Don't make jokes at a staff meeting "unless you are the appointed fool and you know what you are doing," corporate executive and business satirist Stanley Bing advises fellow executives in his latest glimpse through the looking glass of life in the corporate world.
As part of the Ian Fleming centenary celebration this year - the author of the James Bond novels was born on May 28, 1908 - the Fleming estate commissioned Sebastian Faulks to write a novel continuing the adventures of the world's most famous fictional secret agent.
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- Developing borders helped form the American experience.
Sandy Bauers has written the Inquirer's audio book review column since 1988, reviewing more than 600 titles for the newspaper.
- If you follow James Lee Burke's novels, the first thing you will want to know is whether his new release is a Dave Robicheaux story. So: Yes, it is.
- at Whitman's 'prophets'Almost from the start, American literature has exhibited a prophetic streak. For Emerson, Thoreau and the other transcendentalists, literature was no mere entertainment, but a means of changing minds, hearts and behavior.
- squid sex and evolutionWhat do pickup artists reveal about the natural world? This is the first question Faye Flam asks in her entertaining book The Score, as she bravely signs up for the Mystery Method's "Seduction Boot Camp" course - all in the interests of her research, of course.
- Toms River's mania is examined - sympathetically, on the whole.This is the never-ending conundrum that inevitably goes with raising those we have brought into this world. Have we done right by them? Have we done enough? Have we done too little? Have we pushed too hard? Have we been too slack?
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