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Grow to be Great
Breaking the Downsizing Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
No company ever shrank to greatness, conclude Dwight Gertz and João Baptista. Drawing upon their new study of more than 1,000 large companies, the authors argue that managers must move beyond the current wave of downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering. Contrary to current management fads, they...
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
For millennia, shamans and philosophers, believers and nonbelievers, artists and scientists have tried to make sense of our existence by suggesting that everything is connected, that a mysterious Oneness binds us to everything else. People go to temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues to pray to...
by Staff of The New York Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked...
by John Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the shadow of the Occupation, and only a handful...
by Richard H. Popkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
A short anthology of philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, which includes the most important philosophical writings from Europe during this period.
Part of the Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this volume features writings by the most important philosophers of...
Great Pretenders
My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
February 1964: The Beatles step onto the tarmac at JFK International Airport and turn the country on its head. It's the advent of rock and roll's uninterrupted reign, youthful rebellion, and overt teenage sex. It's also the deathblow for the pop music of another generation -- the songs of Pat Boone...
Heart Like Water
Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning, phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in your building, on the street outside, the entire neighborhood, vanished. With them go all noises: chitchat, coughs, cars, and...
Venus in Exile
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...
A Mind of Its Own
A Cultural History of the Penis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that gives context to the central role of the penis in Western...
The Real Toy Story
Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
The American toy business is massive, world dominating, cutthroat, exciting, and increasingly willing to sacrifice our kids in its frantic rush for profit. And yet, for all its rapaciousness, the industry is in the business of delighting and fascinating our children. Toys are one of the most emotive...
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne’s second novel is “more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)—and an enduring...
The Modern Jewish Canon
A Journey Through Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating...
A Thousand Lives
The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his...
by Talia Leman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
You can be greater than you know how to be.
In a world where you are pushed to know more, this book will prove that your greatest asset is often not knowing. In a world where you are told it’s all in the planning, this book will encourage you to keep your cart ahead of your horse and allow...