Terry Jones
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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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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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Language
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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Language
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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Publisher
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...
Publisher
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...
Publisher
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.
19) Boom Bust Boom
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Terry Jones (Monty Python) mixes expert insight, animation, puppetry and song to explain economics to everyone. Why do crashes keep happening? Why are students taught crashes don't occur? Do you shop for grapes like a Puerto Rican monkey?