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Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness, Collins wondered what could be done for the company that is good or mediocre at best? He questioned whether there have been companies that started weak and finished strong, and if so, what can be said about these companies that might help managers turn a mediocre organization into a great one? So Collins and his research team undertook a massive five year study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965, and has crafted a book as practical and insightful as BUILT TO LAST. This exclusive deluxe box set brings together the two most important business books of the last decade from Jim Collins, the leader in modern business theory.Read more
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The Glass Menagerie (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperback edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams’s essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, “The Catastrophe of Success,” as well as a short section of Williams’s own “Production Notes.”Read more
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I. Asimov: A Memoir
Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname “the Great Explainer.” I. Asimov is his personal story–vivid, open, and honest–as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities–Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others–who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.
As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.
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Pilot’s Summer: A Central Flying School Diary
Author: F.D. Tredrey
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Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten
A tale of a mischievous Kitten, Tiptoes, who is adopted by the Moffatt family.Read more
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Full Gallop (Pine Hollow)
Carole, Stevie, Callie, and Lisa believe that their hard work and efforts are paying off as they prepare for the future, confront fears, and build relationships, but a tragic night throws everything into uncertainty.Read more
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The Last Hero
A little wear but a nice copy. Minor imperfections to lovely jacketRead more
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L’Amour’s memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning–from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women–that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L’Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama–such as the author’s desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert–with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L’Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.Read more
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Histoire Du Roman Francais Depuis 1918
R160066842. Histoire du roman français depuis 1918. 1950. In-12. Broché. Etat d’usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 350 pages illustrées de photographies en noir et blanc hors texte; quelques pages non coupées; quelques pages aux bords frottés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 809-Histoire, littératureRead more
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The Best Loved Poems of the American People
More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a collection that will be treasured.Read more
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The Hums of Pooh
Physical description: 67 pages: illustrations; 31 cm. Subjects: Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Juvenile poetry. Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Poetry. Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander) 1882-1956; Musical settings. Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander) 1882-1956. Children’s stories, English. Other names: Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard) 1879-1976. Cox and Wyman [printer]. Genre: Fiction. Illustrated. Musical settings.Read more
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As a Man Thinketh
Original UnabridgedEnglish value reproduction of As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. In this classic book on thinking, the book describes how each of us shapes the events around us, creating our own livesin abundance.
As himself Allen describes, “It shows how, in his own thought-world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances. …and it can be carried in the pocket.”
No student of influence should be without this historic philosophy book on leadership. This Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.
The Table of Contents is as follows:
CONTENTS
FOREWORD 4
THOUGHT AND CHARACTER 5
EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON CIRCUMSTANCES 7
EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY 14
THOUGHT AND PURPOSE 16
THE THOUGHT-FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT 18
VISIONS AND IDEALS 21
SERENITY 24
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The Corn is Green,with two other plays,The wind of heaven,The Druid’s rest (Famous plays series)
The Corn is Green with two other plays: The Druid’s Rest; The Wind of Heaven (Pan 132)Read more
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The Black Poets
“The claim of The Black Poets to being… an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress.”–from the Introduction by Dudley RandallRead more
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Sherlock Holmes Volume 1: The Complete Novels and Stories: Vol 1: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I: 01
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero–a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling ” The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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Victorian Panorama; A Survey of Life and Fashion from Contemporary Photographs – First Edition
Used copy, has wear and fading on cover. Book is intact, some spotting at edges, penciled initials on rear of frontispiece, cocked. Illustrated with beautiful B&W plates. Overall, fair copy.Read more
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African Systems of Kinship and Marriage (International African Institute S.)
This symposium is concerned with the study of a fundamental aspect of the organization of so-called primitive societies.
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Greatest Miracle In The World
A great inspirational writer tells his greatest story – an amazing narrative that will hold you spellbound…as it reveals exciting new secrets for your personal happiness and success.Read more
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Downy Duckling: 5 (Rhyming stories)
Downy Duckling (Ladybird Book Series 401)Read more
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