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Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis

Jossey-Bass, 2009

One of the country's most trusted leaders offers time-tested and real world advice for leading in economic hard times

From business giant Bill George, the acclaimed author of Wall Street Journal's bestseller True North, comes the just-in-time guide for anyone in a leadership position facing today's...

Calculus: A Complete Course

Prentice Hall, 2006

Adams Calculus is intended for the three semester calculus course. Classroom proven in North America and abroad, this classic text has been praised for its high level of mathematical integrity including complete and precise statements of theorems, use of geometric reasoning in applied problems, and the diverse range of applications across the...

Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders

Zondervan, 2012

Before Joel Manby won the respect of America with his appearance on the CBS reality TV series Undercover Boss, he was a highly successful corporate executive. After the show aired, many of the 18 million viewers wrote to him about the profound impact of his servant leadership. In Love Works, Joel Manby introduces us to the power of agape love...

Servant-Leadership Across Cultures: Harnessing the Strengths of the World's Most Powerful Management Philosophy

McGraw-Hill, 2009

We are all under new pressure to produce more for less money—and in less time. Ultimately, this cannot be done unless bosses are able to—in service of their organization—bring out the best in their people.

That is the essence of servant-leadership, the management philosophy originally outlined by organizational...

Anywhere: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business

McGraw-Hill, 2010

Is your business prepared for the world of ANYWHERE?

“Companies are beginning to conceive, design, develop, and distribute products and services in profoundly new ways…But how to exploit this new connectivity? Read on.”
—From the Foreword by Don Tapscott, bestselling author of Grown Up...

Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl (Motley Fool Books)

Harvard Business School, 2011

This is a book for investors about investing. It focuses on the factors that will best determine if you will make or lose money, and whether you'll beat the market.

You might naturally assume, then, that you'll be reading about how to pick stocks—so that you buy GEICO instead of Bank of...

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin Books)

Phoenix Books, 2004

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize

The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan

With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret...

A Hologram for the King

McSweeney's, 2012

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights...

Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World (Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons)

CRC Press, 2012

Offering rare insiders’ perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the...

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

Grove Press, 1994

Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding storyÂpart of it hidden till now in secret Government filesÂof the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent...

The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Advice on protection and profits in the short and long term future from the experts who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008, and who now have more detailed information about what is yet to come

From the authors who accurately predicted the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock, and private debt...

Development Connections: Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)—cell phones, computers, and related Internet applications, as well as software advances that aim at improving the welfare of societies by empowering them. It is a comparative look at...

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