Laura: 7402 books

If you're a middle or top level manager, you're countering risk and balancing risks against rewards with every management decision you make. Of course, how you weigh that risk and the decisions you make are a function of many factors: your organization's culture, your coworkers' input and your personal...

The family business is successful but the children of Jacob want more. They plan a takeover of the business and Jacob is totally distraught by their deceitfulness and conniving manner. Trying to maintain some form of dignity he sides with his daughter and unbeknown to him, surprised as to her heartless and malicious attitude as the death of his son is unfolded.

Previously published as Billionaire at the Barricades. Americans didn’t just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political...

The nature of work today can intensify emotional reactions. As you face the pressures of more work, more interaction with co-workers, and more stressful deadlines, you are likely to find yourself in situations where it is critical to identify and control your emotions. In this program, Laura Stack,...

The ability to contribute to shared prosperity is a fundamental part of what it means to be alive. However, too many still face a situation where their contribution is not recognised. Therefore, we need to understand that every individual has a right to be heard: their strength demands recognition,...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne Paquet delves into the social history of travel. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, travel is also one of...

Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the...

In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.

What happens when a covert lover can't get her mark into bed?   Cassie Granger is America's elite covert lover.  Her assignment is to seduce France's most notorious information thief.  Damon is her greatest challenge yet, however, when she can't lure him into bed.  Can...

Remember when you couldn't wait to get outside and spend all day playing? More and more, today's children are missing out on the simple joys of building a fort, jumping a creek, picking honeysuckle, or just exploring at will. And play isn't all they're missing: such activities provide enrichment and...

Memphis is a city founded on some of the great vestiges of our past. City staples such as steamboats, cotton plantations and exchange centers, relics symbolic of the city’s rich industrial and agrarian legacy, have either been forgotten or completely lost. Every city, especially one as thoroughly modern...

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad--in Russia, Italy, and...

Love, lust and desire take the form of cheeky, romantic and sexy haiku in this anthology from Buttontapper Press. Featuring the work of haiku masters, poetry aficionados and a handful of newcomers to the scene, Haiku For Lovers will sweep you off your feet, plant one on your lips and fly you to the...

This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century. Laura Seddon argues that the Cobbett competitions, instigated by Walter Willson Cobbett in 1905, and the formation of the Society of Women Musicians in 1911 contributed to the explosion...