La Sanjuanera

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Sanjuaneras y sanjuaneros (Publicaciones de la Excma. Diputacion Provincial de Soria)

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Sanjuaneras y sanjuaneros (Publicaciones de la Excma. Diputacion Provincial de Soria)
Jesus Martinez Carnicero
Manufacturer: Diputacion Provincial de Soria, Dpto. de Cultura
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The Strategic Guide to Selling Your Software Company: Essential Advice from a Veteran Deal Warrior
William Venema
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THE STRATEGIC GUIDE TO SELLING YOUR SOFTWARE COMPANY: ESSENTIAL ADVICE FROM A VETERAN DEAL WARRIOR is an indispensable reference for anyone who is considering the sale, merger and/or acquisition of a software company. Venture capitalists, investment bankers, attorneys, and CPAs will also find this book helpful in preparing for software acquisitions and mergers. William H. Venema is an experienced deal attorney with scores of merger and acquisition transactions to his credit involving the purchase and sale of all types of businesses. Through this book, Bill Venema offers a fresh perspective and examines all aspects of selling a software company from deciding to sell to closing the deal. In addition, the book includes many useful forms and essential merger and acquisition checklists as it presents a systematic approach to the process.

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Very helpful - buy this book before you start the transaction!.......2006-09-02

I found this book very helpful particularly Chapter 6: "Developing the Plan" and Chapter 7: "Conducting the Operation". As a director and investor (but not a lawyer), the information on the key purchase agreement terms was quite valuable in formulating a negotiation strategy. A good reference book!

Crisp, well-focused review of the subject.......2006-06-22

Venema has employed a very clever vehicle to organize and explain the complicated process of selling a software company - or in a more general sense, selling any kind of company. I have just completed the sale of a B-to-B media company, and I found his book invaluable to my layman's understanding of the process.

As a former Army officer and attorney, Mr. Venema chose to organize his presentation of the sales process around the Army planning and operations models: "There's a lot to be said for the time-tested procedures that the Army uses to make decisions, develop plans, manage operations, and lead soldiers. I've found that these procedures work very well in analyzing the process of selling a business and efficiently managing the execution of that process." And I wholeheartedly agree.

Venema clearly and concisely explains the process, the pitfalls, and the outcomes while keeping his eye on the ultimate objective: to achieve a profitable deal while covering all the bases. He does not fall into the trap of excessive legalize and doubletalk as so often happens in guides like this. He helps you organize your thought process.

If you're even considering selling your software company, or any other kind of company for that matter, you will find this book to be extremely helpful to the process. The successful outcome is predicated on your preparations before you actually get an offer, or seek a buyer, and then get the attorneys and investment bankers involved. This book will get you off to a very good start.

Fast Company : Motorcycle Road Racing's Pit Warriors

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Fast Company
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Fast Company : Motorcycle Road Racing's Pit Warriors
Jon Ward , and Jon Kral
Manufacturer: Longwind Publishing
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ASIN: 1892695014

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This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of what it takes to mount a major road racing effort, seen through the eyes of the big factory teams as well as the privateer sportsmen and women.

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Mediocre Picture Book.......2004-02-07

I expected a book with insightful narrative and intriguing photographs about what goes on behind the motorcycle racing scene. Instead this work offers virtually no narrative and really mediocre photographs. It's a big, expensive photo album that illustrates the motorcycle racing pit scene without explaining what you're seeing. The captions for all the photos are at the end of the book, which is cumbersome, and the editor left out narrative for some photos and mislabeled others.

If you're looking for the scoop on the grunge behind the glitz of motorcycle racing, this will not satisfy you at all. If you're looking for outstanding photography, you'll be disappointed as well. Save your money; there are better books in this genre out there.

A Must Have!.......2001-12-30

This amazing b&w photo book takes you into the pits and brings you so close to the action, you can taste the pre-mix and feel the vibration of the motors rumble thru your bones. Every single page cries for a frame and a wall. It brings you to the top of triumph and to the low of horrific crashes. A perfect gift or keep for yourself and collect your favorite racer autographs!

