Rita: 1575 books
Skylarks and Rebels
A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own...
Starting from Scratch
A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal...
Papi
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
“Papi’s there, around any corner,” says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of Papi. “But you can’t sit down and wait for him cuz that’s a longer and more painful death.” Living in Santo Domingo, she waits for her father to come back from the United States and lavish her with the glorious...
by Dr Joe Allbright, Rita Allbright
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The Lord impressed authors Rita and Joe Allbright to write a second counseling book about spiritual warfare in which they share some invaluable truths from God's Word, and expound on biblical counseling procedures and share many prayers for specific subjects. The book also shares lessons to inspire...
Jesus Christ, My Hope in Grief
My Gentle Giant, Victor Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Walking Through Grief With Jesus by Your Side A new journey begins when a loved one dies; life will never be the same again.But your loss also becomes a journey of discovery, as you find your way forward. This workbook will guide you as you walk through Psalm 23's "valley of the shadow of death." Sharing...
The End of Competitive Advantage
How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business?
Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the...
Marketbusters
40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Robust methods to identify new growth opportunities
YOUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND growth; your company needs growth; and your career can suffer or soar because of how you drive growth-or don’t. While executives often talk about their great growth plans, very few of these plans actually deliver...
The Procrastinator's Handbook
Mastering the Art of Doing It Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Almost everyone procrastinates. For some it causes problems and strains relationships at home and at work. For most people, though, procrastination is a frustrating or troublesome habit we would like to overcome. Rita Emmett will inspire you to get started. With humor and with advice drawn from her...
Continuing to Engage the Online Learner
More Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Continuing to Engage the Online Learner
Contributing to both the theoretical and practical literature, Continuing to Engage the Online Learner expands on the work of Conrad and Donaldson's bestselling Engaging the Online Learner. This next-step resource introduces a new phase to their proven...
by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Mark W. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
This book provides the essential ideas on how both startups and incumbent businesses can generate new business models, develop digital business models, and innovate within existing business models.
Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan, Steve Blank, Mark W. Johnson,...
by Rita Felski
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic’s task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates...
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...
Mathematics for the IB MYP 4 & 5
By Concept
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Exam Board: IB
Level: MYP
Subject: Mathematics
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2017
The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB)
Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework...
Read People: Understand behaviour. Expertly communicate
20 thought-provoking lessons (BUILD+BECOME)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Can you spot a lie?
Using a unique, visual approach to explore the science of behaviour, Read People shows how understanding why people act in certain ways will make you more adept at communication, more persuasive and a better judge of the motivations of others.
The increasing speed...