Emerald Book Company imprint: 39 books

From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing “the world’s toughest computer.” That was the founding of ROLM Corporation,...

Why do executives get stuck? Why do leaders sometimes find themselves pushing hard but not gaining traction? Frequently it’s because they’re working against themselves, defeating their best efforts with their own problematical thoughts and emotions. In this book, we refer to thought patterns...

A revolution occurs when a critical mass of people challenge a common belief they have been told to accept as true. During the American Revolution, the new thinking was that our country should be free from the tyranny of the British Empire so its citizens could pursue their personal goals and dreams.Some...

A detailed guide to monitoring customers onlineand then delivering exactly what they want, when they want itEvery marketers dream is to overhear what customers say about their company and discover their future purchasing plans. With Chatter Marketing, Neil Rosen reveals how keeping tabs on the chatter...

<i>Webs of Power</i> is a raw, unsentimental portrayal of greed, manipulation, and relationships set in the excessive, insatiable retail industry of the 1980s.<p>When a hostile takeover of the retail giant Consolidated is announced, the lives of three determined women, each linked to...

Across America, community associations are flourishing. As a growing number of residents have discovered, these communities offer a new way of living together—one that protects and enhances property values, allows people to support their mutual interests, and promotes harmony and cooperation.   In...

How can someone get the best seats to the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Kentucky Derby, and all the greatest concerts and sporting events in the world? By owning TicketCity, one of America’s fastest-growing ticket brokers.<p>In this motivational and inspirational book, you will learn how...

A Stunning, Illustrated Account of Devastation and Survival in the Wake of One of America's Most Destructive TornadosColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel's black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were...

Many people have a special bond with animals, but few have the ability to understand the innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires of different creatures. Author Tim Link is one such individual--a man blessed with the ability to communicate with animals telepathically. <p>In this book, the author...

The story is set in the future in the year 2156, a time when the earth's population has grown and, although most of our current social problems have been solved, new ones have emerged. ITP stands for Interdimensional Transport Protocol, which has been developed by Dr. Deborah Tennyson to open up...

Battle-proven techniques for creating a sustainable, high-velocity sales organization.Sometimes managing a sales team feels like trying to manage chaos, and in a way it isthere are so many unpredictable influences at work in sales. In Nuts and Bolts of Sales Management, John Treace, mining decades of...

In Winning Fantasy Baseball, Larry Schechter discloses the secrets of his proven methods. Packed with commonsense, easy-to-use strategies for beginners through experienced players, Schechter supplies readers with a toolkit to achieve the most important thing in fantasy ball--winning! Some have...

TABETHA BRIGHT may be the cleverest most resourceful girl ever to scoot around in a wheelchair. But when pneumonia confines her to the old city hospital her eighth birthday brings a mysterious gift -- a magic marker thats truly magic. With it she draws herself into the enchanted world of Wrush where...

Imagine private jets ready for an afternoon flight to New York City for a transcontinental shopping trip . . . luxury yachts circling the globe awaiting their owners arrival . . . fully staffed but rarely visited vacation homes throughout the world. The rich live trouble free lives of graceful ease....