It is one of the six non-detective novels that Agatha Christie wrote under her pen name, Mary Westmacott. Joan Scudamore, housewife and mother of three grown children, is happy, remarkably self-satisfied, and not-at-all introspective. Trapped alone in a foreign rest house she has nothing to do but reconsider her life. Self-analysis is at first unpleasant and then terrifying, as Joan probes deeper and deeper into her memories of interpersonal relationships. At last, mentally stripped to the core, she must reconstruct herself to face the future.
What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently About Sales
From the bestselling author of What the CEO Wants You to Know—how to rethink sales from the outside in “We have to face the truth: the process of selling is broken. Customers have more choices and are under intense pressure. Yet few companies are facing this reality. When they don’t, a lingering malaise sets in.” More than ever these days, the sales process tends to be a war about price—a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling.
Robert Heinlein - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Robert A. Heinlein, the celebrated author of Stranger in a Strange Land, interrupts the lives of two ordinary people for a terrifying night-ride alo ng the interface between reality and . . . our world. "One of the grand masters of science fiction."
Horrible Science Magazine is designed to get children interested in science by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. Books are in circulation in 24 countries.
This book exposes the traditional view that psychiatric drugs correct chemical imbalances as a dangerous fraud. It traces the emergence of this view and the way it supported the vested interests of the psychiatric profession, the pharmaceutical industry and the modern state. Instead it is proposed that psychiatric drugs 'work' by creating abnormal brain states, which are often unpleasant and impair normal intellectual and emotional functions along with other harmful consequences.
