J Paul: 706 books
Blood on China Beach
My Story as a Brain Surgeon in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
More than once during his yearlong duty, thirty-two-year-old Paul J. Pitlyk wondered what had possessed him to leave the security of a neurosurgery practice in the Midwest to experience the blood, guts, and gore of brain surgery at a forward marine hospital during the Vietnam War. In Blood on China...
When Least Is Best
How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area?
By combining...
Death and Dying
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
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 societies,...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Doing Business with the Dictators
A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96% of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad, making the multinational corporation Guatemala's largest private...
The Visionary Sheepdog
A Leadership Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
A leader may learn their best lessons by watching a sheepdog. Sheepdogs are bright, full of unbridled energy, and loyal. They are, above all, goal oriented and intensely focused on rounding up the sheep for which they are responsible and herding them in the right direction. In this same way, the visionary...
Inside CEO Succession
The Essential Guide to Leadership Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
A comprehensive guide to planning for CEO succession, from the experts at RHR
As the demands from stakeholders for consummate leadership and good governance from a company's board of directors, its CEO, and its executive team increase, how the process of CEO succession is carried out has become...
Breaking Through, Second Edition
Building a World-Class Wealth Management Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Successful individuals and families are hungry for trusted guidance that helps them achieve their most important financial goals and dreams. The financial advisors who step up to fill that role and provide that leadership are experiencing unprecedented levels of success. The goal of Breaking Through...
by Paul J. Ossowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Since the 2008 recession the American economy has grown at a rate of less than 2% per year. This is far less than the growth rate after any other recession since World War II. Why is this happening? We are over-taxing, over-regulating and allowing crony capitalism to get in the way. This book explores...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
by Rev Paul J. Bern
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Written in a journalistic, expose' style, this nonfiction book chronicles the ongoing demise of the US middle class and what pastor Bern calls, "the ticking time bomb of inequality". This prophetic 2011 book predicted the American people's demand for free health care, free higher education...
by Rev Paul J. Bern
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Written in the style of an investigative reporter, this 290-page nonfiction book is simply the most exhaustive, comprehensive book about the history and anthology of “Occupy Wall St.” published so far. This is the definitive book on the state of American political dissent in the early 21st century,...
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Australia, America, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...
Spaceborne Marines: MINACCIA
Author's Edition
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 7, 2017
A causa dell'esaurimento delle risorse sulla Terra, i Terrestri hanno fondato La Federazione Terrestre, che è riuscita a espandersi incontrastata grazie alla sua superiore tecnologia per i successivi mille anni. Per fronteggiare nuovi nemici è stato creato un corpo d'assalto di elite, gli Spaceborne...