Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone

Switch on the business news and you will probably be bombarded with yet more workplace experts telling you that everyone nowadays is grossly overworked, madly juggling their work-life balance until they finally keel over and die from the sheer stress of it all. We all know that's right, don't we? The real truth is that there are millions upon millions of people who are actively disengaged from their jobs, who spend months and years sitting in offices doing next to nothing, lost in the cracks of laughably inefficient and abysmally managed large organisations, their talents wasted and long forgotten. The Living Dead unmasks the myth of the workplace for the first time. It tells the truth. Not cloaked in humour, as in Dilbert and The Office, but in plain black and white. The Living Dead will captivate anyone anywhere in the world who has ever worked in a large office environment, or those who have a genuine desire to make people's working lives more productive and enjoyable. Here are some astonish

Le syndrome du nid vide frappe Ginny Holland de plein fouet.Difficile de faire le deuil d'une existence que, depuis sondivorce, elle a exclusivement consacrée à sa fille. Mais Jem adix-huit ans maintenant, c'est une étudiante indépendante. Ginny seretrouve donc seule. Pourtant, à trente-huit ans, sa vie n'est pasfinie ! Elle décide alors de prendre une locataire et de trouver untravail. Un changement bénéfique, espère-t-elle. Mais qui aurait pucroire que sa vie s'emballerait soudain pour la précipiter dans unesuite de péripéties tragico-comiques, où se mêlent amour,quiproquos et perfidie féminine ?

Long before he gave us "a one-of-a-kind classic" (The Wall Street Journal) with his bestselling memoir On Writing, Stephen King crafted a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, "one of the best books on American popular culture" (Philadelphia Inquirer). The author whose boundless imagination and storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from 1974's Carrie to his new epic Under the Dome, reflects on the very nature of terror -- what scares us and why -- in films (both cheesy and choice), television and radio, and, of course, the horror novel, past and present. Informal, engaging, tremendous fun, and tremendously informative, Danse Macabre is an essential tour with the master of horror as your guide; much like his spellbinding works of fiction, you won't be able to put it down.

Three-volume paperback boxed set of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, packaged in the classic black covers designed by Tolkien himself. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring -- the ring that rules them all -- which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Since it was first published in 1954, 'The Lord of the Rings' has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

Pour guérir d?une rupture sentimentale, un homme se réfugie àOstende. Sa logeuse, une vieille dame solitaire et mystérieuse,Emma Van A., se confie peu à peu à lui et, un soir, finit par luiavouer son grand secret : une étrange et incroyable passionamoureuse. Fiction ou réalité ?Cinq histoires ? ? La rêveused?Ostende ?, ? Crime parfait ?, ? La guérison ?, ? Les mauvaiseslectures ?, ? La femme au bouquet ? ? où Eric-Emmanuel Schmittmontre le pouvoir de l?imagination dans nos existences. L?auteurd?Oscar et la dame rose n?a plus rien à apprendre de l?art du récitni de celui du portrait. On s?installe dans son univers comme aucoin d?un bon feu de bois. On y est bien, on y croit, on rêve. Quedemander de mieux ? Dominique Bona, Le Journal du dimanche.

Tear into the utterly addictive Vampire Academy series this holiday season! Now you can have the first three novels in the New York Times Bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series in a special edition box set! Find out where it all began for Guardian Rose Hathaway and her bloodthirsty best friend Lissa in Vampire Academy, watch all the delicious drama unfold in Frostbite, and fall in love with Shadow Kiss—for the first time, or all over again!

With help from the newest member of the Wonmn's Murder Club, Yukl Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer discovers that this is not the hospital' first suspicious case. Other patients have taken unexpected and devastatln turns for the worse just as they're about to go home. Are these jest appallle coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives? When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same terrifying symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe. In a wild race against time she must fight an administration determined to shield its reputation even if it means hiding a killer...The newest addition to the top-selling mystery series tokes the Women's Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have encountered yet.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history ofAmerican literature, is best known today for his novels, but duringhis lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolificachievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers."The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorablecreations. "I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s storyby F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man whois born in his eighties andages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. Wefollow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that isas unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher,"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale ofthe people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, theloves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness ofdeath, and what lasts beyond time.

