Beginning with the basic elements that differentiate space programs from other management challenges, "Space Program Management" explains through theory and example of real programs from around the world, the philosophical and technical tools needed to successfully manage large, technically complex [...]
Major political and economic shifts have succeeded one another over the past twenty-five years. The rise to prominence of ecological issues, social changes generated by neoliberal globalization, and - most recently - one of the worst world economic crises ever, compels us to reflect urgently on the [...]
A former widower whose life was saved by writing about music spends a year waiting for his new wife to fly over from Toronto and join him in London. While he waits he observes that the world is subtly changing and that music has played a key part in these changes. A galaxy of characters, ranging fro[...]
What does it mean to live against a wall? In this bold blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio takes us to the world's most disputed edges to meet with those who live alongside the razor wire, concrete and steel.[...]
"Like getting a pebble out my shoe."
New Orleans is the true birthplace of the Sicilian mafia in America. Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the Southeast in the 1950s and '60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert Kennedy became attor[...]
The Kennedys were out to destroy Carlos Marcello and his two-billion-dollar empire. But the Boss also knew how to set up a politically sensitive Mafia "hit." A young former marine marksman whom everyone thought unhinged and even crazy was an occasional employee. A defector to the Soviet Union, he ha[...]
Business Process Management (BPM) is the art and science of how work should be performed in an organization in order to ensure consistent outputs and to take advantage of improvement opportunities, e.g. reducing costs, execution times or error rates. Importantly, BPM is not about improving the way i[...]
Skoningslöst ärlig rockbiografi av gitarristen i Sveriges största hårdrocksband
Så fort Kjell Hilding Löfbom hörde Deep Purples klassiska live-platta Made in Japan i pojkrummet i Umeå 1973 visste han att han ville bli gitarrist. Målet var klart - en dag skulle han precis som Ric[...]
Skoningslöst ärlig rockbiografi av gitarristen i Sveriges största hårdrocksband
Så fort Kjell Hilding Löfbom hörde Deep Purples klassiska live-platta Made in Japani pojkrummet i Umeå 1973 visste han att han ville bli gitarrist. Målet var klart - en dag skulle han precis som Rich[...]
Sex, droger och rock'n'roll i 180!
Så fort Kjell Hilding Löfbom hörde Deep Purples klassiska live-platta Made in Japan i pojkrummet i Umeå 1973 visste han att han ville bli gitarrist. Målet var klart - en dag skulle han precis som Richie Blackmore stå och lira framför horder av skr[...]
Tuhkakeskiviikkona armon vuonna 1205 isä Vivïen de Narbonne pakenee henkensä edestä kannoillaan pelottavan salaseuran Saint-Vehmen lähettämät ritarit. Vivïenillä on hallussaan Saint-Vehmen himoitsema vanhaa itämaista viisautta sisältävä teos, Uter ventorum.
Kolmetoista vuotta[...]