Fast Company.......2001-06-11

A wonderfully put together book. A must for all enthusiasts. Beautilful photogrphy!

Every Race Fan Must Have!.......2001-05-31

For all race fans, a must. This coffee table picture book re-creates the tension, excitement and thrills,and victory of the "behind the sceans" at the race track. The pictures are beautiful. The black and white photos bring out the true feeling of the race life. Thank you for this exceptional book.

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Iron Horse Warrior
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The long road home: commuters see some value in long-distance drive.(ROAD WARRIORS) : An article from: Business Record (Des Moines)

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Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft

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Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft
Michael Drummond
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is by no accounts a kind, nurturing type of manager. In conversation, according to Renegades of the Empire, Gates is said to challenge and goad people just to see how robustly they'll defend a position. He may not know whether they're right or wrong, but he likes to see how confident they are. In that environment, the meek don't do particularly well. But the three "software warriors" portrayed in Renegades of the Empire were over the top, even by Microsoft standards.

Alex St. John, Eric Engstrom, and Craig Eisler started at Microsoft as evangelists, the guys who persuade companies to create products to run on Microsoft operating systems. All three, separately and together, would end up giving the company fits with their cockiness and contrarian ways. Eventually, they would team up on a project called Chrome, a revolutionary technology designed to bring three-dimensional graphics to the Web. While these three bigger-than-life characters are vividly portrayed, this is mostly a story about technology: where the ideas come from, how it's developed, how internal company politics affects its development, and how outside companies are courted and cajoled to participate. Drummond, a skillful writer and dogged journalist, thoroughly explains all the technology--but, in the end, the acronyms take over. This makes for a tough read if you're not technologically inclined. Still, anyone with the slightest tech background should enjoy this peek behind Microsoft's silicon curtain. --Lou Schuler

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The "Beastie Boys" did whatever it took to make their revolution happen. . . .

St. John's disregard for Microsoft authority figures was equaled only by the game developers' antipathy for the big Redmond company. No one knew how far he might go until his boss put him in charge of a presentation to the trade press.

St. John emerged on stage at the Microsoft theater and told the trade-press writers: "Yep, I know what you guys think about Windows."

He booted up a computer. The blue start-up screen with clouds and Windows 3.1 logo came to life on a large display. A graphic of a shotgun barrel rose from the bottom of the screen. With the audience looking down its sights, the gun blasted five holes in the logo. The press erupted with laughter and approving applause.

Microsoft's senior marketing vice president turned crimson and told St. John's boss, Rick Segal, "You gotta fire this guy."

Segal set the marketing guy straight.

"I looked him right in the face and, said, 'You don't have a clue. They think you're a slime bag and now they think he's a hero.'

"Competing in the high-tech computer market is a lot like war--especially if you work at Microsoft. Bill Gates's gladiators--his engineers and evangelists and programmers--were famous for seizing new terrain, converting nonbelievers, and always winning, no matter what the cost. No one took the lessons of the Microsoft way more to heart than Craig Eisler, Eric Engstrom, and Alex St. John, a trio of evangelists and software engineers who, more than anything, wanted to conquer a market on their own.

Their first attempt was a top-secret effort to make Windows do what it had never done before: play games. Turning their well-honed combat skills on their own company, the trio--often called the "Beastie Boys"--rammed DirectX, their game project, through, first without permission, then without regard for political correctness, protocol, or budget restraints. The battle spilled from the halls of Microsoft into the international gaming community, but within months, DirectX was being used in every one of the best-selling games for the PC.

The "Beastie Boys" had won the battle, but they received so few rewards that they felt as if they'd lost the war. So they set their sights on the Internet. Their new project: Chrome, a Web browser that could bring television-quality animated graphics to the Internet. It was every Microsoft marketer's dream, every competitor's nightmare. It should have changed the Internet and the lives of millions, none more than those of the three designers.

