Howard: 4650 books
by Simon Bond, Howard Marks
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Howard Marks is king of the dope-smoking world: Mr Nice is now at a staggering half a million copies sold, and the Book of Dope Stories has sold 100,000 copies in six months. Simon Bond is a well-known cartoonist: the classic 101 Uses For A Dead Cat came out in an omnibus edition last year - twenty...
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...
The Magic Cup
A Business Parable About a Leader, a Team, and the Power of Putting People and Values First
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
We all love the fairy tales we grew up on, creating a world in which good always wins over evil, where those whose hearts are true and who do the right thing come out on top. But, grown-up competition for success is rough, even cutthroat, and we've often heard that nice guys finish last.
Not...
by Daniel Goleman, Daniel Siegel, Howard Gordner Teresa Amabile
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Daniel Goleman asked Teresa Amabile, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Siegel: what are the key traits that differentiate top executives? Their respective research looks at the psychology of innovative, ethical, and emotionally intelligent leaders.
Good Work
Aligning Skills and Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Many of us seek Good Work – work which is excellent, personally meaningful, and ethical. Our challenge is to forge these elements into a rewarding, profitable career. In this spirited dialogue, Daniel Goleman and Howard Gardner give us the tools to do just that. Dr. Gardner’s research, insight,...
College Grad Seeks Future
Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the coming year, college graduates will have a more difficult time than ever entering the job market. Opportunities in traditional fields are shrinking as the competition increases exponentially. Despite this glaring truth, far too many post-collegians automatically consider the most visible, traditional...
Too Much Magic
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can’t solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future.**
The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists...
by James Howard Kunstler
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
In this “richly imagined” dystopian vision, mankind must find a way to survive as modern civilization slowly comes apart (O, The Oprah Magazine).
When Earth ran dry of oil, the age of the automobile came to an end; electricity flickered out. With deprivation came desperation—and desperation...
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Since the dawn of civilization, humans have struggled to describe the defining virtues of civilization-and, in the process, have confronted some of mankind's most difficult and enduring questions. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, renowned scholar Howard Gardner traces the astonishing transformations...
A Prosperous Way Down
Principles and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy.
A Prosperous Way Down considers ways in which a future...
Multiple Intelligences
New Horizons in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere
Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers...
by Adam Simpson, Rob Howard, T. Veigga
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
If you’ve already downloaded volume 1 of our series Parsnips in ELT, then you’ll already have an idea of what this book is about. The PARSNIP is, as many of you will know, a reference to all those topics that are commonly left out of the standard ELT coursebook: Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex,...
The Perspiration Principles (Vol. XV)
You Get What You Work For, Not What You Wish For
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Howard Tullman is now into his second year as CEO of Chicago's digital startup hub, 1871. His time-tested business advice continues into 2015 with the newest volume in the Perspiration Principles series. It includes the now long-standing tradition of Tullman's direct, to the point, and sometimes "in...
by Professor Howard Aldrich, Martin Ruef
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2006
`Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef's tour de force shows us how the evolutionary approach can explain change not only in organizational populations, but within sectors and within organizations. Aldrich and Ruef display an astonishing command of the management literature, using vivid illustrations from cutting...