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Book Synopsis''There''s only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.'' Mick HerronMarch 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi.Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer?Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher''s career.If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn''t, will the army be able to live with him?_________Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Affair is 16th in the series.And be sure not to misTrade ReviewJust when you thought it couldn't possibly get any better, Lee Child pulls Jack Reacher out of another hole and, bang, he produces nothing short of a thriller masterpiece... Here, we get what we've been waiting for... the story of how Reacher became Reacher -- Henry Sutton * Daily Mirror *Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes... Shakes up the status quo by delivering the Reacher creation myth... stealthily funny... this book is really about the man himself -- Janet Maslin * The New York Times *With its revelations and its bonk-fest, it's an unabashed fan-pleaser, but also a timely, reassuring wallow in the undiluted essence of Reacher * Telegraph *Child on top of his game. It could well be his best book yet... The paradox of Reacher is that he is both a great big grizzly bear of a fighter... and a thinker, both Schwarzenegger and Socrates. Make love and war is his credo * Independent *Just finished The Affair. As always, hero Reacher grabs me on page one and never lets go. Right now Lee Child is my No1 thriller writer -- Ken Follett (on Twitter)

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Book SynopsisOur societies are remarkably confident on the matter: affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending sympathy and access to a good lawyer. This stance may be clear, but it is not especially helpful or productive - given that, in reality, 1 in 4 of us are going to end up involved in an affair during our lifetime. This is a book written to increase our understanding of what is really at stake in affairs: it looks at why affairs happen and ventures beyond black and white caricatures. It delves into the question of what unfaithful sex means and why, despite the risks, it happens so often. Most importantly, the book seeks to help us through affairs, offering couples a better understanding of each other’s motivations and moods - and, where desirable, a way to save a relationship. We have for too long either openly condemned or secretly lusted after affairs: this, finally, is a chance to understand them.

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Book SynopsisSurveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life.

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Book SynopsisA Wonderfully Supportive Guide from an Internationally Recognized Authority on Affairs "Emily Brown has written a must-read book for anyone going through the searing pain of infidelity.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1 The Five Types of Affairs. Chapter 2 The Two Sides of Telling: Will I, Won't I . . . / Do I Want toKnow? Chapter 3 Facing the Affair. Chapter 4 Flashpoints for Violence. Chapter 5 Letting Go of Obsession. Chapter 6 Working on the Marriage: Building a Sense of Trust and Belonging. Chapter 7 Working on Your Self: Healing Childhood Wounds. Chapter 8 Rebuilding When Your Marriage Ends with an Affair. Chapter 9 Getting Help That Is Helpful. Chapter 10 Talking with Your Children, Your Friends, and Your Family. Chapter 11 Examining the Single Side of the Triangle. Chapter 12 Making Peace, Moving On. Notes. Recommended Reading. Resources. About the Author. About the Affairs. Help Web Site. Index.

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Book SynopsisAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1779 1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the familyup to a point. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of the church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Johnson's relationship with Chinn ruined his political career and Myers compellingly demonstrates that it wasn't interracial sex that led to his downfall but his refusal to keep itand Julia Chinnbehind closed doors.

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Book SynopsisPresents the story of the Beecher-Tilton scandal that shook American culture in the 1870s because the key players were such vaunted moral leaders. The book offers a tale of love, deception, faith and the indeterminacy of truth. It revises the conception of 19th-century morals and passions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction One: Last Accounts, 1907, 1897, 1887 Two: Final Stories, 1876, 1878, 1884 Three: Public Retellings, 1874 Four: Public Retellings, 1875 Five: Private Retellings, Public Exposures, 1870-1873 Six: Early Stories, 1855-1866 Seven: Early Stories, 1867-1869 Eight: The Tilton Letters, 1866-1869 Nine: Legends, Histories, 1999-1872 Appendix: Documents, 1863-1874 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAccomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature.Antonio Dorigo is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. A regular at an upscale brothel for years, he mourns the lack of close female companionship in his life. One afternoon, the madam at the brothel introduces Tonio to “a new girl,” Laide. Tonio sees nothing especially remarkable about her, though it intrigues him that she dances at La Scala and also at a strip club, and yet in a very short time he becomes completely obsessed with her.Laide leads Antonio on, confounds him, uses and humiliates him, treats him tenderly from time to time, lies to him, makes no apologies to him, and he loves her ever more. This helpless and hopeless love, he feels, is what he is, even as it prevents him from ever seeing Laide for who she is. Because Who is she? is the question at the heart of Buzzati’s clear-eyed and darkly comic tale of infatuation.Is A Love Affair a love story or is it a story of anything but love? Buzzati’s novel, with its psychological subtleties, vivid cityscapes, unsettling comedy, and compassion, keeps the reader guessing till the end.

