Bøger af Steve King

A book recounting the history and marvels of Reschio through an alphabet of stories and pictures of an ancient Italian estate beginning a new life.Reschio Estate sprawls over the hills of Umbria, north of Perugia and not far from Cortona, in the very heart of Italy, with its circular Castello at its highest point. Dating back one thousand years, it was revived when it was bought by Austro-Hungarian expatriate Count Antonio Bolza in the 1980s, and it has now been transformed into a group of villas and a spectacular hotel by his son Count Benedikt, who lives there with his wife Donna Nencia Corsini and their five children.Reschio Estate is every architect’s dream, and a total work of art. It spans nearly 1,330 hectares of land, and today half of the nearly fifty abandoned farmsteads have been transformed into beautiful villas. The 1940s tobacco warehouse has become the Tabaccaia, where the vibrant architectural and design studio brings Benedikt’s designs to life, with furniture and lighting made by local artisans. Ancient forests and meadows have been restored to their wild state, protecting the animals living in their natural habitat.

The Diamond Standard Diamond Investment Guide analyzes the properties, supply, and demand of diamonds, demonstrating the viability of diamonds as an investment asset. Previously, holding diamonds as an investment asset was practical for only a select few high net worth individuals, organizations, and governmental entities. This Guide explains how you can now add easily tradable diamonds to your portfolio.Looking for the latest diamond industry updates? Read the Market Commentary section at the start of the Guide. After the news briefing, the Guide dives into the financial context of diamonds as investments, including an analysis of the Performance History of diamonds and other precious metals. The price history explains the long-term and short-term investment landscape of precious metal and gem investments.The Guide uses this setting to explore the Precious Properties of diamonds, comparing them to other precious metal and currency investments. In recent years, diamond values have had a negative correlation to precious metals, market indices, and bond prices, stationing the asset as a great hedge and inflation protection. Also in this section, the Guide provides an overview and explanation of underallocation of the $1.2 trillion diamond market & why until recently diamonds were impractical as investments for most investors. After explaining how Diamond Standard solved the puzzle of diamond investments, the Guide examines the supply and demand of diamonds. The depletion of mines and the weakening power of the mining oligopoly subsequently caused a Supply Squeeze in the industry. The Guide explores this phenomenon and predictions regarding the future of diamond acquisition. In contrast to the shrinking supply of diamonds, the Demand Drivers for diamonds are as strong as ever with the continued growth of the jewelry market. On top of the retail demand, pent-up investor demand is finally being realized through the introduction of fungible diamond investment products. A potential rapid increase in diamond demand coinciding with its supply constraints implies diamonds may witness a sharp rise in prices in the near future.Diamond Standard's Diamond Investment Guide: The Untapped Trillion Dollar Natural ResourceContentsMarket CommentaryPerformance HistoryPrecious PropertiesDiamond StandardSupply SqueezeDemand DriversAppendix

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of B and Z Users, ZB 2000, held in York, UK in August/September 2000.The 25 revised full papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notion and for the B method; the full scope, ranging from foundational and theoretical issues to advanced applications, tools, and case studies, is covered.

The refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference of Z and B Users, ZB 2003, held in Turku, Finland in June 2003. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notation and for the B method, spanning the full scope from foundational, theoretical, and methodological issues to advanced applications, tools, and case studies.

Why do so many change efforts in our organizations fail? One of a handful of reasons ... unprepared managers. Managers often feel their leaders cook up changes, unleash these changes, then expect managers to do the heavy lifting. That heavy lifting includes both coming to terms with changes personally, then getting their teams on board as well. This is the "Manager's Dilemma". Are managers helpless in this kind of situation? Are they set up to fail and disappoint? The answer is no. Even when senior leaders struggle to do their jobs as sponsors of change, there are plenty of things a manager can do to advance the change agenda and perhaps save the day. Steve King unpacks three key roles managers need to play in moments of change: change communicator, change coach, and change advocate .... and provides some simple tools and tactics for getting this job done.

Standing with my ninety-year-old uncle going through the list of names from WW2 on the Abingdon War Memorial was a truly humbling experience, not least because he knew many of the "boys" listed. With tear-filled eyes and a trembling voice he recalled: "I sat next to him at school" - "He was my best mate" - "He lived just up the road" - "That one they shot before he even landed". Two months later uncle died, but the conversation we had that day inspired me to research each of the fifty-six names listed on our war memorial. Stories of immense bravery, selflessness, good luck and bad luck, and for sure, some stories still to be completed. But it didn't end with the fifty-six. Stories need to be told of the many men who also died in WW2 and are buried in Commonwealth War Graves in our Abingdon cemeteries, but who are not remembered on the town's war memorial, as well as heroes of ours who survived WW2. Some stories are remarkable, but all are worth remembering.

Guides students through some of the trickier areas of theoretical physics. The book moves beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics, special relativity, electromagnetism and quantum theory to more sophisticated views of these subjects and their interdependence. This approach reveals the elegance in each subject discussed.

Have you ever wondered why a group of remarkable individual performers can get together and fail as a team? You can have all the talent in the world, but if individuals do not share common goals, coordinate their efforts, and trust one another to carry their share of the load, then you don't have a team.So how does a team manager bridge this divide between individual performance and team performance? It turns out they construct that bridge on three simple building blocks: team alignment, team process, and team relationships.

Using case studies, including the experiences of individuals as well as extracts from contemporary documents, this book aims to capture the reality of industrialization while introducing the many facts and figures which make up the real backbone of the history of the period.

An overview of the literature on poverty, and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700 to 1850. It examines how we should conceptualize poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.