Dan White - Böcker

When Dan and his girlfriend set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, his parents wondered how two people who had never shared an apartment could survive in a four-by-six foot tent in the desert. Not to mention the fact that the trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, through boiling desert and snowcapped mountain passes. Despite the warnings of their loved ones, and even some naysaying strangers, Dan and Melissa set out into the wilderness. They are dubbed "The Lois and Clark Expedition" by their long-limbed, loping guru "The Gingerbread Man" after covering the requisite number of miles to be considered official PCT thru-hikers.As the desert gives way to mountains, and the winter threatens to abbreviate their trek, the hardships of the trail provide these addled adventurers a crystalline view of the American wilderness, themselves, and each other. This book tells the story of "one and a half step" Warren Rogers, co-founder of the Pacific Crest Trail. Rogers overcame polio and risked ruin during the Great Depression to chart the trail from beginning to end. As Dan White walks in Rogers' footsteps, he starts to wonder if he's assumed the man's bravery, or his insanity.

“The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.” So said Pete Carril’s father, a Spanish immigrant who worked for thirty-nine years in a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, steel mill. His son stood only five-foot-six but nonetheless became an All-State basketball player in high school, a Little All-American in college, and a highly successful coach. After twenty-nine years as Princeton University’s basketball coach, he became an assistant coach with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. In 1997 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Coach Carril inspired his teams with his own strength of character and drive to win, and he demonstrated time and again how a smart and dedicated team could compete successfully against bigger programs and faster, stronger, more athletic players. His teams won thirteen conference championships, made eleven NCAA Tournament appearances, and led the nation in defense fourteen times. Throughout his reflections on a lifetime spent on the basketball court and the bench, Carril demonstrates deep respect for the contest, his empathy and engagement with the players, humility with his own achievements, a pragmatic vision of discipline and fundamentals, and an enduring joy in the game.This is an inspiring and wonderful book, even for those who never made a basket.

From revered British indy cartoonist Dan White comes a monster-fighting latchkey kid in the vein of I Kill Giants and Courtney Crumrin.Meet Cindy and Biscuit: a girl and her dog. People (even her mum!) keep telling Cindy she’s weird, that she’s got a morbid, overactive imagination—but if that was true, why would she keep encountering all these monsters, ghosts, and aliens in real life? Watch Cindy and her fearless four-legged best friend get in to all kinds of trouble, as their little coastal town seems to have a preponderance of werewolves, undead mermaids, dimensional portals, alien invasions, and worse . . . it's dark out in the woods! Luckily for all of us, Cindy is the action hero we needed, just in time to save the world a few times between now and detention.

The trouble-seeking, monster-bashing duo Cindy and Biscuit are back at it again! This time, Cindy and her four-legged best friend are keeping busy thwarting alien abductions, battling demonic dolls, and patrolling the nearby woods for all kinds of creepy, crawly, spine-chilling creatures—normal kid stuff. If only unsuspecting parents and school teachers knew of the dangers lurking around every corner, but sometimes being an unsung hero means class participation in between all the adventures! These dark and delightful tales pack in scares, action, thrills, and occasional quiet devastation. Cindy and Biscuit: Wild, Wild Life collects even more of UK indie comics phenom Dan White’s long-running series—and includes brand-new stories for readers of all ages!

Soft skills are the skills that enable you to fit in at a workplace. They relate to your personality, attitude, flexibility, motivation, and social and emotional intelligence. Soft skills are often underestimated, yet they can be the key difference to you becoming truly effective and seen as a valued member of the team or company. In this practical and savvy guide, Dan White describes the soft skills that anyone in today's world of work needs to learn, absorb and demonstrate if they are to progress in their work and career. Uniquely illustrated and presented, the author explains each soft skill clearly, why it is relevant and important, and how to apply that skill to your working life. In short, the book provides the missing link to ensuring your job and career is successful and fulfilling.

Most businesses today can readily access the required technology and talent to match competitors’ innovations and ideas quickly, making products and services similar to one another. In the modern business environment, companies instead need to build brands that consumers recognize and trust if they’re looking for sustainable, profitable growth. This book presents in a concise fashion the latest thinking and methods for successful branding. Clear and accessible, it contains real-life examples from business, practical frameworks, and inspiring illustrations. It explains what branding really is, why a brand is so critical to success in business, and how to maximize the growth of your current and future products/services through branding.

In today's complex commercial environments, marketing has become a central aspect to every successful business. Businesses need flexible, effective means of gaining commercial traction by managing their relationships with audiences, stakeholders and competitors. They require effective marketing and branding that move beyond the standard forms of brand orientation and commercial interaction. New marketing models must think smart to create innovative strategies which have long-term sustainable economic goals. The Smart Marketing Book is a practical, reliable and concise title that offers the core marketing principles - applicable for anyone who wishes to improve their organization's financial and creative values. It is a straightforward guide that avoids unnecessary and time-consuming practices. An illustrative handbook that covers marketing principles and topics through visual innovation. A credible statement to all marketers trying to source the most relevant strategies from a field cursed with infinite information.

Brands today have a bewildering array of ways to communicate with their target audience. To succeed, brand owners need to know how to identify the best combination of media and how to create effective content. A lot of advertising is ill-chosen and poorly executed; understanding how to harness its potential provides strong competitive advantage.This book offers guidance to company leaders, marketers and entrepreneurs in delivering effective advertising. It presents a summary of all the latest evidence and thinking about successful advertising in a clear, accessible way with inspiring examples and the author’s trademark frameworks, analogies and hand-drawn illustrations.

This book is a concise guide to all aspects of modern marketing. It is designed for new marketers wanting to build their understanding quickly and for seasoned professionals looking to fill gaps in their knowledge.With crystal clear explanations of marketing concepts, ingenious frameworks and charming illustrations throughout, The Smart Marketing Book has become the indispensable handbook for anyone seeking to understand the secrets of great marketing and how to apply the latest thinking to drive business success.

Soft skills are the skills that enable you to fit in at a workplace. They relate to your personality, attitude, flexibility, motivation, and social and emotional intelligence. Soft skills are often underestimated, yet they can be the key difference to you becoming truly effective and seen as a valued member of the team or company. In this practical and savvy guide, Dan White describes the soft skills that anyone in today’s world of work needs to learn, absorb and demonstrate if they are to progress in their work and career. Uniquely illustrated and presented, the author explains each soft skill clearly, why it is relevant and important, and how to apply that skill to your working life. In short, the book provides the missing link to ensuring your job and career is successful and fulfilling.

From changing a car tyre, keeping a house plant alive, extinguishing a fire to boiling a perfect egg, unshrinking clothes, painting a room, and wiring a plug – just how much practical and useful knowledge for life does the average young person have these days? This little book provides Gen Z – or indeed any generation lacking the knowledge of practical life – with [100 =- TBC] life hacks that will make your world suddenly a whole lot easier and manageable. Written by a father of two young adults who went out into the world without all the necessary life skills, this book will be invaluable for anyone embarking on the early stage of your adventure as adults. Bleeding a radiator? Unclogging a hair dryer? De-icing a car window? Unblocking the kitchen sink? Freezing food? Managing finances? This book covers it all!

The Marketing Inspiration Book brings together 100 of the most iconic, insightful and engaging examples of marketing brilliance. From Airbnb to Zoom, with stops along the way for the Michelin Man and the Amur Girl, this book celebrates the power of great marketing and the flashes of genius behind some of the world’s most successful brands.Over the course of a 35-year career in the marketing industry, the author has taken note of the remarkable marketing triumphs featured in this book. For newbies to the industry, as well for seasoned marketing professionals, this book offers 100 stories of marketing brilliance and the lessons from their success, to energize their thinking and to inspire their colleagues and teams. And as every marketer knows, stories make ideas more memorable—and more actionable