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By Catherine Whitney, Donny Deutsch. 2008
In this companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles entrepreneurs who have…
visited his show and the lessons he's learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people, mothers, students, retirees and former screw ups, who had only a good idea and built multimillion-dollar businesses without MBAs. Entrepreneurial success stories are complemented by practical advice and resources for building a business. c2008. Uniform title: Big idea with Donny Deutsch (Television program)By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.By William Shakespeare. 2002
A tragedy concerning a petulant king and his three daughters. Amid the political action, Lear is taken in by false…
avowals of love from two of his daughters, and disinherits his third because of her refusal to flatter him. This is a fully dramatised version. Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. 2002.By Peter Shaffer. 1981
A play inspired by music and death revolves around the bitter jealousy of Antonio Salieri, the court composer who played…
second fiddle to the more brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Some strong language. c1981. Uniform title: AmadeusBy Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, Anatole Muchnik. 2006
Quel lien entre la législation de l'avortement et la baisse de la criminalité aux États-Unis ? Quelles sont les vraies…
motivations des agents immobiliers ? Pourquoi les revendeurs de drogue vivent-ils plus longtemps chez leur mère ? L'économie, vue sous cet angle, incongru en apparence, mais qui est celui de la plus sérieuse rationalité des agents, des comportements, des causes et effets, traite de sujets peu conventionnels. Elle a reçu un nom : freakonomics, ou " économie saugrenue ". Elle jette une lumière de biais sur le désordre des événements ; elle met à nu des a priori à prétention de scientificité irréfutable ; elle transforme notre regard sur le monde globalisé, qui nous apparaît, pour finir, moins impénétrable et incompréhensible. 2006. Titre uniforme: Freakonomics.By William Shakespeare. 1996
The proud would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick circle each other warily, and as they draw closer and closer to their…
inevitable union, their scathing witticisms and sly innuendoes reach a feverish intensity that befits the passionate longing they both vainly seek to deny. First publicly acted prior to 1600. c1996.By William Shakespeare, Barbara A Mowat, Paul Werstine. 1995
First performed in 1598, this comedy in five acts concerns two pairs of lovers. Before Hero and Claudio can find…
happiness together, they must sort out the complications of Don John's false accusations. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick match wits and fall in love. Includes notes and explanatory essays. 1995.By William Shakespeare, James Mansfield Nosworthy. 1968
When Vincentio leaves the city government in the hands of Judge Angelo, the laws against fornication, which had been loosely…
enforced, are now more strictly observed. When a young couple is caught expecting a child out of wedlock the man is sentenced to death. Vincentio is disguised as a friar to spy on the doings in his city and aids in a plan to stop Angelo. 1973, c1604.By William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi. 2001
Historical drama. The newly ascended king of England first deals with three suspected traitors. Then, on a pretext, Henry invades…
France to claim the throne. After his victory in the battle of Agincourt, there is a huge celebration, and Henry turns his attention to his courtship of Catherine of France, as two knaves and a braggart provide comic relief. 2001, c1599.By Manuel Puig, Thomas Colchie. 1984
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig, who died in…
1990. The centrepiece of the volume is Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman", made into an acclaimed film starring William Hurt. Also included are the compelling works "Under a mantle of stars" and "Mystery of the rose bouquet". 1984. Uniform title: Beso de la mujer araña.By William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. 1967
Loved by the Roman crowd but more and more feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire…
to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the most famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. 1967, c1599.By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner. 2005
The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and…
child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy. 2005.By William Shakespeare, H. J Oliver. 1968
A pastoral comedy set primarily in the forest of Arden. A duke is exiled by his cruel brother, who later…
banishes his daughter as well. The action switches from the count to the forest where the exiles and friends wander in a maze of romances and mixed identities. For Senior High readers. 1968, c1599.By Phil Viner, Jools Viner, J. B Priestley, Gil Maine, Jonathan Lomas. 2006
Peel away the layers of Priestley's complex drama to appreciate this powerful warning play, wrapped up in the genre of…
a gripping detective story, to truly understand that "We don't live alone. We are members of one body". For senior high readers. 2006, c1945.By Tennessee Williams. 2008
In this play, a recently widowed, faded southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law in the French Quarter…
of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a mental breakdown because of the insensitivity of those around her. First published in 1947, c2008.The author of "Bringing Down the House" chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by Harvard students…
Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.By John-Henri Holmberg, Daniel Burstein, Arne J De Keijzer. 2011
The stories behind the Steig Larsson books “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, and…
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. Enter the unique world of Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, and of Larsson himself, discovering the experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of these works. A look into the author’s life, and his ideas for future books - including the mysterious “fourth book” in the series, which Larsson had started but not finished at the time of his death. Incudes strong language and violence. 2011.By William Shakespeare, James Mansfield Nosworthy. 1955
A story of a marriage imperilled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt through the physical and spiritual journeys undertaken by the…
heroine and hero, set in a context of international conflict. 1955, c1611.