When Martin Kihn joined a powerhouse New York consulting firm, he thought the consultants' job was simply to tell organizations how to improve themselves in exchange for huge fees. In reality, the consultants spent precious work hours prowling for new clients, only to offer, once they snared their quarry, little or no useful information while pontificating on topics they knew nothing about. From power breakfasts heavy on the waffles and mind games to the screaming indignity of "Feedback Camp" in New Jersey, HOUSE OF LIES reveals the truth about a "profession" that could threaten your job, your career, and your life...and even offers a solution or two if the suits start circling around your company.

Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is a literary masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition of Don Quijote is based on Burton Raffel's masterful translation. The Raffel translation comes as close as possible to recreating Cervantes's inimitable prose style-the translation is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish. Diana de Armas Wilson provides a thought-provoking introduction and explanatory textual annotations. Carefully selected contextual materials bring readers into the creative process that culminated in Don Quijote. Jncluded are other writings by Cervantes published during the period from 1585 to 1616 as well as contemporary works by Ariosto, Avellaneda, Sannazaro, and Montalvo. Patricia Finch and John J. Allen provide a modern account of the novel's influence throughout the ages. Fifteen critical pieces present major interpretations of both the novel and selected episodes. Included are contributions by Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Michel Foucault, Ja

Londres, été 1888. Sous le poids d'une chaleur suffocante, laville est saisie d'horreur par les premiers meurtres de celui qu'onnommera bient?t " Jack l'Eventreur ". Pourtant, aucune des enquêtesdu célèbre Sherlock Holmes ne mentionne la plus fameuse affairecriminelle qui ait agité ses contemporains. Bien des années plustard, le docteur Watson confie à son éditeur le journal del'investigation qu'il mena aux c?tés du détective surl'insaisissable tueur en série. Une terrible plongée dans l'enferdes bas-fonds londoniens, sur les pas du meurtrier le plussanguinaire et le plus énigmatique que l'Angleterre ait connu.

Genetically modified food is in the news and on our plates. And while consumers may not have known they were being used as lab rats, America's uncontrolled experiment with such "inventions" as StarLink corn, with its built-in insecticide, is already well under way. In Eating in the Dark, environmental journalist Kathleen Hart examines the battles being fought in boardrooms, grocery stores, and government agencies over the creation, distribution, and regulation of genetically engineered organisms. The truth is quite disturbing. Companies like Monsanto began releasing modified seeds to farmers in the 1990s, but consumers weren't informed. From baby formula made from engineered soybeans to taco shells that cause dangerous allergy attacks, the stories here are well-researched and frightening. Hart accuses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of aiding and abetting what she calls a public health "nightmare," and she calls for both intense research and strong legislation as a way of getting the experiment un

Sus aux Doigts ! Exterminez-les tous ! C'est à ce mot d'ordredonné par la nouvelle reine des fourmis que s'ébranle la croisadeprificatrice du monde afin d'exterminer tous les hommes.Parrallèlement, le commissaire Méliès est amené à enquêter sur lesmeurtres horribles et mystérieux de plusieurs grandsscientifiques. Voici comment, dans ce passionnant roman, deux mondes, celui deshommes et celui des fourmis, vont au travers de ces deux histoires,après moult rebondissements, converger et se confondre. Ce thrillerimplacable, au suspens haletant, où se m^lent l'aventure, lefantastique et la réflexion nous appoorte un grand nombred'informations sur le monde, à la fois si proche et si lointain,des insectes. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuiséeou non disponible de ce titre.

Organizations are more successful when they mold highly talented individuals into a cohesive group. But most talented people especially professionals hate to be managed. How to resolve this tension is the subject of this tightly focused, effective book by consultants McKenna (Herding Cats) and Maister (Practice What You Preach). Recognizing that all groups of professionals are different, the authors don't set off to create sweeping rules. Rather, they divide the task of leading groups of professionals into three parts what one must accomplish as the leader; how one wants to interact with individual members of the group; and how one wants to deal with the group as a whole and then offer concrete suggestions. A big part of this book's appeal is the authors' inherent understanding of how professionals resist overtly and otherwise being managed. Not surprisingly, McKenna and Maister spend a great deal of time explaining strategies for getting colleagues to agree to being led. They are particularly effective in ou

A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street-Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine-created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. Based on secret grand jury tran*s, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative-a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.