Every business experiences problems, difficulties, temporary failures and disappointments continually. Crunch Time! Shows you how to handle any business or personal crisis.
Sacked - Vocabulary Novel for SAT / GRE / TOEFL / GMAT exams
When your teammates are the enemy. Sacked is SparkNotes’ brand new SAT novel—a fun way to learn SAT and ACT vocab words in context. Sacked takes us into the world of Drew Benson, a high school senior ready to take his older brother’s spot as starting quarterback. But when a big, fast new kid named Samson Hill shows up, Drew finds he has competition for the top spot. Drew’s dad pressures his son to be number one, and each week we learn more about how far Drew will go to be the best.
Danny Seo is America’s leading lifestyle authority on modern, eco-friendly living. In his last book, Upcycling, Danny demonstrated how to create beautiful things with the stuff you already have. Now he returns with 100 more projects—this time focused specifically on parties and holidays. Whether you’re making dramatic party favors for New Year’s Eve, giving a unique birthday gift, creating paper lanterns for a summer BBQ, or planning the Thanksgiving table, Danny shows how you can transform the ordinary into striking one-of-a-kind objects that will make every occasion a little more festive.
Street Talk -2-: Slang Used by Teens, Rappers, Surfers, & Popular American Television Shows
Street Talk 2 takes a close look at teen, rap, and surfer slang, as well as everyday slang used consistently in popular American television shows, traffic reports, news broadcasts, television weather reports, and sports broadcasts, which are of special importance to non-native speakers who are trying to integrate into our culture
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit.
