Built to LastDrawing upon a six year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day as start ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly

Readers of all ages and backgrounds will love its powerful

She wants to bake a cake

with both old and new spellings included so the user will always locate the most appropriate word

Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice—a sweeping

but Rachel suspects someone is intent on harming her employer

but argues passionately for why it matters

and friendships are tested as sorority sisters Scarlett and Vivi must face the forces of hell itself when a rival sorority threatens to wreak havoc on campus

Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please

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Where family loyalties and passions collide…

Jitendra Dixit grew up in Mumbai and has reported from the city for much of the three decades he writes about in this book

as beautiful and as damaged as ever…and she wants a relationship with her daughter