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  • SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
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    SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS
    HERMANN LION / JEROME D. DONOVAN / CHEREE TOPPLE / ROWAN BEDGGOOD / ERYADI K. MASLI
    This book looks at how multinational enterprises address sustainability within their business activities. Contextualized within a rapidly developing country in Asia, it explores how management practices, tools and techniques are implemented by foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in the Philippines. The book introduces a useful three-stage and six-step sustainabil...

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  • FRUGAL INNOVATION AND THE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
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    FRUGAL INNOVATION AND THE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
    STEPHANIE B.M. CADEDDU / JEROME D. DONOVAN / CHEREE TOPPLE / GERRIT A. DE WAAL / ERYADI K. MASLI
    This book explores the new product development process of firms developing frugal innovation for the base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets in developing countries. Frugal innovations are products characterised by an affordable price-point, durability, usability and core functionalities that are highly adapted to BOP consumers’ needs. Frugal products have the potential to drive the ...

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  • THE COST OF KINDNESS
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    THE COST OF KINDNESS
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing." "And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price," retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experience, had enjoyed much opportunity of testing the attitude of the public towards sentiment. "I don't care what you say, George," persisted his wife; "he may be a disagree...

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  • TOLD AFTER SUPPER
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    TOLD AFTER SUPPER
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "And not only do the ghosts themselves always walk on Christmas Eve, but live people always sit and talk about them on Christmas Eve. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a...

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  • ON THE STAGE--AND OFF THE BRIEF CAREER OF A WOULD-BE ACTOR
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    ON THE STAGE--AND OFF THE BRIEF CAREER OF A WOULD-BE ACTOR
    JEROME K. JEROME
    'On the Stage - and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor' was Jerome K. Jerome's first published book. It is a lightly fictionalised memoir, rather in the style of 'Three Men in a Boat', with its hapless narrator detailing his inglorious adventures in the lower reaches of the late Victorian theatrical world, amongst its seedy theatres, drunken actors and dodgy managers. It...

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  • THE SOUL OF NICHOLAS SNYDERS OR THE MISER OF ZANDAM
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    THE SOUL OF NICHOLAS SNYDERS OR THE MISER OF ZANDAM
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a wicked man named Nicholas Snyders. He was mean and hard and cruel, and loved but one thing in the world, and that was gold. And even that not for its own sake. He loved the power gold gave him—the power to tyrannize and to oppress, the power to cause suffering at his will. They said he had no soul...

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  • WOODBARROW FARM
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    WOODBARROW FARM
    JEROME K. JEROME
    A play in three acts. (Excerpt): "SCENE: Kitchen at Woodbarrow Farm. An ideal old farmhouse kitchen. From the smoke-blackened ceiling beams hang huge sides of bacon, strings of onions, and herbs, and poultry. Over the great fireplace are the guns, and in profusion everywhere are the homely furnishings of a prosperous farmhouse kitchen. A huge fire burns r. in old-fashioned fire...

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  • THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS
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    THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS
    JEROME K. JEROME
    There is plenty of humour and plenty of good sense in this volume, Mr. Jerome can make fun in a pleasant fashion of oddities ... ...

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  • DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE
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    DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Diary of a Pilgrimage is a novel by Jerome K. Jerome published in 1891. It tells of a trip undertaken by Jerome and his friend "B" to see the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany. ( Wikipedia) ...

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  • TEA-TABLE TALK
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    TEA-TABLE TALK
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Tea-table Talk is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. (Goodreads) ...

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  • DREAMS
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    DREAMS
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me. I was not surprised; indeed, my acquaintanceship with theater harpies would prevent my feeling any surprise at such a demand, even in my waking moments; but I was, I mus...

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  • THE LOVE OF ULRICH NEBENDAHL
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    THE LOVE OF ULRICH NEBENDAHL
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Another classic short story by Jerome K. Jerome, The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl is a mirthful then sobering story during the Franco-Prussian War of a non-traditional embodiment of "love." Poetic in both scope and style. (Goodreads) ...

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  • PAUL KELVER
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    PAUL KELVER
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Paul Kelver is a 1902 autobiographical novel by Jerome K. Jerome (best known for Three Men in a Boat). From the novel, a passage which seems to refer to Jerome's coming of age: "Returning home on this particular day of days, I paused upon the bridge, and watched for a while the lazy barges maneuvering their way between the piers. It was one of those hushed summer evenings when ...

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  • THE PHILOSOPHER'S JOKE
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    THE PHILOSOPHER'S JOKE
    JEROME K. JEROME
    A really intriguing short story about the lives of three couples in their forties, who are given the chance to go back through time, at the age of 20, with the knowledge of the future. What would a young person do, knowing that following his instinct would most probably lead to his wretchedness? How does one differentiate between reality and dream? How frightened is one, knowin...

