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Author: Hilary De Vries Publisher: Villard Books ISBN: 0812970691 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Working for a Los Angeles public relations firm whose clients are primarily has-beens, celebrity publicist Alex Davidson wonders what the firm's acquisition by a hot rival will mean for her job, becomes suspicious of her shark-like new boss, and considers an opportunity to do good in Hollywood. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Hilary De Vries Publisher: Villard Books ISBN: 0812970691 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Working for a Los Angeles public relations firm whose clients are primarily has-beens, celebrity publicist Alex Davidson wonders what the firm's acquisition by a hot rival will mean for her job, becomes suspicious of her shark-like new boss, and considers an opportunity to do good in Hollywood. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author: JONES Publisher: McGraw Hill ISBN: 0077166558 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 562
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The Second Middle East Edition blends theory with contemporary management practice. Dr. Marina Apaydin (American University of Beirut) joins the authoring team in this edition for significant enhancements to content and presentation of topics. New chapter-opening cases have been added to feature companies and management personalities from the Middle East. Management Insights vignettes offer balanced representation of international as well as local, small-to-medium sized companies and start-ups, to ensure applicability of theory in a variety of contexts. Updated content and improved topics coverage ensure closer alignment with introductory management courses: • Two new topics have been added on the history of management in the Arab world in Chapter 2, and Islamic ethics in Chapter 5. • Improved content coverage includes a new Chapter 3 focusing on the Manager as a Person. • Improved and streamlined coverage of managerial processes relating to organizational culture in Chapter 4. • Managing in the Global Environment includes revised terminology consistent with International Business courses. • Chapters 8 through 11 have gone through substantial revision to focus on control as part of managing the organizational structure, and organizational learning as part of change and innovation. • Chapter 16 includes contemporary topics on communication including social media, influencers, and a guide to networking. Dr. Marina Apaydin is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Olayan School Business at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Omar Belkohodja is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the School of Business Administration at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.
Author: Dennis Kurzon Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027290245 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 321
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This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.
Author: David Lavery Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857723073 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 296
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Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After establishing himself as a premier cult creator, the man who gave us great television with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse and web series Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog, as well as comic books including Fray and Astonishing X-Men, finally became the filmmaker he'd long dreamed of being. Drawing on a wide variety of sources and making use of psychologist Howard Gruber's insights into the nature of the creative process, Joss, A Creative Portrait offers the first intellectual biography of Whedon, tracking his career arc from activated fan boy to film studies major, third generation television writer, successful script doctor, innovative television auteur, beloved cult icon, sought-after collaborator, and major filmmaker with Marvel's The Avengers. Film and television scholar and Whedon expert David Lavery traces Whedon's multi-faceted magic from its source - the early influences of parents and teachers, comics, books, movies, collaborators - to its artistic incarnation.
Author: Leslie Savan Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307264327 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 320
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In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as “no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a “slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.
Author: Jennifer Spiegel Publisher: Unbridled Books ISBN: 1609530829 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 298
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It's 1995. Tragically, Sybil Weatherfield is 30 years old. When she can, she works efficiently as an office temp. But in her jobless hours she logs time in the laundromat, waiting for the clubs to open, and fighting off her relenetless desire for the Epic Proportion Pancake Plate at the Pancake Piazza on Lexington Avenue. And when she stops obsessing long enough to consider what's missing in her life, she becomes the frank and fragile writer of "Abscess," a popular confessional column in the alternative weekly, New York Shock. Sybil's friends include Madeline, a paper-pusher for a human rights organization, Rob Shachtley, the wrecked lead singer of a rock band called Glass Half Empty, and a jaded assortment of pierced Quixotes with alternative living arrangements. Eager to leave the City--and desperate to stay--they all try to find a path from their own wry inactivitiy to something real and lasting that can matter to them. -- From cover p. [4].
Author: Laura Penny Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307238369 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 170
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Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure. Laura Penny on Bullshit: There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit. “Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor.
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