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Undead and Unpopular (Queen Betsy, Book 5)
This New York Times bestselling author's Undead series is more popular than ever! With her birthday coming up, Betsy isn't in the best frame of mind to face the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects. Playing politics is not her strong suit, especially when she finds out her best friend Jessica may have a life-threatening illness. Sure Betsy can save her life by taking it-isn't that what friends are for?-but the choice isn't in her hands. With her fiancé Eric dodging all the wedding plans, Betsy's plate is full-and not with birthday cake. But who has time to pout? Not even a reluctant vampire queen, who is taking it one high-heeled step at a time in MaryJanice Davidson's creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty series..
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An Unpopular War
In the seventies, eighties and nineties, conscription had a profound effect on hundreds of thousands of young men, particularly those who had to serve in the Angolan war. This book is a collection of reflections and memories of that time, collected by JH Thompson, who interviewed men who did National Service in the Apartheid-era South African Defence Force. Contributors include ordinary soldiers, Special Forces members, helicopter pilots, chefs and religious objectors. The book is a fast, fascinating read that captures the spirit and atmosphere, the daily duties, the boredom, fear and other intense experiences of an SADF soldier. For everyone who did military service, as well as their loved ones, this book is a must..
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Minority Report: Unpopular thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism
Theological essays are dusty, humourless affairs arent they? Well, they dont have to be! This is the second collection of essays by Carl Truman. His first collection was received with the enthusiasm shown by the reviews opposite. This time Chick Lit, Adolf Eichman, the ipod, Roger Beckwith, the Blues, Watership Down, American Idol, Nietzsche, zencalvinism, Augustine and ferrets(!) all get a mention. If you want to inform your mind and chuckle at the same time Carls your man!.
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Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest To Turn Around The Most Unpopular Organization In America (Leadership for the Common Good)
When Charles O. Rossotti became Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, the agency had the largest customer base—and the lowest approval rating—of any institution in America. Mired in scandal, caught in a political maelstrom, and beset by profound management and technology problems, the IRS was widely dismissed as a hopelessly flawed enterprise. In Many Unhappy Returns, Rossotti—the first businessperson to head the IRS—recounts the remarkable story of his leadership and transformation of this much-maligned agency. In the glare of intense public scrutiny, he effected dramatic changes in the way the IRS did business—while it continued to collect $2 trillion in revenue. Through fascinating accounts of heated Congressional hearings, encounters with Washington bigwigs, frank exchanges with taxpayers and employees, and risky turnaround strategies, Rossotti serves up a colorful story of leadership and change against daunting odds. He also underscores why every honest taxpayer should demand reform in the broader U.S. tax system. Infused with keen wit and hard-won business wisdom, Many Unhappy Returns illuminates the perils and possibilities of leading large, complex organizations in a transparent world..
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Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank
When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations John Weeks based his study on long-term observations of the British Armstrong Bank in the United Kingdom. Not one person at this organization, he found, from the CEO down to the junior clerks, had anything good to say about its corporate culture. And yet, despite all the griping—and despite high-profile efforts at culture change—the way things were done never seemed fundamentally to alter. The organization was restructured, jobs redefined, and processes redesigned, but the complaining remained the same. As Weeks demonstrates, this is because the everyday standards of behavior that regulate complaints curtail their effectiveness. Embarrass someone by complaining in a way that is too public or too pointed, and you will find your social standing diminished. Complain too loudly or too long, and your coworkers might see you as contrary. On the other hand, complain too little and you may be seen as too stiff or just too strange to be trusted. The rituals of complaint, Weeks shows, have powerful social functions. .
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Unpopular Essays
BERTRAND RUSSELL UNPOPULAR ESSAYS SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK PREFACE MOST of the following essays, which were written at various times during the last fifteen years, are concerned to combat, in one way or another, the growth of dogmatism, whether of the Right or of the Left, which has hitherto characterized our tragic century. This serious purpose inspires them even if, at times, they seem flippant, for those who are solemn and pontifical are not to be successfully fought by being even more solemn and even more pontifical A word as to the title. In the Preface to my Human Knowl edge I said that I was writing not only for professional philoso phers, and that philosophy proper deals with matters of interest to the general educated public. Reviewers took me to task, saying they found parts of the book difficult, and im plying that my words were such as to mislead purchasers. I do not wish to expose myself again to this charge I will therefore confess that there are several sentences in the present volume which some unusually stupid children of ten might find a litde puzzling. On this ground I do not claim that the essays are popular and if not popular, then unpopular. BERTRANB RUSSELL April, 1950 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Three of the essays included in this volume Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, Ideas That Have Helped Mankind, and Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind were originally published by Mr. K Haldeman-Julius of Girard, Kansas, with whose permission they are now reprinted. B, R. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface v I. Philosophy and Politics i II. Philosophy for Laymen i III The Future of Mankind 34 IV. Philosophys Ulterior Motives 45 V. The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed 58 VI. On Being Modern-minded 65 VII An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish 71 VIIL The Functions of a Teacher 112 IX, Ideas That Have Helped Mankind 124 X. Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind 146 XL Eminent Men I Have Known 166 XII. Obituary 173 UNPOPULAR ESSAYS Philosophy and Politics THE British are distinguished among the nations of mod ern Europe, on the one hand by the excellence of their philosophers, and on the other hand by their contempt for philosophy. In both respects they show their wisdom. But contempt for philosophy, if developed to the point at which it becomes systematic, is itself a philosophy it is the philosophy which, in America, is called instrumentalism. I shall suggest that philosophy, if it is bad philosophy, may be dangerous, and therefore deserves that degree of negative respect which we accord to lightning and tigers. What positive respect may be due to good philosophy I will leave for the moment an open question. The connection of philosophy with politics, which is the subject of my lecture, has been less evident in Britain than in Continental countries. Empiricism, broadly speaking, is con nected with liberalism, but Hume was a Tory what philoso phers call idealism has, in general, a similar connection with conservatism, but T. H. Green was a Liberal. On the Continent distinctions have been more clear cut, and there has been a greater readiness to accept or reject a block of doctrines as a whole, without critical scrutiny of each separate part. In most civilized countries at most times, philosophy has 2 UNPOPULAR ESSAYS been a matter in which the authorities had an official opinion, and except where liberal democracy prevails this is still the case. The Catholic Church is connected to the philosophy of Aquinas, the Soviet government to that of Marx. The Nazis upheld German idealism, though the degree of allegiance to be given to Kant, Fichte, or Hegel respectively was not clearly laid down. Catholics, Communists, and Nazis all consider that their views on practical politics are bound up with their views on theoretical philosophy. Democratic liberalism, in its early successes, was connected with the empirical philosophy de veloped by Locke....
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