Richard J : 949 books
Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
A Deeper Look
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement reveals how to refocus lean/six sigma processes on what author Richard Schonberger—world-renowned process improvement pioneer—calls "the Golden Goals": better quality, quicker response, greater flexibility, and higher value. This manual...
by Richard J. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.
In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:
the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present
key...
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What’s your entrepreneurial profile?
Do you have what it takes to build a great business?
In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their...
Claiming Your Place at the Fire
Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2004
Richard Leider and David Shapiro helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people discover the true purpose of their lives with their classic bestseller Repacking Your Bags. Now they focus their attention on the second half of life, showing readers how to claim their rightful place as new elders,...
Challenges of Command in the Civil War
Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Dr. Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on “Civil War Generals and Generalship.” The subsequent volume will explore “Civil War Strategy, Operations,...
Repacking Your Bags
Lighten Your Load for the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
“Living in the place you belong, with the people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” This is how Richard Leider and David Shapiro define “the good life.” Technological advances, economic shifts, and longer life spans mean most of us will need to repeatedly reimagine our lives. In...
No Innocent Deposits
Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
The public increase of interest in the past has not necessarily brought with it a greater understanding about how archives are formed. To this end, Richard Cox takes a serious look at archival repositories and collections. Cox suggests that archives do not just happen, but are consciously shaped (and...
Altered Traits
Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.
In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship...
by Richard J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A full understanding of the institution of the American presidency requires us to examine how it developed from the founding to the present. This developmental lens, analyzing how historical turns have shaped the modern institution, allows for a richer, more nuanced understanding. The Development...
Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport
Making Connections in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
What do the Canons of Dordt mean to people in the Las Vegas airport—and does anyone there even care? In the movie Hardcore, a pious Calvinist elder tries unsuccessfully to explain the TULIP theology of his Dutch Reformed faith to a prostitute in the Las Vegas airport. This incongruous conversation...
Doing Well and Doing Good
The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
With this timely reissue, Image celebrates the twentieth anniversary of an important, classic work on faith and economics from one of the leading Catholic intellectuals of the past century.
As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1992, Doing Well and Doing Good argues that...
Easter Fire
Fire Starters for the Easter Weekday Homily
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Widely embraced by homilists and those interested in reflecting more deeply on the daily Lectionary readings, Bishop Richard Sklba’s Fire Starters: Igniting the Holy in the Weekday Homily has served as a practical resource for preparing engaging weekday homilies for Ordinary Time. After much anticipation,...
Technical Analysis of Gaps
Identifying Profitable Gaps for Trading
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Gaps have attracted the attention of market technicians from the earliest days of charting. They’re not merely conspicuous: they represent price jumps that could signal profitable trading opportunities. Until now, however, "folklore" about gap trading has been common, and tested, research-based...
Collaborative Governance
Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they...