Terry Jones
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English
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This is a very accessible, easy-to-read look at innovation in the workplace. The stories from the author's career and personal experiences provide well-chosen, real-world illustrations of how challenging, and ultimately rewarding, it can be to gather a team and establish a culture that is open to change and new ideas, and that is committed to innovation as the way to do business. The short chapters seem to be perfectly tailored to today's time-crunched...
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Publisher
Accent Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel.
Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent gangsters, and a kidnapped concert pianist. Malcolm starts to wonder if objecting to the...Author
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English
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Worried your company won't survive in the fast-changing, high-tech world? Discover innovative strategies to future-proof your profits.
Do you worry young, cutting-edge companies will push you out of the market? Do you wish your organization was the one doing the disrupting? Are you struggling to keep up with the breakneck speed of modern business? Travelocity founder, CIO of the multi-billion-dollar SABRE company, founding chairman of Kayak.com,...
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English
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A Confederate captain from the 1st Louisiana Brigade uses his skill as a newspaper editor to recount his experiences during the U.S. Civil War.
Like many other soldiers who fought in the Civil War, New Orleans newspaper editor William J. Seymour left behind an account of his wartime experiences. It is the only memoir by any field or staff officer of the famous 1st Louisiana Brigade (Hays' Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia. Long out of print,...
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English
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• My age fifty was a time of review of who I was and what I had become. I realized the world had an expectation of retirement, withdrawal, disengagement for people beyond this age. However, I was still vigorous and creative, very much unwilling to pull back. Between ages fifty and sixty I decided on a new way of being professionally and I remained capable to create new projects and think of new ideas.
• A man pointed out to me that being sixty...
13) Fairy tales
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirty original fairy tales introducing such beings as the fly-by-night, the rainbow cat, and the wonderful cake-horse.
14) Wings across the Pacific: the courageous aviators who challenged and conquered the greatest ocean
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
16) Nicobobinus
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Publisher
P. Bedrick
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Nicobobinus and his friend Rosie go in search of the Land of Dragons and find more adventure than they'd bargained for.
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Language
English
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In this spoof of the legend of King Arthur, the king recruits the Knights of the Round Table. He is soon joined by Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film. God sends them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter a plague-ridden community, the Knights who say Ni, a killer rabbit, and more.
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English
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Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
19) Labyrinth
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
Teenage Sarah is babysitting her little brother, when she wishes that goblins would take him away. She gets her wish, and to get him back, she must find her way through the labyrinth to the castle in the center, facing the challenges along the way.
20) Crusades
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location throughout Europe and the Middle East, the Crusades began as a holy mission to liberate Jerusalem and became the largest mass migration in European history. When they ended 200 years later, the Crusades had created a mythology of knights and chivalry, and left a legacy of distrust between East and West that continues to shape our world today.