Blackburn: 260 books
by Jerry Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
We start with a brief ancestry of my parents, my fathers and my mothers histories the best as I can remember, and then my childhood during the Depression with an overstrict father, then high school, graduation, and work. I finally got to go to Wyoming and met my first wife, returned to California,...
Unlikely Warriors
The Army Security Agency's Secret War in Vietnam 1961-1973
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropical night air was heavy and dank, and the moon shone dimly through high thin clouds. On board the aircraft...
Jane Austen's Rules of Romance
The Necessary Refinements and Situations for the Successful Procurement of the Marriageable Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Jane Austens Rules of Romance or The Necessary Refinements and Situations for the Successful Procurement of the Marriageable Man is a collection of relationship advice from the all-time master of the romance novel. Arranged in a readable quotation format and organized into compelling chapters like...
by Simon Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This bestselling dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
by Kevin Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Australian prisoners of war playing sport, at times with their captors, does not fit the picture embedded in the popular imagination of horror and suffering in Japanese POW camps during WWII. But incredibly, sport flourished amidst the hellish conditions in these camps. The Sportsmen of Changi is...
by Theresa Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
There has never been a CMDB manual like this. CMDB 31 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of CMDB. Instead, it answers the top 31 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions,...
The Sustainability Handbook
The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches...
Classroom Motivation from A to Z
How to Engage Your Students in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This book focuses on basic strategies you can integrate into everyday instruction in every subject area and across grade levels. It shows teachers how to motivate and engage students. The practical examples in this book make it easy for you to apply these strategies in your own classroom. It presents...
The Quality Business
Quality Issues in the Smaller Firm
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:
* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms
* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business...
by Ronald Williamson, Barbara R. Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The second edition of The Principalship from A to Z provides a set of tools that can be used immediately to improve your leadership practice. Organized into 26 chapters—one for each letter of the alphabet—this book covers the most important and prevalent issues and skills for leaders in today’s...
Touching the Light, Day by Day
365 Illuminations to Live By
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Meg Losey is a spiritual teacher with her feet planted firmly on the ground. Her teachings help readers get real, claim their own power, and use it for the good of their mind, body, and spirit of others.
Touching the Light Day by Day offers 365 quotes and brief healing and inspiring meditations....
by Sheila Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Stewie Scraps series is ideal for reluctant boy readers, but other children will also love the stories. Stewie Scraps doesn’t do sport. He hasn’t got any time for sums or things like that, but he loves designing and making things. Stewie is desperate to build a go-kart following a surprise invitation...
by Sheila Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
The Stewie Scraps series is ideal for reluctant boy readers, but other children will also love the stories. Stewie Scraps doesn’t do sport. He hasn’t got any time for sums or things like that, but he loves designing and making things. When Stewie’s new classmate Miles finds some old wooden skis...