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Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? Get a brief overview of The Innovator's Dilemma-the bestselling business book about disruption and how companies adapt.   Named one of the most important business books ever written by the Economist and the winner of the Global Business Book Award, The Innovator's Dilemma uses true stories of the successes and failures of prominent companies to analyze why great firms fail when faced with critical market and technological innovation.   In this summary of Clayton Christensen's book for entrepreneurs, managers, CEOs, and business leaders, you'll learn:  Why sometimes "doing the right thing" can be the wrong thing, especially when faced with disruptive technologyWhy most companies, even good ones, struggle to adapt their business practicesWhat executives can do to ensure both the short-term health and long-term survival of their organizations  With historical context, chapter-by-chapter overviews, important quotes, definitions of key terms, and other features, this summary and analysis of The Innovator's Dilemma is intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man's Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl's book.   Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work  About Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl:   Written just after World War II, Viktor Frankl's international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning is both a heartbreaking memoir and a source of inspiration for millions of readers.   Dr. Frankl's description of his time in a string of Nazi concentration camps is a fascinating, mandatory read for anyone wanting a better understanding of the Holocaust. A highly respected psychotherapist, his ideas on human emotion, the mind, mental health, tragic optimism, and the day-to-day neuroses of common people in the modern world provide spiritual guidance as each of us searches for meaning in our own lives.   The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? Get a brief overview of The Innovator's Dilemma-the bestselling business book about disruption and how companies adapt.   Named one of the most important business books ever written by the Economist and the winner of the Global Business Book Award, The Innovator's Dilemma uses true stories of the successes and failures of prominent companies to analyze why great firms fail when faced with critical market and technological innovation.   In this summary of Clayton Christensen's book for entrepreneurs, managers, CEOs, and business leaders, you'll learn:  Why sometimes "doing the right thing" can be the wrong thing, especially when faced with disruptive technologyWhy most companies, even good ones, struggle to adapt their business practicesWhat executives can do to ensure both the short-term health and long-term survival of their organizations  With historical context, chapter-by-chapter overviews, important quotes, definitions of key terms, and other features, this summary and analysis of The Innovator's Dilemma is intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Thank You for Your Service tells you what you need to know-before or after you read David Finkel's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of Thank You for Your Service includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel:   Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Finkel's Thank You for Your Service is an intimate and powerful account of the lives of Iraq veterans after they return home. Having depicted life on the front lines in Baghdad in his first book, Finkel follows the struggle of the same soldiers' return to civilian life. He exposes the hidden costs of war: the reality of living with post-traumatic stress disorder, the physical wounds and financial struggles of military personnel, and the spiraling suicide rate amongst veterans.   Soldiers are plagued by nightmares, memory loss, violent impulses, and guilt over their dead comrades. Spouses and children are bewildered by the return of their loved ones, whose personalities have changed beyond all recognition.   Finkel humanizes the aftermath of military life and makes a strong case for increased investment in veteran mental healthcare.  Thank You for Your Service has received great critical acclaim and was among the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Economist's top 10 Books of the Year in 2013.the   The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Outliers tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Malcolm Gladwell's book.   Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell includes:  Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesProfiles of the main charactersImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work  About Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell:   What makes high achievers, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and members of the Beatles so successful? Is it pure talent? Personal drive? An off-the-charts IQ?   In Outliers, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell explores the subject of success and argues that there is more to the story than individual exceptionalism. In addition to inherent talent or intelligence, there are other factors that have come into play for the innovators, artists, athletes, and prodigies who have become household names.   Many who have attained rock-star status in their fields may have education, culture, access to a specific technology or opportunity, and ten thousand hours of practice to thank for their reaching their goals.   Through a wide range of examples and anecdotes, learn what makes outliers so extraordinary.   The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In this reflective and enjoyable India travel memoir, "hooks of fears" claw at author Claire Krulikowski on her first morning's awakening in India, a land she'd never planned to visit. However, in Rishikesh she hears the call of Ma Ganga, the sacred Ganges River, and accepts its enticing invitation to leave everything she knows behind. Diving into the river of life teeming around her, including meetings with lepers, wounded monkeys, swamis, stalkers, pilgrims, shopkeepers, holy cows, and more, Krulikowski steps outside her beliefs of how things "should be," trusting life and everything in it! She comes to know happiness and peace moment-by-moment. Presented in exquisite vignettes, enjoy these tales of spirit that are seemingly channeled by the sacred river.

