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Turnaround Challenge
Turnaround Challenge examines the nexus of challenges confronting society and delivers a comprehensive overview of the innovators driving the next wave of growth for business. It explores three possible cities of the future—Petropolis, Cyburbia, and the Distributed City—and their implications for business success and tackling global megatrends.
The Club
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost bridges the twenty-five year gap beween the second and the third series of Twin Peaks with his compelling sequel - Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. With high anticipation with the return of the legendary show for another season with its enigmatic narrative and a cohort of beloved characters from the original series. Mark Frost and David Lynch’s surreal realm once again takes centre stage, creating an atmosphere ripe for speculation, discussion and interpretation. What happened to key characters in the intervening twenty-five years? Find the enigmatic answers in the pages of Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. Offering chilling insights into the new series, this final piece of Frost’s master storytelling cannot be missed. Anticipate a rollercoaster ride of cosmic twists and turns.
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp of life, his views of language, the roots of his ideas in Renaissance humanism, and his skeptical-humane style. Among the themes engaged are history, disability, gender, politics, race, slavery, Johnson's representation in art, and the significance of the Yale Edition. Works discussed include Johnson's poetry and fiction, his moral essays and political tracts, his Shakespeare edition and Dictionary, and his critical, biographical, and travel writing. A narrated Further Reading provides an informative guide to the study of Johnson, and a substantial Introduction highlights how his literary practice, philosophical values, and life experience provide a challenge to readers new and established. Through fresh, integrated insights, this authoritative guide reveals the surprising contemporaneity of Johnson's thought.
Shire Hell
Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they thought. Yes, there's mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there's Rose, Mimi's new best friend and Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is, it turns out, just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell. There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/Diesel/Ralph Lauren and the brood mares in Barbour/Boden, there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners and eco-warriers and naked hostility between Old Money, New Money and No Money. Yes, in honeybourne, if you don't have:1) A landscaped garden within 1000 acres (minimum) of prime land2) A helipad for your trophy guests3) An organic farm shop selling 16 sorts of home-made sausages4) Four pony-mad polo-playing children5) A literary festival in your mini-stately6) A bottom that looks smackable in jodhpursThen, well...you're Mimi basically.And that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it?
Scott Co, MS
The history of Scott County, Missippi, as well as the schools, libraries. Biographies of the local residents.
Johnson Re-Visioned
How far does Johnson's mind touch the critical consciousness, and how far is the modern experience of his writings a form of historical knowledge? This title includes essays by British and American scholars who seek to answer these questions from a sequence of argued perspectives.
My Big Brother
A fantastic and beautifully illustrated story which is aimed to help children aged 2-8 years, become aware of autism and how it may be displayed amongst their peers. "Discover what is so amazing and special about my big brother and find out why his behaviour may be different to other boys and girls."£1 from every book sold will be donated to AP Cymru - The Autism Charity.
Gone Hollow (A Becca Thorn FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 4)
FBI Agent Becca Thorn is on the hunt for a twisted serial killer who disguises himself as a friendly face at the doorstep, preying on unsuspecting victims in their own homes. With a relentless determination to stop him, Becca must stay one step ahead in this heart-pounding game of cat and mouse. “A brilliant book. I couldn’t put it down and I never guessed who the murderer was!” —Reader review for Only Murder ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GONE HOLLOW is book #4 in a new series by #1 bestselling and critically acclaimed mystery and suspense author Rylie Dark, whose books have received over 2,000 five-star reviews and ratings. The series begins with GONE COLD (book #1). A page-turning and harrowing ...
