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101 Things to Do With a Babyby Jan OrmerodISBN 0688038018 (0-688-03801-8)
Hardcover, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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Aesops Fablesby Charles SantoreISBN 067988758X (0-679-88758-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesops Fables'Book summary:Here are the time-honored fables of Aesop as never seen before. Santore's animals leap off the page in explosions of color, giving messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor. School Library Journal called this interpretation of the classic morality tales " a delight to the eye and ear." [via]
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All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novelby Magnus MillsISBN 0684871688 (0-684-87168-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Alternative Careers for Lawyersby Hillary J. MantisISBN 0679778705 (0-679-77870-5)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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American Medical Association Manual of Styleby Cheryl TversonISBN 068304351X (0-683-04351-X)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editorsby Phil B. Fontanarosa, Roxanne K. Young, Annette Flanagin, Richard M. Glass, Paula Giltman, Jane C. Lantz, Harriet S. Meyer, Jeanette M. Smith, Margaret A. Winker, Cheryl IversonISBN 0683402064 (0-683-40206-4)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. [via]More editions of American Psycho:
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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Paramount and Universal Pictures International.
The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award.
" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
"Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. [via]
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- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684843137 (0-684-84313-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684872153 (0-684-87215-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
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- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
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Being Digitalby Nicholas Negroponte, Marty AsherISBN 0679762906 (0-679-76290-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Digital'Book summary:As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital."
Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition.
In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future. [via]
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Blessingsby Sheneska JacksonISBN 0684853124 (0-684-85312-4)
Softcover, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0684835770 (0-684-83577-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Virtues'Book summary:Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together. [via]
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Business As a Calling: Work and the Examined Lifeby Michael NovakISBN 0684827484 (0-684-82748-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Business As a Calling: Work and the Examined Life'Book summary:Why do we work so hard at our jobs, day after day? Why is a job well done important to us? We know there is more to a career than money and prestige, but what exactly do we mean by "fulfillment"? These are old but important questions. They belong with some newly discovered ones: Why are people in business more religious than the population as a whole? What do people of business know, and what do they do, that anchors their faith? In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Michael Novak ties together these crucial questions by explaining the meaning of work as a vocation. Work should be more than just a job -- it should be a calling.
This book explains an important part of our lives in a new way, and readers will instantly recognize themselves in its pages. A larger proportion than ever before of the world's Christians, Jews, and other peoples of faith are spending their working lives in business. Business is a profession worthy of a person's highest ideals and aspirations, fraught with moral possibilities both of great good and of great evil. Novak takes on agonizing problems, such as downsizing, the tradeoffs that must sometimes be faced between profits and human rights, and the pitfalls of philanthropy. He also examines the daily questions of how an honest day's work contributes to the good of many people, both close at hand and far away. Our work connects us with one another. It also makes possible the universal advance out of poverty, and it is an essential prerequisite of democracy and the institutions of civil society.
This book is a spiritual feast, for everyone who wants to examine how to make a life through making a living. [via]
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Byzantium: The Empire of New Romeby Cyril A. MangoISBN 0684167689 (0-684-16768-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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A Chair for My Motherby Vera B. WilliamsISBN 0688040748 (0-688-04074-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Chair for My Mother'Book summary:The jar of coins is full. The day has come to buy the chair - the big, fat, comforable, wonderful chair they have been saving for. The chair that will replace the one that was burned up - along with everything else - in the terrible fire.
A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life.
