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For those who feel like they are expending too much energy either engaging in conflict or desperately trying to avoid it, this refreshing, realistic guide provides accessible solutions. Readers will learn why dealing with a difficult person doesn’t have to ruin their day, the habits that cause conflict, and the techniques that can turn things around. It also gives readers insight into their own power in shaping relationships, and specific advice for handling different personality types. There really is a better way!.
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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.”

This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before..
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Things can get pretty crazy in marital relationships. As one reviewer has said, “What wife hasn’t felt like strangling her husband at least once during their marriage?” With her lighthearted personality and humor, author Merrilee Boyack shares twenty-five years’ worth of marital perspective in this practical guide to improve any marriage. As an estate-planning attorney, Merrilee has dealt with many struggling couples going through divorce. (Seven-year marriages seem to have the greatest challenges.) She offers practical tips for women who want to better understand men (particularly their husbands) and build happier marriages. She invites women to dump the guilt, be open enough to learn about areas they’d like to improve, and then take the steps to make those changes. Readers will also find a wealth of fun and practical advice in chapters like “The Five ‘Don’ts’ and Five ‘Do’s’ of Wifehood,” “But How Do I Change My Husband?” and “No, Really, How Can I Change Him?”.
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THE TRAGIC DOUBLE MURDER THAT SHOOK UP PRO WRESTLING In the notoriously crooked and exploitative world of professional wrestling, WWE legend Chris Benoit was thought to be the exception Chris was universally recognized as the finest that pro wrestling had to offer. His reputation was that of a decent, humble and devoted family man who was admired by all who knew him. Nobody could have predicted the horrific events of June 22 2007 when Chris strangled his wife and seven year old son before committing suicide. RING OF HELL is the true story of Benoit, his journey through the destructive, dysfunctional and bizarre world of pro wrestling and the catastrophic physical and mental breakdown that led to his grisly end. Pro wrestling, murder, suicide, pro sports, WWE, Chris Benoit, wrestling, strangling, professional wrestling .
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Race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South—Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge.

"The crime happens, the mob gathers Far too often, the question is, which nigger's neck are we going to put the noose around?"—Gary Parker, former defense lawyer for Carlton Gary

Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he remains on death row.

Award-winning Vanity Fair reporter David Rose has followed this case for a decade in an investigation that led him to the Big Eddy Club—an all-white, members-only club in Columbus, frequented by the town's most prominent judges and lawyers...as well as most of the seven murdered women. Among Rose's discoveries was that a young black man was lynched in 1912 in Columbus after he was tried for murder and freed, and that the Columbus judge to whom the Gary case was first assigned in 1984 was the son of the mob leader in the 1912 lynching.

Framed by the tale of two lynchings—one carried out illegally at the start of the twentieth century, and the other a legal lynching carried out at the century's end—The Big Eddy Club is a gripping, revealing drama, full of evocatively drawn characters, insidious institutions, and the extraordinary connections that bind past and present. The book is also a compelling, accessible, and timely exploration of race and criminal justice, not just in the context of the South but in the entire United States, as it addresses the corruption of due process as a tool of racial oppression..
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A brilliant and scathing polemic about the sorry state of the English Language and what we can—and must—do about it.

When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank or insurance company addressing you as a valued customer? Does your mind shut down when your employer starts talking about making a commitment going forward or enhancing your key competencies? Are you enervated by in terms of, irritated by impactful, infuriated by downsizing, rightsizing, decruiting, and dejobbing? Does business process re-engineering and attriting fail to give you ramp-up—in terms of your personal lifestyle?

Today’s corporations, news media, education departments—and, perhaps most troubling, politicians—speak to us and to each other in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the “disabled and disabling” language of the powerful, “evacuated language,” and “dead language.” Orwell called it “anesthetic” language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilence of bullet points, the dearth of verbs, the buzzwords, the weasel words and cant, the Newspeak of a kind Orwell could not have imagined.

Published in Australia in November 2003, Death Sentences gained a massive following among the legions of bright, sensitive people who Could Not Take It Anymore. More than a year later, it remains a national bestseller.

Praise:

“An important read for anyone who holds language dear.”
–Lucy Clark, Daily Telegraph

“The Book of the Year… witty, erudite, and funny. Awfully funny.”
–The Australian Financial Review

“Nobody writes more lyrically or cares more about words and those who murder them.”
–Sydney Morning Herald

“Witty, excoriating, and horrifying, [DEATH SENTENCE] should be every politician’s, academic’s, businessman’s, journalist’s, and bureaucrat’s choice for book of the year— and, alas, the era.”
–Robert Drewe, “Books of the Year,” The Age

“…should leave us afraid, very afraid… Anyone involved in writing for public consumption should read it—and sooner rather than later.”
–Frances Wilkins, Lawyers Weekly

“…obliterates the vernacular vandals among journalists, academics, politicians, and business people with deadly aim.”
–Murray Waldren, Australian

