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Disrupting Digital Business
by R Ray" WangWe are no longer an economy of products and services. The digital transformation demands that we focus our attention on experiences and outcomes. Business leaders and their organizations must shift to keeping promises-no matter how their customers interact with them.But organizations no longer contr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. ReidT. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Talking Points: The 7 C’s of Decision Making
Although making decisions and determining God’s will for our lives can be a struggle, it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, decisions can be made with confidence when we follow the principles God gives us in His Word. This booklet discusses seven means God uses to guide us in our decision making.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. ReidA New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook
by Jose R. RuizThis cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further. This cookbook offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced development... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Criminal Love?: Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India
by R Raj RaoCriminal Love? takes up the challenge of studying the wide gamut of lived reality of the Indian queer, against the backdrop of a set of theories. Written by a man who has been openly gay for the last 40 years, this book picks up issues, concepts, and theories within the realm of queer studies and di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Colonial America
This brief, up-to-date examination of American colonial history draws connections between the colonial period and American life today by including formerly neglected areas of social and cultural history and the role of minorities (African-Americans, Native-Americans, women, and laboring classes). It... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
by T. R. ReidThe U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point. That happened in 1922, and again in 1954, and again in 1986. In other ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Divorce and Conquer: Walking You Through Your Divorce, from Hiring the Lawyer to Signing on the Dotted Line (Conquering Divorce #1)
This is it. The first in the three part Conquering Divorce series. A chapter each on finding the right lawyer for you, what to expect in the interview process and what you should look for in the lawyer's contract will save you time, stress and thousands of dollars in legal fees. You get the answers ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1976 -
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
by T. R. ReidThose who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Native American Racism in the Age of Donald Trump: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency. From the time Trump announced his intention to run for president, racism directed towards Native Americans has become an increasingly visible part of cultural and political life ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants
by R Ray" WangWhich kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces in the global business landscape now at work? This groundbreaking new guide will help you adapt and change your business to thrive among digital giants, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon.Drawing on considerab... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by T. R. ReidBarely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The United States of Europe
by T. R. ReidTo Americans accustomed to unilateralism abroad and social belt-tightening at home, few books could be more revelatory—or controversial—than this timely, lucid, and informative portrait of the new European Union. <P><P> Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU has more people, mo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
HD Radio Implementation: The Field Guide for Facility Conversion
Take the mystery out of the conversion to HD Radio transmission with this hands-on approach to implementation. HD Radio Implementation will take this new subject and make it familiar. With details and descriptions of what HD Radio is, what changes are necessary and unnecessary in the studio, STL pat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer (Ashgate New Critical Thinking In Philosophy Ser.)
by R. Raj SinghThe connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
British Friends of the American Revolution
This volume profiles a dozen British men and women, who, for varying reasons, opposed the policy of the British government towards its 13 colonies before and during the American Revolution. Their actions helped prepare the way for the recognition of the United States as an independent nation.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Patanela is missing: Australia's greatest sea mystery
by Paul Whittaker • P. R ReidThe author investigates and speculates about the mysterious disappearance of the luxury schooner 'Patanela' on 8 November, 1988, within 10 nautical miles of Sydney Harbour.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Dignity Takes a Holiday
by Rick R. ReedPete Thickwhistle doesn't live what one might call a charmed life. At age forty-seven, he's a flamboyant gay man who believes no one knows he's gay, still living at home with his harpy of a mother. Worse, he's still a virgin, longing to find just the right man to make his life complete. Pete's an up... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Sluggo Snares a Vampire
by Rick R. ReedWhen Sluggo cruises online chat rooms, he isn’t looking for a hook-up; he’s looking for love. But love has a way of being elusive, especially when you’re not being honest. Presenting himself as “Sir Raven,” Sluggo promises his chat room cohorts he’s the “master of the night.”And then he meets someon... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Man-amorphosis
by Rick R. ReedI awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find my penis had transformed itself into a vagina ...Thus begins the story of a very unusual day in the life of one utterly baffled gay man. After the shock wears off about his new genitalia, this promiscuous, fun-loving gay man wonders how he can take adva... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
A Demon Inside
by Rick R. Reed2nd EditionHunter Beaumont doesn't understand his grandmother's deathbed wish: "Destroy Beaumont House." He's never even heard of the place. But after his grandmother passes and his first love betrays him, the family house in the Wisconsin woods looks like a tempting refuge. Going against his grandm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Mute Witness
by Rick R. Reed2nd EditionThe abuse of a little boy turns a community against a loving gay couple, and nobody comes out of it unscathed. Sean and Austin have the perfect life: new love, a riverfront home, security. Their love for one another is only multiplied when Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason, visits on the w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
A Face without a Heart
by Rick R. Reed3rd Edition (paperback) 2nd Edition (eBook)A modern-day and thought-provoking retelling of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that esteemed horror magazine Fangoria called "...a book that is brutally honest with its reader and doesn't flinch in the areas where Wilde had to look away.... A rari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000