Head to Head

Head to Head
Author: Baptist Cornabas
Publisher: Schiffer Kids
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780764362262

Can you guess what Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs have in common? Or Angelina Jolie and Mother Teresa? Discover how these individuals changed the course of history with their ideas, discoveries, actions, and inventions, from Johannes Gutenberg to Emma Watson. Short biographies of two seemingly unrelated figures are presented side by side and then open up to a spread discussing their common traits and how their discoveries and actions paved the way for each other and future activists. Each pair is followed by a timeline showing where the individual figures existed in history, along with other important world events. The book ends with a world map, plotting the location of each person discussed, showing how greatness comes from every corner of the world.

Head to Head

Head to Head
Author: Lester C. Thurow
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0061882070

The classic text on the post-Cold War economic battle. Starting with the fall of communism, influential economist and former dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management Lester Thurow deftly explores how head-to-head competition -- not military might -- among Japan, the United States, and the newly united European countries would produce the next world leader. As Thurow explains, in the 1990s the race for economic supremacy was only just beginning. In a world no longer governed by two military superpowers, the stage was set for a dramatic shoot-out among the world's most powerful national economies. Using analytical data, key insights, and common sense, Thurow presents a solid economic game plan for the United States to follow in order to win this battle and attain dominance in the global economy.

Jaap Stam

Jaap Stam
Author: Jaap Stam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002
Genre: Soccer players
ISBN: 9780007117093

Now recognised as one of the best central defenders in the world, Jaap Stam was a huge influence in Manchester United's 1998/99 Treble winning season and continues to earn the plaudits for his performances at both club level and for Holland. In this, his first book, Stam reveals what it is like to play for the biggest and most famous football club in the world, sharing the limelight with the likes of Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Roy Keane.

(CLUB ONLY) Discovery: Head-to-Head: Animals

(CLUB ONLY) Discovery: Head-to-Head: Animals
Author: Maggie Fischer
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781684126033

Flip through the pages and watch these awesome animals go head-to-head! There are so many amazing creatures in the animal kingdom, and they have adapted to thrive in their natural environments with incredible predatory, defensive, and protective skills. This unique book ranks some of the fiercest—according to their speed, intelligence, senses, and skills—in this mix-and-flip battle book. Each page is split so readers can flip to different animals to create unique match-ups, compare their stats, and see how their favorite animals would match up if they went head-to-head!

Fighting Talk

Fighting Talk
Author: Bob Jones
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2013-08-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1775534391

From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language. Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and 'Knockout Punch'? How often TV newsreaders will say that a politician has "Thrown His hat in the Ring', is a 'Big Hitter', is 'Taking it on the Chin', is 'Down for the Count' or has the 'Killer Instinct'? Knight of the realm, leading businessman, colourful and controversial commentator, and boxing aficionado Sir Robert — Bob —Jones certainly has. Over a period of years he made careful note of how often terms cropped up and then retraced their etymological origins in boxing history. The result is a lively, entertaining, and thought-provoking miscellany of boxing terms that are now part of our everyday English language. Some have strayed far from their original meanings, others are more frequently in use now than at any other time. Jones asks why that might be, and his answers are, well, a knockout.

Create Marketplace Disruption

Create Marketplace Disruption
Author: Adam Hartung
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2010-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132703858

Master the #1 Principle for Long-Term Market Dominance! The Phoenix Principle “Create Marketplace Disruption is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. Adam Hartung offers business managers and leaders new insights to long-term success that apply across markets and industries.” –Steve Burke, President, Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, PA "Talking innovation is easier than practicing innovation. Adam offers an excellent approach for corporations to identify how to innovate to gain competitive advantage. A must read.” –Praveen Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Innovation Science and Chairman, Accelper Consulting, Schaumburg, IL Some companies can’t change in response to market disruptions. Those companies die. Other companies do respond...eventually. They survive, but they see their profits squeezed, their growth flattened. Then,there are the long-term winners: companies that create their own disruptions and thrive on change. In Create Marketplace Disruption, Adam Hartung shows how to become one of those rare companies, creating lasting growth and profits. This book reveals why so many companies behave in ways that are utterly incompatible with long-term success...and why even “good to great” companies are struggling for air. You’ll discover how to reposition your organization away from the Flats and Swamps of traditional Defend and Extend Management and back into the Rapids of accelerated growth. Hartung demonstrates how to attack competitors’ Lock-ins, make their Success Formulas obsolete, and create the White Space needed to invent your own new formulas for success. Create Marketplace Disruption shows how disrupting yourself is critical to reaping the benefits of market changes, and part of a process that executives and strategists can reproduce over and over again for improved results. How we got into this mess—and how to get out of it The myth of perpetuity and the dark side of success Reinventing success: no more Defend and Extend Creating your new Success Formulas and keeping them competitively advantaged Why “thinking outside the box” doesn’t work First, get outside the box. Then, think! Maintaining ”The Phoenix Principle” for long-term success Practicing Disruption until it comes naturally

Groove Music

Groove Music
Author: Mark Katz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012
Genre: Rap (Music)
ISBN: 0195331125