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Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins: The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns them Into a Championship Team
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Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins: The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns them Into a ChaRich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins: The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns them Into a Cha

Great champions in sports, business and even families have one thing in common. It's a legitimate secret weapon. It is something that lies deep in the genetic code of winning organizations. It appears when pressure is high, when the stakes are critical and when everything is on the line. They know how to work as a team. 
 
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Tags: Advisors, Building, everything, critical, pressure, Ordinary, People, Takes, Turns
Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans
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Art in the Lives of Ordinary RomansArt in the Lives of Ordinary Romans

This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Though they had no access to the upper echelons of society, ordinary Romans enlivened their world with all manner of artworks. Discussing a wide range of art in the late republic and early empire--from familiar monuments to the obscure Caupona of Salvius and little-studied tomb reliefs--John R. Clarke provides a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of ordinary Roman people.
 
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Tags: Romans, ordinary, familiar, monuments, Caupona, Lives, Ordinary, empire-from
Ordinary Thunderstorms
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Ordinary ThunderstormsOrdinary Thunderstorms

It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, ambles along the Embankment, admiring the view. He is pleasantly surprised to come across a little Italian bistro down a leafy side street. During his meal he strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterwards. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents through which Adam will lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone - never to get them back.
 
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Tags: leads, encounter, series, malign, accidents, Thunderstorms, Ordinary, chance, speed
The Axe and the Oath - Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
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The Axe and the Oath - Ordinary Life in the Middle AgesThe Axe and the Oath - Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. While most histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions of the few who wielded power and stress how different medieval people were from us, Fossier concentrates on the other nine-tenths of humanity in the period and concludes that "medieval man is us.
 
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Tags: people, medieval, period, world, Fossier, Middle, Ordinary
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method
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The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical MethodThe Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method

For much of the 20th century, it was quite fashionable to believe that philosophical problems were all problems of language, and that if philosophers paid close enough attention to ordinary usage (or, alternately, devised an ideal language free of the muddles and inconsistencies of ordinary language), then philosophical problems would simply disappear. This was the linguistic turn
 
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Tags: problems, language, ordinary, philosophical, simply, Linguistic