Eric: 6009 books
Nothing to Fear
A Tor.Com Original
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"Nothing to Fear" is an episode inspired by The Rule of Three, the opening novel in Eric Walter's trilogy of the same name about the terrifying challenges faced by an ordinary suburban kid, his family, and his neighbors, in the first days and weeks and months after a viral catastrophe causes...
by Eric Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
IS YOUR REVIEW PROCESS PERFORMING BELOW EXPECTATIONS?
Fix the Performance Review with the Wisdom of Crowds!
If you're like most employees and managers, you dread the annual performance review. It's outdated and frozen in time. It's a relic of the way business used to work and doesn't capitalize...
by Eric Soubeiga
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
All the precision of financial modeling--and none of the complexity
Evidence-based decision making is only as good as the external evidence on which it is based. Financial models uncover potential risks on a company’s balance sheet, but the complexity of these instruments has limited their effectiveness.
Now,...
Holy Currencies
Six Blessings for Sustainable Missional Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Money is not the only currency your ministry can use to become sustainable, grow, and thrive. In Holy Currencies, author Eric H.F. Law teaches us how the six currencies of time and place, gracious leadership, relationship, truth, wellness, and money flow through successful missional ministries. He...
The Fattening of America
How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
In The Fattening of America, renowned health economist Eric Finkelstein, along with business writer Laurie Zuckerman, reveal how the U.S. economy has become the driving force behind our expanding waistlines. Blending theory, research, and engaging personal anecdotes the authors discuss how declining...
Bushers
Ballplayers Drawn from Left Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Fifty fictional legendary baseball players and their illustrated biographies. Bushers takes a whimsical look at the Deadball Era, long before free agency, luxury boxes and enormous salaries. It‘s a wild collection of baseball’s greatest goofballs, wannabes, could’ve-beens and never-wases, hailing...
by Eric J. Guignard
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Abstract: This literature review analyzes and compares several theories of leadership as they pertain to management within a midsize manufacturing company or similar institution. Trait Approach, Style Approach, Transactional-Transformational, and Leader-Member styles are each reviewed in terms of...
The Creative Destruction of Medicine
How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
How genomics, big data, and digital technology are revolutionizing every aspect of medicine, from physical exams to drug prescriptions to organ transplants
Mobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies...
by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.
The 1970s was a...
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
Usable Usability
Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The A-to-Z guide to spotting and fixing usability problems
Frustrated by pop-ups? Forms that make you start over if you miss a field? Nonsensical error messages? You're not alone! This book helps you simply get it right the first time (or fix what's broken). Boasting a full-color interior packed...
The Design Method
A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Feeling uninspired? That shouldn’t keep you from creating great design work. Design is not about luck, inspiration, or personal expression. Design is a disciplined pursuit aimed at producing sensible, functional work for clients. In The Design Method, you’ll learn how to create quality design work...
Coaching the Artist Within
Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Have you ever wished you had a professional coach who could encourage your creative pursuits help structure your efforts and cheer you on? Coaching the Artist Within is the first book to explain the techniques that creativity coaches use to help their clients survive and thrive in the arts. Designed...
by Eric Hines
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
In the author's first book, A Conservative's Manifesto, he touched peripherally on the relationship between rights and duties and what that relationship means for us as citizens.An understanding of individual rights and individual duties, especially their nature as individual endowments...