Author: Liz Fielding
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263902709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Flirting with Italian (Mills & Boon Riva)
Author: Liz Fielding
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263902709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher: Mills & Boon
ISBN: 9780263902709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Waking Up Married
Author: Mira Lyn Kelly
Publisher: Mira Lyn Kelly
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A wedding ring wasn’t the souvenir she wanted from Vegas… Megan Scott has the mother of all hangovers. It’s the morning after her cousin’s bachelorette party in Vegas and the only thing worse than how she feels is realizing the sexy, arrogant man she woke up with… is her husband. Megan has plans for her future that don’t include marriage. Too bad Connor Reed doesn’t want a divorce.
Publisher: Mira Lyn Kelly
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A wedding ring wasn’t the souvenir she wanted from Vegas… Megan Scott has the mother of all hangovers. It’s the morning after her cousin’s bachelorette party in Vegas and the only thing worse than how she feels is realizing the sexy, arrogant man she woke up with… is her husband. Megan has plans for her future that don’t include marriage. Too bad Connor Reed doesn’t want a divorce.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Author: Richard Rumelt
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Zuleika Dobson
Author: Max Beerbohm
Publisher: LA CASE Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The all-male campus of Oxford—Beerbohm’s alma mater—is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven’t changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book’s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika’s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus—until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings. As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling ending—an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that “Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.” In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Publisher: LA CASE Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The all-male campus of Oxford—Beerbohm’s alma mater—is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven’t changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book’s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika’s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus—until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings. As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling ending—an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that “Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.” In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
ONE NIGHT, SO PREGNANT!
Author: Heidi Rice
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596172242
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Olivia’s life is all about her work, so she deeply respects Tony as a business owner. That’s why his offer comes as such a complete shock. He wants her to have his baby! He isn’t looking for marriage—he’s looking for someone who will accept his offer in exchange for his assistance in business. Although she’s anxious about it, Olivia wants to be intimate with a man at least once, and she thinks may never find another man as attractive or convenient as Tony. She agrees to the unusual deal, all the while trying to hide the guilt she feels for keeping her secret from him.
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596172242
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Olivia’s life is all about her work, so she deeply respects Tony as a business owner. That’s why his offer comes as such a complete shock. He wants her to have his baby! He isn’t looking for marriage—he’s looking for someone who will accept his offer in exchange for his assistance in business. Although she’s anxious about it, Olivia wants to be intimate with a man at least once, and she thinks may never find another man as attractive or convenient as Tony. She agrees to the unusual deal, all the while trying to hide the guilt she feels for keeping her secret from him.
Eloping with Emmy
Author: Liz Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847829450
Category : Deception
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emerald Carlisle's father will do anything to stop a wedding between her and her penniless friend Kit Fairfax. Announcing their engagement seems a sure-fire way of helping Kit raise some cash! Tom Brodie is her father's lawyer. His duty, to buy off the groom and to bring Emerald to heel, is thwarted by Emerald's beauty and charm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847829450
Category : Deception
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emerald Carlisle's father will do anything to stop a wedding between her and her penniless friend Kit Fairfax. Announcing their engagement seems a sure-fire way of helping Kit raise some cash! Tom Brodie is her father's lawyer. His duty, to buy off the groom and to bring Emerald to heel, is thwarted by Emerald's beauty and charm.
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813595169
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813595169
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
The Italian Next Door...
Author: Anna Cleary
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 145923345X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Pia Renfern's holiday planning is easy—relaxation and recuperation are the only things on her to-do list! And she can't imagine they'll be too difficult in the beautiful, exclusive Italian village of Positano.… But before she's even out of the airport Pia's heart is racing, her skin tingling and her mind filled with wild, uninhibited images of a holiday fling! The culprit? Valentino Silvestri—glorious Italian demigod and Pia's new next-door neighbor… With him on her doorstep each day, how is a girl ever meant to wind down?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 145923345X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Pia Renfern's holiday planning is easy—relaxation and recuperation are the only things on her to-do list! And she can't imagine they'll be too difficult in the beautiful, exclusive Italian village of Positano.… But before she's even out of the airport Pia's heart is racing, her skin tingling and her mind filled with wild, uninhibited images of a holiday fling! The culprit? Valentino Silvestri—glorious Italian demigod and Pia's new next-door neighbor… With him on her doorstep each day, how is a girl ever meant to wind down?
Goldoni and the Venice of His Time
Author: Joseph Spencer Kennard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Traveler at Forty
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596055324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." - H. L. Mencken "For everywhere [Dreiser] goes he watches people with a terrible curiosity about them that never rests until he has their secrets." - Sinclair Lewis The most productive period of Theodore Dreiser writing life began with the five months he spent in Europe between 1911 and 1912. A Traveler at Forty is the detailed account of his travels during that time, including the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany. This is the text of the popular original edition as it was published in 1913. THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) was a pre-eminent American novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. He believed that the experiences of working-class people striving for economic, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment were viable subjects for serious fiction, and for this reason he is regarded as an anatomist of the "American Dream."
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596055324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentric personality." - H. L. Mencken "For everywhere [Dreiser] goes he watches people with a terrible curiosity about them that never rests until he has their secrets." - Sinclair Lewis The most productive period of Theodore Dreiser writing life began with the five months he spent in Europe between 1911 and 1912. A Traveler at Forty is the detailed account of his travels during that time, including the exploration of his ancestral roots in Germany. This is the text of the popular original edition as it was published in 1913. THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) was a pre-eminent American novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. He believed that the experiences of working-class people striving for economic, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment were viable subjects for serious fiction, and for this reason he is regarded as an anatomist of the "American Dream."