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Book SynopsisIn the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. This title offers an account of Pontecorvo, his activities, and his possible motivations for defecting.Trade Review"This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Bruno Pontecorvo's work as a physicist, of his political activities, and of the circumstances surrounding his defection to the Soviet Union in 1950." (John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology)"

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Book Synopsis'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she'll see him again. But wet, windy London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one's own life. Foreign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA CRAIGTrade ReviewI devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once * Sunday Telegraph *If you’re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs * Guardian *Lurie...has quietly but surely established herself as one of this country's most able and witty novelists * New York Times (1984) *Perhaps more shocking than she knows - shocking like Jane Austen, not GenetIn Foreign Affairs no detail lacks its special piquancy. And none can be savored without leaving you with a mouthful of barbed hooks * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom the award-winning author of Small Mercies, named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews"I’ve decided that some people put out fires and leave the world cold and hopeless and others nurse the kindling, blow like mad and fan the flames with whatever they have at hand - so that everyone feels its warmth."A lot of things can feel just out of reach in 12-year-old Boipelo Seku's small, impoverished village of Cedarville, South Africa. The idea of one day living in a house that's big enough for his family is just a faraway dream. But when Boi stumbles on a story about a Canadian man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, Boi hatches his own trading plan starting with a tiny clay cow he molded from river mud. Trade by trade, Boi and his best friend Potso discover that even though Cedarville lacks so many of the things that made the paperclip trade possible, it is fuller than either of them ever imagined.In a chain of events that turns Boi's tiny spark into a warming fire, Boi learns the power of friendship and community, and finds that something’s value isn’t in what you can trade for it, but in the good it brings to the people you love.With a motley crew of characters, wholehearted humor, and a whole lot of hope, The Cedarville Shop and the Wheelbarrow Swap is a joyful read for lovers of The Penderwicks or classics like The Moffats.Trade Review“In this humorous, optimistic tale, Krone explores the mutability of friendships and the perils of trying to hold on to them too strongly. […] A compelling look at friendship and community uplift under harsh circumstances.” —Kirkus Reviews"This novel is an engaging read with a satisfying ending ... the theme of grace ties everything together: when all seems an impossible knot, if one keeps looking and persevering, the secret to untangling might click into view—a timely message for our world." —Africa Access"Laugh-out-loud moments; a sweet, budding romance; delightful insights into friendship; details about African culture; and age-sensitive social commentary on the aftereffects of apartheid make this novel an enjoyable and enriching reading experience." — The Banner“[A] tale of courage, never giving up and knowing there’s grace in the world no matter how depressing your circumstances are. Aim for the moon because even if you miss, you might hit a star. […] Trade by trade, [Boipelo] learned valuable life lessons, overcame obstacles, uplifted his community and brought to power the Nguni saying: 'Umuntu ungumuntu ngabantu' (you’re because of others).” — Woman Zone (South Africa)"This story is about hope for one of the forgotten communities in Africa. It is about ideas that can bring change. It is about community winning over isolation... [A] fantastic book for Middle Grade." — Anja Dhinagaran, educator, Montessori School of Rome, Georgia“Bridget Krone has crafted a loving, funny story about a vibrant South African community where Boi’s bold dream of a big swap goes in all kinds of unexpected directions. When the threads are knit back together, they become a hymn of kindness and joy.” — Jane Kurtz, author and winner of the 2022 IBBY-IREAD Outstanding Reading Promoter Award

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Book SynopsisSuspense-driven, action-packed terrorist vs. hostage showdown that will keep readers gripped to the very last page. Perfect for a fast fiction fix and particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 10+ Alex and her dad are working a routine plumbing job in the Town Hall when it is suddenly taken over by terrorists. Their leader Mr Blue demands the release of a high-profile prisoner, or he'll start killing hostages – and one of them is Alex's dad! Hidden in the attic's pipes, Alex must rely on her wits to ensure they all stay alive. And she only has precious minutes before time runs out. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 10+

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Book SynopsisA classic golden age mystery, and the fourth book in the hugely popular Miss Silver series.Trade ReviewRanks with the best of the golden-age detectives - Daily MailA first-rate storyteller - Daily TelegraphYou can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver - ObserverMiss Silver is marvellous - Daily MailBetter than Miss Marple A particular favouriteMiss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - ScotsmanMiss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot - Manchester Evening News

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Book SynopsisThe Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated by a fanatical agronomist who achieved dictatorial power over genetics and plant science as well as agronomy. A standard source both for Soviet specialists and for sociologists of science.American Journal of Sociology Joravsky has produced . . . the most detailed and authoritative treatment of Lysenko and his view on genetics.New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and All Your Perfects. Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they belong together.As Layken and Will’s emotion-packed story continues, a stunning and unforeseen revelation about Will’s past leaves them questioning everything that they thought they knew about each other. With the foundation of their relationship at risk, they must decide whether they are willing to fight for a future together, or to retreat back into solitude and heartache. How far does Will have to go to prove to Layken his love for her will last forever? It will require something truly extraordinary to keep this couple together, and the decisions they make and the answers they find will change not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.

