Chandler: 827 books
Portland on the Take
Mid-Century Crime Bosses, Civic Corruption & Forgotten Murders
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In an era when Portland's shipyards thrived, so, too, did corruption. The Red Scare that followed the 1934 Waterfront Strike allowed gangsters to gain control of some of the city's unions. Working in cahoots with high-ranking city officials, criminals like Al Winter and James Elkins gained power and...
Jazz Dance Today Essentials
The video text dance series
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Jazz Dance Essentials is the most authoritative book on this art form. Written by two of America's most renowned university teachers. Doctor Lorraine Person Kriegel and Doctor Kim Chandler Vaccaro have been performers, choreographers, artistic directors and have taught in universities at the professorial...
by Raymond Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Betty Mayfield is blond and beautiful and has just been found guilty of murdering her husband. But when the jundge realizes the jury is terrified of her father-in-law--the man who owns everything in this small North Carolina town--he overturns the verdict. Her father-in-law swears vengeance, and Betty...
by Catherine Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poems-on grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and love-to meditate on those polarities of light and dark, joy and sorrow, that illuminate...
by Glenn Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working class Irish Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons...
Shadow World
Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn't just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it's a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world. These three enemies...
Honey, They Shrunk My Hormones
Humor and Insight from the Trenches of Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
With compassion and insight, Caron Chandler Loveless uses humor -- lots of it -- to inspire and encourage women as they face midlife. Loveless writes with sensitivity about more than estrogen and hot flashes; she confronts self-image questions, the empty-nest syndrome, ailing parents, and the fear...
A Project Guide to UX Design
For user experience designers in the field or in the making
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
User experience design is the...
100 Ways to Motivate Others, Third Edition
How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The world of leadership has changed dramatically since 100 Ways to Motivate Otherswas written, and now Chandler and Richardson have revised and refreshed their organizational classic to meet the times.
They have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers,...
Casino Women
Courage in Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent...
by Phil Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The author's first book, The Barefoot Beekeeper, set out a challenge to the world of conventional beekeeping and offered an alternative paradigm. It soon became apparent that other people had been thinking along similar lines, and when bees were headlined month after month in the national press, following...
by Daniel Chandler, Rod Munday
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This fascinating dictionary covers the whole realm of social media, providing accessible, authoritative, and concise entries centred primarily on websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking. From the authors of the popular Dictionary...
The Hands-Off Manager
How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be Successful
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is “my manager.” Most managers and executives not only aren’t aware of this obvious problem, but probably wouldn’t know what to do about it if they did.
Today’s employees do not respond to the old hands-on, militaristic...
by Jeffery Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
In 2008 we witnessed the start of a global recession possibly worse than the Great Economic Depression of the 1930’s. It is interesting to note both depressions originated in the United States and spread internationally. The 1929 depression was due to, what has been described as, irresponsible investment...