R John: 1297 books
Debacle
Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A provocative critique of the Obama administration's economic policies and an examination of America's difficult economic future
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised "a net spending cut" to make government smaller in order to reduce the deficit. But this huge...
The Customer Service Revolution
Overthrow Conventional Business, Inspire Employees, and Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In The Customer Service Revolution, DiJulius points out how numerous companies have made Customer service their biggest competitive advantage, are dominating their industries, and have made price irrelevant. As a result of this Customer service revolution, people are being treated differently, better,...
by John R. Fultz, Jeffrey Ford, Karin Tidbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly...
by Leonid Andreyev, Cynthia Asquith, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 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 monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.
Contagion
The Financial Epidemic That is Sweeping the Global Economy... and How to Protect Yourself from It
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Bestselling author John Talbott outlines the troublesome economic times ahead and what can be done about them
Tough times are here, and author John Talbott-who accurately predicted the dot.com technology stock collapse as well as the recent housing, mortgage, and financial crises-argues that...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by John R. Donahue SJ, Daniel J. Harrington SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In The Gospel of Mark Fathers Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark's Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting...
Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend
The Pape-Tunnell Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay.
A lifelong natural history enthusiast and...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
by John R. Pierce, Lorenzo da Ponte
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A plot summary of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. With Italian text and English translation of the Catalogue Aria, the duet between Don Giovanni and Zerlina, and the visit of the stone guest
Overcoming Masculine Depression
The Pain Behind the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men’s behaviors. This unique book does not portray men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal of depression in men is misunderstood...
by John Hattie, Gregory C. R. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
On publication in 2009 John Hattie’s Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children’s learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced...
by John R. Burch Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson inherited from the Kennedy administration many of the pieces of what became the War on Poverty. In stark contrast to today, Johnson was aided by a U.S. Congress that was among the most productive in the history of the United States....
An Unforgettable Salute
Skirmishes, Battlefields, and Making Peace with My Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
It all seemed so picture-perfect. It was a typical fall evening in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1965 when John Gouin, a twelve-year-old boy with big dreams came home from football practice and sat down at the dinner table with his mother. But when the front door slammed loudly shut, John and his mother...