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Steve Jobs visited the author in the 1970s to find out what it was like to be an entrepreneur. It was still a pre-tech age with computer companies being like other corporations of the era, complete with suits and ties. Steve was the new wave; he sought out the author because his company was different than the old line companies but not what Steve imagined. The conversations were scintillating and imaginative.

A rollicking good romance set in 1685 in Cromwell's tumultuous days with pirates, brigands, roundheads, parliament, fantasy, romance, castles, moats, the occult, sorcery, and more in play that should bring more men in as listeners, as women have been for decades. The author was the leading British play lyricist for 50 years, with 80 plays, which underscores the quality of his writing in this, his only book.

Perhaps the most important book in philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life with a clear succinct prose touch.

The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

The story of a man who does not want to leave his old study for a new house.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

When in Greece: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the ninth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. It's international business at its crazy best, with John Putnam Thatcher wishing the Sloan did not follow fashions and invest offshore, but in the old USA where they had some control over things. The whole cast has a rollicking good time, with Ken Nicolls the center of the action this time. John Putnam Thatcher comes to the rescue with the help of two incredible archeologists.

Murder Without Icing: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 14th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. Professional sports. NHL hockey. Emma Lathen's witty, insightful tale about how money underpins professional sports is full of charming characters such as the TV symphony announcer who becomes an instant hit as a play-by-play hockey analyst, the scion of a legendary rich family who has an interest in a team, and more.

This is the sixth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. $985,000 has been stolen from the Sloan in a letter-of-credit situation with forged documents; John Putnam Thatcher gets involved to save the Sloan the money and finds murders in the process. Great fun with the Soviets, Americans, and others acting up.

Hockey from beginning to end. The basics, the ultimate team sport, the NHL, AHL, Juniors, the 1980 Miracle on Ice, the passionate game, the Stanley Cup, as emotion, and more by the managing editor of The Pink Puck.

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

VC Money describes the best approach to interest VCs in your business venture and what steps to take, in what order, to gain their increasing commitment to your concept as well as to invite them in to be a trusted advisor. The 12 Steps come from the writings of many VCs about what they want to learn about prospective ventures and what are the most important answers they seek. A must-listen for any budding entrepreneur.

Sam Margulies describes how to fix a toxic divorce and how to bring the parties back together to manage their divorce, especially when children are involved. Fixing a Bad Divorce is a magnificent accomplishment and could save your family months of grief and suffering.

In divorce, people need to attend to the psychological aspects as they work to adapt to all the other new realities of a post-divorce world. Sam Margulies, an expert in mediation, here suggests that mediation is the best method for accomplishing these tasks. He details what everyone must do to make divorce a less painful process, with a minimum of suffering, especially for the children involved.

A Book of Five Rings is one of the three great historical strategy books, accompanying The Art of War and The Prince. They are best appreciated when listened to together. As the Japanese consulted Demming from MIT after World War II about quality American style, the Americans began to study Musashi's A Book of Five Rings in the 1970s when the Japanese. Keep your eye on the ball; focus on your goal single-mindedly and more.

Another wonderful Dickens short story combining spectral images with Christmas. Wonderful turns of phrase and digressions throughout. To name but one, “faithful obstructions”, for servants - in other words, easier to do it yourself if not for pride of position. Playful, fun, and illuminating. One of his less listened-to stories; well worth it for anyone, but especially for fans.

"The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a bittersweet story written in 1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe. The story has an undercurrent reflecting the tumultuous changes of that year. The narrator, attending a Christmas party with the Christmas tree referenced in the title, sees the Guest of Honor take an undue interest in a young girl, the daughter of his host....

A classic Dickens Christmas story full of love, loss, regret, and reuniting. After a Christmas Eve feast, the narrator tells a story about Richard Doubledick, saved by an officer friend , who became his friend for life until his death at Waterloo. Richard later met the French officer who killed his friend and used forgiveness to get over it, which lead to them and their children becoming lifelong friends. This is a classic story about generations of salvation and friendship.

The Man Without a Country is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic, during the height of the Civil War. It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who gets entangled with Aaron Burr in 1807 and renounces his country during his trial for treason, saying he never wants to hear about the United States again.

This title is laser-focused on making you sound smarter and becoming more respected by using a larger, more sophisticated vocabulary. Simply has systematically excluded words here that did meet this goal - words that are perfectly good in some contexts, but will not make you sound smarter. Included words sound appropriate in conversation, work seamlessly, and will not be interpreted as "show off" words.