Rework

Rework Feature

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Rework Overview

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. 

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.

Rework Specifications

Amazon Exclusive: Seth Godin Reviews Rework

Seth Godin is the author of Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, All Marketers Are Liars, and Permission Marketing, as well as other international bestsellers. He is consistently one of the 25 most widely read bloggers in the English language. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Rework:

This book will make you uncomfortable.

Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable.

That's a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do.

Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they've demonstrated that the regular way isn't necessarily the right way. They just don't say it, they do it. And they do it better than just about anyone has any right to expect.

This book is short, fast, sharp and ready to make a difference. It takes no prisoners, spares no quarter, and gives you no place to hide, all at the same time.

There, my review is almost as long as the first chapter of the book. I can't imagine what possible excuse you can dream up for not buying this book for every single person you work with, right now.

Stop reading the review. Buy the book.--Seth Godin

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Customer Reviews

A friend recommended this book, so I bought it. I just had a colleague who went to another and so on were. Then, some current issues summarized and sent to the whole society in an e-mail. This book is so viral, it could also be an Oprah Book Club sticker on the front.

Each theme is not working for any person or organization. But the overall message and a new perspective on how the (re) vision of the business community is essential.

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61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels)

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61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels) Overview

Jack Reacher is back.
 
The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.
 
Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save.
 
In 61 Hours, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.

61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels) Specifications

Lee Child on 61 Hours

Every book starts with a grab-bag of ideas. I sat down to write 61 Hours with six things on my mind. First was the title...it just popped into my head and stayed there (and I knew I wanted the 61 to be written in figures, not words, so if you’re the kind of reader who arranges your shelves alphabetically--I apologize!)

Second, I knew it would once again feature Jack Reacher...over the last 13 books he’s built up such enthusiasm and loyalty among readers I knew I’d be crazy not to keep on reporting his adventures.

Thirdly, I knew I wanted very, very cold weather. My fifth book, Echo Burning, was set in the west of Texas in a heat wave, and the extreme temperature was seen as a real character in the story, so I wanted to try the same thing again, but this time at the opposite end of the thermometer. I was a little nervous at first, because one of my early writer heroes was Alistair MacLean, who wrote cold weather so well. But most of his cold stories were set up on the polar ice cap, or above the Arctic Circle, and I knew Reacher would have no reason to go there. In the end I chose South Dakota in the depths of winter as a location, and I’ll know I’ve succeeded if you shiver over every page.

Fourth, fifth, and sixth, I had three names to work with--winners of your-name-as-a-character charity auction lots. A gentleman named Mark Salter helped out with autism research and asked for his mother’s name to be in the book--Mrs. Janet Salter; and then for two separate literacy projects, a man named Andrew Peterson won an auction, and the man who won the other wanted his wife’s name included--Susan Turner. All three winners made very generous donations to the various charities, so I decided it was only fair to make all three into important, central characters.

The only problem was...Mr. Turner asked that the character named after his wife have a romantic entanglement with Reacher. Read 61 Hours to see if he got his wish!

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Customer Reviews

Sixty Hours: Lee Child

This is the fourteenth book in the Reacher series, and one might think, our hero is always a bit 'long in the tooth. Well, think about it. The door is still smarter than Sherlock Holmes and the toughest of Chuck Norris. South Dakota cold, perhaps to drown his bones, but that does not slow it. The wind could cause frostbite tearing eyes, but Reacher is still able to kill the bad guys and charm the ladies. In fact, it could be an author, LeeChildren are always a bit 'Tuckered. This time, Lee is a clock that is ticking inexorably hours of riding left some catastrophic event, but you're 'sposed to read the book to find out what it is. This reader suspects that someone, probably a former policeman who believes that children would be a ticking clock to add tension. Could not be more wrong. The clock speed is the most annoying thing in South Dakota. With each child scene change has made us knowlong before the Big Thing. Big Deal. We know that we will. And if we Reacher Butt will pick the names. And of course it does. What is hard to believe that he keeps them alive. Without doubt, Child has studied what happens when you compile a lighted torch in a mine road with drops of kerosene. And it is easy to think it's very hot there. What is not easy to think that the resulting Really Hot Fire is not the end of the right standard. Even more difficult toI think the Air Force has an underground bunker full of thousands of pounds of Crystal Meth on the promotion of WWII flyer on the left.
The surprising thing is that reading this book, not even blinking when the stuff is flying with you. You are bound a. The type of Reacher distance courtship with a woman at a desk in Arlington, VA, is quite understandable for a guy who throws away his old clothes when they buy new sucked. That has never ReacherArlington VA actually going okay. Reacher is he, after all.
Reading this series is probably a good way to lose weight because you're not going to eat the effort. Really. Forget TV. serious mojo at work here. After a couple of these, one might be tempted to speak and act or be like Reacher. Do not even try. On the way to the library to reach the next to be cool. Be safe.

