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The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command ofUSS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. NowAbrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change foranyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. WhenCaptain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a shiparmed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like abusiness that had all the latest technology but only some of theproductivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performancerested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadershipskills before he could improve his ship. Within months he created acrew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take theinitiative and take responsibility for their actions. The slogan onboard became "It's your ship," and Benfold was soon recognized farand wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it?Against the backdrop of today's United States Navy-Benfold was akey player in our Persian Gulf fleet-Abrashoff shares h
A behind-the-scenes, intensley-researched look at the blue-bloodscandal that has riveted not just New York but the world. When thebeloved Mrs. Astor's only child Anthony Marshall was indicted oncharges of looting her estate, the story was covered by the entirenational press corps as well as newspapers way beyond our borders.The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with astoried name who gave away nearly $200 million to the city--and didso with incomparable class and style--has generated headlines eversince the story broke in 2006 that her grandson Philip had sued hisfather alleging mistreatment of Brooke.
The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growingup white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's aneighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along withgames of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a blackteenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows theknitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates anoverwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race andclass, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging,loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude" "is the first greaturban coming of age novel to appear in years.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walkerspeaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist inthirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Amongthe contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civilrights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and herdaughters healing words.
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comesthis compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed HumanFreakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark,count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways.Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, heworks for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cumdetective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King ofBrooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he setsthem are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatallystabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other twovie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel'sworld is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has troubleeven conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case whiletrying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklynis a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel b
The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentiethcentury, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translationin 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its youngauthor to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftiethanniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out anew translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimedtranslator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealthof detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-availablereference works; and from the author himself. The result is atranslation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm,restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of theoriginal work. After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything,gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocationsare still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, theindomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother,Agnes;
Flip Flippen is a personable Texan whose philosophy haschanged the lives of hundreds of thousands of people--from businessleaders like Jack Welch and Mark McCormack (founder of IMG), tosports figures like Terry Bradshaw and NASCAR drivers, to the150,000 people who trained with his company, The Flippen Group, in2005. His approach is deceptively simple: What if, instead of focusing on the things you already do well,you knew how to honestly identify your weaknesses...those habitualbehaviors that continually get in your way and prevent you fromever really succeeding in the way you know you could. It's theseweaknesses, your "personal constraints," that are really holdingyou back from success. If you could correct these behaviors, you'dsee a dramatic surge in productivity and a real improvement in allaspects of your life. That's the key to Flip Flippen's program: heteaches hundreds of thousands of people each year how to identifytheir personal obstacles and take the necessary steps to overcomethem.
This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning andperennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificentarray" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.WithRushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety ofsubstance and style and the consistent quality that readers havecome to expect" (Publishers Weekly). "We all live in and with andby stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom totell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories ofour culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the largersubject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor The BestAmerican Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER - ALLEGRAGOODMAN - A. M. HOMES - NICOLE KRAUSS - JONATHAN LETHEM - STEVENMILLHAUSER - DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN - ALICE MUNRO - GEORGE SAUNDERS -TOBIAS WOLFF - and others
Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the mosttalked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much ofit is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now,"John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the earlystages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side ofParadise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God,Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Nightis the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and thestylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant youngpsychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband anddoctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not hisown, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise.A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical,expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, MabelDodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of"a mode
戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们要读的
