 | Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Publication Date: July 13, 2010Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in ...
 |  | Red Death Over China (Stories from the Golden Age)
Publication Date: October 22, 2012| Series: Stories from the Golden Age Heroes, honor and impossible odds. American pilot John Hampton is an in-between—he stands for nothing definite, cares about nothing, and knows nothing he wants.Owing allegiance to no nation, Hampton hires himself on as a pilot in the midst of China's civil war. On one side is Chiang Kai-shek and, on the other, the army of Mao Tse-tung—for whom he now works.But after his gunner is killed in a dogfight, Hampton's oncedevil-may-care attitude starts to change. When he rescues a captain with dispatchesvital to the...
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|  | Siddhartha
Publication Date: January 1, 1951A book—rare in our arid age—that takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime.Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination.Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his o...
|  | The Death of a Disco Dancer
Publication Date: October 21, 2011One night, eleven-year-old Todd Whitman receives a terrifying but hilarious midnight visitor: his cockatoo-plumed, dementia-stricken, John Travolta-smitten Grandma Carter. In constant nocturnal search of the mysterious "Dancer," Grandma clutches her absurdly precious Saturday Night Fever album cover and giggles her way through the dance steps of her youth. When forty-something Todd returns home to help his dying mother, he reflects on that pivotal summer of 1981: the unique relationship he developed with his grandmother, the chaos of finding his pl...
|  | The Man Who Planted Trees
Publication Date: October 17, 2007Jean Giono's extraordinary fable brings to life a shepherd who plants one hundred acorns a day for thirty years. The shepherd's tireless efforts transform the countryside, revitalize his community, and teach us about hope, humanity, and our own ability to create change in the world.This special twentieth anniversary edition of The Man Who Planted Trees includes an inspiring foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees and brought new hope to women and families in Kenya. The new afterword by T...
|  | Milton Studies 45 (Pittsburgh Milton Studies) (v. 45)
Release Date: November 9, 2005| Series: Pittsburgh Milton Studies (Book 45) The eight essays in this volume are evenly divided between the poetry and prose of Milton. Two of the essays discuss major sonnets, and two other essays on poetry engage Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d, respectively. The essays on prose are brilliantly revisionist: one, for example, analyzes Aeropagitica by citing the ironic relationship of truth and the grotesque. Another examines the rhetorical techniques Milton employs for the capable though small audience at which he aims Eikonoklates...
|  | Between the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year)
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| Series: Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year "Gorman and Greenberg follow up A Prisoner of Memory (2008) with another impressive anthology, which features a diverse assortment of styles and settings."—Publishers WeeklyCrime fiction's biggest names have been rounded up for a truly impressive collection of 2008's best short stories. Featuring authors like Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, and 2009 Edgar Award winner T. Jefferson Parker, this volume should be on the shelf of every mystery fan.Three more Edgar Award finalists, a Thriller Award fina...
|  | Kaboom of Doom (Kung Fu Panda 2)
Release Date: April 28, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Lee un cuento conmigo (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Washday Colours (Suzy-Jane Tanner's Children's Books)
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|  | Hippy the Happy Hippo
Publication Date: June 28, 2009What child, or even adult, has not felt the pain of rejection, being abandoned, being unloved, being made fun of, and all the other emotions of life and growing up?Is it not the wish of everyone that there is always hope for love, joy and happiness no matter what your circumstances or experiences?This is exactly what the story of Hippy, a beloved baby hippo, tells us through his trials of being swept away from his home only to be thrust into zoo life.It is in this setting he finds such despair, then hope, then love and happiness through a magical wish.Sometimes...
|  | Gabriel's Horses
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey.The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother-making him a slave as well-he loves to help his father, one of the best horse trainers in Kentucky, care for the thoroughbred racehorses on Master Giles's farm.But the violence of war disrupts the familiar routine...
|  | El Espacio/Space (Coleccion Exploradores) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Houghton Mifflin Mathmatics Georgia: Student Edition Level5 2007
Publication Date: December 19, 2006| Grade Level: 05 and up Mathematics Grade 5: Houghton Mifflin Mathematics Georgia ...
|  | Where Am I?: The Story of Maps and Navigation (Nature All Around Series)
Release Date: June 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Our Abe Lincoln
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up At last!A book about Lincoln for K-1-- by an award-winning and bestselling author and artist team!Wise Abe Lincoln said, "No More!" to slavery,"No More!" to slavery,"No More!" to slavery,Wise Abe Lincoln said, "No More!" to slavery,Many brave days ago.This simple song, sung to the tune of "The Old Grey Mare," was adapted from an actual campaign song for Lincoln during his run for the presidency. ...
|  | Buddhism (Introducing Religions) (Introducing Religions)
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|  | Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of all Ages
Publication Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Think you're too young? Think you're too old? Author Melanie Falick teaches kids of all ages how to knit with fifteen easy projects, from bouncy beanbags to a rolled-edge sweater. Using straightforward language, step-by-step instructions, and bright candy-colored illustrations, beginners learn the basics, including finer knitting, casting on and binding in the round and shaping.Phototgraphs feature finished projects modeled by a delightful case of young knitters.Best of all, kids get to have fun creating things...
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