Through his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble Sony Toyota Microsoft Ford & Ernst & Young with his firm The Energy Project Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we are working that greatly boosts our engagement & our satisfication with our work & increases our performance In this book he marshalls a wide range of powerful evidence from business research & psychology that shows that the current model of work -- in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours be able to multi-task be always accessible & online withstand often harsh & emotionally punishing treatment & be primarily driven by the need to make profits -- is not only not optimal it is specfically counter-productive because it saps us of our physical emotional mental & spiritual energy In order for us to perform at our best we must make a set of key changes in our work lives -- & in order to develop the full potential of their work force our managers & companies must institute changes that will provide us with the regular physical renewal emotional reward mental focus & stimulation; & sense of purpose & significance that we need ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Senator William J Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding routine western A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf prompting Summers to order newlywed triggerman Johnny Mack (Michael Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack The highlight of the film is the expert cinematography Watch for Sally Field in her first big-screen role as the slatternly Mercy Mc Bee ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play Coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell & Sam Rockwell 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is forced to spend a summer at his mother (Toni Collette)&s new boyfriend Trent (Carell)&s beach house in upstate New York Arrogant & a bully Trent likes to belittle Duncan at any opportunity leading the boy to take off on his bike to explore his new environment It is then he comes across the Water Wizz water park & before long a friendship develops between Duncan & the park manager Owen (Rockwell) Seeing the water park as the much needed escape he has been looking for Duncan keeps his whereabouts a secret from the others & thanks to Owen&s positive outlook & encouraging attitude begins to grow in confidence ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A stunningly rendered & casually erotic evocation of the story of Judas THE WAYS OF MAN is a modren take on spirituality dripping with male sexuality After betraying his best friend Judas begins a searching journey through a lush forest It is on this journey that he encounters a beuatiful young man But will this meeting provide Judas with the redemption he needs? ...

The wolf stalks the wilderness & our own imaginations Uncover its mysteries in this beautifully written non-fiction picture book Majestic & fierce proud & strong the wolf has always been a source of fascination
- & fear It remains one of the most misunderstood of all creatures frequently cast as our mortal enemy The truth is that wolves & humans are more closely connected than we dare to admit With beautifully lyrical language Smriti Prasadam-Halls explores the lightning speed echoing howl & family life of these mysterious animals revealing astonishing facts & overturning misconceptions as she does so Wildlife illustrator Jonathan Woodward brings the creatures to life with breathtaking papercut collage artwork This is non-fiction storytelling at its very finest The Ways of the Wolf has been endorsed by the UK Wolf Conservation Trust
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1919 The eyes of the world are on Paris where statesmen diplomats & politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world's nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War A horde of journalists spies & opportunists have also gathered in the city & the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation So when Sir Henry Maxted falls from the roof of his mistress's apartment building in unexplained circumstances their first instinct is to suppress all suspicious aspects of the event But Sir Henry's son ex Royal Flying Corps ace James Max' Maxted has other ideas He resolves to find out how & why his father died
- even if this means disturbing the impression of harmonious calm which the negotiating teams have worked so hard to maintain In a city where countries are jostling for position at the crossroads of history & the stakes could hardly be higher it is difficult to tell who is a friend & who a foe And Max will soon discover just how much he needs friends as his search for the truth sucks him into the dark heart of a seemingly impenetrable mystery
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Glynis Johns Diana Dors & Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives & often faltering progress of the inmates of a women&s prison Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry a writer & former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel & classic film Yield to the Night The Weak & the Wicked is directed by Henry&s future husband Oscar-nominated J Lee-Thompson The film is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Jean Raymond an upper-class woman with a gambling addiction is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women&s prison; gradually however her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there SPECIAL FEATURES Original theatrical trailers Image gallery Promotional material PDF ...

' Ryan Avent is a superb writer highly readable & lively' Thomas Piketty'A pleasure to read This is an important argument on ...

Adam Smith's 1776 Inquiry into The Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Published in 1778 The Wealth of Nations was the first book on economics to catch the public's attention It provides a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since based on small government & the freedom of citizens to act in their best interests It reassuringly assumes no knowledge of its subject & over 200 years on still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics This deluxe selected edition is a stylish keepsake from the Capstone Classics series This edition

Includes:: An abridged selection of all 5 books for the contemporary reader An original commentary offering new research & analysis by classic literature guru Tom Butler-Bowdon A biography & chronology of Adam Smith's life & the events surrounding the original publication of the work Today The Wealth of Nations is still essential reading for any business or self-development library reminding us that it is the ingenuity & drive of people not governments that remains the source of personal national & global prosperity

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