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Rules and Tools for Leaders (Revised)

by Perry M. Smith ...

Rules & Tools for Leaders has guided hundreds of thousands of leaders, showing them the ways to create and maintain growth and profitability. From hiring, firing and promoting to responding to major corporate crises, from day-to-day encounters to long-range strategic planning, Perry covers virtually every aspect of leadership and provides the means to get the job done—and done well.Along with a ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Rules & Tools for Leaders has guided hundreds of thousands of leaders, showing them the ways to create and maintain growth and profitability. From hiring, firing and promoting to responding to major corporate crises, from day-to-day encounters to long-range strategic planning, Perry covers virtually every aspect of leadership and provides the means to get the job done—and done well.Along with a
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Rules & Tools for Leaders

From Developing Your Own Skills to Running Organizations of Any Size, Practical Advice for Leaders at All Levels

by Perry M. Smith, General Jeffrey W. Foley MA ...

Rules and Tools for Leaders offers insightful and useful advice that avoids the flavor-of-the-month management theories that are long on speculation and short on practical application.This is a fully revised, updated, and reorganized edition of a classic management handbook. It never loses sight of the big picture of how any company should operate. It provides useful and time-tested advice that ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Rules and Tools for Leaders offers insightful and useful advice that avoids the flavor-of-the-month management theories that are long on speculation and short on practical application.This is a fully revised, updated, and reorganized edition of a classic management handbook. It never loses sight of the big picture of how any company should operate. It provides useful and time-tested advice that
... Read more
Courage, Compassion, Marine

The Unique Story of Jimmie Dyess

by Perry Smith ...

The heroism of Marine Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Dyess is a story for the ages. I highly recommend this book to young people looking for a positive role model, for veterans of all the military services and for those who love history.Sergeant First Class Sammy Davis,Medal of Honor recipientThe story of Jimmie Dyess is both remarkable and unique. He earned the Carnegie Medal for extraordinary ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The heroism of Marine Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Dyess is a story for the ages. I highly recommend this book to young people looking for a positive role model, for veterans of all the military services and for those who love history.Sergeant First Class Sammy Davis,Medal of Honor recipientThe story of Jimmie Dyess is both remarkable and unique. He earned the Carnegie Medal for extraordinary
... Read more
Taking Charge

A Practical Guide for Leaders

by Perry M. Smith ...

Provides a practical guide for leaders who head large and complex organizations. Helps the leader set standards of excellence and high integrity through the use of case studies, checklists, helpful hints, rules of thumb, and other techniques. Written in a clear, crisp style. A valuable resource—its messages jump out at the reader due to its authenticity. ... Read more

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Provides a practical guide for leaders who head large and complex organizations. Helps the leader set standards of excellence and high integrity through the use of case studies, checklists, helpful hints, rules of thumb, and other techniques. Written in a clear, crisp style. A valuable resource—its messages jump out at the reader due to its authenticity.
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The God Experience

A Life with God, a Love Supreme

by Perry Smith ...

From the innocence of his early childhood to adolescent drug experimentation and sexual discovery and through adulthood and the challenges of marriage, parenting, and aging, Perry shares his own spiritual awakening and subsequent teachings based on his personal life experiences and relationship with God. Written with the seeker in mind, this short but succinct book details the nature of God, what ... Read more

$3.99 USD

From the innocence of his early childhood to adolescent drug experimentation and sexual discovery and through adulthood and the challenges of marriage, parenting, and aging, Perry shares his own spiritual awakening and subsequent teachings based on his personal life experiences and relationship with God. Written with the seeker in mind, this short but succinct book details the nature of God, what
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Rock Paper Scissors [Dramatized Adaptation]

Ordinary Magic 4

by Devon Monk ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Karen Novack, Amanda Forstrom, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, Henry Kramer, Zeke Alton, Evan Casey, Nick DePinto, Laura C. Harris, Robbie Gay, Steve Wannall, Holly Vagley, Jacob Yeh, Richard Rohan, Jonathan Watkins, Marni Penning, Yasmin Tuazon, Nanette Savard, Christopher Walker, Nathanial Perry, David Zitney, Duane Beeman, Bradley Smith, Siobhan Casey, Alana Casey ...

