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The Jetsetters A Novel
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: "Dysfunctional family goes away together on a Mediterranean cruise: What's not to love? This novel fell squarely in my wheelhouse and I was delighted anew in every port. The Jetsetters is fun, sexy, and engrossing."-Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69
"What a joy!"-Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a partner; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young, when she was a single mother who meant everything to them.
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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder Mary Toft and Eighteenth Century England
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: In October 1726, nepapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors-some sent directly by King George I-travelled to examine the woman and she was moved to London to be closer to them. By December, she had been accused of fraud and taken into custody. Mary Toft's unusual deliveries caused a media sensation. Her rabbit births were a test case for doctors trying to further their knowledge about the processes of reproduction and pregnancy. The rabbit births prompted not just public curiosity and scientific investigation, but also a vicious backlash. Based on extensive new archival research, this book is the first in-depth re-telling of this extraordinary story. Karen Harvey situates the rabbit-births within the troubled community of Godalming and the women who remained close to Mary Toft as the case unfolded, exploring the motivations of the medics who...
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The Life and Masterworks of Salvador Dali (Temporis Series)
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: Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.
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The Lost Girls Three Friends Four Continents One Unconventional Detour Around the World
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The Making of a Quagmire America And Vietnam During The Kennedy Era
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: Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.
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The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots A Step by Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone
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: 21 Essential Knots for Everyday Use Indoors or Outdoors!
This compact little reference book includes knots for a wide range of functions, from home to work, hobby to play activities. No knot-tying jargon is used, no baffling technical terms-just simple step-by-step instructions and outstandingly clear line drawings. It's the perfectly portable knot reference for anyone-scouts, sailors, hunters, anglers, gardeners, farmers, horse riders, you name it!
Among the knots in this book are: Overhand knotHeaving line knot Reef knotSheetbend Fisherman's knot, Figure-of-eight loop Bowline Three-part crown Sheepshank Half-hitch Clove hitch,Constrictor knot Pile hitch Highwayman's hitchWaggoner's hitch Timber...
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The Radical Fool of Capitalism On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto Icon
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: A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his "radical foolery" embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.
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The Terror of Evidence
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: Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.
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T Shaped Professionals Adaptive Innovators
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: What skills are needed for the future? This book argues for T-shaped professionals who are adaptive innovators, with broad communication skills and deep problem-solving skills. We invite readers to explore this question from the perspective of academics, educators, business practitioners, those in government, as well as researchers trying to measure more precisely just what it means to be a T-shaped professional and adaptive innovator.
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The Rough Guide to Scotland (Travel Guide eBook) (Rough Guides), 12th Edition
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: The Rough Guide to Scotland Make the most of your time on Earth with the ultimate travel guides.World-renowned 'tell it like it is' travel guide. Discover the Scotland with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest and independent recommendations by our experts. Whether you plan to explore the Cairngorm Mountains, walk the West Highland Way, taste some local whisky or go downhill-cycling at Glentress, the Rough Guide to Scotland will help you discover the best places to explore, eat, drink, shop and sleep along the way. Features of this travel guide to Scotland:- Detailed regional coverage: provides practical information for every kind of trip, from off-the-beaten-track adventures to chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas- Honest and independent revie: written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and expertise, our writers will help you make the most from your trip to Scotland- Meticulous mapping:...
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The Story of More How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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: "Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." -Nature
"A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style." -E. O. Wilson
[b]"Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and-above all-essential. " -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction[/b]
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions-from electric power to large-scale farming to...
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The Two Popes Official Tie in to Major New Film Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins
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: On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign. Reeling from the ne, the College of Cardinals rushed to Rome to congregate in the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. Their unlikely choice? Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,200 years, a one time tango club bouncer, a passionate football fan, a man with the common touch.
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour, The Pope is a fascinating, revealing and often funny tale of two very different men whose destinies converge with each other - they both live in the Vatican - and the wider world.
How did these two men become two of the most powerful people on Earth?
What's it like to be the Pope?
What does the future hold for the Catholic Church and its 1 billion followers?
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The Ultimate Duct Tape Book 25 Cool & Creative Projects to Get You on a Roll!
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: From picture frames and wallets to prom dresses and tuxedos, duct tape crafts' popularity continues to surge. The Ultimate Duct Tape Book: 25 Cool & Creative Projects to Get You on a Roll features the best duct tape projects, with easy-to-understand, step-by-step photo instructions and spreads featuring eye-catching completed items. Duct tape keeps rolling out in new designer patterns in bold colors, meaning it's never been easier to create custom projects that suit your personal style and taste. Featuring an edgy design, The Ultimate Duct Tape Book has projects for boys and girls as well as teens and adults. Everyone will find inspiration inside to create something out of duct tape.
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Wait, I'm the Boss ! The Essential Guide for New Managers to Succeed from Day One
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: Your management mentor in book! This is the go-to guide on making good decisions, helping teams work together, dealing with people problems, and achieving goals when you're newly in charge or looking to brush up on your leadership skills.Wait, I'm the Boss?!? is chock-full of useful information, tips, and checklists that can be used by anyone who aspires to become a skilled manager. While it's written with the new manager in mind, it can also serve as a useful refresher for any manager, no matter how experienced he or she may be. With this book in their hands, new managers will always know where they are going-no matter where they are. This much-needed, helpful guide explores the fundamental skills that every new manager needs to understand, practice, and master. These fundamental skills include:
Building teams and teamworkCreating a fun and effective organizational cultureRewarding and motivating employeesLeading...
