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Description not available.Having made a promise to Artemis to not marry, Atalanta is faced with a dilemma when the Arcadian King orders her to wed and produce an heir, thus to keep her promise, she makes a deal involving a foot race that leads to marriage for the first winner and death for all the rest. AUTHOR: Stephanie Spinner
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Children's 
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 | Making Democracy Work Better by Richard A. Couto
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the savage side of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating structures -- community-based organizations that battled to provide social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the education and job skills of some Appalachian residents -- Richard Couto distills the practical lessons to be found in their success and shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new forms and increased amounts of social capital -- the public goods and moral resources that we invest in one another as members of community. AUTHOR: Richard A. Couto
PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | 101 Great Home-Based Businesses for Women by Priscilla Y. Huff
Description not available.Discusses start-up costs, financing sources, income potential, recommended skills and training, marketing, and advertising concerns. AUTHOR: Priscilla Y. Huff
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Selling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki
Description not available.In a new guide to successfully selling, managing, and marketing, the Apple Computer marketing genius shares the secrets of his unique evangelical business style. Reprint. National ad/promo. AUTHOR: Guy Kawasaki
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | The English Roses by Madonna
The first of five children's books written by international superstar Madonna, this is a story about slumber parties, jealousy, fairy godmothers, and friendship; about feeling green with envy, blue with loneliness, pink with embarrassment, purple with rage, and how to find true-blue friends. AUTHOR: Madonna
PUBLISHER: Callaway Editions, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Children's
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 | Winning Talent Wars by Bruce Talgen
Battered by waves of downsizing since the 1980s, talented men and women no longer seek job security from one company. This is the true hallmark of the new economy-not fleeting dot-coms and IPOs, but a fast-moving, free-agent workforce with the flexibility to jolt productivity. Managers, meanwhile, must grab hold of this shifting group of talent and squeeze more work out of them than ever before, particularly in a tight economy. The trouble is, their traditional source of power over employees-the corporate ladder-is dead and gone. Using richly detailed, never-before-published accounts, Bruce Tulgan reveals how America's most influential corporations, including Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, General Motors, J.P. Morgan, and J.C. Penney, are replacing obsolete recruitment and retention efforts with breakthrough solutions. Tulgan's smart, crisp, light-handed prose makes his radical notions sound downright commonsensical, says Fortune magazine. Those radical ideas are the secret weapon of today's most successful, creative managers. AUTHOR: Bruce Talgen
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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