In the history of human progress, the most fruitful developments take place at the intersection of different lines of thoughts. The timeless topic of leadership has for centuries always been dominated by the ideas and philosophies of Western thinkers, business executives and academics. For far too long, the voice from the East has been deafeningly silent. As Asia rises in the global economy, a question that begs an answer is, "What is the leadership tradition of the East and how will it play out globally?"   Leadership consultant BH Tan has written an outstanding exposition of the Asian perspective on leadership. He has drawn upon his deep appreciation of Daoist principles to propose a complementary approach to the Western-centric leadership mindset.   A lifelong student of Eastern and Western thinking and leadership, he challenges some of our most cherished truths and perspectives. "Either-or" is out. The "both-and" philosophy will lead us to a better future in this complex, chaotic yet interconnected world. This is the essence of leadership paradoxes. When we integrate both streams of thinking, we transcend contradictions and tap into greater possibilities for progress and creativity. This can only help us lead more wisely and courageously.   Each of the 25 chapters is fabulously written, easy to read, with plenty of real-life cases drawn from the author's many decades of experience working alongside leaders around the world. This is the author's third book on leadership.

The Way of the Leader

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HSK Standard Course 5B - Workbook

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This book provides both a wake-up call and hope. If we behave responsibly toward nature, these species can still be saved.     We are born, we live, we die, and we loot our planet. We pollute it, mine it, cut down forests, and transform them into arable land. We pump out groundwater as well as raw materials . . . Entire lines of threatened species, however, are dying before our eyes. Do we want to continue like this? Atlas of Endangered Animals maps out the dangers that specific threatened species face. The writer Radek Malý encourages people to think about their actions. The ambitiously conceived atlas is accompanied by remarkable fullpage illustrations by Pavel Dvorský, supplemented by scientific illustrations by his wife Pavla Dvorská. These are stories of forty species whose ongoing existence rests in our hands.

Atlas of Endangered Animals

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This series takes young readers to different parts of the world, showing a wide range of cultures and traditions. See how varied the world is!    Are you curious how people make merry in other countries? Good company, great food and drink, and most importantly, lots of fun-we all like celebrating holidays! But have you ever wondered how people spend holidays across the world? Together we'll join in with many celebrations, all of them different. What's Halloween like in Ireland, and Timkat in Ethiopia? What are the customs observed at Hanukkah? You'll make new friends who'll tell you all about their culture. Ready to explore? It's party time all over the world!

How Kids Celebrate Holidays Around the World

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We admire the ancient wonders today, but somebody had to build them. No heavy machinery, no semitrucks, no cement mixers. How was it even possible to build such wonders as pyramids and temples in ancient times?     Each one was unique, its beauty and magnificence lauded by the greatest poets and writers of the age. Everyone longed to see for themselves the Wonders of the World: the Colossus of Rhodes, the majestic Great Pyramids of Giza, the Lighthouse of Alexandria (which withstood earthquakes and gales), the spellbinding Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the breathtaking Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (inspiration for so many myths and legends). Just one of them-the pyramids-survives today. But come with us as we go back in time and learn the secrets of how these gems of ancient architecture were created. The building of each architectural masterpiece comprised so many details and small jobs, so much daily grind and sustained effort, with or without the help of machines.

How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Were Built

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41 plants that will literally take your breath away. Or even eat you! There are many books about Plants. This title does not show the best known, but the most weird and phantastic ones. Welcome to this botanical garden, where human feet have not trodden for many years. Actually, one has-or rather a pair of them have. They belong to a passionate botanist who spends all his time in the company of flowers. He does not seem interested in people, as he feels himself to be a plant rather than a member of the species homo sapiens. He may seem strange-or even scary, like anything unknown-but rest assured that he is completely harmless just like his plants are . . . unless you're a fly or a beetle, which his carnivorous plants love to eat, that is. No worries, those meat lovers might possibly snatch at your snack if you have a ham sandwich or a sausage in your bag, but that's all. Though some of the plants from this forgotten botanical garden look predatory at first sight, even spooky, they are still just plants that can never catch you. Enough talking, though! Keep your hats on as our tour of the botanical garden begins . . .