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Voice & Vision A Creative Approach to Narrative Filmmaking 2nd Edition
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: Voice & Vision is a comprehensive manual for the independent filmmakers and film students who want a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film in order to achieve their artistic vision. This book includes essential and detailed information on relevant film and digital video tools, a thorough overview of the filmmaking stages, and the aesthetic considerations for telling a visual story. <br id="CRLF"/><br id="CRLF"/>The ultimate goal of this book is to help you develop your creative voice while acquiring the solid practical skills and confidence to use it. Unlike many books that privilege raw technical information or the line-producing aspects of production, Voice & Vision places creativity, visual expression, and cinematic ideas front and center. After all, every practical decision a filmmaker makes, like choosing a location, an actor, a film stock, a focal length, a lighting set-up, an edit point, or a sound effect is also an expressive one and should serve the filmmaker's vision. Every decision, from the largest conceptual choices to the smallest practical solutions, has a profound impact on what appears on the screen and how it moves an audience. <br id="CRLF"/><br id="CRLF"/>"In Practice" sidebars throughout connect conceptual, aesthetic and technical issues to their application in the real world. Some provide a brief analysis of a scene or technique from easily rentable films which illustrate how a specific technology or process is used to support a conceptual, narrative, or aesthetic choice. Others recount common production challenges encountered on real student and professional shoots which will inspire you to be innovative and resourceful when you are solving your own filmmaking challenges.
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Welcome to Management How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader (True EPUB)
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: "The ultimate all-in-one guide to becoming a great leader." -Daniel Pink
From the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, "the most dynamic leadership podcast out there" (Forbes) that will "help you lead smarter" (Inc.), comes an essential tactical guide for newly promoted managers.
Every year, millions of top performers are promoted to management-level jobs-only to discover that the tactics that got them promoted are not the tactics that will make them effective in their new role. In Welcome to Management, Ryan Hawk provides practical, actionable advice and tools designed to ensure that transition is a successful one.
He presents a new actionable three-part framework distilled from best practices drawn from in-depth intervie with over 300 of the most forward-thinking leaders around the world, as well as his own professional experience going from exceptional individual producer to new leader. Learn how to:
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Why I Write The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952 (Modern Czech Classics)
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: This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." ¶ Taken from the period when Bohumil Hrabal shifted his focus from poetry to prose, these stories-many written in college notebooks, typed and read aloud to friends, or published in samizdat-often showcase raw experiments in style that would define his later works. Others intriguingly utilize forms the author would never pursue again. Featuring the first appearance of key figures from Hrabal's later writings, such as his real-life Uncle Pepin, who would become a character in his later fiction and is credited here as a coauthor of one piece, the book also contains stories that Hrabal would go on to cannibalize for some of his most famous novels. All together, Why I Write? offers readers the chance to explore this liminal phase of Hrabal's writing. Expertly interpreted by award-winning Hrabal translator David Short, this collection comprises some of the last remaining prose works by Hrabal to be translated into English. A treasure trove for Hrabal devotees, Why I Write? allo us to see clearly why this great prose master was, as described by Czech writer and publisher Josef Škvorecký, "fundamentally a lyrical poet."
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Windo 2012 Server Network Security Securing Your Windo Network Systems and Infrastructure
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: Windo 2012 Server Network Security provides the most in-depth guide to deploying and maintaining a secure Windo network. The book drills down into all the new features of Windo 2012 and provides practical, hands-on methods for securing your Windo systems networks, including:
Secure remote access Network vulnerabilities and mitigations DHCP installations configuration MAC filtering DNS server security WINS installation configuration Securing wired and wireless connections Windo personal firewall Remote desktop services Internet connection sharing Network diagnostics and troubleshootingWindo network security is of primary importance due to the sheer volume of data residing on Windo networks. Windo 2012 Server Network Security provides network administrators with the most focused and in-depth coverage of Windo network security threats along with methods and techniques for securing important mission-critical networks and assets. The book also covers Windo 8.
Provides practical examples of how to secure your Windo network. Focuses specifically on Windo network security rather than general concepts. One of the first books to cover Windo Server 2012 network security.
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What Stars Are Made Of The Life of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin (EPUB)
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: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne-Gaposchkin's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her.
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Winning Not Fighting Why you need to rethink success and how you achieve it with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun
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: Winning Not Fighting dra on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art, to offer a profound and practical guide to achieving success at work, life and business.
By explaining what these teachings reveal about decision-making, professional relationships, personal targets and positivity, it challenges some of our deepest-held assumptions and forces us to unlearn many ideas that inform our current ideas on professional success.
Why, for example, do we refer to business through a lens of conflict? Why does winning always require confrontation, competition and a loser? John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge our ingrained assumptions about success and achievement to to guide us through a path of self-cultivation using the eight wisdoms of Wing Tsun.
John Vincent, the co-founder of LEON, has applied these mantras to his healthy fast- food empire with enormous success. In Winning Not Fighting, he collaborates with Wing Tsun master, Sifu...
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