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The book is a light-hearted and humorous travel memoir that describes the author's experiences of traveling light around the world in his retirement. After the death of his wife, mixing with youthful backpackers taking gap years and learning from the indigenous people in the countries he visited, enabled him to see himself as others saw him - a view that helped him come to terms with a life alone, while recapturing youth in the process. This i...

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Business is a game--the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it", said IBM's founder Thomas J. Watson. He would probably agree that business negotiations are essentially the game of predicting what the other person will do. Faced with employees, subcontractors, salespeople and others, managers are continually called upon to make strategic decisions based on how someone else will act and react. How do the successful ones do it? Is...

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This is the first book that explains how you actually go about doing good bioethics. John McMillan develops an account of the nature of bioethics, he reveals how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics, and then he shows how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an 'empirical, Socratic' approach.

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The legs were everything-a vision of the elegant beauty and desirability of the feminine form, the bearer of life. Now the algebra was nothing. Those legs were all I needed to know." It begins with Paul's fixation with Marie's legs under a school desk. Soon the two teenagers are together, and she is singing in his group, next stop Top of the Pops. This is a story of two young lovers that unfolds against a background of grammar school and Beat...

Managers are continually called on to make strategic decisions based on how someone else will act, and react, and this is exactly what game theory was invented to analyze. With the publication of John McMillan's 'Games, Strategies, and Managers, ' managers can now unlock the power of this bold way of thinking. The book strips away distracting details and provides insights into what is really going on in every negotiation and strategic decision.

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That summer in the heart which is known only in youth." Summer in the Heart is a lyrical evocation of the innocence, fun and liberation of growing up in the 1960s. Moving into and through his teens, Jim Mitchell must put his County Antrim village childhood behind him and adapt to the wider world of grammar school and the life of Belfast city. In the process the reader accompanies Jim on a series of marvellous episodes. There is the self-consci...