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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Feature

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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Overview

Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Specifications

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.

Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor.

Customer Reviews

I just this book today. I worked at Borders bookstore and this book has often been on the list of many students. I was more discouraged him and scratched my list to read (big mistake by me), I no longer work at the border and I recently bought this book. I can not tell you what, I'm a fan of Kurt Vonnegut. It 'been a pleasure to read this book and the writing was something I took. There are some good reviews on this book so I will not try my postown. I can only say that Vonnegut is a genius and all his books have a way of writing that brings readers back to his books.

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The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition

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The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition Overview

A new edition of The Hobbit with a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien’s own drawings and color illustrations, including the rare “Mirkwood” piece.

The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition Specifications

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.

The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber

Customer Reviews

"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit"
Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit respectable life in his hobbit-hole Bag End But things change when the wizard Gandalf led by drops - along with thirteen dwarves of Thorin Oak sign. Suddenly, Bilbo finds a pony position away from the Shire and into the great unknown, a dragon and treasure to defeat the hosts.

I liked:
WOW! This was a beautiful, fun book!
The Hobbit was never my favorite TolkienNovel, mainly because it is so childish (of course it seems, was written for children). But the audio book (and hear more before that) gave me a new appreciation for this joy.
First there are the characters, especially Bilbo. Bilbo seems to me like a boy really relatable. It 'easy to experience the content at home, and not interested in adventures. He should be pushed out of his house Gandalf, to focus on fun. It reminds me how I can go on: content,do not try new things, until my sister requires a new way.
My favorite character is, however, Gandalf. I like how crazy is, as he is intelligent and even affection for Bilbo. Gandalf knew that Bilbo was perfect for the job and would not allow Bilbo again, no matter what. It is also nice to see recurring characters in The Lord of the Rings.
The same story is so wonderful! Tolkien writes in an omniscient third person, that may occupy a great sense of humor. I like theOften directs comments to the public (note hobbits, trolls, etc.) and how the sound is clear. As for the real story: a pleasure! There is plenty of action, suspense, intrigue ... I read this before, but I learned new things and was always enthusiastic. I loved the story of how Bilbo and the dwarves are the trolls (bypassed so simple, but it shows how brilliant Gandalf) was, as Bilbo had the ring of Gollum, and the walk through the woods (so scary!).
And finally, the narrator ... Oh, he's such a pleasure was to be heard! I loved his voice, and I liked singing songs and poems in the book! Not many can pull off so convincingly!

I did not like:
I have many complaints, but there are some. First, there are thirteenDwarfs, and most of them have little or no character. Fili and Kili were young, fat Bombur, Balin I think that was the best view. Only Thorin had no development.
One thing that I liked The Lord of the Rings and have a lot of Tolkien's work was poetry. The Hobbit was only a few poems were great, but after a while 'I was tired of the weakness in a poem.

Dialogue / Sexual / Violence:
None.
None.
Though not graphic, there are someintense fighting between troops and goblins in the Misty Mountains and in the final battle.

Total:
I was calm about what I liked about this book surprised. I have never seen a Hobbit fan, but this time could be converted. It's fun, it's beautiful, is a piece of your childhood in the novel form. Highly recommended for those who want to have children again.

