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Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (Exclusive Amazon.com Cover)»rank: 964by: Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, Richard Isanove
: :It's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower! Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit....and Roland is in a coma! Don't miss the next chapter in the saga of the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself! Collects Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1-5. |
The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novels, Book 1)»rank: 2160by: Peter David, Stephen King, Robin Furth
: :'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland -- an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, in a comic book personally overseen by King himself, Roland's past is revealed! Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, adapted by long-time Stephen King expert Robin Furth (author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance) and scripted by New York Times Best-seller Peter David, this series delves deep into Roland's origins -- the perfect introduction to this incredibly realized ... |
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X-Men: Messiah Complex»rank: 11249by: Ed Brubaker, Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, Peter David
: :The biggest event to hit the X-Men in ten years is here! Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since House of M! Collects X-Men: Messiah CompleX One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46, X-Factor #25-27, and X-Men: Messiah CompleX - Mutant Files. |
Lonely Planet India (Lonely Planet India, 8th ed)»rank: 1527327by: Christine Niven, Teresa Cannon, David Collins, Peter Davis, Paul Harding, Mark Honan, Bradley Mayhew, Richard Plunkett, Phillipa Saxton, Sarina Singh
: :With one foot swathed in history and another striding into the nuclear age, India frustrates, challenges and stimulates. This award-winning guide covers the lot, from Keralan backwaters to Himalayan peaks. Features: 205 detailed maps including a full colour country map with highlights; thousands of places to stay and eat for all budgets; colour section on India's religions; vital warnings on health risks, potential scams & regions in conflict; language guide to get you chatting to the locals. Review:Firmly ensconced in the budget travel canon, Lonely Planet: India has become as essential to subcontinental backpacker culture as the Himalayan hill stations, Arabian Sea beaches, and crafty rickshaw drivers it describes. Beyond the ... |
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Walden (Pocket Classic)»rank: 6887379by: Henry David Thoreau
: :With one foot swathed in history and another striding into the nuclear age, India frustrates, challenges and stimulates. This award-winning guide covers the lot, from Keralan backwaters to Himalayan peaks. Features: 205 detailed maps including a full colour country map with highlights; thousands of places to stay and eat for all budgets; colour section on India's religions; vital warnings on health risks, potential scams & regions in conflict; language guide to get you chatting to the locals. Review:Firmly ensconced in the budget travel canon, Lonely Planet: India has become as essential to subcontinental backpacker culture as the Himalayan hill stations, Arabian Sea beaches, and crafty rickshaw drivers it describes. Beyond the ... |
WORLD WAR HULK»rank: 6887379by: Greg Pak, Peter David, John Romita Jr
: :With one foot swathed in history and another striding into the nuclear age, India frustrates, challenges and stimulates. This award-winning guide covers the lot, from Keralan backwaters to Himalayan peaks. Features: 205 detailed maps including a full colour country map with highlights; thousands of places to stay and eat for all budgets; colour section on India's religions; vital warnings on health risks, potential scams & regions in conflict; language guide to get you chatting to the locals. Review:Firmly ensconced in the budget travel canon, Lonely Planet: India has become as essential to subcontinental backpacker culture as the Himalayan hill stations, Arabian Sea beaches, and crafty rickshaw drivers it describes. Beyond the ... |
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True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series)»rank: 8283by: Bill George
: :True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today’s top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five key areas: Knowing your authentic self Defining your values and leadership principles Understanding your motivations Building your support team Staying ... |
Year in Provence»rank: 6324624by: Peter Mayle
: :They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened.Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights ... |
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Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution»rank: 13580by: Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David Robertson
: :Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company’s core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how. The key? Make tough decisions about which processes you must execute well, then implement the IT systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market, improves strategy execution, and even lowers IT costs. Though clear, engaging ... |
Snow Falling on Cedars»rank: 3322191by: David Guterson
: :When a Japanese-American is charged with the murder of a local fisherman, more than one man's guilt is at stake. Soon to be a major film starring Ethan Hawke, directed by Scott Hicks (Shine). San Piedro Island in Puget Sound is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese-American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields ... |