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Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another
The past two decades in Christendom have brought forth a proliferation of books about church planting One denomination (Southern Baptist) has even set a goal to start fifty thousand new churches over the next twenty year period. But what’s missing toward that end is a solid resource that specifically defines how one established church can successfully sponsor or parent a new church into sustainable existence. Spin-Off Churches aims to meet that need with contributions from a team of veteran missional church planters whose access to current church sponsorship data through the North American Mission Board is second to none. Their experience and teaching will guide readers through the church sponsorship process from its biblical basis to the nuts, bolts, and resource basics of implementation and follow through. .
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Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul (Reading Contemporary Television)
An enlightening critical examination of Joss Whedon's Angel after the character's departure from Buffy's Sunnydale In 1999, Joss Whedon spun-off the vampire with a soul from Buffy the Vampire Slayer into his own show, Angel. Recast in L.A., Angel developed its own preoccupations, exploring a darker vision of alienation, atonement and the fight for redemption. The series ended in 2004, but its legion of loyal fans continue to petition the WB network for a new spin-off or motion picture on the 'Save Angel' website and other online fansites. This book covers all five seasons, discussing the cinematic aesthetics of Angel, its music, shifting portrayals of masculinity, the noir Los Angeles setting, the superhero, and horror. A complete episode guide is included..
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Business incubators and new venture creation: an assessment of incubating models [An article from: Technovation]
This digital document is a journal article from Technovation, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Incubators assist emerging ventures by providing support services and assistance in developing their business. We map business incubators into four categories: Business Innovation Centres (BICs), University Business Incubators (UBIs), Independent Private Incubators (IPIs), and Corporate Private Incubators (CPIs). We then argue that the variety of incubating organizations is driven by the evolution of companies' requirements and needs, which encourage incubators to differentiate the range of services that they offer. We believe that differences in the way incubators run their businesses can be described by two main incubating models (Model 1 and Model 2), providing incubators with useful indications on how to position themselves strategically. We identify a list of incubator 'characterizing' variables to highlight the main differences between the four types of incubators and to describe the incubating models. Empirical evidence is provided on the two incubating models derived from case studies of eight Italian incubators. .
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The Sopranos (Console-Ing Passions/Spin Offs)
'In its original run on HBO, "The Sopranos" mattered, and it matters still', Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. A renowned film and TV scholar, Polan combines a close and extended reading of the show itself - and of select episodes and scenes - with broader attention to the social landscape with which it is in dialogue. For Polan, "The Sopranos" is a work of playful irony that complicates simplistic attempts to grasp its meanings and values. The show seductively beckons the viewer into an amoral universe and seems to hint at ways to make sense of its ethically complicated situations, only to challenge the viewer's complacent grasp of things. It deftly exploits the interplay between art culture and popular culture by combining elements of art cinema - meandering plots, narrative breaks, and an uncertain progression - with the allure of a soap opera as it delves into its characters' sex lives, mob rivalries, and parent-child conflicts. A show about corrupt figures who parasitically try to squeeze illicit profit from the system, "The Sopranos" itself seems a target of attempts to glom onto its fame as a successful TV series, from media executives, to marketers, to critics and writers, to presidential candidates. 'Everyone wants a piece of "Sopranos" action', says Polan, and he traces the marketing of the series across both official and unauthorized media platforms, including cookbooks, games, DVDs, and the kitschy Sopranos bus tour. Critiquing previous books on "The Sopranos", Polan suggests that in their quest to see deep meaning, many of the authors missed the show's ironic and comedic side..
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A Handspindle Treasury: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Exhibit
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The Light Airplane Pilot's Guide to Stall/Spin Awareness
From the Back Cover: The Wright Brothers gave us the gift of powered flight more than a century ago. But the gift has its limitations: potentially dangerous stalls and spins lurk beyond the critical angle of attack. This book combines 100 years of light airplane research with practical knowledge about the post-stall environment into one of the most comprehensive guides to Stall/Spin Awareness available. You'll learn: * Who's most at risk of a stall/spin accident * What your instructor may not know about stalls & spins * The physiology & human factors involved with spinning * Stall/spin dynamics & critical flight operations * Important advice from experts & researchers * The truth about manufacturer-supplied information * How to take charge of your stall/spin education -- The twelve most popular stall/spin myths exposed --.
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Falling for Rapunzel
An hilarious spin on the familiar tale that will have children rolling with laughter at all the things Rapunzel throws out her window..
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Success Factors of Corporate Spin-Offs (International Studies in Entrepreneurship)
Corporate Spin-Off processes are very interesting phenomena for management theory and practice. In theory, Corporate Spin-Offs are both a driver and a result of organisational change, offering the possibility to investigate an area where companies are genuinely sharing experience and best practice. Although Corporate Spin-Offs can be clearly distinguished from other types of start-ups and divestments and despite combining key-characteristics in a unique way, existing investigation is sparse and heterogeneous. In practice, Corporate Spin-Off processes are frequent and highly successful, but not as well-regarded as Merger & Acquisition strategies and less understood by the decision-makers. The present work was designed to meet these demands by analysing the success factors of Corporate Spin-Offs, their relative contribution to the process and the role of the different actors involved. Based on an extensive literature review and a new Spin-Off typology, a broad range of success factors and success dimensions is proposed. Using a combination of multivariate models, the responses from 211 European companies to a questionnaire are analysed and typologies derived. Among the single factors, customer participation, the transfer of managerial and market-related experience and the main motivation are the most important ones for the Spin-Off process and its success. The typologies reveal characteristic factors sets, showing for example that high-growth Spin-Offs benefited over-proportionally from sector growth or the access to relations with customers or suppliers. This produces a new and comprehensive perspective on the relative contribution of each success factor, their interaction, and the behaviour of both the parent and the Spin-Off companies in the process. These results are highly valuable for managers, scientists in the field and policy-makers..
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