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The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing

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The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing Overview

“From everyday letters, e-mails, and reports to Web site content, proposals, and new media, you’ll discover what it takes to make every written word count.” --Jerry Allocca, President, CORE Interactive

 

Business writing that packs a punch: Make the most of your message to get what you want!

• The truth about supercharging your business writing
• The truth about writing directly, clearly, and convincingly
• The truth about writing in today’s varied business formats

 

Simply the best thinking

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

 

This book reveals 52 proven, bite-size, easy-to-use business writing techniques that work.

 

Natalie Canavor launched four national magazines for business and professional audiences and directed communications for New York’s largest educational agency.

 

Claire Meirowitz, an award-winning author, has served as project manager and copy editor for leading business publications. Natalie and Claire own and run C&M Business Writing Services.

Customer Reviews

"The truth about the new rules of Business Writing" is an excellent book for those thinking about how to be more efficient to learn their letter, the communication with customers and also on social media sites.

Writers Canavor Natalie / Claire Meirowitz (founder of C & M Business Writing Services write) to "52 truths" when it comes to writing and chapters are divided into the following:

PART I: the truth about what paperwork

Examples: "Me"Focused News Fail, Forget Yesterday contribution for today, you say - or break - your message, etc.

PART II: The Truth About Self-Editing

Examples: the best authors write, rewrite, less is often much more passive thinking and jargon compromising clarity

PART III: The truth about successful e-mail

Examples: Know your ticket by e-mail do's and don'ts, e-mail to communicate fast-powerful, etc.

And then in aAll the most important chapters like ..

PART IV: The Truth About Letters

Part V: The truth about the reports and proposals

Part VI: The Truth About Web sites

Part VII: The Truth About New Media

Part VIII: The Truth About Email to Self-Market

Part IX: The Truth About tricks

And even the possibility of recording more material access your book online.

JUDGEMENT CALL:

Personally, "TheThe truth about the new rules of business writing "could be a useful tool in the university curriculum. Caught in a college writing classes have responded in writing with the Associated Press, It Was anchored in our minds by our professors write in a way with Certain words that people no longer use in their vocabulary and write intelligently.

But when I took a business class style "Chicago of writing, is what we write memo, said e-mail and corporate communicationswriting.

But as more and more people to communicate via email, instant messaging, Twitter or social media, most people in haste and not be bothered to rewrite. How many times have you had people take a message they wrote out of context. sometimes requires a good written repetition, good manners and for the most part is Canavor Meirowitz and demonstrate a good job, how to write effective people.

Overall, "The Truth about the new rules of business writing is aexcellent resource for business communication and writing, and for those who have problems with communication, with a note, email, tweets, etc to know

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A Reliable Wife

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A Reliable Wife Overview

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.

What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love.

Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder. 

Customer Reviews

I would like this book almost a three-star hotel, but the story is good and well written. I also believe that many others can really love the way this author divides the history, the character popular belief '(which see pages). These thoughts provide important details that the reader slowly, but felt the thoughts for me were really confused that a patient reader. Again, I give 4 stars, because the thoughts are confused and do by this authorconfused thoughts really well, as if they really are the character heads. This is how this author chooses to tell his story.
As for the characters, I did not know at first and I'm not sure if I worry about what would happen to them, but I started. The plot is interesting and let me go if I felt the big never end. The characters make decisions seem less horrific and soul, but some seem to develop some depth and soul. Another reviewer mentioned howwould bring the book in despair, only to find themselves returning to it. I did the same. I felt like the characters used and abused and keep coming back!

Ultimately, the unforgettable and well worth reading and would recommend it. I want to read another book by this author.

