Olson: 602 books
by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Very few large companies manage to avoid stalls in revenue growth. These stalls are not attributable to the natural business cycle. Rather, careful analysis reveals that the vast majority of such stalls are the direct result of strategic choices made by corporate leaders. In short, stoppages in growth...
Moral Arguments for Universal Health Care
A Vision for Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Health care reform is always about more than morality and values, but if it lacks a moral foundation, it will not stand the test of time. Dr. Olson provides a moral foundation expressed in eight standards derived from his study of ethics, systems theory, and health policy research. From these normative...
by Edwin Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Professional blackjack players and have long recognized that gambling runs in streaks. Winning and losing streaks. This book will tell you how to keep from losing much during a losing streak. It will also tell you how to take advantage when you are in a winning streak. The less you lose, the more...
by Steve Olson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester).
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington...
The Smart Stepfamily Marriage
Keys to Success in the Blended Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Make This Marriage Last a Lifetime
Leading blended family authority Ron Deal and marriage and family expert David Olson show you how to build on your relationship strengths and improve your weaknesses. Whether you're dating, engaged, a young stepfamily, or an empty-nest couple, The Smart Stepfamily...
People, Forests, and Change
Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for granted. As urban boundaries expand and rural...
The American Church in Crisis
Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged...
Ask the Bones
Scary Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
What is real and what is imaginary? Do evil creatures lurk in the shadows? Do demons attack the helpless? Are there such things as invisible men? For generations, storytellers have given substance to our worst fears. In Ask the Bones, master storytellers Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz retell...
by Colleen Beard, Stephen Bocking, Jennifer Bonnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...
Cognitive Development
The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
When this book was first published, David Olson was examining the developing representation and use of diagonals in the context of much larger questions, questions also explored by Vygotsky, Cassirer, Gombrich, and Bruner. These include such issues as conceptual development, conceptual change, and...
The Human Animal
Personal Identity without Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological...
by Jon Olson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“The clock is running so off we go!”On December 21, 1961, Commander Malcom Caulfield blasted off in his capsule, Majestic, and became the first American to orbit the Earth.“I am alone up here, right?”Just one orbit into a planned five, strange things began to happen and it quickly became apparent...
by Donna J.A. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
We wish to live so beautiful and true,
Like that of a fairytale creature.
Without knowing what they go through,
To be such an idolized feature.
Most stories are not like these tales,
That we wish to change lives with.
They would too cry and wail,
If...
A Line in the Sand
The Alamo in Blood and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2001
In late February and early March of 1836, the Mexican Army under the command of General Antonio López de Santa Anna besieged a small force of Anglo and Tejano rebels at a mission known as the Alamo. The defenders of the Alamo were in an impossible situation. They knew very little of the events taking...