Lawrence A : 207 books
The Warren Buffett Shareholder
Stories from inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In this engaging collection of stories, 43 veterans of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting explain why throngs attend year after year. Beyond the famous Q&A with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, these experts reveal the Berkshire Meeting as a community gathering of fun, fellowship...
by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
A resource for worshipers today looking to change hardened worship patterns that stand in the way of everyday spirituality.All too often, those who attend church or synagogue find themselves bored or baffled by the service. Their predominant thought is how slowly the time ticks byand that the service...
by Lawrence A. Frolik, Linda S. Whitton
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Seniors are a wide ranging and exponentially growing special status group that the law treats differentially with respect to rights, responsibilities, and benefits. This book is written to inform and assist seniors and those who care for them. The topics covered range from retirement strategies, housing...
Evidence-based Practice in Social Work
Development of a New Professional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The role of evidence-based practice is one of most central and controversial issues in social work today. This concise text introduces key concepts and processes of evidence-based practice whilst engaging with contemporary debates about its relevance and practicality.
Evidence-based Practice...
Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise
Insights from MSMEs and Family Owned Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This engaging book fills a substantial gap in the understanding of Caribbean enterprises, focusing upon FOBs (family-owned businesses) about which, despite accounting for 70% of private sector employment in the region, very little is known. Concentrating on MSMEs which represent the majority of FOBs...
Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House
Wrestling with Faith and College
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college.
At...
The Buffett Essays Symposium
A 20th Anniversary Annotated Transcript
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
Among the landmark occasions in the legendary history of Berkshire Hathaway and its iconic co-leaders, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, was a 1996 symposium held in New York at Cardozo Law School. The focus of the symposium was Warren's letters to Berkshire shareholders. The format was a series of...
The Literature Review
Six Steps to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
***From daunting to doable in six steps ***
The process of literature search and composing a formal literature review can be intimidating. But masters and doctoral candidates in Education and related fields have found academic argumentation to be seamlessly intuitive with the six-step process...
More Wandering Stars
An Anthology of Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
A stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah ... all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding...
Dirty Ground
The Tricky Space Between Sport and Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
USA Best Book Awards FINALIST - 2013
This book was written to address an important gap that exists in martial arts training. The gap is the space or dirty ground that lives between sport and combat techniques; that is when you need to control a person without severely injuring him (or her).
Techniques...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...
Work and Wealth in Scripture
How to Grow, Prosper, and Work as a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
What do you do with your money? What do you think of your boss? Do you like your work? Is it satisfying? Are you satisfied with your answers? Do you know that God, through Scripture, offers us answers? Two of the most fundamental challenges for all humankind are deciding how to live and, if we accumulate...
Sacred Strategies
Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Sacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new way—congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary. Over a period of two years, researchers Aron, Cohen, Hoffman, and Kelman interviewed 175 synagogue leaders and a selection...
Qualified Appraisals and Qualified Appraisers
Expert Tax Valuation Witness Reports, Testimony, Procedure, Law, and Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Decode IRS appraisal regulations and find practical solutions to current issues
Qualified Appraisers and Qualified Appraisals provides clarification on complex IRS guidelines, and offers solutions and insight that can help appraisers adhere to the latest Treasury Regulations concerning appraisals...