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Inside the Boardroom

How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance

by Richard Leblanc, James Gillies ...

Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directorsIn light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both for- and not-for-profit organizations, ... Read more

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Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directorsIn light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both for- and not-for-profit organizations,
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The Handbook of Board Governance

A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Board Members

Edited by Richard Leblanc ...

Explore the practical realities of corporate governance in public, private, and not-for-profit environmentsIn the newly revised third edition of The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private and Not for Profit Board Members, award-winning professor and lawyer Dr. Richard Leblanc delivers a comprehensive overview of all relevant topics in corporate governance. Each ... Read more

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Explore the practical realities of corporate governance in public, private, and not-for-profit environmentsIn the newly revised third edition of The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private and Not for Profit Board Members, award-winning professor and lawyer Dr. Richard Leblanc delivers a comprehensive overview of all relevant topics in corporate governance. Each
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Radical Treatment

Wilder Penfield's Life in Neuroscience

by Richard Leblanc ...

Wilder Penfield (1891–1976) is famous for his contributions to the understanding of epilepsy and for his discoveries of the relationship between the structure and function of the human brain. His operations, which involved stimulating the cerebral cortex of awake patients with a fine electrode, assured the complete removal of lesions that caused epilepsy. Less widely known is his use of the same ... Read more

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Wilder Penfield (1891–1976) is famous for his contributions to the understanding of epilepsy and for his discoveries of the relationship between the structure and function of the human brain. His operations, which involved stimulating the cerebral cortex of awake patients with a fine electrode, assured the complete removal of lesions that caused epilepsy. Less widely known is his use of the same
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Fearful Asymmetry

Bouillaud, Dax, Broca, and the Localization of Language, Paris, 1825-1879

by Richard Leblanc ...

Paul Broca made the most significant discovery in nineteenth-century human biology when he found that speech resides within the left frontal lobe of the human brain. As a young surgeon working at the hospice at Bicêtre on the outskirts of Paris - a repository for the criminal, the insane, the indigent, and the sick - Broca had to overcome derision, acrimony, personal attacks, vindictiveness, and ... Read more

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Paul Broca made the most significant discovery in nineteenth-century human biology when he found that speech resides within the left frontal lobe of the human brain. As a young surgeon working at the hospice at Bicêtre on the outskirts of Paris - a repository for the criminal, the insane, the indigent, and the sick - Broca had to overcome derision, acrimony, personal attacks, vindictiveness, and
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100 Masterpieces of Mystery

A Panoramic Anthology of Gothic Terror, Classic Detection, Hard-Boiled Crime, and Psychological Suspense

by Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers ...

100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance, ... Read more

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100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance,
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The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time

A Grand Anthology of Detective Puzzles, Gothic Terror, Noir Crime, and Suspense Classics

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, H. P. Lovecraft, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers ...

The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time maps the evolution of mystery fiction from Gothic unease and sensation plotting to the analytic detective tale, espionage thriller, hard-boiled investigation, and psychological suspense. Its range embraces locked-room puzzles, criminal confessions, uncanny apparitions, conspiracies, and social mysteries, revealing how the genre repeatedly tests the limits ... Read more

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The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time maps the evolution of mystery fiction from Gothic unease and sensation plotting to the analytic detective tale, espionage thriller, hard-boiled investigation, and psychological suspense. Its range embraces locked-room puzzles, criminal confessions, uncanny apparitions, conspiracies, and social mysteries, revealing how the genre repeatedly tests the limits
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3 Detective Stories – Criminals Point of view

A trio of classic detective tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Maurice LeBlanc ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe ...

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
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The Ghost Story Megapack

25 Classic Tales by Masters

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Jerome K. Jerome ...

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick BangsTHE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis BeckeTHE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. BensonTHE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonTHE MIDDLE ... Read more

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Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick BangsTHE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis BeckeTHE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. BensonTHE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonTHE MIDDLE
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Classic Mystery Collection: Illustrated - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works) including Sherlock Holmes, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Sax Rohmer & more Mobi Collected Works

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Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af... ... Read more

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Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af...
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50 Mystery and Detective Masterpieces you have to Read Before you Die vol: 1

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Marcel Allain, E.C. Bentley, George A. Birmingham, Ernest Bramah Smith, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Mrs. Catherick, Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Joseph Smith Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, In The Midst Of Life, Thorndyke Takes Up The Inquiry, Mr Halliburton's Mascot, Exit Moakey, From The Jaws Of Death, Thorndyke States His Position, Beauchamp Blake, Mr Brodribb's Embassy, Émile Gaboriau, Hollis Godfrey, Arthur Griffiths, Samuel Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Gaston Leroux, Marie Adelaide Lowndes, A. E. W. Mason, Cleveland Moffett, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Sax Rohmer, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Frank R. Stockton, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Fred Merrick White ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
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CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES - 20 Thriller Classics in One Volume

Murder Mysteries & Intriguing Stories of Suspense, Horror and Thrill for the Holidays

by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, William Douglas O'Connor, Catherine Crowe, Louisa M. Alcott, M.R. James, G.K. Chesterton, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy ...

CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES - 20 Thriller Classics in One Volume presents a fascinating ensemble of tales that weave the spirit of Christmas with the spine-tingling allure of mystery and suspense. This anthology encapsulates a wide array of literary styles, from the gothic undertones that permeate many of the narratives to the crisp, often whimsical prose illuminating others. Readers will find themselves ... Read more

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CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES - 20 Thriller Classics in One Volume presents a fascinating ensemble of tales that weave the spirit of Christmas with the spine-tingling allure of mystery and suspense. This anthology encapsulates a wide array of literary styles, from the gothic undertones that permeate many of the narratives to the crisp, often whimsical prose illuminating others. Readers will find themselves
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Murder Mystery - Boxed Set: 800+ Whodunit Mysteries, True Crime Stories & Action Thrillers

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish…

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Ethel Lina White, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Émile Gaboriau, Arthur J. Rees, William Le Queux, Carolyn Wells, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, E. M. Delafield, Anton Chekhov, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Arthur Cheney Train, S. S. Van Dine ...

The 'Murder Mystery - Boxed Set: 800+ Whodunit Mysteries, True Crime Stories & Action Thrillers' stands as a monumental anthology that spans a broad spectrum of the genre, encapsulating the evolution and diversity of mystery writing from the classic detective tales of the 19th century to the intricate plots of the early 20th century. This collection showcases a rich variety of literary styles and ... Read more

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The 'Murder Mystery - Boxed Set: 800+ Whodunit Mysteries, True Crime Stories & Action Thrillers' stands as a monumental anthology that spans a broad spectrum of the genre, encapsulating the evolution and diversity of mystery writing from the classic detective tales of the 19th century to the intricate plots of the early 20th century. This collection showcases a rich variety of literary styles and
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