Celebrate the extraordinary work of Jose Gonzalez, an unparalleled master of horror illustration, with this gorgeous hardcover collection, presenting for the first time actual storyboard artwork spanning his years as the preeminent Vampirella artist! Eleven captivating and creepy tales appear in their entirety, stories ranging over ten years from Vampirella Magazine #15 (January 1972) to issue #112 (March 1983). Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, Jose Gonzalez's Vampirella Art Edition preserves every detail of the artist's meticulous skill and hard work, a true treasure for longtime Vampi fans. Includes the following Jose Gonzalez Vampirella stories in their completion: Vampirella #15: "The Resurrection of Papa Voudou", written by Archie Goodwin Vampirella #16: "...And Be a Bride of Chaos", written by Archie Goodwin Vampirella #19: "Shadow Of Dracula", written by T Casey Brennan Vampirella #21: "Slithers in the Sand", written by Steve Englehart Vampirella #23: "The Blood Queen of Bayou Parish", written by Steve Englehart Vampirella #27: "Return Trip?", written by Josep Toutain Vampirella #28: "Curse of the MacDaemons", written by Mike Butterworth Vampirella #37: "She Who Waits", written by Archie Goodwin Vampirella #61: "An Eye for an Eye", written by Bill DuBay Vampirella #108: "Spawn of the Star Beast 6", written by Rich Margopoulos Vampirella #112: "The Walker of Worlds", written by Rich Margopoulos
How could "Iron Mike" Tyson, the greatest heavyweight boxing champion of all time, lose a $400 million fortune and wind up in prison for rape? This powerful story answers those questions through Rudy Gonzalez, the only person to survive for so long in Tyson's "inner ring." For more than five years Rudy was at Tyson's side as his chauffeur, bodyguard, and personal aide. Rudy witnessed the deceit, betrayal, and fraud perpetrated upon his boss by Don King and others. What really happened to Mike Tyson? The shocking answers lie within the pages of The Inner Ring. This book also is available as a full-color paperback "Collector's Edition" and as a Kindle and Kindle App download for digital devices, including tablets and smartphones.
Part of the TRACTION Library, Process! proves that a high-level, 20/80 approach to getting your core processes “followed by all” will help you: Get consistently exceptional results Improve and innovate as necessary Free yourself to live your ideal life If you own, run, or lead in a fast-moving business, you’re likely driven by passion and a desire to be free. Many leaders mistakenly believe instilling rigor and discipline for process throughout your organizations will inhibit freedom. They couldn’t be more wrong. It’s when you’re stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it’s possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation. Process! will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable. You’ll learn how to document and simplify the major steps in those processes so they can be done the right and best way, every time. Finally, you’ll execute a simple, step-by-step plan that is helping more than 10,000 entrepreneurs around the world consistently get the results they want.
Lyle Harrelson is in a jam. He's been laid off, the bills are piling up, and he can't even afford to get his sick daughter to the doctor. Then his old college buddy Carl calls. Carl has a lead on a new job with great pay, solid benefits, and an immediate opening. Carl pounces on the opportunity. He has no idea what he's getting into. His co-workers are secretive. His boss is a stone cold bitch. And when he wonders exactly what it is Kaiser Development Systems does, nobody will give him an answer. Carl calls him again, this time warning him to stay away from Kaiser. Moments later, Carl is dead. Lyle wants to know why. He tries to learn more about Kaiser: who they are, what they do, what the strange data on the servers he manages is for. But he's made a mistake. And then the real trouble begins.
The Collins Cambridge IGCSE™ Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Global Perspectives syllabuses (0457/2069) for examination from 2025. The resources support learners to develop skills and prepare for assessment, exploring global issues through international texts, data and case studies. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge IGCSE™ and O Level Global Perspectives syllabuses (0457/2069) for examination from 2025. This book provides full coverage of the syllabus.Communicate the excitement of Global Perspectives with the collaborative project in Section 1. Students to jump straight into researching an issue and coming up with practical suggestions for how they can improve wellbeing in their school.Take an active, enquiry-based and reiterative approach to skills development. Each investigation in Section 2 asks students to engage with a different global issue and builds skills through a carefully structured activity sequence that leads to a final task and opportunity for reflection. These skills will be extended and applied in Sections 3, 4 and 5.Support students to respond effectively to given sources. Section 3 asks students to analyse, evaluate and respond to two sets of sources, to help students prepare for written examinations.Help students to tackle independent projects with confidence. In Section 4 learners undertake a mini research project to help them understand how to plan, structure and write an individual report, while Section 5 guides students through the process of planning, carrying out and reflecting on a team project.Show students how to progress: throughout the book, models and annotated examples help students understand how their own work can be improved.Encourage reflection through the structured Reflective plenary prompts in each unit and the Check your progress and Next steps features at the end of each section.The clear lesson-by-lesson approach is easy to use and build into teachers’ own schemes of work.The Collins resources offer different entry points, whether your students are new to Global Perspectives or have studied the subject before, and whether they are completing the course in one year or two.
