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On a wintry evening in 1917, university professor Earle Terry listened with guests as the popular music of the day filtered from a physics laboratory in Science Hall into a receiving set in his living room. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just begun. Terry’s radio experiment blossomed into a pioneering endeavor to carry out the "Wisconsin Idea," a promise to make the university’s knowledge accessible to all Wisconsinites, in their homes, state...

Whts th c nnct n b twn ths clsIf you want to know… you’re in the right place.From the hit BBC series Only Connect comes the all-new official quiz book, packed with the kind of glorious lateral-thinking puzzles that have made it the most challenging quiz on television for almost twenty years.Compiled by Only Connect question editors Jack Waley-Cohen (himself a former finalist) and David McGaughey, this brand-new volume features 200 question...

Like the international bestseller Who Moved My Cheese?, Hug Your Customers is powerful through its simplicity. Jack Mitchell is CEO of Mitchells - a clothes store and one of the most successful small businesses in America. This family-run business has built extremely healthy profit margins in a tough retail market through a most refreshing approach to sales - hug your customers! In other words: if there is one key to a successful business then it is happy customers and companies who go the...

In the quaint town of Wertheim, nestled amidst the rolling hills of Germany, resides a peculiar man named Count Karl von Hoheneck. Known throughout the region as "the Castle-Builder," he spends his days lost in a world of dreams, sketching elaborate plans for a magnificent castle that will forever immortalize his name. But as the years pass and the castle remains unbuilt, the townsfolk begin to question the Count's sanity. Is he truly a visionary architect or merely a dreamer destined to l...

In Subconscious Journeys, Jack Mitchell explores the human mind and its connection to life, death, disease, and the probability of extended life. Most diseases, if not all, are formed and intensified through repressed fears that form emotional barriers within the subconscious mind. Lifestyles are then conscientiously directed and enforced within the conscious mind through the growing emotional needs of the personality. Subconscious Journeys is a study of the human mind. The mind is divided...

Angels of the Anasazi A young man awakens one day in a strange new land with no memory of who he was or how he got there. He traveled days in the canyons until found by the people who inhabit this land and welcomed him as an Angel from their legends. Over time, he finds that he has special skills and a strange protector. The mystery of those who came before leads him to the Priests whose sacred prayer rituals reveal more. His search for the truth convinced the stone masons to tell him thei...

ALIENS, THE BEGINNING HOW DID WE GET HERE? CANCER: WILL WE FIND A CURE? THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL GLOBAL WARMING ANALYSING THE BIBLE: THE OLD TESTAMENT ANALYSING THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT THE END OF THE WORLD: HOW WILL IT END? “Let me begin, by asking you to answer a simple question… do you think in this vast universe of ours, that we are the only intelligent life, or are we all alone?” “First it was aerosol cans, that was causing global warming, so a substance in these cans wa...

Anyone who thinks ancient history is dry will think again after dipping into these ocean blues. Here, political corruption, intrigue, high-seas adventure, romance, and comedy are all presented in abundance by the likable Marcus Oppius Sabinus, a teenager with a very contemporary attitude. Marcus is unwittingly involved by his cousin in “promoting” the ambitious young Julius Caesar in an upcoming Roman election. When Marcus proves to be even better at bribery than his cousin had hoped, he i...

Learn how to apply the proven principles of Hug Your Customers to refine your selling technique, boost your sales, and keep your customers coming back for more.In his groundbreaking books, Hug Your Customers—a Wall Street Journal bestseller—and Hug Your People, Jack Mitchell brought a warm human touch to the often-cold, bottom-line world of business. As the CEO of Mitchell’s clothing stores, one of the most successful small busin...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Revised and updated for the first time since original publication!Here is the 200,000-copy staple, praised by Warren Buffett as "a gem ... I wish everyone at Berkshire would follow [Jack Mitchell's] advice--we would own the world."If you want to put your arms around your business and bottom line, you'll want all the updated information and practices found in the landmark business bestseller, Hug Your Customers. The only way to stay in business is t...

Young Aulus Spurinna’s homeland, Etruria, has fallen prey to a rebel league of soldiers lead by Manlius, an experienced and dangerous Roman warrior. When his uncle dies under a cloud of mystery, Spurinna must take his uncle’s place as the landowner of all Etruria. In order to save his homeland from Manlius, Spurinna travels to Rome to seek help from a Consul, Cicero. On his journey, Spurinna teams up with Cicero’s daughter, Tullia, and together they unravel a conspiracy that could overthro...