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Mr. Yorick, the sentimental traveller, refrains from the customary reflections on monuments and landscapes. Instead, he focuses on his sweet and affectionate emotions, experiencing them everywhere he goes and with every creature who crosses his path — from bursts of sympathy for a caged bird and...

Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to...

Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game...

« Cette affaire, dis-je, est mieux réglée en France. » Vous avez été en France ? me dit le plus poliment du monde, et avec un air de triomphe, la personne avec laquelle je disputois… Il est bien surprenant, dis-je en moi-même, que la navigation de vingt-un...

As the amiable Parson Yorick travels through France and Italy, he relishes his encounters with the men and women—especially the pretty women—he meets along the way. A novel without a typical plot, a journey without a physical destination, Sterne’s witty and tender tale is a treasury of portraits, dramatic sketches, and philosophical musings.

In my last, for want of something better to write about, I told you what a World of Fending and Proving we have had of late, in this little Village of ours, about an old-cast-Pair-of-black-Plush-Breeches, which John, our Parish-Clerk, about ten Years ago, it seems, had made a Promise of to one Trim,...

The training and development team of an international call centre enterprise is faced with the challenge of creating a global workforce, dedicated to excellent customer service, and high quality operational results that drive business performance. High standards for employee performance must be nurtured...

Audio Branding is a concise, practical guide on the influential world of audio branding - what it is, why it's important, and how it can be used to enhance a brand. Consider the familiar tune of a branded ringtone, the bubbly sounds of Skype, and even the chosen sound bite for a branded car unlocking...

The only way to ensure your company’s success is to change faster on the inside than the world is changing on the outside No one knows the ins and outs of successful companies better than bestselling author Jason Jennings. Back in 2001, with It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small, It’s the...

A practical, step-by-step guide to setting up a "pre-nuptial" business agreement for small business owners that sets out rules for what happens when an owner retires or dies.

Once upon a time there was a Big Bad Girl, a miller's daughter and a teeny-tiny turnip - but did they all live happily ever after? Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly! Includes Little Red Riding Wolf, Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin and The Rather Small Turnip.

Understanding your direction, your personality type and your strongest skills will help guide you in making that all important decision for a college major. Choose Your College Major in A Day will help you determine your personality type by administering an assessment that identifies majors for each...

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central...

The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been heated debate about why the Federal Reserve did not rescue Lehman in the same way it rescued other financial institutions,...