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An aspiring young journalist stuck blogging for a gossip site stumbles across a story that gives new meaning to the word legendary.

MBA IN A BOOK offers the kind of information graduates of MBA programs ought to have, but usually gain only after years of hard-won experience. This volume contains essential advice about the fundamentals of business, sales, and leadership from some of history's most influential thinkers and doers: entepreneurs, executives, scholars, statesmen, and philosophers.The business principles section includes wisdom about the fundamentals of business practice and theory and important advice on investment, leadership, management, marketing, and success. The following section includes observations and insights that offer useful sales advice and ingenious techniques. Readers will discover gems of wisdom that address both the daily practicalities and the grand ideals of leadership in the final section.Updated with a new introduction, this valuable collection will provide readers with the keys to mastering timeless and essential business skills. MBA IN A BOOK will inspire, guide, and support anyone interested in mastering the complex strategies that lead to success in business.

An empowering, practical childbirth guide from Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, internationally-known advocates of informed choice

Integrating lessons from history and social science in a conversational style, Newport, editor in chief of The Gallup Poll, the country's preeminent polling source, explains how polling works and why polls matter in this book for general readers and students. He advocates polls as the best mechanis

Alexandra Gaither is an attorney who finally has the power to get the justice she needs. Twenty-five years before, her mother had died a scandalous death. Alex believes one of three powerful men murdered her. She will risk everything to uncover their secrets.

Accepting a fellowship in a Virginia countryside artists' colony, New York artist Tug Palifax finds creative renewal through a relationship with local farm wife Alyssa Brown, who faces a difficult choice between pursuing the relationship and keeping the farm she loves.

When, on a hot summer's day in 1932, Andy Connors is bitten by a rabid skunk, Yates, whose life Andy once saved, drives him to hospital. Yates returns to look after Andy's family while he recovers. Soon he is drawn to Leona, Andy's lover.

George Peper has been lucky to share a special friendship with his 18-year-old son, Scott, due to sharing a mutual passion for golf. Here, George touches on the universal lessons of life, love and golf, as he's learned them from his teenaged son.

Dwayne Grandison is recovering from the loss of his wife when ex-TV actress Nina Jordan enters his life. When they meet there is an instant electricity, but Dwayne is not ready to begin any kind of social life. So it's a big surprise to Nina when Dwayne takes up with Minister Beverlyn Boudreaux.

Kevin Doyle, struggling-artist-turned-doorman, saves the life of wealthy debutante Cornelia Lord. Struck by an electric mutual attraction, they begin to plan for the future when they become the target of a Machiavellian grab at Cornelia's fortune.

The only African American prosecutor in Jackson, Mississippi, James Reynolds finds himself in the position of prosecuting a a civil rights leader who has been accused of the vigilante killings of whites previously acquitted for hate crimes.

The film "Shine" tells the story of David Helfgott, a piano prodigy who is victimised by an overbearing father and suffers a crippling mental illness. But was it true? In this biography his older sister, Margaret, tackles these questions to reveal the complex reality behind this story.

A "just discovered" version of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs that offers an amusingly warped perspective on the American Civil War.

Simbury College lacrosse star Mark Jessy investigates the death of a freshman fromm the Sigma fraternity and is forced to question his deepest loyalties. He discovers that the "frat" is a 200-year-old, super-secret criminal organization with assets of over $7 billion.

When the naked body of a beautiful TV presenter is found dumped in downtown L.A. a young black male is soon taken into custody. But as District Attorney Nikki Hill uncovers the secrets surrounding the victim, she is forced to review the situation - and to try and make her way out of it alive.

This work examines the troubled history of the Middle East, tracing the history, developments and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. The author - Israel's first directly elected prime minister - gives an insight into the current affairs of this region.

The author advocates an effective programme that can reduce or even eliminate dependence on blood pressure medications. He outlines a preventative approach using diet, nutritional supplements, exercise and other lifestyle alterations to control hypertension.

An autobiography of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who has competed in the last four Olympics and dominated the women's decathlon, in spite of being a chronic asthmatic.

A brutal struggle for power in the manipulative automobile industry pits white collar against blue collar. Champion Motors is shutting down plants and laying off their workers. Tensions are mounting and violence is erupting.

The third in this series about time-travelling lovers, in which Dallas artist Chloe Kingsley wakes up in the Mediterranean dressed in 1990s party clothes...but she is actually in the biblical Land of Canaan.

Cherished stories are told with litigious humour in this collection. Prosecutors, defendants, and attorneys run rampant through enchanted forests and palaces. The Three Bears sue Goldilocks for trespass and mental anguish, and Humpty Dumpty takes the king's hospital to court for malpractice.

Based on the author's discovery that all successful MBA graduates have good conversational skills, this is a guide to improving conversational skills and acquiring the necessary verbal tools and techniques to move forward in career and business.

One of America's great legislators and most respected watchdogs of government offers an inside view of how Washington really works - and how it can work better.

Jane Porter returns with an entertaining tale of a modern day woman struggling to find happiness in her glamorous Hollywood life.

Physical health is irrelevant if it is accompanied by unhappiness and failure. In this book, Ron Teeguarden explains how and when to take tonic herbs and shows how this practice increases wisdom, physical vitality, sexual vigour, mental acuity and many more facets of a full and energetic life.

This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again

While Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead is investigating a dead body in the Oklahoma woods, he is bombarded with callers claiming to have seen the Fire Carrier - an evil spirit of Cherokee legend - near the body.

A wise and blistering attack on the Pentagon and all those who profit from wars and defence spending, by one of America's greatest progressive journalists

Katy knows that she, her sister and her tiny niece are the only people left in this desolate Montana town. Then a stranger named Garrick Rowe rides into the empty main street, bringing a scheme to bring the town back to life - and some personal plans for Katy.