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George MacDonald: A Biography of Scotland's Beloved Storyteller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 892min

Scotland's beloved storyteller, George MacDonald, 19th-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to 20th century Christians by C. S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald's Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G. K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, "If we test the matter of originality of attitude, George MacDonald was one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century." W. H. Auden added, "In his power...to project his inner life into images...which are valid for all, he is one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century." Despite acclaim by his peers, historians, Christian statesmen, and literary giants of the past 100 years, MacDonald's life and writings continue to be a source of controversy. Challenging the traditional religious views of his day, MacDonald was continually stretching, reaching, probing, questioning, and searching for truth. Author Michael R. Phillips leads the listener through those controversies to bring a fresh and insightful look at the man, his times, and his work. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/001529/bk_oasi_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Poem for Every Day of the Year , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 668min

A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. The collection is passionately narrated by Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Russell Beale, with introductions read by Allie Esiri and contributions from Damian Lynch and Peter Forbes. Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating and empowering! Perfect for listening to with all the family, this audiobook is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. T. S. Eliot, John Betjeman, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Tempest. This soul-enhancing audiobook is the perfect gift that will last the whole year, with a little bit of magic to hear every day. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the Track Listing and Acknowledgements can be found on a supplementary PDF which is available to download in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Russell Beale, Damian Lynch, Peter Forbes, Allie Esiri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001230/bk_macm_001230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mind Chatter That Matters

Mind Chatter That Matters ab 22.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Ultimate Guide to Your Inner Conflict. Revised with new chapter and acknowledgements. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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Dark Nights of the Soul

Dark Nights of the Soul ab 12.49 € als Taschenbuch: Reflections on Faith and the Depressed Brain. With Dedication Foreword Acknowledgements and bonus essay. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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Dark Nights of the Soul

Dark Nights of the Soul ab 16.49 € als Taschenbuch: Reflections on Faith and the Depressed Brain Second Edition. With Dedication Foreword Acknowledgements and Bonus Essay. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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Strategy Safari

Henry Mintzbergs views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys. The Observer My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning. Tom Peters, managment guru Strategy is the most prestigious but also the most confusing part of business. Managers are constantly bombarded with new jargon and the latest fads promising the magic bullet for every strategic problem. The world of strategy can seem to be an impenetrable jungle. Strategy Safari presents a powerful antidote to the dilemma of needing to know about strategy and yet not being able to find any comprehensible guidelines. This revised edition is a comprehensive, colourful and illuminating tour through the wilds of strategic management. In this provocative, jargon-free and extremely readable guide, top strategy authors Mintzberg, Ahlstrand & Lampel clearly set out and critique each of the ten major schools of strategic management thinking to help you grasp what you really need to know. Take the strategy safari your business will thank you for it. Product Description Henry Mintzbergs views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys. The Observer My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning. Tom Peters, managment guru Strategy is the most prestigious but also the most confusing part of business. Managers are constantly bombarded with new jargon and the latest fads promising the magic bullet for every strategic problem. The world of strategy can seem to be an impenetrable jungle. Strategy Safari presents a powerful antidote to the dilemma of needing to know about strategy and yet not being able to find any comprehensible guidelines. This revised edition is a comprehensive, colourful and illuminating tour through the wilds of strategic management. In this provocative, jargon-free and extremely readable guide, top strategy authors Mintzberg, Ahlstrand & Lampel clearly set out and critique each of the ten major schools of strategic management thinking to help you grasp what you really need to know. Take the strategy safari your business will thank you for it. Backcover Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys. The Observer Strategy Safari gives you the big ten in the strategy jungle In this revised edition of the original, ground-breaking Strategy Safari, Henry Mintzberg, described by Tom Peters as perhaps the worlds premier management thinker and his equally maverick co-authors continue to blaze a trail through the jungle of strategy. This provocative, jargon-free and readable guide clearly sets out and critiques each of the ten major schools of strategic management to help you grasp what you really need to know. Whether you are an ambitious manager or a bewildered student, Strategy Safari is your indispensable guide to strategy. Take the strategy safari your business will thank you for it SEE THE NEW COMPANION WEBSITE, INCLUDING INSTRUCTORS MANUAL, AT WWW.PEARSON-BOOKS.COM/STRATEGYSAFARI Contents Acknowledgements / ix Embarkation / xi 1 And over here, ladies and gentlemen: the strategic management beast Why ten? A field review Five Ps for strategy Strategies for better and for worse Strategic management as an academic discipline 2 The design school: strategy formation as a process of conception Origins of the design school The basic design school model Premises of the design school Critique of the design school The design school: contexts and contributions 3 The planning school: strategy formation as a formal process The basic strategic planning model Sorting out the hierarchies Premises of the planning school Some more recent developments Plannings unplanned troubles The fallacies of strategic planning The context and contribution of the planning school 4 The positioning school: strategy formation as an analytical process Enter Porter Premises of the positioning school The first wave: origins in the military maxims The second wave: the search for consulting imperatives The third wave: the development of empirical propositions Critique of the positioning school Contribution and context of the positioning school 5 The entrepreneurial school: strategy formation as a visionary process Origins in economics The literature of the entrepreneurial school Visionary leadership Premises of the entrepreneurial school Contribution, critique, and context of the entrepreneurial school 6 The cognitive school: strategy formation as a mental process Cognition as confusion Cognition as information processing Cognition as mapping Cognition as concept attainment Cognition as construction Premises of the cognitive school Critique, contribution, and the context of the cognitive school 7 The learning school: strategy formation as an emergent process Formation vs formulation Emergence of a learning model New directions for the learning school From organizational learning to the learning organization Critique of the learning school Contribution and context of the learning school 8 The power school: strategy formation as a process of negotiation Micro power Upper echelons theory: strategic management at the top Macro power Conclusion 9 The cultural school: strategy formation as a collective process The nature of culture Premises of the cultural school Culture and strategy The Swedish wing of the cultural school Resources as the basis of competitive advantage Critique, contribution and context of the cultural school 10 The environmental school: strategy formation as a reactive process Premises of the environmental school The contingency view The population ecology view Institutional pressures to conform Critique, contribution, and context of the environmental school 11 The configuration school: strategy formation as a process of transformation &nbsStrategy Safari - gives you the 'big ten' in the strategy jungleIn this revised edition of the original, ground-breaking Strategy Safari, Henry Mintzberg, described by Tom Peters as 'perhaps the world's premier management thinker' and his equally maverick co-authors continue to blaze a trail through the jungle of strategy. This provocative, jargon-free and readable guide clearly sets out and critiques each of the ten major schools of strategic management to help you grasp what you really need to know. Whether you are an ambitious manager or a bewildered student, Strategy Safari is your indispensable guide to strategy. Take the strategy safari - your business will thank you for it

