Alan: 6649 books
Doing the China Tango
How to Dance Around Common Pitfalls in Chinese Business Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Winning in China requires time, commitment, and knowledge. Conducting business as usual is not how to accomplish objectives.
Authors Alan Refkin and Scott D. Cray enjoy success conducting business in China because they know that the rules there are different. Now, they open up their playbooks...
Authors of the Storm
Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, “the weather” is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government meteorologists and forecasters go about their...
Karl Marx
History & Biography & Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—collectively understood as Marxism—hold that human societies progress through class struggle: a conflict between ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and working classes (known as the proletariat) that...
Texas Ingenuity
Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Imagination is bigger in Texas, too. This collection of inspiring and often quirky stories highlights dozens of examples of innovation from Lone Star history. The Hamill brothers devised a better oil well to reach gushers at Spindletop. The first Neiman-Marcus store opened in Dallas in 1907, revolutionizing...
Bringing Out Best in People
How To Enjoy Helping Others Excel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling book The Friendship Factor, studied the great leaders throughout history, the most effective organization, and many prominent psychologists to discover their motivational secrets. There are actually a small number of principles used by good motivators,...
Shadow State
Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Every year the British government spends £80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive and important roles of the state running prisons and providing healthcare, transport, legal aid, even child protection. These organizations...
Conducting Business in the Land of the Dragon
What Every Businessperson Needs to Know About China
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
China is as tough a business environment as youll experience anywhere in the world, remaining one of the most complicated places to do business. Just ask all the company executives and entrepreneurs whove tried to do business there, lost money, and closed shop. They learned the hard way that success...
Piercing the Great Wall of Corporate China
How to Perform Forensic Due Diligence on Chinese Companies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
China has historically cut itself off from interaction with the global business community for all but the last thirty-eight years. During this isolation, Chinese society and businesses developed their own morality, ethics, cultural leanings, and business practices.
Philosophically, culturally,...
The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...
by Alan Cochrane, George Kerevan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In September 2014, a referendum will be held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland should become independent and cease to be part of Great Britain. In this book, two of the nation’s leading political commentators will address both sides of this historic argument. George Kerevan will put...
The Forgotten Society
Lives Out of Sight in Nursing Homes, Prisons, and Mental Institutions: A Portfolio of 92 Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A prominent artist ventured behind locked doors to portray three "forgotten" social classes: the elderly, people in mental institutions, and the prison population. Alan E. Cober began his career in the 1960s, when illustration took a turn toward a new expressionism. Influenced by the works...
by Alan F. Dutka
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior. May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of...
by Alan Dustin
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
A complete resource for Canadians seeking to master the stock market and secure their financial futures.
Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just joining the game, How to Profit from the Next Bull Market will teach you valuable skills and secrets to investing and succeeding in the Canadian...
Gadfly in Russia
A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War–era Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in...