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Garth Ennis
The Punisher: Born

2004 y.
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Description: The year is 1971. With mounting casualties and a rising anti-war sentiment, America`s time in Vietnam is coming to a close. Yet in the isolated Valley Forge Firebase on the Cambodian border, Captain Frank Castle is one of the few soldiers still committed to the fight against the enemy. With dwindling reserves, Castle must stand against an impending Viet Cong attack that threatens to wipe out the entire American platoon. To survive the battle, what grim decision must he make that will forever alter the course of his life? In this acclaimed tale, superstar Garth Ennis reveals the never-before-told story of the horrors Castle was forced to face to come home from Vietnam alive, ending in a shocking twist that will forever change how readers see Marvel Comics` most famous urban vigilante. Формат: 17 см x 26 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7851-1025-9
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Henry James
The Pupil

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Pupil is the touching story of a tutor`s struggle to help his pupil in spite of a difficult family. The Moreens are an American family wandering around Europe. With pretensions above their ability to fund, their lifestyle is supported by lying, cheating, and bill-jumping. When securing a tutor for their young son, it is no different - they hire him under false pretenses and avoid paying him. The tutor, Pemberton, finds himself drawn to the intelligent and world-weary boy, and wants to help him rise above his family`s dissolute life. But Pemberton, himself penniless, cannot afford to work without pay. Will he have to abandon his pupil to save himself? Nuanced, poignant, and darkly humorous, The Pupil is an example of why Henry James is one of the nineteenth-century`s most satisfying writers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1605123625
Book size: —; Page extent: 108.

 

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Viviana A. Zelizer
The Purchase of Intimacy

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy , Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life`s greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife`s income equals or surpasses her husband`s, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner`s death as a result of 9/11? Through a host of compelling… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691124086
Book size: —; Page extent: 232.

 

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Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, Jonathan Stegner
The Purchasing Machine: How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery of target costing, value engineering, and supplier development, but how supply chain management -- the discipline of acquiring and moving material -- has become a manufacturing company`s hottest competitive weapon. Based on a survey of 247 purchasing managers and more than 1,000 hours of interviews and on-site visits, the authors have selected ten top firms whose supply management pioneers excel at twenty `best practices.` With cases and stories,Nelson, Moody, and Stegner show how these leading-edge purchasing departments at American Express, SmithKline Beecham, DaimlerChrysler, Harley-Davidson, Honda of America, IBM, John Deere, Whirlpool, Flextronics, and Sun Microsystems… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0684857766
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McEwen
The Pure Investor

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: In The Pure Investor , Howard McEwen, CFA tugs on the common thread that runs through politics, history, economics, culture, and personal finance and in doing so unravels the mystery of the path to true wealth. No punches are pulled. No icon is left unbroken. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1401089402
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Ken Hopper, Will Hopper
The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America`s managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America`s first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1850434190
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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George McKenna
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

2007 y.
Publisher: Yale University Press
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ISBN: 030010099X
Book size: —; Page extent: 448.

 

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Margaret A. Murphy Ph.D.
The Purple Rose

2009 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1449011586
Book size: —; Page extent: 20.

 

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Rick Warren
The Purpose Driven Life DVD Study Guide: A Six-Session Video-Based Study for Groups or Individuals

2007 y.
Publisher: Zondervan
Description: `The Purpose Driven Life DVD Study Guide` is a six-week, video-based small group study of `The Purpose Driven Life` by Rick Warren - the book Publishers Weekly decalred the `bestselling nonfiction hardback in history`. [detailed...]

ISBN: 031027866X
Book size: —; Page extent: 77.

 

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Rick Warren
The Purpose Driven Life

2002 y.
Publisher: Zondervan
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ISBN: 0310205719
Book size: —; Page extent: 334.

 

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Rick Warren
The Purpose Driven® Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

2007 y.
Publisher: Zondervan
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ISBN: 0310276993
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Rita Mae Brown
The Purrfect Murder (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: It’s autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia—a time for golden days, crisp nights…and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted “come-here” set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She’s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends—and enemies —and she’s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it. From the start, the project—and Mrs. Paulson—are a major headache for all involved. But no one could foresee that it would end with Mrs. Paulson stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harry’s friend Tazio standing over her, holding the knife. Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Her four-legged partners —sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker—see it Harry’s way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer and saving Harry? [detailed...]

ISBN: 0553586831
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Martin Loney
The Pursuit of Division: Race, Gender, and Preferential Hiring in Canada

— y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0773517448
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E. N. Anderson
The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

2010 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of `ecotopia`a??a conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship.In this controversial and brilliantly written book, author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same shared sense of emotional rationality… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0313381305
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Chris Gardner
The Pursuit of Happyness

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A triumphant, modern-day Horatio Alger story—based on the life that inspired the major motion picture— The Pursuit of Happyness is a memoir that will have you rooting for the underdog as it stirs you to pursue your own dreams. Abandoned by his own father and left to the vicious rage of a mean-spirited and abusive stepfather, Chris Gardner made a vow that no matter what happened in his life, he`d be a committed father figure to his children. Yet even the most well intentioned would have been excused for breaking that vow if confronted by the challenges that Gardner faced, circumstances that left him and his toddler son homeless, living on the streets of San Francisco. But rather than give up his son, Gardner continued to pursue his dream of becoming a successful stockbroker—despite having neither Wall Street experience nor even a college degree. Now a successful broker and the founder of Gardner Rich &, Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage firm,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060744871
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Chris Gardner
The Pursuit of Happyness

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city`s working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, `HO-tels,` soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station. … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060744863
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Christina Bashford
The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London

2007 y.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Description: This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union, an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much f?ted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella`s extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes the narrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to `sacralize` chamber music, especially Beethoven`s, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1843832984
Book size: —; Page extent: 424.

 

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James G. March
The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence brings together the writing of one of the best-known academics in the field of decision making and organizational theory. It acts as a sequel to March`s earlier Decisions and Organizations. The essays published here reflect the shift in March`s thinking, and therefore the shift in teaching of organizational theory generally, towards a `softer`, more European approach since the late 1980s. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0631211020
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Ian Sinclair, Claire Baker, Jenny Lee, Ian Gibbs
The Pursuit of Permanence: A Study of the English Child Care System

2007 y.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Description: Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The `Pursuit of Permanence` explores this core issue for children`s services. Based on the largest study of the English care system in recent years, the book examines the children (what they need and what they want), their movements into, out of and within the care system, the nature and quality of their placements and the outcomes (whether the children are settled or happy). It analyses the reasons for movements and outcomes in different groups of children, and the relative impacts of the departments, social work teams and placements. It concludes with suggestions about how the care system should work, what it should offer and how it should be managed and inspected. This detailed, innovative and comprehensive study is essential reading for all professionals and academics involved with… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1843105950
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Rudi Matthee
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphael du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a `kick,` got them into a good mood. By tracing their historical trajectory and the role they played in early modern Iranian society (1500-1900), Rudi Matthee takes a major step in extending contemporary debates on the role of drugs and stimulants in shaping the modern West.At once panoramic and richly detailed, The Pursuit of Pleasure examines both the intoxicants known since ancient times--wine and opiates--and the stimulants introduced later--tobacco, coffee, and tea--from multiple angles. It brings together production, commerce, and consumption to reveal the forces behind the spread and popularity of these consumables, showing how Iranians adapted them to their own needs and tastes and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691144443
Book size: —; Page extent: 366.

 

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Ruth Dudley Edwards
The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993

— y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0875846084
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Robert B. Denhardt
The Pursuit of Significance : Strategies for Managerial Success in Public Organizations

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Highly progressive public managers around the world are now departing from traditional management practices and making dramatic improvements in the quality and productivity of their organizations. The author examines the approaches and philosophies that have guided the work of these `revolutionary` public managers. This book provides the tools with which to transform hierarchical, rule-bound public bureaucracies into organizations driven by a commitment to common purpose, a concern for high- quality public services, empowerment and shared leadership, a strategy of pragmatic incrementalism, and a dedication to public service. These five approaches provide a model by which public managers might more effectively carry out their own commitment to active and responsive public service. Moreover, public managers will find their own work assuming even greater meaning and significance. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1577661141
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Roger Knight
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life And Achievement of Horatio Nelson

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionA dazzling biography that is destined to be the definitive account of Horatio Nelson`s life for generations How did Horatio Nelson achieve such extraordinary success? In this authoritative biography, the eminent scholar Roger Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy of the time. Nelson was passionate and relentless from the outset of his career, his charisma and his coolness in battle are legendary. But his success depended also on the strength of intelligence available to him, the quality of the ships he commanded, the potency of his guns, and the skill of his seamen. Based on a vast array of new sources, this biography demolishes many of the myths that have for two centuries surrounded Nelson. Knight demonstrates that this great Romantic hero was in his time a shrewd political operator and often a difficult subordinate. He was occasionally na?ve, often impatient, and only happy when completely in command. Readers will emerge from… [detailed...]

