Howard: 4650 books
The Collapse of the Common Good
How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claiming...
Social Value Investing
A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions...
Leadership Dispatches
Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18...
A History of Israel
From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. More than 30 years later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work....
The Athletic Trap
How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors...
by Howard David Goldfarb
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
~~It’s All Pensionable Service
A Canada Revenue Agency Auditor is drawn into an intricate fraud scheme, fuelled in part by greed and the prospect of a struggling life in retirement with his disabled spouse, in order to defraud the Canadian taxpayers of $39 million of Harmonized Sales Tax, in a one-time fraud with his two-taxpayer co-conspirators.
American Spy
My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. In American Spy, one of the key figures in postwar international and political espionage tells all. Former OSS and CIA operative and White House staffer E. Howard Hunt takes you into the covert...
by Pierce Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated
At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In...
Available Light
Exile in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with...
My Empire of Dirt
How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at...
Scrappy
Memoir of a U.S. Fighter Pilot in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson. Beginning with his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the book follows Johnson through his career at the University of Louisville and his enlistment as an Air Force...
Read This Next
500 of the Best Books You’ll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. A smart, irreverent, honest, and truly hilarious guide to your 500 new favorite books, Read This Next is aimed at those readers and book groups...
by Howard Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Before Timothy Leary, before free love, before the word hippie became a part of the preferred nomenclature, Howard Bloom and his band of explorers were pushing boundaries and minds.Embarking on a great journey that took him from his home in Buffalo, NY, to Washington, to California, to Israel, to New...
Israel and Europe
An Appraisal in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
"A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--. Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewish state."--The New York Times Book Review
With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar, renowned author of thirteen earlier books on Middle Eastern and Jewish...