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Book SynopsisIn 1922 Robert Allertondescribed by the Chicago Tribune as the richest bachelor in Chicagomet a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship's profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.Trade Review"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money." * Chicago Tribune *“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.” * DNA Magazine *"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, An Open Secret shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to bothmarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *“An Open Secret is a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. An Open Secret continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Allerton Roots 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality 4 Becoming Father and Son 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i 7 Legally Father and Son Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA London Affair Kate leaves the countryside for a job in a posh London deli and is soon surrounded by croissants and cappuccinos as she finds herself at the centre of a delicatessen dating adventure. Along with the job come new flat-mates, including the fun, exasperating Imogen and her long-suffering boyfriend, Freddy. Kate thinks she's doomed to early spinsterhood, but Immy has other ideas and sends her friend out into dating land with unexpected consequences for them all. This is a fun romance that takes the reader from the King's Road to Cornwall with an eclectic bunch of characters including an old hippy, a Russian property magnate and an ex-boyfriend who doesn't know when to give up. French Kisses When Rachel Thompson moved to France in her early twenties, little did she suspect she would stay, become a successful artist and marry Michael, the love of her life. Life in France is peachy until Michael hits 40, discovers his inner love-rat and runs off with the kids' young, skinny, dance teacher. Determined to rebuild her life, Rachel recruits friends, neighbours and her children to help her transform the family home into a cosy guest house, and soon attracts an eclectic collection of visitors - and two quite different admirers.

