Truth Be Told...

Argues that predictability is perhaps the single most powerful management tool in making businesses efficient. The author contends that when businesses favor short-term profits over long-term predicta

Describes the advantages of heating with coal and explains how to use a coal stove, fireplace, or furnace safely and efficiently

"Both prolific and eloquent in her continuing indictment of parents who abuse their children and societies that tolerate such behavior."?Kirkus Reviews.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly has written one explosive thriller after another featuring Detective Harry Bosch. Now, in an electrifying departure, he presents a novel that breaks all the rules and will keep your heart racing and your mind guessing until the very last page. Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allen Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself.

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such miss

Carley Mattea never expected to become friends with a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin--especially not in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old Kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded. His doct

Shaw (history and women's studies, Ohio State U.) examines three generations of African American women social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers between the Civil War and World War II, between

With the advice of a book he borrows from the library, Milo Crinkley tries to make himself into a perfect person in only three days

No company ever shrank to greatness, conclude Dwight Gertz and Joao Baptista. Drawing upon their new study of more than 1,000 large companies, the authors argue that managers must move beyond the curr

The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a women's underwear factory nestles in the woods.Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realise that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She gets pregnant by Erich, the forestry worker. He's handsome, so they marry.Brigitte gets it right.Paula gets it wrong.

In February 1994, the Hoover Institution held a conference on Congress, inviting more than two dozen scholars, journalists, and members of Congress to participate in an array of panel discussions. The

In her first book, Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams gave readers an incredible and unprecedented guided tour of the world of autism--a mysterious and little-understood condition.??From her earliest years, Donna's world was dominated by disembodied patterns, sound, color, and movement.??Cut off from her emotions and unable to make any true connections with other people, Donna lived largely in isolation, avoiding the incomprehensible actions of others yet yearning to be normal.??After she endured twenty-five years of imprisonment, a diagnosis of autism enabled her to take the first steps toward freedom, to begin the arduous trek from her "world under glass" to the real world.Somebody Somewhere chronicles the four years since Donna's diagnosis and continues the journey she began in Nobody Nowhere.??Certain that she can no longer survive by straddling two opposing worlds, Donna vows to abandon entirely the comforting isolation of her universe of one.??The decision has brought both agonies an

With an Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the ge

Chapter OneWith fifteen cents and five minutes you too can use and understand I Ching.With six coins (one dime and five pennies) and this easy-to-use guide, tapping into the synchronicity of the univ

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?In A Social History o

Tired of taking care of her "different" brother, Eddie Lee, Christy and her friend set out for the pond to search for frogs, but Eddie follows them and soon threatens to spoil their day, in a sensitiv

The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributor

The long-awaited sequel to the runaway bestseller Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, f1

Introduces the famous saxophonist and his style of jazz known as bebop

Here are the answers to time's most infinite mysteries. Find out the connection between psychic dreams, ESP, precognitive visions and automatic writing -- and whether psychic power is a curse or a ble

Leanna is used to being center stage at playtime, so younger brother Norman always gets the boring roles. When Norman becomes tired of being the cat, he goes off to play on his own. Before the day is

Ten outlaws, ten states, ten stories of nineteenth-century fugitives remarkable because the events really took place. Mark Dugan’s latest outlaw chase reins in enough evidence to corral the cynics. Th

Amid the Depression, the Logan family struggles to protect their Mississippi farm and begins to feel the pressures of racial unrest when a friend is unjustly convicted of a crime by a white jury

Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the hous

"Sensible advice on how to give up childhood, accept yourself and your own maturity and deal with life on your own two feet."DALLAS TIMES HERALDIn this unique, bestselling question-and- answer guide t

This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to understanding past and current events in the Near East. These memoirs of an American Protestant clergyman reveal little known aspects of ma

This discography of Lester Young's recordings details 251 recording sessions listing title of piece, personnel, date and place of recording, label, matrix numbers, and more. The solography contains ev

Noted philosopher Kai Nielsen offers an answer to this fundamental question - a question that reaches in to grasp at the very heart of ethics itself.Essentially, this innocent inquiry masks a confusio

For over a decade, Robin McKinley's richly woven saga has gripped the imagination of readers and caused critics to hail her as a master of fantasy. It is the story of Aerin, haunted since childhood by the legend of her mother-a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died of disappointment after giving birth to a daughter, rather than the heroic son the kingdom needed. But little did the young princess know the long-dormant powers of her mother would wield their own destiny. For though she was a woman, Aerin was destined to be the true hero who would one day wield the power of the Blue Sword....

Farely Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies.??Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable.??He climbed tress and