Bill: 4844 books

Bill Lajoie just had it. When it came to drafting ballplayers and building a World Series club, few in baseball history can match his extraordinary success. The lessons of Lajoies illustrious career and the brilliance of his philosophy are put to print in Character is Not a Statistic. After a playing...

Until very recently, virtually all corporate trainers and instructional designers followed the traditional route to training--they identified their organizations' needs and then prepared and delivered formal event-based programs that were primarily classroom or e-learning based. Several learning professionals...

Vintage Game Consoles tells the story of the most influential videogame platforms of all time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation, and many more. It uncovers the details behind the consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade...

Bill Johnson reviews popular movies like Groundhog Day, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard to set out principles of storytelling. Many writers new to screenwriting are doing what they think should be done. These reviews take new writers into the foundation of these films, exploring in a step by step...

A financial advisors job can be one of the most rewarding in todays economy. You follow the markets, help people reach their financial and personal goals, and make a decent living while doing it. But the recent downturn in the global economy and general skepticism regarding Wall Street has advisors...

During his 20 years “shooting street,” Bill Birnbaum has been photographing strangers on the streets of North America, South America, Europe and New Zealand. In this book, he offers the reader the benefit of his extensive experience. In “Getting Started in Street Photography,” you will...

Young, newly rich Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money from a mysterious caller. When Jake Runyon agrees to investigate, it seems a relatively simple matter to expose the extortionist by setting a trap for him. The case, however, is nowhere near as clear-cut as...

"Good mysteries are never just mysteries. They’re usually a combination of engaging literary fiction with compelling characters, an interesting plot with twists and the skillful layering of several genres, including history, mystery, and, in the case of Bill Ectric‘s novel Tamper, also a...

Bill Johnson uses reviews of Romeo and Juliet, The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The Iceman Cometh to teach the art and craft of writing powerful plays. Using these plays, he shows how new playwrights can learn the craft of writing for theater from masters of the stage. Bill...

100 short poems from poet, painter and preacher Bill Comeau - poems that will inspire, challenge and amuse.

A collection of short stories by Bill Dickey.Bill Dickey was born in Belen, Mississippi in 1939. He worked in Education for most of his adult life, though not what most people would call classic education. During his employment with various agencies of the United States Government, he traveled extensively,...

Do you believe in ghosts?   No?  How about you visit this house and then decide?There is a "haunted" house up there that squats like a huge wooden toad behind a thick grove of pine trees on the end of a dead end road. Maybe once it was painted, but now it has a gray cadaver-like complexion,...

Writing poetry came naturally to Bill Robertson as he had a grand-uncle, David Gray (1838-1861), born in the village of Merkland, near Kirkintilloch, Scotland, who became a well-recognized Scottish poet. Over the years, Bill has been inspired to write an occasional poem about events and people around...

It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John Cariboo Cameron, made one last promise to his fading young wife. The Promise is a compelling story of a great love and an epic struggle to honour a dying...