The journey in trying to make it to the top, the various stages of doubt that every die-hard go-getter goes through. What does a youngster think of his goals? The mental state during the highs and especially the lows, when the grass looks greener on the other side or when just existing seems more content than actually living. Do you work on your dreams or go to that party where your friends were going to meet up? The moments when a accomplishment seems so close but doesn't happen, how do you ...

Costas Papaikonomou is one of the founders of Happen.com, one of the fastest growing creative innovation agencies of the 21st century. A career in innovation – studying, dreaming, creating, researching and realizing new products. It’s been an amazing journey, playing in the birth chambers of mass market multinationals. Nevertheless he’s quite grumpy.

Why are so many brilliant ideas culled before they’ve had a chance to shine in the real world?

Why are so many awful ideas pushed throug...

What a journey it has been over the past 11 years! Way back in 2004 I just happened to attend a talk in The Hague about Crop Circles. Not knowing that this would be the beginning of a story in which I was confronted about my own past but also given the opportunity to receive help on how to enlighten myself and grow spiritually in this fast moving world. It's not been easy, but everything I learnt gave me insight on how to make changes in my life. A story where two people who are the main char...

I welcome you in this way of marriage. A marriage that comprises Chaos, beauty and structure. A marriage where desire is the natural thread within the desire to act from a personal experience.

In this book, in the first place, the development processes of the antipsychotics (early developments, conventional antipsychotics, atypical antipsychotics and future developments) are described. Secondly, the development of adjunctive treatment options is described, and finally, the symptomatology and backgrounds of schizophrenia are described. This book provides insights into the chemistry and pharmacology of antipsychotics and also into the backgrounds and causes of schizophrenia.

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The composition of our brain of a human part of consciousness and analytical thinking, and a primal brain where the primary life functions are regulated, is the cause of many misunderstandings in our thinking and opinions over all kinds of things.

For example, we consider cultural matters like painting and music to be high-quality activities, whereas they are based only on physical-chemical processes that are not properly understood by the human part of our brain and therefore highly assesse...

If every signified evoked by reading or hearing any signifier is indeterminate, it makes no sense to formulate a semiotics cum philosophy that attempts to prove the correctness of the proposition that every signified is indeterminate, since that proof uses signifiers.

Those who proclaim as their unshakeable conviction that man (= every human being) is only consciousness, as the most famous structuralists and Derrida with in their wake the deconstructionists do, and that consequently only subj...

Global Digital Transformation Consultant, Ernst van Baar at Bentley Systems gives you the keys to implement successful Digital Engineering ideas, services and products in your organization. Digital Engineering – the art of product innovation and engineering transformation.

Learn how to identify the smallest viable audience, build trust and permission with the people who you care about. How to connect, serve and create raving fans of your idea, product or service. It's time to grow your new ...

Hundreds of books on motorcycle racing have been published. Usually provided with beautiful photos. They are often sublime action photos, taken by professional photographers. Images from the paddocks are often in the minority. The booklet “With the camera in the paddock” fills this gap by presenting pictures of a pur sang enthusiast about the period 1961 until 1975. The photographer in question, Klaas Tjassens, has knowledge and a love for motorcycles, plus a nose for beautiful technology...

Touch of Heaven is a story about Ellen, a 23-years-old Armenian woman living in Yerevan, who has just started working as a fashion designer. She grew up being very popular with lots of friends, and was almost engaged to the love of her life. Everything in her life seemed perfect until the day she got into an accident which left her in a coma. From that moment on, her soul has been wondering out of her body and she continuously lives in a world that is between death and life. Heaven would gran...