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by Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Alan King -- the beloved comic, actor, producer, author, philanthropist, and storyteller extraordinaire -- has compiled a wonderfully readable book about growing up Jewish, with totally original contributions by famous people. Combining warmhearted humor with a prideful nostalgia, these essays discuss...
Moving the Mountain
Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Muslims in America who reject extremist or fundamentalist expressions of Islam at home and abroad feel the urgent need for a voice that can represent them in the escalating irrationality of the current debate about Islam, America, and the West. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf—the so-called Ground Zero Imam—has...
Vows
The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty -- two eager young parishioners from different...
When It Gets Dark
An Enlightened Reflection on Life with Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Adeptly navigating between elegy and celebration, fear and determination, confusion and clarity, DeBaggio delivers an exquisitely moving and inspiring book that will resonate with all those who have grappled with their own or their loved ones' memory loss and with death.
With his first memoir,...
The Osama bin Laden I Know
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
The Osama bin Laden I Know is an unprecedented oral history of Osama bin Laden's rise to revered leader of al Qaeda.
Peter Bergen takes the reader onto the battlefields of Afghanistan as bin Laden goes from a shy, quiet teen to a leader; he brings you into Osama's intimate family life as he lives...
Monarch
The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded and criticized by her people. Still she endures as a captivating figure in the world's most durable symbol of political...
The Last Knight
The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of t
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by...
Driving the Saudis
A Chauffeur's Tale of the World's Richest Princesses (plus their servants, nannies, and one royal hairdresser)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The true-to-life account of a female chauffeur hired to drive the Saudi royal family in Los Angeles.
After more than a decade of working in Hollywood, actress Jayne Amelia Larson found herself out of luck, out of work, and out of prospects.
When she got hired to drive for the Saudi royal...
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor of his university's law...
Low Risk, High Reward
Starting and Growing Your Own Business with Minimal Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Contrary to popular belief, most entrepreneurs don't like risk. While they are not afraid to take chances, the most successful entrepreneurs do what they can to anticipate, minimize, and offset risk at every opportunity, insists Bob Reiss, who in his own flourishing entrepreneurial career has managed...
The Customer Marketing Method
How to Implement and Profit from Customer Relationship Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
Today the hottest new area of marketing is Customer Relationship Management (CRM) -- the discipline of identifying, attracting, and retaining a company¹s most valuable customers. Drawing upon more than ten years of testing, tryout, and implementation in hundreds of companies, CRM expert Jay Curry,...
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
The former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.
Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance...
True Professionalism
The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999
David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges professionals to examine this essential, yet under-addressed question: What is true professionalism?
Professional firms are forever trying to get their people to act like professionals—to do...
by Max H. Bazerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
In Negotiating Rationally, Max Bazerman and Margaret Neale explain how to avoid the pitfalls of irrationality and gain the upper hand in negotiations.
For example, managers tend to be overconfident, to recklessly escalate previous commitments, and fail to consider the tactics of the other party....