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How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things reveals the hidden barriers to success that exist in even the best-managed companies. Highlighting the principles managers need to apply in breaking down these barriers, Neil Smith offers a fast, proven solution to achieve remarkable results.

With topics ranging from language death to sign language, "Language, Frogs and Savants" offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics. Written by one of the most senior figures in linguistics. Features fascinating topics ranging from language death to sign language. Includes an introduction to the current vision of linguistics most closely associated with Noam Chomsky.Contains a glossary of all technical terms and interpretations.

Offers a full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring groundbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globalization.

An insightful study of how a savant with severe disabilities but a remarkable linguistic talent has learnt British Sign Language.

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Excerpt from The State of Mining in the Kimberley District, And, the Probability of Obtaining Artesian Water Between the Pilbarra Goldfields and the Great DesertOn his way back from the North Mr. Smith was deputed to visit the neighbourhood of Warrawaginc Station, to inquire into the possibility of obtaining a supply of artesian water between the Pilbarra Goldfields and the Great Desert. The reports, on being submitted to the Hon. The Minister...

For the past 10 or 11 years, I have been plucking away at my first novel, "Five Moves to Mate". It's now ready. Set in 6th-7th century England Five Moves to Mate explores the lives and adventures of two fictional houses, Sendor and Cavendish. Principal characters are developed strongly throughout the story, and the text is designed to evoke reader recognition with the attributes and failings of each character on a personal level. All character...

When Shaalara of the Alteen Zirnaath, a sapient, medium-sized spider of the jumping variety came into Eichra Oren's office to commission the Assessor of p'Na and his symbiote, canine detective Sam Otusam, to find the location of her fiancé, they were not expecting the 'accidents' that impeded their research, or the taking on even more unusual clients along the way. For conducting an investigation on the Elders' planet is not an easy task...

Whitey O'Thraight, the Ship's Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by the local Baron, they are freed by a group of monks who are much more than they initially appear to be. Their new benefactors and friends have something special in mind for the two survivors, but going along with these plans might mean the destruction o...

More than a 150, 000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the 'normal' world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the 'alternate' reality of the North American Confederacy are facing their own crises. *** People are disappearing across the Probability Broach, including Win Bear's closest friend, Featherstone-Haugh (who heads the Confe...

Language, Bananas, and Bonobos" presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, this volume provides new insights into linguistics that are of universal interest.

Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses.

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Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good, crap-for-brains, despicable and dangerous traitor Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure, in fact, that hes willing to investigate outside departmental bounds. Willing to blackmail and bribe his fellow lawmen into helping him. Willing to ferret Lafitte out of whatever snake-hole hes hidden himself in, and do what the too-lax government wouldnt let him do back in Yellow Medicine county, just...

In Neil Smith's nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their m...

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law????????????????????????he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he's been given a second chance????????????????????????in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy's only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. Until one of the local gi...

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law????????????????????????he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he's been given a second chance????????????????????????in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy's only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. Until one of the local gi...

After four years of bitter struggles and immeasurable cost in human lives and property, the armies laid down their weapons and the country was reunited. But there was a magnitude of problems emerging from the rebellious and war-torn South and the now-freed slaves. The freed slaves, excited about their liberation, were led to believe that they would receive "forty acres of land and a mule, " but this didn't happen. The politicians felt that fre...