Seattle p.i. Leo Waterman knows the city like no one else. And he knows how to stretch the limits of the law, when necessary, to accomplish what needs to be donea very useful talent Leo acquired from his late, larger-than-life father, once one of the region's most powerful and colorful politic[...]
John Wheeler recalls a life centred upon the greatest discoveries and continuing mysteries of physics in his memoir named after three of the terms he coined. He worked with virtually every major physicist of the 20th century and his life brings us face to face with the central characters and discove[...]
He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler's fascinating life brings us face to face with the central characters and discoveries of modern physics. He was the first American to learn of the disc[...]
Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he[...]
Designed to prepare upper-level undergraduate and graduate business students for work in the exciting field of global sales management, this text focuses upon the managerial and cross-cultural aspects necessary for leading the global sales force.[...]
The "New York Times" bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president
In 1974, "Newsweek" correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when I?m[...]
Providing complete coverage of the latest syllabus requirements, this book is written by two highly experienced IB Chemistry teachers, examiners and workshop leaders.[...]
Providing complete coverage of the latest syllabus requirements, this book is written by two highly experienced IB Chemistry teachers and workshop leaders.[...]
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue
The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Rub[...]
Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pa[...]
The story of the Dalai Lama's life, as well as a history of the subjugation of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. Born into a modest farming family, he was only two years old when monks pronounced him the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.[...]
Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford's humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing dynasty, bringing affordable cars to the masses and forever changing America and the American workplace. Who Was Henry Ford? details his meteoric rise, and expl[...]
You've just had a baby.
Everything is perfect.
Then the hospital sends you home--
without an instruction manual....
Baby expert Gina Ford comes to the rescue with her newly revised hour-by-hour, week-by-week guide. One of Great Britain's top parenting experts, she draws on more than[...]
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine--and hope--that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In "Rise of the Robots," Si[...]
The Business Marketing Course is an important and insightful book that brings together the main theories and contributions of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group in a student-friendly form. The book provides complete coverage of the role of business relationships and networks in domestic [...]
In this timely guide, an author who worked at all three of the major career management and outplacement companies in the U.S. offers job-search strategies that work even when the economy isn't, including skills and tactics that are well known to those inside the job-placement industry, but little kn[...]