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Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale. This book describes the current state of play, looking in detail at the main competitors worldwide and analyzing the factors underlying their successes and failures. The authors are leading commentators on this industry and identify the essential characteristics of a global strategy in food retailing and inclu...

From the critically acclaimed cartoonist of Clyde Fans and It's A Good Life comes a humorous graphic novel on the obsession of comic-book collecting. Taking a break from the serialization of his saga "Clyde Fans" and the design of "The Complete Peanuts, " critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books and only in pristine, mint condition. Meet Wimble...

Magick is cheap and power is all around you. The most vibrant magick in the world is that of survival. If you know how it works you can use it anywhere, with anything, to do whatever you need or desire. Tactics is defined as the choice and application of technique in a specific situation. The purpose of tactical magick is to take the magick of survival and incorporate it into our daily lives. So called High Magick is chiefly concerned with exp...

¿It's really a very simple story. What happened was this: I met this girl and did a very stupid thing. I fell in love. Hard. I know that to some people that makes me an idiot and a loser. What can I say? They're right. I did some extremely foolish things, I'm the first to say it. And they've left me in jail and alone.¿So begins one of the most compelling, emotionally charged, and affecting novels you are likely to read this year.It is the summ...

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Das vorliegende Buch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine literarische Reise in eine Welt, deren Bewohner als lästig und überflüssig verrufen sind: der Mikrokosmos kleiner Lebewesen, von denen wir stets hautnah umgeben sind. Diesen Nebenschauplatz nehmen die Autoren unter die Lupe und führen uns ein in das verrückte Treiben der sympathischen Tierchen, deren Welt sich scheinbar gar nicht so sehr von der unseren unterscheidet. So flattert und fliegt, kr...

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Excerpt from The Avicultural Magazine, Vol. 7: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society, for the Foreign and British Birds in Freedom and Captivity The completion of the present Volume brings our second series to a close, the Committee having considered it desirable to commence a new series with the issue for November. We believe that the present Volume will be found equal in every way to those that have preceded it, and to contain a lar...

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Uday is a flamboyant, intriguing and adventurous IT professional in his 20's. Within the large world of IT, in which he had no interest, his life keeps flashing in front of him- the life that he had led, and the memories of his first love. In these rampant flashbacks, he narrates the story of his brash lifestyle and his uncanny desires, the women he fell in love with and how he broke their hearts. In his poetic anecdotes and karmic insights, h...

Folk art was neither widely collected nor highly valued in the early 1900s, when globetrotting Chicago socialite and philanthropist Florence Bartlett (1881-19540 began buying indigenous works encountered on her travels and dreamed of founding a museum to celebrate cultural diversity. Beartlett realised her goal in 1953, when the Museum of International Folk Art opened in Santa Fe near her long-time summer home. 50 years later, Bartlett's visio...

Excerpt from The Avicultural Magazine, Vol. 3: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds in Freedom and CaptivityEight Common Sheldrakes 101 each, 6 Chilian Widgeon 30/ each, 5 Carolinas 30/ each, 2 Gadwall 2o/ each, I female Red-crested Pochard 25/ all bred this year, guaranteed healthy. Also 2 female Red-rumped Parrakeets 12/ each. £23 the lot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

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In diesem Buch erklären Wissenschaftler die erstaunlichsten Theoriender Neurowissenschaften. Jeder Beitrag kann in nur 30 Sekundenvom Leser erfasst werden. Entdecken Sie, wie das Netzwerk von 90Milliarden Nervenzellen funktioniert, um Wahrnehmung, Handlung, Erkenntnis und Emotion hervorzurufen. Erkunden Sie, wie das GehirnIhre Persönlichkeit bestimmt und was es im Schlaf treibt. Mit seinenerstklassigen Abbildungen und Biografien namhafterNeuro...

Excerpt from Two Lectures on Theism: Delivered on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Princeton University There are three terms, not perhaps very clearly defined, - perhaps not employed by different writers with any strict uniformity of usage, - still, terms which may suffice to indicate at the outset the possible lines in which theories of the divine may move. The terms I mean are Pantheism, Deism, and Theism. There is a cer...

Overweight and over-the-hill, Jason Miller was on the road to nowhere. With a minimum wage job and only Jason's cat, Leo, for companionship, bad goes to worse when Jason rear-ends a police car containing one very angry cop. Car totaled and about to receive a ticket that will cost a month's salary, Jason gets a lucky break when a brightly lit Christmas tree suddenly falls out of the sky. At least it looked like a Christmas tree. . . . Waking u...

Excerpt from The Present Position of the Philosophical Sciences: An Inaugural Lecture You will not find it wonderful if my feelings are deeply stirred in appearing before you to-day for the first time in my new capacity. There is no honour or privilege which I could possibly esteem higher than to teach philosophy in my own alma mater, and in the capital of my native land-to teach, moreover, in the Chair which, through the lustre of its occupa...

Excerpt from Hegelianism and PersonalityFichte the first to transform Kant's theory of knowledge into an absolute metaphysic - His constitutionally syn thetic mind - Every philosophy must be a Monism Dogmatism and Idealism as the only two possible types of philosophy - Impossibility of explaining the Self by action ab extrw - Fichte's distinction between the Abso lute Ego and the empirical self - His speculative ex planation of the given eleme...

Excerpt from Essays in Philosophical Criticism The various contributors to a volume of Essays such as the present may naturally be supposed to be animated by some common purpose or tendency, and I have been requested to say a few words to indicate how far such a common purpose or tendency exists. In the first place, then, I have to state that the Essays have been written quite independently by their several authors, and that any agreement wh...