This novel tells the story of an orphaned daughter of a cabaret dancer and her rise from poverty and anonymity to film stardom, all set against the rise and fall of Berlin, the background of WWI, the debauchery of the Weimar era, the run-up to WWII, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all.

THE LAW OF DELAY: INTERVIEWS AND OUTERVIEWS

Humor & Entertainment

C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON

Humor

Penguin

Law, The, or Still in Pursuit

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Ponies Plot (Puffin Books)

Children's Books

Puffin

Acquiring those traits that render him indispensable to his master, a member of London high society, valet Reginald Jeeves masters the art of silent movement, memorizes "Debrett's British Peerage," and anticipates his employers's every need.

Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman

St Martins Pr

Big Business

Business & Money

Biography & History

Little,Brown & Co

The Law and the Profits

Ballantine Books

Parkinson's Third LawIf there is a way to delay an important decision the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

The Law of Delay

Parkinson's Law states that 'work expands to fill the time available'. While strenuously denied by management consultants, bureaucrats and efficiency experts, the law is borne out by disinterested observation of any organization. The book goes far beyond its famous theorem, though. The author goes on to explain how to meet the most important people at a social gathering and why, as a matter of mathematical certainty, the time spent debating an issue is inversely proportional to its objective importance. Justly famous for more than forty years, Parkinson's Law is at once a bracingly cynical primer on the reality of human organization, and an innoculation against the wilful optimism to which we as a species are prone.

Parkinson's Law

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Parkinson's Law: And Other Studies in Administration

Humor & Satire

The Fireship

Genre Fiction

Magnum

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