Existing entrepreneurial cognition studies have primarily focusedon top-down processes for allocating attention to notice and inter-pret environmental-change signals of potential opportunities. Top-downprocesses rely on existing knowledge structures to direct entrepreneurialattention. Entrepreneurs use their knowledge structures to deductivelyinteract with the environment to notice, interpret, …
The Chinese have been using martial arts for thousands of years, both among themselves and against others, but organized Kung Fu needed a parent system from which to evolve. Recorded history is sparse on the subject. However, there are many indications that Kung Fu originated from the Long Fist system. It is reported to have been created during the reign of Tai Tzu, the first emperor of the Su…
From its first publication in 1817 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventu…
This, one of the great works of fiction, is of historical value for its graphic picture of the Saxons and Normans in England after the Norman occupation of the land. The tournament at Ashby, the siege of Torquilstone, the trial of Rebecca, the Jewess,--these are a few incidents in this story "of the days of old When knights were bold." Robin Hood, under the name of Locksley the yeoman, appears …
The "Lay of the Last Minstrel," Scott's first romantic tale, was published in January, 1805, and won for its author his first great success. The writing of "Marmion" was begun in November, 1806. Constable offered as publisher to pay at once a thousand guineas for the copyright, when he heard that the new poem was begun, though he had not yet seen a line of it. Miller and Murray joined, eac…
Quality set Printed in Italy, this set features gold leaf page edges, good paper, and lush illustrations. Front cover quote "The Book of Art Set is designed as an intro to the visual arts: painting, drawing, and sculpture. It provides a comprehensive survey, in 10 volumes of one of the most creative aspects of human effort, especially organized for the reader who does not have an extensive know…