David : 35381 books
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainable Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the ‘responsibility’ of a corporation...
The Law of the Garbage Truck
How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Twenty years ago, while riding in the back of a New York City taxicab, syndicated columnist and business consultant David J. Pollay had an awakening-and he converted the lesson he learned that day into a life philosophy: By letting other people's “garbage”-their negativity-simply “pass by,”...
David McWilliams' The Generation Game
David McWilliams Ireland 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
As the BOTOX ECONOMY was laid bare and the financial filler of other people’s money became evident, the JAGGERS, JUGGLERS and BONO BOOMERS struggled to maintain their slice of a diminished pie.
However the author saw a possible solution to Ireland’s quandaries. Taking a trip around the...
Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen
One Nation and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality?...
Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott...
Faction Man
Bill Shorten's Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
In Faction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood: to be Prime Minister of Australia.
Bill Shorten...
Conversations with the King
Journals of a Young Apprentice
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Closing the gap between the higher wisdom that comes through us and our everyday behavior is perhaps today's biggest spiritual challenge. Elvis Presley was the first and most famous "canary in the coal mine" with this issue. Long before Michael Jackson, his legendary life and death warned the world about...
John Barth
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
In 1969, while David Morrell was writing First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created, he also wrote his doctoral dissertation about acclaimed author, John Barth. In it, Morrell analyses Barth’s early fiction, using interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as several of Barth’s...
In the All-Night Café
A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Belle and Sebastian have been making music to critical acclaim since their formation in 1996. They have played hundreds of gigs and won a Brit Award; their music has been featured in popular films; and their unsettling, often surreal songs, delicate melodies, and alternative approach to pop stardom...
Yeshiva Boys
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance,...
by David Pietras
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
David Berkowitz, who became infamously known as the 'Son of Sam', first struck on the morning of 29 July 1976. It was the beginning of many brutal attacks that were to terrorize New York City's citizens over a one-year period. During the summer of 1977 at the height of the killer's notoriety and with...
by David Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
David Newman’s gifts as a musician and a teacher carried him through years of brutality during the war. Torn from his family in Poland and deported for forced labour at Skarżysko- Kamienna, David battled desperation and the mounting death toll by writing songs, poems and satires about life in the...
by Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively...
The Joy of Encouragement
Unlock the Power of Building Others Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The Greatest Healing Agent Known to Mankind
What is loneliness but the echo of an unanswered cry for love? What is the wounded soul but one aching for hope? Although most people have not received a minute’s training in medicine, everyone can offer anyone the greatest power of healing available:...