Robert D : 904 books
by Robert D. Hisrich, Dr. Claudine Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The first book to look at innovation/entrepreneurship from an international perspective, Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective provides a step-by-step process for managing innovation and entrepreneurship in an organization in both turbulent and stable economic times. Authors...
Emerson
The Mind on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life...
Rethinking Absorptive Capacity
A New Framework, Applied to Afghanistan's Police Training Program
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
When recipients cannot absorb the aid and attention they are offered, the common response is “capacity building”—as if the source of the problem is the recipient’s implementation capacity. In this report, Robert D. Lamb and Kathryn Mixon present the results of their research on the sources...
Soldiers of God
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter
World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled...
Charity Detox
What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving.
In Toxic Charity, Robert D. Lupton revealed the truth about modern charity programs meant to help the...
The Price of Liberty
Paying for America's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security
More than two centuries ago, America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's...
Imperial Grunts
On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading...
Swamp Fox
The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
One of the most fascinating figures of the American Revolution, General Francis Marion slipped in and out of the Carolina swamps to strike sudden, devastating blows against the British. Cutting through the Swamp Fox legend, Robert D. Bass has arrived at a realistic and fascinating appraisal of this...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back...
Xi Jinping on the Global Stage
Chinese Foreign Policy Under a Powerful but Exposed Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Kurt M. Campbell, chairman and chief executive officer of the Asia Group, analyze the rise of Chinese President Xi Jinping and call for a new American grand strategy for Asia that "seeks to avoid a U.S.-China confrontation and maintain U.S. primacy in Asia."
Snakes in Suits
When Psychopaths Go to Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths in the workplace—how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization.
Over the past...
The Master of Seventh Avenue
David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A “character” in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound...
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal...
A Time for Peace
The Legacy of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal--indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have altered America's political, social, and cultural...