Ross: 3639 books
by Vladimir Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Кот и любое его изображение свято для Воров в законе и криминалитета. Принято относить кота к воровской масти, именно поэтому тела многих уголовников пестреют изображениями...
Unusually Stupid Celebrities
A Compendium of All-Star Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
The Greeks honored Zeus, the Romans revered Juno, but modern civilization worships a different sort of god: Celebrity. Face it, we follow the stars’ every move, fashion choice, and deliciously dishy affairs. Now Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, authors of Unusually Stupid Americans, pull the demanding...
by Ross Halfin, Kirk Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
"He just gets right the fuck in there. . . . Every drop of sweat, every molecule of saliva, every out-of-place nose hair, it all gets captured cuz he's just fucking there." — Lars Ulrich
Legendary music photographer Ross Halfin has documented Metallica for nearly 25 years, from...
Escape from Bataan
Memoir of a U.S. Navy Ensign in the Philippines, October 1941 to May 1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months later, Japanese forces struck the Philippines, destroying the base and forcing U.S. personnel to retreat to Bataan. There, Hofmann joined a makeshift unit...
"It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done."
Motivation for Dreamers & Doers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Pursuing a dream is hard work, but the right words delivered at the right time—by people who’ve been there and done that—can give us just the motivation we need. The right words can rekindle our enthusiasm, re-energize our efforts, dispel doubt, let us know we’re not alone, and show us that...
IT Savvy
What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform...
Modern Quotations 2011
Wisdom & Wordplay, Excerpts & Extracts From the Calendar Year 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Very few people change history. Bin Laden changed history. Peter Bergen, Journalist With the speed of technology ever increasing, our modern history is being written in soundbites. A soundbite today is drowned out tomorrow by an even funnier or sadder soundbite. If you track, record, and compile...
Modern Quotations 2012
Wisdom & Wordplay, Excerpts & Extracts From the Calendar Year 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed. John Boehner, Speaker of the House
Looking back on 2012, did you have a favorite quote? More than ever, the finger that clicks "Like" or "Share" to share the latest sound byte is the hand...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
Fast Boat to China
Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about...
1924
The Year That Made Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster
Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical...
by Carolyn Ross
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Carolyn Ross, Tony Hart's daughter, paints a fascinating and detailed picture of her father, one of the most loved men ever to have graced British television. Remembered by generations for his long-running programmes, including Take Hart and Hartbeat, Tony Hart was a firm fixture in children's television...
by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
**Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man ties helium balloons to a lawn chair--and ends up at 15,000 feet, closing the L. A. airport.
*A Chinese contraception program causes the birth rate to rise when men are discovered taking birth control pills and unrolling condoms over their...
Solve it Like Sherlock
Test Your Powers of Reasoning Against Those of the World's Most Famous Detective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
If you’ve always fancied yourself a bit of a Sherlock Holmes, there’s no better way to test yourself than against these ingenious puzzles. In this intriguing book, Stewart Ross presents 25 new Sherlock Holmes cases and challenges you to pit your powers of deduction against those of the Great Detective....