For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. With more than fifteen million copies sold, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best known motivational books in history, with proven advice for achieving success in life. You ll learn: three fundamental techniques in handling people; six ways to make people like you; twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking; nine ways to change people without arousing resentment; and much, much more! ,

Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses thedeath of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges upsnatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of ayoung woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engravedring??-an artifact of such powerful significance that people havekilled to obtain it. Now he's determined to find the ring's ownerand purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he'lldiscover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a viciousRussian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of theCentral Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert coursedesigned to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered byCongress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it producedBourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, andequal cunning. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clearthat the eventual collision of these

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.

From Booklist Naím, scholar and columnist, explains that “power is what we exercise over others that leads them to behave in ways they would not otherwise have behaved.” He builds his case for the decay of power claiming that power no longer buys as much; it is easier to get, harder to use, and easier to lose. Presidents, executives in financial services and oil companies, international religious leaders, and politicians continue to wield great power, but less so than their predecessors; today’s leaders have more challenges, competitors, and constraints in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and the ever-present media. The decay of power has made space globally for new ventures, companies, voices, and more opportunities, but it also holds great potential for instability. Naím concludes that now we are more vulnerable to bad ideas and bad leaders, and strongly recommends a conversation not on the obsession with “who/what is Number One” but “what is going on inside those nations, poli

Adopting a broad historical perspective, the author analyzesthe intricacies of the German identity. He encapsulates both thesituation today and its roots in the past. A new afterword bringsthis edition up-to-date. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.

A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, The RoughGuide to the Titanic tells the full compelling story of thesupposedly unsinkable liner. A comprehensive history, it coversevery moment of the journery and the Titanic's final hours, fromstriking the iceberg to disappearing beneath the freezing Atlanticwaters. Discover the epic human drama at the heart of the tragedy,with a rich cast of characters including the heroes, villains andvictims aboard the Titanic, and the adventurers who re-discoveredit in 1985. Plus, there are maps, diagrams and images to illustratethe disaster at every turn. The focus also stretches from thepeople who built the Titanic - with their faith in progress andtechnology - to the controversies and conspiracy theories that haveraged ever since its sinking. The Rough Guide to the Titanic alsolooks at the fascination that surrounds the Titanic, including thebooks, music and movies that have kept its memory alive - from thestiff upper lips of 1958's A Night To Remember to the tea

By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and theeasy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of hisadventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusettsis one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itselfin an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating inits awareness of humanity’s place in the moral and natural order,Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-centuryAmerica at its eloquent best.

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Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 andthe moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on theJapanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected byhappenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. ThePacific is the companion book to the HBO miniseries that tracks theintertwined odysseys of U.S. Marines during WWII. Hugh Ambrose is anoted historian and was a consultant on the documentary Price forPeace for which Steven Spielberg and Stephen Ambrose were theExecutive Producers.

Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe,bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. Buttraditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality andpoverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature inwhich people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions,including the spiritual, the social and the altruistic. Welcome tothe world of social business, where the creative vision of theentrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feedingthe poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick and protecting theplanet."Creating a World Without Poverty" tells the stories of someof the earliest examples of social business, including Yunus' ownGrameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic andsocial revolution that is already under way - and in the worldwideeffort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy ofevery human being.

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

In this classic text, David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity through inspiring and visionary lectures. First published in 1905, Einstein's ideas forever transformed the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, whether we are physicists, philosophers or none of the above.

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Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist TessCiccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them tocommit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tesscan't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs.Even when detective Aidan Reagan demands a list of everyone she'streating. Even when the mounting danger threatens Tessherself. Aidan doesn't like anyone who stalls his cases. Still, he can'thelp but admire Tess's fierce loyalty to her patients, especiallywhen it becomes clear that a nameless, facelss enemy is set ondestroying her career, her family , and finally, Tess herself. AsAidan's heart softens, the killer's will hardens, and one thingbecomes clear - the noose is tightening around Tess's neck.

If in this book harshwords are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectualleaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. Itsprings rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is tosurvive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.' -Karl Popper, from the Preface Written in political exile during theSecond World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, KarlPopper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the mostinfluential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendaryattack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed thedangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and throughunderground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedomliving under communism in Eastern Europe. Popper's highlyaccessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of thethoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence oftotalitarian regimes around the world are jus

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When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls exotic charm. Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.