A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels. 'Clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny' The Times ' Pratchett at his finest' 5-star reader review 'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.' The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up in management. Cue Moist von Lipwig, Postmaster General and former con artist. If anyone can rescue the city's ailing financial institution, it's him. He doesn't really want the job, but the thing is, he doesn't have a choice. Moist has many problems to solve as part of his new role: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the chairman needs his daily walkies, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and the Royal Mint is running at a loss. Moist begins making some ambitious changes . . . and some dangerous enemies. Because money is power and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both . . . Making Money is the second book in the Industrial Revolution series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. Praise for the Discworld series: '[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday 'Pratchett is a master storyteller ' Guardian 'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin 'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone ' Daily Express 'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch ' Masterful and brilliant ' Fantasy & Science Fiction 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times 'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph 'Nothing short of magical ' Chicago Tribune 'Consistently funny , consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX '[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive , surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world... There's never been anything quite like it ' Evening Standard

A BRAND NEW captivating read from the Irish bestseller, Sian O'Gorman about friendship, family secrets and living your best life Perfect for fans of Faith Hogan, Sheila O'Flanagan and Laura Pearson! You've only got one life, so make sure you LOVE it! Journalist Claudia Kelly loves her work at one of Dublin's best magazines but when she is tasked with editing Irish Man, she's unsure she's up to the big job. But when her former childhood neighbour, the handsome artist Johnny Hogan returns home, he and Claudia immediately resume their old friendship and he encourages her to take the role. With an impending hostile boardroom takeover, Claudia is forced to pick a side whilst navigating her mother's new romance and her sister Fiona's earth-shattering secret. With a dysfunctional team to manage and new skills to learn, she has to draw on an unknown inner strength. But why is the mysterious Brian O'Brien, a former friend of her late father, back in their life? And why has the company's chairman so much faith in her? Can Claudia finally open a new page on a happier life for them all? If you love this book try Sian's other fantastic books set in Sandycove Bay... Praise for Sian O'Gorman: 'Utterly irresistible and joyful - the perfect summer read!' Faith Hogan ' Truly Amazing...Another outstanding story from Sian, you just can't go wrong with her books ,they are impossible to put down. I would definitely recommend that you read this book,you won't be disappointed.' - Reader Review 'A gorgeous story of friendship, community and starting over' Jessica Redland 'What a truly wonderful book. I loved everything about this book. Sian has the gift of story telling. Can't wait for her next book' - Reader Review 'A book with everything. A real 5 star read.' Claudia Carroll 'Loved this book. Fantastic book about life and love and families. I read it really quickly and thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't want it to end' - Reader Review 'Delicious! An upbeat, witty read about friends, family and following your dreams.' Gillian Harvey 'Joyful, uplifting and hugely entertaining tale about living life to the fullest, the power of friendship and finding your voice you are going to love' - Reader Review

Bloomsbury presents China After Mao by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh. _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the Year Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle. In charting four decades of so-called 'Reform and Opening Up' and China's emergence as a world power, Dikötter tells a fascinating tale of contradictions and illusions, of shadow banking, anti-corruption drives and extreme state wealth standing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's approach to the 2008 financial crash, the country's increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship – one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. Ultimately, the book concludes, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic sphere, but to resist it – and then defeat it. Praise for Frank Dikötter and the People's Trilogy: 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'The historian of China' Spectator 'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman 'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times 'Gripping and masterful' – Simon Sebag Montefiore

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels. 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times 'If you only read one Terry Pratchett book, read this one. You WILL be hooked ' 5-star reader review 'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.' Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city's Postmaster General. It's a tough decision, but he's already survived one hanging and isn't in the mood to try it again. The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. To save his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory, with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart. Who happens to be very attractive, in an 'entire womanful of anger' kind of way. But there's new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork's post for good . . . Going Postal is the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. Praise for the Discworld series: '[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday 'Pratchett is a master storyteller ' Guardian 'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin 'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone ' Daily Express 'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch ' Masterful and brilliant ' Fantasy & Science Fiction 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times 'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph 'Nothing short of magical ' Chicago Tribune 'Consistently funny , consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX '[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive , surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world... There's never been anything quite like it ' Evening Standard

A special hardback gift edition of classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels. 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times 'If you only read one Terry Pratchett book, read this one. You WILL be hooked ' 5-star reader review 'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.' Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city's Postmaster General. It's a tough decision, but he's already survived one hanging and isn't in the mood to try it again. The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. To save his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory, with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart. Who happens to be very attractive, in an 'entire womanful of anger' kind of way. But there's new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork's post for good . . . Going Postal is the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. Praise for the Discworld series: '[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday 'Pratchett is a master storyteller ' Guardian 'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin 'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone ' Daily Express 'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch ' Masterful and brilliant ' Fantasy & Science Fiction 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times 'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph 'Nothing short of magical ' Chicago Tribune 'Consistently funny , consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX '[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive , surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world... There's never been anything quite like it ' Evening Standard

The Professional Product Owner's Guide to Maximizing Value with Scrum "This book presents a method of communicating our desires, cogently, coherently, and with a minimum of fuss and bother." Ken Schwaber, Chairman & Founder, Scrum.org The role of the Product Owner is more crucial than ever. But it's about much more than mechanics: it's about taking accountability and refocusing on value as the primary objective of all you do. In The Professional Product Owner, two leading experts in successful Scrum product ownership show exactly how to do this. You'll learn how to identify where value can be found, measure it, and maximize it throughout your entire product lifecycle. Drawing on their combined 40+ years of experience in using agile and Scrum in product management, Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham guide you through all facets of envisioning, emerging, and maturing a product using the Scrum framework.McGreal and Jocham discuss strategy, showing how to connect Vision, Value, and Validation in ROI-focused agile product management. They lay out Scrum best-practices for managing complexity and continuously delivering value, and they define the concrete practices and tools you can use to manage Product Backlogs and release plans, all with the goal of making you a more successful Product Owner. Throughout, the authors share revealing personal experiences that illuminate obstacles to success and show how they can be overcome. Define success from the "outside in," using external customer-driven measurements to guide development and maximize valueBring empowerment and entrepreneurship to the Product Owner's role, and align everyone behind a shared business modelUse Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) to invest in the right places, make smarter decisions, and reduce riskEffectively apply Scrum's Product Owner role, artifacts, and eventsPopulate and manage Product Backlogs, and use just-in-time specificationsPlan and manage releases, improve transparency, and reduce technical debtScale your product, not your ScrumUse Scrum to inject autonomy, mastery, and purpose into your product team's workWhatever your role in product management or agile development, this guide will help you deliver products that offer more value, more rapidly, and more often.Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports—named one of the best business books of the year by CNBC, The New York Times, Forbes, strategy+business, The Globe and Mail, and Sports Illustrated “The book taught me that there’s no cookie-cutter way to lead. Leading is not just what Hollywood tells you. It’s not the big pregame speech. It’s how you carry yourself every day, how you treat the people around you, who you are as a person.”—Mitchell Trubisky, quarterback, Chicago Bears Now featuring analysis of the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and their captain, Tom Brady The seventeen most dominant teams in sports history had one thing in common: Each employed the same type of captain—a singular leader with an unconventional set of skills and tendencies. Drawing on original interviews with athletes, general managers, coaches, and team-building experts, Sam Walker identifies the seven core qualities of the Captain Class—from extreme doggedness and emotional control to tactical aggression and the courage to stand apart. Told through riveting accounts of pressure-soaked moments in sports history, The Captain Class will challenge your assumptions of what inspired leadership looks like. Praise for The Captain Class “Wildly entertaining and thought-provoking . . . makes you reexamine long-held beliefs about leadership and the glue that binds winning teams together.” —Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations, Chicago Cubs “If you care about leadership, talent development, or the art of competition, you need to read this immediately.” —Daniel Coyle, author of The Culture Code “The insights in this book are tremendous.” —Bob Myers, general manager, Golden State Warriors “An awesome book . . . I find myself relating a lot to its portrayal of the out-of the-norm leader.” —Carli Lloyd, co-captain, U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team “A great read . . . Sam Walker used data and a systems approach to reach some original and unconventional conclusions about the kinds of leaders that foster enduring success. Most business and leadership books lapse into clichés. This one is fresh.” —Jeff Immelt, chairman and former CEO, General Electric “I can’t tell you how much I loved The Captain Class. It identifies something many people who’ve been around successful teams have felt but were never able to articulate. It has deeply affected my thoughts around how we build our culture.” —Derek Falvey, chief baseball officer, Minnesota Twins

