Download or read book The Barcelona Way written by Damian Hughes and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Does culture create competitive advantage? Case closed in this compelling analysis of sporting success. Read it.' – James Kerr, bestselling author of Legacy. In The Barcelona Way, sports psychologist Prof. Damian Hughes draws on exclusive insight into FCB as well as first-hand research from organizational psychology, to set out a method to create your own high-performance culture. At the heart of FCB’s winning culture are a set of principles, epitomized by Pep Guardiola, Johan Cruyff, Lionel Messi and many other FCB legends, which govern how to nurture talent, prepare for change and provide the best environment to build a culture of sustained success. These principles: Big Picture, Arc of Change, Repetition, Cultural Architects, Authentic Leadership are at the heart of FCB’s unprecedented domination of football, and are the key to developing high-performance cultures in any team-based organisation across every industry. The Barcelona Way is a hugely practical must-read that sets out a clear plan, based on the same principles, for you to create a culture of success and get the best of yourself and your team.
Download or read book Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy written by José M. Maestre and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid evolution of computer science, communication, and information technology has enabled the application of control techniques to systems beyond the possibilities of control theory just a decade ago. Critical infrastructures such as electricity, water, traffic and intermodal transport networks are now in the scope of control engineers. The sheer size of such large-scale systems requires the adoption of advanced distributed control approaches. Distributed model predictive control (MPC) is one of the promising control methodologies for control of such systems. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of distributed MPC approaches, while at the same time making clear directions of research that deserve more attention. The core and rationale of 35 approaches are carefully explained. Moreover, detailed step-by-step algorithmic descriptions of each approach are provided. These features make the book a comprehensive guide both for those seeking an introduction to distributed MPC as well as for those who want to gain a deeper insight in the wide range of distributed MPC techniques available.
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Download or read book Spanish Grammar Made Easy written by Mike Zollo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Grammar Made Easy is ideal for adult beginners. An interactive CD-ROM with Spanish audio accompanies the book.
Download or read book Barcelona and Its Surroundings written by Kelly Lipscomb and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically, CataluÑa, The region surrounding Barcelona, Is not unlike Spain as a whole. The soaring Pyrenees Mountains in the north separating Spain from France yield To The Mediterranean's Costa Brava in the east. Were it not For The ungainly resorts that have diminished its natural beauty since the 1960s, this "wild coast" would be the loveliest, if not the most extreme Mediterranean coast of the peninsula. Still, its features – the dark, jagged rock outcroppings, The foreboding cliffs And The general angriness of it all – have not been completely buried in concrete, just harnessed For The ease of our enjoyment. There are the remarkable ruins of EmpÍries to explore, vestiges of the Greeks And The Romans who were truly the first to develop this coast, and a few of its coastal towns – Cadaques comes to mind – were never wrecked. We have the Pyrenees to thank for saving Cadaques, since to reach it one must ascend and wind around the lower reaches of these mountains for 45 minutes (on good roads) before making the descent toward this, Salvador DalÍ's favored retreat. Developers tend to favor easier roads. Higher up in the Catalan Pyrenees, where the peaks top out at over 3,000 m (9,840 feet) and waterfalls cascade down their faces, there is more to be thankful for. A series of Romanesque churches, The product of CataluÑa's medieval golden age, when its counts allied with neighboring AragÓn to create a seafaring kingdom unrivaled in the Mediterranean at the time, are hidden in far flung valleys, set along crystalline streams away from the package tourists and even paved roads. With snowfall, The Catalan Pyrenees offer great cross-country and downhill skiing and, when it melts, great whitewater adventures. Throughout the year one can marvel at the secluded wilderness of the AigÜestortes National Park and wonder why they ever spent so much time in Barcelona. Barcelona is the stylistic capital of Spain, endowed with bold modernisme architecture, traditionally the seat of challenging art movements and, by and large, a truly modern, European city. To the west, The modest mountains surrounding the city, The champagne vineyards and beyond them the wild massif of holy Montserrat give way To The eastern realm of the barren plateau