Thomas J : 1181 books
Out Where the West Begins
Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American...
by Stephen Aron, Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.
When Professionals Have to Lead
A New Model for High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations...
Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between
Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently...
Protective Relaying
Principles and Applications, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
For many years, Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications has been the go-to text for gaining proficiency in the technological fundamentals of power system protection. Continuing in the bestselling tradition of the previous editions by the late J. Lewis Blackburn, the Fourth Edition retains the core concepts at the heart of power system anal
Analyzing Strategic Behavior in Business and Economics
A Game Theory Primer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This textbook is an introduction to game theory, which is the systematic analysis of decision-making in interactive settings. Game theory can be of great value to business managers. The ability to correctly anticipate countermove by rival firms in competitive and cooperative settings enables managers...
by Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I: ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER II: THE INDIAN WEED
CHAPTER III: THE VIRGINIA YEOMANRY
CHAPTER IV: FREEMEN AND FREEDMEN
CHAPTER V: THE RESTORATION PERIOD
CHAPTER VI: THE YEOMAN IN VIRGINIA...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges...
Not Even Past
Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox...
by Thomas J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written...
Longing to See Your Face
Preaching in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Thomas Scirghi, SJ, has trained priests, deacons, and lay ecclesial ministers in the art and theology of preaching for decades. In Longing to See Your Face, he makes his insights and experience accessible to a much wider audience.
Scirghi begins with a discussion of the purpose of preaching...
The Definitive Guide to Transportation
Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions...
The 28 Laws of Attraction
Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
In the Bestselling Tradition of The Secret:
Master the Universal Laws of Attracting Success
Would you like to learn how to recognize a good opportunity when it presents itself to you? Do you want to discover your true passions and make them work for you? Would you like to find the people in...
by Richard A. Swanson, Thomas J. Chermack
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
A Comprehensive Method, Tools, and Techniques for Building Sound Theory Richard Swanson and Thomas Chermack present a complete five-step approach for developing sound theory in applied disciplines, from conceptualizing a theory to creating relevant assessment criteria, establishing a research agenda...