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

Reimagining our global economy so it becomes more sustainable and prosperous for all Our global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for all people, and the planet. First, we must eliminate rising income inequality within societies where productivity and wage growth has slowed. Second, we must reduce the dampening effect of monopoly market power wielded by large corporations on innovation and productivity gains. And finally, the short-sighted exploitation of natural resources that is corroding the environment and affecting the lives of many for the worse must end. The debate over the causes of the broken economy-laissez-faire government, poorly managed globalization, the rise of technology in favor of the few, or yet another reason-is wide open. Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet argues convincingly that if we don't start with recognizing the true shape of our problems, our current system will continue to fail us. To help us see our challenges more clearly, Schwab-the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum-looks for the real causes of our system's shortcomings, and for solutions in best practices from around the world in places as diverse as China, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Singapore. And in doing so, Schwab finds emerging examples of new ways of doing things that provide grounds for hope, including: Individual agency: how countries and policies can make a difference against large external forces A clearly defined social contract: agreement on shared values and goals allows government, business, and individuals to produce the most optimal outcomes Planning for future generations: short-sighted presentism harms our shared future, and that of those yet to be born Better measures of economic success: move beyond a myopic focus on GDP to more complete, human-scaled measures of societal flourishing By accurately describing our real situation, Stakeholder Capitalism is able to pinpoint achievable ways to deal with our problems. Chapter by chapter, Professor Schwab shows us that there are ways for everyone at all levels of society to reshape the broken pieces of the global economy and-country by country, company by company, and citizen by citizen-glue them back together in a way that benefits us all.

The road to success is rarely linear and never easy. But with courage, hard work, perseverance, and dedication to duty, Jim Ovia, founder and chairman of Zenith Bank, proves we can achieve the unthinkable. Jim has been called the Godfather of Banking by Forbes Africa. And this should be no surprise. In a time of tension between military and civilian regimes, periods of incredible economic instability, and a decaying infrastructure, Jim founded Zenith Bank in Nigeria. Under Jim's leadership, what started with $4 million in shareholders' funds, grew into one of Africa's largest banks, an internationally recognized institution with more than $16 billion in assets. His story is a living testament to his message that success results when we act with courage and dare to try. Africa, Rise and Shine is part-memoir, part-inspirational business guide, reminding entrepreneurs and investors around the world of this valuable lesson: You must never allow the perceptions of others impact your own vision of what is possible for the future. "Jim Ovia's entrepreneurial flair demystifies Africa. Africa Rise and Shine shows his meteoric rise from humble beginnings to building a formidable bank. This is a wonderful African success story." - SIR RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP, INVESTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST "Jim Ovia has been my personal friend and trusted banker over the last twenty-five years. Africa Rise and Shine lays bare the secrets to Zenith Bank's success from one of Nigeria's most respected businessmen. Jim's inspirational tale of success against all the odds is an important lesson of how adversity can always be surmounted. His principles of doing business can be applied globally as demonstrated by Zenith Bank's London Stock Exchange listing. This book is an essential read for anyone that wants to do business in Africa." - ALIKO DANGOTE, GCON, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, DANGOTE GROUP OF COMPANIES "Having personally negotiated with Jim Ovia to create the landmark Prudential Zenith Life Insurance partnership, I have seen his artistry at deal making firsthand. Jim's ability to step back and take a long-term perspective has been a key factor in his business success. His twelve rules for building profitable businesses, whilst critical for African enterprises, could equally be applied globally. How I wish I had read Africa Rise and Shine prior to sitting down to the negotiation table with him!" - MATT LILLEY, CEO, PRUDENTIAL AFRICA Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' Peter Frankopan China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today. China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Wood's sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the author's own travel journals, is an enthralling account of China's 4000-year-old tradition, taking in life stationed on the Great Wall or inside the Forbidden City . The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries; correspondence and court cases going back to the Qin and Han dynasties ; family letters from soldiers in the real-life Terracotta Army ; stories from Silk Road merchants and Buddhist travellers , along with memoirs and diaries of emperors, poets and peasants. In the modern era, the book is full of new insights, with the electrifying manifestos of the feminist revolutionaries Qiu Jin and He Zhen , extraordinary eye-witness accounts of the Japanese invasion , the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao , and fascinating newly published sources for the great turning points in China's modern history, including the Tiananmen Square crisis of 1989, and the new order of President Xi Jinping . A compelling portrait of a single civilisation over an immense period of time, the book is full of intimate detail and colourful voices, taking us from the desolate Mongolian steppes to the ultra-modern world of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong . It also asks what were the forces that have kept China together for so long? Why was China overtaken by the west after the 18th century? What lies behind China's extraordinary rise today? The Story of China tells a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity; a portrait of a country that will be of the greatest importance to the world in the twenty-first century.