The Collins Cambridge IGCSE™ Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Global Perspectives syllabuses (0457/2069) for examination from 2025. The comprehensive and practical teacher support includes lesson plans, worksheets and answers for every unit of the Student’s Book. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge IGCSE™ and O Level Global Perspectives syllabuses (0457/2069) for examination from 2025. Plan for progression with a full scheme of work. Section overviews show which skills, issues and key terms are covered in each lesson, and where topics, assessment components and assessment objectives from the syllabus have been supported.Feel confident teaching Global Perspectives with ready-made lesson plans, worksheets, answer keys and an activity bank full of active learning teaching ideas.Detailed lesson plans share best practice, whether you are teaching Cambridge IGCSE for the first time or are an experienced teacher of Global Perspectives.The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows you to use the resources with ease in the classroom and to build them into your own schemes of work.Understand how to assess students’ participation and progress with the differentiated Success criteria in each lesson plan.Extra support and Extra challenge differentiation points in each lesson plan suggest how all learners can be supported to make progress, while worksheets scaffold and extend the Student’s Book activities.Personalise the course and adapt the resources to the needs of your classes with the editable Word and PDF files that can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/cambridge-international-downloads
Develop lean iOS and Android apps using industry standard techniques and lean development practices. About This Book • Build ready-to-deploy apps with less iterations and shorter development times • Adopt the lean startup methodologies to develop iOS and Android apps that shine in the App Store • This hands-on guide puts continuous innovation into practice to develop successful mobile apps Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, CTOs, and architects working for a startup or another kind of lean startup environment, such as start-up within a cooperation. It is is ideal for any iOS and Android developer who wants to build successful mobile apps by adopting the lean startup methodology. What You Will Learn • Apply the lean startup methodology to real Android and iOS development • Define what your hypotheses are by creating an Minimal Viable Product • Validate your idea against the Business Model Canvas • Gather feedback through statistics and by getting user comments, learn from it, and adapt your app accordingly • Develop skills and devise strategies to build versatile and flexible apps that meet changing business requirements • Investigate the possibilities when you need to pivot your start-up idea whether in a startup or an established business. • Create a successful app and get tips on how to boostconversion and how to optimize the on boardingprocess. In Detail Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance. Style and approach This book takes a hands-on approach to developing apps through the Lean Start-up Methodology. Following a 50% business and 50% tech approach, this book is filled with practical examples and real-world experiments.
Various Authors; Azucena Gonzalez-Coloma; Maria Fe Andres; Daniel Tapia Garcia; Shannon Borges; Mike Mendelsohn; Martin Erlandson; Toby Bruce; Marcos Kogan
This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the development and use of novel biocontrol agents. The first chapter provides an overview of the development of botanical pesticides and focusses on the potential of essential oils in replacing traditional synthetic products. A case study on the use of essential oils as a plant-based biocontrol agent in black truffle cultivation is also included.The second chapter identifies some of the common issues faced by regulators in assessing risks of microbial and biochemical pesticides as well as dsRNA pesticides. It also discusses problems related to identification, exposure analysis and hazard testingThe third chapter reviews advances in the use of entomopathogenic viruses as biopesticides in suppressing crop insect pests, focussing on RNA viruses such as tetraviruses and reoviruses and DNA viruses such as Parvoviridae, Poxviridae, Nudiviridae and Baculoviridae.The fourth chapter considers the various types of allelochemicals, their possible use as part of an integrated pest management (IPM) toolkit, constraints to their use, as well as how these challenges can be overcome.The final chapter reviews the future evolution of IPM and identifies the ways modern agriculture has disrupted plant defences and the control of pests by their natural enemies.
