Rod: 922 books

The story of Compaq is well-known: Three ex-Texas Instruments managers founded Compaq with modest venture funding. Just four years later, Compaq was on the Fortune 500 list, and, two years after that, they had exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue. No company had ever achieved these milestones so rapidly.But...

Simplify tax and save money with streamlined bookkeeping Small businesses are often just that—small. Bookkeeping may be done by a professional outside the company, but more often falls to an employee or the business owner, who may or may not be well-schooled in the intricacies of tax law...

In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...

Men inherit definitions about manhood, but many of these definitions no longer fit. A society that was once based on power, assumptions, and stereotypes is changing. Few people take time to learn about the history of male oppression, the foundations of male masculinity, and the evolution of the modern...

Orthodox is obsolete; conventional is kaput. We thought we knew how we make economics, politics, technology and nature work for us. But increasingly, they are failing to run by the rules and systems we’ve honed over recent decades. Boom-bust economies, fractured and destructive politics and a deeply...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: Chemistry First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades. Written by experienced...

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as...

Wine: A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our lives is a wine history with a difference. Most histories of wine (like Hugh Johnson’s The Story of Wine, Paul Lukacs’s Inventing Wine, and Rod Phillips’s own A Short History of Wine) are chronological narratives that begin with...

Volume 8 is the continuation of Volume 7 regarding news for 6/23 of 2014. This volume is a reprint of "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 5. It uses a World of WarCraft Analogy of factions and reputation gains applied to the Sun and Earth if they were factions. The reprint inside is regarding the Jedi Religion...

Volume 9 is a continuation from Volume 8 regarding news articles that surfaced on 6/24 of 2014. It republishes the "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 6 material. Nitrogen 1 is a chapter on the free library in Leawood, Kansas and the typo that sent a man to Grenada instead of Granada, Spain. Nitrogen 2 is...

Volume 10 is a continuation of Volume 9 for news from 6/25 of 2014 to 6/26 of 2014. It is a republication of "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 7. There was a delay in the publication where it should have gone out on 6/25 of 2014. However, because I was asked to train 2 people in World of WarCraft in tanking...

Volume 12 is the continuation of Volume 11. It has news articles for 6/29 of 2014 that link to what was discussed from the previous volume. It takes look at the calendar dates cited from the previous volume manifesting in the Associated Press Feed. There's also a discussion about the Karmic Credit...

Volume 15 is a continuation of Volume 14 covering a republication of "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 12. It also shows another example of "mathematical flanking" using calendar dates from 2013 to pair with up with news articles on 7/2 of 2014. It shows the numbers 5/25 liste in the last 2 volumes manifesting...

Volume 16 is a continuation of Volume 15. It uses the same number patterns and symbols following the Superman theme that has been circulating in the news for the last 48 hours. It uses news articles from 7/3 of 2014. It republishes "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 16. It focuses on the theme of "Monty...