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Today's best leaders know how to lead up, a necessary strategy when a supervisor is micromanaging rather than macrothinking, when a division president offers clear directives but can't see the future, or when investors demand instant gain but need long-term growth. Through vivid, compelling stories, Michael Useem reveals how upward leadership can transform incipient disaster into hard-won triumph. For example, U.S. Marine Corps General Peter P...

Designed in a great rush at the end of 1917 just in time to take part in the German standard fighter competition held in January/February 1918, the D VII easily walked away with first prize. As Germanys premier fighter unit, von Richthofens JG I (led by Hermann Goring in the wake of the 'Red Baron's' recent death) received the first examples of the D VII to reach the frontline in late April. Built to oppose the new generation of French SPAD XI...

A cradle-to-grave guide to living, an easy-to-follow user's manual for human existence, Al Franken's book is filled with wisdom, observations, and practical tips readers can put to work right away.

A daring and innovative collection of new poems by the controversial author of Paul's Case and VillainElle.Missing Children is a daring and innovative collection of new poems by the controversial author of Paul's Case and VillainElle. Here, Lynn Crosbie creates a bold fusion of genres by taking traditional elements of the novel - dialogue, plot, and description - and weaving them through a series of narratively linked poems. Centering on a man...

In his two previous works, "Hunger of Memory" and "Days of Obligation, " Rodriguez wrote about the intersection of his private life with public issues of class and ethnicity. With "Brown, " his consideration of race, Rodriguez completes his "trilogy on American public life.

One aspect of the Zulu War remains unexamined - the part played by the local white volunteers and irregulars, and the Africans fighting with the British against the Zulus.This work tells the story of these locally raised frontier units at Isandlwana and other dramatic battles of the Zulu War.

From the award-winning author of "Comfort Woman" comes a heart-wrenching novel about two young girls in the aftermath of the Korean War.

One of history's greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman. In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy and powerful province in the South of France. Rich and influential in her own right, her tumultuous marriages thrust Eleanor into the political and cultural spotlight, where she would remain for more...

Robert McKinley regretted taking the case from the moment he made the decision. As attached as he was to Jake Westfall, Robert was not prepared to accept the potential for losses to his team. The case starts off bad with a firefight at the airport, and goes downhill from there. Placing his team in extreme jeopardy is not how Robert likes to work, but in this case, as the body count grows, his options run out.

The story of the physical and spiritual development of a Catholic High School boy with his two brothers, two girlfriends, teachers and buddies.

From an award-winning physicist and internationally acclaimed science writer comes an entertaining tour of the mind-boggling breakthroughs that make time travel possible.

The man behind the New York Times Magazine's immensely popular column "The Ethicist”-syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as "Everyday Ethics”-casts an eye on today's manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world.Every week in his column on ethics, Randy Cohen takes on conundrums presented in letters from perplexed people who want to do the right thing (or hope t...

Leet has erected a new framework for understanding the mechanism of the transformative spiritual work that enables the human soul to reach higher dimensions of consciousness. She develops a technique called "the Transformative Moment, " that allows the individual to progress through all the higher levels of the soul.

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By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury BeachIn Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return - retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will suffice: a Möbius strip poem that loops b...

The dilemma of the young Italian kingdom and the experience of her army in World War I (1914-1918) were unique among the combatant nations. Late to enter the war against the Central Powers, she faced a massively defended Austro-Hungarian front in the north, including strong mountain features, as well as distractions in the Balkans and a simultaneous rebellion in her Libyan colony. Costly and repeated battles on the Isonzo front culminated in t...

Breathtaking new poetry by the author of The Cottage Builder's LetterIn this brilliantly evoked new gathering of poems, George Murray creates a strange and menacing world, pulsating with sensory intensity. These poems don't just inquire, they demand answers, and go seeking them through the realms of the past, the present, and the future. Here are stories and images that challenge, threaten, and fascinate by their dreamlike clarity, flickering ...

When man develops a weapon that finally puts them on the level of God, two soulmates come together. The devil's Constituents are here to do business. Is this twisted fantasy or reality? You've just got to read between these lines.

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Compels us to consider the possibility that Africans arrived in North America a millennium before Columbus. Contains over 100 photographs of ancient artifacts, discovered in 1982 in a southern Illinois cave. Explains the mystery of the Washtaws, a tribal group of African origin, encountered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Suggests that King Juba actually sailed to America to rebuild his kingdom in the New World.