Provides an overview of the important information entrepreneurs or managers need when deciding for a legal form of the business. This book is suitable for entrepreneurs, consultants & those who support the business formation process in Europe as well as for lecturers & students working in this field. ...

Jane Box-Grainger was the driving force behind establishing L'ecole Hampshire in its early years. Without her energy & inspiration the old ramshackle Perigordin farmhouse & its outbuildings would never have been transformed into the beautiful purpose-built school of today. ...

A Pulitzer-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of America: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison & Washington. It argues that the checks & balances permitting the infant republic to endure were primarily rooted in the interaction of leaders with diverse values. ...

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, this title traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. It looks at the ways the conquerors & those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social & political consequences of empire. ...

In 1867, Joseph Baldwin founded the North Missouri Normal School to train young men & women of the area to teach in the new public schools being established throughout the state. Baldwin believed that teachers must not only be highly trained in their particular field, but must also have a general education. This book talks about this school. ...

Darren Aronofsky directs this elegaic time-travelling odyssey, in which Hugh Jackman & Rachel Weisz star in a series of storylines about a man's struggle to save the woman he loves. In one storyline, 16th-century Spanish conquistador Tomas Creo (Jackman) sets out to find the fabled Tree of Life in order to save his queen, Isabel (Weisz) from the Inquisition. In a modern-day storyline, Jackman is Tommy, a scientist desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzie (Weisz). In a future timeline, Tom (Jackman) is a 26th-century astronaut travelling through deep space
- & finally beginning to grasp the mysteries of life that have consumed him for so long.
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