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This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organizational behavior, as well as a corrective to the Eurocentric bias of most management texts. This book focuses on four domains of management--primal, rational, developmental and metaphysical. It develops a transcultural perspective drawing on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, ...

Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody¿s Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore¿s Child. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson¿s film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston.

In "Negotiating the New in the French Novel, "Teresa Bridgeman applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discursive conventions. Focusing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists, Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Celine, Sarraute, Perec, Bridgeman analyzes how authors have established their own conventions, challenged reader expectations and drew conventions from other liter...

Benedict Blathwayt has written and illustrated many picture books for Random House, including the best-selling Dinosaur Chase and the hugely popular, classic Little Red Train series. He has two sons who are both architects and lives on the edge of Exmoor with his wife, who is also an artist, and two lively dogs.