Robert Cross: 15 books
Pai Naa
The true story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's survival in the Malayan jungle during WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya. One remarkable exception to the white flight was Nona Baker, ‘a parson’s youngest daughter’ from Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Nona Baker and her brother, Vin, general...
by Robert Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Big Sur's scenic grandeur and formidable landscapes have inspired countless artists and writers to capture the essence of Big Sur's magic.Early pioneers struggled to carve out their meager farms and ranchos, a few ships plied the treacherous rocky coastline, some losing their precious cargos at night...
Revenue Management
Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
From the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "the guru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recover from the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business on growth.
Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, Robert G. Cross answers this question with...
Sailor in the Whitehouse
The Seafaring Life of FDR
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This behind-the-scenes look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s extraordinary skill as a blue-water sailor explores how FDR’s love of the sea shaped his approach to public service and even influenced the course of events in World War II. Family and friends, Secret Service agents, and others reveal never-before-told...
Navigating Souths
Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, and...
Packaged Pleasures
How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned,...
Driving Results Through Social Networks
How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level...
by Jody Lynn Nye, Lee French, Sarah Craft
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
THESE LADIES AREN'T WAITING.
Twenty bestselling and award-winning authors offer enchanting tales of women and girls forging paths through darkness and peril. Cleverness, curiosity, and determinations make worthy heroines in fantastical new worlds.
Featuring stories by:
Jody Lynn...
The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
A powerful, visual framework helps managers discover how employees really communicate and collaborate to get work done - and helps them identify ways they can influence these social networks to improve performance and innovation. In The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Cross and Parker, experts in...
Shepherds of the Sea
Destroyer Escorts in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information...
by Robert L Cross, Sam Israelit
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy defines unique and powerful ways that organizations can foster learning at the individual, group and organizational levels, a capability critical to both strategic objectives and business performance. The book explains how individuals and organizations learn,...
A Game of Horns
A Red Unicorn Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion—and of a new unicorn herd.
A Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some...
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy
A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies. Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a unique hands-on guide to this element of practical work. Using clinical examples to guide the reader, and a detailed analysis of case study...
Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR
Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The complexity and heterogeneity of biological systems has posed an immense challenge in recent years. An increasingly important tool for obtaining molecular and atomic scale information on a range of large biological molecules and cellular components is solid-state NMR. This technique can address...
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