“michael gill”

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks. Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advert... More

Across America, record numbers of employees are leaving corporate jobs to start their own companies. This wave of entrepreneurship is the result of unprecedented downsizing, mergers, and people who are just fed up with the constraints of the traditional corporate structure. Now two successful entrep... More

Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, Michael Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They effected a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature... More

The son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill grew up meeting the likes of Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. A Yale education led to a job at prestigious J. Walter Thompson Advertising. But at 63, the younger Gill's sweet life has gone sour. Long fired from JWT, his own business is collapsing and an ill-... More

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to and analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the center of the current trends a... More

The very best of the wickedly funny and often moving travel essays by popular "London Times" columnist A.A. Gill are collected in this volume, filled with his unshakable opinions and savage attacks on some of the most controversial and sacred cows of modern life. Photos.A. A. Gill is one of the most... More

In Twenty-Five AIDS has killed 25 million, one million for each year of the epidemic, and another 40 million have been infected-A total exceeding the population of Tamil Nadu.But why, when Aids is preventable? Many of these lives could have been saved and millions of infections could have been avert... More