Traditional thinking habits of businesses need to be greatly enhanced. Analysis & judgement are no longer enough to make important corporate decisions; you can analyse the past but you have to design the future. Corporate decisions depend on values. Disputes & conflicts often arise because of a clash of those values; each party in the dispute wants to pursue its own values often at the expense of the other party. It is therefore essential that companies managers & employees have a full understanding of the values of everyone involved to design a way forward that benefits all parties. From the bestselling author of How to Have a Beautiful Mind & Six Thinking Hats this groundbreaking business book provides a basis for value assessment an essential tool in decision-making for 21st century corporations. De Bono demonstrates that values come into all areas of thinking behaviour & decision-making & outlines a framework to focus employees attention on a variety of values including human values organisational values cultural values & perceptual values. By introducing a scoring system to rate different values as strong sound weak or remote de Bono helps readers to prioritise & make executive decisions that count. ...

During the Great War many boys went straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world
- that of junior officer
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Six Weeks to OMG" is the New York bestselling diet book by Venice A. Fulton. " The diet that's changing diets". (" Metro"). " Move over Dr Dukan meet the OMG diet guru". (" The Times"). "" Six Weeks To OMG" is quickly becoming one of the top slimming books on the market". (" Daily Mail"). Before we get started let's test your knowledge: true or false?: skipping breakfast can be healthy; certain fruits instantly block fat loss; small frequent meals are damaging; cellulite can be massively reduced in everyone; juices & smoothies cause overeating; & exercise is more than just how much & how hard. They're all true. Using science psychology & uncommon sense you will learn how to lose up to 20 pounds of body fat in six weeks. His plan originally designed for A-List celeb clients proves that quick fixes don't work but quick improvements are still possible. No one is born fat or destined to have cellulite forever. & if you think you've failed on a diet before think again
- the diet failed. Because anyone with the correct information
- & that means anyone
- can get skinny. & Venice A. Fulton will arm you with the necessary tools in " Six Weeks to OMG". Venice A. Fulton's expertise as a sports scientist helped formulate the ideal diet plan for his A-list clients producing fantastic & fast results. Now available for everyone you can also be as skinny as you choose to be. Venice is also a former writer for magazines including " Men's Health" & " Celebrity Bodies"."


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Divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived. CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages & failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty clever French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever...JANE SEYMOUR: the demure & submissive contrast to Anne Boleyns radical & vampish style...ANNE OF CLEVES: the mare of Flanders whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical beauty contest...CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king...CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him... In this dazzling study David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the womans point of view. Above all he establishes the interaction of the private & the public & demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy. ...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life revealing each as a distinct & compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events & where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition treason & violence. ...

Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie the love of his life marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone & six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings & when Jake comes across Todd's obituary he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for...but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is she's been married to Todd for more than a decade & with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life
- a time he has never gotten over
- is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart
- & who lied to him
- soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.



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Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie the love of his life marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone & six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings & when Jake comes across Todd's obituary he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for.. .but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is she's been married to Todd for more than a decade & with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life
- a time he has never gotten over
- is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart
- & who lied to him
- soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.



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Six-Figure Salary Negotiation" is the insiders guide to salary & benefit negotiation with wisdom & advice from six CEOs who are global experts in employment issues. The book takes a pragmatic & strategic approach to salary negotiations from determining ones value to interviewing & negotiating. Throughout the book the author & experts interviewed share highly effective negotiation strategies & techniques Each chapter

Features: interviews with CEOs who are recognised experts in areas related to specific employment issues as well as CEOs of other leading firms; stories & anecdotes related to employment compensation & salary negotiations; & exercises tips & checklists on each topic to help readers devise their own personalised strategies."

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When Barnaby sets off on his raft his mother tells him to stop at each village on the way to Limber Lea. Along the way he ends up collecting a wild & surprising bunch of passengers. Will he be able to transport them all to Limber Lea without any mishaps? ...

As the worst storm of the century breaks across the North West sweeping through Snowdonia & across the Mersey to burst upon Liverpool two women Molly & Ellen give birth to girls in a Liverpool maternity hospital. Despite their different backgrounds they become firm friends. Molly lives on a hill farm in Snowdonia while Ellen is married to Sam OMara a dock worker who is quicker with a punch than a kiss. After one punch too many Ellen throws her husband out & eventually leaves Liverpool to live with Molly in Snowdonia. Ellen & her daughter throw themselves into their new life with enthusiasm unaware that they are being watched by someone hiding in a ruined cottage higher up the mountain. & as another horrendous storm breaks across the hills the watcher makes his move. ...