Mark Ashby
1) The American
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Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry a beautiful aristocrat, he must overcome the machinations of her impoverished but proud family. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, and Brenda Fricker.
2) Lost Cause
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question-until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during the time he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Steve decides to trace...
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In 1999, an elite interdisciplinary team headed by Nobel laureate Andrew Danicek gathered in California to carry out a ground-breaking time-travel experiment. While the rest of the world remained unaware, Julius Caesar was successfully transported from his last Ides of March to a specially-constructed covert facility. Four days of conversation with historians and Latin scholars were planned, followed by Caesar's return to the moment from which he...
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Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple project teams and thousands of activities, program managers have one of the most challenging jobs in the market. Too many overburdened managers are leaving otherwise great jobs, even the field entirely, because they haven't equipped themselves with the right tools in hand to take on this complex but fulfilling job.
In order to see a program successfully through...
5) Broken Arrow
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Steve thinks he made the right choice turning down a snowy week with his cousins at a cabin in northern Ontario in favor of a relaxing (and perhaps romantic) time under the Spanish sun with his friend, Laia. But when an email from his brother DJ arrives, implicating their grandfather in some shadowy international plots involving nuclear bombs, Steve and Laia immediately put aside all thoughts of a lazy, sun-drenched vacation. In a desperate attempt...
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"Lewis Carroll's follow-up to his classic "Alice in Wonderland", with further adventures of Alice. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story." -- Amazon.com
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According to research by the American Society for Training Belief, and a Plan for salespeople who have struggled to achieve success. o Teaches salespeople to take responsibility for their success o Includes a simple six-step process for goal setting and attainment o Presents core selling and communication methodology based on creating awareness and choice for the client, which results in happier customer relationships.
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Neuromarketing studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts use this to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and why consumers make certain decisions. This scientific approach to marketing has helped many brands and companies determine how to best market their products to different demographics and consumer groups. Brainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience...
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A new generation of leader is emerging, the next generation business strategist: "Outhinkers." They are entrepreneurs and corporate managers with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during...
10) The Number That Killed Us: A Story of Modern Banking, Flawed Mathematics, and a Big Financial Crisis
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In the 1990s regulators and policy makers worried about the risk that financial institutions were carrying. Once the walls between investment and commercial banking came down with the repeal of Glass-Steagall, both trading and lending (and everything in between) were now housed under one roof with institutions freely accessing funds from one part of the institution to the other. But Glass-Steagall had just been repealed so how to fix the risk problem?...
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Leadership Isn't For Cowards offers no nonsense straightforward steps to leading courageously and practical applicable steps to driving performance while maintaining a great place to work. It presents the reasons people don't lead courageously and the steps to break through the resistance most leaders have. Courageous leadership means toughing your approach by being rigorous in the application of your values and heartbeat through the company culture....
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Respected Christian couples open up about the wisdom that has made the difference in their marriage. Nearly 20 of todays Christian authors, speakers, and entertainers relay their joys and fears, their triumphs and failures and the advice that got them through in this inspiring collection from Focus on the Family. The names of these husbands and wives, like their experiences, will be familiar to anyone whos ever said, I do. But the transforming advice...
13) The Corruptions
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When two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring-if not Hollywood-style-escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor's mansion. But what Marconi and his sidekick, Blood, don't yet realize is that something more...
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Well-known Christian moms and dads reveal the words that have mattered most for their family. Whether its a crying baby or a rebellious teenager, every parent has moments with their kids that they wish theyd been better prepared to handle if only theyd known. This audio book, published in conjunction with Focus on the Family, shares heartwarming and vulnerable experiences from well-known moms and dads. Their surprising, sometimes humorous, and always...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest.
In Gandhi: A Very...
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7Twelve represents the 7 major asset classes and 12 subgroups that truly count in a well-diversified portfolio. Over the last 10 years, the numbers generated by 7Twelve are nothing less than stellar-and you can do similarly using major mutual fund companies and ETFs by spending a fraction of time each month or each quarter to rebalance. 7Twelve founder, Prof. Craig Israelsen, shows just how easy it is to manage a successful portfolio with a plan,...
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Substantial market trends and transformational innovations are creating markets and making others irrelevant. The result is a major threat for nearly every business and a significant opportunity for a few. This book will be the first marketing strategy book to develop and leverage the concept of brand relevance. To remain relevant, a firm can create a new category or subcategory-- such as iPod, Cirque du Soleil, and eBay did-- where competitors are...
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Getting Started in Currency Trading, Second Edition will act as both an introduction and a reference manual for beginning and intermediate traders. A description of the Foregin Exchange (FOREX) market and a brief history are followed by a section of FOREX terms clearly defined with examples. The FOREX market has grown substantially and evolved dramatically in recent years, and this new edition helps you adapt to these changes. The reader is then taught...
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Social media is having a major impact on marketing. It is the glue that leverages the consumer’s views and opinions across all elements of a retailers business. Retailers are becoming aware that social media offers promising ways they can benefit from it, such as improving brand awareness, listening to consumer sentiments, creating incentives to drive cross-channel traffic and purchases, building content-focused communities to improve loyalty, enticing...
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In AbleTrend, Dr. Wang discloses, for the first time, the fundamental principles behind his bestselling trading system, AbleTrend signals. Sophisticated in scope, yet written in language that traders at all levels can understand, this book presents the theory behind an award-winning robust trading system developed by a recognized authority and expert trading system developer. AbleTrend presents the logic behind the system that reveals the direction...