 | The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Publication Date: September 18, 2003Fully a quarter of all managers in major corporations enter new leadership roles each year. Whether their assignments involve leading a work group or taking over a company as CEO, they face very similar challenges--and risks--in those critical first months on the job. How new leaders manage their transitions can make all the difference between success and failure. In this hands-on guide, Michael Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions, offers proven strategies for moving successfully into a new role at any point in one's career. Concise and pract...
 |  | Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline
Publication Date: October 29, 1998| ISBN-10: 0801860563 | ISBN-13: 978-0801860560 Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed inAmerican Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window into the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompa...
|  | The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Publication Date: April 1, 2002In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and 1930s—a force in American poetry.Now scholars are at last beginning to recognize that he created a significant alternative to the High Modernism of Pound, Eliot, and Stevens. Similarly, contemporary poets who have returned to the narrative poem acknowled...
|  | The Yeats Reader: Selected Poetry, Drama and Prose
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|  | The Night Garden
Publication Date: May 17, 2005In her first novel since the acclaimed memoir The Toaster Broke, So We’re Getting Married, Pamela Holm brings us a poignant, funny story about monogamy, motherhood, and the wonders of gardening. Dawn, an exterminator by day and an artist by night, and her charmingly morbid nine-year-old daughter, Jewel, find themselves with a room to rent out when they move out of Dawn’s boyfriend’s house and into a new home. They soon hear from Harlan, a frustrated documentary filmmaker whose world is quietly crashing down on him too. Over the course of a y...
|  | The Rescue
Publication Date: April 1, 2005One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future. ...
|  | Message in a Bottle
Publication Date: December 1, 1999Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human ...
| | Fat White Vampire Blues
Publication Date: July 2003Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a caravan of bone-weary camels, Jules Duchon barely fit behind the steering wheel of his very big Cadillac taxicab. Even with the seat pushed all the way back.Damn, he was hungry.Jules stopped his cab, pressed the wobbly rocker switch that jerked the electric windows reluctantly to life, and stuck his head into the humid night...
|  | The New Yankee Workshop
Publication Date: March 1989The companion volume to the PBS series scheduled to launch in February hosted by Norm Abram, the master carpenter known to millions of viewers as the how-to guru of "This Old House." Thirteen projects of graduated difficulty are presented. 148 photos and 84 drawings. Advertising in builders' magazines. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Flower Master (Oxford Poets)
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|  | Archy and Mehitabel
Release Date: September 29, 1987The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life.First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature. ...
|  | The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde
Release Date: December 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230117899 | ISBN-13: 978-0230117891Oscar Wilde was the wittiest, most famous - and most infamous - writer and figure of his time. His fiction, essays, plays, and sparkling bon mots still enthral us, while his obsessive, forbidden love and tragic trials continue to haunt us. The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde investigates the rich, complex work and tumultuous life of this unique artist and individual, his colorful era, his vibrant milieu of artists, scandalous women and men, Jews, and other "others," the mass frenzy that...
|  | Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence
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|  | Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) (Hakluyt Society Third Series, 5)
Publication Date: May 2001| ISBN-10: 0904180689 | ISBN-13: 978-0904180688| Edition: First Edition In the summer of 1630, Pieter Van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his experiences, and to arrange its publication in 1634. However, this published version presented his account in a highly abridged and significantly altered form. The present edition offers an Eng...
|  | El arbol de la ciencia (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 8437605229 | ISBN-13: 978-8437605227Se considera que “El árbol de la ciencia” es una de las obras primordiales de Baroja. La novela queda dividida en dos partes simétricas separadas por una larga conversación filosófica entre el protagonista y su tío, el doctor Iturrioz. En la primera de ellas se narra la vida de Andrés Hurtado como estudiante de Medicina en el Madrid de finales del siglo XIX, y es, en gran parte, autobiográfica. A través de su familia, profesores, condiscípulos y amist...
|  | The Death Gods (A Shell Scott Mystery)
Publication Date: October 20, 2011In “The Death Gods,” happy-go-lucky, Los Angeles Private Eye, Shell Scott, bulldozes his way thru thugs, often with light-hearted humor, and with a beauty or two along the way, in this final novel of the long-running Shell Scott Series by Richard S. Prather, published for the first time.Shell Scott is hired to locate a lost dog belonging to a local physician, Henry Hernandez, M.D.But Scott soon discovers the needs of Dr. Hernandez go far beyond his missing dog.There has been an attempt on the doctor’s life and Dr. Hernandez believes it i...
|  | The Batman Strikes, Vol. 1: Crime Time
Release Date: June 1, 2005Evildoers beware! Based on the hit new Kids WB show, CRIME TIME boasts five action-packed adventures of the Dark Knight Detective: Penguin Rising, City of Bats, Outlaw and Disorder, Without a Chance and Deadly Partner. ...
|  | American Tall Tales
Release Date: September 24, 1991| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Celebrating the 15th anniversary of these collection of tales. There are among nine "tall" heroes featured in this exuberant collection of traditional American folk tales, including Paul Bunyan, JohnnyAppleseed, John Henry, and other American folk heroes. ...
|  | Diary of a Fly
Release Date: August 21, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and upThis is the diary...of a fly. A fly who, when she's not landing on your head or swimming in your soup, is trying to escape her 327 brothers and sisters who are driving her crazy! Even though she's little -- just like her best friends Worm and Spider -- Fly wants to be a superhero. And why not? She walks on walls, sees in all directions at once, and can already fly! Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, the team behind the New York Times bestsellers Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider, reach hilarious heights with thei...
|  | Football Jokes and Riddles: 50+ Facts and Funnies to Keep You Laughing
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 4 and up Football bloopers, puzzlers, fun facts, and wacky stories--Matt Christopher, the number-one sports writer for kids, scores a touchdown with this zany collection for fans of pigskin-tossing, gridiron-hitting action! Packed with laugh-out-loud illustrations, this book will make even the toughest linebacker smile. ...
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