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The Disappearance of Childhood

Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun

This bestselling sequel to Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun goes beyond the first book's focus on individual leadership and applies Attila's wisdom and lessons to the challenges of leadership in organizations. As essential for business managers and leaders as its now classic predecessor.

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

by Simon Blackburn

Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed... (more)

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

by C.S. Lewis

Reflections on literature and science fiction; three stories; and the beginning chapters of a novel. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline , is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that... (more)

Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World

Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World

by James Lee Burke

Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on... (more)

Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

by Vince Rause, Andrew B. Newberg

Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, in short, won’t God go away? In this groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d’Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: The religious impulse is... (more)

G.A.S. (GAS). Die Trilogie der Stadtwerke.

G.A.S. (GAS). Die Trilogie der Stadtwerke.

by Matt Ruff

Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

by Edward De Bono

A fundamental book on deliberate creative thinking from a world-renowned expert in the field and the inventor of the systematic process of lateral thinking. Used correctly, creating thinking can save companies millions of dollars as the best and cheapest way to get added value out of existing resources and assets. Line drawings.

Psychology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Psychology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

by Gillian Butler

Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence to relationships and emotions, advertising, and criminality. People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what we think, feel, and do. But what exactly are psychologists trying to help us understand? What scientific grounding do they have for their approach? ... (more)

Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)

Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)

by Thomas C. Schelling

Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."—official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And... (more)

Use of History (History and Historiography Series)Rowse

Use of History (History and Historiography Series)

by A. L. Rowse

The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters

The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters

by Peter Block

People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature, keep people paralyzed. Here he places the "how to" craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers, and managers ways to act on what they know. This in turn... (more)

The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity

The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity

by Imagineers

Ideas to Ignite Your CreativityBy The Imagineers Famed for making dreams come true, the Disney Imagineers are world renowned for their incomparable creativity and their ability to turn fanciful ideas into reality. How do they do this? By approaching all projects, problems, and questions with the knowledge that they will undoubtedly accomplish the task set before them.

Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue

Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue

by Richard A. Posner

In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With the rapid growth of the media in recent years, highly visible forums for discussion have multiplied, while... (more)

Body Language: Representation in Action (Bradford Books)

Body Language: Representation in Action (Bradford Books)

by Mark Rowlands

In Body Language , Mark Rowlands argues that the problem of representation—how it is possible for one item to represent another—has been exacerbated by the assimilation of representation to the category of the word. That is, the problem is traditionally understood as one of relating inner to outer—relating an inner representing item to something extrinsic or exterior to it. Rowlands argues that at least some... (more)

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

by Howard Gardner

The author demonstrates that there exist many human "intelligences", common to all cultures - each with its own pattern of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic, musical and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather... (more)

Everyday Ethics: Inspired Solutions to Real-Life Dilemmas

Everyday Ethics: Inspired Solutions to Real-Life Dilemmas

by Joshua Halberstam

The author of Virtues and Values: An Introduction to Ethics shows readers how to develop a moral imagination--and have fun doing it--as he demolishes the cliches of religion and psychotherapy and entices readers into looking at the small actions that make up the big picture of character and values.

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

by Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel

This book, with color illustrations, is the story of the mischievous cat who returns on a snowy day when there is work to be done. Author: Dr. SeussIllustrator: Dr. SeussPublisher: Random House

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

by Sam Harris

Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: " The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say." This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a... (more)

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