Tom: 6300 books
Train
Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world
In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic...
Drawn Out
A seriously funny memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and...
Junk News
The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In this salient critique of the American media, veteran journalist Tom Fenton exposes the dangerous failings of our news organizations and the fundamental problems with how they present world news. Junk News is a stirring call to reform the faltering "fourth estate" and to take the blinders off our citizens for the sake of our security
How to Talk to Customers
Create a Great Impression Every Time with MAGIC
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Filled with case studies and anecdotes, How to Talk to Customers demystifies the most critical aspect of customer service: conversations employees have every day with customers. In this must-have resource, Diane Berenbaum and Tom Larkin outline a proven system based on their MAGIC customer service...
Getting “Yes” Decisions
What insurance agents and financial advisors can say to clients.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
What causes potential clients to say “yes” or “no” to our proposals?
Well, if we could read our potential clients’ minds, we would see the five questions they use to make their decisions.
**Five questions? **Yes. We will know the exact sequence and importance of these decision-making...
Late-Night Talkers: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Who needs sleep anyway? The men (and woman) who established a genre of television—comedy after dark—are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From pioneers Dick Cavett and Tom Snyder to the original meta-hosts David Letterman and Garry...
by Tom James
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The indispensable legal guide for website owners and bloggers. Topics:PART 1. LIMITATIONS ON CONTENT1. Copyright basics2. Text3. Photographs & drawings4. Music & audio5, Video6. Computer programs7. Trademarks8. Information9. Personality (name, voice, likeness)10. Defamation11. Pornography, hate speech...
Spills and Spin
The Inside Story of BP
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In April 2010, the world watched in alarm as BP's Macondo well suffered a fatal explosion and a catastrophic leak. Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the...
by Tom Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Dan Grade system in Karate is a mess! It is high time someone said so and not just complained about it, but offered up a sensible and workable solution that was both fair and intelligent. In this eBook, author and martial arts expert Tom Hill gives it a go.
The Mindset Lists of American History
From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations—from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation
Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street...
by Tom Lydon
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The ETF Trend Following Playbook: Profiting from Trends in Bull or Bear Markets with Exchange Traded Funds (ISBN: 9780137029013) by Tom Lydon. Available in print and digital formats. Why you need to seriously consider...
Curtains
Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and...
View from the Hammock
“The Key West Citizen Columns”
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
In this first collection of writings,Tom Walker, has gleaned the best from his award-winning Key West Citizen newspaper column "View from the Hammock" tracing nearly a decade through topics like parenthood, hurricane survival, Key Wests fascination with author Ernest Hemingway, the islands...
Peregrinations
How the Davises Overran America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
"PEREGRINATIONS is an autobiography of one of the Davis boys, believed to be descendants from a long line of pig thieves exiled from Wales as indentured servants to Virginia in the New World. This story begins with the Grandparents of the author and the Oklahoma Land rush followed by the exodus...