Ronald: 2667 books
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...
Wasting Minds
Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Why has successful school reform been so difficult to achieve, despite decades of well-intentioned efforts, endless rhetoric, and billions of dollars of investment? Why do most U.S. schools continue to produce disappointing results? Why is there such a disconnect between the schools we need and the...
by Ronald N. Goulden, MBA, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Many times in their haste to implement a Project Management Office, the business leaders have a tendency to fail in placing adequate constraints on the PMO management, resulting in the implementation and enforcement of burdensome paperwork requirements.Typically, any PMO evaluation is based...
by Ronald W. Durham
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
These time-tested and proven methods are designed to enable poor people to become rich, and to enable rich people to become richer.I call it “Financial Farming”.I chose this term because these methods are as simple as farming. Some of the principles are based on simple farming. Some of these principles...
Baseball's Roaring Twenties
A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Following the 1919 Black Sox scandal, baseball needed men willing and able to pump life back into the game during tough times. Numerous ballplayers stepped forward and left their mark on the national pastime as it continued to thrive and grow during a decade that became known as the Roaring Twenties,...
Characters from the Diamond
Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Baseball during the late 1800s and the Deadball Era was filled with aggressive, hard-nosed players who had no qualms about exhibiting belligerent behavior while tenaciously achieving victory on the diamond. These unique and eccentric individuals helped the game grow in popularity through their brilliance...
Derby Downs
The 1936 and 1937 All-American Soap Box Derbies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Ronald Reed was first introduced to the Soap Box Derby in 1949 when the then seven-year-old attended his first race with his uncle and father. As he excitedly watched the Akron champ win his first heat by a large margin, there was no question Reed was hooked. In this second installment of his Soap...
by Ronald E. Hudkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Basic Understanding of the Stock Market for Teens and Young Adults is for anyone new to investing in the stock market who is looking for a simplified scaled down reference point to make sure you understand your investments and strategies. This book provides you with the information you need to protect...
The Riddle of Sphinx Rock
The life and times of Great Gable
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Grand to look at, grand to look from, and grand to climb' - so Great Gable was described over a hundred years ago. Probably the Lake District's best loved hill, it receives twenty thousand ascents each year and has seen the birth of two separate sorts of hill sport. In The Riddle of Sphinx Rock, award-winning...
Mac-Pap
Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Ron Liversedge could hardly wait for the call from the International Brigades. A veteran of the Great War, Canada's Great Depression, and scores of battles for social justice, he wanted to get to Spain to fight against Franco's attack on the young Spanish republic. It was the spring of 1937; Liversedge...
by Ronald J. Leach
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Ronald J. Leach's lectures on identity theft have been attended by more than 1,200 people. Many more have heard him on closed-circuit television. This experience, and his long experience as a professor of computer science make him uniquely qualified to write this book.
Do you know...
by Ronald J. Leach
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Do you know how to protect your vital identity information when you use computers for your banking, credit card transactions, and everyday purchases? What about email, web surfing, texting, and social networking?
This easy-to-understand book, intended for the general, non-specialist reader,...
by Ronald E. Hudkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
It doesn’t matter if you are a complete investing novice or simply abundantly confused about all the contradictory financial advice you are inundated with, this basic guide to Investing is an accessible guide. This book is your introduction to understanding financial investment and is one of the...
The Practice of Leadership
Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that...