In the summer of 2023, 8 year old Andrew would be presented with an opportunity to show off what he's been working on. AJ Comix! His very own comic book design company. Andrew was invited to participate in the Acton Children's Business Fair, and he couldn't wait to put into practice all that he had learned! Andrew went on to design a 5-part series labeled after his family pets. Andrew sold out of 20 comic books in the first hour. Andrew's passion is reading and getting lost in a story, hopefully you get lost in his too!
Why Not? "How Two Words Can Change Your Life" is the newest Nationwide Best Seller from Andrew Jacob. Have you ever wondered how you can make your life better and more fulfilling? Are you tired of leading a boring life? Are you looking for more excitement, more challenge, more respect, and more opportunity? It is all possible by simply learning the simple lesson from "Why Not?
POLKA DOT TUXEDO is a book of original one act satiric plays and poems, on the subjects of social affairs, art and politics. The collection of vivid and stimulating plays and poems presents a world of adversity, illusion and the grotesque. Written with crisp style, easy to perform dialogue, and immensely colorful and energetic characters, the plays range from three to fifteen minutes in length. Plays include: “Hippie,” about an unruly resident confronting the manager of his quiet apartment building. “The Great Surrealist Class,” presents artist Salvador Dali refusing to teach his art class students. “Royal Patient,” conveys a psychiatric hospital reality with weird doctor and patient relations - especially the patient, Queen Cleopatra. One of the satiric poems: “America of an Immigrant” depicts a legal immigrant’s perception of his new country, seen by him through the windows of a Boeing 747. This poem received First Prize in the National Poetry Contest conducted by Lucidity Poetry Journal. This collection of satiric plays and poems constitutes a perfect educational supplement for high schools and college acting workshops, comedy review shows, competitions or festivals, and also for professional theater settings. POLKA DOT TUXEDO was created for the new generation of inspiring actors to shine.
This book traces the business career of Jacob Bunn. A New Jersey-born farmer who ventured west to Illinois in the mid 19th century and had his hand in a wide variety of business enterprises, ranging from a grocery business, coal, iron, sugar beets, railroads, banks, newspapers, and timepieces, he helped make Illinois a center of innovative industry. Bunn was involved in the making of Lincoln as President, in the success of the Illinois Watch Company, and set the stage for Illinois-based companies like the Sangamo Electric Co., well-known into recent times around the world. His real legacy, according to this young scholar, is his legacy of integrity and his honorable behavior when faced with bank failure in the Panic of 1873. Read of a time when industrial pioneers were settling a frontier. Jacob Bunn's life has had a global impact. He left companies and a legacy, and should serve as a model for the contemporary business world.
To help the reader understand the African-American family in its broad historical, social, and cultural context, the author traces the rich history of the black family from its roots in Africa, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to the present.
Judaism and Christianity meet in scripture, which they share and about which they contend. In Common Ground Father Andrew Greeley and Rabbi Jacob Neusner present their characteristically candid - and often provocative - interpretations of the history, context, and meaning of scripture. Written in alternating chapters, Common Ground reveals how a rabbi understands Christ, Mary, and St Paul, and how a priest views creation, Abraham and Sarah, and the prophets. Neusner calls upon the ancient Rabbinic approach to scripture - the conversational dialogue of "Midrash" - while Greeley creatively renews the narrative tradition of Christianity. Together they show that differences in responses to scripture enrich the possibilities of biblical renewal.
Two consummate storytellers -- one a liberal Catholic priest, the other a conservative Jewish rabbi -- draw on their religious heritages to reveal fresh ways of understanding good and evil behavior. Inspired by scripture and oral tradition, each author presents a story on each of the seven deadly sins, and then offers a story on one of the seven primary virtues. Each vivid story offers profound insight into the ongoing battle of good and evil. Theologian Mary Greeley Durkin has written the compelling introduction and conclusion.
The treatise of the great philosopher and mystic, Jacob Boehme’s Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, is a key to his complete work, its historical context, and its role in German intellectual history.
Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations. Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.
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