Alan: 6649 books
by Alan Haworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Free Speech is a philosophical treatment of a topic which is of immense importance to all of us.
Writing with great clarity, wit, and genuine concern, Alan Haworth situates the main arguments for free speech by tracing their relationship to contemporary debates in politics and political philosophy,...
Un pueblo llamado Gaviotas
El lugar donde se reinventó el mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Un clásico del ecologismo que narra la historia del pueblo que reinventó el mundo.
Al norte de la selva amazónica colombiana, Los Llanos, una de las zonas más hostiles de la Tierra, se ha convertido en el sorprendente escenario de una de las historias medioambientales más esperanzadoras...
by Alan Davidson, Jane Davidson, Helen Saberi
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives,...
Let the Records Show
A Practical Guide to Power of Attorney and Estate Record Keeping
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Acting as a power of attorney or as an estate trustee carries a great deal of financial and legal responsibility. But in Let the Records Show, authors Linda A. Alderson and Douglas Alan Alderson have distilled the information and have provided a step-by-step guide to keeping financial and property...
Smuggling
Contraband and Corruption in World History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good...
Enterprise Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Program Management Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Corporations and governmental agencies of all sizes are embracing a new generation of enterprise-scale business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), and very often appoint a single senior-level individual to serve as the Enterprise BI/DW Program Manager. This book is the essential guide to...
Ideas Are Free
How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's billing software, fixed it, and saved the company some $26 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site...
Believing Cassandra
How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army ordered it by the box. Now fully revised and updated,...
Antidisestablishmentarianistically Speaking
More Captions to the Cartoons We Live
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Antidisestablishmentarianitially Speaking rises above the mess weve made of our world, a world at the end of our nose. Page after page, this glorious compendium of essays provides wholehearted laughter at our miserable condition and the uncanny ability for humanism to persevere. The plight of our...
Anxious to do Good
Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
After nearly three and a half -- rather too exciting -- years as a young war-time sailor, Alan Peacock expected to return to a life of quiet contemplation. Instead he became an activist economist frequently engaged in controversies about the conduct of economic policy lasting all his professional...
The Manifestation Wheel: A Practical Process for Creating Miracles
A Practical Process for Creating Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Drawing on his deep and profound knowledge of metaphysical laws including the Law of Attraction and the Law of Gestation, quantum physics, and our increasing understanding of energy fields, not to mention his work with thousands of people who want to bring change into their lives and the world, Alan...
The Art of the Trade
What I Learned (and Lost) Trading the Chicago Futures Markets
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The Art of the Trade is a searing portrait of the futures and options industry as seen through the eyes of someone who has participated in this arena for more than twenty years. On one level, it's a brutally honest, no-punches-pulled look at the individuals and institutions that comprise this unique...
by Alan Long
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
It seems the exciting game of craps is continuing to evolve with new ways to evoke more fun for the player and generate increased profits for the casinos. Low Rollers Guide to Proposition Bets covers both the standard Proposition bets and Side bets including a bunch of new ones.
Most of us...
The Management Training Tool Kit
35 Exercises to Prepare Managers for the Challenges They Face Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Most people learn best through experience, which is why new managers often feel ill-equipped to resolve the frustrations, setbacks, conflicts, and concerns of the people on their team. The Management Training Tool Kit includes all the essential tools to help you face even the most advanced leadership...