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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 26x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (flyleaf). Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 103 pages. A book of photographs of Adelaide in the 1880s taken by the foremost colonial photographer, Samuel Sweet. Some images are presented alongside their modern-day equivalents.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. 1" tear top edge of front panel DJ and spine, light creasing.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; B&W Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 103 pages; "From a disastrous shipwreck on an uncharted Queensland reef to the prim affluence of nineteenth century Adelaide society, Captain Samuel White Sweet experienced much of what made up Australian colonial life in the 1870s and '80s.".…

HARDCOVER. Longwood Media, 1983. First edition. A very good copy only marked by light shelf rubbing on the spine ends and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine and unmarked. The d/w is fine.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Everyone is busy.Calendars are full. Inboxes never stop. Meetings multiply. Deadlines pile up. And somehow, very little ever feels finished.In Everyone Is Pretending to Be Busy, Julian Pike examines how urgency became a performance rather than a necessity. He shows how modern work rewards responsiveness over judgment, activity over decisions, and motion over outcomes. The result is a culture where looking busy matters more than doing anything that actually resolves.This is not a productivity system or a guide to working less. It does not promise focus, balance, or efficiency. Instead, it explains why work now generates endless coordination, constant interruption, and a permanent sense of pressure without clarity.With dry, precise humor, Pike exposes the rituals of modern busyness: meetings that justify other meetings, inboxes that function as moral scorecards, and urgency that exists mostly to prove seriousness.The book does not tell you how to escape. It shows why the system works exactly as it does.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Everyone is busy.Calendars are full. Inboxes never stop. Meetings multiply. Deadlines pile up. And somehow, very little ever feels finished.In Everyone Is Pretending to Be Busy, Julian Pike examines how urgency became a performance rather than a necessity. He shows how modern work rewards responsiveness over judgment, activity over decisions, and motion over outcomes. The result is a culture where looking busy matters more than doing anything that actually resolves.This is not a productivity system or a guide to working less. It does not promise focus, balance, or efficiency. Instead, it explains why work now generates endless coordination, constant interruption, and a permanent sense of pressure without clarity.With dry, precise humor, Pike exposes the rituals of modern busyness: meetings that justify other meetings, inboxes that function as moral scorecards, and urgency that exists mostly to prove seriousness.The book does not tell you how to escape. It shows why the system works exactly as it does. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Your team collects data weekly. Your dashboards are full. Yet half your decisions still rely on gut feeling. Why does more information fail to produce better choices Because data without a decision framework is just noise. This book replaces guesswork with a repeatable process: identify the metric that matters, set a threshold, and act. No more paralysis by analysis. Whether you lead a department or a startup, you will learn how to isolate signal from noise and move faster. The cost of waiting for perfect data is higher than acting on good data today. Stop debating spreadsheets. Start deciding.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Mongol Empire endured through organization as much as conquest. Beneath its reputation for military violence stood systems of law, communication, and commercial protection that linked Eurasia more efficiently than any earlier empire had achieved.This account explores the administrative structures developed under Genghis Khan and his successors. The Yassa legal framework established common principles of governance across culturally diverse territories, while the Yam relay network enabled rapid movement of messages, officials, and intelligence across thousands of kilometers. Imperial infrastructure transformed mobility into political control.The book also examines the protection extended to merchants and foreign travelers throughout Mongol territory. Caravan routes became safer under centralized authority, encouraging trade between China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Commercial exchange accelerated alongside diplomatic contact and technological transmission.The Mongol Empire emerges here as a transcontinental system that reshaped Eurasian connectivity through administration, communication, and economic integration on an unprecedented scale.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines how veiled strategies in foreign intervention unfold when classified planning meets harsh reality, using the Bay of Pigs operation to reveal the consequences of secrecy breakdown in covert missions. The operation aimed to overthrow Castro but collapsed, exposing limits of deniability and prompting reassessment of covert action.The intelligence flow relied on exile networks and paramilitary training, creating a channel that presumed secrecy. This dependence introduced friction as logistical support and intelligence sharing proved inconsistent, undermining the assumption that covert actions could remain isolated. Decision making hierarchy concentrated authority in a small executive circle that accepted risk assessments without broad scrutiny, enabling rapid approval despite internal doubts about feasibility. Such centralization meant that lower level officers executed orders even when field reports indicated low chances of success, showing how top down directives can override operational caution. Incentive structures rewarded decisive action against communism, offering career advancement for those who delivered results while penalizing hesitation, which encouraged optimism over realistic appraisal of enemy strenngth. When the intervention failed, the resulting scrutiny revealed how these mechanisms had prioritized political deniability over effective coordination, prompting a reevaluation of how secret operations are authorized and supervised. