Dorothy Leeds

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A top management consultant, Leeds shows how to turn ordinary conversational skills into impressive business tools. Includes tips on how to ask the right person the right question at the right time, reduce mistakes, gain control over volatile situations, and more.

Smart Questions

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Katharine Hepburn

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Stories of My Life

Photographs from Hepburn's personal collection highlight the candid memoirs of the life, long career, friendships, and loves of the legendary Hollywood actress

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Tom Demarco

Timothy R. Lister

Productive Projects and Teams

The authors have, between them, 30 years experience of managing projects and of acting as project management consultants. In this book they offer their perspectives on managing people and maximizing productivity.

Peopleware

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Frederick P. Brooks

Essays on Software Engineering

The orderly Sweet-Williams are dismayed at their son's fondness for the messy pastime of gardening.

The Mythical Man-Month

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

In an era of expense-slashing and 24/7 work schedules, the notion of corporations' cutting themselves a little slack may seem far-fetched. But as the old ideal of the lean and mean staff proves to have negative consequences, "slack" is becoming the critical factor in a company's ability to grow, maintain profitability, and be able to accommodate marketplace changes. Slack is the cutting-edge guide to capitalizing on these revolutionary principles.Acclaimed management consultant Tom DeMarco, whose clients include such giants as Hewlett Packard and IBM, has spent years studying this critical but neglected corporate strategy. Without time built in for managers and workers to spend thinking about new ideas, he's shown companies can't effectively respond to sudden events, and they won't have enough flexibility to change when necessary or to take needed risks. And forget about fostering creativity. As companies have become slaves to head counts, overloading workers with multiple job descriptions,the result is not necessarily soaring revenues; turnover, stagnation, disloyalty, and slowdown are the more likely outcomes.A counterintuitiv

Slack

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Nathaniel S. Borenstein

Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions

Through a set of lively anecdotes and essays, Nathaniel Borenstein traces the divergence between the fields of software engineering and user-centered software design, and attempts to reconcile the needs of people in both camps. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Programming As If People Mattered

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Peter DeGrace

Leslie Hulet Stahl

A Catolog of Modern Engineering Paradigms

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions

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Bob Block

The Politics of Projects

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Jerome B. Landsbaum

Measuring and Motivating Maintenance Programs

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John Boddie

Building Effective Systems on a Tight Schedule

Crunch Mode

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Kenneth Rubin

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

 

The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives

 

If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you've been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively.

 

Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin's experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum's roles, artifacts, and activities.

 

Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.

Essential Scrum

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Dominica DeGrandis

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work and Flow

Information Technology time management expert Dominica DeGrandis, the reveals the real crime of the century--time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. The solution to preventing these value stream delays? Make the work visible. In this timely book (title not final), solutions and preventative measures are illustrated and methodologies outlined for immediate application into daily work.

Making Work Visible

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Bram Stoker

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is “nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance.” In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula. The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including “the censorship of Fiction,” in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.

Dracula

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4 physical volumes but contains all 8 of the Tristam Shandy "Volumes". published in 1781 so about 250 years old now. Wear on all covers and some water staining inside covers and some pages. Appears intact. i.e all pages are there and pages and bindings are not torn and text is readable. . But also appears delicate. i.e. books would be easy to damage if handled roughly/without consideration.

Tristam Shandy

Clinton Ober

Stephen Sinatra

Martin Zucker

The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!

Earthing (2nd Edition)

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Paul Lacinski

Michel Bergeron

A Home Construction Guide for All Climates

Bergeron and Lacinski's new book Serious Straw Bale is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. The authors draw upon years of experience with natural materials and experimental techniques, and present a compelling rationale for building with straw-one of nature's most resilient, available, and affordable byproducts.

Serious Straw Bale

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The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987

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Thomas L. Friedman

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.

The World Is Flat

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James E. Duffy

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The industry-leading textbook for collision repair and refinishing is now updated to the NATEF 2006 Collision Repair and Refinish Program Standards. Written with clearer explanations and more detail than any other collision repair learning tool on the market, Auto Body Repair Technology, Fifth Edition delves into all aspects of collision repair, from initial collision evaluation, to estimating, to final paint detailing. And because the book is written by a leading author in the auto body field, readers will feel confident that they are learning skills and procedures that incorporate the latest advances in materials and methods. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Auto Body Repair Technology

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Large, profusely illustrated guide to Wine.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Le Grand Livre Du Vin

Philip K. Howard

How Fairness Went Too Far

The Lost Art of Drawing the Linewill appall and irritate — and entertain — readers every bit as much as Philip Howard’s first book. Why is it that no one can fix the schools? Why do ordinary judgements fill doctors with fear? Why are seesaws disappearing from playgrounds? Why has a wave of selfish people overtaken America? In our effort to protect the individual against unfair decisions, we have created a society where no one’s in charge of anything. Silly lawsuits strike fear in our hearts because judges don’t think they have the authority to dismiss them. Inner-city schools are filthy and mired in a cycle of incompetence because no one has the authority to decide who’s doing the job and who’s not. When no one’s in charge, we all lose our link to the common good. When principals lack authority over schools, of what use are the parents’ views? When no one can judge right and wrong, why not be as selfish as you can be? Philip Howard traces our well-meaning effort to protect individuals through the twentieth century, with the unintended result that we have lost much of our individual freedom. Buttressed with scores of stories that make you want to collar the next self-centered jerk or hapless bureaucrat,The Lost Art of Drawing the Linedemonstrates once again that Philip Howard is “trying to drive us all sane.”

The Lost Art of Drawing the Line

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William E. Perry

Controlling the Bottom Line

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Sun-tzu

Ralph D. Sawyer

book itself is in excellent condition. dust cover has some kid-stickers on it. 

This work is the most famous study of military strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. Its principles were used by Mao Tse-tung, General Vo Ngyuen Giap, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. First translated two hundred years ago, it has been credited with influencing Napoleon, the German general staff, and even the planning for Operation Desert Storm. Today, Western businessmen and other are turning to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive situations of all kinds. Unlike other editions currently available, this translation make use of the best available classical Chinese manuscripts, including the ancient tomb text version discovered by archaeologists at Linyi, China. The author places this classic work of strategy in its proper historical context by supplying a portrait of Sun-Tzu's era and outlining several battles of the period that may have either influenced him or been conducted by him.

The Art of War

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Sam Deep

tips to succeed working in a business environment. I personally profitted from several suggestions from the book.

An expansion of the successful self-published book The Manager's Book of Lists, Smart Moves offers over two hundred pages of efficient, practical checklists--already used by such firms as Humana and GE--and gives tips for every management task, from writing powerful memos to winning negotiations and resolving conflicts.

Smart Moves

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