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Love in the Rain (Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover)
A vibrant novel of memorable characters who search for happiness and true love, cope with the bitterness that results from love’s betrayal, and embrace new beginnings.
Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, Love in the Rain introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, experience the effects of this calamitous event. The war and its casualties, as well as people’s foibles and the tragedies they create for themselves, raise existential questions that cannot easily be answered.
In a frank, sensitive treatment of everything from patriotism to prostitution, homosexuality and lesbianism, Love in the Rain presents a struggle between “old” and “new” in the realm of moral values that leaves the future in doubt. Through the dilemmas and heartbreaks faced by his protagonists, Mahfouz exposes the hypocrisy of those who condemn any breach of sexual morality while turning a blind eye to violence, corruption, and oppression, double standards as applied to men’s and women’s sexuality, and the folly of an exclusive focus on sexual morals without reference to other aspects of human character. -
California Summer by Nora Roberts
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By Nora Roberts
Paperback
- Publisher: Mills & Boon (June 7, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 026390458X
- ISBN-13: 978-0263904581
- Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
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Hazy Summer Nights by Nora Roberts
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By Nora Roberts
Paperback
- Publisher: Mills & Boon (June 1, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0263896730
- ISBN-13: 978-0263896732
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
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Love By Design by Nora Roberts
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By Nora Roberts
Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Silhouette (April 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0373285973
- ISBN-13: 978-0373285976
- Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.2 x 6.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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Fame by Tilly Bagshawe
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By Tilly Bagshawe
Paperback
- Publisher: Harper (26 May 2011) (1600)
- ASIN: B011T6TPCC
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Good To Great – Paperback by Jim Collins
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some companies make the leap and others don’t.
The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:- Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
- The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
- A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
- The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.
“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
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Friends and Rivals by Tilly Bagshawe
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By Tilly Bagshawe
Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Harper (September 27, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 000732653X
- ISBN-13: 978-0007326532
- Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.3 x 7.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
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Strange Weather in Tokyo By Hiromi Kawakami
Strange Weather in Tokyo By Hiromi Kawakami. Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, ‘Sensei’, in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower.
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