 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Release Date: October 16, 2001The Challenge:Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study: For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And i...
 |  | Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 2, 1999| Series: Dover Thrift Editions The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. This volume has long inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans. ...
|  | Next Fall - Acting Edition
Publication Date: December 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 0822224569 | ISBN-13: 978-0822224563In this Tony-nominated play, Adam and Luke are long-term partners with very different views on salvation. But when Luke is hospitalized in a tragic accident, Adam must come face-to-face with Luke&-#-39-;s faith … and his family. Starring members of the original Broadway cast.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Patrick Breen as Adam Maddie Corman as Holly Patrick Heusinger as Luke Sam Mcmurray as Butch Jeremy Webb as Brandon Julie White as ArleneDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Record...
|  | Her Mother's Sins
Publication Date: October 1, 2005Swansea girls Lynnys & Elvi are both seventeen, and both very innocent. Lynnys believes her mother is dead, a lie her grandmother told to keep her from a life of sin, while Elvi's mother tells fortunes to gullible housewives. Will one evil man make them follow in their mothers' unhappy footsteps? ...
|  | Countdown in Cairo (Russian Trilogy, The)
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| Series: Russian Trilogy, The (Book 3) Why won't the dead stay dead?Federal agent Alexandra LaDuca travels to Egypt to investigate the possible sighting of a former mentor, a CIA agent who everyone thought was dead. She is thrown into the deadliest game of double cross of her career as the events that began in Kiev and continued in Madrid find their culmination in the volatile Middle East.Her assignment is to locate a man she once knew. But to find the answers, Alex needs to move quickly into the underworld of the Egyptian capital, a nether society of croo...
|  | 21 Dicembre 2012
Publication Date: September 2005Il mondo e in scadenza, le profezie ed i profeti si accavallano l'un l'altro in cerca di varie giustificazioni. Il mondo si divide o si aliena. Il mondo si allontana o si avvicina alla fede. Delle fazioni vivono l'avvicinarsi dell'apocalisse a modo loro. Due uomini sanno. E tutti leggerete profezie mai viste. Alessio Adami ci pone davanti un mondo ricco di personaggi sopra le righe, spietati e dannatamente reale. L'ennesima produzione epilettica di Alessio Adami: 21 Dicembre 2012. ...
|  | HORRORS BEYOND - TALES OF TERRIFYING REALITY - a Cthulhu Mythos Anthology
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|  | The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Release Date: September 25, 2012Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Stella Duffy's chronicle of this amazing woman's early years, delighted readers with its exquisite blend of historical detail and vivid storytelling. Now, The Purple Shroud chronicles Theodora at the height of her power, bringing the ancient world alive in another unforgettable, epic saga.Theodora and Justinian have been crowned Emperor and Empress, but ruling an empire is no easy task. The two factions of Christianity are still battling for dogmatic supremacy, the Empire's borders are not secure, and Theodora worries about t...
|  | The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 2003| ISBN-10: 0393978192 | ISBN-13: 978-0393978193The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare’s most insightful meditations on the cycle of life—ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.“Sources and Contexts” offers a rich collection of documents on the play’s central themes—magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandol...
|  | Contrary Marys in Medieval English and French Drama (Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society)
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|  | Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt
Publication Date: September 30, 1994Ancient Egypt is often thought of as a gloomy society obsessed with death. But a collection of papyri, dating to the latter half of the New Kingdom (ca. 1305-1080 B.C.), presents us with delicate love lyrics that dispel any such illusion. These vibrant love poems, purported to be by boys and girls perhaps as young as thirteen or fourteen years of age, are remarkable for their innocent sensuousness. Combining her notable skills as a translator and a poet, Barbara Fowler provides the first accurate translation of these love lyrics into modern English-languag...
|  | Alpine High: Skiing, Hiking and Rock Climbing Verses
Publication Date: September 21, 2002Ski powder, bumps, a double black, old skis, new skis, back country, a perfect day, shared with friends. Hike to summits, a ghost town, an abandoned mine, through aspens, in whiteouts, in circles, concerned with trail grub, bears, drinks, needs, and shovels. Rock climb a traverse, lead cruxes, fall, belay, approach, rappel, top rope, and find an old pin. Mountain play. If there's something better, Stuart Kinkade doesn't know about it. Alpine High poems are personal experiences dating from the early 1960s to the millennium. ...
|  | 2012 Poet's Market
Publication Date: September 17, 2011| ISBN-10: 1599632306 | ISBN-13: 978-1599632308| Edition: 25 The Most Trusted Guide for Getting Poetry PublishedThe 2012 Poet's Market includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including poetry publications, book/chapbook publishers, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and—when offered—payment information. Plus, the editorial content in the front of the book has been revamped to include more articles on the Business of P...
|  | Can We Save Them? Endangered Species of North America
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up With a captivating text and breathtaking illustrations, Can We Save Them? introduces readers to twelve species of endangered animals and plants in North America and suggests way to restore each one's natural environment. Full color. ...
|  | Dracula: The Novel and the Legend - A Study of Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece
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|  | Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 22, 2011Horacio Quiroga nació en Uruguay el 31 de Diciembre de 1878, y murió en Buenos Aires (Argentina) el 19 de Febrero de 1937. Su género preferido de expresión - por lo directo y vivo para decir sus ideas - es el cuento.Quiroga publicó numerosas colecciones de cuentos cortos: Cuentos de la selva, El desierto, Más allá y Los desterrados.Sin embargo, su volumen más celebrado es Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte.Desencanto, amargura y muerte, amor, coraje y dignidad son los temas de esta colección, escogida por el p...
|  | The Wife Trap: A Novel
Release Date: April 25, 2006Your presence is requested at a wedding deception.After orchestrating a scandalous high-society ruse, Lady Jeannette Brantford is banished from her family’s estate in England and sent to live with boring elderly cousins in the Irish countryside. But Jeannette’s exile is surprisingly eventful. En route to her dreaded destination, she encounters Darragh O’Brien, a devilishly handsome architect who transforms Jeannette’s punishment into a delicious whirlwind of wits, words, and undeniable passion. Although no less than a duke could satisfy...
|  | The Hollow Man: A Novel
Release Date: October 23, 2012 Waking up on Hampstead Heath not far from a crashed squad car, Detective Nick Belsey wants out—out of London and out of the endless complications of his life. When Alexei Devereux, a wealthy hermit, vanishes, leaving behind a suicide note and his Porsche, Belsey discovers an opportunity—a new identity and a fortune—waiting for the taking. Unfortunately, there are others who share the detective's interest in Devereux, including Scotland Yard. A dead rich man with suspicious financial holdings is bound to have some dangerous ties and a few ruthle...
|  | Dirty Tricks
Release Date: July 8, 2003A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn’t care. He has been abroad for twenty years, ...
|  | Goodman's Five-Star Stories: More Chills
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0890618593 | ISBN-13: 978-0890618592| Edition: 1 Motivate students with high-interest fictionfrom master authorsMotivate struggling readers with high-interest storiesat ten reading levelsImprove vocabulary and comprehension skillsEncourage writing in response to readingOne of our classic best-sellers, Goodman's Five-Star Stories, supplementsany literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fictionat just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories bytraditional authors and newer multicultural authors entic...
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