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Hardcover. First edition (no additional printings listed) . Original paste down paper covered boards, 270 pp. Hardcover, near fine, no dustjacket. Boards starting to lightly age yellow, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. A bit of literary detective work, inspired by the 1961 production of J I Rodale's "The Padlock" at the off-Broadway Rodale Theatre. Consists of the texts of the works in the title, including Bickerestaff and Foote's "The Padlock", to show how Moliere based his play on Cervantes, and the later authors theirs on his. Literary criticism; modern first; drama; comedy. …

Condition: Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. No DOP found [1870?]. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library in plain card covers, with original covers bound in. Original front cover detached but present. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes only, not the complete set. 32mo. Half-leather, 1 board detached, rubbing. Plays include: The Orphan of China, Every Man in his Humour, The Recruiting Officer, The Mayor of Garratt, A New Way to pay Old Debts, The Duke of Milan, The Orphan; or, the Unhappy Marriage, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Double Gallant, Which is the Man?, The Earl of Warwick, The Virgin Unmasked, The Way of the World, Edward the Black Prince; or, the Battle of Poictiers, Hit or Miss!, The Miser, Polly Honeycombe, The Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Grey, The Sultan; or, a Peep into the Seraglio, The Maid of the Oaks, Twenty Per Cent, The Merchant of Bruges, The Tender Husband, The Constant Couple, My Spouse and I, &c.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In 1976 my father sat eight children down in the family room and told us he did not know how to make ends meet anymore. He never spoke of it again.Everything in this book follows from that evening. A family, a company, a charity, and a country all fail the same way. The money runs out before the promises do.Don't Run Out of Money is one rule, told through one life. A mother who fed ten people on four hundred dollars a month. A payroll paid in cash and signed by thumbprint under a half-built library outside São Paulo. A first home bought at two and a half times income. A bank that closed on a Friday, and a board that spent the weekend ready to write checks. A lecture in Kigali with no slides, and a hospital doctor who greeted the author the next morning with five words: 'Don't run out of money.'George W. Bickerstaff, III has been chief financial officer six times, including at Novartis Pharma AG, and has served on more than forty boards. He writes for anyone who has made a promise to someone else: a parent, a founder, a director, a trustee, a graduate starting out. The book is short, plain, and personal. Each of its twenty chapters ends with a simple drawing, three things to take away, and three things to do.It asks the reader five questions and, at the end, answers them for the author's own household.- What share of the promises you have made has money behind it - How many months could you last if your income stopped - Is any one source more than half of your income - Are you saving anywhere that someone matches what you put in - Does your family know the truth about the money The book closes on the cost of getting the rule right, and on a hospital room in Pittsburgh where a son finally said what he owed his father.Keep the promise. Do not let it keep you.Part of The Trust Series.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Rebecca Li built the firm to do what a kitchen table never could.For a generation, the Li family fought the machine one frightened person at a time - a denial overturned, a night survived, a name kept by hand on an index card in a wooden cabinet. It was never enough, and Rebecca knew it. So she built a cold glass tower of her own: a litigation firm to take the fight wholesale, into the high rooms where the people who write the four sentences actually live, and make a court do the one thing the bridge never could - not save a single life, but find, on the record, that the dying had been arranged.What Grows is the story of that case. Of building it, of the offer to make it quietly disappear, and of the twelve strangers in a room Rebecca cannot enter who will decide whether a documented pattern is allowed to bind. A pattern put on the stand. A wall put on the stand. A chain that holds - and a verdict that costs more than it can ever buy back.But the trilogy was always falling toward something quieter than a courtroom. This is the book of the last and hardest lesson - the one the family has been circling since a girl sewed a living thing into a coat and carried it out of a burning city, knowing she would not live to see it stand: that you do not get to keep what you grow. You carry it as far as your own keeping reaches - the firm, the bridge, the craft, the green thing in all its forms - and then you hand it on, into hands that are not your own, into soil you do not control, and you take your hands off. Frank hands the craft to a stranger. The war is handed to the keeper. A boy uses the hard-won proof like it was easy - and his forgetting is the gift.And at the head of the table, in the low gold light of one more October, Rebecca's mother is still well, and the count still comes whole - for one more morning, before the phone, one page from now, begins to ring.What Grows is the final novel of the Long Landing Trilogy and the doorstep of the Still Point Trilogy that follows. It is a book about succession - the part we are most tempted to skip - and about the one thing a family cannot take a cutting of, cannot pot in good soil, cannot grow twice. You do not choose what grows from what you plant. You only choose whether to plant, knowing the shade will fall on someone you will never meet.Plant anyway.