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,7, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Which system is better? It¿s a matter of fact, that in stock company the management leads the business and not the shareholders itself. In Germany, we have a Management Board (MB) and a Supervisory Board (SB). The SB should monitor the MB, to anticipate that the MB doesn¿t act in the interest of the shareholders and creditors. For Example, in the form of inadequate salary payment, inadequate redundancy payments and nepotism. In the unitary-board system of the UK aren¿t exist a SB, but there are so- called Executive directors which operates beside the Non-executive directors. The Executive directors have the same function like the SB in the German stock company. The dual board system is prescribed by law for German stock corporations. The Management Board (MB) is appropriate for managing the enterprise. Its members are jointly accountable for the management of the concern. The Chairman of the MB coordinates the work of the MB. The Supervisory Board (SB) appoints, supervises and advises the member of the MB and is directly involved in decisions of fundamental importance to the company. The Members of the SB are chosen by the shareholders at the General Meeting. In enterprises having more than 500 or 2000 employees in Germany, employees are also represented in the SB. In practice, the dual-board system is also established in other continental European countries. The unitary-board system, which exists in the UK, has only one organ, the board... Where is the COMI? One of the performances of cross-border insolvency is that debtors may seek to open proceedings in a state having insolvency legislation more favourable to their particular circumstances. This is labelled as ¿forum shopping¿. The Regulation attempts to stop forum shopping by requiring that the main proceeding be opened in the member state where the debtor¿s ¿centre of main interests¿ (COMI) is situated. According to Art. 3 EU Insolvency Regulation, the international Courts of the particular Member state are responsible for the opening of an insolvency proceeding, where the debtor¿s centre of main interest is. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) assumes that this is basically there, where ¿the debtor¿s registered office ¿is. It¿s where the administration of its interests "on a regular basis¿is and it must be ¿therefore ascertainable by third parties."

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' Peter Frankopan China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today. China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Wood's sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the author's own travel journals, is an enthralling account of China's 4000-year-old tradition, taking in life stationed on the Great Wall or inside the Forbidden City. The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries; correspondence and court cases going back to the Qin and Han dynasties; family letters from soldiers in the real-life Terracotta Army; stories from Silk Road merchants and Buddhist travellers, along with memoirs and diaries of emperors, poets and peasants. In the modern era, the book is full of new insights, with the electrifying manifestos of the feminist revolutionaries Qiu Jin and He Zhen, extraordinary eye-witness accounts of the Japanese invasion, the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao, and fascinating newly published sources for the great turning points in China's modern history, including the Tiananmen Square crisis of 1989, and the new order of President Xi Jinping. A compelling portrait of a single civilisation over an immense period of time, the book is full of intimate detail and colourful voices, taking us from the desolate Mongolian steppes to the ultra-modern world of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It also asks what were the forces that have kept China together for so long? Why was China overtaken by the west after the 18th century? What lies behind China's extraordinary rise today? The Story of China tells a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity; a portrait of a country that will be of the greatest importance to the world in the twenty-first century.