known as the Meseta, CataluÑa's driest and most desolate expanse. As the region narrows out toward the south near its border with Valencia, The delta of the RÍo Ebro, Spain's longest river, fosters wetlands that attract clouds of migratory birds. Here, As throughout the coastal regions of CataluÑa, The climate is strictly Mediterranean with generally mild winters and brutally humid and hot summers – a stark contrast To The dry air and snowy peaks of the Pyrenees. In its diverse landscapes CataluÑa certainly looks like Spain, even if it doesn't act like Spain. But by its own measure CataluÑa adds an element of sophistication and openness that serves to complement the rest of the country. Without it, Spain would have its wine, but no champagne. Barcelona is a city that immediately calls to mind great art and architecture (here one And The same), music, nightlife, walks, a great many things, As well as a great deal of misunderstanding. As a Catalan friend pointed out, "We are a complex people living in a thousand places at once." Such a maelstrom of commerce, culture and idealism is not easily correlated, often leaving visitors with the feeling that, while they may have seen a GaudÍ faÇade, they were never invited inside to see what was holding it up. Here is the most detailed guide to Barcelona And The CataluÑa region that surrounds it, loaded with maps, photos and complete information on where to stay, where to dine and what to see and do. Also included is an extensive general section on Spain as a whole. An excerpt from Hunter's Adventure Guide to Spain, which is 670 pa
Download or read book Longevity Made Easy written by Damon Cozamanis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you like to live 100 years or more and remain healthy and active for the majority of those years? How about overcoming a serious illness such as heart disease or cancer? Longevity Made Easy empowers you with the latest lifestyle strategies proven to supercharge your body's natural defenses against illness and disease. Dr. Damon Cozamanis, D.C., has spent more than two decades studying holistic health care. For the first time ever, he offers you his cutting-edge health and fitness program in a simple and easy-to-follow format. He has helped thousands of people to look and feel better using the very same techniques outlined in this book and now he can help you to achieve your health and fitness goals too. Benefits of the Longevity Made Easy program include: - Increased life span of 10 or more years - Reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease - Prevent premature aging and regain a more youthful appearance - Reduced body fat - Increased energy - Improved ability to think and concentrate - Improved mood Longevity Made Easy a must read for anyone interested in improving their current state of health and maximizing their body's ability to overcome illness and disease.
Download or read book Parenting Made Easy written by Sue Atkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the parent you want to be with Parenting Made Easy. Parenting coach Sue Atkins has helped thousands of parents build stronger relationships with their children using her straightforward strategies. In this practical guide she shares her positive methods to help you parent with confidence and raise motivated, well-behaved and happy kids. - Develop your childrens' self-esteem - Turn conflicts into conversations - Encourage independence and good behaviour - Be confident and positive in your abilities as a parent
Download or read book Infertility Management Made Easy written by Sushma Deshmukh and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to the management of infertility for gynaecologists and trainees. Divided into seven sections, the text begins with initial patient presentation and various diagnostic investigation techniques including transvaginal sonography, laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, and semen analysis. The following sections cover different causes of anovulation (lack or absence of ovulation), problems with the uterus and fallopian tubes such as polyps and fibroids, and other conditions including endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and cervical factors. The next section examines male infertility, followed by detailed discussion on the use of IUI (intrauterine insemination) and IVF (in vitro fertilisation), and when each is the more appropriate treatment method. The third edition of this book has been fully revised to provide clinicians with knowledge of the latest advances and technologies in the field. Key points Comprehensive guide to management of infertility Step by step approach to both basic and advanced procedures Fully revised, third edition providing latest advances in the field Previous edition (9789350905319) published in 2013
