Fierce Conversations is a way of conducting business. An attitude. A way of life. Communications expert Susan Scott maintains that a single conversation can change the trajectory of a career marriage or life. Whether these are conversations with yourself partner colleagues customers family or friends Fierce Conversations shows you how to have conversations that count. Scott reveals how to: * Overcome the barriers to meaningful conversations * Express who you are & what you believe * Confront tough issues with courage confidence & sensitivity * Overcome fear to get to the heart of the problem * Inspire followers attract believers & build visions that become reality * Bring about real change through talking * Encourage others to reveal their true opinions Packed with exercises & questionnaires to help you have the best conversations possible Fierce Conversations will revolutionise the way you communicate. ...

Hire smart people... Hold people accountable... Focus on the client... For years these mantras have been blindly adopted by business leaders everywhere but as Susan Scott shows these so-called best practices are ineffectual cost companies vast sums & drive away the most valuable employees & customers. Yet they are so deeply ingrained in our organisational culture that no one has questioned them until now. Informed by over a decade of research & work with CEOs & senior executives of the worlds leading companies Susan Scott reveals why these established practices are so wrongheaded & shows you how to spot the signs that you are falling prey to them & why they are adversely affecting your business. She then in her direct no-nonsense style suggests a series of surprising & smart alternatives that you should put in their place. ...

Fifteen-year-old Finn Earls mother Liz is a thirty-two-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Lizs habit forces them to flee the city they find protection under the wing of one of her clients ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle a golden playground for the super-rich Finn discovers a people who are stranger & more savage than any tribe in National Geographic. Offered a new life & new friends he falls in love & grows up fast. But on what should be the happiest night of his life on an island in the middle of a private lake naked & high with Osbornes bewitching granddaughter someone is watching him from the depths of the forest & laughing. ...

1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance with the rich colonial aristocracy on one side & the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser a man of honour a man of worth. Exiled from his beloved Scotland he is at last possessed of the land he has longed for. By his side his extraordinary wife Claire a woman out of time & out of place blessed with the uneasy gift of the knowledge of what is to come. In the past that knowledge has brought both danger & deliverance to Jamie & Claire. Now it could be a flickering torch that will light their way through the perilous years ahead
- or might ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes. The Fiery Cross" is by turns poignant page-turning meticulous in its historical detail & searingly passionate."
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Paris in the twenties: Pernod parties & expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley aristocratic & irresistibly beautiful but with an abandoned sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta & the heady atmosphere of the bullfight their affair is strained by new passions new jealousies & Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves. Powerful intense & magnificent Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius & set him on the way to being one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century. ...

Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life but it's not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic & your six-year-old brother thinks he's a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night Laurence tells nobody terrified he & his brother will be taken into care if anyone finds out. Instead he attempts to keep up the pretence that Mum is still around: dressing up in her clothes to trick the neighbours & spinning an increasingly complicated tangle of lies. After two weeks on their own running out of food & money & with suspicious adults closing in Laurence finally discovers what happened to his mother. & that's when the trouble really starts.. .A compelling thriller filled with some hilarious & surreal moments. Fifteen Days Without a Head is a tender honest story about family forgiveness & hope. ...

Sexy tender funny & haunting by turns the stories in Alison Mac Leods daring new collection are tales of lovers would-be lovers & lovers gone wrong. Here we discover ECT patient Gloria who falls for her anaesthetist Dr Numb; the cerebral Nick who chases after the heavily pregnant Katie at an Ikea sale; & the legendary lovers Heloise & Abelard re-imagined for the twenty-first century. With settings that range from a cheap Paris cafe to Londons Hayward Gallery & from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast these stories are at times magical at times grittily real but always affecting. ...

To many the First World War conjures up exclusively a picture of trench warfare in which the armies of both sides remained locked in the mud & despair of their static positions. The war of movement with which the conflict opened & closed is less well remembered. This book originally published in 1976 is an attempt to correct that situation by providing a detailed daily account of the actions of one of the finest of the battalions of the original British Expeditionary Force that crossed over to France in the summer of 1914 the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards
- The Models. The story is told in the words of the officers of the Battalion few of whom survived the war taken from their diaries & letters & covers all the major actions of the first five months of the War
- Mons & the Retreat the Marne the Aisne culminating in the dark & desperate days of First Ypres. By the end of that battle the Battalion had lost 959 men killed wounded & missing
- practically its entire strength. for the most part the story is told by Major Ma Jeffreys later General the Lord Jeffreys whose diaries supplemented on occasion by the diaries & letters of some of his brother officers & others provide a very complete graphic & deeply moving picture of those turbulent days as seen by an ordinary regimental officer of the old school.


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Based on the New York Times" bestselling book " The Fifth Agreement" the 48 cards in this deck offer a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements & a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven. " The Fifth Agreement" takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self & returns us to the authenticity we were born with. In this compelling sequel to the book that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world we are reminded of the greatest gift we can give ourselves: the freedom to be who we really are." ...

Before Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it
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