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung und Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) in Rechtsabteilungen und richtet sich an JuristInnen und juristische Fachkräfte in Unternehmen. Als Legal Tech-ExpertInnen untersuchen die AutorInnen, wie KI und andere Technologien die verschiedenen Rechtsbereiche in Unternehmen verändern. Anschauliche Beispiele zeigen, wie Legal Tech und KI-basierte Lösungen Vertragsmanagement, Compliance, Streitbeilegung, Beteiligungsmanagement, Datenschutz etc. optimieren können. Dabei werden Chancen und Herausforderungen für jede Domäne diskutiert, einschließlich ethischer und rechtlicher Aspekte. Es kommen echte AnwenderInnen und UmsetzerInnen, AnbieterInnen und TechnologInnen zu Wort. Das Buch skizziert auch die sich weiter verändernde Rolle der JuristInnen in einer digitalen Welt und betrachtet die Bedeutung von Fortbildung und Anpassungsfähigkeit. Es richtet sich an JuristInnen, Legal Tech-ExpertInnen und UnternehmensführerInnen, die die Zukunft des Rechtswesens im digitalen Zeitalter aktiv gestalten möchten. Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren Nathalie Alon , Rechtsanwältin, Datenschutzexpertin Simonetta Batteiger , Product Leadership Coach, Simone Batteiger Gerrit Beckhaus , Partner / Rechtsanwalt und Co-Head Freshfields Lab bei Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Carina Berger , Legal Counsel, Post AG Dennis Borchardt , Legal Operations Manager, TKElevator Richard Bucher , Group Chairman, Validatum Janine De Monte , Consultant, Group Legal, ALDI SÜD KG Gerald Dipplinger , Partner, Tax Technology & Digital Services, PWC Marc Geiger , Director Legal Operations & Business Technologies, Gleiss Lutz Sandra Gomez Gracia , Legal Technology-Manager, DLA Martin Kammandel , Legal Tech, Deutsche Telekom AG Manuela Kohl , Head of Legal & Compliance, TÜV Austria Tobias Kugler , Head of Legal, Cariad Technology Barbara Lampl , Data and KI Expertin, Barbara Lampl Daniel Lieber , Legal Tech, Gleiss Lutz Jan-Andre Lebendig , Senior Regulations Specialist und Product Owner, Cariad Technology Nina-Marie Luckhaupt , Legal Technology-Manager, DLA Piper Sophie Martinetz , Gründerin und Managing Partnerin, Future-Law & Gründerin und Director Legal Tech Center Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Irene McGill , Head of Contracts & Projects, OMV Daniel Michlits , Senior Associate im Tax Technology Team, PwC Österreich Tobias Mock , LL.M., Legal Excellence, Andreas STIHL AG & Co KG Gunther Müssig , Rechtsanwalt und Senior Legal Counsel, Cariad SE Martin Reichetseder , Director Legal Services / Group Compliance Officer, TGW Logistics Group GmbH & Loupe Leonhard Reiner , Legal Counsel, Legal Tech, ALDI Süd AG Andrei Salajan , Head of Digitalisation, Schönherr Rechtsanwälte GmbH Peter Schichl , Head of Legal Technology, Deutsche Telekom AG Marcus M. Schmitt , General Manager der European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA) Rebecca Schnelle , Legal Counsel, Hartmann Marguerita Sedrati-Müller , Counsel, Director People & Culture, Schönherr Merve Taner , Legal Advisor, Erste Bank AG Patrick Temmler , Gruppenleiter LegalTech, Vodafon AG Ruben Tosunyan , Legal Operations Manager, Boehringer-Ingelheim Lukas Treichl , Counsel / Rechtsanwalt und Co-Head Freshfields Lab bei Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Markus Warmholz , Director Corporate Legal, Corporate Legal Department, PAUL HARTMANN AG Lucas Wickenbrock , Head of Legal, LCL/Legal/BU EA Cluster West TKElevator Pierre G. Zickert , Rechtsanwalt | Counsel, Manager Legal Technology Hengeler Mueller Eva Zwick , Legal Counsel, PAUL HARTMANN AG

