Business Fiction

Ringo, una ragazza che lavora nelle cucine di un ristorante di Tokyo, rientra una sera a casa e non trova più il suo fidanzato chef. È sparito tutto, persino gli utensili in cucina. Lo choc di Ringo è tale che ritorna al villaggio natio dove decide di aprire un ristorante che ospita solo una coppia al giorno, con un menu ad hoc, ritagliato sulla fisionomia e i desideri dei clienti.

I don't know what it's like to feel. To hurt. The ability was stolen from me in my youth. I consider that theft a gift. Feelings got in the way when you were building an empire. Amassing power. I had the empire. I had the power. One moment in an alley changed everything. What took more than a decade to amass was snatched away in a second. He killed for me. But he didn't save me.

New York. Nel cuore del quartiere di SoHo, c'è un elegante negozio di abiti vintage. La proprietaria, Kate Madison, grazie al suo innato senso della moda e un occhio infallibile, è riuscita a farne un punto di riferimento per l'intera città. Un sogno, per lei, avveratosi soltanto dopo parecchi anni di duro lavoro e molti sacrifici. E mentre la popolarità del negozio cresceva, lo stesso accadeva per i quattro figli: la vera gioia della vita di Kate, che ha dovuto occuparsene da sola, dopo la morte del marito.

Whether you're preparing for a college entrance exam or a major business presentation, Ron Fry's How to Study Program equips you for a lifetime of learning. Conversational, approachable, and newly revised, this comprehensive program includes the all-time best seller, How to Study, plus six other helpful study guides.

An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition.

Someone is trying to sabotage Ashworths, the exclusive department store set up by Laura Beaumont. Is the company about to be taken over? The timing is bad for the Beaumont family because Laura's health is declining and they desperately need to find a successor to the business. Caroline, Laura's eldest daughter, is a concert pianist in search of a new career; perhaps at Ashworths. But her ambitious sister Michaela has her eye on the top job and is suspicious of Caroline's motives. Meanwhile, Joel, Laura's son, has to deal with his own problems before he can pursue his career as a doctor.

A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means necessary - short of murder. Now he's one eye and one working leg short of the man he used to be, scarred beyond recognition, and with the feds and criminal organizations in hot pursuit. Throwing back sour beer in a dingy bar, Phil recounts the long story of his bitter life to the only person left to listen.

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain, the national celebration of the Summer Solstice, and there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer, Duncan Culshaw, who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. And when extortion and blackmail are mentioned, Primavera realises the heat is on.

For 17 years, Sheridan and Quentin seemed to have the perfect marriage. Now he is leaving her for another man. Her life shattered, Sheridan wonders how she can help their two children live through this crisis, while keeping her own emotional turmoil under control.

The Making of a CEO is the result of interviews and analysis of top-level CEOs across various sectors. The audiobook explores nuances of leading in different contexts like start-ups, large corporations, family businesses, educational institutions, not-for-profits, public sector, and the government. The journey to the top involves three key aspects - building professional credibility, managing your career, and managing yourself.

Cassie Sands, devoted sister, aunt, and owner of Just Desserts, falls in love with a man she believes is struggling just like her, only to find out after they're married that he's actually the millionaire son of a powerful Texas mogul...and that he wants to hide their relationship. She vows never to see him again. A month later she finds herself needing help only he can provide. Stephen Sands has always had the responsibility of being the oldest son of a Fort Worth Magnate.

The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are serious about their bullshit and prepared to dedicate their working life to it.

Paradoxe entre l’abondance pour le consommateur et ses choix de plus en plus restreints ; mépris  de la propriété intellectuelle, donc incapacité  d’assurer un revenu décent aux créateurs ; modèle  d’affaires ne servant que les monopoles (70 % à  85 % des revenus publicitaires engrangés par  Google, YouTube, Facebook, Netflix… ) ; "indifférence" politico­juridique, car les gouvernements  ne semblent pas vouloir remédier à cette situation.

Die junge Rose ist eine Kleinkriminelle aus dem ärmsten Viertel Londons. Aus Zufall findet sie heraus, dass sie der reichen Kaufmannstochter Emilia Young zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Diesen Umstand nutzt sie aus, um es sich ab sofort auf Rechnung „ihres“ Vaters gutgehen zu lassen. Als der Schwindel auffliegt, wird sie wegen Betrugs zur Deportation nach Australien und zwanzig Jahren Zwangsarbeit verurteilt.

This book offers a series of problems in thinking that require no special knowledge and no mathematics. The problems are designed to let readers find out about their personal style of thinking, its weaknesses and strengths, and the potential methods that they never use. Being right is not always important - an error can lead to the right decision.

Upward: The Power of Looking Up offers inspiration, insight, and encouragement on how changing our perspective can transform our lives and the world around us. It is a story book full of ideas and practical advice, including interviews with incredible people who have chosen to think and live differently. Through the power of our body and mind, nature, creativity, and community, Upward provides a timely collection of thoughts, suggestions, and evidence on the power of looking up, for us now and in the future.

The Spirit of Creativity: Embodying Your Soul's Passion is a timely audiobook that addresses our growing need to live the creative life. It reminds us that creativity is the energy of our life force, and exists within every aspect of our lives. Creativity is not something you learn, it is something you are.

Based on a true story, Fighting Chance is written by Alicia Doyle, an award-winning journalist who discovered boxing at age 28 in the late 1990s when she went on assignment at a boxing gym for at-risk youth called Kid Gloves. For two years, she simultaneously worked as a newspaper reporter while training and competing as a boxer, making her one of only a few hundred women in America who infiltrated this male-dominated sport.

Tumult in Mecca: From Civil Servant to Global Business Adventurer transports listeners to 1979, a year of upheaval and change. Henrik Bertelsen, a Danish civil servant and baby boomer, is dedicated to his stable life in Copenhagen. Alongside his English wife, Sammy, they are building a co-housing community and navigating the complex adoption of a child from Indonesia. Henrik longs for peace and stability to secure his career. But life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered the chance to renovate hospital kitchens in Saudi Arabia.

Boston attorney Malachim Jerrod doesn’t trust anyone. His father and his ex-fiancé taught him that hard lesson. So when a beautiful stranger arrives on his doorstep his first reaction is to back away - far away. Danielle Warren wants a job, but his law business is falling apart, and her credentials are bare-bones at best. Still, there’s something about her that, try as he might, he’s unable to resist. The vulnerability in her soft voice? The way she flinches when he gets too close? The yearning he sees mirrored in her eyes when she looks at him?