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The Christiansby Bamber GascoigneISBN 0688032206 (0-688-03220-6)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Commanding Heights Pt. 1: The Battle for the World Economyby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 0684848112 (0-684-84811-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern Worldby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 0684829754 (0-684-82975-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World'Book summary:The "commanding heights," according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "the individuals, the ideas, the conflicts, and the turning points" that are responsible. And by considering events such as the ongoing Asian monetary crisis, they suggest what the ultimate interconnection of financial markets might mean in the future. [via]
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economyby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 068483569X (0-684-83569-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679776443 (0-679-77644-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directoryby Barry GaleISBN 0684839563 (0-684-83956-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directory'Book summary:Take the test -- and find the right career for you. Join the ranks of the more than half-million people who have discovered their true talents and made successful career choices with discover what you're best at. Now this bestselling career guide has been revised for the twenty-first century, including valuable new information on the skills in demand in electronic communications, medical technology, and other high-tech fields. The book's unique national career aptitude system enables you to identify not only your interests but also your innate talents and potential skills, and then to match your career strengths to dozens of the more than 1,100 jobs described in detail. Discover what you're best at enables you to set realistic and rewarding career goals based on your abilities. It gives you the edge you need to take on the job market and succeed in your chosen career. Discover what you're best at will help you: save money -- possibly thousands of dollars -- by heading you in the proper career direction before you choose a school or a course of study save time -- by allowing you to tailor your curriculum to your career objectives, without resorting to trial-and-error course samplings set realistic goals -- why be an office administrator when your interpersonal skills make you a natural for sales? learn about new areas -- with more than 1,100 career possibilities listed and described in detail, you could easily discover that you have an interest in and aptitude for an exciting position you never knew existed. Discover what you're best at could put you well on your way to success. It's the only career resource you'll ever need [via]
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The Evolution of Useful Thingsby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679740392 (0-679-74039-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Useful Things'Book summary:This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England's Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there's plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined. [via]
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Fasterby James GleickISBN 067977548X (0-679-77548-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faster'Book summary:From the bestselling, national book award-nominated auhtor of genius and chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families. Written with fresh insight and thorough research, faster is a wise and witty look at a harried world not likely to slow down anytime soon [via]
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Fat and Mean : The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizingby David M. GordonISBN 0684822881 (0-684-82288-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differentlyby Curt Coffman, Marcus BuckinghamISBN 0684852861 (0-684-85286-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently'Book summary:Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write. "This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place."
The authors have culled their observations from more than 80,000 interviews conducted by Gallup during the past 25 years. Quoting leaders such as basketball coach Phil Jackson, Buckingham and Coffman outline "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: Finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and selecting staff for talent--not just knowledge and skills. First, Break All the Rules offers specific techniques for helping people perform better on the job. For instance, the authors show ways to structure a trial period for a new worker and how to create a pay plan that rewards people for their expertise instead of how fast they climb the company ladder. "The point is to focus people toward performance," they write. "The manager is, and should be, totally responsible for this." Written in plain English and well organized, this book tells you exactly how to improve as a supervisor. --Dan Ring [via]
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Usby Kate BornsteinISBN 0679757015 (0-679-75701-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. BruccoliISBN 0684801523 (0-684-80152-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Softcover, Collier Books - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684101548 (0-684-10154-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 068416325X (0-684-16325-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684196476 (0-684-19647-6)
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The Great Gatsbyby Hoffman, Frederick John, EdISBN 0684412845 (0-684-41284-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:An assortment of articles treating issues surrounding the Great Gatsby. Part I - From This Side of Paradise to Great Gatsby, Part II, The Great Gatsby and its world, Part III, The Great Gatsby, and Part IV, The Permanence of the Great Gatsby. Includes a bibliography. [via]
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Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspaceby Janet Horowitz MurrayISBN 0684827239 (0-684-82723-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace'Book summary:Technology changes storytelling--movies don't tell stories in the same manner as wandering bards. Janet H. Murray, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is fascinated with the changes emerging technologies may bring. Interactive tales, more versatile structures, stories as games, and games as stories are among the topics she explores in her very personable and entertaining style. And what about fears that interactive escapism could be the coming addiction? She makes an unblinking examination of this question with insight into both the technological possibilities and the strengths of the human psyche. Strongly recommended for anyone who loves the art of storytelling in any medium. [via]
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The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of Indiaby Zia JaffreyISBN 067974228X (0-679-74228-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0679783326 (0-679-78332-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope
Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the worlds most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work of great genius. Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontës masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the worlds most beloved novels.