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For forty-four years, Grace Li was one of two people who knew what happened on that hospital floor. Now the other one is dead.In the spring of 1980, a young nurse saw something she was told never to say aloud - and spent the rest of her life trying, and failing, to be heard. Twice the record closed over her words like water over a stone. Now, with the last living witness gone and her own time running short, Grace does the only thing left to her: she writes it all down for her daughter - and folds into the pages a single seed of the plant her family has carried across four generations and three countries.What Endures is the final volume of the Still Point Trilogy: the story of what a dying woman hands to the living, and what they choose to do with it. As a long-buried case reaches a courtroom at last, her family gathers around her in a barn in Ohio - Frank at his bench, building the thing meant to outlast him; Rebecca learning to be the one who stays; a scattered family drawn home for one more winter. Some debts are settled in that courtroom. Others can only be paid in a kitchen, over tea, in the quiet work no verdict can finish.It is a novel about caregiving and conscience, testimony and inheritance, and the small green living thing that keeps growing whether or not anyone is left to tend it - a meditation on what we owe the dead, what we hand to the young, and what, after the trials and the burials and the long silences, actually endures.The Still Point Trilogy: The Still Point - What Holds - What Endures.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The facts will never be complete. The decision will still be yours.Every leader eventually faces the same moment: the numbers are incomplete, the incentives are misaligned, the room is not saying everything it knows - and the decision cannot wait. The Judgment Test is a working method for exactly that moment, drawn from fifty years of boardrooms, turnarounds, and ventures where the plan was wrong, the silence was expensive, and someone still had to sign.In twelve chapters, George W. Bickerstaff, III - former CFO of Novartis Pharma AG, investment banker, and veteran of more than forty corporate and nonprofit boards - lays out twelve tools he actually uses: judge the deck before the deal, treat silence as data rather than agreement, hold every number to the last version of itself, run necessity before urgency, haircut every plan, filter the people before the model, earn each room before entering the next, write down the ground that must not move, take what the decision needs and not more, leave clean when the room cannot be repaired, and put one name on every number.Each chapter pairs the tool with cases from the record - Amazon and Enron, Tylenol and the ignition switch, Berkshire and Theranos, Ford's first red chart and the bank that failed on a Thursday - one win and one warning, and the judgment that separates them.This is not decision science. There are no probability trees and no frameworks with someone's initials on them. It is a practitioner's book, written from inside the rooms - for directors, executives, investors, and anyone whose name goes at the bottom of the page.Judgment ends in a signature. Make sure you know it is yours. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You are carrying a sentence right now. Almost everyone is.The number that is not what the forecast says. The person who is failing and knows it less than everyone around them. The worry about your own work you have not said out loud. You know the sentence - you could write it down in fifteen words - and you have been carrying it through meetings where it was almost relevant, past the doors of people who deserve to hear it.Fifty years in business taught George Bickerstaff one law: trust is rarely destroyed by lies. It is destroyed by true things said late. The truth always arrives - it always does - but it arrives with a bill attached, and the bill is for the waiting.Truth Under Pressure teaches the five moves that carry a hard truth safely: Face the hard truth yourself.Say it early - the day you know it.Say it in plain words.Tell the right person first.Treat the person with care.Drawing on a career spanning six chief financial officer chairs and some forty boardrooms - General Electric, Dun & Bradstreet, IMS Health, Novartis, and decades of company boards and nonprofits - Bickerstaff shows how truth actually travels in real organizations: up the ladder without going around anyone, into boardrooms where the real reasons live in the hallway, across deal tables where the terms change a week before closing, and through the hardest cases of all - when the truth is about you, when they refuse to hear it, and when a machine delivers a wrong answer with perfect confidence.Every chapter ends with five takeaways, five actions to take, five to avoid, and a one-line tool you can use tomorrow. The back of the book holds fill-in worksheets, a ten-second guide to finding the right page for the problem in front of you, and the research behind the method - from the Rogers Commission to today's studies on why people stay silent at work.No jargon. No borrowed credibility. Just what five decades of hard conversations, handled well and badly, actually teach.The truth you are sitting on is the cheapest it will ever be today. This book is about how to go say it - and keep the room while you do.Part of the Trust Series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What a family builds in the dark is one thing. What gets built in the light is something else - and the world does not forgive that quietly.Three years after Patient Bridge opened its door on Lake Avenue, the Li family