Bøger af David Silver

A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.David Silver's fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance, while serving as a testing ground for self-sufficiency, communal living and collaboration--the most precious and precarious ingredient at the college.Through deep original research, The Farm at Black Mountain College follows renegade students, faculty and farmers as they establish a campus farm in the 1930s, build a better farm in the 1940s and watch it all collapse in the 1950s. We meet a new cast of BMC characters whose stories have seldom, if ever, been explored, and whose adventures in agriculture illuminate what exactly happened at BMC across the decades, from optimistic community building to its plunge into substance-addled scarcity. In these engrossing pages, we encounter the extraordinary folk whose endeavors on the land helped shape the Black Mountain College of myth and extraordinary reality.David Silver (born 1968) is professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, hyperlocal food systems and food, culture and storytelling.

If your start-up needs capital, David Silver's new book, "Upfront Financing in the Digital Age" will show you 16 different sources of start-up capital. There are numerous alternatives to angel capital or venture capital, and they are not complicated to raise. There is licensee money, vendor financing, purchase order financing, strategic funding, grants, business development corporation funding, reverse mergers into public shells and many more. These 16 different sources of upfront financing come with people's names and how to reach them and they are among the most active check writers in their categories. The book, David's 34th on entrepreneurship and finance, prepares you to answer the five most important questions that all entrepreneurs must answer plus a measurement device to show you the likelihood of your start-up succeeding or failing, or costing too much to make it worth doing. David Silver has raised more than $1.2 billion for 350+ companies over a 44 year career as an investment banker to entrepreneurial companies. When the E-Z Pass zips you through a toll gate, that was one of his start-ups. When your supermarket shopping cart has a mini-billboard on it, that was one of his start-up fundings. Sea-Land, the first container shipping company, the Remington electric shaver, the first electric toothbrush, Frontier Telecommunications, Peachtree Software, Xing Technologies (the ability to send video over the Internet), Collision Hub (a social network for people involved in car accidents), iBoats (a social network for boaters) and Honeycomb (a precision farming company that sells drones to farmers) and dozens more are among David's more than 350 successful start-up fundings. David has frequently used each of the 16 different means of raising start-up capital that he describes in his newest book, "Upfront Financing in the Digital Age", to bring capital to start-up entrepreneurs with a goal of saving as much equity for the founders as possible. So, if you regard raising capital as difficult or complicated, this book will cut through the fog and provide several paths for you to use, and then you can get on with building and operating your new company. Best of luck with that.

Preceded by Joint and soft tissue injection: injecting with confidence / Trevor Silver; contributing authors, David Silver, David MacLellan. 5th ed. 2011.

Pulls the naked truth out of the world of online communities. Intended for any aspiring Internet entrepreneur, this title covers important fact that communities are like entire nations, but without geographic borders, and they're creating the greatest transformation since the Industrial Revolution.

A collection of witty and satirical bridge stories, this book follows the hapless Professor Silver as he struggles towards his own version of excellence despite a malevolent and incompetent administration and a D-grade student body. The tales feature a selection of fascinating bridge hands.

Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) has been known for centuries to promote deep relaxation and excellent health, to prevent injuries and illnesses, and to improve martial skills. Tai Chi has steadily become a popular form of mind/body exercise. This book introduces the history and underlying principles of Tai Chi Chuan from a modern perspective.

Features the hero of "Tales out of School", "A Study in Silver", and "Bridge the Silver Way".