SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017' Funny ambitious immensely humane & full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times' Extraordinary wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC Radio 4' Wholly original & hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later death visits everyone Before that they meet Charlie Charlie meets everyone
- but only once Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy sometimes as a warning Either way this is going to be the most important meeting of your life The End of the Day is the stunning new story from Claire North the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' Reaffirms the passion & ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus' Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian' Compelling keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle
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' That's not my job' If you don't want your employees to say that why do you start your relationship by giving them a narrow task & competency focused description of their job? We need people to fulfil many different roles at work yes the need to do their job but they also need to contribute positive energy collaborate & take personal reasonability for innovation & personal development How do they fit into a traditional job description? It is futile persevering with the job description borne out of the scientific management movement one hundred years ago The world of work is vastly different to the assembly lines of the Ford Motor Company of the early twentieth-century Building on the phenomenal success of The End of the Performance Review Baker examines four essential ' Non-Job' roles that all employees must fulfil & shows how to create meaningful role descriptions that can help you recruit better people & enable them to deliver better results ...

No civilization no matter how mighty it may appear to itself is indestructible'-Niall Ferguson We do not need to invent the world anew The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion & repair but not reconception'-Fareed Zakaria Fears of a globalized world are rampant Across the West borders are being reasserted & old alliances tested to their limits Could this be the end of the liberal order or will the major crises of the twenty-first century strengthen our resolve? ...

The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular & dramatic events But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs Raid after police raid followed with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour In protest there were riders' strikes & go-slows with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled By the time the Tour reached Paris just 96 of the 189 starters remained & of those 189 starters more than a quarter were later reported to have doped The 1998 Tour de Farce's' status as one of the most scandal-struck sporting events in history was confirmed Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy
- what became known as the Festina affair It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question & the cycling family began to split apart & yet ironically the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis & a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers step by step how the world's biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees He explores its long-term consequences
- & what if any lessons were learned

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The first & only novel by Lydia Davis winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013' It surprised me over & over to find that I was with such a young man He was twenty-two when I met him He turned twenty-three while I knew him but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore' Mislabelled boxes confusing notes wrong turnings
- such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel With compassion wit & what seems to be candour she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself & her past but we begin to suspect along with her that given the elusiveness of memory & understanding any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction Back in print at last this is Lydia Davis's first
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- novel ' Extraordinary' Newsday' Brilliant' New Yorker' Breathtakingly elegant' Details' Beautifully written' Marie Claire' Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories one novel & six short story collections most recently Can't & Won't She is the recipient of a Mac Arthur Fellowship & was named an Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French government for her fiction & her translations of modern writers including Gustave Flaubert & Marcel Proust She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013


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The End of the World RPG Revolt of the Machines ...

The Number One Bestseller & featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club 'A real find' STEPHEN KINGTHE ULTIMATE RACE-AGAINST-TIME THRILLERWhen the world ends & you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country every second counts No one knows this more than Edgar Hill 550 miles away from his family he must push himself to the very limit to get back to them or risk losing them forever His best option is to run But what if your best isn't good enough? An original & powerful post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of The Martian ...

An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics In The End of Theory Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition & the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises What model should replace it? None At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years Instead Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises & managing those that break out As he explains our varied memories & imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic unrealistic structure of our current economic approach Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation & emergence when innocent everyday interactions combine to create sudden chaos Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics The End of Theory offers a novel & innovative perspective along with a more realistic & human framework to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again ...

'A wonderful book about wonderful books & mothers & sons & the enduring braid between them'
- Mitch Albom author of Tuesdays With
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The cult-hit Manning Award-nominated mini-series gets collected with bonus content! When the Biblical apocalypse starts charming bastard Bram Carlson is raptured into Heaven in a "clerical error" After he&s sent back to Earth Bram decides to cash in the end of the world for all it&s worth! But can his anxious roommate Ben save his friend from himself & the mounting forces of Armageddon? Check out the book the Onion&s AVClub called "hilarious" & IGN called "an amazing series!" ...