Armand V

Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226295

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Armand V by Dag Solstad Pdf

New Directions proudly introduces two novels in English by the Norwegian master, who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he’s caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain for Western intervention. He hides behind knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand’s son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads to catastrophic, heartbreaking consequences. Told exclusively in footnotes to an unwritten book, this is Solstad’s radically unconventional novel about how we experience the passing of time: how it fragments, drifts, quickens, and how single moments can define a life.

Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473524538

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T Singer by Dag Solstad Pdf

The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style. ‘A kind of surrealistic writer... Serious literature’ Haruki Murakami ‘Mad, sad and funny... Thrilling’ Geoff Dyer Singer, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer’s life... ‘An utterly hypnotic writer’ James Wood ‘Solstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence...’ Sunday Times Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize

Author : Armand V. Feigenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : TQM Principles
ISBN : OCLC:412176996

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Total Quality Control by Armand V. Feigenbaum Pdf

Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228299

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Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad Pdf

A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.

Author : Armand V. Feigenbaum,Donald S. Feigenbaum
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071713443

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The Power of Management Innovation: 24 Keys for Accelerating Profitability and Growth by Armand V. Feigenbaum,Donald S. Feigenbaum Pdf

The world’s most profitable companies share two things in common: quality of management and management capital. Combining leadership passion for creating growth and profitability (quality of management) and the effective deployment of resources for accelerating growth (management capital) is the formula for thriving in the 21st century. The Power of Management Innovation is a clear roadmap for delivering these critical drivers of success to your own organization. Incorporating the most pertinent points from his classic book The Power of Management Capital, creator of the TQM movement Armand V. Feigenbaum, along with systems management and technology expert Donald S. Feigenbaum, lays out 24 actionable keys for applying systematic management and leadership models to your company, including how to: Foster constant innovation throughout your company Integrate the newest technology resources Create, expand, and redefine your market Combine the power of hard and soft assets Diffuse responsibility through all levels of operations Eliminate obstacles to product and service value Operationalize your commitment to quality Create strategic alliances and partnerships Focus on customers, investors, and other stakeholders Apply the insights of The Power of Management Innovation and you’ll soon find yourself leading—not following—the pack in today’s enormously demanding and brutally competitive business environment.

Author : Brad Thor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416586623

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Full Black by Brad Thor Pdf

As terrorists conspire to unleash a series of deadly attacks across America and a foreign wet work team targets a famous Hollywood filmmaker, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath races against time to save the United States from complete collapse.

Author : Armand Baltazar
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062402387

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Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic by Armand Baltazar Pdf

For fans of Rick Riordan and Brian Selznick, author-artist Armand Baltazar introduces Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic, the first in a new science fiction/fantasy series that explores a world painted new by the Time Collision. Integrating art and text, this epic and cinematic adventure features more than 150 full-color illustrations. You’ve never seen Earth like this before: continents reshaped, oceans re-formed, cities rebuilt, and mountains sculpted anew. Dinosaurs roam the plains alongside herds of buffalo, and giant robots navigate the same waters as steam-powered ships. This is the world Diego Ribera was born into. The past, present, and future coexisting together. In New Chicago, Diego’s middle school hallways buzz with kids from all eras of history and from cultures all over the world. The pieces do not always fit together neatly, but this is the world he loves. There are those, however, who do not share his affection. On his thirteenth birthday, Diego learns of a special gift he has within, a secret that is part of something much bigger—something he cannot understand. When his father, New Chicago’s top engineer, is taken by the Aeternum, Diego must rescue him and prevent this evil group from disrupting the fragile peace humanity has forged.

Author : Armand V. Feigenbaum
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071626298

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Total Quality Control, Revised (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) by Armand V. Feigenbaum Pdf

Volume 2 of 2. Total quality control is a system for integrating the quality development, maintenance, and improvement efforts of the various groups in an organization so as to produce marketing, engineering, production, and service at the most economical levels for full customer satisfaction. This is a complete handbook on the subject by the originator of total quality control. The first edition of this book was published in 1951 and this is the 40th third edition complete with a new 16 page addition on: The Total Quality Imperative, 12 Benchmarks for Quality Control in the 90's and 4 management principles for total quality.

Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : Random House
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496169

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Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad Pdf

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. The days pass, and he becomes paralysed by indecision. Desperate for respite, the professor sets off to a local sushi bar, only to find himself face to face with the murderer. Professor Andersen's Night is an unsettling yet highly entertaining novel of apathy, rebellion and morality. In flinty prose, Solstad presents an uncomfortable question: would we, like his cerebral protagonist, do nothing?

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250145253

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All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny Pdf

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PARADE MAGAZINE – ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS AARP'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL CRIMEREADS – ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR GLOBE AND MAIL - TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE YEAR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS - ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERIES/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR LIBRARY JOURNAL - ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.

Author : Ralph Carter Elwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521894212

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Inessa Armand by Ralph Carter Elwood Pdf

Revealing information on the first Director of the Women's Section of the Russian Communist Party.

Author : Armand Mevis,Linda van Deursen,Paul Elliman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : UOM:39015063656162

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Recollected Work by Armand Mevis,Linda van Deursen,Paul Elliman Pdf

Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type. Praised for their innovative but clear presentation, they have designed everything from artist's books for Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra to an official government stamp commemorating the marriage of Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, based on the number two, since the wedding date was 02-02-02. This book represents a range of work from the past 15 years, mostly books but also posters and smaller pieces. However, the artists have chosen not simply to present the work again but to make it new through collage and reinterpretative interplay, thus "recycling" their innovative designs.

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250022127

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A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny Pdf

Instant New York Times bestseller: #1 in Hardcover Fiction #1 in E-book Fiction #1 in Combined Print and E-book Fiction "Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary....Miraculous." —The Washington Post "Artful...Powerful...Magical." - The New York Times Book Review "Superb" - People “A Great Reckoning succeeds on every level." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A protégée of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.

Author : Armand Nicholi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074324785X

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The Question of God by Armand Nicholi Pdf

Compares and contrasts the beliefs of two famous thinkers, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, on topics ranging from the existence of God and morality to pain and suffering.

Author : Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698170391

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The Lagoon by Armand Marie Leroi Pdf

A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself. In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle’s science. He revisits Aristotle’s writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle’s observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses—and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle’s science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest. The Lagoon is both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science. And it shows how a philosopher who lived almost two millennia ago still has so much to teach us today.