Résultats pour "The Business" dans Littérature du monde

Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at last – by any means necessary. In the capital, Colombo, tenacious journalist Ameena Fernando is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street near her home, with no witnesses. With pressure growing to find Ameena’s killers, CIA agent Ellie Harper is sent to seek justice for the journalist’s death with strict instructions: Find something, but not too much. It’s her first time returning to the island after her last mission went tragically awry four years prior, and Ellie has more than one ghost to lay to rest.

Jimmy Edwards stars in this spin-off from The Navy Lark, chronicling life in and around the higher echelons of British United Plastics Ltd Following in the footsteps of The Navy Lark, The TV Lark and The Embassy Lark, The Big Business Lark aired for 13 episodes over the summer of 1969. Blending...

Es gibt einen schmalen Grat zwischen Liebe und Hass – und wir sollten ihn nicht überschreiten. Annalise liebt ihren Job als Creative Director bei einer erfolgreichen Werbeagentur in San Francisco. Als diese aber mit einem Konkurrenten fusioniert, findet sie sich plötzlich in einem erbitterten Wettstreit wieder. Die neue Agentur braucht nur einen Creative Director. Und Annalise hat drei Monate, um sich gegen Bennett Fox durchzusetzen. Bennett Fox, der irritierend attraktiv ist und mit allen Mitteln um die Stelle kämpft.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family’s rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators “This is the novel I’ve...

"Read by multiple narrators, the audiobook highlights the novel’s multiple perspectives. The use of accents helps ground the listeners in each character while helping build the tension between players." — Booklist “Isuri Wijesundara, Lipica Shah, and Vikas Adam perform the story’s...

An Appalachian farmer’s daughter and a wealthy businessman find a surprising love but must reckon with what divides them in this retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the award-winning author of The Lady and the Lionheart. New River, Virginia. 1904. Lizbeth Bennet longs to...

Pascal Dennis offers a striking new perspective on global travel and business consulting with Reflections of a Business Nomad: Stories & Poems from the Road, a collection of prose, observations, and fragments of conversation heard over Dennis's many travels and unique experiences. Reflections of a Business Nomad invites the listener into the author s understanding of the world, providing opportunities to interact with the pieces and apply their insights. Business leaders, managers, and specialists at all levels will benefit from the unique perspective it offers.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE “I was crying like I lost my best friend as I finished. . . . This book is an act of love . . . It will break you apart and remind you that we can all be put back together again, stronger, and wiser than before.” — XOCHITL GONZALEZ...

For readers of Robert Harris, John le Carré, Frederick Forsyth, Eric Ambler, and Graham Greene, Tumult in Mecca is a wry, historically grounded geopolitical business thriller about ambition, family, and cultural collision. July 1979. Denmark is quiet, Parliament is on holiday, and young civil...

In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben...

A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick Following Battle Royal, beloved author Lucy Parker pens another delicious romantic comedy about a fake relationship between a grumpy royal bodyguard and the charming, sunny assistant who melts his cold, hard exterior. Petunia De Vere...

Unraveling the tangled roots of her family takes her places she never expected. Veronica Stratton, a specialty food broker with a business on the cusp of brilliant success that would change the trajectory of her life, visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park for Christmas. She's fresh from a...

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli’s next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of the year—until they’re both found murdered the day before the wedding—and a social outsider must unravel the...

Independent and free-spirted Annika has no plans to settle down anytime soon… if only her parents felt the same way. But when her father unexpectedly falls ill, she’ll do anything to make things better. Even if it means suddenly blurting out she has a boyfriend. The only issue is, he doesn’t exist. Then, by chance, she bumps into handsome entrepreneur Rav, and she can’t believe her luck. He’s single, sworn off relationships and looking for a date to attend work events with. He’s the perfect solution to her troubles. Or is he?

This book shows how animal habits can make your business profitable, even if you know nothing about business strategy. It was inspired by NAT GEO Wild TV, and it used animal habits and hunting tactics to explain and simplify business concepts, principles and strategies.

Winner of CBC Canada Reads 2010 Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation Intricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and unexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home. Spring 1989...

A research trip to Guatemala illuminates truths both intimate and global for four young travelers. The graduate students arrived in Guatemala energized and ready to take on the world. They planned to follow the path of coffee beans from a peasant coffee-growing community in the western highlands through the chain of buyers, co-ops, exporters, and roasters, all the way to a café in San Francisco. As the students investigate the profit made at every link in the coffee chain, they confront a series of unexpected events that illuminate globalization in surprising ways.

The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility,and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same ... After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city...

Mitch Horowitz provides a deep dive into the classic, The Art of War, in this fascinating discussion on its meaning and relevance to today's world and seeker. As he shows, The Art of War teaches us how to navigate a world in which friction is an inevitability in which we are all, at varying times going to find ourselves called upon to prevail. It is a guide to victory, but it is also a book both on an epic and intimate scale that is about victory with honor.