Michael Drummond gained exclusive access to this trio's story--the tale of a rise, a fall, and, perhaps, a triumph. In telling it, he gives us the most revealing glimpse yet into the world's most successful company. Renegades of the Empire isn't just a story of a nascent technology--it's a primer on how to get rid of your boss, how to bury your expenses on someone else's balance sheet, and when to put on your Viking costume and walk the halls swinging an ax if you want to get things done. It is a story of fascinating science and high-tech boys and their toys, but even more, it is the story of how three engineers turned the might of an empire to their own ends.

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Waiting for something better.......2005-08-30

One gets the sense from this book that all the great stories of the foundation of the computer age have been told. The rise and fall and rise of Apple, Netscape, Microsoft, et al. I suppose we're still waiting for a gripping account of the rise (and fall?) of Google. Until then, we might have to content ourselves with authors like Drummond who dig up B-list characters and try to cast their marginal contributions to the world of computing as if these men were the chief architects of the Apollo moon landing. You know, they wrote DirectX.

I guess if DirectX was the only solution to some mind bending problem of 3D graphics and we didn't have OpenGL as an example of there being different and arguably better ways to skin a cat, there might be something to this story that would merit Drummond's over-the-top apple polishing. What next, some 300 page history of the guy who wrote the first mouse driver for Windows?

Simply put we have the story of three software developers with such middling talent that Microsoft gave them jobs as "technology evangelists", which is Microsoft's term for "pre-sales engineer" or something. They go out, convince people they should invest in some new Microsoft technology, and they don't write a line of code. Microsoft isn't the kind of company that got anywhere by taking brilliant, innovative software engineers and making them sales guys.

So you think your colleagues are hard to work with...?.......2005-04-02

First and moremost: This is an excellent book which I believe everyone would find enjoyable, especially if you like computers. It is the story of 3 guys who happen to be at Microsoft, but the interesting part is not about Microsoft itself. If it was fiction and the company was made up, the plot would still be interesting it itself.
The books tells how the known predatory tatics Microsoft uses against rival companies are used inside Microsoft between competing teams. How taking a couple of sick days can mean when you come back your project has been cancelled.
This is the price you pay when you work in the same company as the top notch guys. They are the best, but they are also the most ambitious - they will do anything to get it their way. And Microsoft was willing to accept wild parties and huge expense bills as long and it helped its plans ...
I've read a few books about company internals. If I could only own this this would be it.

Pass on this One.......2002-11-22

If you want to read a book on the egotistical founders of DirectX and Chrome and learn how NOT to manage a technology and your employees then this book is for you. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time and rode the msft wave. Save your money.

Hyperbole of personality overshadows the tech inside........2002-07-10

It's nice to know what happened inside of Microsoft for the DirectX and Chrome development drama, but I found author patronising these warriors in a way which is not convincing. It keeps saying that "they are smart, they are super..." but never really showed me why they were so.

It's a book that doesn't have in depth technical juice, and fails to uncover the business acuman in context.

Real life Microserfs.......2001-12-30

I was slightly disappointed with the style and the completion of the book. The author seems very smitten with the main protagonist (St Johns) which led to some boring exchanges and I felt ruined some of it.

Being a person that breifly used Chrome (the Java tool released by Microsoft to do graphics on the Internet) before it was pulled I had always wondered about the people and politics behind it.

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The British Army's infantry backbone is provided by the battalions of heavy armored infantry mounted, since 1987, in the 30-ton FV510 Warrior tracked personnel carrier. This volume delivers over 100 color photographs of the Warrior APC and its specialist variants in service in the UK, Germany, Poland, Canada, the Gulf and Bosnia, accompanied by a detailed, fact-packed text. Europa Militaria 25.

