Author: Will Self
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: tough, boys, toys
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-05-26
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802137024
ISBN-13: 9780802137029

The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self "a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabulary of modern neurosis," and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a dazzling foray into his funhouse world. Status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along with their very literal "inner children." A man is seduced into a misanthropically charged symbiosis with the insects infesting his cottage. In "The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz," a black Londoner discovers an enormous rock of crack cocaine underpinning his house--and quickly turns it into an efficient lit

Authors:Patrick Forsyth, Frances Kay,
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: tough, difficult, economic, conditions, success, business, tactics, times, maintain
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0749455217
ISBN-13: 9780749455217

In difficult economic times, decision-makers in business need to take decisive action. It is essential that they combat the pressures and respond to difficult market and economic conditions in a way that minimizes negative effects.   Tough Tactics for Tough Times provides a head start in difficult circumstances. It sets out fifty practical ways to improve finances, including ways to: reduce costs, increase staff effectiveness, maintain a marketing initiative, maximize business from best customers, maintain an awareness of products/services, focus promotional activity where it will do

Author: National Center on Education and the Economy
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: tough, skills, american, workforce, commission, new, choices, times, report
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0470267569
ISBN-13: 9780470267561

Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. This new revised and expanded version of Tough Choices or Tough Times includes: An updated Introduction A summary of the Commission’s proposals Commentaries on the proposals by Denis Doyle, Lawrence Mishel, Michael Petrilli, Diane Ravitch, and Richard Rothstein, with responses f

Author: Chuck Marti
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: tough, numbers, business, times, deliver, decisions, management, winning, ways, easier
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-04-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071452346
ISBN-13: 9780071452342

Based on more than two years of surveys of more than 2,000 senior executives and managers, Tough Management may be one of the most important and practical business books of our time. Bestselling author, weekly columnist, and sought-after speaker Chuck Martin has tapped into his research firm’s vast network of business connections to discover that 80 percent of executives and managers are experiencing increased levels of work stress. On the bright side, Martin has found that tough times have brought out the best in the world’s most successful leaders and managers. And now, in his gr

Authors:Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark,
Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Keywords: tough, economic, overcoming, crisis, challenges, stories, people, soup, soul, times, chicken
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1935096354
ISBN-13: 9781935096351

Tough times won’t last, but tough people will. Many people have lost money and many are losing their jobs, homes, or at least making cutbacks. Many others have faced life-changing natural disasters, such as hurricanes and fires, as well as health and family difficulties Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People is all about overcoming adversity, pulling together, making do with less, facing challenges, and finding new joys in a simpler life. Includes 10 bonus stories of faith.

Authors:Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberge
Publisher: HCI Teens
Keywords: chicken, soul, tough, soup, lessons, learned, times, stories, stuff, teenage
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-10-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 155874942X
ISBN-13: 9781558749429

This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores a host of challenges faced by today’s teens. Within its pages teens will find portraits of life’s complexities expressed from the viewpoint of their peers. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings on difficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, from family discord to coping with the loss, from peer pressure to school violence. Teens ranked stress as one of their top concerns (along with child abuse and STDs). Oftentimes, the pressure can feel overwhelming

Author: W.E. Fairbairn
Publisher: Paladin Press
Keywords: tough
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0873640020
ISBN-13: 9780873640022

The father of modern hand-to-hand combat, Capt. W. E. Fairbairn, taught the famed British Commandos from this classic, long-out-of-print manual on unarmed combat. Known for his "get tough" attitude, Fairbairn designed these practical methods after years of training troops and watching ruffians, thugs, bandits and bullies. Now you can profit from his experience.