Author: O. Henry Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775456714 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 239
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Fans of classic short fiction will relish this collection of gems from one of the unquestioned masters of the form. From a down-on-his-luck troubadour to a talking statue, Sixes and Sevens is populated by a cast of quirky, endearing characters that only O. Henry could conjure, not to mention plenty of the author's trademark plot twists and surprise endings. It's a must-read for anyone hankering for a dose of entertaining, well-wrought writing.
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Julianna had lost everything—her father to illness, her belongings to bankruptcy, her beloved sweetheart to a voyage to the South Seas. Thrown into marriage by her vile stepbrother, she meets her husband-to-be on their wedding day. Sir Edmund is cold, distant and twenty years her senior! “Is this what my life has come to?” Strangely enough, he suggests that they keep their relationship chaste. He is hard to read and full of mystery, but as Julianna learns more about him, she can’t help but feel drawn to the kindness she discovers. Could her heart, promised to her beloved Crispin, possibly be swayed?
Author: Emile Benoit Publisher: ISBN: 9780231910507 Category : Europe Languages : en Pages : 275
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Chronicles the economic results of a shift in focus from nationalism in Europe to integration. It describes the European Economic Community, its evolution, and its structure, then deals with the origin and nature of the Great Split between the two European trade blocs. It then considers the effects of European integration on U.S. Foreign trade and payments and the profitability of U.S. direct investments in Europe, the advantages and disadvantages of particular countries as bases for U.S. investment, alternative strategies for exploiting European markets, and some distinctive characteristics of European business as compared to American business.
Author: Naomi Stanford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136436863 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 321
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Organization Design looks at how you need to change the ways your organization does things in order to increase productivity, performance, and profit. Providing the knowledge and method to handle the kind of recurring organisational change that all businesses face, those which do not involve transforming the entire enterprise but which necessitate significant change at the business unit, divisional, functional, facility or local levels. The problem lies in knowing what needs to change and how to change it. Taking the organisation as a designed system, it describes four major elements of organizations: the work - the basic tasks to be done by the organisation and its parts, the people - characteristics of individuals in the organization, formal organization - structures eg the organisation hierarchy, processes, and methods that are formally created to get individuals to perform tasks, informal organization - emerging arrangements including variations to the norm, processes, and relationships, commonly described as the culture or 'the way we do things round here'. The way these four elements relate, combine and interact affects productivity, performance and profit. Most books on this subject target a wide management audience rather than HR, this is specifically written for HR practitioners and line managers working together to achieve the goal. It clarifies why and how organisations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign and emphasises that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations.
Author: Rosie Harris Publisher: ISBN: 9780750525114 Category : Domestic fiction Languages : en Pages : 365
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Set in 1920's Wales this is the story of two sisters driven apart by their love for the same man and the choices they are forced to make for their very different futures.
Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674219816 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 626
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p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
Author: R. T. Fitzgerald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 294
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Review of trends in the development of secondary education in Australia during the period 1960 to 1970 - covers demographic aspects, financial aspects and administrative aspects, the labour shortage and supply of teachers, teacher training, educational planning, reforms in examination procedure and curriculum planning, etc., together with a summary of conclusions. Bibliography pp. 217 to 225 and statistical tables.
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