Product Description: Pete works, part time, in a variety of settings (bakery, deli, theater) to earn money to buy airplane models he can build to feel part of aviation. He loses his virginity and thinks he’s in love. Trying to make amends he is rejected...read more

Product Description: Few Lads have a life's dream. Fewer still try to attain that goal. In this, the first of a four book series, Pete's persistence pays off and his unrelenting quest serves as a model for the young who lack confidence and parents seeking to nurture their lads' aim...read more

Product Description: The Organizational Network Fieldbook"This is the ultimate resource for practitioners who want to implement insights from organizational network analysis and thinking. Dozens of concrete examples, interventions, and practical advice from network experts show you what you can do to strengthen networks and boost performance...read more

Product Description: The Reckoning is the first in a series of western novels by Robert J. Thomas. The main character in the novel is a young boy, Jess Williams, whose family is brutally murdered. Forced to become a man overnight, he vows to avenge his family's savage deaths...read more

Presenting an effective new leadership model for the modern era, the authors explore the dynamic process that forges new leaders, explaining how key turning points and challenges force each individual to decide who he or she is and what one is capable of. 150,000 first printing.

Provides information on running for elective office, covering such topics as getting organized, campaign literature, campaign signs, raising campaign money, endorsements, commercials, and surveys.

Product Description: Learn how to maintain a firm grasp of a project throughout its development, how to forecast with greater accuracy and how to ensure the successful launch of a product. Covers new consumer and industrial products, the latest services and technologies...read more

Product Description: Why do farm workers earn less and have a lower status than blue-collar employees in comparable jobs? Robert J. Thomas answers this question through a multi-method study of agricultural work and labor markets. Fieldwork as a lettuce harvester provides valuable insights from the perspective of undocumented immigrants...read more

Originally published in 1981, this book examines the ways in which social groups interact in the making of a common food in American society: iceberg lettuce. The major questions posed by the research, however, extend beyond the features of one agricultural product, as the authors analyse the organization of industrial production. The goal of the text is the integration of the analysis of social systems involving agricultural production with a broader body of theory and research concerned with production. The major theoretical categories and concepts used by the authors are primarily Marxian. Although this study could be integrated with rural and industrial sociology, it addresses a number of issues neglected by both fields.