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Designing an Effective Pay for Performance Compensation System
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We are no longer selling this report. You can download it for free at www.mspb.gov/netsearch/viewdocs.aspx?docnumber=224104&version=224323&application=ACROBAT
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Dark Water’s Embrace: A Novel
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Stephen Leigh (au). In the tradition of Ursula Le Guin comes a startling & thought-provoking novel of gender, society -- & survival. A cent. ago a small group of humans was marooned on a distant planet. Now their descendants struggle with rising infertility, mortality & mutation, for which no cause -- or cure -- can be found. Then comes a startling revelation: The preserved corpse of a member of the planet’s long-extinct native race bears deformities nearly identical to those of Anais, the settlement’s doctor. Anais must discover the link between the mysteries of the planet’s past & the plight of the present-day humans, before she is exiled forever -- thwarting her society’s last chance for survival. Intelligent & compassionate, this novel raises a host of interesting questions.
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Worst Noel: A Novel
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Ilene Cooper (au). Lia, Erin, Maddy, Jill, & Kathy are unlikely bunkmates & even unlikelier friends. But at Camp Wildwood, miracles do happen. Now that summer’s over, can they keep up their friendship? Kathy is sentenced to spend Christmas with her busy father & his new wife & baby, & her stuck-up stepsister. So when her Holiday Five friend Erin describes the festivities at her house -- a noisy & joyous family gathering -- it sounds Christmas-card perfect to Kathy. She wrangles an invitation to spend Christmas at Erin’s & -- without telling anyone -- slips out at the height of her father’s holiday party. Part of “The Holiday 5 Series”.
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Virtual Death: A Necromantic Thriller
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Shale Aaron (au). It’s the day after tomorrow in an America where Chevrolet Reagans (no one at the wheel) cruise the streets of free/dog cities (they keep the homeless down), where cannibalism is legal (in Colorado), & where Lydia Melmoth is a celebrity. A special kind of celebrity. Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame & fortune in vast arenas & underground clubs. She died more times than anyone alive, then got out of the game before the gray rot turned her brain to bric-a-brac. But Lydia is a legend, & legends’ lives (& deaths) are not their own. Her fans still worship her, her mother needs the money from the TV rights -- so Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.
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Falling Torch: A Novel
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Algis Budrys (au). Now, for the first time, the complete text of this classic novel. Wireman came back to a vanquished Earth on a mission to save it. What he learned was that the guerillas were corrupt & the average citizen would just as soon be left alone. And he wasn’t in very good shape himself. How could he save Earth -- when Earth no longer cared? “A crackling good yarn.”
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Let’s Talk Tails
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An adorable little Golden Book that helps children figure out which tail belongs to each of their favorite animal friends! The pictures uniquely combine drawings with color photographs, & includes fish, horses, beavers, chameleons, dogs, kangaroos, & peacocks.
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True Crime: Serial Killers & Mass Murderers (vol. 2)
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Valerie Jones (au); Peggy Collier (au). This volume is a spinoff of the highly successful True Crime Trading Cards. The book contains all the art & the complete text of Series Two of the best-selling & controversial trading cards. Each biography of a killer includes a full-color photo or drawing. Includes: Mary Flora Bell; David Berkowitz; Jerome Brudos; Theodore Bundy; Lt. William Calley; John Reginald Christie; Juan Corona; Robert Hansen; James warren Jones; henry Lee Lucas; Charles Manson; William Palmer; Richard Franklin Speck; Charles Whitman; Christopher Wilder & many more. Includes a brief essay on the psychology of the sociopath.
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Mann-Mallin Fantasy Baseball Guide
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Steve Mann (au); Ken Mallin (au). This Guide is the one source for the statistics & analysis you need to draft the fantasy team of your dreams. Includes predicted player statistics for use in any fantasy baseball game, predicted rankings for both the 8-category & the 10-category versions of Rotisserie League baseball; position-by-position ratings, rankings, & suggested dollar value for every qualified eligible player; trading & drafting strategies; tips on predicting player performance; how to analyze statistics & compare players; getting the best team for your budget; plus the complete rules for “Front-Office League Baseball” -- a new game.
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Weird Wonders & Bizarre Blunders: The Official Book of Ridiculous Records
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Brad Schreiber (au). If you enjoy Guinness’ & Ripley’s most bizarre records, but wish they went one step further, this book is for you. It’s the weirdest collection of world records, & the funniest. Here are just a few: the strangest last request by a condemned prisoner; the most socks lost in a laundromat; the most ridiculous plea for money by a TV evangelist; the most successful sewer fisherman; the cheapest artificial heart; the most insulting radio talk-show host; the phoniest wrestling match; the least nutritious breakfast cereal; the longest imitation of Donald Duck; the most dangerous golfer; the cruelest guide dog, & more. Photos.
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In the Freud Archives
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Janet Malcolm (au). This book is the narrative of an unlikely, tragic/comic encounter among three men: K.R. Eissler, a brilliant, venerable psychoanalyst & scholar of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless 42-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; & Peter Swales, a mysterious, mischievous 35-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones & self-taught Freud scholar. The early history of psychoanalysis is the background against which the Oedipal drama between the dozen of psychoanalysis & the two younger men is played out. “An extraordinary story.”
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