“Brilliant… tempered by sorrow.”
–Peter Price, Bulletin

“…an amusing and stimulating book. Watson’s writing is the antithesis of all he deplores: it is humane and welcoming.”
–James Ley, Age

“Watson writes well—passionately, fiercely, with generous sprinkles of wit and vitriol… Expect an entertaining ride.”
–Ruth Wajnryb,
Sydney Morning Herald


“…scathingly funny and deadly serious.”
–Jose Borghino, Marie Claire

“A book of unusual significance, a meditation on our times as much as a work on language… [it] will still be read—and enjoyed—in 50 years’ time.”
–Jim Davidson, Eureka Street

“Always lucid and witty… a resource of painful delight.”
–John McLaren, Overla.
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In this controversial look at strangulation, the author chronicles the history of the Thuggee, a cult of assassins that has stalked India for centuries. Find out how they caught and dispatched their victims, what their tools of terror were, how elements of their art have been incorporated into modern military and martial arts training and much more. For academic study only..
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THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA MR. W. MORGAN SHTJSTEE, LATE TREASURER-GENERAL OF PEK8IA. THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA STORY OF THE EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY AND ORIENTAL INTRIGUE THAT RE SULTED IN THE DENATIONALIZATION OF TWELVE MILLION MOHAMMEDANS A PERSONAL NAEEATI E BY W. MORGAN SHUSTER EX-TREAStmER-GENERAL OP PERSIA ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAP NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1912 TO THE PERSIAN PEOPLE In the endeavor to repay in some slight measure the debt of gratitude imposed on me through their confidence in my purposes toward them and by their unwavering belief, under difficult and forbidding cir cumstances, in my desire to serve them for the re generation of their nation, this book is dedicated by the author. U4S 1 t l t CONTENTS CHAPTER I Persia decides to obtain financial administrators from America. The Americans arrive at Teheran 3 CHAPTER II The political and financial situation in Persia as we found it. Powers of the Regent, the Cabinet and the Medjlis. Form of government and sources of revenue. The public debt. The various foreign loans ... o 35 CHAPTER III General plan adopted for reorganization. The law of June 13, 1911. Attitude of the foreign powers. The Stokes incident. The Treas ury Gendarmerie. The spirit of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 49 CHAPTER IV The attempt of Muhammad Ali Mirza, ex-Shah of Persia, to regain the throne. Russian intrigues and connivance. Military operations against the ex-Shah and his brothers. Success of the Nationalist troops. Defeat and death of Arshadud-Dawla 85 CHAPTER V Military operations against Prince Salarud-Dawla. His defeat by the Government forces. The incident arising from the confiscation by the Government of the estates of Prince ShuauVSaltana. My letter to the London Times 134 CHAPTER VI The first Russian ultimatum to Persia. The British Government ad vises Persia to accept. The Persian Government apologizes. The second ultimatum 157 CHAPTER VII The bread riots. The Medjlis rejects Russias ultimatum. Invasion by Russian troops. Persia plans for resistance. Part played by P ersian women. Abolishment of the Modjlis by coup detat Decem ber 24 169 CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII PAG33 My relations with the de facto Government of Persia. Massacres at Tabriz, Resht and Enzeli by Russian troops. My departure from Teheran 205 CHAPTER IX Character of the Regent, of the different Government officials and of the Medjlis. Character and capacity of the Persian people . . . 231 CHAPTER X The European diplomatic field in 1911. British and Russian policies. The Potsdam Agreement and the secret understanding between Rus sia and Germany. Strategical value of Persia. Sir Edward Greys charges against the Treasurer-General. The Anglo-Russian Agree ment .... 247 CHAPTER XI The taxation system of Persia. My plans for the reorganization of the finances. Possibilities of railroad development. Potential wealth and resources of Persia 277 CHAPTER XII Conclusion ,,..-. . ,. 319 LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS PAGE Mr. W. Morgan Sinister, Late Treasurer-General of Persia , Frontispiece Nasiru J d-Din Shah with overcoat and a group of his Ministers and Attendants xix Mushirud Dawla xxvi Aynud-Dawla, One of the Persian Grandees of the Old Regime . . . xxvi Muhammad AH Shah Mounted on his Favorite Horse xxxi Aminus-Sultan, Atabak xxxi Russian and Persian Officers of the Notorious Cossack Brigade . xxxviii Muhammad Ali Shah now ex-Shah and His Suite xliv Mr. H. C. Baskerville, The American Teacher in Tabriz .... xlvii Mr. W. A. Moore xlvii Muhammad Ali Shah and His Suite Iviii Ayvan, one of the two Assassins of the Persian Minister of Finance., Saniud-Dawla, who was shot in February, 1911 . . ,. . . . Ixi Saniud-Dawla, The Minister of Finance Ixi Map showing the three Spheres Russian, British and Neutral De fined in the Anglo-Russian Agreement of August 31, 1907 ... 4 Mr. F. S. Cairns, Director of Taxation, and Mr. Shusters Principal Assistant in Persia 7 Mr. Charles I....
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