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21st century money warriors.(Essay Winner--Second Place): An article from: Armed Forces Comptroller

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551st integrates Warrior Ethos tasks in local FTX.(Field Training Exercise): An article from: Army Communicator

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In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the 'war on terror,' the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

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Blood .......2007-05-06

Very well written and understood. Read in conjuction with my book, "The Truth Behind High Fuel Prices" consumers should get a good understanding of why we are in the mess we're in with high prices for oil and fuel. I give Blood and Oil 4 stars.

easy problems, but no easy answers.......2007-03-22

This book provides a good account of America's oil dependency and its relations to American military and political conditions. The chapters are:

2. The American Alliance with Saudi Arabia
3. Choosing Dependency
4. Trapped in the Gulf
5. No Safe Havens: oil and conflict beyond the Persian Gulf
6. Geopolitics Reborn: The U.S.--Russian--Chinese struggle in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Basin
7. A Strategy for Energy Autonomy and Integrity

Most of the book discusses attempts and strategies for increasing oil production and availability, a goal which the author deplores. Klare favors a "postpetroleum" economy based on fuel cells (which he admits are due at some unknown time in the future). (p. 197 ff.). He would like to pull the military out of the Middle East and dismantle the military infrastructure in the region. (p. 191). He believes nations like Iran would not take advantage of this because it would not be in their economic interest. (p. 191). In this, he views the Iranian fanatics as rational economic men like himself rather than religious fanatics, as their own statements indicate.

This book is worth reading, but like so many books on the oil industry, it suffers from an "idiot savant mentality", and by that I mean, a great deal of knowledge about the oil industry and very little understanding of human psychology, beliefs systems, emotions, fanaticism and the like. To get a complete picture of how all relevant factors, including oil, are affecting America, read While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America from Within. There are no easy answers.

Wake up, America... the price is more than just oil itself.......2007-03-19

NOT counting Iraq, did you know that we already pay a 4 percent military premium on imported oil?

Yep. Klare documents how imported oil now costs about $3.5 trillion a year, and how in places like the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, not counting Iraq invasion costs, we spend about $150 billion on oil-related military security issues. That's 4 percent.

Klare also talks about how this military premium is likely to grow with increasing dependence on exported oil.

And, whether a full-blown war in Iraq or something milder, that doesn't count the human life premium.

Nor does it count going toe-to-toe more and more with Russia or China, and the uncertainties that causes in foreign relations.

Do you REALLY want to pay this price, at an ever inflating rate?

I don't.

All Americans should read this.......2007-02-19

If you have felt for a while that there is something not quite right about this American life style, and our geo-political stance, but that feeling made you a little uneasy, afraid that you're just a timid, wishy-washy liberal ill-equipped to play in the big leagues of real geo-politik - read this book and bring that feeling into sharp focus. Klare lays out in a well researched and scholarly fashion the horror of what we are already trying to do with our military - attempting (an ultimately doomed effort) to secure an ever larger share of a soon to be decreasing supply of oil, in an environment where the rapid growth of Asian economies is spiking demand. Folks, we are a long way removed from the days when the outgunned Native Americans were the only obstacle to "all the resources we could ever need". Its not that wake up calls aren't all around us these days - more and more evidence on global warming, the full exposure of the Bush administration as shills for the theory that "what's good for big oil is good for America", etc. But Klare's book adds a very necessary sense of urgency.

*YAWN*.......2006-11-08

This book COULD have been really great...but Klare feels the need to repeat and reemphasize something you just read in the last 4 chapters AGAIN. YES, it had some good information...but the absolute monotony and repetion detracted from the book, and I actually wanted to learn more than three or four main ideas that could have been summarized in ten pages or less...one of the biggest wastes of time in my entire life.

Klare, Michael T. Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.(Book Review): An article from: Naval War College Review

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Klare, Michael T. Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.(Book Review): An article from: Naval War College Review
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A survey of recent progress in research on neutron stars, emphasising radio pulsars, accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries, and the rotation-powered high-energy emission from isolated neutron stars.
Among the subjects reviewed are: the broad history of neutron star research; the properties of high-density matter in neutron stars; thermal and magnetic field evolution; dynamics of neutron star crusts and glitches; detection of radio emission from pulsars; radio pulsar population; millisecond and binary radio pulsars; gamma-ray emission from radio pulsars; accreting neutron stars (and black holes) in X-ray binaries; the recently discovered kHz oscillations in low-mass X-ray binaries; anomalous X-ray pulsars; the Bursting Pulsar; X-ray emission from isolated neutron stars; neutron star atmosphere; coalescing neutron star binaries; and gamma ray bursts.

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