The authors are pro-business although not business-as-usual. The book is written first & foremost with the purpose of helping to improve business performance because business is after all the principal motor for growth & development in the world today. The authors argue that companies adhering to best practice in CSR & taking advantage of possibilities inherent in Corporate Social Opportunity" are good for shareholders as well as customers & employees." ...

When firms are on the brink of failure only turnaround management can restore performance & profitability. The key is to provide stability & create cash (and a breathing space) for building long-term success. This fully revised edition provides practical advice on restoring confidence through effective leadership & planning. It highlights the importance of communication with stakeholders staff customers & suppliers & how best to structure the capital base of an organization in order to fund recovery & future growth. Essential reading for chief executives consultants & merchant bankers (as well as investors tracking the progress of ailing businesses) this book offers a definitive set of tools & techniques. ...

A further episode in the Unquiet Bones series following the life & fortunes of Hugh de Singleton surgeon in medieval Bampton Oxfordshire Alan the beadle of the manor of Bampton had gone out at dusk to seek those who might violate curfew. When the following morning he had not returned home his young wife Matilda had sought out Master Hugh de Singleton surgeon & bailiff of the manor. Two days later Alan's corpse was discovered in the hedge at the side of the track to St Andrew's Chapel. His throat had been torn out
- his head was half severed from his body
- & his face hands & forearms were lacerated with deep scratches. Master Hugh meeting Hubert the coroner at the scene listened carefully to the coroner's surmise that a wolf had caused the great wound. & yet.. .if so why was there no blood?

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Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. Simple orders for Inspector O until he realizes they have led him far far off his department's turf & into a maelstrom of betrayal & death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down & eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings & murders
- & Inspector O discovers too late he has been sent into the chaos. This is a world where nothing works as it should where the crimes of the past haunt the present & where even the shadows are real. A corpse in Pyongyang's main hotel
- the Koryo
- pulls Inspector O into a confrontation of bad choices between the devils he knows & those he doesn't want to meet. A blue button on the floor of a hotel closet an ice blue Finnish lake & desperate efforts by the North Korean leadership set Inspector O on a journey to the edge of a reality he almost can't survive.


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A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description & analysis of English this book provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora & the rationale & basic methodology of corpus linguistics the author presents a number of case studies providing new insights into vocabulary collocations phraseology metaphor & metonymy syntactic structures male & female language & language change. In a final chapter it is shown how the web can be used as a source for linguistic investigations. Each chapter has study questions exercises & suggestions for further reading. Students will benefit from the books * Clear language & structure * Well-defined terminology * Step-by-step instructions * Generous up-to-date exemplification from different varieties of English around the world * Accompanying web-page with exercises & updated information about freely accessible corpora. ...

Speak & write English as if it were your native tongue! Are you tired of making the same mistakes in English again & again? End the bad habits that can leave the people you talk to confused. Correct Your English Errors warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make & explains the reasons behind the mistakes so you can correct yourself in the future. Improve your English skills with this fun & comprehensive guide & avoid all the common mistakes such as: Mispronouncing & misspelling words Applying your native language's grammar patterns to English Putting verbs in the wrong tense Using incorrect prepositions in expressions Confusing subject-verb agreement Correct Your English Errors offers exercises covering all parts of grammar & provides review passages to check that you are error-free. Soon biting your nails will be your only bad habit! ...

This is a witty fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying & frustrating French bloopers. Mixing genders inverting subjects & objects & trusting false cognates are just a few of the blunders English-speaking French-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your French Blunders" veteran French teacher Veronique Mazet identifies these & other common trouble spots & clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of French differ from those of English & why trying to translate word for word structure for structure from English can lead to big trouble. You will learn to break bad habits & correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for French language patterns with the help of: more than 1 000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid; a free app available on i Tunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders; numerous examples & practical exercises; quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms; & a " Hall of Shame" compendium of bad errors to recognize & correct." ...

From the author of Freedom a panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. The Corrections is now seen by many as one of the greatest American novels of the last decade. The Lamberts
- Enid & Alfred & their three grown-up children
- are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is ill & as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures secrets & long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street & Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed The Corrections brings an old-time America of freight trains & civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance hands-off parenting do-it-yourself mental healthcare & New Economy millionaires. It announces Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of American society & the American soul.

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You are about to enter a world of red velvet poles & mirrors. Where morals have been tainted & looks are deceiving the pursuit of pleasure leads to pain & nail-biting terror & naivety is the most dangerous attribute of them all. You are about to enter the world of Ria Kimura... Ever since her father's sudden death Ria has lived her life by the motto; you could get hit by a bus tomorrow." It is this reckless attitude which leads her to becoming an exotic dancer in one of London's top gentlemen's clubs & into the arms of Brad Harrison; a handsome Australian millionaire who entices her away from her old life to a glamorous new existence Down Under away from all her troubles. But the dream quickly descends into a nightmare & Ria soon finds herself all alone on the other side of the world...A dramatic Australian adventure packed with sex scandal & suspense CORRUPTED is a journey full of twists & turns that will have you addicted & begging for more." ...

Juan Cabrillo returns in Clive Cusslers Corsair" the sixth novel in the " Oregon Files". Off the coast of Somalia a battered old freighter is boarded by pirates whose sights are set on a hefty ransom... But these pirates have made a mistake. For this rusting freighter is none other than Juan Cabrillos secretive state-of-the-art fighting ship Oregon. & Cabrillo is about to turn the tables on a deadly Somali pirate captain. One spectacular battle later & Cabrillo finds himself embroiled in an even tougher assignment. The US Secretary of States plane has crashed on its way to a summit in Libya
- & she is missing. Cabrillo is the only one who can find her. But his search quickly involves a lost ancient jewel & a murderous plot by terrorists intent on plunging the world into chaos... The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler author of the thrilling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " Treasure of Khan" & co-author Jack Du Brul pit hero Juan Cabrillo & his crew against pirates & terrorists in the sixth novel in the " Oregon Files" adventure series " Corsair". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Sacred Stone" " Dark Watch" " Skeleton Coast" " The Plague Ship" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" all of which are all available in Penguin paperback."
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