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Now a Major Motion Picture
Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.
New York Times Book Review Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.
MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where d You Go, BernadetteThree minutes and forty-thr[...]
By the authors of the popular, "The Disney Way" - a "Fortune" magazine "Best Business Book", this is a blueprint for instilling creativity and teamwork - and achieving Disney-like results in your organization. Let "The Disney Way Fieldbook" help you put "show" into any business. Tinker toys? Ping Po[...]
Quickly build the vocabulary and English language skills you need to score high on the TOEFL exam. You have good grades, good board scores, and great recommendations from your teachers. Now the only obstacle separating you from your goal of getting into an American university is the Test of English [...]
Dennis Prince teams up with antique and collectible expert Lynn Dralle to provide all the information necessary to reap the huge benefits of selling antiques and collectibles on eBay. Written by an eBay Power Seller whose earnings topped $20,000 a month, this book helps you to research types and era[...]
Focusing on the complexities of load flow analysis, this book develops the major algorithms used, covers the handling of generators and transformers in the analysis process, and details how these algorithms can be deployed in powerful software. It offers the tools required to predict load usage and [...]
Shows how to apply Walt Disney's principles of Dream, Believe, Dare, Do, in companies for unprecedented growth and profits. This book analyzes how Mike Eisner "lost the pixie dust" and how Disney's CEO, Bob Iger, has reawakened that "sleeping princess of a company" by using Walt's legend as his comp[...]
A full-color guide to understanding, evaluating, and treating heart disease in fetuses and newborns A Doody's Core Title for 2011! 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "The illustrations are superb, with many full-color presentations and very clear radiographs and echocardiographic images...This is a well-writt[...]
Praise for Innovate the Pixar Way: "This tremendous book brings the magic and genius ofPixar to the page and lets us in on the secrets and intuitive synergy of such a successful company." -- Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to [...]
Introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. This title includes three overriding goals that helps students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, and to demystify the theoretical process.[...]
This is a pivotal year in one young man's life: Guy Boucher is a fatherless teenager oppressed by his small-town existence and dominated by his uncle, Isadore. Together with poverty and self-hatred, violence has been bred into Guy's very bones - and violence is one thing he can't shake off.[...]
Now published by "Academic Press" and revised from the author's previous "Five Kingdoms, Third Edition", this extraordinary, all inclusive catalogue of the world's living organisms describes the diversity of the major groups, or phyla, of nature's most inclusive taxa. Developed after consultation wi[...]
Examines the psychology, neuroscience, genetic, and medical research findings to date from autism research and provocatively suggests that what we've labeled "autism" is several different disorders, and the way forward for effective research for prevention and treatment.[...]
63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change ';The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organization's results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and [...]
When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, subu[...]
Lynn Barber's true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her li[...]
Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces [...]
When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and plans to move to an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebe's well-plotted senior year becomes ancient history. Now, instead of enjoying a triumphant track season and planning for college with her best friends, Phoebe is trying to keep her head a[...]
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe has recently learned that she's a descendant of Nike (the goddess, not the shoe). Now, in order to learn to control her newfound - and very strong - powers, she's being forced to attend Goddess Boot Camp. The only problem is, none of the other campers is over the age of ten[...]
There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children's lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of[...]
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrat[...]
The first comprehensive guide to helping teens with autism--from the acclaimed authors of Overcoming Autism
With an estimated half a million Americans under twenty-six on the autism spectrum, this book offers the reassurance, solace, and practical solutions that so many people are searching for[...]