 | Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Release Date: October 11, 2011 The new question Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. The new study Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by i...
 |  | Dirty Game
Release Date: May 1, 2007Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter. Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs. In spite of his past or because of it, he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep Destiny off the streets. But when he is shot and paralyzed during a robbery while on the job, Destiny knows that she has to step up to the plate to take care of the father who has provided for her. All...
|  | Song of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Cleopatra's Daughter 2012 RITA Award Nominee and Historical Fantasy Best-Seller!Sorceress. Seductress. Schemer. Cleopatra's daughter is the emperor's most unlikely apprentice and the one woman with the power to destroy his empire... Having survived her perilous childhood as a royal captive of Rome, Selene pledged her loyalty to Augustus and swore she would become his very own Cleopatra. Now the young queen faces an uncertain destiny in a foreign land. The magic of Isis flowing through her veins is what makes her indispensable to the emperor. Against...
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|  | Poema del Mio Cid / The Poem of the Cid (Alianza tres) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Ball Tales: A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s
Publication Date: February 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 0786439858 | ISBN-13: 978-0786439850| Edition: Reprint This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilto...
|  | Un sac de billes
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|  | Professor Finds His Path
Publication Date: August 14, 2012Having just seen a magic show, Professor T runs home to ask his dad if magic is real.The 19 things he is told to master in order to create magic seem like a large task until his father helps him make the shift to a spiritual mindset. Starting with his desires, goals and through principles like courage, conviction, and wisdom, Professor makes his way in the end to peace. Set in rhyming verse, Thomas Weatherspoon has taken the 19 Principles of Transformation from his book Path to Magic and adapted it into the first of a series of books for children.Each title t...
|  | A Sea-Queen's Sailing
Publication Date: January 25, 2011Early one summer morning in 935 A.D., Malcolm the Jarl's home in northern Scotland is attacked by Viking raiders led by Heidrek the Seafarer. Struck down during the brief battle that follows, Malcolm is taken captive and imprisoned on what was once his own ship. Refusing to join the murderous Vikings, he manages to escape with two of the other prisoners, only to end up lost at sea. Through a strange series of events, the three young men come upon the young queen, Gerda, who is alone and desperately in need of help. Together, the three friends, Scottish jarl,...
|  | Dart and the Squirrels
Publication Date: May 2, 2011Name’s Dart—short for d’Artagnan. You may not think much of a grizzled old German Shepherd with a torn ear and a nasty bite, but, trust me, when you’ve spent your whole life dogging it out in the pound, you learn appearances can be deceiving. I mean, just look at that squirrel. Nutty, crazy, you name it. If that sly squirrel isn’t chewing up Banshee’s homework and blaming me, she’s stealing my food, following me around the house, stealing my food, biting my tail, and, did I mention the worst part, stealing my food!...
|  | A Pig Called Pete... Meets a Dog Called Doug
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|  | Painless Science Projects (Barron's Painless Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Rice (What's for Lunch?)
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Children's Atlas of the World
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|  | Cry, the Beloved Country (Bridge)
Publication Date: January 1991| ISBN-10: 0582530091 | ISBN-13: 978-0582530096| Edition: Abridged Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | Mummy Secrets Uncovered (Bizarre Science)
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|  | Authority in the Church: Challenge for Anglicans
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| | Affirmation of Baptism/Confirmation Certificates [With BookWith Envelopes] (Lbw Service & Certificates)
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|  | Playbooks and Checkbooks: An Introduction to the Economics of Modern Sports
Publication Date: March 16, 2009What economic rules govern sports? How does the sports business differ from other businesses? Playbooks and Checkbooks takes a fascinating step-by-step look at the fundamental economic relationships shaping modern sports. Focusing on the ways that the sports business does and does not overlap with economics, the book uncovers the core paradox at the heart of the sports industry. Unlike other businesses, the sports industry would not survive if competitors obliterated each other to extinction, financially or otherwise--without rivals there is nothing to sell. P...
|  | Managers as Mentors 2 Ed: Building Partnerships for Learning
Publication Date: January 9, 2002| ISBN-10: 1576751422 | ISBN-13: 978-1576751428| Edition: Second Edition In today's workplace, where skills and knowledge can become obsolete overnight, the ability to mentor is key to attracting and keeping the best talent. In Managers as Mentors, Chip Bell shows how to become a trusted and valued mentor to business associates. His approach is crafted around the mnemonic "SAGE" -- surrendering, accepting, gifting, and extending.A hands-on guide that takes the mystery out of effective mentoring, this book helps managers establish trust, create a safe have...
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