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Describes the ambivalence of observers that the Civil War was won by automation and mechanization, not heroism and gallantry. Discusses many of the same issues many people have with internet efficiencies conquering many fields and delivering outsized profits with employees being unimportant to the success, profits, and growth of these companies.

Coolidge used his discipline, perseverance, and competence to get things done quietly without offense. Known as Silent Cal, his quotations are memorable and for us to learn from. Reagan thought he was our best president and put his portrait in the Oval Office. Coolidge lived a hard scrabble life but graduated from Amherst Cum Laude as a star debater. He was person to go to school on.

Find ways to cut costs to further your career, promotions, and more pay. This is a toolkit to find, identify, and implement ways to save time, resources, and money for your employer for their survival and prosperity and yours along with it.

This audiobook describes why and how to get stuff done, and what every employer wants. It describes how to align with your bosses and organization to get promotions and more money. It also lists the skills required and the personal issues for people seeking this career path. It provides tips, tactics, and strategies to make this work for you and avoiding pitfalls. A must listen for all workers.

This audiobook is a toolkit for making the best impression immediately in a new job for promotions, respect, and money. It includes numerous tips and stories to help you become the go-to, promoted, better-paid person. It also includes Robert Half's, the founder of the largest employment agency of his time, tips on the best hiring practices, too. A must listen for all job candidates.

This audiobook describes how to minimize and avoid woke disruption of yourself and your business, investors, vendors, contractors, and employees with tips, suggestions, and more.

Two young children time travel to see their family castle at various periods in English history - some in glory, some in wreckage, as their family just escaped from running a B&B. They come back to the castle seeking the hidden treasure which will let them bring it back to its old glory, thanks to the magical Mouldiwarp white mole that transforms them, along with the assistance of a witch they befriended unknowingly with a kindness.

The magic fantasy writing of the author of The Railway Children, bringing her fun and insights into the children meeting and appreciating new people and events at home and in travels on their magic carpet with the Phoenix as their guide.

A remarkable tale enjoyed by children and adults alike about a family hit hard by a father's removal to prison and their becoming poor but fighting back, as the mother does by writing and selling stories, the children supporting her and having marvelous adventures while bringing joy and help to many.

A favorite about the annual Vandam gardening catalog that brightened up the winter so avid gardeners could dream about spring plantings. A contest for a great tomato, Numero Uno, between Standard Foods/Vandam's and little Seedmen's, worth millions. Witty, urbane, fun, and ironic in Emma Lathen's style, with the usual cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher discovers who the murderer is, with written certified documentation, by thinking like a banker. A treat for mystery fans.

Considered "The American Agatha Christie", Rinehart outsold Christie in their mutual lifetime through 1958 when she died. Her first book, The Circular Staircase, may have paved the way for The Mysterious Affair at Styles as the second does Agatha's Tommy and Tuppence series, which combined a thriller and mystery with a love match.

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, nonprofits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive.

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been international and the Sloan’s inside garment expert and finds murder - including a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking, witty, insightful fun.

A rollicking good insightful John Putnam Mystery with the redoubtable Lucy Lancer and Miss Corsa at their wittiest finest. A Dartmouth Admission interview goes wrong leading to a lost $50,000 bond, a wild reunion weekend, murder, and more.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.

A parallel story to the life of Paul Gauguin leaving everything for Tahiti and his separation from the rest of the world, with remarkable portraits of those along the way, narrated in an American voice.

Nine stories narrated by Pertie and one by Jeeves. In an American voice for easy listening by Americans with occasional American words used for more obscure English ones with a bit of the halting style of comic dialogue. Number two in the Jeeves series.

This classic collection includes Hemingway’s best short stories: "Indian Camp", "My Old Man", and "Big Two Hearted River", and less appreciated ones such as "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot".

The work describes how to create and use practical knowledge to create innovative products and services, attract customers, and deal with all the necessary elements to do so. It gives examples from the evolution of the airplane and shoe markets.