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How to Start Your Own Business

(2021) Get professional business advice in the palm of your hands. This uniquely visual guide equips you with everything you need to know about making your start-up stand out from the crowd.

This visual reference book is packed with:

– Practical, authoritative information on the skills required to run a small business

– Easy-to-understand graphics

– No-nonsense advice and jargon-free language

– Insightful and inspiring quotes from the most successful minds in business

Clear and practical, authoritative advice come together to make this book a must-have resource in every budding entrepreneur’s library! The easy-to-understand page layouts and bold, explanatory illustrations help demystify complex topics such as securing finance, establishing an online presence, and managing finances.

This entrepreneur book gives you all the tools you need to understand how a modern start-up works and then start your own. Whether you’re a CEO or an aspiring entrepreneur, the information and advice in How To Start Your Own Business can be applied to anyone.

Modern Flexitarian

-2019

Good Food Sorted

(2019) Britain’s Best Home Cook and Eat Well for Less presenter Chris Bavin shares over 100 of his favourite simple family recipes in his first ever solo cookbook, Good Food Sorted. Chris explains how to make the most of your freezer (just wait until you try frozen flavoured butter or herb-and-oil ice cubes) and gives tips on savvy shopping as well as revealing all the storecupboard staples you need. He also explains the benefits of batch cooking. Chris recommends flavour swaps that brea the new life into old favourites and simple but imaginative ideas that can transform weeknight dinners into weekend winners! This cookbook is ideal for anyone who wants to eat good food but is hard-pressed for time. Among the tantalising recipes are slightly spicy chicken enchiladas, smoked salmon and horseradish fish cakes with garlic and lemon mayo and warm run pineapple with lime mascarpone.

How Philosophy Works

(2019) Demystifying the key ideas of the world’s greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of philosophical thought in a uniquely visual way, this book is the perfect introduction to the history of philosophy.

How Philosophy Works combines bold infographics and jargon-free text to demystify fundamental concepts about the nature of reality. Covering everything from ethics to epistemology and phenomenology, the book presents the ideas and theories of key philosophical traditions and philosophers – from Plato and Socrates to Nietzsche and Wittgenstein via Kant – in a novel, easy-to-understand way.

Its infographics will help you to understand the elements of philosophy on a conceptual level and, by tackling life’s “big questions”, it will help you to look at the world in an entirely new way.

With its unique graphic approach and clear, authoritative text, How Philosophy Works is the perfect introduction to philosophy, and the ideal companion to DK’s The Philosophy Book in the “Big Ideas” series.

How Food Works

(2017) Is red wine good for your heart? Will caffeine raise your blood pressure? How Food Works gives you answers to these and several more questions by investigating claims surrounding a variety of foods and examining them from a biological standpoint. Discover nutritional facts about the food you eat, learn the benefits of superfoods and antioxidants, and go behind-the-scenes of modern food production.

Includes infographics and colorful images, the ebook delves into the science behind ways of eating including gluten-free and veganism, as well as the benefits of different diets from around the world. Read page by page to understand why food intolerances occur, what actually makes food organic, how important sell-by dates really are, and how much salt you should really be eating.

Readers will also learn about the social and economic implications of food choices, such as eating disorders and fair-trade businesses.

I Heard God Laughing

(2006) To Persians, the poems of Hafiz are not “classical literature” from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With uncanny insight, Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic’s “path of love”-a journey in which love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of growth and transformation.

With this stunning collection, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam’s greatest poetic and spiritual voices.

“If you haven’t yet had the delight of dining with Daniel Ladinsky’s sweet, playful renderings of the musings of the great saints, I Heard God Laughing is a perfect appetizer. . . . This newly released edition of his first playful foray into Hafiz’s divinely inspired poetry is essential reading . . . . Ladinsky is a master who will be remembered for finally bringing Hafiz alive in the West.”-Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor

Love Poems from God

(2002) In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky–best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz–brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience.

Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz–these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.

محمد بن الحنفية

يصدر هذا الكتاب بعد ما غادرنا المرحوم محمود كبيبو وقبل ان يرى هذه النسخة المطبوعة )

استمراراً للمنهج المتبع في شركتنا بتقديم البحوث والدراسات المهمة من مختلف المجالات الفكرية والتاريخية والاجتماعية، ينصب هذا الكتاب على شخصية محمد ابن الحنفية من النواحي التاريخية والسياسية دون الخوض في الجوانب الدينية والمتعلقة بشخصيته كمحور لفرقة دينية.

على الرغم من أهمية هذه الشخصية تفتقر المكتبة العربية إلى وجود كتب وأبحاث عن شخصية مهمة، كانت فاعلة في المراحل الأولى للتاريخ الإسلامي، وها نحن نقدّم تاريخ ودور محمد ابن الحنفية من خلال أطروحة الدكتوراه للباحث الألماني هوبرت باننغ والتي قدمها للجامعة عام 1909م، على الرغم من الجهد الكبير الذي بذله المؤلف في بحثه هذا إلَّا أني وجدت هناك نقصاً كبيراً في التطرق إلى الفرق الكيسانية التي تدور اعتقادها على محمد ابن الحنفية، لقد وضعت بحثاً ملحقاً في نهاية هذا الكتاب عن الفرقة الكيسانية، كي تستكمل الدارسة هذه وتعطي للقارئ فكرة متكاملة عن محمد ابن الحنفية.

القدر والسلطة

يقول المؤلف في مستهل كتابه: “لقد جرت محاولات مختلفة لتوضيح الثقافة الإسلامية في نظرية، أو على الأقل لتحديد طبيعتها المتميزة، سواء انطلاقا منها ذاتها أو من خلال انشاج في نظرية ثقفية أوسع وأشمل. وحصب موقف البحث، وبطبيعة الحل، حب سعة سعار فه أيضأ تم التوصل

رحلة السيرافي الى الهند

«رحلة السيرافي» هي رحلة سليمان التاجر إلى الصين والهند تلقاها مؤرخ جغرافي هو أبو زيد السيرافي، ونقلها عنه ومحّص روايتها وأضاف إليها معلومات كثيرة حول الصين نقلها عن ابن وهب القرشي الذي سافر إلى الصين في سنة 257 هـ / 870 م. ويبدو أن أبا زيد وضع اسم «أخبار الصين والهند» على مدونات السيرافي بعد إضافته معلومات ابن وهب1.

نشاهد في هذا الكتاب قصص عن بحر يأجوج ومأجوج (بحر الهند) وأنواع سمكها والخليج العربي وما بحواليه من مدن والبحار المتفرعة من بحر الهند وسري لنكا ومحل هبوط آدم والمعادن الثمينة الموجودة فيه والسمك الآكل للحوم البشر ومعلومات حول الصين ووصف ملوك الهند والصين ودين أهل الصين ومذهبهم وعلوم الصينيين والهنود والجغرافية الطبيعية للصين والهند وعجائب مملكة الزنج ومدينة حلب والروم وحماة وحمص ودمشق وصرخد وبعلبك وبصرى والبلاد الجزرية