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Book SynopsisIn a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for thoughtful dialogue between a wide range of political views, philosophical perspectives, and personal experiences: its contributors include liberals and conservatives, philosophers and activists, Marxists and Catholics, New Yorkers and Midwesterners. A little more than a decade since its founding on the campus of the University of Chicago, it offers a unique and revelatory look at the changing face of America, one that speaks not only to way American minds have been forced to open by a decade of trauma and transformation, but also to the challenge of remaining open to our fellow citizens during our deeply divided present. Featuring award-winning and highly acclaimed essays from The Point's first ten years, The Opening of the American Mind tracesTrade Review"The Point’s writers and editors receive simultaneous instruction from, on the one hand, worldly events and daily experiences, and on the other hand the great lineage of humanistic thought that dwells on reality’s fundamental, unchanging truths. The humanistic magazine converses with the world, sometimes offering guidance, other times listening—but its defining aim is to contribute to public discourse. It is a bridge, in a way, between the active and contemplative lives." * Breaking Ground *"There’s very little surprise in writing today. From the first sentences of most articles, you can tell which of a rather limited collection of categories the piece will fall into: wokeism or anti-wokeism, Trumpism or Resistance, generic secularism or uncritical progressivism or defensive traditionalism. The Opening of the American Mind, a collection of essays from the first decade of The Point magazine, is a welcome exception." * Plough *“The Point is unique among the intellectual journals of our time in its genuine openness to a range of perspectives, and its commitment to pluralism reflects a conviction that thought cuts deepest when it is permitted to find its own path. The essays in this volume are without exception lucid, striking, intelligent, and well argued; they are also idiosyncratic, surprising, and original. I don’t always agree with each author, but I leave each piece having learned something new.” -- Michael Clune, author of Gamelife: A Memoir“It is no exaggeration to say that intellectual discourse in America is in a state of crisis, assaulted on both sides by the anti-intellectual and the overcorrecting. What we need is clear and rigorous public thinking capable of rendering our chaotic society and each other more legible. What we often get instead is tribal posturing, clichés of thought and language meant to signal neither openness nor generosity but conformity. This is why I am so grateful a venue as brilliantly multifaceted and fearless as The Point is celebrating its first decade of intellectual stewardship. The American mind remains open.” -- Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and WhiteTable of ContentsIntroduction Jon Baskin & Anastasia BergThe End of the End of History Predatory Habits Etay Zwick Hard Feelings Ben Jeffery No Such Thing? Jonny Thakkar Forward with Fukuyama Daniel LubanAfter Ferguson Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Jesse McCarthy Linked Fate Melina Abdullah After Ferguson Brandon M. TerryFinal Fantasy Understanding Is Dangerous Kathryn Lofton Midwestworld Meghan O’Gieblyn Letter on Our President The Editors Pleasure Won Lauren Berlant & Bea Malsky Final Fantasy James DuesterbergTired of Winning Tired of Winning Jon Baskin I Am Madame Bovary Anastasia Berg Closing of the American Mind Jacob Hamburger Switching Off Rachel WisemanThinking Ahead Innocence Abroad Ursula Lindsey This, Too, Was History Peter C. Baker The Dictatorship of the Present John Michael Colón Leaving Herland Nora Caplan-Bricker It’s All Just Beginning Justin E. H. Smith List of Contributors Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisCompanies today are undergoing constant structural change as the result of new business models, mergers, acquisitions, and de--mergers. This book explains why the CFO is in a unique position to integrate business systems and shape the corporation of the future.Table of Contents1 From Complexity to Simplicity 1 What Issues are Today’s CFOs Grappling With? 6 Best Practices in Finance: What’s Next? 12 The New Finance Value Proposition 16 Integration: What it Means for You as CFO 20 CFO Checklist 25 2 Leveraging your ERP Investment 27 What does Integration Mean for the CFO? 32 Unravelling System Spaghetti 36 Beyond ERP 42 Reducing Complexity 46 A Vision for the Post ERP Era 49 Making Integration Work for You 57 CFO Checklist 60 3 Streamlining the Financial Supply Chain 63 What is the Financial Supply Chain? 66 Leveraging the Benefits 66 In-house Cash and Banking 73 Order-to-cash/Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment 80 Purchase-to-pay 90 Simplifying Billing and Payment: Bill Consolidation 91 e-Financing and e-Settlement: A Promising New Tool 93 The Future: Integration and Collaboration 96 CFO Checklist 100 4 Moving from “Shared” to “Managed” Services 103 Why Move to Shared Services? 106 Shared Services Today 111 Physical versus Virtual SSCs: The Lights Are Still On! 113 To Outsource – or Not to Outsource? 115 Evolving Technology: What’s New, Faster, Better 122 Applications Management and Managed Services 124 Evolving Exchanges: Huge Promise and Tough Reality 130 The Potential for Web Services 137 Making it Happen 144 CFO Checklist 150 5 Connecting Strategy with Operations 153 Introducing Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) 157 Tracking Corporate Performance 160 Integrated Risk Management 166 Blow Up the Budget! 171 Operational Planning and Simulation 177 Business Consolidation and Integration 179 Implementing Integrated SEM 185 CFO Checklist 194 6 Analytics: Converting Data into Action 197 Broader Bottom-line Demands 202 Integrated Analytics: Transforming Data into Decisions 205 Increasing Customer Value through Analytics 207 Bringing Analytics to Supply Chain Management 214 Analytics: Transforming the Finance Function 220 Enriching Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) 227 Improving Human Resource (HR) Analytics 232 Getting Started: Analytics Critical Success Factors 235 CFO Checklist 241 7 Collaboration via the CFO Portal 243 Doubling Productivity 246 Choosing the Right Portal 249 Integration Outweighs Best-of-breed Technology 254 The Personalized Desktop 255 Why should the CFO Drive Portals? 258 A Journey, not a Destination 265 Growing your Finance Community 272 CFO Checklist 277 8 Managing Intangibles 279 Intangible Assets: The New Value Drivers 282 The Problems with Traditional Accounting 283 A New Approach to Performance Management 287 The Enterprise Control Panel 293 Harnessing Innovation and Customer Relationships 295 Value Creation through Value Networks 299 New Processes, New Skills, New Systems 304 Communicating Value Internally and Externally 305 CFO Checklist 313 9 Integrating for Corporate Integrity 315 Global GAAP and Accountability for Value 319 Rebuilding Public Trust 322 CFO as Independent Business Partner 326 The Corporate Reporting Supply Chain 327 Closing the Information Gap 331 Timely and Accurate Financial Reporting 333 Integrating Processes, People, and Technology 337 CFO Checklist 347 Epilogue 349 Biographies 353 Notes 359 Index 363

