Terry Jones
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English
Description
Worried your company won't survive in the fast-changing, high-tech world? Discover innovative strategies to future-proof your profits.
Do you worry young, cutting-edge companies will push you out of the market? Do you wish your organization was the one doing the disrupting? Are you struggling to keep up with the breakneck speed of modern business? Travelocity founder, CIO of the multi-billion-dollar SABRE company, founding chairman of Kayak.com,...
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English
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This is a very accessible, easy-to-read look at innovation in the workplace. The stories from the author's career and personal experiences provide well-chosen, real-world illustrations of how challenging, and ultimately rewarding, it can be to gather a team and establish a culture that is open to change and new ideas, and that is committed to innovation as the way to do business. The short chapters seem to be perfectly tailored to today's time-crunched...
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English
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• My age fifty was a time of review of who I was and what I had become. I realized the world had an expectation of retirement, withdrawal, disengagement for people beyond this age. However, I was still vigorous and creative, very much unwilling to pull back. Between ages fifty and sixty I decided on a new way of being professionally and I remained capable to create new projects and think of new ideas.
• A man pointed out to me that being sixty...
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English
Description
A Confederate captain from the 1st Louisiana Brigade uses his skill as a newspaper editor to recount his experiences during the U.S. Civil War.
Like many other soldiers who fought in the Civil War, New Orleans newspaper editor William J. Seymour left behind an account of his wartime experiences. It is the only memoir by any field or staff officer of the famous 1st Louisiana Brigade (Hays' Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia. Long out of print,...
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H. N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This volume records in authentic facsimile the latest incarnation of this notorious book along with eight additional pages and enhanced artwork throughout, virtually overflowing with freshly flattened fairies. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones and artist Brian Froud provide a new introduction to place the book in its proper perspective, offering insight into the book's often maligned historic relevance. As a bonus, included is an incriminating...
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2003
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed medievalist and former member of Monty Python, Terry Jones investigates the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. At the time, Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet and scholar, and yet nothing is known of his death. His name simply disappears from the record. How could this be? What if he was murdered? Who Murdered Chaucer delivers all the evidence while painting an intimate portrait of...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian turned the Biblical epic on its head. Now, the makers of Spamalot turn classical music on its ear! Prepare for Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) - the comedic masterpiece that combines all of the unforgettable humor of the Python's most celebrated film with the overblown grandeur of a symphony orchestra. Don't miss your chance to share the one-night only performance featuring a rare on-stage reunion of...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Segments from a British television comedy. Includes Boxing tonight, what the stars foretell, a party political broadcast, an ideal loon exhibition, the Queen's own McKamikaze Highlanders, a new brain for Curry's, the sherry-drinking vicar and the dirty vicar.
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001].
Language
English
Description
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.
The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Monty Python are flying again for a final reunion, well, sort of. This hugely anticipated live show took place on June 20th 2014 at the O2 Arena in London. At a combined age of just 357, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin once again take to the stage and perform some Monty Python's greatest hits with modern, topical, Pythonesque twists.
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English
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These are the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.