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Lonely Planet's Pocket Dublin is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Step back in time at Kilmainham Gaol, admire art at the Hugh Lane Gallery, and sample a pint at the Guinness Storehouse; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Dublin and make the most of your trip!
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Prague is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Amble through the winding alleys of the Old Town, explore magnificent Prague Castle, and find the best coffee and cake, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Prague and begin your journey now!
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Tokyo is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Eat your fill of ramen, free your spirit in Golden Gai, cheer on sumo wrestlers in Ryogoku; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Tokyo and make the most of your trip!
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84) Pocket Edinburgh
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Lonely Planet Pocket Edinburgh is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take in the views from Edinburgh Castle, enjoy a visual feast of modern architecture at the Scottish Parliament Building, and explore the Royal Yacht Britannia, the royal family's floating palace, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Edinburgh and begin your journey...
85) Blackbeard
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A colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of the notorious English pirate Blackbeard.
Blackbeard, born Edward Teach, was a notorious and much-feared English pirate who famously conquered and captained the Queen Anne's Revenge and prowled the seas around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Rather than ruling through force and bloody intimidation, it's believed that Blackbeard largely let...
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An exploration of German World War II small-scale military strategy, edited by the former chief historian of the U.S. Marines.
While small wars are not new, how they should be fought by a modern industrial nation is still very much a matter for debate. It is thus worth paying heed now to the experiences of another power which once encountered the same problems. This pocket manual examines German analysis of the problem, covering experiences from...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Florence and Tuscany is your guide to the region's best experiences and local life-neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Marvel at Florence's Duomo, climb the Leaning Tower of Pisa and get back to nature in Chianti; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Florence and Tuscany and make the most of your trip!
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88) Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human nature. His concepts have become part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. He dared to try new methods and treatments. Everyone knows the term Freudian slip and has a basic understanding of his theories, however,...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Boston is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighborhood by neighborhood. Visit the historic Paul Revere House, cycle along the Charles River, and catch a baseball game at Fenway Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Boston and make the most of your trip!
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Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more. In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the...
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During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence. To create these soldiers, levels of training were unusually punishing and protracted, and those who came through to take their "wings" were a true elite.
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939—1945 provides an unusually detailed look into what it took to make a military...
92) Marie Curie
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A colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of influential physicist and chemist Marie Curie.
Marie Curie, the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize and only person to win it in two different scientific fields, was a physicist and chemist. As she conducted pioneering research, Marie Curie coined the term "radioactivity," developed some of the first techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes. She also discovered two elements:...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Munich is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Witness luxury at Residenz, sample beer and celebrate at Oktoberfest and explore the 1972 Olympics site of Olympiapark; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Munich and make the most of your trip!
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94) Wellington
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Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one of Napoleon's contemporaries who can be mentioned in the same breath as a general - a master of logistics, politics and coalition warfare as well as strategy, operations and tactics. The book's focus...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Copenhagen is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life-neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Dine on exciting Danish cuisine, chill out at free-spirited Christiania and raise your adrenaline at Tivoli Gardens; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Copenhagen and make the most of your trip!
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Amsterdam is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life-neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Cruise down the canals, admire the works of Van Gogh and shop for tulips and cheese; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Amsterdam and make the most of your trip!
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While no one likes to be the bearer of bad news, managers are sometimes faced with the difficult task of having to dismiss an employee. In this book, you'll learn how to effectively manage a dismissal--including making key decisions before, during, and after the critical event. Handled skillfully, dismissing an employee can set your team--and your company--on a positive new path.
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The world was stunned when little-known Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope for 450 years. As Pope John Paul II, he continued to surprise, directly confronting Communist regimes, flying hundreds of thousands of miles to meet the faithful, and building bridges with other faiths. John Paul II became a bête noire in the eyes of liberals for his staunch refusal to accept contraception or the ordination of women. But for others he was a Churchillian...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Los Angeles is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighborhood by neighborhood. Strut down Hollywood's Walk of Fame, roller skate on Venice Boardwalk, and gape at the beauty of Malibu; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Los Angeles and make the most of your trip!
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From the pioneering tactics and terror of the Blitzkrieg assault, through the carnage of Barbarossa, Kursk, the Desert War, and the Normandy Bocage and the Battle of the Bulge, there were perhaps no more unsettling and merciless positions to occupy in the Second World War than that of a tank commander. This new book puts the reader at the very heart of this "hell on wheels" and presents all of the original information required to perform this most...
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