Amazing Plants of the World

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We know what we see. Do we know what they see? Did you know that most animals do not recognize red colour? Did you know that a bird that may only seem uninterestingly black to you can be painted in the most beautiful colours for members of its own species? Have you ever wondered how animals perceive the world around us? Whether they see the same colors we see? Whether the vision of a fish is blurry underwater like ours? Or whether dogs like to watch TV, or cats really can see in the dark? If you have ever wished you could ask the animals themselves, don't worry, because the book you are holding in your hands holds the answers to these questions and many more.

How Do Animals See?

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You may be surprised to learn how many individual parts make up the things around us. Do you know all the things that go into alphabet soup, a sandpit or a clock? Can you imagine how lovely all the parts look when sorted and arranged side by side? You can't? Then come with us and let an inquisitive cat called Ada show you what makes up lots of ordinary and special things and places.

Parts of a Whole

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Tetris challenge accepted! Find out what goes inside a fridge, a school gym, or a music band van! There are so many things around us that we cannot see inside. All those cabinets, suitcases, and closed doors-be they small, big, mysterious, or even quite plain, they make you wonder what's inside them. Food goes inside a fridge. Laundry goes inside a washing machine. That's obvious, right? But what about a fire truck? Not to mention a garden shed or a henhouse? What goes inside them? Join Bruno the curious dog and let's find everything out together. You'll have loads of fun!

What Goes Inside?

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An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedicated the Czech edition of Rus-Ukraine-Russia to Milos Zeman-the pro-Russian president of the Czech Republic. This sense of irony, combined with an extraordinary breadth of scholarly knowledge, infuses Putna's book. Examining key points in Russian cultural and spiritual history, Rus-Ukraine-Russia is essential reading for those wishing to understand the current state of Russia and Ukraine-the so-called heir to an "alternative Russia." Putna uses literary and artistic works to offer a rich analysis of Russia as a cultural and religious phenomenon: tracing its development from the arrival of the Greeks in prehistoric Crimea to its invasion by "little green men" in 2014; explaining the cultural importance in Russ of the Vikings as well as Pussy Riot; exploring central Russian figures from St. Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin. Unique in its postcolonial perspective, this is not merely a history of Russia or of Russian religion. This book presents Russia as a complex mesh of national, religious, and cultural (especially countercultural) traditions-with strong German, Mongol, Jewish, Catholic, Polish, and Lithuanian influences-a force responsible for creating what we identify as Eastern Europe.

Rus-Ukraine-Russia

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By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Lukás Fasora and Jirì Hanus take a diachronic approach to investigating the issues facing higher learning in the region. Using careful historical research, the authors point out vast discontinuities, comparing how the philosophy of education from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century has changed and how this evolution relates to the current administrative goals of higher education. As they confront the history and myths of university education, the authors do not shy away from exploring difficult questions, such as whether political and economic influences have completely transformed the goals and structure of today's universities in Central Europe. Though focused on university systems in a specific geographic region, the findings have wide-ranging implications for higher education the world over.

Myths and Traditions of Central European University Culture

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Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he was a philosophical inspiration to Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Soviet regimes before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations of the secret police, his political involvement cut short by an untimely death.Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines his legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being's existential confrontation with unjust politics. Aspen Briton puts Patocka's ideas about dissidence, citizen mobilization, and civic responsibility in conversation with those of notable world historical figures like Mohandas Gandhi, expanding the current possibilities of comparative political theory. In adding a fresh voice to contemporary conversations on transcending injustice, Confronting Totalitarian Minds seeks to educate a wider audience about this philosopher's continued relevance to political dissidents across the world.

Confronting Totalitarian Minds

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Racing´n´Roll is a celebration of racing and a celebration of photography! Martin Straka, famous czech photographer and a commentator of racing events, reveals the backstage of auto racing and rallys. His pictures are not only about the racing itself, but they present the overall atmosphere of the contests. Each one of the 400 photographs presented to the reader tells us its own story.

