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Venture capital (VC) is the business of financing the new – and making outsized profits. It grew up in Silicon Valley, backing the most influential companies known today, including Apple and Airbnb. It's not the iPhone, but VC, that is Silicon Valley's greatest export – it's the key...

In Saving Our Sons, Dr. Gurian features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and video game use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on 20 years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons.

People in relationships with avoidants struggle with their lack of responsiveness and inability to tolerate real intimacy. Relationships between an avoidant and a partner of another attachment type are the largest group of unhappy relationships, and people who love their partners and who may have started families and had children with an avoidant will work very hard to try to make their relationships work better, out of love for their partner and children as well as their own happiness.

It's time to take control of your stories...The 24 Laws of Storytelling distills the lessons learned from stories past and present into a practical audiobook that you can use for any story you decide to write. This audiobook will teach you the principles you need to immerse your audience, deliver immensely satisfying drama, and educate better than any textbook or lecture can.

Marksmanship Fundamentals is an audiobook written by an active-service Tier 1 operator and covers the fundamentals of long-range marksmanship. The book was primarily written for beginner and intermediate-level shooters; however, even experienced shooters may benefit from the book.

This book explores the array of principles and practices that have evolved and make up the rich culture that has permeated the school. The Sudbury school model is unique in creating a community that extends to all students the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities available to every adult American for the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of a meaningful life. All we did was turn the clock back - or, better, forward - and finish the job the Founding Fathers began...by including children in the ringing phrases of the Declaration of Independence.

A drug dealer who doesn't want to deal anymore, Brazilian hit men, two shrewd trailer trash brothers, a mafia boss with a bad leg and a Chinese bodyguard fly on The Ariel. When it crashes, with 300 kilograms of pure cocaine, the trip is just beginning. Paul Hewlett is an Ivy League stockbroker who crawls from the wreckage salvaging half the cargo. He has to unload it and disappear before the mob makes him disappear.

When Jana Baker first landed the internship of a lifetime, she never imagined walking into a pit of terrorists. But when a secretive federal agent approaches her, she learns the truth and has no choice but to infiltrate their plot. As Agent Stone tries to protect her, Jana pushes past the outer edges of peril only to find herself clinging for life.

In a win-win action, both parties win, and a common victory is greater than it is ever possible to achieve alone. There is no upper boundary to how good the results that are possible to achieve together, compared to pursuing one's own advantage. Real win-win thinking is never a game against the other party, from which all game theoretical solutions look to start, but involves cooperation with all the players.

Oz Porter, a prepper and former Marine sniper, is a man who prepares for the worst. He thought he’d been to hell and back in Iraq, but when he arrives back in his home town of Copperville, his war is not over. Everything has changed, and nothing is as he remembered. What happened? Is this the end?

The purpose of this book is to help you expose and understand the root causes of your "false" mental pain and begin the process of healing. The information I have provided here will allow you to see that your longstanding psychological suffering has not been based on the truth about you, and that just beyond that veil of falsehood is the joyful truth, accessible to anyone who truly wants it.

The book starts by explaining why making money with binary options is much more difficult than the brokers want you to believe. It covers the fundamentals of binary options and discloses several easy-to-understand, time-based trading strategies that both new and veteran traders can start applying in a very short time. Two money management systems are explained. Expert traders will find a section dedicated to more sophisticated trading strategies.

Spacer Buck Fryman emerges from the local lockup with a dream and a plan. He'll go into business himself, as a space freighter. He'll take the dangerous routes, sail fast without waiting for the convoys normally needed for pirate protection, and if a pirate does decide to take him on, he'll prove that he's not just a barroom brawler, he can defend himself in space as well.

This (short) audiobook is about an encounter I had with the creature commonly known as Bigfoot in a remote northern part of California state in 2003. Before that night, I thought Bigfoot a remote possibility. I also thought I had a good marriage, confidence in all areas of my life, and never thought it possible to wet myself in fear - and not realize I was doing it when it happened. That night changed me profoundly and in ways I never thought possible. Think twice before you go looking for the giant, wild, hairy man, because you might just find him.

When the lights go out for good, what will you do? EMPs destroy our electrical grid. All related electronic devices go into immediate failure mode. This affects transportation, food and water distribution, and your safety and security. Do you know all of the background on what causes and constitutes a grid failure? This audiobook explores every facet of prepping for survival against EMP attacks, solar flares, and every other possibility.

This guide will give you the information you need to take your real estate investing business to the next level. In this audiobook you will learn different strategies from some of the top real estate investors in the business, including marketing, wholesaling, renting, rehabbing, using private money, and more.

It was the end of a Chicago era. Antonio "Tony Napoli" Sorrentino has finally closed his legendary restaurant in the heart of the West Loop. It has been a gathering place for prominent politicians, famous entertainers, renowned dignitaries, and, of course, well-known mobsters. Often dubbed the "Artie Bucco" of the Chicago Outfit, 87-year-old Tony Sorrentino has decided to close his celebrated restaurant after 57 years.

It’s not the iPhone, but VC, that is Silicon Valley’s greatest export—it’s the key ingredient of innovation and provides the toolkit for inventors and start-up founders around the world to become powerful, multibillion-dollar companies.

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Paul Crawford is asked to investigate a series of recent murders he eventually calls the "Houdini Victims". He begins with the investigation of a corporate executive who vanishes from a parking garage in the Chicago Loop without a trace.

It was pure serendipity that we went on an African safari, but we are forever grateful that we did. We combined a visit with my brother and sister-in-law, a doctor and nurse volunteering at a hospital in Uganda, with a safari to Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Meet the many different and interesting people we encountered on safari and learn about the fabulous eco-lodges we stayed at. Travel with us across East Africa in small planes and safari cars for the many wonderful experiences that made this the trip-of-a-lifetime for us and our friends.