Setting the Table

Business & Money

Danny Meyer

Industries

Marshall Cavendish Trade

WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN.Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia’s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she’s known to many, could not tell these individuals how to avoid their fates, we can benefit from her experience and profound insight into the choices we make each day.In How Not to Die, Dr. G acts as a medical detective to identify the often-unintentional ways we harm our bodies, then shows us how to use that information to live better and smarter. She provides startling tips on how to make wise choices so that we don’t have to see her, or someone like her, for a good, long time. • In “Highway to the Morgue,” we learn the one commonsense safety tip that can prevent deadly accidents—and the reason you should never drive with the windows half open• “Code Blue” teaches us how to increase our chances of leaving the hospital alive—and how to insist that everyone caring for you practice the easiest hygiene method around• “Everyday Dangers” informs us why neat freaks live longer—and the best ways to stay safe in a car during a lightning stormUsing anecdotes from her cases and a liberal dose of humor, Dr. G gives us her prescription for living a healthier, better, longer life—and unlike many doctors’ orders, this one is surprisingly easy to follow.

How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer and Healthier

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Garavaglia, Jan

Exercise & Fitness

Two years on and the global business bestseller that introduced the idea of granularity to management is back. Now in paperback, the core lessons in Granularity: Smart choices to grow your business in good times and bad, based on research and client carried out by the world s leading consultancy McKinsey & Company, have become all the more critical in the wake of a once-in-a-generation downturn that has rocked global markets. Among the dislocation and ruin, exist powerful pockets and sources of growth. The real science is in identifying and exploiting these opportunities valued in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Granularity shows you how. As markets and global trends are recast by the crisis, capitalizing upon them requires a more dynamic, granular approach to management. Granular management rewards leaders skilled in viewing and deploying resources in ways that turn micro insights into big payoffs. In fact, companies adept at doing so before the current crisis are, not surprisingly, the ones faring best as others falter. Before, during and after crisis, getting granular continues to provide the edge to those ready to harness its power.

Granularity: Smart Choices to Grow Your Business in Good Tim

Patrick Viguerie

Management & Leadership

<p>David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him one of the most insightful financial market strategists in the world. For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankers and advised top Wall Street executives and investors. The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman€™s The World Is Flat left off, taking listeners on an insider€™s tour through the private offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. Smick reveals how today€™s risky environment came to be€”and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on everyone€™s mind: How bad could things really get in today€™s volatile economy? And what can we do about it? The World Is Curved is the rare work that speaks simultaneously to the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its apt storytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in these turbulent times. €œThe World Is Curved</p>

The World is Curved [Nov 26, 2009] Smick, David M.

David M. Smick

Economics

Mini Cookbook : Asian Tidbits

Debbie Teoh

Penang Nyonya Cookbook

Cecilia Tan

The 36 stratagems are a set of powerful Chinese aphorisms embodying the essence of the ancient Chinese art of cunning. First mentioned about 1,500 years ago, and committed to paper nearly 500 years ago, the 36 stratagems have been gaining popularity in Chinese business circles since the 1990s. Though more than 80 books have been published recently in the Far East recommending the use of the 36 stratagems in the modern business world, these books are as yet unknown in the Western countries. Managers at all levels will therefore benefit from this English-language book evaluating the 36 stratagems and detailing how to apply them in management as well as "economic warfare." Entertaining and thought provoking, the text includes examples of managers who have been able to achieve objectives using the strategems. The 36 stratagems encourage flexibility and new ways of thinking about business issues, making this handbook widely adaptable to changing conditions.                                                          The 36 Stratagems are a set of powerful Chinese aphorisms embodying the essence of the ancient Chinese Art of Cunning. First mentioned about 1,500 years ago, the 36 Stratagems were committed to paper at about 500 years ago, and have gained in popularity in Chinese business circles since the 1990s. More than 80 books have been published recently in the Far East recommending the use of the 36 stratagems in the modern business world. These books are, however, unknown in the Western countries. Managers at all levels will therefore benefit from this English-language book evaluating the 36 Stratagems and detailing how to apply them in management as well as "economic warfare".Entertaining and thought provoking, the text includes examples of managers who have been able to achieve objectives using the strategems. As far as the Art of Cunning is concerned, China is far ahead of the West. Knowing this Chinese Art would give you a great advantage in business. The 36 stratagems encourage flexibility and new ways of thinking about business issues, making this handbook widely adaptable to changing conditions.

36 Stratagems for Business Pearson

Von Senger, Harro

Stone Age Company Pearson

Unknown, Author

How Not to Come Second Pearson

David Kean

I Want to Make a Differencep

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