This book investigates the current and potential roles of food consumption to address sustainability challenges in China.Focusing on the megacity of Guangzhou, it looks at sustainability and food from the perspectives of government, commercial, and third sector actors, and through the lived experiences of consumers. It charts the rapidly transforming landscapes of retail across urban China and the ways they are shaping and are shaped by everyday food consumption practices. Using a multi-method research approach of quantitative and ethnographic data, it provides readers with a rich and comprehensive understanding of the relationships and tensions between contemporary practices of food consumption and pressing sustainability challenges. It unpacks the complex foodscape in contemporary Chinese cities, from traditional wet markets to online deliveries, from supermarkets to farmers markets and alternative food providers, to understand the values and practices promoting and hindering sustainability in food consumption.The book is intended for academics from advanced undergraduate level through to Masters, postgraduates and scholars across key social science disciplines including Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, and Business, and internationally given the global interest in the focus on China.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Christine Allen; Fred Anguera; Shelly Bailes; Matthew Baume; Kirsten Berzon; Michael Boyajian; Billy Bradford; Kate Burns; Marvin Burrows; Geoff Callan; Joe Capley-Alfano; Frank Capley-Alfano; Beau Chandler; Sean Chapin; J.Scott Coatsworth; Michael Farino; Stuart Gaffney; Tim Garcia; Mike Goettemoeller; Baltimore Gonzalez; Carmen Goodyear; Tracy Hollister; Mark "Major" Jiminez; Davina Kotulski; Kitty Lambert-Rudd; Cheryle Lambert-Rudd; John Lewis; Amos Lim; Zack Lyons; Cathy Marino-Thomas; Michael Markiewicz; Brian Maschka
"The People's Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world." – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage equality as amoral and a direct threat to families. Allies warned that it was a generation away from being practicable and a selfish drain of precious political capital. A stirring oral history told by those who almost inexplicably found themselves fighting on the front lines, The People's Victory recounts the successes – and the setbacks – that only served to strengthen everyone's resolve to resist, fight, and bring equal marriage rights to an entire nation. Through it all, these love warriors found their voice and home in Marriage Equality USA, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots organization of its kind. While high profile books, articles and documentaries have covered the judicial and legislative machinations, this book puts a human face on the people who made the everyday personal sacrifices to keep the movement alive. The People's Victory shares deeply moving personal testimonies of over sixty people, from Marvin Burrows, who was forced out of his home and lost many treasured possessions after losing his lost his partner of fifty years; to Kate Burns, who risked arrest for the first time when she stood up for her relationship; to Mike Goettemoeller, who pushed his mother in a wheelchair with Marriage Equality USA to fulfill her dream of marching in a Pride parade.Edie Windsor, the triumphant lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case United States vs. Windsor recounts shouting down a major LGBTQ organization with "I'm 77 years old and I can't wait!!" when they attempted to belittle marriage as a critical issue. Writer and producer Del Shores shares the touching moment his young teenage daughter used tears and laughter to console him after the passage of Proposition 8 in California dealt a blow to the cause.The People's Victory is an inspirational roadmap for anyone who has felt passionately about an issue, but has questioned whether one person's contribution can make a difference. These candid accounts once again prove that every movement for important social change must be built on the acts of everyday. In fact, that is the only way the people have ever been victorious.In his introduction, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom writes: "I hope these stories inspire you to resist, to fight, to win and in the end write the next stories in our continuing push for a more just and perfect union.
Mike the Tiger-the only live tiger mascot in the United States-is an iconic presence on LSU's campus. From his tiger sanctuary next to Tiger Stadium, he draws a steady stream of fans, adults and children alike. In this new book about LSU's favorite tiger, Mike's former veterinarian David G. Baker reflects on his decades of caring for three of the live mascots, beginning with Mike V in 1996. Baker gives fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of the tigers as he recounts episodes such as Mike VI's cancer diagnosis, treatment, and death, and the search for Mike VII. He gives details about the tiger's daily care and routine, provides answers to commonly asked questions about the mascot program, and discusses Mike's popular social media presence. He also delves into new traditions, such as the creation of "meat art" for Mike to devour before home football games and the overnight holding of graduation rings in the night house with Mike. In addition to Baker's own text, Mike: The Tigers of LSU includes remembrances from many of the tiger's veterinary student caretakers over the years, who reveal how caring for Mike the Tiger impacted their lives. Loaded with more than one hundred new and historical photos, Mike is sure to please the most avid fans of LSU's mascot.