Paperback. Condition: New. A resurrected gunslinger leaves a trail of corpses across the post-Civil War West in this grisly thriller by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sunglasses After Dark. Retired gunslinger Johnny Pearl has traded in his revolvers for the tools of a homesteader. He's finally found peace with his pregnant, half-Cheyenne wife. Until soldiers from the US Cavalry, looking to avenge their defeat at Little Big Horn, kill them both, stringing up Johnny from a nearby tree. Only Johnny's death is not the end. A mad doctor, a former colleague of Viktor von Frankenstein, wrenches him from the afterlife with a special elixir and a bolt of lightning. Now possessing superhuman strength, mismatched eyes, and the face of a dead man, Johnny returns to his gunslinging ways. Astride another reanimated being, a demonic black stallion, he won't stop killing until every man involved in the attack on him and his wife is six feet under. And just when Johnny is ready to meet his maker one last time, he discovers a reason to stay undead-and try to resurrect the man within the monster he has become . . .Originally published in Dead Man's HandPraise for Nancy A. Collins "Horror fans will immediately recognize the name of Nancy Collins, possibly the most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since Anne Rice published Interview with a Vampire." -Film Threat "Nancy Collins' bone-colored, blood-smeared star-for she is certainly a star-stands bright and hot at the pinnacle of the horror heap." -Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake and Bubba Ho-Tep "If there is such a thing as a splatterpunk masterpiece, Nancy A. Collins has written it." -Asimov's Science Fiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Mark Manson's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesImportant quotesFascinating triviaSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original workAbout The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:   In his tender but tough take on the self-help genre, popular blogger and accidental life coach Mark Manson makes a convincing case for caring less to achieve more.  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck offers deeply insightful-and occasionally profane-advice by cutting through the crap and offering the honest, raw truth. Manson's program for self-improvement insists that by not being positive all the time, we can accept our limitations, embrace our fears, and live a grounded, truthful, and happy life.   The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

Paperback. Condition: New. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Grit tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Angela Duckworth's book.   Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of Grit by Angela Duckworth includes:  Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work  About Angela Duckworth's Grit:   Psychologist Angela Duckworth blows the lid off of theories that suggest IQ and socioeconomic status are the sole predictors of success. Not intellectually gifted, according to her traditional, Asian-American father, Duckworth nevertheless became a MacArthur "Genius." Winning the award led her to reflect upon the qualities that got her there: perseverance and passion.   Interviewing dozens of the world's winners, Duckworth ventures into the playing fields of achievement, speaking with CEOs and coaches, and visits West Point, competitive swim teams, and even the National Spelling Bee to discover the common threads.   Pulling from history, as well as cutting-edge neuroscience and behavioral science, Grit offers tips and advice for everyone-from parents to athletes to entrepreneurs-about how getting gritty can help you to succeed.  The summary and analysis in this book are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room.Agent 355 is a result of author Marie Benedict's quest to bring history's most fascinating and courageous women to life for contemporary readers. Known to history only by her alias, this mysterious female spy, able to move freely and unobtrusively in loyalist circles, became a member of George Washington's New York-based Culper Ring. This thrilling novella depicts who Marie Benedict thinks Agent 355 could have been, though her true identity remains unknown. During the sweltering summer of 1779, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Morris attends the social events of the British-occupied city, but the forced merriment holds no charm for her. She finds herself in the company of enemy soldiers, who think nothing of discussing matters of government and war in front of mere women. This invisibility becomes Elizabeth's greatest asset as she offers her services to Robert Townsend, a Continental sympathizer. Her bravery will bring down one of the most notorious traitors in American history and ultimately seal her fate as a woman willing to sacrifice everything for love and country.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sunglasses After Dark chronicles the life of a werewolf who becomes part of the human-and inhuman-history of the Old West. More than 150 years old, Billy Skillet looks back on his life existing between Native Americans and white men on the frontiers of a growing America, always on the edges of reality and unreality. Born of a werewolf father and human mother from the Old Country, Billy is the only member of his family who survives a vicious attack. Found alive in the rubble of their homestead by a Comanche, Billy is taken in by the tribe. From there, he finds that-as a skinwalker-he is revered by the Native Americans, though reviled by the white man. Battling powerful instincts and his own moral code, Billy embarks on his life's never-ending journey, first learning the ways of the settlers at the hands of a brutal and drunken reverend, then with a charismatic con man peddling elixirs in a traveling show. He survives a lynching, becomes the manservant of a vampire, and battles one of his own kind, a beast consumed by evil ambition. He sees the rise and fall of legends, the births of his own children, and the deaths of his loved ones. And never far behind, Billy's nemesis: a bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who, even now, may still be out there, willing to go to the ends of the earth to destroy him . . .Originally published in Dead Man's HandPraise for Nancy A. Collins "Possibly the most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since Anne Rice published Interview with a Vampire." -Film Threat.

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Paperback. Condition: New. An orphan girl meets the inhabitants of the mysterious Octagon House-and discovers a portal to America's past-from the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy. Lorrie discovers a strange and fascinating secret! Did a witch live in the eight-sided house? Was it haunted? There were lots of scary stories about the strange house-but none could match the secret Lorrie uncovered. One day, she climbed the high iron gate and escaped into the garden to save a kitten from some cruel boys-and met the mysterious lady of the house. The woman let Lorrie explore all the odd-shaped rooms. In one of them was a rocking horse and a large, eight-sided dollhouse-an exact miniature of the big house. The dollhouse was beautifully furnished and seemed so ready-as if someone lived there! It drew Lorrie back into exciting adventures that she had to face with courage and daring! This adventure should not be missed by fantasy lovers!Octagon Magic is the 2nd book in the Magic Sequence, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.