63 Results for : figurehead
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Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min
Today’s celebrity CEO is either a figurehead or an egomaniac, too public a personality to get the real work done. That work is done instead by teams of leaders: exceptional deputies who forge great partnerships to maximize both organizational and personal success. Written for CEOs, managers, and anyone else interested in modern organizations, this is the first comprehensive study of co-leaders and their often quiet power. In a growing number of non-hierarchical organizations, talent, not title, is the source of power; boss and subordinate seem more like peers, with the spotlight on great partnerships. Co-leaders understand both the executive and subordinate experience, making them better adapted to the needs of the new millennium, where those who can command and follow will prove to be the greatest assets of any organization. David A. Heenan is a trustee of the Estate of James Campbell, one of the nation’s largest landowners, with assets valued at over two billion dollars. A former senior executive with Citicorp and Jardine Matheson, Heenan has served on the faculties of the Wharton School and the Columbia Graduate School of Business. He is the author of The New Corporate Frontier and The Re-United States of America. Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California and a consultant to multinational companies and governments throughout the world. Author of over a dozen books, including the best-sellers Leaders and On Becoming a Leader, Bennis’s insights have fundamentally shaped the way we think about leaders today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000537/bk_blak_000537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Le Temps Viendra [Time Will Come]: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 889min
Anne is a young 21st-century woman in the midst of a lifelong love affair with the 16th-century and the enigmatic Anne Boleyn. While indulging her secret passion on an exclusive "Anne Boleyn Connoisseurs' Weekend", she is taken seriously ill at Hever Castle. Falling into a deep state of unconsciousness, Anne becomes ensnared in a time portal that transports her back in time to England, 1527. She awakens to find herself in the body of her heroine, Anne Boleyn; at the time, a young woman on the brink of a historic love affair with the mighty King Henry VIII. Anne finds herself at the center of Henry's world yet increasingly vulnerable as the figurehead of the emerging and evermore powerful Boleyn faction. While she learns what it is to walk in the footsteps of the woman who would change English history, she is also engulfed in mixed emotions and only too aware of how her relationship with Henry mirrors that of her 21st-century relationship with Dan, her married lover. Soon, Anne begins to lose her own sense of identity as the boundaries between the two women begin to blur. As she is sucked back and forth between her two great loves and two increasingly fragile lives, Anne struggles to change her heroine's terrible fate on the scaffold while trying to prevent her own modern-day life hurtling inextricably toward disaster. Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn is a timeless story of passion, ambition, and betrayal; it is also an enduring story of an intense love forged between two souls who are bound together for all eternity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201324/bk_acx0_201324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Out of Hell's Kitchen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min
You don't know what hell is until you try to get out of it....Luke Hawthorn's world is crumbling around him. After his mother, an NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) operative is killed in a mysterious house fire, he learns that she was investigating a new designer drug linked to the death of some 200 London club-goers. Among the victims: One of Luke's closest friends.So when an enigmatic uncle appears at the funeral and offers Luke a home in New York, he jumps at the opportunity to leave his old life behind. But he soon finds that despite the vast ocean separating Hell's Kitchen from London, his worlds are destined to collide.What really killed Luke's mother? Why is a Russian submarine docked in New York? Who created the designer drug known as Rave-N? Get Out of Hell's Kitchen and find out for yourself.The Bottom Line: An engrossing, atmospheric organized crime thriller that crackles with energy from the first page to the very last. Highly recommended.Author John Hanzl has created a highly successful crime thriller that works on multiple levels. In particular, his gift for authentic dialogue - across Russian, English, Irish, and Honduran characters, no less - is exceedingly good. As a result, each successive chapter is an immersive experience in which Luke navigates new cultures and mysteries to find the truth that can save not only himself, but countless others as well.In Luke's Uncle, Hanzl has drawn an imposing, complex figurehead that manages to intimidate, even in his most charitable moments. As in Dennis Lehane's best work, Hanzl manages to keep you guessing about the uncle's true intentions until the last possible moment.”John Hanzl's writing style and story are similar in some ways to Robert Ludlum's earlier novels, a definite plus. John has an exciting style which draws you in and keeps you turning the pages” (Kaye Trout, Midwest Book Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Battley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182561/bk_acx0_182561_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Isia's Secret: An Enda Osin Mystery, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