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Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences Clinical Psychiatryby Harold I. Kaplan, Jack A. Grebb, Benjamin J. SadockISBN 068304530X (0-683-04530-X)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Keeping Faith at Work: The Christian in the Workplaceby David A. KruegerISBN 0687070538 (0-687-07053-8)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Langman's Medical Embryologyby T.W. Sadler, Jan LangmanISBN 0683306502 (0-683-30650-2)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Langman's Medical Embryology'Book summary:Highly informative, this revised edition of Langman's Medical Embryology gives students a better understanding of the essentials of clinically relevant aspects of embryology. This Eighth Edition includes more information on the genetics of birth defects thus enabling the reader to go beyond morphology and understand embryogenesis at both the cellular and molecular levels. Clinical aspects are emphasized throughout the text, and clinically-oriented problems are listed at the end of each chapter with answers provided in the appendix. Fifty new three-dimensional illustrations help to enhance students' understanding of the organization and formation of the embryo at various stages. Many new SEMs, clinical photographs, and clearly labeled illustrations are incorporated throughout the text.[via]More editions of Langman's Medical Embryology:
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Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadershipby Drea Zigarmi, Patricia Zigarmi, Kenneth BlanchardISBN 0688039693 (0-688-03969-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership'Book summary:In clear, simple terms "Leadership and the One Minute Manager(R) "teaches managers the art of Situational Leadership(R)--a simple system that refutes the conventional management mandate of treating all employees equally. Here, you'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direct is critical; how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person; and how consistent use of the One Minute techniques will produce better management and enhanced motivation on all levels. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to creative, personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from your staff--and the best bottom line for any business.If your management motto is "everyone should be treated equally," "Leadership and the One Minute Manager." will show you why this style not only hinders workplace efficiency, but also frustrates your staff. In clear, simple terms, Ken Blanchard, co-author of the enormously popular "The One Minute Manager., " coupled with business gurus Patricia and Drea Zigarmi, teach managers the art of Situational Leadership.. You'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; when to delegate, support, or direct; how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person; and how consistent use of the One Minute techniques will produce better management and enhanced motivation on all levels. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to creative, personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from your staff and the best bottom line for any business. [via]
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Letters of Intent: Women Cross the Generations to Talk About Family, Work, Sex, Love and the Future of Feminismby Meg Daly, Anna BondocISBN 0684856247 (0-684-85624-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Make Way for Trucksby Gail Herman, Christopher SantoroISBN 0679801103 (0-679-80110-3)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Talesby Oliver SacksISBN 0684853949 (0-684-85394-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales'Book summary:In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject." [via]
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Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadershipby Richard FarsonISBN 0684830442 (0-684-83044-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership'Book summary:Facile formulas, catchy slogans, ten-step programs, and quick fixes too often dominate today's management training programs. But in organizations as in all of life, human behavior is seldom predictable, and business dilemmas do not easily lend themselves to gimmicks or simplistic answers. In "Management of the Absurd, " psychologist, educator, and former CEO Richard Farson presents a series of management paradoxes designed to challenge conventional wisdom and encourage managers to reexamine their assumptions about effective leadership.
Here, at last, is a dramatically new understanding of organizations and human relations. In his explorations of more than 30 paradoxical situations, Farson demonstrates the value of a radically different perspective on leadership and offers managers powerful new ways to cope with the many perplexing problems of organizational life. Managers at every level will recognize the very real dilemmas and complexities that Farson describes, and will be challenged by these provocative new views of the art of managing people.
Here are some of Farson's startling insights:
The better things are, the worse they feel.
Once you find a management technique that works, give it up.
Big changes are easier to make than small ones.
The more we communicate, the less we communicate.
Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.
Effective managers are not in control.
Organizations that need help most will benefit least from that help.
Many readers will share Michael Crichton's response to this book, as he observes in the foreword, "He irritated me. He provoked me. He made me nod, he made me smile, and he made me shake myhead....[He] reports more than experience; he gives us wisdom." Guided by "Management of the Absurd, " managers of the 21st century will be able to accept the inherent complexity of management situations and work through these dilemmas, not with manipulative and simplistic techniques but with understanding, compassion, and effectiveness. [via]More editions of Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership:
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Managing the Professional Service Firmby David H. MaisterISBN 0684834316 (0-684-83431-6)
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Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply many of the management principles developed for product-based industries. Second, professional services are highly personalized, involving the skills of individuals. Such firms must therefore compete not only for clients but also for talented professionals.
Drawing on more than ten years of research and consulting to these unique and creative companies, David Maister explores issues ranging from marketing and business development to multinational strategies, human resources policies to profit improvement, strategic planning to effective leadership. While these issues can be complex. Maister simplifies them by recognizing that "every professional service firm in the world, regardless of size, specific profession, or country of operation, has the same mission statement: outstanding service to clients, satisfying careers for its people, and financial success for its owners." [via]
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Mechanisms of Microbial Diseaseby Moselio SchaechterISBN 0683076051 (0-683-07605-1)
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilby John BerendtISBN 0679751521 (0-679-75152-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0679741879 (0-679-74187-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Of Time, Work, and Leisureby Sebastian De GraziaISBN 067974343X (0-679-74343-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
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The Old Man And the Seaby HemingwayISBN 0684163268 (0-684-16326-8)
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One Day of Lifeby Manlio Argueta, Bill BrowISBN 0679732438 (0-679-73243-8)
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The One Minute [s]ales Person: The Quickest Way to More Sales with Less Stressby Spencer Johnson, Larry WilsonISBN 0688039464 (0-688-03946-4)
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The Only Job Hunting Guide You'll Ever Need : The Most Comprehensive Guide for Job Hunters and Career Switchersby Kathryn Petras, Ross PetrasISBN 0684802368 (0-684-80236-8)
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
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The Paper Craneby Molly BangISBN 0688041086 (0-688-04108-6)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0679783261 (0-679-78326-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Putting the One Minute Manager to Workby Robert Lorber, Kenneth BlanchardISBN 068802632X (0-688-02632-X)
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The Right to Privacyby Ellen Alderman, Caroline KennedyISBN 0679744347 (0-679-74434-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right to Privacy'Book summary:Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job lifestyles--and fire those who drink, smoke, or live with a partner of the same sex? Although the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, most of us believe that we have an inalienable right to be left alone. Yet in arenas that range from the battlefield of abortion to the information highway, privacy is under siege. In this eye-opening and sometimes hair-raising book, Alderman and Kennedy survey hundreds of recent cases in which ordinary citizens have come up against the intrusions of government, businesses, the news media, and their own neighbors. At once shocking and instructive, up-to-date and rich in historical perspective, The Right to Private is an invaluable guide to one of the most charged issues of our time.
