Michael Cook

A partir de elementos tan dispares como el sistema matrimonial de los aborígenes australianos, los calendarios mesoamericanos, el culto a los antepasados en la China tradicional, las cortesanas de los templos medievales hindues, la etnografia musulmana o los ataques a las torres gemelas, el prestigioso historiador Michael Cook compone una historia coherente de la humanidad, explicando tanto sus elementos comunes como sus peculiaridades y proporcionando, al mismo tiempo, unas respuestas convincentes a las preguntas fundamentales de la historia del hombre.Una obra indispensable para cuando el lector se pregunte: ?¿Como hemos llegado hasta aqui??Un analisis sabio y penetrante de la vida del hombre desde el Paleolitico hasta el ataque a las torres gemelas. Edward Rothstein, New York Times.Si Dios tuviese un interes cientifico en el hombre y supiese escribir con genio y garra, tal vez produjese una obra como esta. Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World.

Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in? This witty, intelligent hopscotch through human history addresses these questions and more. Michael Cook sifts the human career on earth for the most telling nuggets and then uses them to elucidate the whole. From the calendars of Mesoamerica and the temple courtesans of medieval India to the intricacies of marriage among an aboriginal Australian tribe, Cook explains the sometimes eccentric variety in human cultural expression. He guides us from the prehistoric origins of human history across the globe through the increasing unification of the world, first by Muslims and then by European Christians in the modern period, illuminating the contingencies that have governed broad historical change. 11 maps, 28 illustrations. "A smart, literate survey of human life from paleolithic times until 9/11." -Edward Rothstein, The New York Times

After three bestselling novels, Mikala Stewart moves from Oxford, England to New York City to better promote her books in person. She meets a tall, good looking gentleman, who holds the hotel elevator door for her and her mother. After exchanging a few pleasantries, they part, going their separate ways. Liam Foster moves to New York City to work in his parents law firm NYC office. Hes eating dinner alone yet again when he and Mikala recognize each other from the hotel elevator years earlier and they have dinner together. They talk until late into the evening so Liam insists on escorting Mikala home safely where he asks her out for that Saturday night. They begin dating then, a month later, shes gone several weeks for book signing tour. After three bad breakups, Mikala wonders if Liam will be there to greet her, not knowing he ran into an ex-girlfriend, Danielle Phillips, while back in Franklin on a business trip. Danielle wants him back and what Danielle wants, she gets.

The Abyss. The word evokes a visceral response. It also evokes contemplation and a search for deeper knowledge and understanding. The abyss of despair can feel heavy too from all accounts. It pulls you into a dark, suffocating existence that can feel like you are drowning, prevent you from getting out of bed, or compel desires to end your life. By many accounts I should have drowned in an abyss of despair at the age of six, when I experienced a devastating tragedy. I did not. Where many find themselves in a deep and dark place daily in their lives, unable to reach the surface, I was able to reach the shore and its safety.Are you in the depths of the abyss due to anxiety, depression, or trauma? If you are you are not alone, even if you believe otherwise. Depression seems to run rampant in todays high-pace, socially connected society with seemingly few answers or solutions. It is a place that no one relishes. So why stay? It is confounding to think, anguishing to see, and no doubt devastating to experience. I hope this book does some small thing that allows you to keep your head above water long enough to gain the strength to reach the safety of shore. If nothing else, I want you to realize, especially if you are a military veteran, that nothing in our past should prevent you from having a future.

A partir de elementos tan dispares como el sistema matrimonial de los aborígenes australianos, los calendarios mesoamericanos, el culto a los antepasados en la China tradicional, las cortesanas de los templos medievales hindues, la etnografia musulmana o los ataques a las torres gemelas, el prestigioso historiador Michael Cook compone una historia coherente de la humanidad, explicando tanto sus elementos comunes como sus peculiaridades y proporcionando, al mismo tiempo, unas respuestas convincentes a las preguntas fundamentales de la historia del hombre.Una obra indispensable para cuando el lector se pregunte: ¿Como hemos llegado hasta aqui?Un analisis sabio y penetrante de la vida del hombre desde el Paleolitico hasta el ataque a las torres gemelas. Edward Rothstein, New York Times.Si Dios tuviese un interes cientifico en el hombre y supiese escribir con genio y garra, tal vez produjese una obra como esta. Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World.

Conference Room Wars is The Phoenix Project meets the popular comedy series The Office, without the hilarity.When Noel Rennick joined the St Louis office of Cramdler Innovative Government Solutions (CIGS) he expected to be part of a professional organization, dedicated to meeting the clients expectations. Instead, he found disfunction, chaos, and a toxic organizational environment.Noel is determined to apply everything he learned in graduate school and his summer internships in Chicago to change the paradigm and make the office a success. He needs to navigate his apathetic office manager and a coworker that breeds toxicity at every turn. Soon the conference room turns into a daily battleground, and a tragic event threatens to shatter the office into pieces.Before he knows it, Noel is the glue that holds the office together. Along the way he forms relationships that will last a lifetime and become the foundation for the strength needed to win the war waging in the office.Will Noel be able to drive the disfunction and toxicity from the office and make Cramdler a workplace the employees are proud of?Readers will not only learn how to improve their own organizations, but they will never view organizational culture and emotional intelligence the same way again.