David Brian: 298 books

Book cover of Corporate Governance Matters

Corporate Governance Matters

A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences

by David Larcker, Brian Tayan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference for implementing and sustaining superior corporate governance. Stanford corporate governance experts David Larcker and Bryan Tayan carefully synthesize current academic and professional research, summarizing what is known and unknown, and where...
Book cover of Sandler Enterprise Selling: Winning, Growing, and Retaining Major Accounts
by David H. Mattson, Brian W. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

The comprehensive 6-stage selling program from Sandler Training-- "Top 20 Sales Training Company" by Selling Power Magazine Competitively pursuing large, complex accounts is perhaps the greatest challenge for selling teams. To keep treasured clients and gain new ones, you need...
Book cover of Movies in the Age of Obama

Movies in the Age of Obama

The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema

by Linda Belau, Thomas Britt, Sonya C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Book cover of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Book cover of Jujutsu and Judo in the West
by Richard Bowen, David Finch, Geoffrey Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...
Book cover of Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
by Megan Armstrong, Imran Iwan, Roland Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
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Enlightenment and Secularism

Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

by Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, Fred Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
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Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Exploring the Fandemonium

by Roger C. Aden, Greg G. Armfield, David E. Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Book cover of Facets of Liberty

Facets of Liberty

A Libertarian Primer

by L. K. Samuels, Thomas Szasz, Douglas Casey
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand...
Book cover of The Power of Words

The Power of Words

Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

by David S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004

In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and...
Book cover of Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process
by Wilfredo Alvarez, Nicole T. Castro, Brian Cogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers...
Book cover of Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640
by Beat Kümin, Professor Susan D. Amussen, Late Professor David E. Underdown
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including...
Book cover of Democracy Reconsidered
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
Book cover of The Text, the Play, and the Globe

The Text, the Play, and the Globe

Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker

by Leeds Barroll, David Bergeron, David Bevington
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which...
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