The Mob is notorious for its cruel & immoral practices but its most successful members have always been extremely smart businessmen. Now former mobster Louis Ferrante reveals its surprisingly effective management techniques & explains how to apply them-legally-to any legitimate business. As an associate of the Gambino family Ferrante relied on his instincts to pull off some of the biggest heists in U.S. history. By the age of twenty-one he had netted millions of dollars for his employers. His natural talent for management led Mafia bosses to rely on him. After being arrested & serving an eight-&-a-half-year prison sentence Ferrante went straight. He realized that the Mob's most valuable business lessons would allow him to survive & thrive in the real world. Now he offers eighty-eight time-tested Mafia strategies including: go get your own coffee!; respecting the chain of command without being a sucker; the walls have ears
- never bad-mouth the boss; Is this phone tapped?
- watch what you say every day; how to bury the hatchet
- but not in someone's head; don't split yourself in half
- The wrong decision is better than none at all; don't build Yankee stadium just supply the concrete
- spotting new rackets; & leave the gun take the cannolis...and beware of hubris. Ferrante brings his real-life experiences to the book offering fascinating advice that really works & sharing behind-the-scenes episodes almost as outrageous as those occurring on Wall Street every day.




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How do we create a satisfactory user experience when limited to a small device? This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices primarily smartphones & touchphones & covers such topics as developing a mobile strategy designing for small screens writing for mobile usability comparisons & looking toward the future. The book

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Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession & the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael the novel's narrator ordinary sailor & extraordinary reader. Digressive allusive vulgar transcendent the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling in the art of writing. ...

This classic story of high adventure manic obsession & metaphysical speculation was Melvilles masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahabs frantic pursuit of the cunning & notorious white whale Moby Dick is packed with drama & draws heavily on the authors own experiences on the high seas. This edition

Includes:: passages from Melvilles correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novels plot & imagery. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.

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A story of the war between man & mammal in which the author explores his obsessions with good & evil love & solitude speech & silence using his technical knowledge of sailing & the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic & powerfully symbolic. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics. The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg & finds himself aboard the Pequod which is captained by the obsessive Captain Ahab. Not long after the voyage has begun Ahab tells the crew about his secret plot to hunt down the whale that crippled him on a previous voyage Moby Dick. The crew of the Pequod are also after as much sperm oil as their ship can carry & the account of the crews years-long pursuit of the White Whale is interspersed with detailed & encyclopaedic descriptions of a whalers life. Melville unites narrative virtuosity with a lifetime of sailing experience in perhaps the single most important classic of American literature. ...

Includes: THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICK When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas
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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. ' The frail gunwales bent in collapsed & snapped as both jaws like an enormous shears sliding further aft bit the craft completely in twain...' " Moby-Dick" is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad raging Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg & upon which he has sworn vengeance at any cost. A creation unlike any other this is an epic story of fatal monomania & the deepest dreams & obsessions of mankind. " The Penguin English Library"
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The original ' Great American Novel' Herman Melville's Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This " Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. ' Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good & evil. More than just a novel of adventure more than an paean to whaling lore & legend " Moby-Dick" is a haunting social commentary populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod from stern Quaker First Mate Starbuck to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg are a vision of the world in microcosm the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour " Moby-Dick" is a profound poetic inquiry into character faith & the nature of perception. Based on the Northwestern University Press edition this " Penguin Classics" edition

Includes:: a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco as well as valuable explanatory notes maps illustrations & a glossary of nautical terms. Herman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists. Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships. He wrote his masterpiece " Moby-Dick" in 1851 & died in 1891. If you enjoyed " Moby-Dick" you may like Miguel de Cervantes' " Don Quixote" also available in " Penguin Classics". " After reading " Moby-Dick" you will have enhanced your sense of wonder you will have increased the size of your universe". (E. M. Forster). " One of the strangest & most wonderful books in the world... It moves awe in the soul". (D. H. Lawrence)."

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