Bert: 448 books

Are you uncomfortable—even afraid—about the prospect of speaking before a group of people? Do you have trouble getting your message across? When you speak, do others listen, or can you feel their attention wandering? Effective communication is essential in business and in everyday life....

An unbiased and comprehensive overview, based on the findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Using no jargon, it looks at tackling and adapting to man-made climate change, and works through the often confusing potential solutions. Bert Metz is the former co-chair of the IPCC,...

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in...

My mom once told me that she thought I would grow up and become a serial killer. I think I was seventeen when she said that and I had settled down quite a bit by that time. When I was quite young, I hated to hear her say the words Kevin Jonathan Harris, because it meant I was in trouble. The rest...

Michael Strong Champion was born in July of 1983 to two loving parents who planned to raise him to be a doctor or lawyer. He had the best of everything they could give on their meager earnings. Dad was a diabetic who was often very ill and mom did every sort of household task around town to keep food...

Growing up, I was the kid no one noticed. In group photos or school activities, I was the child on the end behind and out of the way. I made straight B's mainly because I was never challenged. In organized sports, my dad pushed me, but I just didn't seem to have the drive to excel. I was simply average...

Gunter Wolfgang Miller June 16th, 1987 is what is written on my birth certificate, but I’ve been called Cub since I can remember. A few ladies have also called me Cubbie. Evidently I was named after my grandfather, who was killed fighting for Germany in 1944 during the Battle of Aachen. When...

Weary of being called a sissy and a multitude of racial slurs, young Tan Lin learns to defend himself, eventually studying martial arts to the exclusion of a social life. His life is tested when his master instructor accidentally kills two 1%'er motorcycle gang members and he is forced to live a life...

Major Thurston "TB" Bryce Caldron III was medically discharged in an honors ceremony at Wiesbaden AFB, in Germany. This time around, he was awarded a Silver Star, his second, another Purple Heart, his fourth, an Army Commendation medal, his fourth, and Turkey’s highest medal for bravery,...

Alpha Mike One - Ten to Twelve continues the saga of David Perkins, through a post-apocalyptic United States after a series of events plunge the country into total anarchy. Perkins forms a small clan of fighters made up mostly of women with military experience. This is book three of the series. In...

After hitting rock bottom, Tag finally finds solace in the arms of his beautiful Army councilor. In her mission to stop his endless nightmares, she finds him a job through a friend. Little does she know that the friend is an ex-Air Force Intelligence officer working his own version of the war on terror...

Tommy Nguyen Morris was raised in a deeply structured Catholic home for boys, hating every minute of it and as soon as he was able to leave, he joined the Air Force. Rising rapidly through the ranks, he is commissioned as an officer and completes the three year program to become a pararescue officer...

In a post-apocalyptic United States David Perkins, a common man with an Air Force warehouseman background is plunged into a lawless environment fraught with danger. His only option is to surrender to the aggressors, or fight back and over time he forms bonds with the only available people he can find...

Instead of appearing for breakfast at the Seattle Victorian bed and breakfast run by Meg Yarmouth and recently retired Anders Hauge, gentle young Tab Oakley, a guest, is found mutilated and murdered in nearby volunteer Park. The only clue is his vanished gold Celtic crucifix. Even worse, one, then...