L Richard: 579 books
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
One Click
Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."
Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the...
Unbound
How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools...
Eco-nomics
What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws...
by Richard L. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Style — the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art — is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much-needed fresh look at the subject and attempts...
Major General John Alexander McClernand
Politician in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps...
by Karen L. Maness, Richard M. Isackes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The definitive behind-the-scenes history of one of Hollywood’s most closely guarded cinematic secrets finally revealed—painted backdrops and the scenic artists who brought them to the big screen.
In almost every feature film of Hollywood’s golden age, from The Wizard of Oz to North by...
Answering the Ultimate Question
How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question, that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?"-challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed...
Entrepreneurial Finance
Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure applies the theory and methods of finance and economics to the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial finance. This approach reveals how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations as...
Trading on Sentiment
The Power of Minds Over Markets
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In his debut book on trading psychology, Inside the Investor’s Brain, Richard Peterson demonstrated how managing emotions helps top investors outperform. Now, in Trading on Sentiment, he takes you inside the science of crowd psychology and demonstrates that not only do price patterns exist, but...
Inside the Investor's Brain
The Power of Mind Over Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Unique insights into how the mind of an investor operates and how developing emotional awareness leads to long-term success
Inside the Investor's Brain provides readers with specific techniques for understanding their financial psychology, so that they can improve their own performance and...
Church Marketing 101
Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Over 90 percent of all Christian churches in the United States have fewer than 200 members. While they vary in shape, size, ethnicity, and denomination, they have one thing in common: the desire to grow. So why is it that some churches fail to grow for years, while other congregations in the same...
The Executive and the Elephant
A Leader's Guide for Building Inner Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Lessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind
Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important,...
Adventures with Old Vines
A Beginner's Guide to Being a Wine Connoisseur
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns...