Your Winged Unicorn 2021 Weekly Planner includes a Calendar and a Monthly Planner. With a faded Winged Unicorn image on all of the Planner pages. The Monthly Planner section has a two page spread for each month. The Weekly Planner section has a page for each week. With blank To Do check lists and sections for notes.BR> 100 Pages
Welcome to an enchanted land ruled by unicorn princesses! Cressida Jenkins, a unicorn-obsessed girl who is sure that unicorns are real, is invited to visit, and readers will be thrilled to journey to the Rainbow Realm along with her! In each story, Cressida is called to help a unicorn princess and her sisters in a magical adventure. Cressida is surprised to learn that there is an eighth Unicorn Princess named Feather whose magical ruby allows her to fly! Feather is an explorer, and she's back from her latest adventure. To celebrate, she planned a super-fun sleepover for her sisters and Cressida in the Sky Castle, complete with special pajamas that will allow their wearers to fly! But Ernest the wizard lizard once again casts an errant spell that will require all of the magic of the Unicorn Princesses--and some from Cressida too--to save the day. This magical series is full of sparkle, fun, and friendship.
Winged launches the legend of the unicorn into a modern-day, twisted tale of vengeful gods, unrequited love, and soulmates gone wrong. Seventeen-year-old Tessa O’Sullivan has no idea magic exists. She figures she’s having a rough year plagued with black-outs, memory loss, and sleep deprivation. She doesn’t know her true self is bound in human form because the ancients punished her for defying them or that she ticked off a god who’s bent on destroying her. When Tessa’s family disappears, she’s thrust into a world of magic and deadly curses with two boys. Musician Cyrus Burns may be her soulmate, or a thief sent to destroy her with a kiss. And Cyrus’s enemy Edric is a family friend, who also happens to be a powerful Elven King. He’s Tessa’s former lover from a past life and wants to keep her safe, even at the expense of her freedom. Trusting either of them is impossible when they’re both keeping dangerous secrets. If Tessa doesn’t save her family, they’ll be lost forever, and she’ll be pulled, hooves kicking, into the underworld for all eternity. She’s about to learn as an immortal unicorn queen, there are some fates worse than death.
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.
Meet Ace and Bub, the flying beaver brothers! Ace loves extreme sports and is always looking for a new adventure. Bub loves napping and, well, napping. But when penguins threaten to freeze Beaver Island for "resort and polar-style living," the brothers put their talents to work saving their tropical island paradise. Can they save Beaver Island from environmental destruction? And can they do it in time to still win the annual Beaver Island Surfing Competition?
A team of extinct animals embark on top-secret missions around the world in this new graphic novel series! Meet Scratch, Martie, Lug, and Quito, members of a secret organization called R.O.A.R., or the Rescue Ops Acquisition Rangers. When their boss, Dr. Z, finally calls on them for their first big mission, the team heads to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost. Scratch is thrilled at the chance to prove his worth to Dr. Z—but as soon as they land, the team runs into a mysterious enemy determined to take them down. With exciting missions, plenty of humor, and an environmental angle, this series starter from New York Times bestselling illustrator Scott Magoon is an action-packed adventure from start to finish. The book will also include nonfiction back matter about extinct animals, climate change, and what kids can do to help!
This sweet chapter book series features magical unicorn princesses and the human girl who befriends them. Welcome to an enchanted land ruled by unicorn princesses! Cressida Jenkins, a unicorn-obsessed girl who is sure that unicorns are real, is invited to visit, and readers will be thrilled to journey to the Rainbow Realm along with her! In each story, Cressida is called to help a unicorn princess and her sisters in a magical adventure. Princess Feather has just returned from her latest adventure, and Princess Flash wants nothing more to join her sister on her next trip. Ernest the wizard lizard creates a magical pair of wings for Flash, and the princesses invite Cressida to come with them to a new realm. But once there, Ernest's spell goes wrong and creates chaos, and Cressida will have to use all her wits to solve the problem before she can return home.
Description As an engineer, it can feel like there is never enough time for testing, designing, or delivering quality solutions. Managers often feel overwhelmed by the need to deliver new features to support their teams while managing vulnerabilities and security standards. Engineers often have to work with legacy systems and learn many new technologies simultaneously to be effective in their jobs. This book teaches you continuous modernization, a key skill for tackling modern and legacy software. By adopting the right mindset and techniques, you will improve systems and workflows, making everything more efficient over time.
Continuous modernization is your essential guide to updating old software systems into modern, efficient, and scalable applications. This book covers everything from changing your mindset and technical practices to business strategies and fostering a culture of innovation. It includes tips on unlearning outdated methods, embracing feedback, making smart decisions, ensuring stability, and applying modern design principles. With practical techniques and real-world examples, it provides the tools you need to modernize your software systems and achieve lasting success successfully.
By the end of this book, readers will master continuous modernization principles and practices. They will learn to spot areas needing improvement, create effective modernization strategies, and implement changes that boost value and efficiency. Additionally, they will understand how to build a culture of innovation and ongoing learning to keep their software systems up-to-date and competitive in a fast-changing tech world.
Key Features ● Develop the mindset to drive software success, delivering impactful changes with fewer resources. ● Explore patterns and anti-patterns in technical architecture, team dynamics, troubleshooting, and design. ● Gain insights on solving large-scale software modernization challenges, from culture to architecture. What you will learn ● Learn patterns, anti-patterns, and tools to improve software architecture decisions. ● Eliminate limiting practices to improve development efficiency. ● Apply disciplined feedback loops to refine architecture and design decisions. ● Implement advanced troubleshooting techniques to prevent design flaws. ● Continuously refactor systems and scale modernization efforts in distributed architectures. Who this book is for Our book is for professionals in the field of computer science. It is for software architects, engineers, testers, managers, directors, and VPs. This is for individuals and teams who may or may not have a modernization project but care about improving individuals and systems daily. Table of Contents 1. What is Continuous Modernization? 2. Unlearning 3. Discipline & Feedback 4. Decisions & Tradeoffs 5. Stability & Troubleshooting 6. Opportunistic Design 7. Continuous Refactoring 8. The Art of Selling 9. Effective Negotiation 10. Culture Shift 11. Epilogue
The development of social policy in Europe is explored in this accessible intellectual history and analysis of the welfare state. From the Industrial Revolution onwards, the book identifies three important concepts behind efforts to address social concerns in Europe: social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism. With guides to the political and ideological protagonists and the beliefs and values that lie behind reforms, it traces the progress and legacies of each of the three traditions. For academics and students across social policy and the political economy, this is an illuminating new perspective on the welfare state through the last two centuries.