Jerry Thompson: 22 books
by Jerry Thompson, Eddie Muller
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Wonderfully, in Akashic’s Oakland Noir, the stereotypes about the city suffer the fate of your average noir character—they die brutally.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In the wake of San Francisco Noir, Los Angeles Noir, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir...
by Jerry Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
The Road is a Short Allegory. Like all of us, Chris is walking on the Road. The Road is a metaphor for life. He loses his parents, but he finds friends. The Road is easy and comfortable, but Chris can hear the mountains calling to him and he is curious about the secrets held there. Chineka feeds this curiosity and they eventually strike off into the wild lands.
by Jerry Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The Road is a Short Allegory. Like all of us, Chris is walking on the Road. He loses his parents, but he finds friends. The Road is easy and comfortable, but Chris can hear the mountains calling to him and he is curious. Chineka feeds this curiosity and they eventually strike off into the wild lands.This version has Small Group Discussion points and ideas at the end of the story
Cascadia's Fault
The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
There is a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time-at...
Tejano Tiger
Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When...
by Terry J. Fadem, Leigh Thompson, Jerry Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A brand new collection of indispensable business skills for professionals in any industry… 5 pioneering books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
5 remarkable eBooks help professionals gain the business skills they need to advance in their careers
Today,...
by Jerry L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging...
Stubbornly Hold on to Your Dreams
Meaning Built to Last
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Discover your lifelong obsession: the passion that creates meaning you’ll never want to escape from!...
Life Balance Is Fiction
Finding Your Passion Will Bring a Life Built to Last
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. As conventionally defined, “balance” doesn’t matter. Passion does. Learn how to find it--and...
Swimming Against the Tide of Opinion
Self-Esteem Built to Last
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Try, fail, try again, win small, win a bit bigger, dig deeper inside...and do more than you ever imagined...
From Your Greatest Struggles Come Your Greatest Triumphs
Personal Strengths Buit to Last
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Embrace your flaws and weaknesses--and transform them into the building blocks of greatness! ...
It's Time to Redefine Success
Building a Career That's Built to Last
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Discover why conventional definitions of success can poison you and learn the three elements of real...
Doing What Matters
Why It Is So Damn Hard and So Darn Rewarding
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Learn the four biggest obstacles to following your dream: then expose them, get past them, and liberate...
Recruiting Your Own Dream Team
Relationships Built to Last Lead to Success Built to Last
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Create relationships that are “built to last”: relationships that will make you more effective for...
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