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Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, No. 17)
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal garden, rumors of bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. And it's up to Daisy - well, Alec with some help from Daisy - to find out who the dead man is, why he was murdered and who did him in! .
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure..
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Dalrymple's Sales Management: Concepts and Cases
Get the hands-on experience you need to succeed Effective sales management not only helps companies gain advantages over competitors; it also helps you gain key advantages in your personal career. With Dalrymple's Sales Management, 9th Edition, you'll learn how to get out there, manage a sales force, and help them sell. The authors show you how to develop a sales force, manage strategic account relationships, and motivate your sales force. Now revised, this Ninth Edition presents the latest findings in sales force management research, along with examples and stories of current sales management practices. Dalrymple's Sales Management, 9th Edition will help you: * Think strategically about how to use the sales force to create customer value and competitive advantages. * Enhance your data analysis skills with Excel, through a wealth of Excel-based problems. * Apply what you've learned to real-world sales management dilemmas and a new continuing case. * Develop the core competencies that every sales manager needs. * Implement specific sales management tools for budgeting, sales forecasting, and designing sales territories..
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)
In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment—created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history..
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate prejudice has several dire consequences for the individual and society as a whole..
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
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Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming)
There are several other books on programming for Mac OS X, but none of them comtain explanations of how to leverage the powerful underlying technologies This book goes down to the real nitty-gritty of multi-threading, interprocess communication, networking, performance tuning, distributed objects, queues, Bonjour, authentication, the keychain, and directory services. The tools are also covered: gcc, gdb, subversion, Shark, and Saturn. .
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working against the East India Company. Shedding light on the many eccentric Westerners during this period who "turned Turk," adopting Indian customs, dress, and religions, Darymple brings to life a compelling and largely unwritten story of Britain's rule over India..
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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx..
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