Robert B : 641 books
The New Public Service
Serving, Not Steering
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public...
Windows into the Earth
The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and...
The Great Baseball Revolt
The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the...
Resurrection of Jesus
Jhn Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
Two of today's most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus' Resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and...
Hippie Bob & the Chocolate Factory
A True Fairytale
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
An autobiography of a life story path detailing a little boys excitement found in a bag of "penny candy" morphing into ownership of a chocolate factory. This is a self help book with a principle theme of THOUGHT DELIVERS. The reader is the package and the story will take them where they...
The Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio—that arose from the notorious Arras witch hunts and trials in the mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings, by the “Anonymous of Arras” (believed...
by Anatole France,Robert B. Douglas (Translated)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Thais is a novel by Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
by Robert B. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The Ghost of Glamis Castle and other true Scottish Ghost Stories (8, 300 word e-book short, around 45 minutes reading time).
In Scotland many stories have been told over the centuries of hauntings and other supernatural phenomena. Most are nothing more than folk tales — stories told around...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
The Boomerang FOREX Strategy
How to Make 40-100 Pips Per Day on the FOREX Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
FOREX is the most liquid and fast-moving financial market in the world, with an average daily trading volume of $4 trillion. Years ago, one need to have at least $1 million of capital in order to start trading FOREX. Nowadays, one can open an account starting with only $100, ready to make $1 million.
Yet,...
The Amazing Language of Medicine
Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates...
by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate...
by Harvard Business Review, Nick Morgan, Robert B. Cialdini
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A carefully curated selection of articles about persuasion and influence from Harvard Business Review.
Highly curated collections of HBR articles
The science behind popular concepts
Practical how-to’s for approaching difficult work situations
Uplifting, affirming essays about human emotion
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by Ovidiu Cretu, Robert B. Stewart, Terry Berends
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The essential risk assessment guide for civil engineering, design, and construction
Risk management allows construction professionals to identify the risks inherent in all projects, and to provide the tools for evaluating the probabilities and impacts to minimize the risk potential. This book...