Racing 'N' Roll

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Home Doctor, as the name suggests, is your very own health-care book - an indispensable companion you can turn to at all times. The culmination of an allopath doctor's long-term involvement with alternative and complementary therapies, it contains over 200 simple and time-tested remedies for every conceivable ailment under the sun: from the nuisance value and discomfort of a common cold, cough and fever, to the severely debilitating effect of diarrhoea or heatstroke. Systematically formatted, the text moves from the causes and symptoms of health problems to directions on how to prepare remedies at home. These remedies, which are non-invasive and totally harmless, can help stem a problem in its nascent form, and often prevent it from developing into a full blown disease. Utilise your kitchen or garden to heal yourself with this lucidly written ready-reckoner interspersed with vibrant illustrations.

Home Doctor

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Un cuento por la paz - Las botas del general es un libro infantil recomendado de 4 a 7 años maravillosamente ilustrado. Un general necesita unas botas para ir a la guerra, asì que decide hacérselas a medida. Para el general la guerra era la guerra: tenìa que aniquilar todo lo que se encontraba en su camino. Pero lo que no sospechaba es que ni sus soldados ni sus botas opinaban igual. A ellos, la guerra no les gustaba; de hecho, el general no les gustaba; ni el olor a pólvora, ni el silbido de las balas, ni. Entonces, ¿qué hacìan ahì? Cuando el general grita: "Al ataque", y se dispone a dar el primer paso, las botas se niegan a obedecerle, los soldados se marchan corriendo y el general se queda solo ante el enemigo y sin entender qué está pasando. Las botas empiezan a correr para huir de la guerra, llevándose al general lejos de la destrucción. Y es que nunca es tarde para celebrar la vida, ¿no te parece? Es un álbum ilustrado de Elisa Ramón, magnìficamente dibujado por Francesc Rovira, dos de los profesionales con más trayectoria del panorama infantil. Recrea magnìficamente que, ante cualquier disyuntiva, siempre se tiene la opción de elegir lo que uno cree que es mejor , sin llevarse por la corriente. A general needs boots to go to war, so he decides to have them custom made. For the general, war was war: he had to annihilate everything that was in his way. But what he did not suspect is that neither his soldiers nor his boots felt the same way. They did not like war; in fact, they didn't like the general; not the smell of gunpowder, not the whistle of bullets. So what were they doing there?

Las Botas Del General

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This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Luke and Alex are neighbours and, on Luke's part, reluctant friends. They spend their free time on a large heath, looking for anything to keep themselves amused. Meanwhile an illegally-kept panther escapes its owner and takes refuge on the same heath. The paths of the boys and the cat are destined to meet. This paperback is in British English. Download the complete audio recording of this title and additional classroom resources at cambridge.org/experience-readers Cambridge Experience Readers get teenagers hooked on reading.

Running Wild

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Arthur Rackham was one of the most famous British illustrators of the Victorian era and is still loved by many today. Now, we have a deck created from his images and celebrating the fairies and fairytales of British folklore. Follow the wee folk into the forest and shadows in search of light and insight.   78 full colour cards and instruction booklet

Rackham Tarot

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The relationship among neo-nationalisms, populisms and racisms has long existed in the political landscape of western societies and, today, it is a key issue to understand current affairs and the popularity of racist, anti-Semite and Islamophobic positions. This book provides a lucid and accurate analysis of European and American social contexts, including United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and United States, where the socio-political debate is dominated by neo-nationalist instances.

Clockwork Enemy

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Grab some friends and play tag. Take a bike ride. Go on a hike. There are so many ways to be active! Lively photos mixed with informative text will explain why we need to be active and inspire every reader to get up and move. Be Active includes a glossary, a read more section, kid-friendly Internet sites, and an index.

Be Active

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We need food to keep our bodies going. But what are healthy foods and why should we eat them? With engaging text and colorful photos, readers learn how to make healthy food choices. Food Is Fuel includes a glossary, read more section, kid-friendly Internet sites, and an index.

Food Is Fuel

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Strange, towering creatures are crashing through the woods. They are travel books, and they will snap down and crush anything between their covers. When they stomp toward a group of young campers, it'll be up to the mighty Librarian to bring the books' destructive journey to a close. Uncover hidden dangers and dark mysteries with SECRETS OF THE LIBRARY OF DOOM, a page-turning chapter book series from bestselling author Michael Dahl.

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