A Valentine's Day collection of favorite love poems by top writers includes pieces by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, and Frost and features accompanying introductions, biographical information, and additional information about each work's significance. Original.
Favorite poems like Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"), Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Harlem (Dream Deferred)," by Langston Hughes, and many others by celebrated poets including Rilke, Neruda, and Tu Fu are united here in one volume that ranges through literary history, beginning with work by Homer and Sappho.
From practical advice on how to handle oneself to romantic ideals on how to lead, great business principles that helped some of the most influential and powerful people in the world achieve great success are detailed in this book.
No matter what the occasion, this collection of poems is the perfect gift to cheer up a friend or family member. Here, in this compact volume, are 100 poems written by the world's greatest poets, some inspiring, some hilarious, and all memorable. Each delightful poem is preceded by an illuminating headnote. Among the poems included are classics, ...
A collection of humorous and inspirational quotes offers advice on living in the moment and being true to oneself with such tidbits as Ernest Hemingway's "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut," and the Delphic Oracle's "Know Thyself." 20,000 first
For anyone preparing to step into a leadership role--be it a corporate CEO, business team leader, church deacon, or head of a household--this unique collection of quotes from 100 great leaders of armies, social movements, political revolutions, fashion revolutions, businesses, and nations is sure to inspire. From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther ...
Selling a product or an idea is as much an art as a science. With the help and advice of the dynamic wisdom collected here, anyone can become more adept at the art of selling, while learning valuable principles that will help them achieve great success, both in business and in life. With the words of such dynamic and persuasive sales experts as ...
QuT persona alguna vez en su vida no ha escuchado ciertas frases que vienen a veces de tiempos muy lejanos. En este libro se encuentran una serie de refranes y frases que han trascendido en la historia, no tanto por quien las ha dicho, sino por el significado que tienen y que permiten explicar a veces los sentimientos y estados de nimos de las ...
This collection of classic tales of the supernatural and the uncanny will satisfy anyone's desire for chills. These are stories that surprise - even the second or third time around. They reflect reader's innermost fears and go to places where reality is blurred by imagination, where insanity and madness are shrouded in mystery, and where humanity ...
Favorite American poets--including Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, and Poe--are represented in this collection that is being published just in time for National Poetry Month.
MBA IN A BOOK offers the kind of information graduates of MBA programs ought to have, but usually gain only after years of hard-won experience. This volume contains essential advice about the fundamentals of business, sales, and leadership from some of history's most influential thinkers and doers: entepreneurs, executives, scholars, statesmen, ...
From the haiku of Basho to the lyricism of Shakespeare, this collection features poems that will console, provoke, inspire and delight. Listeners will hear works from the traditional canon of international literature, spanning virtually all world cultures. 1 cassette.
From the nonsense verse of Edward Lear to the raptures of Maya Angelou, this anthology can be experienced in quiet solitude, and listeners can relive or discover for the first time the vivid images, unique humor, and moving rhythms of an incomparable art form. 1 cassette.
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