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Sunday's Child

Sunday's Child Overview

Sunday Everette has a childhood unlike any other in the Jim Crow era of the South, growing up at the Pea Island Life-Saving Station among the barren dunes of North Carolina's stormy Outer Banks. In sheltered isolation, guided solely by the influence of the Station's heroic all-black crewmen, she blossoms into a strong and beautiful young woman with a spirit to match. But Sunday's secluded paradise cannot last. Her calm, simple days by the sea must inevitably give way to the fast-approaching storms of life. Unexpectedly, those darkening skies bring with them an unlikely mix of forbidden love, murder, and revenge along with a Nazi submarine carrying millions of dollars in gold stolen from Hitler's Third Reich. First in a trilogy, Sunday's Child begins the saga of three unique families from across the world, flung fatally together by three of mankind s most basic traits: war, love, and greed.

Customer Reviews

I loved this book! The main character, a Sunday was a strong woman who has survived some very difficult challenges in their lives. The other characters are warm, compassionate people, leaders Sunday along in life. The basic theme of Hitler and war add a historical element, the mystery and intrigue to bring the story is. He held my attention and was too hard basket. Great read!

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention Overview

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
   
In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it—the steam engine. In the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What made eighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors? Rosen’s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before: that people had the right to own and profit from their ideas.
   
The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the steam engine’s history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea. Along the way we enter the minds of such inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, scientists including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black, and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith—all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first a nation and then the world.
 
William Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the “aha!” moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations of science. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to readers fascinated with history, science, and the hows and whys of innovation itself.
 

Customer Reviews

I took this from a friend. We used Rosen's book, Justinian Justinian's Flea Flea: Plague, Empire appealed, and the birth of Europe. His new book has the same easy-reading style to another individual history. Just read the first chapter made me immediately. You can read the other reviews here ...

But what really disturbs me is that many people have only one star chosen for this book. You are not read in the vote on the quality, but the price of the bookThe publisher of the electronic version. Well, I bought the electronic version, and I also saved to the output. Yes, it is superior to many e-books, but is not the fault of the author. Come on, rate the book on its merits.

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The Last Child

The Last Child Feature

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The Last Child Overview

Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel

John Hart’s New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.

Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain.

Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.

Then a second child goes missing . . .

Undeterred by Hunt’s threats or his mother’s pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit.

Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.

Customer Reviews

The other reviews are correct - you can not down. Are spread fairly thin this summer, this book has followed me everywhere - it would probably be finished in a few days when I had more time on my hands. Made in the last 50 pages last week - did not end there. I also appreciate the format - short, intense numbers easily switch from one scene to another. Although I am not mistaken - this should not be stereotyped. I embraced the characters and the plot. This book was alsodesigned and has no "dropouts" at the end of disappointing as many in those days. Reading this book reminded of times when I was young and could really be lost in a book, as I do with this.

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A Nail Through the Heart: With Bonus Content

A Nail Through the Heart: With Bonus Content Overview

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Customer Reviews

Brutal torture and brutal empathy define this excellent, if sometimes familiar, thriller from Hallinan (polishing the Bone). Poke Rafferty, a travel writer turned detective wants to settled in Bangkok with his ex-prostitute girlfriend, Rose, and a young boy, Meow, meow, if Superman edited friend at home. Although this collapse is deductive Rafferty dual assignments to help pay for the adoption of meow. The first case concerns the searchAustralian Claus Ulrich, a hardcore bondage fan. If the powerful and wealthy lady Rafferty Wing encountered during the investigation, the disappearance Ulrich, she offers him $ 30,000 to be found in an envelope and the man who took cambodian. The only catch? If Rafferty opened the envelope, then learn it will provide information to Madame Wing that the force is to kill. Rafferty stumbles through the clues like the foreigner, he is always looking outside Despite an end too slow, the richImages of the mysteries of Bangkok visceral sleazy side recall John Burdett's. (July)

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Overview

In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.

An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division–3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.

Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill–and came to love–his fellow man.

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This classic is the definitive work on the war in the Pacific and the culture of the U.S. Marines during World War II. Slide with a deeply human account of the war are seen from the main job in the fight against. From the oppressive heat and tropical thirst Peleliu cold, wet, muddy clay Okinawa, Sledge takes the reader on a journey with the First Marine Division - the old race - through the depths of depravity and unspeakable horrors of war, as fought by regularfounded by the Japanese. heroics of value were rampant and commonplace as young Marines were struggling to survive the brutal violence and senseless killings, which were their daily companions. Few wild unharmed from the battle that cost many lives and many others of their soul. Sledge was one of the lucky ones who came home and finally exorcised their demons, telling his story. This book is a page-Turner that inform and inspire botheven with a passing interest in World War II.

