Powers: 789 books
Speak With Confidence Sell With Authority
Get Seen. Get Heard. Get Sales
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
A favorite among entrepreneurs, Speak with Confidence, Sell with Authority is a book for those who both hate and love sales. With over 30 years experience, Jane M Powers uses her straightforward, big-hearted style to guide thousands in transforming their message to money from any platform, with her...
The Branding Sutra
The Principles of Branding for the Business of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Why should you be any less successful than a cornflake?
Unlike breakfast cereals, hand soaps and the thousands of other copycat creations enjoying notoriety and pulling in huge sums of money in our world, human beings are not parody products. We are one-of-a-kind, limited edition originals.
Mary...
Twelve by Twelve
A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2010
Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Bentons permaculture farm and she stroked...
NGOs as Newsmakers
The Changing Landscape of International News
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
As traditional news outlets’ international coverage has waned, several prominent nongovernmental organizations have taken on a growing number of seemingly journalistic functions. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières send reporters to gather information...
Acts of God and Man
Ruminations on Risk and Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and...
by Tim Powers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of.”
—Washington Post
“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.”
—William Gibson
The remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed...
by Tim Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is the sort of dizzying, mind-expanding entertainment...
The Buddha Party
How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed...
by Melvin Powers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Hypnotism is one of the most remarkable phenomena known to man. It is as old as the human mind, as aged as the beginning of the world. To whatever quarter we direct our research, whether to dusty old manuscripts or to ancient hieroglyphics, we find indelible traces of the influence of hypnotism. There...
by Richard POWERS
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Richard Powers embrasse un sujet aussi vaste que l'univers : celui de la nature et de nos liens avec elle.
Après des années passées seule dans la forêt à étudier les arbres, la botaniste Pat Westerford en revient avec une découverte sur ce qui est peut-être le premier et le dernier mystère...
Boundary Value Problems
and Partial Differential Equations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Boundary Value Problems, Sixth Edition, is the leading text on boundary value problems and Fourier series for professionals and students in engineering, science, and mathematics who work with partial differential equations. In this updated edition, author David Powers provides a thorough overview...
by Jessica Powers
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Jessica Powers (1905-1988), a Discalced Carmelite nun and member of the Carmel of the Mother of God, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, has been hailed as one of America's greatest religious poets. She approved this anthology, the most extensive collection of her poems, only five weeks before her death. This book...
by David S. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Although Muḥammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muḥammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty years. He was the first adult male...
by Everett Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The King of Round Valley begins where Sunset Hill ended, at the Pacific Point winery on the scenic California North Coast.Reeling from the tragedy in Sunset Hill, Detective Grant Starr buys a $2 million winery, thinking he’s through with police work. After a year, his life has become routine,...