Download or read book Plant Based Made Easy written by Nele Liivlaid and published by Nutriplanet. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen a person who deliberately wants be fat and sick? You are that person if you don’t take things into your own hands now! It’s been proven that a whole food plant-based diet is good for optimal weight and health. Furthermore, your wallet as well as the environment will thank you. Are you feeling overwhelmed about all the new information and ways you should learn and are therefore scared to start? Don’t worry, because you’re not alone: Plant-Based Made Easy is a foolproof and utterly practical guide that covers all aspects in your life making the change simple and enjoyable! After all, it was written based on a personal experience. Plant-based certificate graduate from eCornell and featured blogger Nele Liivlaid transitioned to plant-based eating 5 years ago to change her and her family’s health to better. Shortly after, she started advocating plant-based lifestyle through her blog and offering meal plans to make the transition easier for others. Very soon she realized that a much more thorough guide covering all aspects of life is much needed and started writing this book. Here, she brings that experience to you, backed by scientific evidence. In this comprehensive and very practical guide, Nele will show you through the transition: Step 1: First, learn the basics about balanced plant-based diet: macros, micros, blood sugar control, cravings and needs, role of exercise, and necessary blood tests. Step 2: Then, prepare your kitchen and pantry and learn how to shop and read labels not to be fooled by marketers or harming your budget. Step 3: Thirdly, compile yourself a balanced plant-based meal plan and master yourself in cooking without animal products, sugars, oils and other refined foods while successfully engaging your kids. Step 4: You are not alone in this world, so handle challenges with your family and friends while hosting or visiting. Step 5: Also, you need to get yourself out of your kitchen once in a while, so learn tricks and hacks on dining out, and keeping on the track while travelling or even being hospitalized. Step 6: Finally, be a champion by learning from other people’s success. In addition, at the end of Plant-Based Made Easy, Nele gives you a 2-week meal plan with breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and desserts beautifully laid out for you. The meal plan contains 40 delicious and easy recipes + 15 extra recipes to add to your daily menu. Whether you’re a plant-based newbie looking to shed pounds or a seasoned vegan in search of fresh inspiration and navigational skills, PLANT-BASED MADE EASY is your essential, definitive guide—for a happier, healthier, and longer life.
Download or read book Lovelier Lonelier written by Daryl Qilin Yam and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't love, really. They were just trying to make something out of their lives. Kyoto, 1996, during the passing of Comet Hyakutake: A runaway from Singapore discovers a woman crying in front of a train station at 5.46am. A Straits Times journalist later arrives with her gallerist friend from Madrid, dreading the reenactment of her mother's performance art. The lives of these four friends—Isaac, Tori, Jing and Mateo—become entangled as a result of one madcap weekend, when fireworks are inexplicably shot over the Kamo River and people become swept to alternate worlds via public transport. Daryl Qilin Yam’s genre-defying second novel ranges across countries and decades, charting the tributaries of pain we thread with our friends and the arcs of the many stories we tell in order to live.
Download or read book Special Report Barcelona written by Peter Howson and published by The Business Year. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 152-page publication is unique in that it provides a holistic and multi-sectoral view of development at a point of much political uncertainty, all amidst notable efforts to become a leader in Industry 4.0 in the European bloc. With information straight from the mouths of leaders and decision makers across the economy, this is a comprehensive guide to investment throughout the diverse and industrially rich region of Catalonia.
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Download or read book The Long History of the Future written by Nicole Kobie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world - be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle - is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these innovations always out of reach? Delving into the remarkable history of technology, The Long History of the Future introduces us to the clever scientists, genius engineers and eccentric innovators who first brought these ideas to life and have struggled to make them work since. These stories reveal a more realistic picture of how these technologies may evolve - and how we'll eventually get to use them. You may never be able to buy a fully driverless car, but automated braking and steering could slash collision rates. Smart cities won't perfect city life, but they could help empty bins on time. Hyperloops may never arrive, but superfast trains are already here. We always believe current technology is the best it could be. By looking to the past and the future, Nicole Kobie shows how history always proves us wrong and how what lies ahead may not be what we imagine, but so much better.
