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To: The Reader From: The Author Your selection of this manual will challenge your present understanding of full-cycle management. This manual is the result of more than two decades of management training in private business, research, and government administration by awesome administrative professionals. As you can imagine, there are many entertaining stories and insights that would be great fun to share with you (and very tempting to tell). B...

In this action-packed American political adventure set in the near future, terrorists use selective violence in order to force the call for a Constitutional Convention, the first in more than 200 years of United States history. The country witnesses the growing paranoia and polarization of the populace when more than 200 terrorist attacks take place randomly all across the nation.

Written by the author of "Platitudes" and "Home Repairs, " this wickedly irreverent exploration of late 20th-century impulses toward self-improvement is told from the perspective of a charming playboy who renounces his life as a successful motivational speaker and becomes the guru of a cult-like group.

From the bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturi...

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Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) rose to great heights as a newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, but his life is surrounded by controversy to this day. Charges that he contributed to the death of his second wife, whose bequest of five million dollars helped purchase the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, followed him to the grave. This evenhanded, well-researched, and comprehensive biography reveals Bingham's strengths as ...

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Torn from the universe by an insatiable cosmic vortex, Earth is trapped in the grotesque parody of reality called the Maelstrom -- along with thousands of other planets, millions of species, billions of warring creatures...all swirling toward ultimate destruction.EARTH'S LAST HOPEThe Mars colonists watch, helpless, as the Maelstrom anomaly swallows Earth. Yet Dr. David Hutchins's horror is offset by scientific curiosity, and somehow he manages...

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The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate and Founder-Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. It was an opportunity for many of his colleagues and students to pay homage to him.This invaluable volume, comprising the papers presented at the meeting, reflects the long-lasting passion of Prof Salam for the th...

Focusing on the greatest hero in American history, this is the long-awaited biography of George Washington by the Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning author of "Founding Brothers" and "American Sphynx." Unabridged.

This verse-by-verse exposition commentary on Thessalonians-Philemon highlights and explains important Greek words from the original manuscripts as it examines difficult theological concepts. (Commentary)

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Devoid of all statistics and political observations, this is a spontaneous and irrepressibly humorous view of life in Burma at the turn of the 20th century.

Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep . . . For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for centuries. And for a select group of writers, these anc...

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