Enda Osin is a sharp cookie when it comes to political intrigue. His daily column in the Herald is controversial and popular. Upsetting the incumbents of the White House and Downing Street over an embarrassing article, his editor has been forced to side-line him. He has been assigned to write a series of articles for the Herald's Sunday supplement about Paul Hrisacopolis, a shipping billionaire with a thirst for power in the European Union and a believer in Enosis for Cyprus. To help him is art correspondent, Jessica Du Rosse, a beautiful and sophisticated West Indian half his age and with whom he is soon falling in love. Hrisacopolis has offered to transport priceless artifacts that the British Museum has agreed to relinquish claim to, from London to Athens on board the flagship of his cruise line. He's looking forward to partying on the cruise with influential European politicians who can vote him onto a powerful committee chairmanship. That position could be used to influence public opinion against Turkey and cause the return of civil war on Cyprus. With news that Paul's only grandson, essential key player to take his grandfather's place as figurehead, has agreed to end a family feud, the old man has everything going his way. A few loose tongues need silencing. Ahmet Zeki, Paul's murderous Turkish shipping agent is ordered to deal with the situation. Ahmet however, has his own plans. Working for the KKA, a Turkish terrorist group and the Turkish Secret Service, his sole aim as a double agent is to destroy Paul and profit from the chaos by using his son as an imposter to replace the real grandson. It doesn't take Enda long to get entangled in the Hrisacopolis family mystery involving Paul's brother Ioannis, George, his dead son; and Isia, the young girl George hoped to marry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Parkinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024962/bk_acx0_024962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emperor Hirohito: The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Ruler During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
“It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.” (Emperor Hirohito)The man known to most of the world as Emperor Hirohito ruled during some of the most tumultuous years in Japanese history. When he came to the throne in 1926, he inherited control of a country which had only recently emerged as a major industrial and world power. Through the aggressive expansion and wars of the 1930s, Hirohito was at the head of one of the world’s foremost powers. Throughout the maelstrom of World War II, he remained in power, a distant and, to most outsiders, inscrutable factor in the rise of the Japanese Empire.Before and during the war, many people in America and elsewhere believed that Emperor Hirohito was at least partly responsible for both the confrontational Japanese approach to foreign affairs and for the often brutal conduct of the Japanese armed forces during the wars which followed. As such, when the war ended, there were plenty of calls for the emperor to be indicted for war crimes along with other senior figures in Japan. However, a new feeling emerged at that time, suggesting that, in reality, Hirohito had been little more than a figurehead taken along by a tide of militarism, helpless to intervene or influence the course of events. Modern scholarship suggests that neither of these views of Hirohito is entirely true. At the time he came to the throne, the emperor was revered as a semi-divine figure, and his influence on every level of Japanese political and military life was undeniable and considerable. Although the emperor generally did not express his will through the issuance of direct orders, the displeasure of the emperor was something which every senior member of the military and political sphere sought strenuously to avoid. In this context, to imagine Hirohito as a helpless puppet, a purely constitutional monarch manipulated by ruthl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181280/bk_acx0_181280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fatwa: Hunted in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
Her critics have called her 'the most dangerous woman in America,' 'far-right hate queen,' and 'the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead.' Her admirers say she is 'the Joan of Arc of the counter-jihad movement,' 'one of the top world experts in radical Islam, sharia, and Islamic supremacism,' and 'a wonderful fighter for liberty.' Now, in Fatwa: Hunted in America, Pamela Geller recounts her unlikely journey from New York City career girl to a fearless human rights and free speech activist reviled by the enemies of freedom the world over. 'I assumed my freedom,' she writes. 'Never for one moment did I think that it could be taken from me. But all that changed on one day.' That day was September 11, 2001, when the global jihad struck America with murderous force. The United States of America and the free world were never the same again. Neither was Pamela Geller. In this book, Geller shares how she launched her blogging career, defended abused Muslim girls, stood against the advance of sharia, and fought for the freedom of speech – a freedom crumbling in this age of jihad. Geller recounts the battle to defeat the sinister Ground Zero mosque project; the ISIS attack at Geller's Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas; the fatwa and plot to behead her; and the relentless vilification she faces from a mainstream media hell-bent on defaming and destroying everyone who stands for freedom against jihad terror and sharia oppression. Pamela Geller writes: 'Any lover of freedom would have been tarred the same way I was, and many have been. I am but a proxy in this terrible, long war. What has happened to me is what happens, in small and large ways, to every American who stands for freedom.' One person can make a difference. And what a remarkable difference Pamela Geller has made. At last, in Fatwa: Hunted In America, she tells her story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pamela Geller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102788/bk_acx0_102788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Figurehead of the Folly
The Figurehead of the Folly: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Violinsonaten & Cellosonaten
Lance Coburn (Piano) // This disc of string sonatas is the result of a chance conversation between violinist Mia Cooper and Philip Shields, librarian at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. Philip was in the process of digitising the library's catalogue and enlightened Mia as to Michele Esposito's importance, not only in terms of the Academy's history but also as the figurehead for musical life in Dublin around the turn of the twentieth century.- Shop: odax
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