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The 80 Minute MBA
Think of The 80 Minute MBA as your reduced Shakespeare for business. A traditional MBA might get you in the door, but it won
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The Circle Of Reason
Following the form of the raga in Indian classical music, Amitav Ghosh slowly builds the tempo of The Circle of Reason. The first part spans several decades, the second unfolds over a few weeks, and the third, like a scherzo, races through a day.Ghosh
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Agelesss Body, Timeless Mind
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old Few people are better qualified than Deepak Chopra to show us the extent to which the reshaping of the aging process is within our control. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind has been a huge bestseller around the world. It combines lucid theory, case studies and a wealth of practical exercises to demonstrate the innate intelligence of the mind/body processes and the extent to which sickness and aging are created by nothing more than gaps in our self-knowledge. By increasing this self-knowledge, we can master simple yet effective ways to metabolise time, and so achieve our unbound potential.
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The Consequencess Of Love
Under the hot sun, the Jeddah streets make a scene from an old black-and-white movie: the women dressed like long, dark shadows and the men in their light cotton tunics. Naser's friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can't get away: he's an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash. During his time off, he sits beneath his favourite palm tree, writing to the mother he has left behind in Africa and yearning for the glamorous Egyptian actress he hopes to meet one day. It's hard to adjust to a world that puts up so many barriers between men and women: walls in the mosque, divider panels in the buses and veils on the street.Naser feels increasingly trapped, not least by the religious police who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. A splash of colour arrives in Naser's world when, unexpectedly, a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note, from a woman whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. She tells him that she will wear a pair of pink shoes the next time she passes so that he can pick her out from the other women in their identical black abayas. Erotic tension runs high; Naser and his 'habibati' begin to exchange letters. But in moments of doubt the pink shoes seem to lead him into a cul-de-sac of thwarted desire, fraught with danger. Relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule - and it's not long before their real, but illicit, love must face the hardest test of all...
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Wedding Season
Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth - she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding she somehow finds herself agreeing to organise two more, on the same day and only two months away. Luckily Sarah has two tried and tested friends on hand to help her. Elsa, an accomplished dress designer who likes to keep a very low profile, and Bron, a multi-talented hairdresser who lives with her unreconstructed boyfriend and who'd like to go solo in more ways than one. As the big day draws near, all three women find that patience is definitely a virtue in the marriage game. And as all their working hours are spent preparing for the weddings of the year, they certainly haven't got any time to even think about love. Or have they?
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No Choice But Seduction
When Sir Anthony Malory's daughter is abducted from Hyde Park, the ransom note mistakenly falls into the hands of Boyd Anderson, a hot-headed sea captain, who vows to find the missing girl. Vivacious Katey Tyler, hoping to meet her relatives in England and seek adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe, finds more than she bargains for when she discovers a little girl bound and gagged in a remote country inn. She escorts the girl back to her family in London, but finds that she is blamed for kidnapping the very girl she rescued! Little does Katey realize that with Captain Anderson she's about to experience more adventure and passion than she ever imagined, as well as learning the startling truth about her real father's identity.
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Hester Waring's Marriage
Miss Hester Waring's father was a wastrel and a drunkard, who had alienated most of Sydney society. When he died, Hester found herself destitute and alone, with no one to rely on. Her rescue came from a most unlikely source -- Mr.Tom Dilhorne, an ex-convict, now the richest man in Sydney. He engineered a teaching job for her, but knew that if he was to be accepted by society he needed a lady for a wife. And Hester was every inch a lady. Luckily the skinny schoolteacher wasn't at all his type, so he wouldn't be in danger of losing his heart...would he?
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His Trophy Wife
When Morganna Ashworth's father died, leaving her his depts. Sloan Montgomery realized he could finally achive his two lifelong ambitions: the acquisition of a socailly acceptable wife, and revenge on the Ashworth family! In return for him paying the depts, Morganna became Mrs. Sloan Montgomery. But once they were wed, sloan didn't bargain on falling deeply in love with his trophy wife! Especially considering all the secrets and lies between them...