Robert B : 641 books
Capitalize on Merger Chaos
Six Ways to Profit from Your Competitors' Consolidation and Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Merger mania is at an all-time peak. Yet up to 80 percent of mergers fail because of culture clashes, mismanagement, and the chaos that ensues. Taking this failure rate into account, merger experts Thomas M. Grubb and Robert B. Lamb have written the first book that arms managers with strategies to...
Reason
Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor*,* this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason*,* one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for rolling...
The Origins of the Modern World
A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa,...
Tapping the Pines
The Naval Stores Industry in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine -- along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin -- constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production....
Healing Together
The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons...
Tales from the Great Lakes
Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider...
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2003
In Robert B. Parker's most popular series, an unsolved thirty-year-old-murder draws the victim's daughter out of the shadows for overdue justice-and lures Spenser into his own past, old crimes, and dangerous lives.
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
A horrifying school shooting draws Boston PI Spenser into a harrowing investigation in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker.
When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother is convinced of his innocence and is willing to...
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
“[Parker's found] the pitch-perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang on to his new job as police chief, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl”(The New York Times) in this bestselling mystery in the Jesse Stone series.
Robert B. Parker...
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Spenser creator Robert B. Parker returns with his newest heroine, Boston P.I. Sunny Randall, coming to the aid of three very different women in three very dangerous situations. One is for business. One is for a friend. One is for family. And all could be fatal…
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2001
Spenser creator Robert B. Parker turns his eye to the Old West with his stirring rendition of the legendary exploits of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Clanton Gang, and the fateful gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
by Robert B. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Spenser, one of the all-time great detectives, stars in these six brilliant mystery novels by Robert B. Parker.
Includes:
Potshot
Widow's Walk
Back Story
Bad Business
Cold Service
School Days
After the Beautiful
Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in...
The Philosophical Hitchcock
“Vertigo” and the Anxieties of Unknowingness
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he...