Richard: 17762 books
The Boss Factor
10 lessons in managing up for mutual gain
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Richard Boston is a psychologist and executive coach specialising in leadership and team performance. He has worked closely with hundreds of leaders, middle-managers and teams in a wide range of organisations across six continents. In this highly practical, thought-provoking book, he offers 10 lessons...
by Richard Leakey
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins,” wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists-Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and their son Richard Leakey-has vastly expanded our understanding of human evolution. The Origin of Humankind is Richard Leakey's personal...
Shanghaiing Days
The Thrilling account of 19th Century Hell-Ships, Bucko Mates and Masters, and Dangerous Ports-of-Call from San Francisco to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible and tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom.
Seamen were exploited in wholesale...
The Unsettled Sector
NGOs and the Cultivation of Democratic Citizenship in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In late twentieth century Mexico, the NGO boom was hailed as an harbinger of social change and democratic transition, with NGOs poised to transform the relationship between states and civil society on a global scale. And yet, great as the expectations were for NGOs to empower the poor and disenfranchised,...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Finance Capitalism Unveiled
Banks and the German Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
If we are moving toward one global financial market, will all national financial systems that determine how businesses raise money look the same? Richard Deeg argues that, despite financial market integration and considerable harmonization in the regulation of financial markets, the traditional structure...
by Alan Chambers Richard Hale
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 2000 Alan Chambers led the first successful unassisted British Expedition to the North Pole from Canada. Walking 500 miles and enduring remarkable challenges he was subsequently awarded the MBE for Outstanding leadership in the face of extreme adversity. Alans vision is to help leaders in business...
Matrix Energetics
The Science and Art of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
In 1997, Dr. Richard Bartlett experienced an event that would redirect the entire course of his life.
He suddenly discovered that by lightly touching his clients while at the same time applying focused intent, he could restore them to a physically, mentally, and spiritually balanced state,...
A Spiritual Formation Workbook - Revised Edition
Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The...
by Richard Brodie
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Richard Brodie dropped out of Harvard to join the computer revolution and write the first version of Microsoft Word. Then, burned-out helping Microsoft achieve its phenomenal success, he quit and embarked on an equally intense search for a more meaningful life. For three years Richard mined the wisdom...
Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers
Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative, you probably have a project that needs constant exposure, or a product to promote. But how do you rise above the noise?
In Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd, Richard Botto explains how...
by Richard Preston
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A Parent’s Guide to Paying for College will unlock the secrets to receiving the maximum financial aid awards that you never need to pay back. These tactics can save the average family up to $100,000 for a four year education.As an outsider, the financial aid process may seem complex and cloudy,...
Children at Play
A Cul de Sac Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Richard Thompson reminds us that being a 40-year-old isn't hard, but being a four-year-old is. His warm, welcoming reminders are wonderfully lighthearted and funny as he brings home Alice's life in a fun, new Cul de Sac collection.Alice and her Blisshaven Preschool classmates charm fans of...
Writing a Novel
Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel.
Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators,...