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My Hero
Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
In My Hero, some of the brightest lights from around the globe share -- in their own words -- stories about the people who have been the greatest source of strength and inspiration to them. With essays by military heroes, political leaders, and Nobel Prize winners, sports heroes, firefighters, scientists,...
by Chris Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born. From his first political run-in in the first grade to his years working as presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and top aide to Tip O'Neill, Matthews grew up loving his country and dreaming of his chance to protect it. As...
It Takes a CEO
It's Time to Lead with Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong...
John McCain
An American Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House -- one of America's most remarkable men
In 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a Democrat, introduced Senator...
Outgunned
Up Against the NRA-- The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there...
by Talcott Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda...
by Dennis Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict.
The Face-to-Face Book
Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
THE BEST MARKETING BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the American Marketing Association’s Berry-AMA prize
In 1848 gold was discovered in California, setting off a frenzy that sent men and women from across the American continent flocking to the West Coast in search of fortune. The Gold Rush...
The Emerging Markets Century
How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
In this vital book, visionary international investment manager Antoine van Agtmael -- the pioneer who coined the term "emerging markets" -- pulls back the curtain on the new powerhouses of the world economy. Picking up where Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat left off, he persuasively demonstrates...
Promoting Yourself
52 Lessons for Getting to the Top . . . and Stayin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Hal Lancaster is tired of feel-good career guides written by football coaches and soap opera actors who boil the complex workplace down to buzzwords and platitudes. Refreshing and controversial, Promoting Yourself asserts that readers can best build their careers...
World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade
Building Power, Strength, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, managers have judged a company's worth by sales and profits. Now, Richard J. Schonberger, the architect of the worldwide Just-In-Time revolution, reaches beyond "financials" to redefine excellence -- and reveals, with new benchmark data, how pioneers...
by Joseph J. Fucini
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book is an exploration into the relations between Americans and Japanese at the Mazda-Flat Rock plant.
The presence of Japan Inc. looms larger than ever for millions of American managers and workers, as hundreds of Japanese companies open plants and offices in local communities across...
Managing New Product and Process Development
Text Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Argues that a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of products to market more quickly than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition. The authors present principles for developing speed and efficiency.
by Richard J. Schonberger
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Richard Schonberger, in his fourth and most important book yet, introduces a powerful new concept: that the many links between and within the four main business functions -- design, operations, accounting, and marketing -- form a continuous "chain of customers" that extends to those who buy the product...