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In this long political thriller staged almost entirely around a hostage standoff, Flynn makes maximum use of his White House setting, and mixes in a spicy broth of brutal terrorists, heroic commandos and enough secret agent hijinks to keep the confrontation bubbling until its flag-raising end. The villains are led by Rafique Aziz, a notorious Arab terrorist whose band of thugs takes over the White House by finding a weak point in American politics: they pose as wealthy campaign contributors and are welcomed through the front door. President Robert Hayes manages to escape to his bunker moments before the bloodbath, but religious zealot Aziz takes almost 100 hostages, seals off the White House and begins making demands, of which large sums of cash are just the beginning. With the president incommunicado and weak-willed yet power hungry Vice President Sherman Baxter in charge, the Pentagon and the CIA resort to their secret weapon: commando extraordinaire Mitch Rapp. After sneaking into the bowels of the Executive Mansion through an air duct, Rapp steadily disrupts the terrorists’ well-laid plans. He finally calls in reinforcements when Aziz begins drilling into the president’s bunker. It’s a long haul to the finish, but Flynn (Term Limits) compensates for some stereotyping by creating dynamic tension between the main players, especially between military leaders and politicians, and between Rapp and Aziz. His description of the White House is impressive; readers will wonder if the secret passageways, hidden rooms and clever deception devices that help load this story with seemingly endless intrigue, really exist. Agent, Sloan Harris. 15-city author tour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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When terrorists crash White House security, the President is swept away to an isolated underground bunker, and the Vice President suddenly finds himself in charge. From the author of the best-selling Term Limits.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages

Publisher: Pocket Star; Reprint edition (June 1, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0671023209
ISBN-13: 978-0671023201

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Chris Roush nails down Home Depot in this unauthorized portrayal of the retailing titan. Inside Home Depot shows how cofounders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank over the past 20 years built their business from two stores in Atlanta into 650 outlets–the world’s largest home-improvement retail chain. Roush, a veteran business reporter, finds that much of Home Depot’s astonishing financial success comes from its strong “bleeding orange” culture. Home Depot fosters loyalty among workers with the best pay in the industry, generous stock-purchase plans, and first-rate training in home improvement and customer service. Incredibly enough, Blank, the company’s chief executive, still spends a third of his time personally training employees–unthinkable for any other CEO of a multibillion-dollar company. Roush also examines plenty of defects. Home Depot was so macho that it could be a house of horrors early on for its women employees: the company paid $104.5 million to settle sexual-discrimination lawsuits. The author points out that the company’s hegemony is threatened by competitors like Lowe’s and community activists who fear that Home Depot means suburban sprawl and schlock. Nevertheless, Roush predicts that Big Orange, which is experimenting with new home-design and rural stores, will become even more ubiquitous in the future: Home Depot has only just begun to build itself into a retail power. With each customer that enters its orange-colored doors and walks its vast aisles, buying do-it-yourself items to repair roofs and fix leaky faucets, Home Depot hammers away. Business managers, investors and customers of Home Depot will enjoy reading this inside story about one of America’s top-10 retailers. –Dan Ring

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“Chris Roush nails down Home Depot in this unauthorized portrayal…business managers, investors and customers of Home Depot will enjoy reading this inside story about one of America’s top-10 retailers.” (Amazon.com 19990115)Strictly Speaking: Reid Buckley’s Indispensable Handbook on Public Speaking (McGraw-Hill, June). (Publisher’s Weekly 19981013)”…Journalistic fairness prevails in this chronicle of a successful enterprise.” (Booklist 19980106)”…A positive story of successful company…Roush’s insight into the psche [of Home Depot] is very revealing. The book’s research appears quite thorough…” (The Atlanta Business Chronicle )”…His objective, well-documented, and easy-to-read account details how a corporate culture…is successful…” (Library Journal )

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Hardcover: 266 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 1, 1999)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0071340955
ISBN-13: 978-0071340953

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Steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell’s own work, Elizabeth Cazden has written the first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister. Antoinette Brown Blackwell recreates her dramatic struggle to breach “the great wall of custom” and become a minister. Equally compelling is the story of her attempt to integrate both public and private lives; she agreed to marry Elizabeth Blackwell’s brother Samuel on condition that she would continue her own professional work and he would share household responsibilities. Cazden follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, and her marriage and rearing of five daughters.

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ELIZABETH CAZDEN is an attorney.
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Paperback: 328 pages

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY (March 1983)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0935312048
ISBN-13: 978-0935312041

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William Wallace of Elderslie, younger son of a country knight, came to fame through his active opposition to the aggressive imperialism of England

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‘This volume can be recommended for its breadth of authorial provenance.’ - Journal of Christin Education

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A comprehensive treatment of the current concern with values in education. In six volumes, a team of over 120 contributors and experts from around the world examine the issues and place them in a context of culture and diversity. Volumes 1 to 3 provide a wide-ranging consideration of the diversity of values in education at all levels, and thus represents a framework for the focus of Volumes 4 to 6, which focus more specifically on values education (moral, religious, spiritual and political). Overall the six volumes bring together the fundamental domain of values with the important issue of pluralism and the world of independent cultural traditions, to generate new, fruitful and progressive reflection and exemplars of good practice. Handomsley bound and printed they are an essential reference tool and represent a significant contribution of interest and benefit to educators, policy makers, parents, academic, researchers and student teachers. Volume 4 looks at the development of moral education, with particular relation to the context of cultural pluralism. Taking a theoretical approach, it discusses philosophical issues of moral relativism as well as the application of theory to good practice.

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Library Binding: 264 pages

Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer; 1 edition (December 1, 1999)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0750710055
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