Bickerstaff i (8 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. No DOP found [1870?]. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library in plain card covers, with original covers bound in. Original front cover detached but present. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4 volumes only, not the complete set. 32mo. Half-leather, 1 board detached, rubbing. Plays include: The Orphan of China, Every Man in his Humour, The Recruiting Officer, The Mayor of Garratt, A New Way to pay Old Debts, The Duke of Milan, The Orphan; or, the Unhappy Marriage, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Double Gallant, Which is the Man?, The Earl of Warwick, The Virgin Unmasked, The Way of the World, Edward the Black Prince; or, the Battle of Poictiers, Hit or Miss!, The Miser, Polly Honeycombe, The Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Grey, The Sultan; or, a Peep into the Seraglio, The Maid of the Oaks, Twenty Per Cent, The Merchant of Bruges, The Tender Husband, The Constant Couple, My Spouse and I, &c.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1976 my father sat eight children down in the family room and told us he did not know how to make ends meet anymore. He never spoke of it again.Everything in this book follows from that evening. A family, a company, a charity, and a country all fail the same way. The money runs out before the promises do.Don't Run Out of Money is one rule, told through one life. A mother who fed ten people on four hundred dollars a month. A payroll paid in cash and signed by thumbprint under a half-built library outside São Paulo. A first home bought at two and a half times income. A bank that closed on a Friday, and a board that spent the weekend ready to write checks. A lecture in Kigali with no slides, and a hospital doctor who greeted the author the next morning with five words: 'Don't run out of money.'George W. Bickerstaff, III has been chief financial officer six times, including at Novartis Pharma AG, and has served on more than forty boards. He writes for anyone who has made a promise to someone else: a parent, a founder, a director, a trustee, a graduate starting out. The book is short, plain, and personal. Each of its twenty chapters ends with a simple drawing, three things to take away, and three things to do.It asks the reader five questions and, at the end, answers them for the author's own household.- What share of the promises you have made has money behind it - How many months could you last if your income stopped - Is any one source more than half of your income - Are you saving anywhere that someone matches what you put in - Does your family know the truth about the money The book closes on the cost of getting the rule right, and on a hospital room in Pittsburgh where a son finally said what he owed his father.Keep the promise. Do not let it keep you.Part of The Trust Series.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rebecca Li built the firm to do what a kitchen table never could.For a generation, the Li family fought the machine one frightened person at a time - a denial overturned, a night survived, a name kept by hand on an index card in a wooden cabinet. It was never enough, and Rebecca knew it. So she built a cold glass tower of her own: a litigation firm to take the fight wholesale, into the high rooms where the people who write the four sentences actually live, and make a court do the one thing the bridge never could - not save a single life, but find, on the record, that the dying had been arranged.What Grows is the story of that case. Of building it, of the offer to make it quietly disappear, and of the twelve strangers in a room Rebecca cannot enter who will decide whether a documented pattern is allowed to bind. A pattern put on the stand. A wall put on the stand. A chain that holds - and a verdict that costs more than it can ever buy back.But the trilogy was always falling toward something quieter than a courtroom. This is the book of the last and hardest lesson - the one the family has been circling since a girl sewed a living thing into a coat and carried it out of a burning city, knowing she would not live to see it stand: that you do not get to keep what you grow. You carry it as far as your own keeping reaches - the firm, the bridge, the craft, the green thing in all its forms - and then you hand it on, into hands that are not your own, into soil you do not control, and you take your hands off. Frank hands the craft to a stranger. The war is handed to the keeper. A boy uses the hard-won proof like it was easy - and his forgetting is the gift.And at the head of the table, in the low gold light of one more October, Rebecca's mother is still well, and the count still comes whole - for one more morning, before the phone, one page from now, begins to ring.What Grows is the final novel of the Long Landing Trilogy and the doorstep of the Still Point Trilogy that follows. It is a book about succession - the part we are most tempted to skip - and about the one thing a family cannot take a cutting of, cannot pot in good soil, cannot grow twice. You do not choose what grows from what you plant. You only choose whether to plant, knowing the shade will fall on someone you will never meet.Plant anyway.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For forty-four years, Grace Li was one of two people who knew what happened on that hospital floor. Now the other one is dead.In the spring of 1980, a young nurse saw something she was told never to say aloud - and spent the rest of her life trying, and failing, to be heard. Twice the record closed over her words like water over a stone. Now, with the last living witness gone and her own time running short, Grace does the only thing left to her: she writes it all down for her daughter - and folds into the pages a single seed of the plant her family has carried across four generations and three countries.What Endures is the final volume of the Still Point Trilogy: the story of what a dying woman hands to the living, and what they choose to do with it. As a long-buried case reaches a courtroom at last, her family gathers around her in a barn in Ohio - Frank at his bench, building the thing meant to outlast him; Rebecca learning to be the one who stays; a scattered family drawn home for one more winter. Some debts are settled in that courtroom. Others can only be paid in a kitchen, over tea, in the quiet work no verdict can finish.It is a novel about caregiving and conscience, testimony and inheritance, and the small green living thing that keeps growing whether or not anyone is left to tend it - a meditation on what we owe the dead, what we hand to the young, and what, after the trials and the burials and the long silences, actually endures.The Still Point Trilogy: The Still Point - What Holds - What Endures. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.