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Charles D. Ellis
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

2009 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Despite financial turmoil, Goldman Sachs remain the leading investment bank in their field. They are notorious for their unique management culture, unorthodox recruiting techniques - and for their secrecy. In `The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs` Charles Ellis reveals their story. With unparalleled access to the leadership of this famously close-knit firm, Ellis investigates the brilliant individuals who turned a marginal family business into a global powerhouse, weathering recession, scandal and disaster on the way. Among them are high school dropout and financial genius Sidney Weinberg, maverick reinventor John Whitehead, former US treasury secretary Hank Paulson and working-class New Yorker turned current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. The Partnership reveals the shared values of intensive recruitment, discipline and talent that have tied Goldman Sachs`s people together - and made it a survivor. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-03524-6
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Anna Nolte
The Partograph and How to Assess Labour (Professional Nurse Series)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Midwives, nurses, and students will expand their knowledge base with this fullexamination of the midwifery tool known as the partograph, which helps assess the progress of labor during childbirth. This resource gives clear guidelines on how to complete the partograph correctly, shows how to identify abnormalities in partograph recordings, and offers step-by-step guidelines on how best to act on these potential abnormalities. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0702176869
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Alexandra Black
The Party Dress

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0847829618
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Amy Sullivan
The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap

2008 y.
Publisher: Scribner
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ISBN: 0743297865
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Richard Curt Kraus
The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture (State and Society in East Asia)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China`s economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers a political analysis of Chinese culture that includes all genres of art. Surveying the evolution of China`s cultural politics between 1979 and 2003, this book explores the complex relationship between money and art as exemplified by declining state arts patronage, changing standards for painting nudity, censorship, and the professionalization of artistic work. Cogent, witty, and deeply informed, this comprehensive overview of the Chinese arts scene will be an essential text for all observers of contemporary China. Visit our website for sample chapters! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0742527204
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Adam Freedman
The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Eats, Shoots &, Leaves of legalese, this witty narrative journey through the letter of the law offers something for language lovers and legal eagles alike This clever, user-friendly discourse exposes the simple laws lurking behind decorative, unnecessary, and confusing legal language. For better or for worse, the instruction manual for today’s world is written by lawyers. Everyone needs to understand this manual—but lawyers persist in writing it in language no one can possibly decipher. Why accuse someone of making “material misstatements of fact,” when you could just call them a liar? What’s the point of a “last” will and testament if, presumably, every will is your last? Did you know that “law” derives from a Norse term meaning “that which is laid down”? So tell your boss to stop laying down the law—it already is. The debate over Plain vs. Precision English rages on in courtrooms, boardrooms, and, yes, even bedrooms. Here, Adam Freedman explores the origins of legalese,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0805082239
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Laura Dassow Walls
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt’s science laid the foundations for ecology and inspired the theories of his most important scientific disciple, Charles Darwin. In the United States, his ideas shaped the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman. They helped spark the American environmental movement through followers like John Muir and George Perkins Marsh. And they even bolstered efforts to free the slaves and honor the rights… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226871827
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Gary Zelesky
The Passion Centered Professional

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0977986322
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Richard Y. Chang, Richard Y. Chang
The Passion Plan at Work: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Passion-Driven Organization

— y.
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Description: In his best-selling book, The Passion Plan , Richard Chang showed individuals how to discover their passion and turn it into personal and professional fulfillment. Now, in The Passion Plan at Work he shows how to bring passion into the workplace--and turn good companies into great ones. Adapting his seven-step model for individuals to an organizational perspective, Chang explains how passion can provide direction and improve performance at all levels of a company. Carefully leading readers through his do-it-yourself process, Chang provides specific guidelines for creating an action plan that galvanizes an organization around passion. Along the way he provides practical tools--questionnaires, worksheets, and checklists--to help assess an organization`s Passion Profile and make passion a big part of your company`s ongoing success. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0787952559
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Richard Y. Chang, Ken Blanchard
The Passion Plan

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Find Your Passion and Change Your Life `Provides clear explanations, insightful self-assessments and inspiring stories of people both ordinary and famous.` —Newsday `An inspiring call to action.` —Publishers Weekly `Written with the burning fire he espouses, Richard Chang`s The Passion Plan powerfully teaches us how to ignite the embers of our dreams in order to truly find success and happiness.` —Stephen R. Covey, author of the No. 1 best-seller, The 7-Habits of Highly Effective Peoplea `Richard Chang boldly challenges us not only to seek and find the passions which exist in all of us, but more importantly equips us with a plan to pursue those passions all the way to a rewarding and fulfilling life!` —KenBlanchard, co-author of The One Minute Managera `The Passion Plan offers a simple, easy-to-follow recipe for finding your own special passion and following it to greater personal satisfaction and success.` —Debbi Fields,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0787955981
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Anne Wilkinson
The Passion for Pelargoniums: How They Found Their Place in the Garden