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines how clandestine agreements among World War I powers forged the interwar geopolitical order, not as historical footnotes but as active architects of the new system. It investigates the tension between secret diplomacy and public transparency, revealing how backroom compacts reshaped sovereignty, alliances, and territorial arrangements when conventional diplomacy proved inadequate amid total war.Secret treaties institutionalized information asymmetry, where restricted access to agreement terms created divergent knowledge pools among state actors. This meant critical decisions about war entry and peace terms were made based on incomplete shared understanding, fostering mistrust when secrecy lifted and demonstrating how asymmetric information flows undermine collective commitment in wartime alliances. As exemplified by the Treaty of London concealed territorial promises to Italy, wartime alignment was influenced without public disclosure, and alliance cohesion later weakened when the terms entered public discourse.Covert incentive architectures embedded in secret treaties redirected state calculations from collective objectives toward private gain. By offering exclusive concessions not subject to public scrutiny, these agreements encouraged opportunistic realignments, showing how hidden payoff structures can destabilize coalition unity when individual rewards conflict with group strategic interests. The Sykes-Picot Agreement division of Ottoman territories according to Anglo-French interests rather than local realities demonstrates how secret pacts prioritized external powers' gains over regional stability, creating incentive misalignment that undermined the legitimacy of the resultant order.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Long before the Ottoman cannons were positioned before the Theodosian Walls, the Byzantine Empire had already begun to die from the inside. This book argues that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was less a military defeat than the final symptom of a political organism that had lost the capacity to sustain itself. The empire that once stretched from Spain to Syria had been reduced to a city-state, its treasury empty, its army composed of foreign mercenaries, its church divided by the failed union with Rome. The narrative traces the fourteenth-century civil wars that exhausted Byzantine resources, the catastrophic reliance on Venetian and Genoese shipping, and the diplomatic isolation that left Constantinople without allies when Mehmed II finally moved. It examines how the Palaiologos dynasty, despite producing capable individuals, could never transcend the structural decay of a bureaucracy that collected taxes from fields it no longer controlled and minted coins of increasingly worthless metal. The siege itself becomes a mirror of this collapse: the defenders fought bravely but could not compensate for a state that had stopped believing in its own future. This is not a story of heroic last stands but of institutional sclerosis, of a government that had perfected the art of postponing collapse until collapse became the only remaining option.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Your team uses verbal agreements, outdated templates, or no contracts at all. When a vendor fails, a client disputes, or a partner leaves, you're exposed. This book gives you five ready-to-adapt contracts-NDAs, service agreements, termination clauses, and more-built for non-lawyers. You'll learn to spot risky language, add protective clauses, and create a risk-management culture without slowing your work. Protect your team, your budget, and your reputation. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - You worked sixty hours this month, invoiced four clients, yet your bank balance feels like a mystery. The irregular income of freelancing makes taxes and savings feel impossible. This book is a practical guide to untangling your finances without an accounting degree. You will learn the profit-first method adapted for variable income, the quarterly tax habit that removes April surprises, and a simple cash flow forecasting tool that takes ten minutes. By separating your operating money from your tax and profit accounts, you stop the feast-or-famine cycle. Financial literacy becomes your safety net, not a burden. You deserve to know exactly what you earn, owe, and keep-every single month.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - You already signed it. Now you're working weekends for free. That contract clause you skimmed is costing you twenty percent of your revenue. You need a fix before the next renewal.This book breaks down the five most dangerous contract terms for independent professionals, then gives you a negotiation framework that shifts leverage back to your side. You'll learn how to spot liability traps, renegotiate scope creep, and build termination clauses that protect your cash flow without killing the deal.By applying the 'margin-first' negotiation method, you stop trading time for pennies and start signing agreements that pay you for value delivered. Your business survives because your contracts finally work for you.