Not Even Trying

Not Even Trying

Author: Bruce Charlton

Publisher: Legend Press Ltd

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1789551439

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Real science is dead.


Creative People Must Be Stopped

Creative People Must Be Stopped

Author: David A Owens

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1118129024

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A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killers Everybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks. The author's model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. The book is filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples. The author's research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fox News and on NPR's Marketplace Includes illustrative examples from leading organizations Offers a practical guide for bringing new ideas to fruition even within a previously rigid organizational culture This book gives people in organizations the conceptual framework and practical information they need to innovate successfully.


The Secrets to Ruling School (Without Even Trying) (Secrets to Ruling School #1)

The Secrets to Ruling School (Without Even Trying) (Secrets to Ruling School #1)

Author: Neil Swaab

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1613128363

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It’s the first week of middle school, i.e., the Worst Place in the Entire World. How do you survive in a place where there are tough kids twice your size, sadistic teachers, and restrictions that make jail look like a five-star resort? Easy: with the help of Max Corrigan, middle school “expert” and life coach. Let Max teach you how to win over not just one, but all of the groups in school, from the Preps to the Band Geeks. Along the way, Max offers surefire advice and revealing tips on how to get through universal middle school experiences like gym class, detention, faking sick, dealing with jocks and bullies, and acing exams (without getting caught cheating). In an innovative format that is part narrative and part how-to, acclaimed illustrator Neil Swaab has created a hilarious new reading experience that is reminiscent of video games and sure to engage even the most reluctant reader.


How to Game People Without Even Trying

How to Game People Without Even Trying

Author: Elizabeth Cooke

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2015-08-26

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1480821055

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In the 1970s, international financier Saul Mammon is king. Hes enigmatic, charismatic, and, one could argue, evil. Nobody plays the game like Saul. His obsessive motivations are practically erotic in nature. He got what he wanted when he wanted it without even trying, but a sensational life lived so precariously on edge can never last. He was once a young boy in New York, born to a modest family, with dreams of climbing the gilded ladder to riches and fame. He achieves all this and more with direct connection to leaders not only in the United States but also in the Soviet Union, Paris, and beyond. His only daughter, Sara, watches from the sidelines as her father inches ever closer to the world of power and deceit. Sauls brilliance and dark side eventually lead to his mysterious death and a rapid cover-up. Perhaps it was inevitable that such an ambitious man would fall, but Sara is haunted by questions, most of which will never be answered. Based on a true story, the rise and fall of Saul Mammon shows what happens when ambition turns malicious and when money is never enough.


Ron

Ron

Author: Las Chance

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-11-09

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1467060739

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Ron, Owen and Nathan are brothers who happened to be triplets as well. While they were teenagers they created a silly game to fool people who were not aware that there were three boys not just one. They never expected that playing that silly childhood game one more time would change their lives forever.


The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther

The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther

Author: Donald K. McKim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-10

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521016735

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Martin Luther (1483-1546) stands as one of the giant figures in history. His activities, writings, and legacy have had a huge effect on the western world. This Cambridge Companion provides an accessible introduction to Martin Luther for students of theology and history and for others interested in the life, work and thought of the first great Protestant reformer. The book contains eighteen chapters by an international array of major Luther scholars. Historians and theologians join here to present a full picture of Luther's contexts, the major themes in his writings, and the ways in which his ideas spread and have continuing importance today. Each chapter serves as a guide to its topic and provides further reading for additional study. The Companion will assist those with little or no background in Luther studies, while teachers and Luther specialists will find this accessible volume an invaluable aid to their work.


Hawthorn Hills Complete Box Set

Hawthorn Hills Complete Box Set

Author: Claire Raye

Publisher: Claire Raye

Published: 2023-12-06

Total Pages: 2226

ISBN-13:

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The Hawthorn Hills Duet Series follows four couples. Each two-book duet must be read in order to enjoy the couple’s full story and we highly recommend reading the whole series in order as the stories and characters are all interconnected. Within this eight book boxed set, you’ll find angst-filled, slow-burn, epic love stories, along with some topical storylines, some amazingly real and raw characters and of course, plenty of steam and swoon!


Incerto

Incerto

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Publisher: Random House Trade

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 1873

ISBN-13: 059324365X

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The landmark five-book series--all together in one boxed set The Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don't understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions, in non-overlapping volumes that can be accessed in any order. The main thread is that while there is inordinate uncertainty about what is going on, there is great certainty as to what one should do about it. This boxed set includes: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS THE BLACK SWAN THE BED OF PROCRUSTES ANTIFRAGILE SKIN IN THE GAME


Topsy-turvy 1585

Topsy-turvy 1585

Author: Robin D. Gill

Publisher: Paraverse Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 0974261815

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In 1585, Luis Frois, a 53 year old Jesuit who spent all of his adult life in Japan listed 611(!) ways Europeans and Japanese were contrary (completely opposite) to one another. Robin D. Gill, a 53 year old writer who spent most of his adulthood in Japan, translates these topsy-turvy claims - we sniff the top of our melons to see if they are ripe / they sniff the bottom of theirs (10% of the book), examines their validity (20% of the book), and plays with them (70% of the book). Readers with the intellectual horsepower to enjoy ideas will be grateful for pages discussing things like the significance of black and white clothing or large eyes vs. small ones, while others with a ken to collect quirky facts will be delighted to find, say, that the women in Kyoto were known to urinate standing up, or Japanese horses had their stale gathered by long-handled ladles, etc., and serious students of history and comparative culture will gain a better understanding of the nature of radical difference (exotic, by definition) and its relationship with the farsighted policy of accommodation pioneered by Valignano in the Far East.