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  • MRS. KORNER SINS HER MERCIES
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    MRS. KORNER SINS HER MERCIES
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "“I do mean it,” declared Mrs. Korner, “I like a man to be a man.” “But you would not like Christopher—I mean Mr. Korner—to be that sort of man,” suggested her bosom friend.”" ...

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  • NOVEL NOTES
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    NOVEL NOTES
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "When, on returning home one evening, after a pipe party at my friend Jephson's, I informed my wife that I was going to write a novel, she expressed herself as pleased with the idea. She said she had often wondered I had never thought of doing so before. " ...

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  • CLOCKS
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    CLOCKS
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "As for the other class of clocks—the common or always-wrong clocks—they are harmless enough. You wind them up at the proper intervals, and once or twice a week you put them right and "regulate" them, as you call it... But you do all this, not from any selfish motives, but from a sense of duty to the clock itself. You want to feel that, whatever may happen, you have ...

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  • FANNY AND THE SERVANT PROBLEM
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    FANNY AND THE SERVANT PROBLEM
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Fanny is a stage artist, with music and performance to her credit, and fame and name to boot, who happens to see someone she likes and he is in love with her for herself. Nevertheless he makes discreet enquiries regarding her family connections. (Goodreads) ...

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  • STAGE-LAND
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    STAGE-LAND
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Synopsis: This isn't a play or novel itself, but rather a series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. There are essays, for example, on the stage hero, the stage heroine, the stage villain, the stage "adventuress" (read "tramp"), the stage lawyer, etc. ...

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  • THEY AND I
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    THEY AND I
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "I am a Republican in theory, but it grieved me that a son of mine could be drawn to such companionship. They contrived to keep it for a week--till the police found it one night, artfully hidden behind bushes. Logically, I do not see why stealing apples should be noble and stealing bicycles should be mean, but it struck me that way at the time. It was not the particu...

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  • THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL
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    THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. ( Wikipedia) ...

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  • THE OBSERVATIONS OF HENRY
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    THE OBSERVATIONS OF HENRY
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Collection of humorous stories, the framing being that they are told by a waiter named Henry. Generally good, but with the last, "The Wooing of Tom Sleight's Wife", is the best. It's a terrific tale in which a sailor, parted from the girl he'd secretly married in Maine, many years later falls in love with a barmaid in Paris -- one who happens to be exactly the same person. (Goo...

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  • EVERGREENS
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    EVERGREENS
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "They look so dull and dowdy in the spring weather, when the snow drops and the crocuses are putting on their dainty frocks of white and mauve and yellow, and the baby-buds from every branch are peeping with bright eyes out on the world, and stretching forth soft little leaves toward the coming gladness of their lives. They stand apart, so cold and hard amid the stir...

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  • JOHN INGERFIELD AND OTHER STORIES
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    JOHN INGERFIELD AND OTHER STORIES
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. “Charming little story of yours,” he said, “that about the woman and the snake; but it’s not as funny as some of your things!” The next week, a newspaper, referring to the tale, remarked, “We have heard the ...

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  • TOMMY AND CO.
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    TOMMY AND CO.
    JEROME K. JEROME
    This engaging collection of tales from the author of "Three Men in a Boat" presents the amusing and sometimes bittersweet adventures of a crew of Fleet Street journalists and their cronies, beginning with the arrival of young Tommy, a gutter-born scamp of uncertain gender. Fans of P.G. Wodehouse should find it especially appealing. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE SECOND THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW
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    THE SECOND THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW
    JEROME K. JEROME
    (Excerpt): "Do not blame me, Ladies, the fault lies with you. Every right-thinking man is an universal lover; how could it be otherwise? You are so diverse, yet each so charming of your kind; and a man's heart is large. You have no idea, fair Reader, how large a man's heart is: that is his trouble--sometimes yours." ...

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  • IDLE IDEAS IN 1905
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    IDLE IDEAS IN 1905
    JEROME K. JEROME
    Although not the equal of his "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" (1886), one can still find sublime passages here and there that demonstrate the occasional genius of a wonderful observer and humorist. The passages are worth reading the rest. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THREE MEN IN A BOAT
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    THREE MEN IN A BOAT
    JEROME K. JEROME
    The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River Thames Three Men in a Boat is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames. Passing by famous landmarks on their way from Kingston to Oxford, the three gloriously underprepared travelers—George, William, an...

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  • HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING
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    HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING
    ELKIND, JEROME I. / CARD, STUART K. / HOCHBERG, JULIAN
    Human Performance Models for Computer-Aided Engineering ...

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