The Best American Short Stories 2020, Sittenfeld Curtis, Pitlor Heidi

Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis
Название: The Man of My Dreams
ISBN: 0330448617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330448611
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis
Название: Rodham
ISBN: 0399590919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399590917
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn't married Bill Clinton?

Автор: Sittenfeld, Curtis
Название: Rodhan
ISBN: 0857526138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857526137
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This book is about the how of project management and about how you as a project manager can use a proactive attitude to stay in control, even during difficult situations. It shows you how to become an influencer of the path to the end result, of your environment, of your team and of your effectiveness.Today`s project managers have to meet high expectations. Challenging goals, a strong focus on cost management and lead times, serving the interests of different stakeholders and many dependencies between subprojects make project management an increasingly complex affair - especially in an environment where change and uncertainty have become the new norm. In addition, the creative abilities of knowledge workers have to be optimally utilised, which requires less hierarchical organisational structures and more multidisciplinary collaboration. Having the right project management skills is therefore essential at virtually every level of an organisation.As a result of these challenges, there is a growing demand for comprehensive methods and the popularity of Agile is on the rise. On the other hand, the increased complexity also results in a need for simplicity. That is what this book is about: going back to the basics, being able to combine useful elements from different methods and focusing on the most important aspect of all: the person behind the project manager!This book contains a wealth of practical descriptions with useful examples and anecdotes. Readers are constantly stimulated to internalise the essence and put it into practice in a manner that suits their own style and personality. That is the only way to keep at it, be successful and make others believe in you!The book consists of three parts. Part 1 (chapters 1 to 4) describes how to set up and manage a project. The focus is on the basic principles, the essence of taking control, creating structure and using Agile behavior. Part 2 (chapters 5 and 6) explains how to draw up a plan and schedule in small steps, which results in improved completeness, coordination and support. Finally, part 3 (chapters 7 to 10) covers how to manage the project execution: how to realize the path to the final goal with a strict PDCA rhythm, how to evaluate the quality of interim results and how to keep your team and environment motivated.

Автор: Sittenfeld, Curtis
Название: Rodham (Exp)
ISBN: 0593230523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593230527
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis, Pitlor Heidi
Название: The Best American Short Stories 2020
ISBN: 1328485374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781328485373
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: "To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series.

Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis
Название: Eligible
ISBN: 0812980344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812980349
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1747.00 р.
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK)

This version of the Bennet family--and Mr. Darcy--is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help--and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.
Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master's degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's fortieth birthday fast approaches.
Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip's friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . .
And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.
Praise for Eligible

"Even the most ardent Austenite will soon find herself seduced."--O: The Oprah Magazine
"Blissful . . . Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you'd guess even Jane Austen would be pleased."--People (book of the week)
" A] sparkling, fresh contemporary retelling."--Entertainment Weekly
" Sittenfeld] is the ideal modern-day reinterpreter. Her special skill lies not just in her clear, clean writing, but in her general amusement about the world, her arch, pithy, dropped-mike observations about behavior, character and motivation. She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-contradiction and absurdity ten miles away. She's the one you want to leave the party with, so she can explain what really happened. . . . Not since Clueless, which transported Emma to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted. . . . Sittenfeld writes so well--her sentences are so good and her story so satisfying. . . . As a reader, let me just say: Three cheers for Curtis Sittenfeld and her astute, sharp and ebullient anthropological interest in the human condition."--Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review
"A clever, uproarious evolution of Austen's story."--The Denver Post
"If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it. . . . Sittenfeld makes an already irresistible story even more beguiling and charming."--Elle
"A playful, wickedly smart retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice."--BuzzFeed
"Sittenfeld is an obvious choice to re-create Jane Austen's comedy of manners. She] is a master at dissecting social norms to reveal the truths of human nature underneath."--The Millions

"A hugely entertaining and surprisingly unpredictable book, bursting with wit and charm."--The Irish Times
"An unputdownable retelling of the beloved classic."--PopSugar

Автор: Curtis Sittenfeld
Название: The Man of My Dreams
ISBN: 0812977882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812977882
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 735.00 р.
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Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis
Название: Prep
ISBN: 0330441272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330441278
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Lee Fiora is an intelligent fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. As Lee soon learns, Ault is quite unlike anything she has previously experienced. She eventually finds her own place in the pecking order - until a single act of spontaneous folly shatters her carefully honed identity.