An indepth investigation into the rise and dramatic fall of Jean-Marie Messier, one of the most charismatic and influential buinessmen of the new ecomony and the creation of Vivendi Universal.

The Man Who Tried to Buy the World : Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal

Orange, Martine

Johnson, Jo

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In 1994, Jean-Marie Messier had a dream - to change a 150 year-old French water company into a media empire to compete with anything America could produce. He would spend over 100 billion dollars. At the height of his triumphs, Messier was a hero of the New Economy, a man who had successfully brought together the old and new with his unique vision. By 2000, the empire combined music, publishing, telecom, cinema, theme parks, water supply, video games, commuter trains, the Internet and waste management. In 2002, as the financial markets fell, Messier's debt became impossible and he was ousted in a boardroom cup. This portrait of this brilliant, but flawed businessmen is a real-life morality tale.

Man Who Tried To Buy The World: Jean Marie Messier And Vivendi Universal

Business & Money

Economics

VIKING

'How can we talk to our children about Brain Injury?' This is a regularly asked question by parents who have suffered a brain injury and their respective partners. This book has been designed so that children between five and eight can read it independently. However, ideal if should be used with an adult to facilitieate discussion about all aspects of family life and to enhance general emotional wellbeing. This book deliberately makes brain injury one of many things going on for this small group of children because for most children it is only one of many issues in their family life. This story is intended to emphasize that all families are different, with their own strengths and weaknesses and different experiences. Brain injury is another experience that some people encounter and others do not. 'My Dad Makes the Best Boats' should prove to be a great reassurance and comfort for children coping with a parent's brain injury. The book presents situations in which brain injured people can be angry, forgetful or unreasonable and shows that it is not the fault of either parent or child and children should not blame themselves. It also demonstrates the positive aspects of life with a brain injured parent and the enjoyable times that can be spent together'. Headway: The Brain Injury Association 'This book has proved to be a very useful support mechanism for service users and families in the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust. We are sure that this will continue to be the case, especially with the inclusion of new activity pages; Professor Michael Oddy, Director of Clinical Services Brain Injury Rehabilitiation Trust.

My Dad Makes the Best Boats

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Shrinking the Smirch is a unique workbook for anybody who is living with a long term physical or psychological condition including MS, Parkinson's, brain injury, epilepsy, chronic fatigue, epilepsy, stroke, cancer, depression, eating disorders, trauma or anxiety. The workbook asks the reader to think about their symptoms as something external to them - a smirch. A smirch is an annoying little imaginary creature who seeks to make humans sad and unhealthy. It helps you work out what your smirch makes you think, feel and do and create an image or description of your own smirch. It includes twenty practical ways to shrink your smirch ideas, based on psychological approaches that have been proven to work including narrative therapy, CBT, ACT, systemic and solution focused models as well as mindfulness and positive psychological. This book offers a dynamic approach to managing mental and physical health challenges. Written in an accessible but unpatronising manner with marvellous pictures and some positive humour make it an easy read and will be a very useful resource for individuals with health conditions as well as therapists, teachers, life coaches and health professionals.

Shrinking the Smirch: A Practical Approach to Living with Long Term Health Conditions

FROM ETERNITY TO ETERNITY: PAST PRESENT FUTURE This PANORAMIC CHART book is a visual primer of God's purposes through the ages, as revealed in the Bible. Each page of the book features a panel from artist Jo Johnson's hand-painted chart. Alongside each panel are a careful selection of relevant Bible quotes showing how God's purposes of love towards the human race have unfolded. The final pages dramatically illustrate the final showdown between the Antichrist and God. THE PANORAMIC BIBLE PROPHECY CHART: <ul> <li style="list-style: none">Presents the cross of Christ as the pivotal point of human history</li> <li style="list-style: none">Shows the centrality of God's ancient people Israel in His purposes of Grace</li> <li style="list-style: none">Traces the truth of God's House through Old and New Covenant times</li> <li style="list-style: none">Shows the Church the Body of Christ, composed of both Jew and Gentile</li> <li style="list-style: none">Presents the return of Christ to the air for His Church</li> <li style="list-style: none">Reveals the emergence of a European empire of ten nations in end times</li> <li style="list-style: none">Reveals what the Bible says about the man called "The Beast" (Antichrist)</li> <li style="list-style: none">Illustrates God's final showdown with the nations at Armageddon</li> <li style="list-style: none">Shows how the Divine Plan of Salvation will be fulfilled</li> <li style="list-style: none">Backs up key events in God's timetable with chapter and verse</li> </ul> In a confusing, often chaotic world, GOD"S DIVINE PLAN is already declared, clearly outlined in the Bible. It will be completed with a NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH WHERE RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS. God's children will live there forever, never again to experience grief or pain or death. THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A CLEARLY ILLUSTRATED OVERVIEW OF BIBLE PROPHECY.

Bible Prophecy Panoramic Chart: God’s Purposes through the Ages

Reference

Coomer, Neville

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Rosebine Press

Author, artist and retired Depute Head, Jo Johnson was born and brought up in the leafy suburbs of Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of fourteen, he experienced a profound culture shock when the family relocated to Kilwinning in Ayrshire, where he found himself in a much rougher school environment.\nBorn into a devoutly Christian family, Jo had to balance the competing demands of ‘church and state’ at an early age. His story is peppered with entertaining, poignant and occasionally unpleasant memories, of growing up in 1960’s Greenock and his coming of age in 1970’s Ayrshire.\nHe documents his experiences as an art student at Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Later chapters trace his journey to find work with a waxworks company in London, teacher training in Liverpool and back to Scotland, where he taught art before moving into school management. Jo’s faith in God and his connection with the Churches of God, is a recurring theme throughout the book. Read on to find out how Jo responded to a significant and unexpected medical challenge.

SNAPSHOTS FROM MEMORY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GREENOCK ACADEMY SCHOOLBOY

Historical

Traces the rise and fall of French empire builder and CEO Jean-Marie Messier, citing his acquisitions of such media assets as MCA Records, Universal Studios, and USA Networks; noting his challenges to such companies as AOL Time Warner and Disney; and describing his 2002 demise in the face of overextended debts. 40,000 first printing.

The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal

International

Portfolio Hardcover

366 Leap Year Doodles! Boost your Creativity One Doodle at a Time!: 7.5 X 9.25 inches 366 Doodle Prompts | One for each day of the leap year | ... Art Journal | stimulate Right Brain skills

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

JOSEPH The Epic Poetic!: the Bible story of Joseph in verse

Children's Books

Biographies

Shrinking the Smirch: The Young People's Edition is a workbook to help young people manage stress, gain confidence, resist peer pressure and stay healthy. This book helps young people cope with the usual challenges of being a young adults including anxiety, peer pressure, exam stress, bullying, social media, etc. and is also appropriate for clinical conditions such as panic, eating problems, self harm and low mood. This resource is about the mind, what goes on in your head and coping with all the pressure and challenges young people have to face at home and school. This unique workbook for teenagers asks you to pretend these tricky thoughts and feelings are coming from a smirch, an unkind imaginary friend, a mind bully who wants to pull you into the pit of despair. This resource gives a lot of ideas about how you can beat this mind bully and cope better with all the thoughts and feelings that make you anxious, lonely and upset. It has been written with the help of a diverse group of young people who have shared their stories so you can see you are not alone and that there are things you can do to make life feel better.

Shrinking the Smirch: The Young People's Edition

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