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The comedian returns to flip convention on its ear! While eviscerating subjects like white guilt, the national anthem, and the righteously religious, he's simultaneously skewering his own sense of male entitlement.

This book offers practical wisdom on discovering your true purpose, professionally and in life in general, in the form of a business fable by Jon Gordon, the best-selling author of The Energy Bus and Soup. Nobody captures the deeper meaning of business like Jon Gordon, and The Seed is his most searching and significant book yet. Whatever your profession, take this insightful look at the purpose behind work, and plant the seed of inspiration in your life!

If many of your organizations have become more democratic, more resilient, more adaptable, and more transparent, it is because Warren Bennis has provided much of the intellectual and ethical fuel over the past half-century to our most influential and successful leadership experts and practitioners. Still Surprised illuminates how the world-changing ideas of Bennis and his colleagues resulted from the searing crucible of their own encounters, events and experiences.

Tony Little is the definition of the American dream. He’s a fitness icon, and the quintessential example of a self-made entrepreneur. But he didn’t start out that way. In There’s Always a Way, Tony relates his incredible rags-to-riches story—from a promising career in bodybuilding that ended with a car accident, a painful recovery, and years of self-pity, to an incredible new start as a self- made fitness icon, infomercial and TV shopping pioneer, and multi-millionaire.

The first wave of the Millennial Generation - born between the early 1980s and 2002 - is just graduating from college and entering the work force. Employers, meantime, are bracing for some of the biggest management challenges they've ever faced: Integrating the most demanding and most protected generation in history into a workplace shaped by the driven baby-boom generation.

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: "The Whale Tooth", "To Build a Fire", "The House of Pride", and "The House of Mapuhi".

In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In "The Whale Tooth", a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathens" on Melanesia.

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director Jane Anderson presents four one-act plays: A Seminar For Responsible Living; The Last Time I Saw Her; Earthquake Preparedness; Lynette Has PMS. With unforgettable characters and scathing humor, the stories explore the challenges of life in Los Angeles, from gun violence to earthquakes. These short pieces ask us to consider what we need to take with us into the next hundred years, and what is best left behind.

The protection of cyberspace has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It might therefore seem obvious that maneuvering in cyberspace is like maneuvering in other media, but nothing would be more misleading. Cyberspace has its own laws.

On the Social Contract's appeal and influence has been wide-ranging and continuous. It has been called an encomium to democracy and, at the same time, a blueprint for totalitarianism. Individualists, collectivists, anarchists, and socialists have all taken courage from Rousseau's controversial masterpiece.

Thrilling Days in Army Life describes encounters between Indians and the frontier army. In 1868, George A. Forsyth led 50 scouts to search out Cheyennes who were raiding Kansas. In this book, he relates the six-day siege that pitted his men against 750 Cheyennes and Sioux in what came to be known as the Battle of Beecher Island.

New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you’ll never forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil. It was a crime so brutal, it changed the...

Dani Quinn walked into her high school reunion with dread and anticipation. She knew Logan Webster would be there, and she had no idea how she would react the first time she saw him. She had left both Logan and the small Texas town years before. Her departure had been abrupt, painful, and not of...

One fateful day in December, Piper Davis awaits news of her brother, a soldier on the battleship Arizona, stationed in Pearl Harbor. As Piper learns about the harsh realities of war, she understands that she has the power to make a difference.

Max Summer and his three best friends, Harley, Ernie, and Natalia - who form the secret club The Grey Griffins - seem to be the only people in their very normal Minnesota town to notice that strange things have started to happen. When creatures like goblins and fairies and unicorns, all characters from a card game the Grey Griffins play, begin to make appearances in Max's backyard, Max and his friends know something is terribly wrong. And it's up to them to stop the wicked creatures of the cards from destroying their town - indeed, their world.

Skrämmande bilder blixtrar framför det inre ögat, fruktansvärda föreställningar tar allt större mental plats och inte sällan begränsas vardagen – tvångstankar kan göra livet till en plåga för den som är drabbad. Men om du nu känner dig maktlös inför ditt öde, ger denna bok ett glädjande budskap: Den förklarar på ett lättförståeligt och omfattande sätt den vetenskapligt-psykologiska sidan av störningen och ger dig all viktig information om utlösare, hjärnprocesser och etablerade terapimöjligheter. Är du rädd att teori ensam inte hjälper? Ingen fara!

Väteperoxid – en förening som redan har tagit vissa människor hela vägen till toppen: några med raketer, andra genom platinablont hår. För vissa är det en mirakelkur, för andra en pålitlig hjälp i hushållet och för ytterligare andra är det bara en kemikalie. Precis som med salt eller nitroglycerin ligger även här gränsen mellan skada och nytta i doserningen.

Reyna I don't do relationships. A federal agent whose life revolves around rescuing kidnapped children, I've got no interest in catching any man who's not a criminal. So when my new assignment in Chicago requires me to get closer to a VIP Chicago Blaze fan, Blaze goalie Jonah West is the perfect...

Quando a primeira neve cai na Ilha das Camélias, uma pousada abre suas portas. Lá, as almas dos mortos vão passar 49 dias tomando chá, ouvindo música e compartilhando histórias, para então decidir se voltam à vida ou se partem para a existência no além. Desta vez, quatro pessoas chegam de trem, ainda sem saber como foram parar lá: uma jovem que perdeu a memória, um estudante solitário, um idoso cansado e uma mulher que passou a vida limpando a sujeira dos outros.

'O fluxo dessa prosa que, dos contos, atravessa as cartas para derramar-se no diário (derradeiro ato de Florbela). É a pretendida nudez diante de um espelho, afinal ingrato, pois que a despe ainda em outra e outra, desconsolo fatal para quem, por fim, se buscava uma, muito embora se tivesse...