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The Busy Manager’s Guide to Delegation
$14.99 Add to cartDelegation amounts to a lot more than just passing work off onto subordinates, and when handled correctly, it gives managers a chance to lead more effectively.
Authors Richard A. Luecke and Perry Mcint
- Author: Luecke, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0814414745
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
$12.95 Add to cartMale, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid?e is the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s last and most … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554854
- Language: English
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Black Orchids/The Silent Speaker: Nero Wolfe Mysteries
$18.00 Add to cartA NERO WOLFE SPECIAL EDITION–TWO COMPLETE MYSTERIES IN ONE VOLUME
“Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals…he is an exceptional character creation.” —New Yorker A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is- Series: Nero Wolfe
- Author: Stout, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0553386557
- Language: English
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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel
$17.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along–especially not one you like–and never, ever, work with amateurs. Neverth
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771075
- Language: English
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The Handle
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771067
- Language: English
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Price Theory
$27.99 Add to cartEconomics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic proble… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 24 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961512
- Language: English
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Mortal Causes
$24.00 Add to cartIn Edinburgh you’re never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a y
- Series: Inspector Rebus Mysteries #6
- Author: Rankin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0312565631
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
$36.99 Add to cartDescribed by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urba
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531846
- Language: English
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Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Otis, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 019955465X
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537976
- Language: English
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Our Lady of the Night
$15.99 Add to cartFrom internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel “La Negra” Luberza–a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, beca
- Author: Santos-Febres, Mayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0061731307
- Language: English
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Louise de la Vallière
$15.95 Add to cartLouise de la Valli?re is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 019953845X
- Language: English
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Gourmet Rhapsody
$16.00 Add to cartA French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining and] witty” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday).
In the heart of Paris, in the same p- Author: Barbery, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1933372958
- Language: English
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Resurrection
$13.95 Add to cartResurrection, the last of Tolstoy’s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman’s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy’s vision of redem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555761
- Language: English
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A Most Wanted Man
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the “literary master for a generation” (The London Observer) comes a fiercely com- pelling and current novel set in Hamburg that plays to all of le Carr?’s trademark strengths– Germany, rival in… [more below]
- Author: Le Carr?, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1416594892
- Language: English
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Parzival and Titurel
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival’s growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Art… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Eschenbach, Wolfram Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539200
- Language: English
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Silks
$9.99 Read moreA lawyer and amateur jockey is torn between doing what’s right and what will keep him alive in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Dick and Felix Francis.
Geoffrey Mason wasn’t terribly disa- Series: Dick Francis Novel
- Author: Francis, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0425228975
- Language: English
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The Walkers of Dembley: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartThe Walkers of Dembley continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton’s beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series–now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.
After six months in London, Agatha Raisin- Series: Agatha Raisin #4
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1250093988
- Language: English
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The Gone-Away World
$19.00 Add to cartA hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world.
“A flat-out ferociously- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Harkaway, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0307389073
- Language: English
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The Black Book
$24.00 Add to cartThe Sunday Telegraph raves, “No one captures the noirish side of the city as well as Rankin,” and The Black Book is one of his best.
Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh’s seed Central H- Series: Inspector Rebus Mysteries #5
- Author: Rankin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 031256564X
- Language: English
