Author: W.CLEMENT STONE
Publisher: THORSONS
Keywords: fails, system, success
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1979-02-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0722505310
ISBN-13: 9780722505311
Author: George Alec Effinger
Publisher: Orb Book
Keywords: fails, gravity
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0765313588
ISBN-13: 9780765313584
In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, hes availablefor a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he cant refuse. The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeens underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical impl
Author: Mark Breach
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: fails, gps, navigation, celestial
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-08-18
List price: $26.29
ISBN-10: 1412026679
ISBN-13: 9781412026673
Celestial Navigation When Your GPS Fails
Authors:Anselm Strauss, Carolyn Wiener,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: fails, medicine
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 1996-10-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560008695
ISBN-13: 9781560008699
Author: David A. Mo
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: manager, risk, ultimate, government, fails
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-10-25
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0674016092
ISBN-13: 9780674016095
"One of the most important functions of government--risk management--is one of the least well understood. Moving beyond the most familiar public functions--spending, taxation, and regulation--When All Else Fails spotlights the government’s pivotal role as a risk manager. It reveals, as never before, the nature and extent of this governmental function, which touches almost every aspect of economic life.In policies as diverse as limited liability, deposit insurance, Social Security, and federal disaster relief, American lawmakers have managed a wide array of private-sector risks, transform
Author: Joe Meno
Publisher: Akashic Books
Keywords: books, planet, punk, fails, detective
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933354100
ISBN-13: 9781933354101
In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus’ Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimagi-nable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes. Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy finds the companionship of two lonely,
Author: Michael Maccoby
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: fails, succeeds, leaders, narcissistic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-05-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1422104141
ISBN-13: 9781422104149
Today’s business leaders maintain a higher profile than their predecessors did in the 1950s through the 1980s. Rather than hide behind the corporate veil, they give interviews to magazines like Business Week, Time, and the Economist. According to psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and consultant Michael Maccoby, this love of the limelight often stems from their personalities--in a narcissistic personality. That is both good and bad news: Narcissists are good for companies that need people with vision and the courage to take them in new directions. But narcissists can also lead companies into
