Portrait of musician & guitar designer Les Paul, known in the music world as the ' Architect of Rock 'n' Roll'. As a young man, Paul played guitar for Bing Crosby & other jazz greats. Throughout the 1940s & 50s he had a string of hits in partnership with his wife, Mary Ford. At the same time he was designing what would become one of the greatest of all rock icons: the Gibson Les Paul guitar. He also pioneered the art of multitrack recording & overdubbing, & was responsible for techniques that would be used in recording studios throughout the world for the next forty years. ...

In the knowledge economy, the companies employ the most talented performers to compete & succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. This title shows what an uncertain & disastrous practice this can be. It states that star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate & lasting decline in performance. ...

Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up
- as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing
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For many years Sierra Leone & Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons. This travel book touches on one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a different moment in its history. ...