Michael D : 1112 books
Work in Progress
Risking Failure Surviving Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Disney CEO Michael Eisner's legendary self-reliance comes through in his narration of Work in Progress. He takes you with him as, again and again, he plunges into uncharted waters and comes up a stronger swimmer than he was before.
by Michael D. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Over the years, as a camper and a counselor, Disney CEO Michael Eisner absorbed the life lessons that come from sitting in the stern of a canoe or meeting around a campfire at night. With anecdotes from his time spent at Keewaydin and stories from his life in the upper echelons of American business...
Supplier Relationship Management
How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier...
by Dr. Michael D. Sedler
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Practical Strategies for Responding Biblically to Gossip, Criticism, and Negative Words
Communication expert Michael Sedler gives readers practical strategies for identifying, counteracting, and responding graciously to gossip, criticism, and negative words. He shows readers how to
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by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent...
by Michael D. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
8400-word research paper written in 1993. 3800 words on a survey of all of Athanasius's use of the term theopoiesis, and how it fit into the culture of the early church.
3400 words on the theological legacy of Athanasius, largely on the doctrine of the Trinity. Also a summary of key events in his life, a summary of the teaching of Arius, and a bibliography,
Mutiny at Fort Jackson
The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell...
Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)
Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in...
Free Hearts and Free Homes
Gender and American Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.
From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the...
The Ruling Elite of Singapore
Networks of Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries – the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew – former prime minister and Singapore's...
Deadly Indifference
The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses...
Mirror Earth
The Search for Our Planet's Twin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life.
Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters...
by Michael D. Morrison, Joseph Tkach
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In 1999, Ministry magazine, an Adventist publication, published a two-part editorial titled "Why the Seventh Day?" It's a good question. Michael Morrison responded with a letter of his own, praising the author for some points and questioning others. After a reply from the author, Morrison...
by Michael Prokurat, Michael D. Peterson, Alexander Golitzin
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood. The A to Z of the Orthodox Church provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, places and events of the Eastern Church. Two...