Thomas A : 872 books
More Than a Numbers Game
A Brief History of Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility....
Through a Howling Wilderness
Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Newburyport, bound for the Maine wilderness. They were American colonists who had volunteered for a secret mission to paddle and march nearly two hundred miles through some of the wildest country in the colonies and seize the fortress city...
Miracle on High Street
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Just outside downtown Newark, New Jersey, sits an abbey and school. For more than 150 years Benedictine monks have lived, worked, and prayed on High Street, a once-grand thoroughfare that became Newark’s Skid Row and a focal point of the 1967 riots.
St. Benedict’s today has become a model...
Jan Hus between Time and Eternity
Reconsidering a Medieval Heretic
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as a priest and reformer in Prague, his martyrdom in Germany, and his legacy. It attempts to provide an...
by Thomas A. Kayser
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
The collaborative team-building guidebook that takes Mining Group Gold one step further
“Now more than ever before, organizations need to build and maintain a culture of trust and collaboration. This updated edition of Building Team Power brings Tom Kayser’s important concepts to a new...
Rise of Tyranny
Forgotten Forbidden America, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
As the district manager for a sporting goods store, Nelson, knows what it takes to survive off the grid. Michelle is a nurse, a mom, and fully capable. Nelson and Michelle are hardworking Americans with a secret: they are part of a circle of individuals who are prepared for the worst. They know that...
The Practice of System and Network Administration
Volume 1: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
With 28 new chapters, the third edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration innovates yet again! Revised with thousands of updates and clarifications based on reader feedback, this new edition also incorporates DevOps strategies even for non-DevOps environments.
Whether...
by Thomas A. Reis
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In 1981, at 22 years old, Tom embarked on a solo, 58 day bicycle trip from Florence, Oregon to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. The journey within proved much greater than his trip on the bike. This became a journey of the heart and soul. Events along the way triggered flashbacks from earlier times in Toms...
by Thomas A. Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In the aftermath of a cataclysmic collision of an immense asteroid with the Earth, amid a decimated environment pummeled by the ravages of worldwide tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and impenetrable ash clouds, most forms of life succumbed. Yet out of the rubble of the scorched, scarred, frozen planet,...
by Thomas A. Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Cloning a human for the planet Kraal's cosmic zoo probably seemed like a good idea at the time. As an old and technologically advanced civilization, the inhabitants of Kraal had the capability to launch an interstellar vehicle, land a probe on Earth, extract DNA from a human subject, and transmit...
The Lean IT Field Guide
A Roadmap for Your Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
How many IT books have you read that are long on theory and short on practical application? They are interesting, but not very impactful. They provide a framework from which to think and understand, but lack a process from which to act. Addressing this urgent need for the IT community, The Lean IT...
Carnal Wreckage
Poems and lyrics of life, love and self
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Carnal Wreckage is a collection of eighty-one of musician/author/poet Tom Ryerson's poems and lyrics.
The major themes of the collection are love, life, and self. Although the range of spectrum may seem broad, the works contain a great depth of human feeling, experience and emotion, and are...
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate...
Clovis Lithic Technology
Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness....