Robert Slater: 17 books
by Robert Slater
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2009
"A penniless survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary, George Soros is now one of the richest men in the world, and Robert Slater does an excellent job of helping us understand how Soros did it. . . . Slater distinguishes Soros from other great investors by explaining his mental processes ....
Jack Welch & The G.E. Way : Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1998
Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO
Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch and the GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access...
by Robert Slater
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2002
The first concise book of essential Welch-isms, abridged from the bestselling Get Better or Get Beaten
Jack Welch built a career out of fighting waste. 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch follows in Welch's footsteps, boiling the legendary CEO's leadership successes down to 29 strategies...
Martha
On Trial, in Jail, and on a Comeback
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Martha Stewart is the most famous and wealthy woman on earth--a person whose name is a brand and whose influence touches virtually every home in North America. This is the Martha Stewart story you have never heard It is the behind-the-scenes story of arrogance and miscalculation that led Martha to a...
Seizing Power
The Grab for Global Oil Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
How oil volatility may lead to violence among oil powers
The world supply of oil is running out. Meanwhile, the balance of oil power is shifting away from the United States and the Arab states toward national oil companies (NOCs) in Russia, China, and some emerging economies in Africa and South...
Terrorist Cop
The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Terrorist Cop is a colorful, haunting, and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Dzikansky's career began with a yarmulke on his head, patrolling Brooklyn's streets, and going undercover to catch a band of Torah thieves. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel...
The Values of American Teachers
How Teachers’ Values Help Stabilize Unsteady Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Education today is increasingly focused on tests and testing. Teachers are being judged on how much they can increase test scores from one year to the next. These year-to-year gains in scores are part of a "value-added" approach to teacher evaluation, and value-added teacher assessment is...
The Dark Side
A Collection of Mysteries & Thrillers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Welcome to The Dark Side, a collection of excerpts from some of Simon & Schuster Canada’s most terrifying, mysterious, and suspenseful novels. From Nick Cutter’s old-school thriller, The Troop, to Kathy Reichs’ internationally bestselling Bones series, these stories will leave you trembling.
The...
ALL IS SILENCE
A Deserted Lands Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Content Warning: Mature, edgy, Young Adult/New Adult Apocalyptic Fiction.
What if death forgot you?
In a future that could be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks...
A Handful of Mischief
New Essays on Evelyn Waugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom,...
by Robert Andrews, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Jabari Asim, Ruben Castaneda, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, and others.
Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories...
Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2
Monitoring and management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...
STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS
A Deserted Lands Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
What if safety felt like prison?
How does a girl who never had a place in the world before it ended, find her place in the new world?
Ninety-five percent of the people on the planet are dead. Lizzie is pregnant from an end of world one-night stand, and the situation is complicated. Her...
Reproductive Technologies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies,...
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