A Lawrence: 207 books
America and the World
Culture, Commerce, Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.
Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with...
The Obama Presidency
Promise and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In this illuminating examination of the Obama presidency, the contributors describe the policy directions followed, and the administration’s level of success in achieving its objectives. Throughout the Obama administration, efforts were intended to alleviate the worst of the economic stress facing...
The Methodology of Economic Model Building (Routledge Revivals)
Methodology after Samuelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The major methodological task for modern economists has been to establish the testability of models. Too often, however, methodological assumptions can make a model virtually impossible to test even under ideal conditions, yet few theorists have examined the requirements and problems of assuring testability...
by Lawrence A. Wood MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Dr. Lawrence Wood is the author of numerous poems, screenplays, and short stories. His stage play, "No Marks Just Memories" performed to sold-out audiences in Japan, and his first novel Among Pigeons is regarded as a triumphant voice for the homeless. With his wife, he founded Fan of the...
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to...
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
by Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s "5 Great Books You Should Read"
In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of...
Paths to Making a Difference
Leading In Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.
The...
What Government Does
How Political Executives Manage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives
succeed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-government
experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings
of a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration.
The...
by Lawrence A. Trivieri
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Master Your Coursework with Collins College Outlines
From fraions, decimals, and geometric measurement to exponents, scientific notation, and an introduion to algebra, the Collins College Outline in Basic Mathematics explores and explains the topics that students will find in introduory mathematics...
Bardic Tales and Sage Advice (Volume X)
Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, #10
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Though originally meant as a stand-alone anthology, the Bardic Tales and Sage Advice collection has evolved into an annual celebration of speculative fiction. Our tenth installment in the annual anthology features not only the winners from our annual writing competition and Reader's Choice Awards,...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
by Kathrynn A. Adams, Eva K. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This updated Second Edition of Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications consistently integrates methods and statistics to prepare students for both graduate work and critical analysis of research as professionals and informed citizens. Maintaining the conversational writing style, multiple examples,...
Paths to Making a Difference
Leading in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.
The...