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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Goldsmith, an executive coach to the corporate elite, pinpoints 20 bad habits that stifle already successful careers as well as personal goals like succeeding in marriage or as a parent.
PARKINSON'S LAWTo the very young, to school-teachers, as also to those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics, and current affairs the world is a more or less rational place. They visualize the election of representatives, freely chosen from among those the people trust. They picture the process by which the wisest and best of these become ministers of state. They imagine how captains of industry, freely elected by shareholders, choose for managerial responsibility those who have proved their ability in a humbler role. Books exist in which assumptions such as these are boldly stated or tacidy implied.
Added by: isabeljimenez | Karma: 1202.60 | Fiction literature | 7 December 2010
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Twelve sharp
The mixture of slapstick and gunplay that has put Evanovich's series about a sassy, less than competent New Jersey bounty hunter at the top of bestseller lists once again works its magic in Stephanie Plum's latest caper (after 2005's Eleven on Top). Stephanie, who freely admits her failings as a hunter of fugitives, faces a growing work backlog that threatens the continued existence of her job.
Added by: frufru2 | Karma: 306.02 | Fiction literature | 11 February 2010
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Complete Ghost Stories by M. R. James
M. R. James is a name no one seems to know any more outside the circle of die-hard horror and ghost story fans. But, his impact on modern genre writers has been enormous and freely acknowledged.
