of glassmaking, while lives of loved ones hang in the balance. The Glasswrights’ Master: Rani Trader flees her homeland as enemy armies invade. Struggling to control mystical powers rising within her, she negotiates safety for herself, her king, and the royal heir. With armies arraying for the final battle, Rani fights to become the master of her fate—and her lost guild. 121322mfm
White Magic
Author: Elissa Washuta
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142403
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, Lit Hub, Book Riot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year "Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." —The New York Times Book Review Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life—Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham—to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142403
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, Lit Hub, Book Riot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year "Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." —The New York Times Book Review Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life—Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham—to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.
Personal Knowledge Capital
Author: Janette Young
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1780633661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Intangible value leads to new insights and ideas, and higher levels of creativity and innovative thinking. Personal knowledge capital focuses on the knowledge worker, knowledge creation, and third generation knowledge management. A focus on the 'inner and outer' aspects of personal knowledge capital creates a balanced approach in order to produce creative solutions. As such this forms part of a synthesis of mind versus body thinking in relation to knowledge creation theory within knowledge management. This title is divided into two sections: the inner and outer path. The inner path focuses on tacit knowledge in knowledge creation, and highlights the importance of inner value, resulting in a model for personal knowledge awareness. The outer path explores how to effectively communicate and exploit knowledge in a modern business world, both online and offline. This section focuses on valuing intangibles including social capital, relationships and trust, exploring community, conversation, infrastructure and ecologies for a web world. You can manage your own assets through your communities and networks, exploiting the latest technologies around you. - Examines know-how, tacit knowledge, and emotional and cognitive knowledge - Links social capital to web technologies to create innovative frameworks, tools and models - Puts forward tools and mechanisms supported by research, which can be used for the design of a knowledge infrastructure
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1780633661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Intangible value leads to new insights and ideas, and higher levels of creativity and innovative thinking. Personal knowledge capital focuses on the knowledge worker, knowledge creation, and third generation knowledge management. A focus on the 'inner and outer' aspects of personal knowledge capital creates a balanced approach in order to produce creative solutions. As such this forms part of a synthesis of mind versus body thinking in relation to knowledge creation theory within knowledge management. This title is divided into two sections: the inner and outer path. The inner path focuses on tacit knowledge in knowledge creation, and highlights the importance of inner value, resulting in a model for personal knowledge awareness. The outer path explores how to effectively communicate and exploit knowledge in a modern business world, both online and offline. This section focuses on valuing intangibles including social capital, relationships and trust, exploring community, conversation, infrastructure and ecologies for a web world. You can manage your own assets through your communities and networks, exploiting the latest technologies around you. - Examines know-how, tacit knowledge, and emotional and cognitive knowledge - Links social capital to web technologies to create innovative frameworks, tools and models - Puts forward tools and mechanisms supported by research, which can be used for the design of a knowledge infrastructure
Magic Box Paradigm
Author: Ezra Roizen
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What if I told you that the last thing you want from a potential acquirer is a term sheet? Or that the casualty of a bidding war is often going to be you? Or the presentation you should use when you meet with investors is quite different from the one you should use with potential strategic partners? Or that moves a buyer may make to reduce their risk in an acquisition can end up increasing the chance that they don't achieve the full potential of the combination? Startup acquisitions are counterintuitive. Yet that doesn't mean they're impossible to navigate. Quite the contrary, the Magic Box Paradigm (MBP) is your guide to creating, optimizing, and closing startup acquisitions. The MBP is a holistic approach to creating opportunities for your startup to be acquired-the blueprint for being bought not sold. The MBP is going to put you in a position of strength in conversations with potential strategic partners, show you how to inspire them to create an actionable acquisition thesis, and then how to turn that thesis into an outperforming offer. Once the offer is on the table, the MBP is going to give you the tools to close the deal. And if you like the book - join the community at www.mbp.co
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What if I told you that the last thing you want from a potential acquirer is a term sheet? Or that the casualty of a bidding war is often going to be you? Or the presentation you should use when you meet with investors is quite different from the one you should use with potential strategic partners? Or that moves a buyer may make to reduce their risk in an acquisition can end up increasing the chance that they don't achieve the full potential of the combination? Startup acquisitions are counterintuitive. Yet that doesn't mean they're impossible to navigate. Quite the contrary, the Magic Box Paradigm (MBP) is your guide to creating, optimizing, and closing startup acquisitions. The MBP is a holistic approach to creating opportunities for your startup to be acquired-the blueprint for being bought not sold. The MBP is going to put you in a position of strength in conversations with potential strategic partners, show you how to inspire them to create an actionable acquisition thesis, and then how to turn that thesis into an outperforming offer. Once the offer is on the table, the MBP is going to give you the tools to close the deal. And if you like the book - join the community at www.mbp.co
Witchcraft and Welfare
Author: Raquel Romberg
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujería emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujería has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujería emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujería has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.
The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace
Author: David Hakken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135944032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics (computer science) to examine how the character and social functions of knowledge change profoundly in computer-saturated environments. He looks at what informational technologies offer, how they are being employed, and how they are tied to various agendas and forms of power. Knowledge Landscapes will be essential for both social scientists and cultural studies scholars doing research on cyberculture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135944032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics (computer science) to examine how the character and social functions of knowledge change profoundly in computer-saturated environments. He looks at what informational technologies offer, how they are being employed, and how they are tied to various agendas and forms of power. Knowledge Landscapes will be essential for both social scientists and cultural studies scholars doing research on cyberculture.