has a cabinet of eleven thousand index cards: every denial, every code, every outcome, kept by hand by a nurse who knows no other way to record a person. Each card is one person they helped, one night they got through. None of them, alone, is a pattern.Then Rebecca Li - the lawyer who used to be an optimizer, the daughter of the nurse who saw the shape in 1980 and was told, kindly, to stop - looks at the cabinet at dawn and understands what she has been keeping. Not a memorial. A dataset.What follows is the slow, deliberate work of proving in a language that cannot be waved away what every kitchen table has known for a generation: that the denials do not fall like hail. To do it, Rebecca recruits Paul Keller, a statistician who left the machine after it killed his mother by installments, on one condition - that he, and not she, code the data, and that the truth be whatever it turns out to be. To do it, the family must take a thing built quietly, around a table, and stand it up in the light.And to do it, they pay. In the rebuilt life Paul has just put back together. In the hospital that stops commissioning Frank's chairs. In the funder who folds, the pleasant man in the coffee shop who offers to lift every pressure if the work is set aside to rest, the parcel that arrives addressed to no one. In the stranger inside the machine who burns down everything he has built for the sake of four words and no name, and is never thanked, because no one ever learns who he was.What Gets Built is the second novel in the Long Landing Trilogy and a prequel to the Still Point Trilogy. It is a book about what speaking a true thing out loud actually costs, who pays the bill, and why - having counted that cost down to the cent - a family chooses the open anyway. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Everyone gets forty-nine percent wrong. Greatness lives entirely in the repair.The best leaders you know are wrong almost half the time. So are the best parents, partners, and friends. What separates the great ones isn't a better hit rate - it's what happens in the hour after the miss.Fix the Forty-Nine turns repair into a system anyone can run. Drawing on fifty years in boardrooms on five continents - as a global pharmaceutical CFO, investment banker, and director on more than forty boards - and on one hard going-back at his own kitchen table, George Bickerstaff delivers the complete method: Name the break in one sentence - honest mistake, bad call, lie, or slow break - before you touch it. Act inside the first hour, because the fix loses value every hour it waits. Own it in four sentences: what happened, my part, the fix, the date. Forgive mistakes loudly - and tolerate a lie exactly once. Then repair the arenas where trust actually breaks: the wrong number, the deal that has to change, the room that went silent, the institution in public crisis. And master the hard cases - when you were the one who broke it, when it can't be fixed and walking away is the honest repair, and when the machine broke it at machine speed and the apology is still yours.Every chapter ends with a tool you can run the same day. Every public case - Tylenol, Salomon Brothers, Maple Leaf, Knight Capital, the lawyer sanctioned for trusting an AI's invented citations - is verified against primary sources. And the back of the book turns the system into practice: a scored self-assessment, a 51-second pocket card, a 30-day repair program, and a deployment playbook for boards and bosses.Your errors were never the question. The other fifty-one percent is a set of learnable moves. This book is the set.From the author of Radical Trust, Build the Table, and Proof Before Promise. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the real measure of success is not what you achieve-but what other people can build because you were there?In Build the Table, George Bickerstaff draws on more than four decades in global business, finance, boardrooms, investing, global health, mentoring, and family life to offer a simple but powerful framework for building a life that lasts.A ladder holds one person at a time. A table holds everyone who pulls up a chair.Every durable table begins with bedrock: trust and integrity. From there, Bickerstaff shows how to raise four essential legs: People - relationships that connect and strengthen others.Knowledge - what you learn, captured so others can use it.Tools - systems and mechanisms that work even when you are not in the room.Results - outcomes that outsiders can actually see and verify.Then comes the deeper question: What is the table for?Bickerstaff argues that the best leaders do not fill their tables with titles, possessions, and accomplishments. They plant trees-people, institutions, ideas, and missions that continue growing after the builder steps away. And the best trees eventually produce seeds, allowing another generation to build tables of its own.Along the way, he writes candidly about successes, failures, career transitions, leadership mistakes, his years at Novartis and the International Vaccine Institute, the importance of his wife and daughter, and the realization that work should support life-not the other way around. The structure ultimately exists to hold what matters most: faith, family, friends, and fitness.Each chapter includes practical tools, questions, and actions readers can use immediately, followed by a 30-Day Table Build for putting the ideas into practice.Build the Table is for leaders, founders, mentors, teachers, parents, and anyone asking a question that becomes more important with time: What am I building that will still be helping people when I am no longer in the room?Build on bedrock. Raise the legs. Plant the trees. Give away the carpentry.Build the table. Let them grow. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …