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There is a new, highly personalized, more entrepreneurial environment being created inside today's most successful organizations. There is an intense focus on the customer, the quality of the product, and the contribution of each individual. In this program, hear Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence) as he presents in his unique, exciting, and dynamic style his newest ideas. Find out what you'll have to do to compete and win in the new business climate.

The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31.

This expanded edition of Hall's original 1979 book includes never-before-heard poems and vignettes - read by the author - and new chapters that bring us up to date with Hall as he sits with President Carter, caps his recording career, quits drinking, ponders his legacy, examines the creative process, and retires from the music industry. "If you want to retire, go ahead," he says. "Life will still present innumerable occasions for you to go out and make an ass of yourself."

Sherlock Holmes ist besorgt. Ein Besuch in Flensburg endet für ihn mit der bitteren Erkenntnis, dass jemand die Pläne für die gefährliche "Windbüchse" des deutschen Waffenfabrikanten von Herder gestohlen hat. Und nur kurze Zeit später weiß er auch, weshalb. Der größte der Krondiamanten - der gelbe Mazarin Stein - wurde gestohlen.

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

"Years ago, I wrote about a retail store in the Palo Alto environs—a good one, which had a box of two-cent candies at the checkout. I subsequently remember that 'little' parting gesture of the two-cent candy as a symbol of all that is Excellent at that store. Dozens of people who have attended seminars of mine have come up to remind me, sometimes 15 or 20 years later, of “the two-cent candy story,” and to tell me how it had a sizable impact on how they did business."

The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. This compact volume of their journals, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure, in their own words.

For decades Tom Peters has been preaching the gospel of putting people first, and in today's rapidly changing business environment, this message is more important than ever. With his unparalleled expertise and inimitable charisma, Peters provides a roadmap for you and your organization to thrive amidst the tech tsunami, and he has a lot of fun doing it. The Excellence Dividend is an important new book from one of today’s greatest business thinkers.

The gospel stories as you've never heard them before.

Everyone knows the story of Jesus' life as told in the Gospels - and perhaps because it is so familiar, we have forgotten what an extraordinary life it was. Through these five plays, the story is pieced together as if from the memories of those who were there and saw events for themselves: Jesus' mother, Mary; his closest friends; the Jewish high priest; and the Roman governor. They recount the events they witnessed as if they had happened just the other day.

It's San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam's partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley's story turns out to be a lie.

In London verschwinden Menschen. Die Nächte verbreiten überall Angst und Schrecken, niemand fühlt sich mehr sicher. Man erzählt sich in den Straßen von Geistern, die Menschen entführen. Als Sherlock Holmes durch H. G. Wells einen zurückkehrenden Zeitreisenden aufspürt, vermutet er einen Zusammenhang mit den Morden und ist der grausamen Wahrheit damit bereits sehr nah.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf ungewöhnlichen Pfaden. Wer ist die schöne Unbekannte aus der Themse? Was hat es mit dem Ungeheuer im Loch Ness für eine Bewandtnis? Was geht auf Urquhart Castle vor sich? Und in welcher Verbindung steht Mycroft Holmes, der Bruder des berühmten Meisterdetektivs, mit all diesen Vorgängen? Viele Fragen, die nur einer beantworten kann Sherlock Holmes!

Eigentlich ist immer Ostern für Sherlock Holmes. Denn der Meisterdetektiv feiert andauernd Auferstehung. Mit diesen einleitenden Worten beginnt der alternde Dr. John H. Watson seinen Bericht über die merkwürdige Reise des Detektivs nach Kiew. Eine wahrlich phantastische Reise.

Drei britische Agenten stürzen vom Balkon eines Antwerpener Nobelhotels. Unfall, Zufall - oder gar Mord? Sir Mycroft schickt seinen Bruder nach Belgien. Doch kaum ist er dort angekommen, verschwindet der Meisterdetektiv spurlos. Und es scheint, als hätte Mycroft Holmes da seine Finger im Spiel.

Hilton Cubitt sucht Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf. In seinem Gepäck: mehrere kryptische Botschaften, die auf den ersten Blick wie das Gekritzel eines Kindes wirken. In Wahrheit aber steckt weitaus mehr dahinter. Dies entdeckt Holmes aber erst, als es fast schon zu spät ist.

The coauthor of In Search of Excellence offers practical insights on business, management, leadership, and success. This audio program covers listening to customers, noting symbols, circulating, motivating others, and striving for top-notch quality and service.

In 1982, business guru Tom Peters co-authored In Search of Excellence, one of the most influential business guides of all time. More recently, through 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries, Peters reexamined, refined, and reinvented his views on innovation, the #1 survival strategy, he asserts, for businesses of the next millennium.

In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the best-selling In Search of Excellence, is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence.

Thriving on Chaos is the national best seller that offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down.

Once more the "unconventional" Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A "must" hear for every business person.