A management consultant and baseball reporter claims everything one needs to know about management and business can be learned from baseball. Angus is an award-winning manager and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
The attractive, yet utterly tomboyish, manager of a country estate is taken to London by her new guardian in order to be properly groomed for society. Her original spirit and winning manner capture society s attention and admiration, as well as her guardian s affections.
ISBN: 9780380785629
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 1996
Monk is horrified when he learns there s going to be a blue flu in San Francisco, until Capt. Stottlemeyer explains that it just means the police plan to call in "sick" until they get a better contract. Monk soon has his badge back and must catch an astrologer s killer and, most importantly, clean up his squad s desks. Original.
ISBN: 9780451220134
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2007
Already a smash motion picture from Fine Line Features in New Zealand, this raw and deeply affecting story has also garnered major literary awards abroad. A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand, the book combines the action and mood of Blade Runner with the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun.
ISBN: 9780679761815
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 1995
Mysterious figures are somehow involved with the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Europol s top robot-detective Gesicht is on the case, and he s mere steps away from discovering the horrifying truth.
ISBN: 9781421527215
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2009
This is a great book for anyone who wants to use .NET on Linux. It is a must have for anyone doing cross-platform .NET. -- Dennis Hayes, .NET Developer s Journal "Practical Mono" offers you a detailed portrait of Mono and its many facets. Youll learn about building GUI-based applications with Gtk#, database interaction with ADO.NET, and powerful applications with XML and web services. By embracing this implementation, you can take advantage of the powerful development paradigm, building Internet-enabled cross-platform applications based on open source technologies. This book includes a primer on C#, so even if youre a novice .NET programmer, you will still gain plenty from this practical guide.
ISBN: 9781590595480
Издательство:
Питер
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2005
In addition to general care and nutrition information, this book includes great tips for dealing with ball python-specific problems, such as finicky eating.
The strips are available in an exciting array of colours and the paper can be manipulated in many ways. It s versatility offers many possibilities and Jane Jenkins has brought together a tasteful collection of designs and projects, with many step-by-step photographs, patterns and clear text. She shows how to make Art Nouveau and fantasy figures, Victorian fans, butterflies, candlestick holders and more. The beautiful, intricate and delicate filigreed patterns and pictures she creates are original and unique.
An exhilarating story of victory and disaster, success and heartbreak, "Savage Summit" is a moving tribute to the five brave women who achieved the near-impossible by climbing the world s most feared mountain.
ISBN: 9780060587161
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2006
Using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing.
Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can--or should--resist. Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent s most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night...
ISBN: 9780440241065
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
Forget everything you think you know about strength, strategy and success. This brilliant adaptation of the ancient masterpiece The Art of War shows women how to use Sun Tzu`s philosophy to win in every aspect of life.
A garden classic, The Genius Of The Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America.
In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century s most tumultuous events.
This is an exciting new book that for the first time combines rich biographical information on the founder of Japanese folklore studies, Kunio Yanagita, with a superb updated translation of his literary classic, The Legends of Tono (1910). This marvelous translation of a Japanese literary and folklore classic, reflecting thirty-five years of research and scholarship, is filled with enthralling tales that bring alive Japan s rich traditional heritage.
