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The coauthor of In Search of Excellence offers his unique practical insights on business, management, leadership, and success. Peters' valuable commentary and advice spans across such crucial subjects as listening to customers, noting symbols, circulating, motivating others, and striving for...

Organized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements—from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets—Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times. In The Pursuit of Wow!, Tom...

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

A 2018 Nautilus Book Award Winner for Business and Leadership! The founder of Menlo Innovations and author of the business culture cult classic Joy, Inc offers an inspirational guide to leaders seeking joy in the challenge of leading others. Rich Sheridan's Joy, Inc. told the story of how his...

This expanded edition of Hall's original 1979 book includes never-before-heard poems and vignettes - read by the author - and new chapters that bring us up to date with Hall as he sits with President Carter, caps his recording career, quits drinking, ponders his legacy, examines the creative process, and retires from the music industry. "If you want to retire, go ahead," he says. "Life will still present innumerable occasions for you to go out and make an ass of yourself."

Arthur Conan Doyle’s rollicking adventure tale follows a scientific expedition deep into the Amazon jungle – right back into the time of dinosaurs and cave men. Before Jurassic Park, before Indiana Jones - there was The Lost World! An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Josh Clark, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Peter Paige, Kirsten Potter, Kate Steele, Tom Virtue, Kenneth Alan Williams.

In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what is it to live a good life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about the self, morality and happiness. In an age of environmental peril, and in the wake of the global financial crisis, such questions have returned with new force - we live in unpredictable times and Homo economicus has been found wanting.

It's San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam's partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley's story turns out to be a lie.

There’s been a murder in studio one, and everyone’s a suspect. Recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre, a dozen Today and NBC News anchors take center stage in this hilarious radio play. First released in 1941, Murder in Studio One is a whodunit following a female private eye and her fast-talking sidekick as they reluctantly take the case of a murder in a New York radio station. Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb lead an all-star NBC News cast in the comedic mystery produced in partnership with Audible.

The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31.

A radical new plan of action for corporate managers from the co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence. In this adaptation of his bold new book, Tom Peters delivers an urgent message: if American corporations are going to thrive in today's (and tomorrow's) turbulent...

This volume brings together the best of the Tom Peters seminars—complete with visual materials. The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that "imagination is the source of value in the economy." Peters'...

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

Tom Peters sees a problem with the way people do business today: Those who like to get things done are thwarted by absurd organizational barriers and by the egos of petty tyrants. His vision: Employees who dance from project to project; enterprise that reduces the bureaucracy to almost nothing; societies that educate their young to break the rules and invent vivid new futures. Re-Imagine! focuses on how the business climate has changed and how the new world of business works. Peters explores innovative strategies for overcoming outdated company values and procedures.

There is a new, highly personalized, more entrepreneurial environment being created inside today's most successful organizations. There is an intense focus on the customer, the quality of the product, and the contribution of each individual. In this program, hear Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence) as he presents in his unique, exciting, and dynamic style his newest ideas. Find out what you'll have to do to compete and win in the new business climate.

Dr. Watson und Sherlock Holmes besuchen zum ersten Mal ein türkisches Bad. Bald ist klar, dass es sich nicht um einen Unfall, sondern um Mord handelt. Dr. Watsons Beobachtungen, der das Opfer als Letzten noch lebend gesehen hat, führen Holmes schließlich auf die Spur eines dunklen Geheimnisses.

Sherlock Holmes ist besorgt. Ein Besuch in Flensburg endet für ihn mit der bitteren Erkenntnis, dass jemand die Pläne für die gefährliche "Windbüchse" des deutschen Waffenfabrikanten von Herder gestohlen hat. Und nur kurze Zeit später weiß er auch, weshalb. Der größte der Krondiamanten - der gelbe Mazarin Stein - wurde gestohlen.

Antonella, Stefania und Luca, ein junges, freiheitsliebendes Trio, die so ziemlich alles miteinander teilen - auch das Bett - und so leben, als wäre jeder Tag der letzte, machen eine Rucksackreise mit dem Zug durch Europa. Als Antonella im Nachtzug Zeugin eines Mordes wird, nimmt der Trip eine dramatische Wende. In Panik vor dem Killer und aus Furcht vor der Polizei verlassen die drei den fahrenden Zug in einer halsbrecherischen Aktion, um ihre Reise per Anhalter und Bus fortzusetzen- aber wo sie auch landen, der Mörder scheint ihnen dicht auf den Fersen zu sein, denn "Leichen pflastern ihren Weg".

In einem kanadischen Krankenhaus kommt es zu einem unheimlichen Mord, des Nachts holt sich ein Killer das Herz eines Patienten. Doch es soll nicht das einzige Opfer bleiben, denn der Unheimliche braucht für einen mörderischen Plan.

Hilton Cubitt sucht Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf. In seinem Gepäck: mehrere kryptische Botschaften, die auf den ersten Blick wie das Gekritzel eines Kindes wirken. In Wahrheit aber steckt weitaus mehr dahinter. Dies entdeckt Holmes aber erst, als es fast schon zu spät ist.