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Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the listener the inside skinny on real life at an investment bank, where the promised land is always one more 20-hour workday and another lap dance away. Fresh out of Wharton and Harvard business schools, John Rolfe and Peter Troob ran willingly into the open arms of investment bank giant Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. They escaped with the remnants of their sanity - and, ultimately, this book.

Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.

Der Westen befindet sich in einer Krise: Unsere Demokratie ist angeschlagen, die Deindustrialisierung bedroht den Wohlstand und Flüchtende machen sich auf in westliche Länder und stehen vor den Toren.In diesem außergewöhnlichen historischen Vergleich erkunden die Autoren die unheimlichen Parallelen–und produktiven Unterschiede–zwischen dem Untergang Roms und dem Fall des Westens, um aus der antiken Geschichte neue Lehren zu ziehen.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals.

This gentle fantasy about Olivia’s visits to her ‘New World’ of Avalon, accessed through her grandfather’s picture of a robin which hangs on her bedroom wall, is a children’s story. Yet, it is much more than what is normally implied by that description.

From his early days as a Baltimore cop to his time with the Department of Military Sciences and then more recently leading Rogue Team International, these stories cover the range of the Ledger timeline bringing back old favorites and introducing new ones. The stakes are as high as ever, and Joe Ledger is there to save the day!

An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together. This way depends upon a neighborly covenant—an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable.

Kitabın yazarı Peter Lynch, 1977’den 1990’a kadar dünyanın en büyük yatırım fonu haline gelen Fidelity Magellan fonunu ustalıkla yöneterek yatırım camiasında bir efsane haline geldi. “Borsa’da Tek Başına” kitabında, Lynch’in 13 yıllık yoğun bir çalışma sonucunda geliştirdiği hisse senedi araştırma ve piyasa analiz tekniklerini bir araya getiriyor. Yazar, yatırım fonlarına yatırım yapmak için kendi stratejisini sunuyor ve hisse senetlerini kendileri seçmeyi tercih edenler için araçlar sağlıyor.

Jesus, Present Before Me includes 30 separate Eucharistic meditations, Eucharistic reflections on the 20 mysteries of the rosary, a Eucharistic colloquy, a litany, and a way of the Eucharist, all designed to help you offer your time of adoration wholeheartedly without weariness or distraction.

During the Vietnam War, a “secret war” was fought across the fence in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, unknown to the media or the public, under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam’s top secret Studies and Observations Group. SOG’s chain of command for missions and after-action reports extended to the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Former Fortune 500 CEO and President of the Midland Company, John Hayden offers his hard-earned insights from a lifetime of rich experiences - from playing and coaching college football, to leading one of the nation's top insurance companies that was named one of the 'Best Small Companies in America'. Now, he shares his wisdom and secrets to success.

Third-year Harvard student William Price takes an absence from his studies when an opportunity arises to accompany Charles Dickens on his American tour as his personal assistant. Leaving the love of his life, Rebecca, behind in Cambridge and traveling along the East Coast with Dickens and his lively crew, Price discovers the incomparable joys, follies, temptations, and opportunities of life on the road. As Price gets to know Dickens in a series of settings, from somber one-on-one chats to his flamboyant performances and raucous after-parties, they develop a complicated friendship.

What happens when our world - and everything in it - goes wrong? Explore that question in 32 short stories written by a diverse mix of the best authors in Canada, including award-winning veterans of their craft and brand-new talent. Edited by Erin Vance and Ellen Curtis, this collection showcases the talent, imagination, and prestige that Canada has to offer.

One hundred years ago, the Animalis were unleashed. Their intelligence and rough humanoid forms granted them basic human rights, and humanity seemed willing to share dominance over the Earth with them. Now, Earth is in turmoil. A deadly conflict rages between humans and the genetically engineered Animalis. Jax Minette hurls himself into battle, ready to make a hero of himself; determined to erase the shame of being son to a dishonored veteran.

A life sentence of boredom, that's what most people get out of retirement. For Colonel Petros Arkansas, it's the wildest ride he's ever been on, and as a former navy SEAL, he's been on quite a few. The aliens who abduct him try to bend him to their ways. The shadow military force he joins tries to make him a better man. The mythical trainers try to shake him to his core, but he has ideas of his own.

A man’s desire to relive the station wagon road trips of his youth leads him and his family on a 4,013-mile epic journey from the shores of California to the lights of Las Vegas, the geysers of Yellowstone, the granite faces of Mount Rushmore, and one of the largest water parks in the West—Water World. I hope Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore: A Three-Week Road Trip will inspire you to take your own road trip to visit some of the West’s most iconic destinations and discover the multitude of rarely visited treasures that dot the landscape between them.

Best-selling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling, new understanding of how and why the spirit of "community" has been lost in our neighborhoods, cities, and society, and what ordinary citizens, leaders, and professionals can do to restore it. We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Sir Edward Leithen is told that he has but one year left to live. He relinquishes his law practice and resigns from public office in order to make peace with himself and to reconcile himself with his maker. However, he also wants to die standing, not to creep into the 'bleak bag's end of life'. This will involve one last physical challenge.

When animals from all kinds of life; from house animals, to tame animals, to wild ones gather around a Christmas tree to celebrate this festive season.... They all must decide to decorate the grand Christmas tree with one item each, which means something to them. But when one awkward animal decides for something unexpected, things start to spiral out of control.