Lieben Sie Ihre Zukunft? Oder haben Sie Angst davor? Nach diesem Buch werden Sie sich entscheiden können. Die beiden Autoren legen mit ihrem neusten Zukunftsbuch eine radikale Ode an den Optimismus“ vor. Sie nehmen ihre Leser mit auf eine leidenschaftliche Zeitreise ins Jahr 2030. Auf einem faszinierenden Rundgang durch die Welt der Zukunft erläutern sie, wie technologische und gesellschaftliche Trends in den kommenden zehn Jahren unsere Welt verändern werden. Die Autoren erklären, wie dabei einige der größten Menschheitsprobleme gelöst werden. Aber auch wie neue Bedrohungen entstehen, die unser Menschenbild vor größte Probleme stellen. Wie wird Ihr Job aussehen? Ist Vollbeschäftigung so positiv wie es klingt? Was werden wir in 10 Jahren essen? Werden wir noch krank? Wohin fahren wir in den Urlaub? Wieso werden unsere Autos kostenlos fahren? Seien Sie bereit für eine packende Zeitreise ins Jahr 2030! Mit seinen letzten Erfolgsbüchern „2020“ und „2025“ hatte Europas gefragtester Zukunftsforscher die Leser bereits in seinen Bann gezogen. Vom Aufstehen bis Einschlafen hat er uns die Familie Seedorf durch einen Tag in der Zukunft begleiten lassen. Mit all Ihren Gefühlen, Hoffnungen und Ängsten. Lebensecht! Faszinierend! Schockierend! Schon bei Erscheinen seines ersten Buches im Jahr 2008 war er der erste, der konkret die Auswirkungen von künstlicher Intelligenz auf unser Leben beschreiben konnte. Heute, zehn Jahre später, ist er einer der profiliertesten, strategischen Vordenker des künftigen Lebens zwischen Menschen und Computern in Europa. Doch damit ist unsere Zukunft noch nicht zu Ende. In diesem neuen Buch führen uns die Zukunftsforscher ins Jahr 2030. Erneut gibt es keine schwammigen Megatrend-Prophezeiungen. Die Autoren lassen uns eindrücklich zusehen, wie unser echtes Leben an einem normalen Tag des Jahres 2030 verlaufen wird. Wir erleben Menschen und ihre intelligenten digitalen Assistenten. Diese geben nicht nur bessere Antworten auf menschliche Fragen, sondern sind auch der Grund, warum Menschen inzwischen Computern mehr vertrauen als anderen Menschen. Neue Technologien bringen für unsere Kinder neue Jobs, die wir heute noch gar nicht mit Namen kennen. Neue Supercomputer berechnen die meisten Dinge in unserem Leben voraus: Predictive Enterprises, Predictive Cities, Predictive Life. Doch damit nicht genug: Im Jahr 2030 bereitet der neue Digitalminister in der Regierung das Land darauf vor, das in der nächsten Generation die Menschen nur noch die zweitintelligenteste Spezies auf der Erde sind. Wir Menschen leben dann vermeintlich besser: Wir wissen mehr. Wir sehen mehr. Wir fühlen mehr. Doch was davon ist noch menschlich? Wieviel Mensch verträgt die Zukunft? So haben Sie sich Ihre Zukunft nicht vorgestellt? Richtig! Sie kommt trotzdem! Genau deshalb sollten Sie dieses Plädoyer für Ihre Zukunft lesen. Nichts in diesem Buch ist ausgedacht. Alles was die Autoren beschreiben, gibt es schon im Jahr 2018. Denn unsere Zukunft kommt nicht zufällig. Sie wird heute schon durch Visionäre in Laboren entwickelt, durch Unternehmen hinter verschlossenen Türen getestet und durch Investoren in unsere Welt gedrückt. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen die Chance, schon heute hinter die Kulissen der Zukunftsmacher zu schauen. Verbringen Sie mit den Autoren einen Tag in Ihrer Zukunft! Folgen Sie ihnen in eine faszinierende Science-Fiction-Welt, in der wir morgen schon leben werden! Entdecken Sie die innovativsten Trend und größten Chancen für Ihre Zukunft! Und vor allem: Lernen Sie Ihre Zukunft zu lieben! Denn Sie werden Ihr Leben lang mit ihr leben! Die Autoren: Dipl. journ. Sven Gábor Jánszky ist Chairman des größten unabhängigen Zukunftsforschungsinstituts Europas, des „2b AHEAD ThinkTank“. Unter seiner Leitung entwerfen alljährlich 300 CEOs und Innovationschefs der europäischen Wirtschaft die Zukunfts-Szenarien und Strategieempfehlungen für die kommenden zehn Jahre. Die Studien seines Instituts zu den Lebens-, Arbeits- und Konsumwelten der Zukunft pr

