Robert Townsend: 18 books
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Laura's New Boyfriend is the first installment of a series of complete comedy novels. It is set in the fictional seaside holiday resort of Dunehaven on the south coast of England in the present day. One bright and sunny day, while strolling along the seafront, the story teller discovers a somewhat...
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Where were you and what were you doing during the summer and autumn of '84? I will try to tell my story as accurately as I can remember, with all the important and relevant events included and described. Make of it what you will, for I'm darned if I can make much sense of it. How did it...
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Laura's Child is book four in the continuing Laura comedy fantasy series. It is assumed that you know the background to all the main characters by now. My wife Laura gives birth to our first child, the mystical Red Moon Child of Arthurian prophesy. She is named Tammy after the song by Debbie Reynolds....
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Laura's Baby is Book 3 in the Laura series of erotic comedy fantasy novels. Shortly after our wedding Laura discovers that she is pregnant with our first child. An ancient Arthurian prophesy about a mystical Red Moon Child is becoming manifest. The Reverend Popplethwaite stumbles upon a group of crackpot...
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Laura's Wedding is the sequel to Laura's New Boyfriend. Laura and I start making our wedding plans, and we seek out a local church. We find one with the unusual name of "The Holy Church of Saint Mary Magdalene The Non-Virgin, and get to meet its' eccentric minister, The Reverend Popplethwaite....
by Robert Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Book number 5 in the Laura series. Summertime is coming and the busy holiday season in Dunehaven seaside resort is hotting up! Laura and I, along with our friends Debra, Vince and Jessica are looking forward to long summer days, sunbathing and swimming in the sea. But our holiday plans are constantly...
History's Babel
Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.
In...
Up the Organization
How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management....
by Robert E. Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
They were but children when in 1947 the Soviet Union named the United States as 'the main enemy.’
Spirit Falls is the first novel in Townsend's The Long War series. It is an affecting story of childhood friendship growing into profound love, a coming-of-age novel set in the empty and hardscrabble...
by Robert E. Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“The Wounded” is the second book of Townsend’s The Long War Series. Ricky Belisle travels across the south and west of America, a minor league baseball player, seeking redemption before his family, his people, his Marie Jeanne. It is 1960, the nuclear age. His forebears far into the mists of...
Tales from the Great Lakes
Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider...
Households as Corporate Firms
An Analysis of Household Finance Using Integrated Household Surveys and Corporate Financial Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This investigation proposes a conceptual framework for measurement necessary for an analysis of household finance and economic development. The authors build on and, where appropriate, modify corporate financial accounts to create balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows for...
Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy
Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), smart devices are about to become even smarter. This practical guide demonstrates how this exciting wireless technology helps developers build mobile apps that share data with external hardware, and how hardware engineers can gain easy and reliable access to mobile...
Financial Systems in Developing Economies
Growth, Inequality and Policy Evaluation in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy. Using a wealth of primary source qualitative and quantitative data, including...
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