Product Description: In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle...read more

We create organizations because we need to get a job done--something we couldn't do alone--and join them because we're inspired by their missions (and our paycheck). But once we're inside, these organizations rarely feel inspirational. Instead, we're often baffled by what we encounter: clueless managers, a lack of clear objectives, a seeming disregard for data, and the vast gulf between HR proclamations and our experience in the cubicle.So where did it all go wrong?In THE ORG, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of orgs. THE ORG diagnoses the root causes of that malfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place, then working its way up through the org's structure from the lowly cubicle to the CEO's office.Woven throughout with fascinating case studies-including McDonald's, al Qaeda, the Baltimore City Police Department, Procter and Gamble, the island nation of Samoa, and Google--THE ORG reveals why the give-and-take nature of organizations, while infuriating, nonetheless provides the best way to get the job done.You'll learn:The purpose of meetings and why they will never go awayWhy even members of al Qaeda are required to submit Travel & Expense reportsWhat managers are good forHow the army and other orgs balance marching in lockstep with fostering innovationWhy it's the hospital administration-not the heart surgeon-who is more likely to save your lifeThat CEOs often spend over 80% of their time in meetings-and why that's exactly where they should be (and why they get paid so much)Looking at life behind the red tape, THE ORG shows why the path from workshop to corporate behemoth is pockmarked with tradeoffs and competing incentives, but above all, demonstrates why organizations are central to human achievement.

Product Description: This is the story of the trials and tribulations of young men in their late twenties-early thirties during the fifties. They had gotten older and graduated from the soft-ball sponsoring local neighborhood saloons to the "new sheriff" in town, Cocktail lounges...read more

Product Description: A simple yet thorough study of the six "principles of the doctrine of Christ" as set forth in Hebrews chapter 6. This is the Swahili translation of Tim Sullivan's original book.

Product Description: Book by Sullivan, Tim

Product Description: A combat veteran leads a rag-tag group of survivors in an all-out war against invading aliens! The world's cities have been destroyed by a ghastly holocaust from space. The few remaining souls eke out an existence in the ruins, ransacking skyscrapers for food, and living in the city's sewers like vermin...read more

While paleontologist David Albee struggles to protect his remarkable discovery of live dinosaur eggs, the alien architects of life on the planet rush to Earth to make contact, armed with the secrets to the origins of the universe. Original.

A collection of sixteen horror tales set in frigid locales includes works by Graham Masterson, Chet Williamson, Gary Brandner, Nancy Holder, Steve Rasnic Tem, and others

Product Description: 1st edition paperback, fine (as new), Dean Koontzs story

The key to humanity's survival is held by Deles, an exile on the distant planet of Sripha, who is also engaged in a quest to discover the secrets of his past

Gabriela Nicks fights the alien invaders who have infiltrated the British Parliament in order to take over the country

The resistance members' ingrained distrust of all aliens conspires against Willie, a Visitor who has volunteered for a secret biochemical experiment to develop a new toxin, and antidote, to fight the Visitors

Former pro-football star Jack Stern and his fiancee, biologist Sabrina Fontaine, are held captive in the Florida Everglades and forced to participate in the aliens' experiments to create a 'master race' of half-breeds