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The Market Driven Organization
Understanding, Attracting, and Keeping Valuable Customers
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1999
For forty years managers have been exhorted to "stay close to the customer and ahead of the competition." And with good reason Research now shows that market driven organizations outperform their rivals. Given the obvious benefits, why do so many companies fail to become market driven? Because...
by Alvin P. Lehnerd, Marc H. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization...
Lipstick on a Pig
Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Torie Clarke, renowned and respected in political and business circles as one of the nation's most gifted communicators, offers a complete guide to the new age of transparency. Clarke's message is refreshing and straightforward: No more spin. Always a dubious proposition, spin has become increasingly...
All Your Worth
The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
This personal finance guide from Dr. Phil’s financial guru, Elizabeth Warren, offers a new way of thinking about and managing your money that will allow you lifelong emotional peace and financial well-being.
You work hard and try to save money, so why is there never enough to cover all the...
The Magic of Reality
How We Know What's Really True
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with...
The Ice Princess
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
“A top-notch thriller, one of the best of the genre” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) from international crime-writing sensation Camilla Läckberg tells the story of brutal murders in a small Swedish fishing village, and the shattering, decades-old secrets that precipitated them.
In this electrifying...
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.
Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that...
The Preacher
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Hot on the heels of her phenomenal American debut, The Ice Princess, Camilla Läckberg brings readers back to the quiet, isolated fishing village in Sweden where dangerous secrets lie just beneath the community’s tranquil surface.
During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom and...
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning...
The Folded Earth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2011 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION 2011
WITH HER DEBUT NOVEL, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy’s exquisite storytelling instantly won readers’ hearts around the world, and the novel was named one...
Theater Geek
The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
What do Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Braff, and Mandy Moore have in common? Before they were stars, they were campers at Stagedoor Manor, the premier summer theater camp for children and teenagers. Founded in 1975, Stagedoor continues to attract scores of young performers eager to find...
To Show and to Tell
The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he...
Portrait Inside My Head
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary...
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
From the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy nominated writer for Six Feet Under comes a hilarious and unforgettable memoir.
When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies...