Product Description: U.S. Marines, Capt. Kramer and his dog Sgt. Shadow survive hell in Afghanistan — but worse awaits them back home. YOU CAN RUN is not your average crime thriller. Full of crime, absolutely! A thrilling ride, most definitely! But Greg Smith takes it up a couple of notches, pulls you, the reader, into a dangerous, action-packed FBI operation...read more

Product Description: A rapidly changing world – in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time...read more

Product Description: Leading academics reflect upon the results of extensive Evangelical Alliance research into what it means to be an Evangelical Christian in 21st--century Britain.What does it mean to be an Evangelical Christian in 21st--century Britain? The Evangelical Alliance has carried out extensive research into the question, gathering data on a wide range of topics and inviting leading academics to reflect upon the findings...read more

Product Description: “This series opener is a solid alternative for young readers who may be intrigued by popular zombie comics written for adults and might not be ready for Walking Dead or Jonathan Maberry's "Rot & Ruin" books.” - School Library Journal“For teens who like to watch zombie movies and The Walking Dead...read more

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, and New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. Mostly, though, it hit a nerve among the general public who question the role of Wall Street in society -- and the callous "take-the-money-and-run" mentality that brought the world economy to its knees a few short years ago. Smith now picks up where his Op-Ed left off.His story begins in the summer of 2000, when an idealistic 21-year-old arrives as an intern at Goldman Sachs and learns about the firm's Business Principle #1: Our clients' interests always come first. This remains Smith's mantra as he rises from intern to analyst to sales trader, with clients controlling assets of more than a trillion dollars.From the shenanigans of his summer internship during the technology bubble to Las Vegas hot tubs and the excesses of the real estate boom; from the career lifeline he received from an NFL Hall of Famer during the bear market to the day Warren Buffett came to save Goldman Sachs from extinction-Smith will take the reader on his personal journey through the firm, and bring us inside the world's most powerful bank.Smith describes in page-turning detail how the most storied investment bank on Wall Street went from taking iconic companies like Ford, Sears, and Microsoft public to becoming a "vampire squid" that referred to its clients as "muppets" and paid the government a record half-billion dollars to settle SEC charges. He shows the evolution of Wall Street into an industry riddled with conflicts of interest and a profit-at-all-costs mentality: a perfectly rigged game at the expense of the economy and the society at large.After conversations with nine Goldman Sachs partners over a twelve-month period proved fruitless, Smith came to believe that the only way the system would ever change was for an insider to finally speak out publicly. He walked away from his career and took matters into his own hands. This is his story.

Product Description: Great photos of flashy, eye-catching, show-stopping, and just plain cool custom semi trucks. Photographer Greg Smith captures these spectacular heavy haulers in all of their customized glory—from their gleaming chrome bumpers to breathtaking paint work and rows and rows of dazzling lights...read more

Product Description: Great photos of flashy, eye-catching, show-stopping, and just plain cool custom semi trucks. Photographer Greg Smith captures these spectacular heavy haulers in all of their customized glory--from their gleaming chrome bumpers to breathtaking paint work and rows and rows of dazzling lights...read more

Product Description: You probably already have a clear idea of what a "discussion guide for students" is: a series of not-very-interesting questions at the end of a textbook chapter. Instead of triggering thought-provoking class discussion, all too often these guides are time-consuming and ineffective...read more

Product Description: Poema 'Em' Hunter, the beautiful CEO of a high-tech company based in Boulder, Colorado secures a lucrative military contract on the eve her lifelong friend, Mackenzie 'Mac" Falon, is due to fly in from Florida. Years have passed since the friends have been able to catch up with each other and Em takes leave from her business to treat Mac and herself to a visit to a new mountain resort owned by Em...read more

Product Description: There I was: a lone male among more than 30 females. Then it suddenly hit me. I was an oddity ¿ a male in a female profession, public relations. Women outnumber men three to one, and the figure is increasing. But why is this happening? This landmark study focuses on the PR profession in Australia (and includes data from other countries)...read more

Product Description: The ReExamined Life is a manifesto for those that are losing not only a job, but a career, and possibly the dream of retirement as well. It is a call to action for anyone who finds themselves facing unemployment and an uncertain future...read more

Describes how two highly decorated former detectives, Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, were convicted of murdering eight people on the orders of a vicious mob boss.

Product Description: Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline...read more

Product Description: Terrorists plan to use the trucking industry to carry out a series of devastating attacks across the United States. Using loopholes in the international shipping arena, they import radioactive materials and toxic nerve agents which are loaded into bomb laden tractor-trailer rigs...read more

This book presents a very wide reaching consideration of the origin of universal art from deep space to the details of snowflakes, seascapes, and the land we inhabit. Using artistic and often unusual photographs of the natural environment, the book presents a detailed narrative of a case for the divine nature of art that is both thought provoking and poetic. This volume is the first in what will be a series exploring the universe through art.

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Product Description: Thomas Jones, a pupil of Richard Wilson and a talented Welsh landscape artist, has received increasing popular attention in recent decades although little has been published about his life and work. This comprehensive catalogue seeks to fill that gap, offering essays by leading Jones scholars and presenting over 150 paintings from throughout the artist's career...read more

Product Description: Faith groups are already important in the regeneration of communities, and are often more committed and have long-term involvement. However, despite government directives to involve faith communities in regeneration and renewal, official agencies lack understanding about faith communities and their diversity, and conflicts arise between secular liberal views and those of religious groups...read more

Product Description: Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) was one of Britain's greatest landscape painters. In a tragically short career, he developed a technique that revolutionized watercolor painting and produced powerful works, providing one of the cornerstones of Romantic landscape imagery...read more

Product Description: Accounts of the key artists who furthered the development of the art of watercolours have long been a feature of the history of British art, but this book places the watercolourists' achievement in the broader context of the emergence of a new professional group with its own distinctive identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 10-11-08...Many Others Authors, Poets At Authors Den.Com , Even Readers Have Asked About My 2nd, 3rd, 4th Books,i.e. I Tell You Now If You Can't Comprehend 1st Book:THEY SHALL CALL ME TRASK... (The Truth You Never Heard) ...c 1979/2008 TRASK...read more

Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era. His close observation of everyday life and his concern with the ways in which people play roles and manage the impressions they present to each other led to his pioneering creation of a new dramaturgical perspective for sociology. His later analysis explored the field of deviance and many of his works in this area are now considered as sociological classics, including Asylums, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life and Stigma. This collection brings together many of today's leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy.The contributors present chapters on key topics of Goffman's work. Issues covered include:* mental illness and institutionalism* the incorporation of literary intertexts in Goffman's writings* Goffman's relationship to ethnomethodology* the singularity of Goffman's ethnographyRanging from his critique of institutionalization to his understanding of the minute details of face-to-face interaction, this collection reveals the richness of Goffman's own work as well as his contribution to sociology today and will be essential reading for students and academics alike.