Download or read book Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide written by Sujoy Acharya and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build efficient, high-performance & scalable systems to process large volumes of data with Apache Ignite Key FeaturesUnderstand Apache Ignite's in-memory technologyCreate High-Performance app components with IgniteBuild a real-time data streaming and complex event processing systemBook Description Apache Ignite is a distributed in-memory platform designed to scale and process large volume of data. It can be integrated with microservices as well as monolithic systems, and can be used as a scalable, highly available and performant deployment platform for microservices. This book will teach you to use Apache Ignite for building a high-performance, scalable, highly available system architecture with data integrity. The book takes you through the basics of Apache Ignite and in-memory technologies. You will learn about installation and clustering Ignite nodes, caching topologies, and various caching strategies, such as cache aside, read and write through, and write behind. Next, you will delve into detailed aspects of Ignite’s data grid: web session clustering and querying data. You will learn how to process large volumes of data using compute grid and Ignite’s map-reduce and executor service. You will learn about the memory architecture of Apache Ignite and monitoring memory and caches. You will use Ignite for complex event processing, event streaming, and the time-series predictions of opportunities and threats. Additionally, you will go through off-heap and on-heap caching, swapping, and native and Spring framework integration with Apache Ignite. By the end of this book, you will be confident with all the features of Apache Ignite 2.x that can be used to build a high-performance system architecture. What you will learnUse Apache Ignite’s data grid and implement web session clusteringGain high performance and linear scalability with in-memory distributed data processingCreate a microservice on top of Apache Ignite that can scale and performPerform ACID-compliant CRUD operations on an Ignite cacheRetrieve data from Apache Ignite’s data grid using SQL, Scan and Lucene Text queryExplore complex event processing concepts and event streamingIntegrate your Ignite app with the Spring frameworkWho this book is for The book is for Big Data professionals who want to learn the essentials of Apache Ignite. Prior experience in Java is necessary.
Download or read book Italian Made Simple written by Cristina Mazzoni and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are planning a romantic Italian getaway, packing a knapsack for your junior year abroad, or just want to engage your Italian business associate in everyday conversation, Italian Made Simple is the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all the non-essentials and refreshingly easy to understand, Italian Made Simple includes: * basics of grammar * vocabulary building exercises * pronunciation aids * common expressions * word puzzles and language games * contemporary reading selections * Italian culture and history * economic information * Italian-English and English-Italian dictionaries Complete with drills, exercises, and answer keys for ample practice opportunities, Italian Made Simple will soon have you speaking Italian like a native.
Download or read book Louis van Gaal written by Maarten Meijer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers? Wherever he has gone, Van Gaal has been accused of being a domineering disciplinarian and a control freak. He is certainly, by his own admission, a man who leaves nothing to chance. A disciple in the 1970s of Rinus Michels’ Total Football philosophy, he is a fascinating contradiction – an ultra-individualist utterly devoted to the collective effort. He believes in the team over the individual, in always having a plan and a team prepared to follow it. Van Gaal led the young Ajax team he moulded to Champions League glory in 1995, went on to win titles across Europe with Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich and served two stints as national coach of Holland. It is a career that has never been short on colour and drama – from fallouts with players to rants at the media wherever he has managed. Dutch football commentator Maarten Meijer’s has written the definitive biography of van Gaal – both the man and his methods. It offers the best psychological insight so far – from his earliest roots to his greatest triumphs – into the man given the task of returning the glory days to Manchester United. **New chapter on Louis van Gaal's first season with Manchester United**
Download or read book The Camino Made Easy Reflections of a Parador Pilgrim written by Olivia Pittet and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Camino Made Easy: Reflections of a Parador Pilgrim relates three fascinating, culturally rich journeys on the Way of St. James, or the Camino, through Spain and Portugal to Santiago de Compostela. This personal, practical, and informational story testifies to the advantages of doing the Camino on a walking tour, while offering fresh perspectives on this long-distance medieval pilgrimage route for pilgrims and tourists alike. Olivia Pittet describes stunningly varied landscapes, including the Basque country, the Rioja wine region, and Celtic Galicia, as well as the World Heritage cities of Burgos, León, and Santiago, while gradually unfolding the Camino’s extraordinary cultural legacy and religious history, its present-day relevance, and its enduring appeal. She recalls what it was like to walk over one hundred miles on each journey, interweaving her Chaucer-style interactions with her fellow pilgrims, her love of landscape, and her special interest as a former medievalist in the Camino’s literature and legends. Olivia also interjects her own tale, tracing her unexpected spiritual journey from its initial stumbling blocks to a developing sense of pilgrimage the closer she came to Santiago, where there are as many answers waiting to be found as there are ways of walking the Camino. Beautifully written and deeply felt, this rich fusion of pilgrimage and personal narrative, landscape and cultural legacy, literature and legend vibrantly re-creates the Camino anew.
