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Back when Thomas Cheshire was an aspiring baseball player, he met Bob Edwards, a fire captain who taught him the ropes of minor league baseball. Later Captain Edwards took Thomas under his wing again, mentoring Thomas toward a life as a firefighter. Injury and tragedy befall Thomas and he soon finds himself up to his neck in dead bodies and he is thrust into a world of drug traffickers. The second half of the book follows the author as he navi...

The hilarious collected messages of one man who's just trying to make friends and can't understand why everyone always gets so angry.

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Anyone appearing before an employment tribunal for the first time is faced with many procedures and rules that can confuse and mystify. This book brings together practical guidance with an extensive collection of precedents to equip the claimant and his/her adviser with the tools and tactics to win their cases.

Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inher...

Noch nie waren Märchen so lustig und raffiniert, so düster und sexy - und so wahr. Rumpelstilzchen, Hänsel und Gretel, Schneewittchen und Rapunzel - wer erinnert sich nicht an die Gutenachtgeschichten aus der Kindheit, an Märchen, die uns verzauberten und schaudern machten. Einer der begnadetsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller holt diese Märchen in unsere Gegenwart und erzählt sie neu. Die altüberlieferten Mythen über Könige und Prinzessinnen, ...

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Covers the key techniques for successful customer relationship management, from developing profitable customer relationships to integrated sales management systems and from e-marketing to pricing. This title also includes examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Cisco and EclipsysEMC.

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to f...

Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis.

A critical consideration of the apology in politics -- .

SMART ist eine revolutionäre Reihe, die gestressten Geschäftsleuten und Managern eine ganz neue Lernerfahrung vermittelt. Jeder Band dieser Reihe bietet eine kurze Einführung in die Grundlagen des jeweiligen Themas, vermittelt Erfahrungen, Tipps und Ratschläge aus der Praxis und diskutiert Erkenntnisse und Ideen von absoluten Spitzenexperten. Ein wichtiges Merkmal dieser Buchreihe ist die Vielzahl der praxisbezogenen Abschnitte, die unter Übe...

Nella storia della famiglia Stassos, nei cento anni che i suoi componenti vivono sul suolo americano alla ricerca di una felicità ordinaria, Michael Cunningham intreccia i fili di differenti identità, di mondi diversi destinati a entrate in collisione con gli altri e soprattutto con se stessi. Un universo di destini apparentemente liberi di seguire il proprio corso, e invece votati, quasi per diritto di nascita, a muoversi, esplorare, provare ...

Una mela avvelenata e una zampa di scimmia dotata del potere di cambiare il destino, una ragazza dai lunghissimi capelli in grado di provocare eventi catastrofici, un uomo con un'ala di cigno, una casa nel cuore della foresta, fatta di caramelle e pan di zenzero, glassa alla vaniglia e zucchero filato. In "Un cigno selvatico", i personaggi di terre molto, molto lontane - le figure mitiche che tanto hanno incantato la nostra infanzia - diventan...

Solo la letteratura può restituire un senso alle nostre vite confuse e sghembe. Anzi, la letteratura è il solo specchio dentro cui la vita, riflettendosi, giunge per un momento a dire se stessa. È l'idea centrale di questo romanzo. Tre donne lo abitano. La prima è una donna famosa, una scrittrice famosa: Virginia Woolf, ritratta a un passo dal suicidio, nel 1941, e poi, a ritroso nel tempo, mentre gioca col dèmone della sua scrittura. Le altre...

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursMichael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky, there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions-or in God-but he can't deny what he's seen....