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(0)Matthew Stewart
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. Striking fear into the hearts of clients with his sharp analytical tools, Stewart lived in hotel rooms and got fat on expense account cuisine—until, finally, he decided to turn his merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself.
Providing a bitingly funny
...2) An emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement—the idea that all men are created equal....
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, c2004
Language
English
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.