Brian Michael: 275 books
Your CEO Succession Playbook
How to Pass the Torch So Everyone Wins
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
You’ve heard it before: 50% of all CEO succession attempts fail. Which means 50% must succeed! Learn from leaders who beat the odds in Your CEO Succession Playbook.
For Boards and transitioning CEOs, consider this book your strategic companion from the start of the process right through to...
Unlimited Sales Success
12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever Thought Possible
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Don’t fall for the trap--there is no single “secret” to finding untold sales success. If there were, with the countless number of salespeople who have trekked their way through the intimidating jungle of sales across dozens of industries over the years, at least one of them would’ve spilled...
Police Ethics
The Corruption of Noble Cause
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Police Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations. The authors argue that the noble cause—a commitment to “doing something about bad people”—is a central “ends-based” police ethic. This fundamental principle of police ethics can paradoxically...
by Michael Foy, Brian Barton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
An accessible yet scholarly account of the most significant week in modern Irish history, updated with new information only recently released On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, an estimated force of 1,000–1,500 Irish men and women under arms attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
The 12 Week Year Field Guide
Get More Done In 12 Weeks Than Others Do In 12 Months
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Update your thinking and avoid complacency with the 12 week year
Are you ready to change your life? This hands-on template for implementing advice from the game-changing book The 12 Week Year is a study guide that makes it easy for anyone to apply the 12 week year to their own lives. Instead...
by Kaaron Warren, Jeffrey Ford, Catherine MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror’s established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying.
Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the...
by Neil Gaiman, Ramsay Campbell, Ray Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Between 1995 and 2002, Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror was Britain's premier non-themed anthology of original horror stories.
Over six volumes, it published some of the biggest names in the field as well as many newcomers who have gone on to forge impressive careers in the genre.
Edited...
by Lonely Planet, Regis St Louis, Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s New York City is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Food truck, deli, pizza parlor, pub – eat your way through a world of food;...
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Violence
Humans in Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world.
The market for this book includes...
Sex Trafficking
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced...
The High-Conflict Custody Battle
Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren’t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today’s world. So how can you arm yourself...