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Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery shows how tocreate fully automated, repeatable, and reliable processes for rapidly moving changes through build, deploy, test, and release. Using these techniques, software organizations are getting critical fixes and other new releases into production in hours - sometimes evenminutes - evenin large projects with complex code bases. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the high-level principles and practices required to succeed with regular, repeatable, low-risk releases. Next, they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support deployment pipelines, from infrastructure to data management and governance. The authors introduce many state-of-the-art techniques, including in-production monitoring and tracing, dependency management, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, demonstrate how to mitigate risks, and identify best practices. Coverage includes · Overcoming "anti-patterns" that slow down releases and reduce quality · Automating all facets of configuration management and testing · Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels · Scripting highly-effective automated build and deployment processes · Triggering automated processes whenever a change is made · Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation · Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements · Utilizing continuous deployment, rollbacks, and zero-downtime releases · Managing infrastructure, data, components, dependencies, and versions · Navigating risk management, compliance, and other obstacles Whether you're a developer, architect, tester, or manager, this book will help you move from idea to release faster than ever - so you can deliver far more value, far more rapidly. Product Description Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours- sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes . Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software . Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels . Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations . Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams . Implementing an effective configuration management strategy . Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation . Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements . Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases . Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies . Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing Whether you're a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably. Backcover Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours- sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes . Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software . Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels . Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations . Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams . Implementing an effective configuration management strategy . Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation . Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements . Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases . Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies . Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing Whether you're a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably. Foreword by Martin Fowler Preface Acknowledgements About the Authors Part I Foundations 1 The Problem of Delivering Software 2 Configuration Management 3 Continuous Integration 4 Implementing a Testing Strategy Part II The Deployment Pipeline 5 Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline 6 Build and deployment scripting 7 Commit Testing Stage 8 Automated Acceptance Testing 9 Testing Non-Functional Requirements 10 Deploying and Releasing Applications Part III The Delivery Ecosystem 11 Managing infrastructure and environments 12 Managing Data 13 Managing components and dependencies 14 Advanced version control 15 Managing Continuous Delivery Bibliography Index Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enablerapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Throughautomation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration betweendevelopers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours-sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-riskdelivery process. Next, they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process formanaging all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the "ecosystem" needed tosupport continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure managementand data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify bestpractices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes- Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software- Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels- Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations- Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams- Implementing an effective configuration management strategy- Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation- Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements- Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases- Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies- Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditingWhether you're a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help yourorganization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your businessrapidly and reliably.

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