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The Secret Empress
Joe Wilder is focused on turning a successful bodybuilding career into a billion-dollar international health and fitness conglomerate. He thinks he’s safely left behind his dangerous past as a CIA field agent—except for nightmares about gunfire, screams, and holding the lifeless body of a boy he cannot save. Facing massive price increases that could bankrupt his company, Joe travels to China for a confrontation with the ministry of trade. To his surprise, the deputy minister offers a deal in exchange for Joe helping her twelve-year-old son, Charley, travel to America. But when the minister is murdered within hours of signing the new contracts, Joe becomes both a suspect and the guardian ...
Organizational Participation
Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation sometimes as experiments, sometimes as negotiated expediency, and sometimes as hype. Different ideas have emerged from different parts of the world, in different industries, at different times with different objectives. In this book four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - orgnaizational participation. The review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.
Something Happened
Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And then something happened. . .
Mr. Collin Is Ruined
From the author of "The Emperor's Old Clothes," etc. Translated from the Swedish by Pauline de Chary.
Frank Heller-Krimis
Frank Heller (1886 - 1947) war ein schwedischer Schriftsteller, der als erster erfolgreicher Krimiautor seines Landes gilt. Nachdem er das unrechtmäßig erworbene Geld beim Glücksspiel in Monte Carlo verloren hatte, begann er seinen Lebensunterhalt als Schriftsteller zu verdienen. 1914 erschien die Kurzgeschichtensammlung Herrn Collins Abenteuer. Der Titelheld Filip Collin ist teilweise autobiographisch angelegt: Herr Collin flieht wegen Bankbetrugs nach London und betätigt sich dort als erfolgreicher Trickbetrüger. Ein anderer Seriencharakter Hellers ist der jüdische Psychoanalytiker und Hobbydetektiv Dr. Joseph Zimmertür, der in Amsterdam Kriminalfälle löst. Werke Hellers wurden bereits in der Stummfilmära verfilmt. Am 14. Oktober 1947 erlag Heller den Folgen eines Nierenleidens in einem Krankenhaus in Malmö.
Pocket Kings
A “highly entertaining” story of a frustrated novelist who finds fame, fortune—and trouble—in the world of online poker (The New York Times Book Review). When Frank Dixon, a writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this newfound realm, populated by alluring characters—each of them elusive, mysterious, and glamorous—he becomes a smash success: popular, rich, and loved. Going by the name Chip Zero, he sees his fortunes and romantic liaisons thrive in cyberspace while he remains blind to the fact that his real life is sinking. His online success, however, does not come without complications, as he c...
No Laughing Matter
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in ...
