Richard L : 579 books
The Google Guys
Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
How much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
The Google Guys skips past the general Google story and focuses on what really drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt shows the company as the brainchild of two brilliant individuals and looks at Google's...
The Misbehavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't realize is that he has also been watching patterns of market change. In The (Mis)Behavior of...
The New CEOs
Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,...
The Justice of Contradictions
Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia’s complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public...
Magical Thinking and the Decline of America
An Update of ''American Yearnings - Love, Money, and Endless Possibility''
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2007
In Magical Thinking and the Decline of America, Richard L. Rapson, a leading cultural historian, engages in a unique dialogue. Twenty years ago he wrote American Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless Possibility. This book looked at large issues of the day from a historical perspective: show business,...
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy
On Original Forgetting
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition’s origins in radical questioning. For Heidegger and Strauss, the recovery...
by Richard L. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the past hundred years, from the Armenian genocide through current threats to Israel. Rubenstein's unflinching...
by Richard L. Hasen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In 2000, just a few hundred votes out of millions cast in the state of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. The outcome of the election rested on Florida's 25 electoral votes, and legal wrangling continued for 36 days. Then, abruptly,...
by Richard L. Hasen
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A Letter from Author Richard L. Hasen In 2000, the U.S. presidential election went into overtime as just a few hundred votes, out of millions cast, separated Republican George W. Bush from Democrat Al Gore in the state of Florida, whose twenty-five electoral votes determined the nation's next president....
by Richard L. Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China’s economic relationship with the countries of the Caribbean has grown significantly. While most of the burgeoning literature on China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, focus primarily on Latin America, Dragon in the Caribbean...
by Richard L. Haight
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Are you walking the spiritual path and curious about psychedelics? Journey along with a meditation master and former "pharmacological purist" as he explores the spiritual heart of the psychedelic experience to discover the potential benefits and dangers of these substances.
Richard...
A Few Good Eggs in One Basket
The Power of a Concentrated Portfolio of Common Stocks
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
In a stock market environment dominated by professional investors, A Few Good Eggs in One Basket o?ers a plain-talk approach to pro?tability by selecting and managing an investment portfolio of common stocks for an individual.
Author Richard L. Gunderson, who has been an investor for more than...
by Richard L. Toney
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The Sovereign Right is a look at the debate - Calvinism or Arminianism. The differing perspectives of authority andrelevance Is there one truth? Are there many truths? Is there someone or something that's really in control of everything?If not me, Who's really in charge? Who is the...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...