The Rugged Entrepreneur

The Rugged Entrepreneur
Author: Scott Andrew
Publisher: Forefront Books
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1948677687

Have you ever dreamed about owning your own business? Maybe becoming a market disruptor? Would you know where to start? Do you have a coach, a mentor, or a teacher who can show you how? Well, now you do. If we are lucky, we have been taught to dream since the time we were very young. If we are luckier still, we have also been taught to establish a sturdy foundation for those dreams to stand upon. When building the business you’ve always dreamed of, you must first establish a rock-solid foundation, something I’ve learned from many years of experience as a Rugged Entrepreneur. What is a “Rugged Entrepreneur”? It’s what I call a special breed of entrepreneur. Ruggeds make the leap toward success in a way that separates them from the millions who fall short because they invest the time and effort to develop and hone the specific set of powerful skills you’ll discover in these pages. I’ve identified four elements to becoming a Rugged Entrepreneur. These elements can be developed by anyone and are helpful to every type of entrepreneur. But all four of them are necessary to do the job well. The Four Foundational Elements of being a Rugged Entrepreneur are: A fervent work ethic A humble and healthy pride (what I call “Rugged Pride”) Fortitudo mentis (aka, mental toughness) Faith The Rugged Entrepreneur provides a roadmap to your journey of lasting self-discovery. It’s about identifying and acquiring the skills to achieve sustained success and to build on top of that success. It’s about passionately pursuing a productive business life for yourself and your family using the economic engines accessible to us all. But be warned: do not read this book if you do not want to be challenged.

Trade and Taboo

Trade and Taboo
Author: Sarah Bond
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0472130080

Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history

The Illegal Wildlife Trade

The Illegal Wildlife Trade
Author: Daan P. van Uhm
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319421298

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade. The illegal wildlife trade has become a global criminal enterprise, following in the footsteps of drugs and weapons. Beyond the environmental impact, financial profits from the illegal wildlife trade often fund organized crime groups and violent gangs that threaten public safety and security in myriad ways. This innovative volume covers several key questions surrounding the wildlife trade: why is there a demand for illegal wildlife products, which actors are involved in the trade, how is the business organized, and what are the harmful consequences. The author performed ethnographic fieldwork in three key markets: Russia, Morocco, and China, and has constructed a detailed picture of how the wildlife trade operates in these areas. Conversations with informants directly involved in the illegal business ensure unique insights into this lively black market. In the course of his journey the author follows the route of the illegal wildlife trade from poor poaching areas to rich business districts where corrupt officials, legally registered companies, wildlife farms and sophisticated criminal organizations all have a share. A fascinating look inside the world of poachers, smugglers and traders.

Durable Trades

Durable Trades
Author: Rory Groves
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1725274140

With over thirty thousand occupations currently in existence, workers today face a bewildering array of careers from which to choose, and upon which to center their lives. But there is more at stake than just a paycheck. For too long, work has driven a wedge between families, dividing husband from wife, father from son, mother from daughter, and family from home. Building something that will last requires a radically different approach than is common or encouraged today. In Durable Trades, Groves uncovers family-centered professions that have endured the worst upheavals in history—including the Industrial Revolution—and continue to thrive today. Through careful research and thoughtful commentary, Groves offers another way forward to those looking for a more durable future.

The Shadow World

The Shadow World
Author: Andrew Feinstein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1429932716

The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Now a major PBS documentary "An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging."--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history--between the British and Saudi governments---to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking.

Man of the House

Man of the House
Author: C. R. Wiley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1532614772

What is your plan for the end of the world as we know it? How will you protect the people you love? What will you leave to them when you are gone? The good news is this is not the first time the world has ended. What's more, men were made for times like these. And the men of the past--the good ones, anyway--have left us a plan to follow. They built houses to last--houses that could weather a storm. This book contains their plan.

Planet Forex

Planet Forex
Author: Abe Cofnas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319929135

This valuable book provides a much-needed integration of fundamental analysis of global forces and technical analysis to provide highly probable trades in currency markets. Fundamental analysis is often too vague and not quantified. This book provides insights into fundamental analysis and then calibrates it to trading strategies and techniques. Fundamentals are clearly defined as longer-term economic expectations regarding growth, inflation, and labor conditions. Nearer-term understanding of fundamentals deals with market psychology, where markets are manifest risk-on and risk-off emotions. Currencies are explained as expectations battles generating expectation waves. With real trading examples included to underscore the concepts, Planet Forex gives readers an invaluable primer on trading market sentiment that is unprecedented. This book is a must-read for global forex traders, portfolio managers, and other employees in the forex industry, including exchanges, brokerage firms, and financial planners and advisors.

Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Author: Pedro Machado
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319582658

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.

Trade and Civilisation

Trade and Civilisation
Author: Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108425410

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.