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Escape from Hitler's Europe

An American Airman behind Enemy Lines

by George Watt ...

"An absorbing story about how the Lincoln veteran George Watt managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium."— San Francisco Review of BooksNovember 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler's Europe is the incredible story of his getaway—how brave villagers spirited him to Brussels to connect with the Comet ... Read more

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"An absorbing story about how the Lincoln veteran George Watt managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium."— San Francisco Review of BooksNovember 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler's Europe is the incredible story of his getaway—how brave villagers spirited him to Brussels to connect with the Comet
... Read more
The Lean Entrepreneurship Playbook

A Practical Guide to Innovation in the Modern Enterprise

by George Watt ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Established organizations in the public and private sectors struggle when bringing new, innovative ideas to life. This has resulted in the creation of countless “innovation programs” and initiatives, with many, perhaps most, failing to deliver meaningful results. Many of these initiatives fail because they do not get the momentum they need early on, they start in the wrong place, or they focus on ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Established organizations in the public and private sectors struggle when bringing new, innovative ideas to life. This has resulted in the creation of countless “innovation programs” and initiatives, with many, perhaps most, failing to deliver meaningful results. Many of these initiatives fail because they do not get the momentum they need early on, they start in the wrong place, or they focus on
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Lean Entrepreneurship

Innovation in the Modern Enterprise

by George Watt, Howard Abrams ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Utilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive.Innovation is hard. Ironically, innovation in a large enterprise can be even more difficult. Policies designed for mature ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Utilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive.Innovation is hard. Ironically, innovation in a large enterprise can be even more difficult. Policies designed for mature
... Read more
The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

by George Watt ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of ... Read more

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A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of
... Read more
The Innovative CIO

How IT Leaders Can Drive Business Transformation

by Andi Mann, George Watt, Peter Matthews ...

“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘The Innovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 ‘innovation killers’ within your company.” --Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation/)“Are you unwittingly stifling your employees’ entrepreneurial spirit? ‘The Innovative CIO’ ... Read more

$53.99 USD

“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘The Innovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 ‘innovation killers’ within your company.” --Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation/)“Are you unwittingly stifling your employees’ entrepreneurial spirit? ‘The Innovative CIO’
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Grammar of Self, The

Collected Poems 2000-2023

by George Watt ...

Narrated by George Watt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 13 min

In THE GRAMMAR OF SELF, George Watt presents a lifetime of memories, which seemingly move at random from decade to decade, from continent to continent, from cosmos to microcosm. It does have one central goal: to look at poetry as an attempt towards objectification of aspects of personal identity, as a means through which the self may be confronted, challenged and celebrated. But the volume of ... Read more

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In THE GRAMMAR OF SELF, George Watt presents a lifetime of memories, which seemingly move at random from decade to decade, from continent to continent, from cosmos to microcosm. It does have one central goal: to look at poetry as an attempt towards objectification of aspects of personal identity, as a means through which the self may be confronted, challenged and celebrated. But the volume of
... Read more
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Reluctant Terrorist, The

In Search of the Jizo

by Caleb Kavon ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 32 min

The Reluctant Terrorist: In Search Of The Jizo isset in Twentieth Century Hong Kong and Japan, with flashbacks to the Second World War. A Japanese businessman takes a deliberately modest revenge against another Japanese family which damaged his own family during the Second World War. His surprising act of terrorism is a paradoxical gesture for peace.We meet again characters from Kavon's first ... Read more

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The Reluctant Terrorist: In Search Of The Jizo isset in Twentieth Century Hong Kong and Japan, with flashbacks to the Second World War. A Japanese businessman takes a deliberately modest revenge against another Japanese family which damaged his own family during the Second World War. His surprising act of terrorism is a paradoxical gesture for peace.We meet again characters from Kavon's first
... Read more
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Adam's Franchise

by Lawrence Gray ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Series Audiobook 11 - Winners of the Proverse Prize
Unabridged

10 hours 51 min

In the land of Daoistan, freedom has arrived at last. The revolution liberated all, then enslaved everyone, and now it was liberating them again by allowing people to own credit cards. And a man with credit is a man who has the world at his fingertips, or at least a trip into town where the temptations are pretty much as they have always been, only more people can afford them.ADAM’S FRANCHISE is a ... Read more

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In the land of Daoistan, freedom has arrived at last. The revolution liberated all, then enslaved everyone, and now it was liberating them again by allowing people to own credit cards. And a man with credit is a man who has the world at his fingertips, or at least a trip into town where the temptations are pretty much as they have always been, only more people can afford them.ADAM’S FRANCHISE is a
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Finley Confession, The

by George Watt ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Series Audiobook 18 - Winners of the Proverse Prize
Unabridged

14 hours 38 min

In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralph McDonald, feels compelled to retell dramatic events from his youth, ones related to things hidden in the depths of his conscience and in the waters themselves. An unlikely trio of late teenagers—the ... Read more

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In 2010 two septuagenarians reminisce on a balcony overlooking a former town and river valley inundated fifty years before by the damned waters of the massive Snowy Mountain Scheme. One of them, Ralph McDonald, feels compelled to retell dramatic events from his youth, ones related to things hidden in the depths of his conscience and in the waters themselves. An unlikely trio of late teenagers—the
... Read more
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Day They Came, The

by Gérard L. Breissan ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

The gripping story of a teenager and young adult's adventures in the South of France and the African Congo. Gérard meets and forms an unbreakable bond with the alien Eudoxus, who becomes his mentor and guardian angel. He recounts the fisherman Etienne's story about a terrifying and extraordinary storm off Le Grau du Roi in the French Camargue, when six men lost their lives. The story ends when ... Read more

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The gripping story of a teenager and young adult's adventures in the South of France and the African Congo. Gérard meets and forms an unbreakable bond with the alien Eudoxus, who becomes his mentor and guardian angel. He recounts the fisherman Etienne's story about a terrifying and extraordinary storm off Le Grau du Roi in the French Camargue, when six men lost their lives. The story ends when
... Read more
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Village in the Mountains, The

by David Diskin ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Winners of the Proverse Prize
Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

THE VILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS is set in a fictional, southern European country in the middle of the twentieth century. After a brief period of democratic reform, the nation has once again become a totalitarian state under the rule of the Colonel, whose overriding creed is "Loyalty to the State, the Church, the Family". The narrator of the book is a left-wing poet from a prominent family, whose ... Read more

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THE VILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS is set in a fictional, southern European country in the middle of the twentieth century. After a brief period of democratic reform, the nation has once again become a totalitarian state under the rule of the Colonel, whose overriding creed is "Loyalty to the State, the Church, the Family". The narrator of the book is a left-wing poet from a prominent family, whose
... Read more
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Man's Last Song

by James Tam ...

Narrated by George Watt, Gillian Bickley ...

Series Audiobook 16 - Proverse Publication Prize
Unabridged

13 hours 16 min

In MAN'S LAST SONG, Tam’s first full-length novel the human race faces imminent extinction. The year is 2090. The global population has shrunk to less than half a million; median age about sixty. After forty years of near-universal sterility, humanity is vanishing while the rest of the planet makes a healthy comeback. A few survivors in Hong Kong face the challenge of adjusting to life as post ... Read more

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In MAN'S LAST SONG, Tam’s first full-length novel the human race faces imminent extinction. The year is 2090. The global population has shrunk to less than half a million; median age about sixty. After forty years of near-universal sterility, humanity is vanishing while the rest of the planet makes a healthy comeback. A few survivors in Hong Kong face the challenge of adjusting to life as post
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