Series series Ordinary Magic
Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

Three Ordinary Magic novellas now in audio!Rock Candy: Just an Ordinary Halloween...Police officer Jean Reed doesn't normally mind pulling the graveyard shift in Ordinary Oregon. But one mob of cursed gnomes, one haunted harbor festival, and one chilling visit from Death makes this October stranger than most.Paper Stars: One magical holiday. Some assembly required...Police Chief Delaney Reed loves ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Three Ordinary Magic novellas now in audio!Rock Candy: Just an Ordinary Halloween...Police officer Jean Reed doesn't normally mind pulling the graveyard shift in Ordinary Oregon. But one mob of cursed gnomes, one haunted harbor festival, and one chilling visit from Death makes this October stranger than most.Paper Stars: One magical holiday. Some assembly required...Police Chief Delaney Reed loves
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Assignment: Pentagon

by Maj. Gen. Perry M. Smith, USAF (Ret.); Col. Daniel M Gerstein, USA (Ret.) ...

Since the first edition of Assignment: Pentagon was published in 1988, great changes have occurred in the international environment, the application of U.S. national security strategy, and the manner in which the Pentagon functions. Now in its fourth printing and with a coauthor to lend a different perspective, Assignment: Pentagon remains the best book for anyone who works for the Pentagon, or ... Read more

$22.95 USD

Since the first edition of Assignment: Pentagon was published in 1988, great changes have occurred in the international environment, the application of U.S. national security strategy, and the manner in which the Pentagon functions. Now in its fourth printing and with a coauthor to lend a different perspective, Assignment: Pentagon remains the best book for anyone who works for the Pentagon, or
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Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Critical Research and Perspectives

by Julia S. Abdalla, Angela Crumdy, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira, Ishan Gordon-Ugarte, Castriela E. Hernández Reyes, Eshe E. Lewis, Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues, Edilza Correia Sotero, Maziki Thame, Melanie White ...

Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women’s social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women’s innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women’s social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women’s innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism
... Read more
Assignment: Pentagon

How to Excel in a Bureaucracy

by Maj. Gen. Perry M. Smith, Daniel M. Gerstein ...

Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world’s largest multinational “corporation” functions. The reader gains insights into how this bureaucracy functions as well as the stresses and strains inherent to such a complex organization. Now in its fifth edition, ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world’s largest multinational “corporation” functions. The reader gains insights into how this bureaucracy functions as well as the stresses and strains inherent to such a complex organization. Now in its fifth edition,
... Read more
Personal Networks

Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis

Edited by Mario L. Small, Brea L. Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, Edward B. Smith ...

Series series Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of ... Read more

$62.99 USD

Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of
... Read more
Seize the Night

New Tales of Vampiric Terror

by Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Charlaine Harris, Brian Keene, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Koryta, John Langan, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Joe McKinney, Leigh Perry, Robert Shearman, Scott Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, David Wellington, Rio Youers ...

A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names
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Uncovering Earth's Prehistoric Secrets: 25 Essential Reads on Paleontology

Extinct Monsters, The Chain of Life in Geological Time, The Ancient Life History of the Earth, etc.

by John William Sir Dawson, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, H. N. Hutchinson, Roy Lee Moodie, Peggy Lou Stewart, Theodore H. Eaton, Joan Echols, William Boyd Dawkins, Georges baron Cuvier, Frederick Chapman, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Gideon Algernon Mantell, Richard C. Fox, Harvey C. Markman, Storrs L. Olson, David C. Parris, Richard Owen, John Collins Warren, Dama Margaret Smith, Oliver Perry Hay, William Alvin Clemens, Walter Woelber Dalquest, E. Raymond Hall, J. Knox Jones, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Francis Speir, William Berryman Scott, James S. Findley, Michael Casilliano, Paul O. McGrew ...

Uncovering Earth's Prehistoric Secrets: 25 Essential Reads on Paleontology is a captivating anthology that explores the planet's ancient past through a multifaceted lens. This collection gathers a variety of essays and writings that delve into the wonders of paleontological discovery, revealing the rich tapestry of life's history on Earth. Each piece contributes a unique perspective, whether it be ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Uncovering Earth's Prehistoric Secrets: 25 Essential Reads on Paleontology is a captivating anthology that explores the planet's ancient past through a multifaceted lens. This collection gathers a variety of essays and writings that delve into the wonders of paleontological discovery, revealing the rich tapestry of life's history on Earth. Each piece contributes a unique perspective, whether it be
... Read more

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