Lee Beach: 15 books

The Church in Exile

Like most Protestant denominations, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) was founded upon ideas that shaped its vision and ethos throughout its history. Also like most denominations, over time the influence of these ideas on the movement tends to diminish. Denominations, like any organization,...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Leadership and the Art of Change is a unique book in that it focuses on a leader's central and most daunting task—achieving organizational change that successfully addresses external and internal threats and opportunities. Author Lee R. Beach uses six prime responsibilities as the framework for...

On the Mexican-Arizona border two US border agents are murdered as they try to stop drugs from entering the country; in a convenience store parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada, the wife of a private investigator is seriously wounded while sitting in her car waiting for her husband to buy milk to their...

The Psychology of Decision Making provides an overview of decision making as it relates to management, organizational behavior issues, and research. This engaging book examines the way individuals make decisions as well as how they form judgments privately and in the context of the organization....

Here's practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. Written in an informal, first-person style, this useful book fills the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers...

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum...

From the opening paragraph, with the plaintiff cry in the Arabian Desert of an orphaned young boy, to instances of espionage, intrigue and terrorism, a story is spun that is full of suspense and the often frail humanity of mankind that is todays news . An alliance was struck with the President of...

The incumbent looking to return to his elected offi ce is often considered the favorite, but President Jerald Mortensen seeking a second term appears to be losing ground to a political newcomer. Across the United States events occur showing the nation that President Mortensens programs are failing....

An unexplained mid-air explosion takes the lives of Reggie Nutsbaghs parents, causing him to forsake a promising career as a police pathologist in Las Vegas to search for an answer to their untimely deaths. Teaming with a new friend, Toby Preston, who leaves his position as a Lieutenant on the police...

It is not money but the love of money that is the root of all evil, and the bastard son of one of the wealthiest men in the world had such a love of money that he was willing to have his two half sisters murdered to get what he believed was his. Unaware of the division in the sheiks household, Secure...

Higher education gains new meaning when Draper University, a prestigious school in Utah peaks, is awarded a federal grant to work on a plan to harness the suns gamma rays. Elsewhere, a high-tech electronics company, New Energy, meeting in Los Angeles, California, has won a government contract to develop...

There has been enmity between Israel and Arab countries from time immemorial. Many religious historians believe the hatred dates back to when Abraham was compelled to make a choice between his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. As recorded in the Holy Bible, the patriarch, Abraham, was forced to choose...