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Business Voyages

Mental Maps, Scripts, Schemata, and Tools for Discovering and Co-constructing Your Own Business Worlds

By: Richard John Stapleton

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Business Voyages

Mental Maps, Scripts, Schemata, and Tools for Discovering and Co-constructing Your Own Business Worlds

By: Richard John Stapleton

Business Voyages is not a business fairy tale. Much of it really happened. Don't read this book if you are looking for simple answers and magic formulas. Although the book includes some concepts and techniques anyone should know about people and business, it does not promise success. Business Voyages is problem-oriented, presenting some of the problems encountered by the author and others on their business voyages, while explaining tools and processes anyone can use for analyzing and dealing with inevitable problems that will be encountered in any business world. Business Voyages is also opportunity-oriented, showing the reader how one might embark on a business venture at the right time and place and enjoy the winnings of a successful voyage.

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756

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413480810

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9781413480818

My Grandfather's Prison

A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City

By: Richard A. Serrano

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My Grandfather's Prison

A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City

By: Richard A. Serrano

James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City’s skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natural causes—yet they could not explain his broken neck. When Richard Serrano learned of the grandfather he had never known, the longtime journalist embarked upon a search that led him deep into the city’s wide-open and ignoble past. He stumbled upon his maternal grandfather’s death certificate from 1948 and discovered that the evidence pointed to murder in that basement cell. That revelation triggered a blizzard of questions for Serrano and provided the impetus for this engrossing story. Part memoir, part historical mystery, My Grandfather’s Prison takes readers back to a crossroads year for Kansas City. The Great Depression and World War II were over, yet vestiges still lingered from the corrupt Pendergast political machine. The city jail itself was a throwback to the old lockups and rock piles of popular fiction, while the sheriff’s office was dishonest and inept—and tried to cover up the death. Much has been written about Tom Pendergast and the iron hand with which he ruled Kansas City until his fall. Serrano’s personal journey into that time takes the story further into those crucial years when the city tried to shake off the yoke of machine politics and political corruption and step into a new era of reform. In his quest to uncover the details of his grandfather’s life, Serrano re-creates the flavor of mid-twentieth-century Kansas City. He shows us real-life characters who broaden our understanding of the city’s history: sheriffs and deputies, political bosses and coroners. And he also discovers a city filled with lost souls like James Lyons: the denizens of Kansas City’s skid row, a neglected area near the river bottom that once housed the city’s gilded community but now was home to derelicts and drunks. As Serrano gradually comes to terms with the darker side of his family history, he traces a parallel reconciliation of the city with its own sordid past. James Lyons died just as the old ways of the city were dying, and this spellbinding account shows how one town in one time struggled with its past to find a brighter future.

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164

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University of Missouri Press

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0826271987

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9780826271983

101 WAYS TO SUCCEED

By: Richard de Meath

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101 WAYS TO SUCCEED

By: Richard de Meath

It is little surprise there has been an upsurge in books that tell us how to be successful, how to become rich without really trying and of how to become some sort of winner. secret formula, that whatever your dream is, it will be yours for a mere couple of hundred dollars. In the real world, success is achieved by adopting the tactic of thinking bigger than the next person, by recognising that life will give you back exactly what you expect from it, and nothing more. One of the simple truths of life is that the lower your expectations remain, the lower your returns will be as a result. Within the pages of this book there are various articles written by people, many of whom are outstanding successes in their field. They describe what makes them different to others, how they think and act and more especially, what works for them.

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165

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Lulu.com

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1471093875

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9781471093876

Unmaking the West

"what-if" Scenarios that Rewrite World History

By: Philip Eyrikson Tetlock,Richard Ned Lebow,Geoffrey Parker

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Unmaking the West

"what-if" Scenarios that Rewrite World History

By: Philip Eyrikson Tetlock,Richard Ned Lebow,Geoffrey Parker

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University of Michigan Press

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0472031430

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9780472031436

Fine Margins

By: Richard Buxton

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Fine Margins

By: Richard Buxton

Fine Margins is the definitive story of how two mainstays of English football took their feuding on to the game's biggest stages. The Manchester City and Liverpool rivalry is synonymous with the Premier League, but its roots go back much further. For over half a century, these two clubs from opposite ends of the M62 have been perennial thorns in each other's side. Bill Shankly laid the groundwork in the late 1960s before a series of clashes a decade later further stoked the fires, culminating in an attack on City's team bus in 1981 after they beat Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield. The feud was reignited in the mid-1990s when Liverpool relegated City on the final day of the 1995/96 Premier League season. When they returned to the top flight, Manchester's blue half became the scourge of Merseyside's Redmen, snatching players and points away from them. Countless managers, players and directors have continued what started in the Bill Shankly era, with the rivalry ramped up a notch through the reigns of Pep Guardiola and J&ürgen Klopp.

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409

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eBook Partnership

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1785317474

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Business Voyages

Business Voyages

My Grandfather's Prison

My Grandfather's Prison

101 WAYS TO SUCCEED

101 WAYS TO SUCCEED

Unmaking the West

Unmaking the West

Fine Margins

Fine Margins

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