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Changing the Culture at British Airways
In just 10 years, 1980-1990, British Airways turned around both its declining image and financial situation. Focusing on the paramount importance of customer service, British Airways went from "bloody awful" to "bloody awesome." Experiencing a financial crisis in 1981 and trying to meet the challeng... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1990 -
Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
by Philip Smallwood • Susan Spencer • James E May • Manuel Schonhorn • Leah Orr • J. T. Scanlan • Linda V. Troost • Brett C. McInelly • David VenturoDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Guilds & Glaives
by David Farland • Esther Friesner • Jenna Rhodes • Violette Malan • Joshua Palmatier • James Enge • Gini Koch • Howard Andrew Jones • S. C. Butler • Jason Palmatier • Ashley McConnell • R. K. Nickel • Lawrence Harding • Leah Webber • D. B. Jackson • Amelia SirinaStop right there! If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with p... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Year's End: 14 Tales of Holiday Horror
by Byron Barton • George Seaton • Richard Godwin • James S. Dorr • John Stewart Wynne • Betsy Miller • Nicky Peacock • Steve Shrott • Leah Givens • Kathryn Ohnaka • Jeremy K. Tyler • Steve Bartholomew • Ali Maloney • Foxglove LeeGet a few extra chills this New Year&’s Eve with these fourteen original horror stories about facing the big countdown. New Year&’s Eve isn&’t all champagne and confetti. For some, it&’s filled with regret for what can&’t be changed and trepidation for what&’s to come. The strike of midnight drags... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories
by Jerome K. Jerome • E. Nesbit • Neil Gaiman • Muriel Spark • Robert Aickman • Kelly Link • M. R. James • Jenn Ashworth • L. P. Hartley • Louis De Bernières • Frank Cowper • E. F. Benson • Bernard CapesA present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
by John Louis Lucaites • Purnima Bose • David Campbell • Diane Rubenstein • Wendy Kozol • Nina Berman • Rebecca A. Adelman • James Der Derian • Christopher J. Gilbert • Claudia Breger • De Witt Kilgore • Jeremy G. Gordon • Jody Madeira • Jon Simons • Roger StahlIn/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Alien Artifacts
by C. S. Friedman • David Farland • Sharon Lee • Steve Miller • Walter H. Hunt • Patricia Bray • Joshua Palmatier • Gail Z. Martin • James Van Pelt • Gini Koch • Jacey Bedford • Daniel J. Davis • Coral Moore • Sofie Bird • Jennifer Dunne • S. C. Butler • Andrija Popovic • Julie Novakova • Larry N. Martin • Angela Penrose • Anthony Lowe • Seanan McGuire • Juliet E. McKennaWhat might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they r... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Two Tickets to Paradise
by Jl Merrow • B. G. Thomas • Dar Mavison • Jamie Lowe • Claire Russett • Jana Denardo • Anna Martin • Sean Michael • Susan Laine • Zee Kensington • Chelle Dugan • Eric Renner • G. R. Richards • Cecilia Ryan • Mal PetersA vacation is exactly what these men need to find love in their lives. It may be about looking for a little fun, gaining a fresh perspective after a breakup, or building up the nerve to take the plunge. Whether they travel by plane, train, or automobile, none of them want to go it alone. They'r... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Kitty Literature: An Illustrated Collection for Cat Lovers
by William Shakespeare • L. Frank Baum • Rudyard Kipling • Miguel De Cervantes • Edgar Allan Poe • Charles Darwin • Emily Dickinson • Mark Twain • Charles Dickens • Louisa May Alcott • Alexandre Dumas • Lewis Carroll • Henry David Thoreau • Oscar Wilde • John Greenleaf Whittier • Walter Scott • Washington Irving • Anton Chekhov • Lafcadio Hearn • Beatrix Potter • John Keats • Bram Stoker • P. G. Wodehouse • Harriet Beecher Stowe • H. P. Lovecraft • Carl Sandburg • E. E. Cummings • John Muir • Leonardo Da Vinci • William Wordsworth • W. B. Yeats • Charles Baudelaire • William Carlos Williams • The Brothers Grimm • Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Richard Stephens • Arthur Rackham • Vincent Van Gogh • John James Audubon • Paul Gauguin • Pierre Bonnard • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes • Teddy Roosevelt • Louis Wain • Samuel F. B. Morse • Goya • Marc Chagall • Ando Hiroshige • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Pablo Picasso • Thomas Eakins • Henri RousseauPeople have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012