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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition

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For marketers, The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers your business. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with the people who make your business work. This one-of-a-kind guide includes a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet to create compelling messages, get them in front of customers, and lead those customers into the buying process.

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition Specifications

A completely revised and updated edition of the BusinessWeek bestseller on effective, modern marketing and PR best practices

The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers your business. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with the people who make your business work.

This new second edition paperback keeps you up-to-date on the latest trends.

• New case studies and current examples are included to illustrate the very latest in marketing and PR trends.
• Completely updated to reflect the latest marketing and PR techniques using social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
• Includes a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet to communicate directly with buyers, increase sales, and raise online visibility
• David Meerman Scott is a renowned online marketing strategist, keynote speaker and the author of World Wide Rave, from Wiley

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Social Media Marketing Top Seven
Amazon-exclusive content from author David Meerman Scott

Establishing a social media marketing strategy and creating effective Web content that is indexed by search engines is critical for any business. When people are looking for answers to problems, they go online first!

People and organizations that participate in social media (creating YouTube videos, participating on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, starting a blog and the like) become part of a vibrant online community and show that market that they are worthy of doing business with.

Unlike non-targeted, in-your-face, interruption-based advertising, social media is content that people actually want to see. How cool is that? Rather than forcing you to convince people to pay attention to your products and services by dreaming up messages and ad campaigns, search engines deliver interested buyers right to your company’s virtual doorstep. This is a marketer’s dream-come-true.

However, most marketers don’t know how to harness this exciting form of marketing. Their most common mistake is to spend way too much time talking about your company’s products and services and worrying too much about being “on message.” In addition, many companies are fearful of jumping into the social media waters because it seems scary to put yourself out there.

Top Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of Social Networking Sites:
1. Target a specific audience. Create a page that reaches an audience that is important to your organization. It is usually better to reach a small niche market than try to go large.

2. Be a thought leader. Provide valuable and interesting information that people want to check out. It is better to show your expertise in a market or at solving a buyer’s problems than to blather on about your product.

3. Create lots of links. Link to your own sites and blog, and those of others in your industry and network. Everybody loves links—it makes the Web what it is. You should certainly link to your own stuff from a social networking site (like your blog), but also link to other people’s sites and content in your own market.

4. Encourage people to contact you. Make it easy for people to reach you online, and be sure to follow up personally on your fan mail.

5. Participate. Create groups and participate in online discussions. Become an online leader and organizer.

6. Make it easy to find you. Tag your page and add your page into the subject directories. Encourage others to bookmark your page with del.icio.us and DIGG.

7. Experiment. These sites are great because you can try new things. If it isn’t working, tweak it. Or abandon the effort and try something new. There is no such thing as an expert in social networking—we’re all learning as we go!

Customer Reviews

Good morning, social Rabbit with your guide to the world of social media.

Mental Monday is back this time I'm reviewing the new rules for marketing and PR Clock: How Social Media, Blogs, press releases, online video and viral marketing to Reach Buyers by David Meerman Scott to use directly.

This book has 21 chapters in three parts, starting with the web-how has changed the rules of marketing and PR moves to web-based communications to reach the buyer and the third partAction is to implement the web to exploit.

The book explains the various areas of marketing and public relations, including blogs, videos, press releases, websites, web content and marketing plans in writing. It contains many examples of how various ideas have been used in companies. The Action Plan section of the book is all about the application, for example, writing a blog, what, and so implementation will start at a basic level, so you want to see people, you have to goelsewhere. This is one of those books you pick up are based on a chapter or two, then put it back down and resume the next time you need it. There are a variety of information, suitable for beginners and for people, what they are doing there are many examples, know your creative juices flowing.