"Anyone hoping to understand the sometimes precarious state of privacy in modern America should start by reading this book."--Washington Post Book World
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Something Happenedby Joseph HellerISBN 0684841215 (0-684-84121-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]
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Statistics Without Tearsby Derek RowntreeISBN 0684175010 (0-684-17501-0)
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Statistics without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematiciansby Derek RowntreeISBN 0684175029 (0-684-17502-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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Stedman's Medical Dictionaryby Thomas Lathrop StedmanISBN 0683079166 (0-683-07916-6)
Hardcover, Williams & Wilkins
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary: A Vocabulary of Medicine and Its Allied Sciences, With Pronunciations and Derivationsby Thomas Lathrop StedmanISBN 0683079190 (0-683-07919-0)
Hardcover, Krieger Pub Co
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary: Illustrated in Colorby Thomas Lathrop StedmanISBN 0683079220 (0-683-07922-0)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Straight Jobs Gay Lives: Gay and Lesbian Professionals, the Harvard Business School, and the American Worlplaceby Annette Friskopp, Sharon SilversteinISBN 0684824132 (0-684-82413-2)
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0679745408 (0-679-74540-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ten Philosophical Mistakesby Mortimer J. AdlerISBN 068481868X (0-684-81868-X)
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Theater Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0679854347 (0-679-85434-7)
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The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyleby Amy DacyczynISBN 067974388X (0-679-74388-X)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0684819112 (0-684-81911-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Robert Reich ; Edited, With Notes, Marginal Summary, and Enlarged Index by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Edwin CannanISBN 0679783369 (0-679-78336-9)
Softcover, Princeton Review
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Commentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
Adam Smiths masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reichs Introduction both clarifies Smiths analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, Smiths mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth centuryjobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
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Where Wizards Stay Up Lateby Katie Hafner, Matthew LyonISBN 0684832674 (0-684-83267-4)
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At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally. [via]
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Where Wizards Stay up Late : The Story Behind the Creation of the Internetby Katie Hafner, Matthew LyonISBN 0684812010 (0-684-81201-0)
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At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past -- and the future -- of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally. [via]
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Why We Buy: The Science of Shoppingby Paco UnderhillISBN 0684849143 (0-684-84914-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping'Book summary:In an effort to determine why people buy, Paco Underhill and his detailed-oriented band of retail researchers have camped out in stores over the course of 20 years, dedicating their lives to the "science of shopping." Armed with an array of video equipment, store maps, and customer-profile sheets, Underhill and his consulting firm, Envirosell, have observed over 900 aspects of interaction between shopper and store. They've discovered that men who take jeans into fitting rooms are more likely to buy than females (65 percent vs. 25 percent). They've learned how the "butt-brush factor" (bumped from behind, shoppers become irritated and move elsewhere) makes women avoid narrow aisles. They've quantified the importance of shopping baskets; contact between employees and shoppers; the "transition zone" (the area just inside the store's entrance); and "circulation patterns" (how shoppers move throughout a store). And they've explored the relationship between a customer's amenability and profitability, learning how good stores capitalize on a shopper's unspoken inclinations and desires.
Underhill, whose clients include McDonald's, Starbucks, Estée Lauder, and Blockbuster, stocks Why We Buy with a wealth of retail insights, showing how men are beginning to shop like women, and how women have changed the way supermarkets are laid out. He also looks to the future, projecting massive retail opportunities with an aging baby-boom population and predicting how online retailing will affect shopping malls. This lighthearted look at shopping is highly recommended to anyone who buys or sells. --Rob McDonald [via]
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Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684859335 (0-684-85933-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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