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The Left Hand of the Electron
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The Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac AsimovThe Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac Asimov

If you're interested in some of Science's most fascinating secrets, or if you're just interested to learn more about modern science, or even if you are just looking for an interesting book to read - you find the right answer, told in a way that is complete, understandable, and funny. Some of the problems presented in the book are: The problem of Left and Right, The problem of Oceans, The problem of numbers and lines...
 
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Coaching, Mentoring, and Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning Teams
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Coaching, Mentoring, and Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning TeamsCoaching, Mentoring, and Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning Teams

This book offers hundreds of practical, easy-to-learn techniques every manager can use to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired and effective. Filled with real-world advice and management-changing exercises, this manual shows how to get the most from employees in today's era of downsizing, layoffs, buyouts and mergers. Managers learn how to be more than just a boss and develop the skills and strategies to become more like a coach to their employees.

 
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Miss Understanding
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Miss UnderstandingMiss Understanding

Lessing brings back fictional fashion-forward magazine Issues and its newly minted editorial honcho, sartorially challenged feminist Zoe, sister of She's Got Issues protagonist Chloe Rose. Publisher Dan Princely (aka Chloe's devoted new husband) has gone gaga for Zoe's agenda and gives her a mandate to revamp the magazine's usual fare of shoes, makeup and shopping into a manifesto of female empowerment, decorum and personal growth. Zoe renames the magazine Miss Understanding and gleefully introduces it to the staff as a didactic, humorless instruction manual.
 
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Design for a New Europe
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Design for a New EuropeDesign for a New Europe

John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today's dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national governments, and undermining competitiveness.
 
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Loops: The Seven Keys to Small Business Success
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Loops: The Seven Keys to Small Business SuccessLoops: The Seven Keys to Small Business SuccessLoops reveals the soul-searching story of Tony, a business student who doesn’t understand why he can’t quit school and work in the family business.

As you follow Tony’s journey, you’ll receive a week-by-week crash course on the seven essential loops for small business. You will learn how to distinguish yourself from the competition, improve your operations, and close the loops. Best of all, you’ll discover innovative ways to apply the loops concept to every challenge you face, with every endeavor, in any economy.
 
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