The following are some pieces that I enjoyed direct quotes from the book are ...

* The new rules in a workplace is requiredKnowledge and know-how with a world for what you offer looks
* It 'important to react quickly to situations as they unfold on the web. Respond quickly and transparently in the same forum where discussions take place is important
* Marketers have an active participation in the community for their markets. But is it possible not only on the virtual stand aside and after only if you sell something or comment on yourProducts and services.
The * social media sites have places for people to gather and discuss things that are important to them,
* The power of search engines, my blog is also the most important and effective for people to find me. Every word, every contribution will be indexed by Google ....
* The good news is that blogging generates certainly the costs for all the messages and creates an interesting blog regularly
* If you believe everything you readblogs? Hell no! This is similar to believe everything you hear on the street or in a bar Thinking about the Web as a city, but as a newspaper, and blogger offers individuals cast net impact on all citizens.
* "You can not reheat a souffle" Frazier John Quinn & Co best job in the world to speak to the Queensland Tourism Campaign
* The content is best delivered via audio or for buyers who prefer to listen to content, podcasting is, is obviouslyessential.
* The challenge for marketing is to harness the power of viral surprising
* The more I search the Internet - and I checked out of thousands in recent years - the more I realize that the best number of important factors combine in a way that is difficult to describe. Just feel - as if the creator of the website is very similar and wants to show with their passion.
* You must now think like a publisher. You should develop an editorialplan customers with targeted content in the media who prefer to reach
* Clear and easy to articulate what people want to believe
* An effective web marketing plan requires an understanding of ways of speaking the customer and the right words and phrases they use. This applies not only to build a positive relationship with online shoppers important, but also for planning effective search engine marketing strategies
* Web content does not sell products or services andAdvocates of a philosophy or image
* An effective marketing strategy and PR Web to distribute valuable content not to appear to buyers to act

If you try only the head around what can be achieved in online marketing, is to bring a good job, it seems from what you know, they need just in a format Understand. There are many examples and ideas as you can, but David did not tell you what to do, if this is something that is not available for this searchPaper. As these White Rabbit, marketing and PR in this day and age of the Internet is not a cookie cutter one size companies / results. Instead, companies need to figure out what to achieve them, who are their customers and they want commitment. What works is a matter of creativity, time and appeal to the public. This book will help you begin the road, but for those of you who are not creative, use it to find out more, and then hire someone to be creative for you!

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The Iliad

The Iliad Overview

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Customer Reviews

With many books, translations are negligible, of course, with two exceptions, one is the Bible, and surprisingly the other is the Iliad. Each translation can give a different vision and a sense of history. Everyone has a favorite. I have several.

For example:

"Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of the son of Peleus' Achilles
Murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
get off at the House of Death so many souls,
souls, great fighters'. But sincetheir bodies carrion,
Parties for dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving toward the end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,
Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles. "
Translated by Robert Fagles

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, which brought the Achaeans countless evils. Many brave soul has brought down quickly in the underworld, and many heroes were made prey to dogs and vultures for the know-Recommendations of Zeus from the date on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles first fell to the other satisfied. "
Translated by Samuel Butler

"Rage:
Sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles',
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Unpredictable pain countless souls
Dark heroes in Hades',
And their bodies may be red as Fixed
was for dogs and birds, as Zeus' will be done.
Start with the conflict between Agamemnon -
TheGreek Warlord - Achilles and divine. "
Translated by Stanley Lombardo

"Anger Immortal now your song,
Akhilleus Wrath doomed and ruinous,
causes loss Achaeans bitter loss
crowded and courageous in undergloom,
leave many dead - Aas
Dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was done.
Begins when the two men first contending
broke with the other -
Marshal Lord Agamemnon, son of Atreus, 'and PrinceAkhilleus. "
-Translated by Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

"Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son and its devastation, the pain brings thousands to Achain,
thrown into the crowd to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes, but gave their bodies for the banquet sensitive dogs, all birds, and the will of Zeus was the first time since this was the division of Atrecus conflict over "his son the Lord of men and brilliantAchilles. "
Translated by Richmond Lattimore

You will find that some translations can be read easier, but some are easier to listen to recordings, reading, Kindle, and the like.

