J Edward: 443 books
The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®
26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor...
Delivered from Distraction
Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
“If you read only one book about attention deficit disorder, it should be Delivered from Distraction.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder....
THE HOLLOW EARTH: Sci-Fi Boxed Set - 24 Tales of Lost Worlds & Alternative Universes
King Solomon's Mines, The Lost Continent, New Atlantis, The Lost World, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, The Moon Pool, She, Pellucidar, The Monster Men, Adjustment Team…
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
e-artnow presents to you the most incredible Lost World theories in fiction form, written by the greatest masters of science fiction genre: Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster The People of the Pit Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty...
Commodore
The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the American economy, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes the world has ever known. This is the...
Planning Local Economic Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Written by authors with years of academic, regional, and city planning experience, the classic Planning Local Economic Development has laid the foundation for practitioners and academics working in planning and policy development for generations. With deeper coverage of sustainability and resiliency,...
Strategy-in-Action
Marrying Planning, People and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The meltdown of stalwart companies from AIG to JAL to Lehman and government crises from Greece to Spain make it abundantly clear: With economic uncertainty and rapid innovation, empowered consumers and free agents, and the constant pressure to be faster, better and cheaper, the established wisdom on...
Simple Secrets to Motivating People Over the Long Term
Understanding What Makes Each Person Want to Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want (ISBN: 9780132344456) by Edward G. Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher, and Erv Thomas. Available in print and digital formats. The latest research on how to motivate people: grounded in the experiences...
by Edward J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This book is about Effectiveness, your effectiveness at work and in life. This book is the introductory volume to The Leader’s Guide, which addresses the 10 Core Competency of Effectiveness, which includes Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Awareness,...
My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment...
The Kennedys at War
1937-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author.
From breathless hagiographies to scandal-mongering exposés,...
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...
Reforging the White Republic
Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865--1898
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But why, after the sacrifice made by thousands of Civil War patriots to arrive at this juncture, did the moment slip away, leaving many whites throughout...
The Color of Christ
The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to...
Art and Social Movements
Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...