Jeffrey Robinson

Two incredibly different personalities and cultures collide as Fernando attempts the impossible. He tries to sell ice to a strong-willed and staunch Eskimo named Amaruk. Join the journey through the year 2001 as the greatest sales contest in the history of the world confronts the topic of global warming and creates some incredulous results.

In one of the most famous romances of the twentieth century, Europe's most eligible bachelor, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and America's most beautiful movie star, the Academy award-winning actress Grace Kelly, fell in love and married against the backdrop of the closest thing the modern world has to a magical kingdom, the French Riviera's Principality of Monaco.Told with affection and humour, and written with the unprecedented cooperation of Prince Rainier III and his children, Prince Albert, Princess Caroline, and Princess Stephanie, Grace of Monaco takes readers beneath the surface glitz and glamour of Monte Carlo for a never-to-be-forgotten portrait of the House of Grimaldi.

The acclaimed biography by Jeffrey Robinson, now revised and updated to coincide with the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace.It was one of the most famous romances of the 20th century-Europe's most eligible bachelor, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and America's most beautiful movie star, the Academy Award-winning actress Grace Kelly, fell in love against the backdrop of the closest thing the modern world has to a magical kingdom, the French Riviera's Principality of Monaco.Told with affection and humor, and written with the unprecedented cooperation of Prince Rainier III and his children, Prince Albert, Princess Caroline, and Princess Stephanie, Grace of Monaco takes readers beneath the surface glitz and the glamour of Monte Carlo for a never-to-be-forgotten portrait of the House of Grimaldi.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Proven techniques for improving software and process quality with Six SigmaThis practical, in-depth guide explains how to apply Six Sigma to solve common product and process improvement challenges in the software and IT industry. Six Sigma Software Quality Improvement covers Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC), Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify (DMADV). Featuring more than 20 success stories from Motorola, IBM, Cisco, Seagate, Xerox, Thomson Reuters, TCS, EMC, Infosys, and Convergys, the book offers first-hand accounts of corporate Six Sigma programs and explains how these companies are successfully leveraging Six Sigma for software process and quality improvement.The success stories reveal how:Motorola minimized business risk before changing business-critical applicationsTCS improved fraud detection for a global bankInfosys improved software development productivity for a large multinational bankIBM reduced help desk escalations and overhead activitiesEMC improved development productivityMotorola realized significant cost avoidance by streamlining processes and project documentationXerox achieved high-speed product developmentSeagate reduced application downtime and improved availability to 99.99%Cisco successfully reinvented its Six Sigma programConvergys injected Six Sigma into the company's DNAThomson Reuters' Six Sigma program gathered significant momentum in a short timeSix Sigma was successfully applied in many other projects for defect reduction, cycle time reduction, productivity improvement, and more

Social entrepreneurship has become a global phenomenon. Drawing from the 2nd International Social Entrepreneurship Research Conference held in New York, this book provides an in-depth discussion of this vibrant area of research, explores its regional variation across continents, and looks at new theoretical perspectives.

Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism.