Leonard: 2410 books

Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to...

Demystifying the Monologue addresses the issue of monologue mysteries by using actor's tools, character-fulfilling needs, and various script and character analyses that offer simple, specific answers in a focused,connect-the-dots premise culminating in a practical road map. This road map replaces...

Over sixty years of experience has shown me we can truly live with less than we think. We don’t have to live a deprived life, but we also don’t need to live beyond our means or to be wasteful. I learned a great deal simply by living life and observing the lives of those around me. I began life...

American graduate education is in disarray. Graduate study in the humanities takes too long and those who succeed face a dismal academic job market. Leonard Cassuto gives practical advice about how faculty can teach and advise students so that they are prepared for the demands of the working worlds they will join, inside and outside the academy.

Leadership Re-VisionedCast a vision, set a strategy, rally the troops, and take the hill—you don’t need another book to rehash the well-worn principles of modern leadership. But if you’re looking for something different, something that . . . approaches leadership as an art as well as a scienceinspires...

At age 50, Maria Leonard Olsen drank her way out of a 25-year marriage. She had, against advice, put all her eggs in the motherhood basket, willfully derailing her successful law career. As teenagers, her precious children did not need her in the hands-on way they previously had. Her husband and she...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications...

Dr. Mallo escapes K.A.A.C (Kid Agents Against Crime) forces once again. She’s now about to carry out her most sinister plan ever which is stopping Christmas. Will Commander Terri, Spy King and Spy Queen be able to stop the evil scientist? Or will the hopes and dreams of little boys and girls around the world be ruined?

A multi-author collection of eighteen original superhero tales ranging from the dark to the hysterical to the downright bizarre, including 2016 Aurora Award nominee "Super Frenemies" by Stephen Kotowych. “And Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper” by Leonard Apa: A Golden Age tale of an actor...

52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author of Raylan, Get Shorty, Killshot, and other novels of suspense. Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately,...

Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia...

Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...

Most people know something about their own religions. That knowledge is usually restricted to what is going on at the present time. When it comes to how their religions developed in their countries, their knowledge is on shakier grounds. As for religion in foreign lands, well, for many, that information...

Superheroes have been around for a long time, and the period from just before to several years after World War II is known as comics' golden age. In The Good Fight 5: The Golden Age, presented by the Pen and Cape Society, some of the best writers in the superhero fiction industry share their stories...