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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Becoming Jane Jacobs

Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter L. Laurence

In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of ...

The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of ...

Peter de Bolla

In this way words and concepts are never completely 21. Here I mean to refer to both “prototype” and “classical” accounts of concepts as described by Margolis and Laurence. See Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence, “Concepts and Cognitive ...
Le Principe de Peter (nouvelle édition)

Le Principe de Peter (nouvelle édition)

Laurence-J. Peter

Le principe de Peter plonge tout lecteur dans l'émerveillement, en lui faisant découvrir qu'un patron, un chef de service peuvent être moins compétents qu'il ne le suppose et que, malgré cette incompétence, ils ont pu s'élever très ...
Peter's people

Peter's people

Laurence J. Peter

Presents comments about numerous well-known people of the past and present and provides a variety of laws and principles concerning the human condition.
Congressional Edition

Congressional Edition

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The Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872. His parents had both escaped from slavery in Kentucky, and his father was a veteran of the American Civil War. When Dunbar began to attend Dayton's ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Laurence J. Peter

This book caused a storm when first published in 1969, battering up the bestseller list to #1, charming readers from Topeka to Timbuktu, and finally, brilliantly, blessedly giving the world an answer to a question that nags us all: Why is ...
Constitution of Freemasonry: Or, Ahiman Rezon

Constitution of Freemasonry: Or, Ahiman Rezon

Laurence Dermott

Or, Ahiman Rezon Laurence Dermott, Thomas Harper, Freemasons. ADDRESS i • . TO THE GENTLEMEN QF THE FRATERNITY. Originally prefixed to the Third Edition. BY LAURENCE DERMOTT, ESQ. D. G. M. SEVERAL eminent Craftsmen  ...
The Western Journal of Black Studies

The Western Journal of Black Studies

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Laurence Foster, a Black Anthropologist: His Life and Work" New York Times, “ Laurence Foster, Anthropologist,” 19 August ... YOLANDA T. MOSES Introduction Like many other social scientists of the depression era, Laurence Foster was an ...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky, Adele Wiseman. from the Grade 13 English curriculum at Lakefield District Secondary School pending a decision by the Textbook Review Committee of the Peterborough Board of Education.
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

Christopher James

L William Larson Jonathan Laurence Rosemary LeBeau Liz Lee Tasha Lewis Peter Liepke Peter Lindstrom Carmen Lizardo Steven Livick Cary Loving Niles Lund Deb Luster M Martha Madigan Ronnie Maher Pradip Malde Galina Manikova ...
The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar showcases his gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar's literary achievement.
Who's who of Australian writers

Who's who of Australian writers

D.W. Thorpe Pty

Leo John Eddey, Peter Hadfield Evans, Murray Fibbens, Michael Gaffney, Frank Gittins, Ross Graw, Stephen Henderson, Scott Higgs, Peter John Hook. Ted Kenley, WJohn Kerr, Alex Knowles. Michael Korporaal, Glenda Laurence, Murray  ...
The true Ahiman rezon, or, A help to all that are, or would ...

The true Ahiman rezon, or, A help to all that are, or would ...

Laurence Dermott

with many additions Laurence Dermott, Freemasons. The true Ahiman rezon, or, A help to all that are, or would be free and accepted masons Laurence Dermott, Constitutions, Freemasons Front Cover.
Adolescence

Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

As a well-respected researcher, Laurence Steinberg connects current research with real-world application, helping students see the similarities and differences in adolescent development across different social, economic, and cultural ...
Serbia

Serbia

Laurence Mitchell

With this guide to one of southeast Europe's most exciting destinations Laurence Mitchell introduces travellers not only to rural monasteries and tranquil national parks but also to hip nightclubs and swinging summer festivals.
Statutes of the University of Cambridge and passages from ...

Statutes of the University of Cambridge and passages from ...

University of Cambridge

Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence's Benefaction and Bequest Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence Fund I 1. The sum of £10,000, the benefaction of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence, shall be invested separately in the name of the Chancellor, Masters, ...
REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONERS: NINETEEN VOLUMES

REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONERS: NINETEEN VOLUMES

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... Majesty in Council that the first nomination of u minister to the said district should be assigned to the Reverend Richard French Laurence, treasurer of the cathedral church of Cashel, in Ire- laud, as the nominee of the said Richard Laurence.
Loose Leaf for Adolescence

Loose Leaf for Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg

As a well-respected researcher, Laurence Steinberg connects current research with real-world application, helping students see the similarities and differences in adolescent development across different social, economic, and cultural ...

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