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Point’s writers and editors receive simultaneous instruction from, on the one hand, worldly events and daily experiences, and on the other hand the great lineage of humanistic thought that dwells on reality’s fundamental, unchanging truths. The humanistic magazine converses with the world, sometimes offering guidance, other times listening—but its defining aim is to contribute to public discourse. It is a bridge, in a way, between the active and contemplative lives." * Breaking Ground *"There’s very little surprise in writing today. From the first sentences of most articles, you can tell which of a rather limited collection of categories the piece will fall into: wokeism or anti-wokeism, Trumpism or Resistance, generic secularism or uncritical progressivism or defensive traditionalism. The Opening of the American Mind, a collection of essays from the first decade of The Point magazine, is a welcome exception." * Plough *“The Point is unique among the intellectual journals of our time in its genuine openness to a range of perspectives, and its commitment to pluralism reflects a conviction that thought cuts deepest when it is permitted to find its own path. The essays in this volume are without exception lucid, striking, intelligent, and well argued; they are also idiosyncratic, surprising, and original. I don’t always agree with each author, but I leave each piece having learned something new.” -- Michael Clune, author of Gamelife: A Memoir“It is no exaggeration to say that intellectual discourse in America is in a state of crisis, assaulted on both sides by the anti-intellectual and the overcorrecting. What we need is clear and rigorous public thinking capable of rendering our chaotic society and each other more legible. What we often get instead is tribal posturing, clichés of thought and language meant to signal neither openness nor generosity but conformity. This is why I am so grateful a venue as brilliantly multifaceted and fearless as The Point is celebrating its first decade of intellectual stewardship. The American mind remains open.” -- Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and WhiteTable of ContentsIntroduction Jon Baskin & Anastasia BergThe End of the End of History Predatory Habits Etay Zwick Hard Feelings Ben Jeffery No Such Thing? Jonny Thakkar Forward with Fukuyama Daniel LubanAfter Ferguson Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Jesse McCarthy Linked Fate Melina Abdullah After Ferguson Brandon M. TerryFinal Fantasy Understanding Is Dangerous Kathryn Lofton Midwestworld Meghan O’Gieblyn Letter on Our President The Editors Pleasure Won Lauren Berlant & Bea Malsky Final Fantasy James DuesterbergTired of Winning Tired of Winning Jon Baskin I Am Madame Bovary Anastasia Berg Closing of the American Mind Jacob Hamburger Switching Off Rachel WisemanThinking Ahead Innocence Abroad Ursula Lindsey This, Too, Was History Peter C. Baker The Dictatorship of the Present John Michael Colón Leaving Herland Nora Caplan-Bricker It’s All Just Beginning Justin E. H. Smith List of Contributors Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisSince the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has come under fire for its methods of combating terrorism. Waging war against al Qaeda has proven to be a legal quagmire, with critics claiming that the administration's response in Afghanistan and Iraq is unconstitutional. The war on terrorand, in a larger sense, the administration's decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto accordshas many wondering whether the constitutional framework for making foreign affairs decisions has been discarded by the present administration. John Yoo, formerly a lawyer in the Department of Justice, here makes the case for a completely new approach to understanding what the Constitution says about foreign affairs, particularly the powers of war and peace. Looking to American history, Yoo points out that from Truman and Korea to Clinton's intervention in Kosovo, American presidents have had to act decisively on the world stage without a declaration of war. They are a

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Book SynopsisAn Unexpected Affair After her divorce, Eleanor Mace decides to begin a new life running a quirky bookshop in a quiet corner of Devon. She adores her seaside home, and her bookshop - The Reading Room - is a hit, and yet Eleanor is still unsettled ...Her grown-up twins don't need her, her recent divorce has left her at a loose end, and her subsequent move from London, in search of something new has led her to...pretty much the same old life but with sea air. So Eleanor goes online and rediscovers an old flame. Impetuous and impulsive, but with her sister for protection, Eleanor sets off to the South of France in search of a man she last saw in her twenties. But will Eleanor find happiness on the Continent or does it lie in rural England? With a cast of friends and relations ranging from an ex-policeman (now woman), a go-for-it sister, and love interest on both sides of the Channel, this gently humorous story is both entertaining and wry. A Summer of Surprises The story continues two years after the end of An Unexpected Affair. Eleanor and Daniel have been dating for nearly two years and there are plans afoot to celebrate their unofficial anniversary.Everything is rosy until Freya, Daniel's ex-wife, suddenly gets in touch to announce that she is on her way from London to see him - and to meet a top-secret client who has extravagant plans. Meanwhile, rumours are circulating of a theme park about to be built in Combemouth that will threaten the beauty of the Devon coast - and business at Eleanor's bookshop. Things take a turn for the worst when Eleanor discovers that architect Freya and the new development are closely connected. Furious when it seems that Daniel has sided with his ex-wife, Eleanor decides to take a stand and rallies the whole town to protest against the plans. The story comes to a happy conclusion, but not before a trip to Spain and a surprising discovery that launches Eleanor into the spotlight.

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