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0750944285
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Lisa Samson
The Passion of Mary-Margaret

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Mary-Margaret yearned to dedicate her life to the Lord. Jesus had another idea. When Mary-Margaret Fischer met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper`s son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life as a religious sister, she nevertheless felt a pull toward Jude--gorgeous, rebellious, promiscuous Jude. But Jude, driven by demons no one really understood, disappeared into Baltimore`s seamy red-light district. Mary-Margaret moved on with her life, preparing to serve God with her sisters as a teacher and artist. Then Jude comes home--but now he`s bitter, dissolute, and diseased. And Mary-Margaret receives a divine call that shakes her to the core, a call to give up her dreams for the troubled man who befriended her so long ago. For Jesus` sake, can she forsake the only life she ever wanted for a love that could literally cost her life? [detailed...]

ISBN: 1595542116
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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William L. Taylor
The Passion of My Times: An Advocate`s Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn 1954, William L. Taylor, a recent Yale Law School graduate, joined Thurgood Marshall`s NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he would later write the victorious 1958 Supreme Court brief that forced Little Rock, Arkansas schools to desegregate. In this historic book, Taylor recalls the triumphs, setbacks, and ongoing challenges in the battle for civil rights from his own unique and influential perspective. From the tireless struggle to enforce the desegregation of public schools to recent victories protecting the interests of minority schoolchildren in St. Louis, Taylor has influenced policymakers across the political spectrum. He has written landmark pieces of legislation, lobbied them through Congress, and developed strategies that have ledto significant social change. In this inspiring insider`s account, Taylor discusses civil rights policy over the decades, while also chronicling his encounters with presidents, other legislators, his work with civil rights leaders, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786714247
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Rachel Basch
The Passion of Reverend Nash: A Novel

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn the vein of Gail Godwin`s Evensong , a powerful novel that explores faith and sisterhood in small-town New England. Reverend Jordanna Nash is the `dangerously tall,` bicycle-riding, female minister who commands the pulpit of Hutchinson Congregational Church. She came to this Connecticut town where her sister and four nephews live in an attempt to escape the loss of her own two babies, as well as to distance herself from her faltering marriage. If Jordanna`s personal life is cursed, her professional life is, seemingly, blessed?her congregation cherishes her dynamic presence in their community. But when a depressed young mother she`s been counseling suddenly disappears and a member of the church youth group gets pregnant, Jordanna`s faith in God and in herself is profoundly shaken. A novel about the role of faith in contemporary life, The Passion of Reverend Nash tells the story of a wounded healer who must make sense of her own grief if she… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0393057682
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Diane Swonk, Diane Swonk
The Passionate Economist: Finding the Power and Humanity Behind the Numbers

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Praise for THE PASSIONATE ECONOMIST `In this powerful and insightful book, Diane Swonk brings economics to life. I highly recommend The Passionate Economist to anyone who wants to use the lessons of our past to create a better future.` ?Charles R. Schwab Chairman and Co-CEO The Charles Schwab Corporation `Leave it to Diane Swonk to put a soul in statistics. Diane figured it out a long time ago. People matter. Their fears matter. Their hopes matter. Their dreams matter. Diane takes us into a world never before explored by an economist . . . the real one. A great read. A great book.` ?Neil P. Cavuto Vice President, Anchor and Managing Editor Business News, Fox News Channel `Growing up inDetroit, Diane Swonk saw friends and neighbors suffer hardship as a result of layoffs and corporate downsizing. Leveraging her intimate knowledge of the Midwestern economy, Diane rose to the top of her profession, applying insights… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471269964
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Marlana Portolano
The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Explores John Quincy Adams`s oratorical work in support of government-funded science. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0791476995
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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J. R. Lucas, James R. Lucas
The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Everyone`s heard about companies that seem to have everything--great products, enormous capital resources, reputation, skilled employees, `advanced` planning--and they still fail. Why? Perhaps they lack passion. Emphasizing `big vision,` mutual trust, and deeply held core values, Jim Lucas demonstrates how to win and keep the competitive edge by thinking with the heart as well as the head. He shows how a committed, passionate workforce can: * make shifts and leaps that strategic planning alone cannot envision * fight to achieve the organization`s mission * bring continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation to their work * enjoy a more fulfilling life, personally and professionally, by committing to something greater than themselves. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0814404774
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Albert O. Hirschman
The Passions and the Interests

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Publisher: —
Description: In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests --so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice --was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the `harmless,` if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691015988
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Robert D. Atkinson
The Past And Future Of America`s Economy: Long Waves Of Innovation That Power Cycles Of Growth

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description?Rob Atkinson is one of our best analysts of how innovation drives local and regional economies, and what to do to take advantage of technological change. In his visionary book, he fluently articulates the principles of a new `growtheconomics` that is America`s best hope for a prosperous future leaving no one behind.? ? Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End ?Any person concerned about the future of our economy should read this book. Atkinson offers terrific historical perspective as well as specific policy proposals that would give us the best chance for broad based economic growth now and for generations to come. It should be mandatory reading for public policymakers.? ? Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), Co-chair of the House New Democratic Coalition, US ?Rob Atkinson has produced a powerful and far-reaching look at the underlying… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1843769557
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Ronald Turner
The Past and Future of Affirmative Action

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Turner provides a comprehensive resource and guide through the maze of preferential treatment doctrine, U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to affirmative action, and agency regulations and practices. Rather than focus on the moral or constitutional issues involved, Turner seeks to provide an objective analysis of the evolution of the legal concept of affirmative action. To this end, he defines and examines what affirmative action was in the early 1970s, explores how the Supreme Court is now interpreting the concept, and analyzes other federal and state legislative and administrative initiatives in affirmative action. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0899305113
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The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation (Studies in Macroeconomic History)

2008 y.
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Description: This book looks back at the historical experience of central bank cooperation in the western world since the late nineteenth century. It provides a systematic analysis of the nature and characteristics of this form of cooperation and offers a global perspective on what its future might look like. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521877792
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The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976 -2006 and Beyond: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-8 Information System Stream, August 21-23, 2006, … Federation for Informa

2006 y.
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Description: This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country. Topics in this series include: The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks Ad-Hoc Networking Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond History of Computing and Education Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Applications in Artificial Intelligence Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0387346317
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Harry Justin Elam
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences , Ma Rainey`s Black Bottom , and The Piano Lesson , among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson`s published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson`s plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0472113682
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Harry Justin Elam
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

2006 y.
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Description: Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences , Ma Rainey`s Black Bottom , and The Piano Lesson , among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson`s published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson`s plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0472031635
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The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession

2006 y.
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Description: Exploring the usefulness of the study of history for contemporary military strategists, this volume illustrates the great importance of military history while simultaneously revealing the challenges of applying the past to the present. Essays from authors of diverse backgrounds--British and American, Civilian and Military--present an overwhelming argument for the necessity of the study of the past by today`s military leaders in spite of these challenges. Part I examines the relationship between history and the military profession. Part II explores specific historical cases that reveal the repetitiveness of certain military problems. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521619637
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The Past, Present and Future of the European Union (International Economic Association Conference Volumes)

2004 y.
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Description: This volume collects selected papers on the European Union from the thirteenth Congress of the International Economic Association held in Lisbon, September 2002. It starts with an address by Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, who sets the tone for the other papers by describing and evaluating two of the greatest accomplishments of the EU: economic and monetary union, and EU enlargement. Other authors deal in detail with various aspects of these and other issues, using a mixture of theoretical, empirical, and other tools. [detailed...]

ISBN: 140393486X
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson Pollak
The Pat Conroy Cookbook : Recipes of My Life

2004 y.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Description: “This book is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that I found when writing The Lords of Discipline. There are meals I ate in Rome while writing The Prince of Tides that ache in my memory when I resurrect them. There is a shrimp dish I ate in an elegant English restaurant, where Cuban cigars were passedout to all the gentlemen in the room after dinner, that I can taste on my palate as I write this. There is barbecue and its variations in the South, and the subject is a holy one to me. I write of truffles in the Dordogne Valley in France, cilantro in Bangkok, catfish in Alabama, scuppernong in South Carolina, Chinese food from my years in San Francisco, and white asparagus from the first meal my agent took me to in New York City. Let me tell you about the fabulous things I have eaten in my life, the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385514131
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Pat Conroy
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life

2009 y.
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Description: America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep South and the world beyond.It all started thirty years ago with a chance purchase of The Escoffier Cookbook, an unlikely and daunting introduction for the beginner. But Conroy was more than up to the task. He set out with unwavering determination to learn the basics of French cooking—stocks and dough—and moved swiftly on to veal demi-glace and pate brisee. With the help of his culinary accomplice, Suzanne Williamson Pollak, Conroy mastered the dishes of his beloved South as well as the cuisine he has savored in places as far away from home as Paris, Rome, and San Francisco. Each chapter opens with a story told with the inimitable brio of the author. We see Conroy in New Orleans celebrating… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385532717
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Justina Chen Headley
The Patch

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1580891705
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Bettye Stroud
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0763635197
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Carl W. Battle
The Patent Guide: A Friendly Guide to Protecting and Profiting from Patents

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ISBN: 1880559722
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