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb;” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation–one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials–an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force’s plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war. In the now almost-forgotten hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb advocate Edward Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets. American Prometheus sets forth Oppenheimer’s life and times in revealing and unprecedented detail. Exhaustively researched, it is based on thousands of records and letters gathered from archives in America and abroad, on massive FBI files and on close to a hundred interviews with Oppenheimer’s friends, relatives and colleagues. We follow him from his earliest education at the turn of the twentieth century at New York City’s Ethical Culture School, through personal crises at Harvard and Cambridge universities. Then to Germany, where he studied quantum physics with the world’s most accomplished theorists; and to Berkeley, California, where he established, during the 1930s, the leading American school of theoretical physics, and where he became deeply involved with social justice causes and their advocates, many of whom were communists. Then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he transformed a bleak mesa into the world’s most potent nuclear weapons laboratory–and where he himself was transformed. And finally, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which he directed from 1947 to 1966. American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events–the Depression, World War II and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history, and essential to our understanding of our recent past–and of our choices for the future.

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,7, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Which system is better? It¿s a matter of fact, that in stock company the management leads the business and not the shareholders itself. In Germany, we have a Management Board (MB) and a Supervisory Board (SB). The SB should monitor the MB, to anticipate that the MB doesn¿t act in the interest of the shareholders and creditors. For Example, in the form of inadequate salary payment, inadequate redundancy payments and nepotism. In the unitary-board system of the UK aren¿t exist a SB, but there are so- called Executive directors which operates beside the Non-executive directors. The Executive directors have the same function like the SB in the German stock company. The dual board system is prescribed by law for German stock corporations. The Management Board (MB) is appropriate for managing the enterprise. Its members are jointly accountable for the management of the concern. The Chairman of the MB coordinates the work of the MB. The Supervisory Board (SB) appoints, supervises and advises the member of the MB and is directly involved in decisions of fundamental importance to the company. The Members of the SB are chosen by the shareholders at the General Meeting. In enterprises having more than 500 or 2000 employees in Germany, employees are also represented in the SB. In practice, the dual-board system is also established in other continental European countries. The unitary-board system, which exists in the UK, has only one organ, the board... Where is the COMI? One of the performances of cross-border insolvency is that debtors may seek to open proceedings in a state having insolvency legislation more favourable to their particular circumstances. This is labelled as ¿forum shopping¿. The Regulation attempts to stop forum shopping by requiring that the main proceeding be opened in the member state where the debtor¿s ¿centre of main interests¿ (COMI) is situated. According to Art. 3 EU Insolvency Regulation, the international Courts of the particular Member state are responsible for the opening of an insolvency proceeding, where the debtor¿s centre of main interest is. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) assumes that this is basically there, where ¿the debtor¿s registered office ¿is. It¿s where the administration of its interests "on a regular basis¿is and it must be ¿therefore ascertainable by third parties."

