Illinois (Prairie State Books)

History

Gray, James

Americas

University of Illinois Press

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ancient Proverbs and Maxims from Burmese Sources: Or The Niti Literature of Burma (Trubner's Oriental Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Incredible Heap

Catton, Chris

Pelham Books

In business, as in presidential politics, image is everything. Without the appropriate dress, body language, and communication skills, the most intelligent and able manager will have little - if any - visibility. Whether preparing for a job interview or a public engagement, businesspeople wig find a closet-full of sound advice in The Winning Image. It explains how to: develop a wardrobe for their particular body type and choose the most flattering colours polish their speaking voice and handle conversations, meetings, and reprimands in a professional manner create an effective image on the podium, on the screen, and before the press. Image checklists, diagrams, and photographs accompany each chapter. In addition, the author has included an "intercultural focus" that discusses appropriate etiquette for doing business abroad.

The Winning Image

Business & Money

American Management Association

Explains how appearance can help one's career, suggest ways to improve self-image, wardrobe, gestures and movement, and discusses self-promotion techniques

The Winning Image: Present Yourself With Confidence and Style for Career Success

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Discusses the biological origins of sex, looks at courtship rituals, breeding seasons, monogamy, social behavior, and parenthood, and considers human sexual behavior

Sex in Nature

Science & Math

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John Steinbeck - American Writers 94: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (Paperback))

Literature & Fiction

Univ. of Minnesota Press

NOW book editor of the Chicago Daily News, James Gray has during the past two decades interpreted the literary scene for Midwest readers in entertaining daily columns for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. ON SECOND THOUGHT rescues much of his best work from the oblivion of newsprint. It combines the opinions thrown off at white heat to meet five o'clock deadlines and those born of quiet contemplation and reflection over the years. The result is a book in which the critic emerges as a creative artist and the journalist as a discerning historian of literature. James Gray's writing is good reading and no matter how seriously and energetically he may be tracing the course of a writer's universality and talent, he cannot resist the delight of an apt, sparkling, or sagacious phrase. Nor can the reader resist a chuckle of appreciation and pleasure in the author's own poised prose. The reader gets a sense of immediacy from James Gray's compact style, but also feels that here is a critic we can trust - one who probes keenly and wisely, one who lucidly traces the unobserved currents connecting headline to headline. ON SECOND THOUGHT is an extraordinarily complete and vivid panorama of contemporary literature and of the writers who have created it. Over 50 modern authors are here reviewed, from our American Nobel prize winners, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, and Pearl Buck, and the "garrulous" English uncles, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy, to the "half-gods on the threshold," Feike Feikema, Ann Chidester, Carson McCullers, and Wallace Stegner. Author in his own right of both fiction and nonfiction, Gray has also written many short plays for little-theater groups and has served as consultant for Warner Brothers. His published titles include the novels Shoulder the Sky, Wake and Remember, Wings of Great Desire, and Vagabond Path. He has contributed The Illinois to the "Rivers of America," and Pine, Stream, and Prairie to "The

On Second Thought

History & Criticism

University of Minnesota Press

Business Without Boundary was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The firm of General Mills is probably best known to millions of people as the maker of Gold Medal Flour and as the progenitor of that first lady of the kitchen and the airwaves, Betty Crocker. But, although its greatest fame is as a flour miller, the company engages in a host of other activities that attest to the foresight and creative thinking of its executives. In fact, the sky seems to be the only limit as the company extends its sights upward in Operation Skyhook, a United States navy research project for which General Mills makes and launches into the stratosphere giant plastic balloons.
James Gray relates not only the history of General Mills since its founding in 1928 but also the background of the major companies that merged to form the larger corporation: the Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis, the Sperry Company of San Francisco, the Kell group of Texas and Oklahoma mills, and the Larrowe Milling Company of Detroit.
Anyone interested in advertising and promotion will find fascinating the accounts of the early successes in radio advertising, including the first use of singing commercials and the phenomenal rise of Betty Crocker (voted the second best-known woman in America!) The scientific and technical research that is a cornerstone of the modern corporation is described in detail, as is the development of the products control method, a General Mills innovation now widely adopted in industry.
For those curious to understand how business expands, for those interested in a close-up of industrial leaders, for anyone who wants to sharpen his view of America at work, this is an important book.

Business Without Boundary: The Story of General Mills

Biography & History

Preface By William Van O'Connor And Frederick J. Hoffman.

American Non-fiction, 1900-1950:

Brodbeck, May

Metzger, Walter P.

Praeger

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