The Mafia Manager
The world's oldest and best-organized conglomerate now reveals management techniques everyone can use. Unlike other guides to business, The Mafia Manager shuns theoretical verbiage to present the philosophy of leadership that founded and captained The Silent Empire through centuries of expansion and success. Some sample pearls of wisdom: -Be sure you understand what your boss has ordered before you act on his command. What if you whack the wrong guy, or bomb the wrong joint...Learn the art of asking questions. -Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. -Don't become involved in any office political battle without first asking yourself, 'What's in it for me' and then 'What's in it for them' -If you must lie, be brief.
P13 och the one eye : pyramidens fall och uppvaknandet
P 13 blev väckt av den redan sedan länge invanda frekvensen i höger öra. Han vet att det bara är att göra som de önskar. Han tar sig upp och går till läsplattan som scannar av hans ögon och morgonregistreringen är klar för nu. Tänk att han aldrig ...
Love Marriage
An outstanding debut novel of fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka, from the author of the Women's Prize-winning Brotherless Night 'Beautifully written' Financial Times 'Ganeshananthan is a superb writer' Sunday Times 'Moving and int...
Neurotransmitters in Plant Life
The book examines the functions of the neurotransmitters acetylcholine and biogenic amines dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, and histamine in plant organisms. Also addressed are how many plant reactions are sensitive to neurotransmitters and the...
Sanctuary
The small Connecticut town of Sanctuary is rocked by the death of its star quarterback. Daniel's death looked like an accident, but everyone knows his ex-girlfriend Harper is the daughter of a witch - and she was there when he died. Then the rumours start. When Harper insists Dan was guilty of a terrible act, the town turns on her. So was his death an accident, revenge - or something even darker? As accusations fly and secrets are revealed, paranoia grips the town, culminating in a trial that the whole world is watching...
Direct Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation and Study of Nonequilibrium Flows
This book is concerned with the methods of solving the nonlinear Boltz mann equation and of investigating its possibilities for describing some aerodynamic and physical problems. This monograph is a sequel to the book 'Numerical direct solutions o...
Brotherless Night
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this "heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war" (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Tim...
Brotherless Night
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'A masterpiece of historical fiction' MONICA ALI, chair of judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tear...
Elements of Homology Theory
The book is a continuation of the previous book by the author (Elements of Combinatorial and Differential Topology, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 74, American Mathematical Society, 2006). It starts with the definition of simplicial homol...
Nätter Utan Mina Bröder
Sri Lanka 1981. Sextonåriga Sashi har en dröm - hon vill bli läkare. Men drömmen slås i spillror när ett blodigt inbördeskrig bryter ut på ön. Under de kommande decennierna ser Sashi hur hennes älskade bröder och vännen K dras in i den militanta befrielserörelsen Tamilska tigrarna.Våldet tilltar i landet och med det blir civilbefolkningens lidande allt större. Till slut blir även Sashi tvungen att välja sida. Ett val som innebär att hon ställs mot det som hon trodde var rätt, och den som en gång var vän blir fiende.V. V. Ganeshananthans prisbelönta roman är en hjärtskärande skildring av en ung kvinnas moraliska dilemma, som visar hur kriget splittrar både människor och familjer.
Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology
This is the most comprehensive guide ever written on renewables technology and engineering, intended to cater for the rapidly growing numbers of present and future engineers who are keen to lead the revolution. All the main sectors are covered - p...
Smyslov's Best Games of Chess
Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second to Botvinnik. Eventually, after two victories in Candidates contests and a drawn match with Botvinnik, Smyslov overcame his great and perennial rival...
Data Integrity Violations in USFDA-Approved Pharmaceutical Industries
Data Integrity Violations in USFDA-Approved Pharmaceutical Industries
Physics of Superconductors
The original Russian edition is based on a lecture course given by the author and provides a modern treatment of the physics of superconductors with special attention paid to the physical interpretation of the phenomena. This revised English trans...
Geometric Aspects of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
It is well known that contemporary mathematics includes many disci plines. Among them the most important are: set theory, algebra, topology, geometry, functional analysis, probability theory, the theory of differential equations and some others. F...
Modern Classical Mechanics
In this modern and distinctive textbook, Helliwell and Sahakian present classical mechanics as a thriving and contemporary field with strong connections to cutting-edge research topics in physics. Each part of the book concludes with a capstone ch...
