Books published by Simon & Schuster

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From Simon & Schuster, Stephen Lives! is Anne Puryear's exploration of her son Stephen—his life, suicide, and afterlife.The mother of a teenager who committed suicide chronicles her grief process and her communication with Stephen beyond the grave, offering comforting advice to families in crisis and people who have lost loved ones to suicide.

Two experts in sports psychology hone in on the mental approach that seperates the winners from the rest.

What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and how much, at what price, how best to use resources (time, labor, capital), how to understand markets. Why, then, do managers often think that economists' theories are ivory-tower and impractical? Perhaps because most economics texts are mystifying, jargon-rid den, and written from every perspective except that of the line manager.In Executive Economics: Ten Essential Tools for Managers, Shlomo Maital brings economics down to earth, back to the hard day-to-day decisions that executives have to make. He shows how all decisions can be organized around two key questions: What is it worth? What must I give up to get it? Answering these questions depends upon finding and maintaining the right relation in the "triangle of profit" -- cost, price, and value.Each of Executive Economics ten chapters focuses on one or more legs of the triangle of profit, defines a decision tool, and illustrates how it can be used to improve the quality of executive decisions. Drawing on recent examples from both Fortune 500 firms and smaller companies, Maital shows why economics main contribution is to deepen executives' understanding of the structure of their costs, and to explain why some of a business's highest expenses are those that never appear on a check stub or in a profit-and-loss statement.Executive Economics is written for executives, about executives, and by an author who has both taught executives at MIT's Sloan School of Management for over a decade and served as a consultant to small and large businesses. It is must reading for executives who need simple, effective decision-making tools to give them an edge in today's competitive global economy.

The author of the groundbreaking PIONEERING PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT returns with a book that shows investors how to protect their assets in the long-term.

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With her signature talent for fiction that is 'rich with an unusual sweetness' (USA Today) and filled with wry humour, the bestselling author of LILY OF THE VALLEY delivers a moving portrait of a woman confronting her past.

A brand-new novel set in the universe of the record-breaking, internationally bestselling video game World of Warcraft!

When his helicopter crashes in the Cambodian jungle, pilot Jon Dark finds a lost city and the gateway to another world. He arrives on Callisto, a savage, hostile world terrorized by insect men and the Sky Pirates of Zanadar.

Don Gabor updates his classic guide to the art of conversation, featuring a whole new section on navigating online networks.

The gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his granddaughter.

A stunningly-written portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the senses, telling his version of the Bible, and discovering what it's like to be human - in Clerkenwell.

A manifesto, an investigation, a travel book: an introduction to the new politics of resistance which shows there's much more to the anti-globalisation movement than trashing Starbucks.

Amid the hundreds of 'how-to' books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does just that.

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