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - When Pope Urban II spoke at Clermont in 1095, he ignited a fire that would reshape three continents. But the Crusades were never simply a matter of faith. Behind every banner bearing the cross lay princes, merchants, and patriarchs who understood that Jerusalem was as much a prize of earthly power as a symbol of salvation. This book examines the Crusades not as a clash of civilizations but as a series of political calculations dressed in sacred language. From the streets of Constantinople to the courts of Europe, it traces how religious fervor became a tool of statecraft, how pilgrimage became conquest, and how a war for heaven was always fought for the earth beneath it. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Nations That Could Not Save Their Own Name | Why the Byzantine Empire failed before the guns [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565552160 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Bank balance whispers what revenue shouts | How freelancers escape feast-or-famine [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565552870 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Veiled Strategies in Foreign Intervention | Bay of Pigs Classified Planning CIA's Catastrophic Cuba Operation Before Truth [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565451913 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Backroom Compacts Forged New Realities | Secret Treaties Hidden From Public That Shaped Post-World War One World [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565448777 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Social media marketing now depends on systems companies do not control. A platform update can reduce brand visibility overnight, alter audience access, and weaken sales performance without changing the quality of a product. For managers, the challenge is no longer content production alone. It is understanding how social media algorithms influence commercial outcomes.This book examines the operational logic behind modern platform ecosystems. It explores how recommendation systems distribute attention, how engagement signals shape visibility, and why brands often mistake temporary exposure for sustainable market position.The analysis focuses on three business mechanisms. First, algorithm dependency and the hidden risks created when customer acquisition relies on a single platform. Second, visibility architecture and the relationship between content formats, engagement metrics, and distribution patterns. Third, revenue protection systems that help organizations maintain sales resilience when platform rules change unexpectedly.Rather than treating social media as a marketing channel, the book presents it as a dynamic infrastructure layer affecting decision-making, forecasting, and customer access. It explains how organizations can evaluate platform concentration risk and build stronger measurement frameworks around audience behavior.Across European markets, increasing platform fragmentation and regulatory pressure continue to reshape digital competition. Companies that understand algorithmic influence gain a clearer view of visibility, growth sustainability, and long-term strategic positioning.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Three clauses your boss never signed | Eliminate legal exposure before regulators [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565590315 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Couriers Connected Worlds Once Separated by Distance | Yassa law, Yam communication networks, and commerce across the Mongol [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565479375 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Jerusalem Wore Faith as Its Armor | Faith and ambition in medieval holy [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565589296 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Invisible Reach Under Platform Rules | Brand visibility shifts when social media algorithms redefine customer [.] | Julian Pike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565483358 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Long before the Ottoman cannons were positioned before the Theodosian Walls, the Byzantine Empire had already begun to die from the inside. This book argues that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was less a military defeat than the final symptom of a political organism that had lost the capacity to sustain itself. The empire that once stretched from Spain to Syria had been reduced to a city-state, its treasury empty, its army composed of foreign mercenaries, its church divided by the failed union with Rome. The narrative traces the fourteenth-century civil wars that exhausted Byzantine resources, the catastrophic reliance on Venetian and Genoese shipping, and the diplomatic isolation that left Constantinople without allies when Mehmed II finally moved. It examines how the Palaiologos dynasty, despite producing capable individuals, could never transcend the structural decay of a bureaucracy that collected taxes from fields it no longer controlled and minted coins of increasingly worthless metal. The siege itself becomes a mirror of this collapse: the defenders fought bravely but could not compensate for a state that had stopped believing in its own future. This is not a story of heroic last stands but of institutional sclerosis, of a government that had perfected the art of postponing collapse until collapse became the only remaining option. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -You already signed it. Now you're working weekends for free. That contract clause you skimmed is costing you twenty percent of your revenue. You need a fix before the next renewal.This book breaks down the five most dangerous contract terms for independent professionals, then gives you a negotiation framework that shifts leverage back to your side. You'll learn how to spot liability traps, renegotiate scope creep, and build termination clauses that protect your cash flow without killing the deal.By applying the 'margin-first' negotiation method, you stop trading time for pennies and start signing agreements that pay you for value delivered. Your business survives because your contracts finally work for you. 216 pp. Englisch.…