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung und Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) in Rechtsabteilungen und richtet sich an JuristInnen und juristische Fachkräfte in Unternehmen. Als Legal Tech-ExpertInnen untersuchen die AutorInnen, wie KI und andere Technologien die verschiedenen Rechtsbereiche in Unternehmen verändern. Anschauliche Beispiele zeigen, wie Legal Tech und KI-basierte Lösungen Vertragsmanagement, Compliance, Streitbeilegung, Beteiligungsmanagement, Datenschutz etc. optimieren können. Dabei werden Chancen und Herausforderungen für jede Domäne diskutiert, einschließlich ethischer und rechtlicher Aspekte. Es kommen echte AnwenderInnen und UmsetzerInnen, AnbieterInnen und TechnologInnen zu Wort. Das Buch skizziert auch die sich weiter verändernde Rolle der JuristInnen in einer digitalen Welt und betrachtet die Bedeutung von Fortbildung und Anpassungsfähigkeit. Es richtet sich an JuristInnen, Legal Tech-ExpertInnen und UnternehmensführerInnen, die die Zukunft des Rechtswesens im digitalen Zeitalter aktiv gestalten möchten. Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren Nathalie Alon , Rechtsanwältin, Datenschutzexpertin Simonetta Batteiger , Product Leadership Coach, Simone Batteiger Gerrit Beckhaus , Partner / Rechtsanwalt und Co-Head Freshfields Lab bei Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Carina Berger , Legal Counsel, Post AG Dennis Borchardt , Legal Operations Manager, TKElevator Richard Bucher , Group Chairman, Validatum Janine De Monte , Consultant, Group Legal, ALDI SÜD KG Gerald Dipplinger , Partner, Tax Technology & Digital Services, PWC Marc Geiger , Director Legal Operations & Business Technologies, Gleiss Lutz Sandra Gomez Gracia , Legal Technology-Manager, DLA Martin Kammandel , Legal Tech, Deutsche Telekom AG Manuela Kohl , Head of Legal & Compliance, TÜV Austria Tobias Kugler , Head of Legal, Cariad Technology Barbara Lampl , Data and KI Expertin, Barbara Lampl Daniel Lieber , Legal Tech, Gleiss Lutz Jan-Andre Lebendig , Senior Regulations Specialist und Product Owner, Cariad Technology Nina-Marie Luckhaupt , Legal Technology-Manager, DLA Piper Sophie Martinetz , Gründerin und Managing Partnerin, Future-Law & Gründerin und Director Legal Tech Center Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Irene McGill , Head of Contracts & Projects, OMV Daniel Michlits , Senior Associate im Tax Technology Team, PwC Österreich Tobias Mock , LL.M., Legal Excellence, Andreas STIHL AG & Co KG Gunther Müssig , Rechtsanwalt und Senior Legal Counsel, Cariad SE Martin Reichetseder , Director Legal Services / Group Compliance Officer, TGW Logistics Group GmbH & Loupe Leonhard Reiner , Legal Counsel, Legal Tech, ALDI Süd AG Andrei Salajan , Head of Digitalisation, Schönherr Rechtsanwälte GmbH Peter Schichl , Head of Legal Technology, Deutsche Telekom AG Marcus M. Schmitt , General Manager der European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA) Rebecca Schnelle , Legal Counsel, Hartmann Marguerita Sedrati-Müller , Counsel, Director People & Culture, Schönherr Merve Taner , Legal Advisor, Erste Bank AG Patrick Temmler , Gruppenleiter LegalTech, Vodafon AG Ruben Tosunyan , Legal Operations Manager, Boehringer-Ingelheim Lukas Treichl , Counsel / Rechtsanwalt und Co-Head Freshfields Lab bei Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Markus Warmholz , Director Corporate Legal, Corporate Legal Department, PAUL HARTMANN AG Lucas Wickenbrock , Head of Legal, LCL/Legal/BU EA Cluster West TKElevator Pierre G. Zickert , Rechtsanwalt Counsel, Manager Legal Technology Hengeler Mueller Eva Zwick , Legal Counsel, PAUL HARTMANN AG