We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World
by Simon Mainwaring (2011-06-07)
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A social media expert with global experience with many of the world’s biggest brands —including Nike, Toyota and Motorola—Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases.
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Posted: Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 12:43 pm by Sylvhania
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Pal Joey
by (1999-12-14)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (111 minutes)
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(47)
Film version of the Rodgers and Hart musical about a cabaret singer who romances a wealthy socialite into financing his own nightclub but then falls for a voluptuous chorus girl.
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Posted: Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 10:31 am by Sylvhania
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The Dresser
by Peter Yates (2004-04-06)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (118 minutes)
average customer review: (36)
An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.
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Posted: Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 10:33 am by Sylvhania
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Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
by Tom Peters ()
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(76)
In Tom's world, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose.
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Posted: Friday, September 23, 2011 at 9:12 pm by Sylvhania
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Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error
by S. M. Casey, Steven Casey ()
average customer review: (23)
Steven Casey has assembled 20 factual and arresting stories about people and their attempts to use modern technological creations. Although the operator or pilot usually gets blamed for a big disaster, the root cause can frequently be found in subtle characteristics of the device's human interface.
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Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:50 am by Sylvhania
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
by W. D. Richter (2002-01-01)
MGM (Video & DVD) (102 minutes)
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Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 3:34 pm by Sylvhania
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives
by Dean Buonomano ()
average customer review: (24)
Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates our judgment; we tend to distrust people who are different from us; supernatural beliefs and superstitions are hard to shake; we prefer instant gratification to long-term gain; and what we presume to be rational decisions are often anything but.
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Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 6:20 pm by Sylvhania
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Daniel Alfredson (2011-01-07)
Music Box Films (130 minutes)
average customer review: (26)
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millenium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon.
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Posted: Monday, September 5, 2011 at 6:15 pm by Sylvhania
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
by Mark Seal (2011-06-02)
average customer review: (48)
A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.
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Posted: Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 6:14 pm by Sylvhania
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