A spoof of the popular series of children's books.

Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus! Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference.
"The Ultimate Sales Machine" shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improveasales, marketing, management, and more.

Jugendliche bereiten sich auf die Erwerbstatigkeit vor, indem sie schulische und berufliche Kompetenzen erwerben, Ausbildungen und Berufe wahlen und sich in Selektionsverfahren durchsetzen. Allerdings sind Bildungswege in die Erwerbstatigkeit stark institutionell gesteuert, obwohl die (Aus-)Bildungssysteme offener geworden sind. Jugendliche sind auf soziale Ressourcen, den Rat von Bezugspersonen angewiesen, sowohl beim UEbertritt in die Sekundarstufe I, als auch beim UEbertritt in die Berufsbildung und von der Berufsbildung in den Arbeitsmarkt.

Million-selling Michael Gerber (of the Barry Trotter series) is back with another winner! Hart Fox thought he'd seen it all after barely surviving his first year at Stutts University, the world's most prestigious college. But the place just keeps getting weirder! Half-satire, half-fantasy, and half-memoir, this mathematically-shaky-yet-hilarious sequel to FRESHMAN exposes the Ivy League in all its ancient, obnoxious, incestuous glory. All the characters you loved are back: Hart, the Midwestern striver constantly running afoul of the Powers That Be; Peter, the genius inventor with impulse control problems; and Tabitha, the peppy, preppy vampiress not afraid to kick ass and take names (in very girly handwriting). An Ivy League education is more expensive than ever. And, though they won't tell you this in the brochure, there's a very small possibility you'll turn out like George W. Bush. Can you afford to take that chance--read SOPHOMORE instead!

Throughout the 1990s, this irrepressible, inexhaustible duo was a fixture on the New York comedy scene, cranking out material for "The New Yorker," the "Village Voice," and everyone in between. This work is a collection of their finest stuff from 1989-2004. All their hard-to-find magazine pieces are here, alongside their material for SNL and NPR.