ISBN: 046503764X
Book size: —; Page extent: 912.

 

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Tom Peters
The Pursuit of Wow!

1994 y.
Publisher: Vintage
Description: Though Peters has gained more than his share of critics, his high-priced seminars remain wildly popular, and those who attend become enthusiastic supporters, vowing that their lives have been changed. But Peters sometimes contradicts himself, and the dozen years after his groundbreaking In Search of Excellence find almost two-thirds of his excellence standard-bearers failed or in trouble. This is Peters` second of the publisher`s original paperback editions--with `simultaneous Random House AudioBook` ($12)!--following last summer`s The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations. Depending on one`s view of Peters, it might be summed up as either `the best of Peters` or `the rest of Peters.` It consists of 210 observations, snippets, aphorisms, conceits, and quotes, `loosely collected by topic in 13 more-or-less chapters,` that have been gathered by Peters over the last several years and haven`t found room in his seminars or other books. Given that barrage of ideas,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0679755551
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Bruno Apolloni, Witold Pedrycz, Simone Bassis, Dario Malchiodi
The Puzzle of Granular Computing (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Rem tene, verba sequentur (Gaius J. Victor, Rome VI century b.c.) The ultimate goal of this book is to bring the fundamental issues of information granularity, inference tools and problem solving procedures into a coherent, unified, and fully operational framework. The objective is to offer the reader a comprehensive, self-contained, and uniform exposure to the subject.The strategy is to isolate some fundamental bricks of Computational Intelligence in terms of key problems and methods, and discuss their implementation and underlying rationale within a well structured and rigorous conceptual framework as well as carefully related to various application facets. The main assumption is that a deep understanding of the key problems will allow the reader to compose into a meaningful mosaic the puzzle pieces represented by the immense varieties of approaches present in the literature and in the computational practice. All in all, the main approach advocated in the monograph consists of a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540798633
Book size: —; Page extent: 496.

 

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Patrice Franko
The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0742553531
Book size: —; Page extent: 712.

 

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Patrice Franko
The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: This clear and engaging textbook provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. After a brief historical overview, Patrice Franko builds a contemporary model of regional development. She explores the contradictions of growth, especially in the context of overcoming intractable problems of poverty, education, health, and discrimination. Inviting students to view challenges through the eyes of policymakers, the text encourages a critical assessment of past and present policy choices. Data exercises promote research skills and highlight the diversity of development experiences in the region. Liberally interspersed with examples and case studies, the author successfully combines theory and itsapplication in the real world. Innovative yet user-friendly, this text simultaneously challenges strong students while clarifying the fundamentals for novices. By exploring the difficult choices facing Latin American policymakers, the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0742524663
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Blake A. Hoena
The Puzzling Pluto Plot (Graphic Sparks (Graphic Novels))

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1434204529
Book size: —; Page extent: 33.

 

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Joanne Mattern
The Pyramids: Make Your Own Egyptian Sand-scape (Running Press Mega Kids Kits)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0762431431
Book size: —; Page extent: 31.

 

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The Pyrenees &, Andorra: The Rough Guide Map

2005 y.
Publisher: Rough Guides
Description: The Pyrenees is one of Europe`s most spectacular mountain regions with attractions and activities ranging from the magnificent Cathar castles in the eastern Pyrenees to the high-altitude lakes and hiking opportunities on offer throughout. The Rough Guide map will make exploring the region by car that much simpler with information on all the routes from the main roads to unsurfaced tracks. The map pinpoints the location of many attractions and places of interest, including spas, Romanesque churches, castles and outstanding natural features. As with all the maps in the `Rough Guides` series, this map is made of rip-proof, waterproof Polyart paper, durable enough to survive a trip spent in the car glove box or rucksack. Масштаб: 1:250,000. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-84353-485-1
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The Pythons` Autobiography By The Pythons

2005 y.
Publisher: Orion
Description: Over thirty years ago, a group of six Englishmen - well, one was Welsh and another an interloping American - rewrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python`s Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact has been felt the world over ever since. From its humble beginnings, it blossomed into the most influential movement in modern comedy. `The Pythons` Autobiography ` is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age, with 64 pages of photographs, many culled from the team`s own personal collections, and many more seen for the first time. This is the definitive word on all things Pythonesque. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-7528-6425-9
Book size: 130x200; Page extent: 528.

 

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