Watkins: 458 books
Your Next Move
The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
"Whether you're going for that promotion, looking to jump ship, or change careers entirely, Michael Watkins' Your Next Move is a book you'll want to read." So starts the positive review of Your Next Move on the influential 800 CEO Read website. It's true that all leaders--no matter how seasoned--need...
by W. R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
An intimate look into the life and mind of a writer.
Little Red Book follows a year of W. R. Watkins’ life, exploring and detailing the highs and lows experienced, revealing Watkins’ most personal moments on paper, capturing and preserving the raw emotions behind them. As Watkins delicately...
by Daniel P. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In this first critical study of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s major work, Daniel P. Watkins reveals the singular purpose of Barbauld’s visionary poems: to recreate the world based on the values of liberty and justice.
Watkins examines in close detail both the form and content of Barbauld’s...
by Samuel R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.
Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal...
by W. R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Self-confidence vs. Anxiety. Which will win?
You. Are. Not. Alone. follows the W. R. Watkins’ emotional and honest journey through secondary school and university, as he battles social anxiety, in the hopes to gain social acceptance amongst his peers. As he faces his demons one by one, he...
Bliss More
How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From one of America’s top meditation teachers and mindfulness experts comes a revolutionarily simple approach to everyday practice—especially if you don’t think you have the time or the patience.
Imagine you’re sitting on a cushion with your legs crossed, ready to tap into unlimited...
The Assault on Public Education
Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will...
Indigenous Archaeology
American Indian Values and Scientific Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
As a practicing archaeologist and a Choctaw Indian, Joe Watkins is uniquely qualified to speak about the relationship between American Indians and archaeologists. Tracing the often stormy relationship between the two, Watkins highlights the key arenas where the two parties intersect: ethics, legislation,...
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds
National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear...
Rediscovering Colors
A Study in Pollyanna Realism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science,...
The Beast Side
Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri,...
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded
Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors
The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition
Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While...
Hello, My Name Is Awesome
How to Create Brand Names That Stick
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Every year, 6 million companies and more than 100,000 products are launched. They all need an awesome name, but many (such as Xobni, Svbtle, and Doostang) look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game. In this entertaining and engaging book, ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how...
Power Failure
The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is...