Our story is set in the ninth year of the war. We have a little 'introduction in the first nine years, but they are only the backdrop to this story of pride, pain and revenge. The story will also end abruptly before the war.

We have the great conflict betweenthe Trojans and Achaeans over a matter of pride for the gods to take sides and many times direct spears and shields.

Even if the dispute is more concentrated the power struggle between two different kinds of power. The position of Achilles son of Peleus and the greatest warrior individual and that of Agamemnon, lord of men, whose power is formed.

We are a blow by blow Inside Story, what everyone thinks and deals with a stark description of the dangers of warand the search for Arête (more like Aries, God of War).

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In Too Deep: Husband Material\The Sheikh's Bargained Bride (Silhouette Desire)

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A fabulous summer two-in-one—twice the scandal all in one unforgettable volume!

Husband Material by Brenda Jackson

Beware the jilted husband: Matthew Birmingham never played fair…especially when it came to his ex-wife. When she moved across the country, he moved back to their estate—back to their bedroom—determined to win back her love…by any means necessary.

The Sheikh's Bargained Bride by Olivia Gates

Meet the shocked groom: Sheikh Adham saw marriage as a business venture, his wife a mere convenience…until they portrayed the loving couple in public. Would finally seeing his bride in a new light shatter all his rules?

Customer Reviews

It can be a warm relationship as the eruption of Vesuvius, and cold as an arctic tundra at the same time? If it is a product of the vivid imagination spring Olivia Gates' and qualified, then yes, yes it can. Bride of the Sheikh was negotiating the change is to try it.

Sabrina Adham and romance begins with a bang, as Olivia Gates moves back in the history of how they met, fell in love and were married at the same time with the disease, rapid decline and ultimate death of Sabrina once richand powerful father. His clumsy attempt to protect its companies and to ensure a future for her daughter are the basis for the title of conflict in this novel.

The chemistry between Sabrina and Adham steaming along from the first scene to last. Gates so true, the author has not a single occasion, all our senses, desires burning hero and heroine engage.

The hero is an uber-male, polo-playing Sheikh. TheThe protagonist is a beautiful, intelligent, stubborn and whose character is turning into an independent woman, ready to be a man, she does not believe love lost, even if it is a prince.

You'll be amazed how much passion is put into this story! It's enough to fill an entire book. There is a love of Olivia Gates-size stage, it burns the pages, but it's so deeply into the plot, the call is a "scene" is not just integrated. It 'more likeThe culmination of all executed brilliantly frustration and repressed desire that explodes in a confrontation, reconciliation, and finally an agreement.

This story has been so thoroughly addictive, I do not even with my favorite. And unusually intense for someone with a bubble that is saying a lot!

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Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)

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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

Hilary Mantel is the author of nine previous novels, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. She lives in England.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change.  England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

In Mantel's 16th century monarchy, individuals must fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

