Robert L : 1109 books
A Boy Named Bobby
Adventures of Growing up in the 40'S and 50'S
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
My book is about the history of my family and the first twenty years of my life. I come from a large family and had many wonderful experiences and adventures growing up as a boy in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and California. I also told of my spiritual journey and my calling as an adult later in life.
Applied Christian Ethics
Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the...
Winning the NFL Way
Leadership Lessons From Football's Top Head Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. Every Sunday a coach makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game, but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.
Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman -- top NFL head...
by Robert L. Carneiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
This journal captures the day-by-day, week-by-week excitement of a fall season spent challenging the sports books of. Reno as the author tries to beat the point spread betting college football. While basically the story of one man, armed with a system, going head to head against the oddsmaker, it...
Automotive Milestones
The Technological Development of the Automobile: Who, What, When, Where, and How It All Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This is a general interest trade book that describes the development of automotive technology and engineering from the start of the industry before 1900 to the present day. It explains how various systems and elements in the automobile work in layman's terms, without resorting to mathematics, and...
The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
A powerful, visual framework helps managers discover how employees really communicate and collaborate to get work done - and helps them identify ways they can influence these social networks to improve performance and innovation. In The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Cross and Parker, experts in...
by Robert L. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Milton Kaiser is a quiet, unassuming individual, living in a small crossroads community in Kansas. No one thinks him a nerd, just a mild mannered family man who runs the country store. Milton is also the town Marshal, a part time job that has more title than substance.
Milton's life of near...
Secured Transactions
UCC Article 9 & Bankruptcy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
This book is a text covering Aritcle 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning security interests in personal property collateral. The book is primarilly directed at second and third year law students and uses the problem method of instruction, supplemented by a few case law opinions to address...
Multi-Asset Risk Modeling
Techniques for a Global Economy in an Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Multi-Asset Risk Modeling describes, in a single volume, the latest and most advanced risk modeling techniques for equities, debt, fixed income, futures and derivatives, commodities, and foreign exchange, as well as advanced algorithmic and electronic risk management. Beginning with the fundamentals...
Military Leadership
In Pursuit of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the 'process' of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the individual and organizational...
The Great Recession
Market Failure or Policy Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Since publication of Hetzel's The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the intellectual consensus that had characterized macroeconomics has disappeared. That consensus emphasized efficient markets, rational expectations and the efficacy of the price system in...
How to Change Minds
The Art of Influence without Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Persuade, Don’t Push! Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing on his highly...
Merit Pay
Linking Pay to Performance in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan. When the writing of the first edition was begun in 1989, there were no books devoted exclusively to the subject of merit pay. Thus, this...
Decent People, Decent Company
How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Bring character back to the workplace.
Inspiring people who lead with integrity move things forward, garner commitment from others, and are willing to ask the tough questions when necessary. These are the real leaders who generate and sustain cultures of character in organizations.
Decent...