Organizations must choose between people and profits, right? Wrong, argue the authors of "Higher Ambition". In fact, as global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts with their people, their customers, their communities, and th[...]

This blue-chip bible for globe-trotting connoisseurs, completely revised and updated for 2012, is as extravagantly entertaining as the bestselling previous editions. In addition to top ten lists in dozens of categories and a 21st-century Grand Tour to more than 20 fabulous places, award-winning auth[...]

In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress.[...]

Suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old, this book offers a selection of Greek myths, retold to make them more accessible for children. It includes: "The Gorgon's Head", "The Three Golden Apples" and "The Paradise of Children", among others.[...]

This book will provide the sophisticated Drupal user with a daily source-book for ideas and guidance in deploying a high-performance Drupal site, as well as a cover-to-cover read and reference manual for the beginner and intermediate user.[...]

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios[...]

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a ""meteor in the hemisphere."" Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment[...]

The Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild is the only full length biography of Nathaniel, the first Lord Rothschild (1840-1915). The Rothschild family in all its branches is of compelling and continuing interest and fascination. A family that could make or break dynasties, that could bankrupt ind[...]