David John: 902 books
Money for Nothing
How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
**A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.
According to their employment agreements -- approved by boards -- 96 percent of large company...
by William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Before email,
before the world wide web,
before hackers,
Before sexting,
before always-on GPS,
before titanium implants,
before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,
before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,
there was cyberpunk.
And science fiction...
Music Men: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The heartbreakers, lovemakers and dreamers always at the top of the music charts are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the forefathers of modern music Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to larger-than-life rock gods Elton...
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos
Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing!
In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life.
Be...
Fashion Logistics
Insights into the Fashion Retail Supply Chain
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Fashion Logistics examines the principles and practices behind responsible fashion retailing and cost-effective supply chain management in the fashion industry.
Fashion Logistics assesses the early growth and changes in the industry as well as the drivers of change in the market. Important...
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
by John David Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This booklet contains no prophecy, no first hand accounts and no ancient scripts or interpretations.This booklet contains factual data, often from NASA, that when presented with the relevant facts, as I have done, will lead you to the conclusion that this solar system has been occupied in the past...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
Zombiefied! An Anthology of All Things Zombie
Zombiefied, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Zombie crime fighters, politicians, soldiers, rescuers—but a Zombie prom date or bowler? If you’re looking for Zombies, prepare to be ZOMBIEFIED! Two dozen amazing zombie stories sure to breathe life back into the Undead. If you’re looking for stories that shamble, groan, and eat brains, you’re...
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...
A Deadly Misunderstanding
Quest to Bridges the Muslim/Christian Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Mark D. Siljander takes us on an eye-opening journey of personal, religious, and political discovery. In the 1980s, Siljander was a newly minted Reagan Republican from Michigan who joined Congress in the same generation as Newt Gingrich...
A Winnipeg Album
Glimpses of the Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then...
by John Stilgoe, Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving...
by John Joseph Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
In our first story this month, Liz Coleman’s “Join,” a man who has always felt alienated returns home to visit his family on Earth, and brings with him part of his new family—a newborn, parasitic alien.
Most of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever...