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Good Morning, Midnight
2000 || Paperback || Jean Rhys || Penguin Books
Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men.
Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde...
The Scarlet Letter
2009 || Paperback || Nathaniel Hawthorne || Dover Publications Inc.
An "A" for "adultery" marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby's father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester's partner in adultery and force him to share her disgrace.
Masterful in its symboli...
Engineering Software Products / 1st edition
An Introduction to Modern Software Engineering
2000 || Paperback || Ian Sommerville || Pearson
Introduces software engineering techniques for developing software products and apps
With Engineering Software Products, author Ian Sommerville takes a unique approach to teaching software engineering and focuses on the type of software products and apps that are familiar to students, rather than focusing on project-based techniques. Written in an informal style, this book focuses on software engineering techniques that are relevant for software product engineering. Topics covered include per...
Making Sense of the Organization
2000 || Paperback || K Weick || Wiley
This volume brings together the best--known and most influential articles on sensemaking in organizations by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick. * Brings together the best most influential articles written by one of the gurus of sensemaking -- Karl Weick.
History: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
2000 || Paperback || John H. Arnold || Oxford University Press
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past.
Concepts such as causation, interpretation, a...
The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
2022 || Paperback || Robert L Heilbroner || Penguin Books
Defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. This work enables us to see more deeply into our history, and provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and Karl Marx: the desire to understand how a capitalist society works.
Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture / 1st edition
2000 || Paperback || Eilean Hooper-Greenhill || Taylor & Francis
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as:How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on t...
Difficult Conversations
How to Discuss What Matters Most
2023 || Paperback || Bruce Patton e.a. || Penguin Books
What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend or neighbor, asking a difficult favor, apologizing. This book helps you to turn your difficult conversations into positive, problem-solving experiences.
To the Lighthouse
2000 || Paperback || Virginia Woolf || Penguin Books
For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.
Corporate Governance Matters / 3rd edition
A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences
2023 || Paperback || David Larcker || Pearson
The Definitive Guide to High-Performance Corporate Governance Fully updated for the latest research, trends, and regulations, Corporate Governance Matters, Third Edition, offers comprehensive and objective information for everyone seeking to improve corporate governance--from directors to institutional investors to policymakers and researchers. To help you design highly effective governance, David Larcker and Brian Tayan thoroughly examine current options, reviewing what is and isn't known ab...