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NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON
by MERCIER, PASCAL |
| Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected, perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is fuelled further when he happens to find a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado. The appearance of the mysterious woman, and Prado's prescient words, all seem to tell him the same thing: that he must leave everything behind. And so, early the next morning, he packs a bag and boards the night train to Lisbon on a restless journey across Europe and deep within himself in the hope of discovering somewhere, someone, who makes him feel alive and connected to himself and the world once more. |
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MEASURE OF A LEADER: THE LEGENDARY LEADERSHIP FORMULA FOR PRODUCING EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMERS AND OUTSTANDING RESULTS
by DANIELS, AUBREY C. |
| Measure of a Leader reveals why effective leadership is not about personality or the bottom line; it is about how people react to what leaders do and say. Based on more than 30 years of pioneering work with organizations all over the world, Daniels and Daniels deliver the tools to craft a powerful leadership style, one that you¡¦ll use to: Create profitable habits and improve performance at every level of your organization, Generate greater momentum, commitment, initiative, and reciprocity, Inspire your followers to go above and beyond the call of duty, Build leadership skills that leave a legacy. |
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CHASING COOL: STANDING OUT IN TODAY'S CLUTTERED MARKETPLACE
by KERNER, NOAH |
| Cool isn¡¦t just a state of mind, a celebrity fad, or an American obsession ¡V it¡¦s a business. In boardrooms across America, product managers are examining vodka bottles and candy bars, tissue boxes and hamburgers, wondering how so we make this thing cool? How do we make this gadget into the iPod of our industry? How do we do what Nike did? How do we get what Target got? How do we infuse this product with that very desirable, nearly unattainable it factor? |
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THE DRAGON AND THE ELEPHANT: CHINA, INDIA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
by SMITH, DAVID |
| Global geopolitical power is shifting. By 2050 the three most powerful countries on earth will be China, India and the United States. As the world rapidly tilts eastwards, new alliances will be formed and new rules will be set. Only those who have understood the new world order will be equipped to face these new challenges. The Dragon and the Elephant is an accessible and engaging guide to these changes, written by the Economics Editor of the Sunday Times. |
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ASSASSIN'S CLOAK: ANTHOLOGY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DIARISTS
by TAYLOR, IRENE |
| With 170 contributors, a scope that is peerless, international and crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. There are several diary excerpts for every day of the year beginning with Samuel Pepys and along the way we meet cads and charmers, sailors and psychopaths, rock stars and prima ballerinas, gossips, drunks, snobs, lechers and lovers. There is humour and tragedy, history and the humdrum, often recoded on the same day or in the same entry. |
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