A contemporary thriller by the bestselling author of THE OLD WILLIS PLACE.
Two 13-year-old boys, Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that took place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels of society in their small Maryland town, and eventually to a derelict amusement park that is supposedly closed for the season.
In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.
Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.
Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers---all in private. It's hard to learn management by example when you can't see it.
You can learn to be a better manager---even a great manager---with this guide. You'll follow along as Sam, a manager just brought on board, learns the ropes and deals with his new team over the course of his first eight weeks on the job. From scheduling and managing resources to helping team members grow and prosper, you'll be there as Sam makes it happen. You'll find powerful tips covering:
Delegating effectively
Using feedback and goal-setting
Developing influence
Handling one-on-one meetings
Coaching and mentoring
Deciding what work to do---and what not to do
...and more.
Full of tips and practical advice on the most important aspects of management, this is one of those books that can make a lasting and immediate impact on your career.
About this product: Surveillance expert Seth is convinced that Victor Lazar had his half-brother murdered, but his secret investigation and his life are on the line. When he learns that Lazar's next victim may be the beautiful Raine, Seth is pushed beyond all emotional limits - and beyond fear itself.
About this product: Winner, 2010 Ken Book Award presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Metro (NAMI-NYC Metro).
"Payne is a visual poet as well as an architect by training, and he has spent years finding and photographing these buildings—often the pride of their local communities and a powerful symbol of humane caring for those less fortunate. His photographs are beautiful images in their own right, and they also pay tribute to a sort of public architecture that no longer exists. They focus both on the monumental and the mundane, the grand facades and the peeling paint." —Oliver Sacks, Asylum
For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned.
Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home.
Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, "where one could be both mad and safe."
About this product: The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. The CIA was not involved. And although more than four million pages of documents have been released since Posner first made his case, they have served only to corroborate his findings. Case Closedremains the classic account against which all books about JFK’s death must be measured.
About this product: The mystery series that inspired the hit anime! R to L (Japanese Style). "Valentine's Day Massacre"Love is in the air as Conan and company face the most dangerous time of the year: Valentine's Day! Detective Sato of the Metropolitan Police has reluctantly agreed to an arranged marriage--unless her partner Takagi can work up the nerve to confess his feelings for her. But first he's got to catch a convenience store stickup artist who looks completely different to every witness! Can a phone call from Jimmy Kudo help him crack the case before he loses the girl?Then Rachel and Serena head to a snowbound cottage in the mountains to make some of the famous local chocolate for Valentine's Day. But the legendary snow goddess who haunts the mountains seems determined to turn their outing from sweet to bitter... When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof! He is physically tranformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.
About this product: Learn effective strategies to turn prospects into revenue-from the nation’s leading sales prospecting expert.
There’s a crisis undermining American business. Salespeople spend far too much time calling and re-calling people who don’t know what they want to buy, aren’t really interested in buying, or have no authority to buy. Salespeople may think a contact is a "strong prospect" because the person is pleasant on the phone, says a presentation is "interesting," or makes other pleasant, but commitment-free remarks. Salespeople wait for prospects to say the word no before concluding that nothing meaningful is happening with that contact. All too often, salespeople continue investing significant amounts of precious time even after they hear "no."
The result is a time management nightmare that invariably leads to income crises and lost productivity, says bestselling author and sales trainer Stephan Schiffman. For the first time, Schiffman shares all the strategies and tools of the ranking system and prospect management process he created to help salespeople at all levels and across all industries. The system builds effective strategies into the daily selling routine and increases revenue almost immediately. In Getting to "Closed" salespeople learn how to:
• Carefully define and rank prospects according to action and commitment rather than "gut feeling."
• Recognize "no" answers, even when they don’t have the word no attached to them.
• Calculate exactly how many daily cold calls are necessary to hit quarterly and yearly quotas and forecast revenue with breathtaking accuracy.
• Use team selling to rescue "lost" sales and sell at a higher level within the target organization.
Many sales books offer general advice on how to turn prospects into customers. Schiffman’s proprietary system, which has been implemented by over 100,000 salespeople at companies like Airborne Express, Nextel, WorldCom, Time Warner Cable, and others, is based on real numbers and ratios. Schiffman delivers a clear and proven action plan that transforms careers and increases real sales.
About this product: The mystery series that inspired the hit anime! R to L (Japanese Style). You're HistoryThe legendary samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi has just died a second time: a historical re-enactor playing Hideyoshi has been killed at the daimyo's own Osaka Castle. Time for Conan to make history stop repeating itself--and for Osaka native Harley Hartwell to pick up a wooden sword and eke out some old-fashioned justice!Then Detective Moore attends a star-studded engagement party on the arm of idol singer Yoko Okino…but the festivities are cut short when one of the stars of Yoko's old girl group is found dead in the bathroom. And Conan races to save an American tourist from kidnappers who may be connected to the Syndicate! When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof! He is physically tranformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.
About this product: This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West. In the postwar world, he argues, the Arabs reverted to age-old tribal and kinship structures, a closed circle from which they have been unable to escape, and in which violence is systemic. A healthy corrective, a thought-provoking study. --David K. Shipler, New York Times Book Review
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