D J R : 325 books

Five hundred years ago, the Reformers were defending doctrines such as justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and God's grace in salvation—some to the point of death. Many of these same essential doctrines are still being challenged today, and there has never been a more crucial...

The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...

The economic and tax complexity of all types of retirement plans continues to increase.  With more than 300 retirement plans questions and answers, the all-new 2015 Retirement Plans Facts provides proven and practical advice in this changing and complex area.  You’ll obtain clear answers to even...

Healthcare reform is regulated by a number of different government entities — the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and even state governments.  This makes for a confusing, cobbled together system that is difficult to understand and even...

Developing your business by the numbers gives you a decided edge. Both employers and employees need to know if their energies match the business. Major conflicts could cause quick burnout and inadvertent sabotage of the business. The quick check allows salespeople, managers, and anyone else who deals...

This volume, representing a compilation of authoritative reviews on a multitude of uses of statistics in epidemiology and medical statistics written by internationally renowned experts, is addressed to statisticians working in biomedical and epidemiological fields who use statistical and quantitative...

Provides real world studies of the family in business, by observing typical firms rather than dynasties. It looks at how the nature of family business is changing in our times and provides insight into the lessons we can learn from this. The book focuses on the impact for the professional non-family manager.

Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...

Over the past sixty years, the field of international development has come full circle, returning to priorities that value people over gross domestic product. Principles for successful development, such as institution building, managed competition to reduce corruption, human organization, the design...

As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...

Ils ne se connaissent pas et se donnent rendez-vous dans un train pour s'adonner à des jeux sexuels ; un serial dragueur emmène deux filles chez lui en pensant que la nuit sera chaude ; une étudiante américaine se procure du plaisir en se frottant contre tout ce qu'elle trouve dans la rame du...

On the border of the English counties of Devon and Somerset, John Ridd’s father is a yeoman farmer murdered in cold blood by a member of the notorious Doone family. John is besotted with Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of the Doone clan, who is to be forced to marry the evil Carver Doone. John...

From fantasy and steampunk, to mystery and thriller, to contemporary social issue and romance, the authors in this book have all written novels that feature strong girls as protagonists. These girls solve their problems using their brains, skills, reason, courage, and resiliency. In other words,...

Hacking the election process isn't limited to the Russians in this mystery thriller. Who said those running for President were honorable? The more detective Barron Childress digs, the deeper the dirt and misdeeds. The voting machines are not secure, and Barron must find out which candidates are trying...