Ally's feeling inadequate. Her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow, but Kyra's only been in Crouch End two seconds and she's got herself a boyfriend! Even Ally's dad seems to be 'dating' - has he forgotten all about her mum? Still, Ally's not sure what's more worrying: not having a boyfriend, or being invited on a double date with Kyra, Ricardo and Ricardo's mystery mate...
Ally's feeling inadequate. Why is it that her only romantic experience amounts to a burping in mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow? Kyra's only been in Crouch End two seconds and she's got a boyfriend already.
Uses friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution Illustrates concepts with mini-cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling
The Slangman Guide to BIZ SPEAK 2 continues with more popular business slang, idioms, and jargon used in everyday American business!This second book in the series is packed with additional slang, idioms, and jargon used in a variety of workplace situations, including sports terms used in business.Entertaining dialogues, activities and games will guarantee that you¿re batting a thousand (¿successful¿) at calling the shots (¿making decisions¿) and never dropping the ball (¿incompleting your tasks¿) especially when you¿re down to the wire (¿close to the time when your task is due¿)!NOTE: Audio CDs sold separately.The Slangman Guide to BIZ SPEAK 2 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:The WorkplaceBureaucracyGlobalizationE-CommercePoliticsStock Market & MoneyShipping & International TradeBusiness TravelSports Terms Used in BusinessThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories
The authorized and in-continuity sequel to the cult hit film Big Trouble in Little China, co-written by its creator, John Carpenter. Thrust from 1986 into modern times, Jack Burton faces his strangest adventure yet. His friends are all old and someone sold his truck! With the help of an all-powerful Gracie Law and Wang's excessively snarky daughter, Winona, the hunt is on to reclaim Jack's true love. It's time to bring the Pork-Chop Express back to home, but that won’t be the end of Jack’s travels, as he also heads first to China for a Poker tournament, and then back in time to 1906 San Francisco! Writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules; Archer & Armstrong) and illustrators Joe Eisma (Morning Glories), Victor Santos (Polar), and Dan McDaid (Doctor Who) confront old adversaries—and new—in this latest madcap adventure in the life of Jack Burton. Big Trouble in Little China: Legacy Edition Book Three collects issues #13-25 of the authorized sequel to the fan-favorite film, originally collected in Big Trouble in Little China Volumes 4-6. Legacy Editions collect every issue of the most popular BOOM! Studios series in chronological order and in a newly designed, value priced format for the very first time.
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
Why isn't the evolution of flight shown in the fossil record? Bugs, birds, bats and dinosaurs flew and are shown fully formed in the fossil record, but there are no animals with halfway wings in the fossil record leading from ground based animals to flying animals. What is desperately wrong with the Grand Canyon if evolution is true? Where are the massive signs of erosion between the sedimentary layers of the Grand Canyon if they were laid down a "million years" at a time? Why does massive erosion only show up at the top? Animals with well-developed eyes show up suddenly in the fossil record as do flying animals. It's the norm for plants and animals to show up in the fossil record with the same separations as we see in different types of living animals and plants today. The "second law of thermodynamics" is a law of science that says everything left to its own will wear out, run down. It is a fundamental law of science. So how did evolution accidentally go up? How could a DNA molecule fumble together? The cell needs DNA; DNA needs the cell ñ which came first? 'Beneficial' mutations also weaken in other areas, and don't write evolutionary advancing DNA code. Spiral galaxies (which have the shape of a star fish that is spinning quickly) throughout our universe, like our Milky Way galaxy, are supposed to be over 10 billion years old. If they were over a billion years old they would lose their spiral arm shape. The arms of our galaxy, the Milky Way, only show a maximum age of 0.3 billion years. People want to know why they're here now and where they're going to go. They want surety of truth also. Read this book and see how well evolution holds up in all the sciences. Read this book and see if life can have meaning, direction and hope ñ with surety. For those who claim to be open minded, put on your seatbelts and keep your arms inside as you ride the roller coaster of your own value systems!
A new paperback bind-up of the first two novels in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series: Big Nate: In a Class By Himself and Big Nate Strikes Again. This bind-up is the perfect introduction to the classic series. Big Nate is bigger than ever in this super-cool bind-up of the first two books in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series. In Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, Nate knows he’s destined for great things. But things don’t always go your way just because you’re awesome. When his whole life seems to be going wrong, can Nate prove that he’s really destined for greatness? In Big Nate Strikes Again, Nate is stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, in a class project AND on his fleeceball team right when Nate is set to win his first championship. Even though Gina’s sure to ruin everything, can Nate figure out how to win the game? For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Get ready to meet Big Nate, unofficial king of detention and definitely not the teacher’s pet.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