"It is a famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger: Thomas Cromwell in his finery, about 1534, looking formidable and clutching a piece of paper while he sits at a desk that holds the implements he used to write Henry VIII’s correspondence and draft Henry VIII’s laws. In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Cromwell, she has used Holbein’s delivery of the portrait as the basis for a dagger-sharp moment of truth . . . It is Ms. Mantel’s velvet-gloved delivery of such devastating observations, her book’s broad historical sweep and her counterintuitive choice to make Cromwell its primary focus that have helped make Wolf Hall a widely favored contender for this year’s Man Booker Prize . . . Her book’s main characters are scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words . . . Ms. Mantel also has improbable success in reinventing Anne Boleyn. Or at least she succeeds in newly underscoring Anne’s debt to Niccolo, as this book’s characters refer to Machiavelli. With the king’s friends, Cromwell notices: 'Anne is brittle in their company, and as ruthless with their compliments as a housewife snapping the necks of larks for the table. If her precise smile fades for a moment, they all lean forward, anxious to know how to please her. A bigger set of fools you would go far to seek.' And when Anne bears a daughter who can seemingly never inherit the throne (though she will of course grow up to be Queen Elizabeth I), Ms. Mantel provides a prime example of acerbic flair. The baby is described as 'an ugly, purple, grizzling knot of womankind, with an upstanding ruff of pale hair and a habit of kicking up her gown as if to display her most unfortunate feature.' Deft and diabolical as they are, Ms. Mantel’s slyly malicious turns of phrase would count for little more than banter if they could not succinctly capture the important struggles that have set her characters to talking. But she is able to place Cromwell on plausibly familiar terms with royalty and on a fair moral footing with More, that paragon of self-sacrifice . . . Wolf Hall is far too tricky a book to let Cromwell’s pronouncement be taken at face value. He is, after all, the king’s wily advocate. And he is never without an agenda. But this much is certain: More’s downfall has been assured by the time Cromwell finishes with him. Cromwell’s troubles, which will be no less lethal, are barely stirring when Wolf Hall ends. It is to be hoped that Ms. Mantel makes Cromwell’s endgame part of her future."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“A brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at all . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears.”—Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Books

“Whether we accept Ms Mantel’s reading of history or not, her characters have a lifeblood of their own . . . a Shakespearean vigour. Stylistically, her fly-on-the-wall approach is achieved through the present tense, of which she is a master. Her prose is muscular, avoiding cod Tudor dialogue and going for direct modern English. The result is Ms Mantel’s best novel yet.”—The Economist

“A novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henry’s formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. It’s no wonder that her masterful book just won this year’s Booker Prize . . . [Mantel’s prose is] extraordinarily flexible, subtle, and shrewd.”—Wendy Smith, The Washington Post

"Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. Wolf Hall has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged and falconlike. Trained in the law, Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator's day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil society—not of a medieval fief based on war and not, heaven help us, a utopia . . . Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is both spellbinding and believable."—Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review

“[Mantel’s] interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals, spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes . . . She always goes for color, richness, music. She has read Shakespeare closely. One also hears the accents of the young James Joyce.”—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

“Mantel’s abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England.”—Ross King, Los Angeles Times

“Instead of bringing the past to us, [Mantel's] writing, brilliant and black, launches us disconcertingly into the past. We are space-time travelers landed in an alien world . . . history is a feast whose various and vital excitements and intrigues make the book a long and complex pleasure.”—Richard Eder, The Boston Globe

“Historical fiction at its finest, Wolf Hall captures the character of a nation and its people. It exemplifies something that has lately seemed as mythical as those serpent princesses: the great English novel.”—Bloomberg News

"[Mantel] wades into the dark currents of 16th century English politics to sculpt a drama and a protagonist with a surprisingly contemporary feel . . . Wolf Hall is sometimes an ambitious read. But it is a rewarding one as well.”—Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitor

“The story of Cromwell’s rise shimmers in Ms. Mantel’s spry intelligent prose . . . [Mantel] leaches out the bones of the story as it is traditionally known, and presents to us a phantasmagoric extravaganza of the characters’ plans and ploys, toils and tactics.”—Washington Times

“There are no new stories, only new ways of telling them. Set during Henry VIII’s tumultuous, oft-covered reign,...

Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) Specifications

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn't stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels, histories, biographies, and plays--even past Henry himself--confident in the knowledge that to recast history's most mercurial sovereign, it's not the King she needs to see, but one of the King's most mysterious agents. Enter Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man and remarkable polymath who ascends to the King's right hand. Rigorously pragmatic and forward-thinking, Cromwell has little interest in what motivates his Majesty, and although he makes way for Henry's marriage to the infamous Anne Boleyn, it's the future of a free England that he honors above all else and hopes to secure. Mantel plots with a sleight of hand, making full use of her masterful grasp on the facts without weighing down her prose. The opening cast of characters and family trees may give initial pause to some readers, but persevere: the witty, whip-smart lines volleying the action forward may convince you a short stay in the Tower of London might not be so bad... provided you could bring a copy of Wolf Hall along. --Anne Bartholomew

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