William B : 482 books
by William B. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
THE PERMIT is a fast-moving techno-thriller novel based on the actual event of the author's eldest son being murdered by a new class of domestic terrorist: Rogue or outlaw police officers, who kill innocents, then cover up their crimes. In THE PERMIT, three rogue Las Vegas cops gun down a covert federal...
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome,...
Social Value Investing
A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions...
Even the Browns
Baseball During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
"A thoroughly diverting and occasionally surprising exploration of a slice of baseball history heretofore largely ignored . . . marvelously informative and fun to read." — Sports Illustrated
"Mr. Mead describes the Browns and baseball's war years with wit and irony." — The...
The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy
And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer
"A first-class historian."
-The Wall Street Journal
Top Secret Tales of World War II
"A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the template."
-Publishers...
by William B. Secrest
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
For many years one of the prime hardships on the western American frontier was the scarcity of women. Men could endure living a rough existence out in the open, fighting Indians and the elements, but the loneliness of life without women could become almost unendurable. Miners...
Behind San Quentin's Walls
The History of California’s Legendary Prison and Its Inmates, 1851-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
San Quentin is one of the most famous prisons in American history, featured in countless movies and novels, yet few know its colorful early history. In Behind San Quentin’s Walls, noted Old West historian William B. Secrest reveals the beginning of San Quentin, from its unlikely start as a real...
by William B. Breuer
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer
"A first-class historian."
-The Wall Street Journal
Top Secret Tales of World War II
"A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the template."
-Publishers...
by William B. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to...
Protocols of Liberty
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution,...
The Council of Bishops in Historical Perspective
Celebrating 75 Years of the Life and Leadership of the Council of Bishops
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Behind the scenes with the Council of Bishops
Two authors who have served as a United Methodist bishop (William B. Oden) and as General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History (Robert J. Williams) collaborate on a history of the Council. They set the context for the development...
by William B. Gould IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
There are many new realities confronting labor in the United States. Technology is redefining traditional employment, and globalization continues moving manufacturing as well as service jobs to lower-cost jurisdictions. This timely sixth edition discusses the recent political developments that impact...
Third Sector Management
The Art of Managing Nonprofit Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2001
Trying to do good deeds does not guarantee that a nonprofit organization will succeed. The organization must do good deeds well. This textbook offers a blueprint for nonprofit success, adopting a strategic perspective that assumes vision, mission, strategy, and execution as the pillars upon which success...
Aha!
The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert Einstein,...