Alan: 6649 books
Football, Corruption and Lies
Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas,...
Active Investing
How to Manage Your Portfolio Like a Professional in Less than One Hour a Week
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Why pay a financial adviser to manage your portfolio when you can do it yourself -- all in less than one hour a week?
The first edition of Active Investing was an Australian bestseller and a must-have for all DIY share investors and traders. In this book, sharemarket expert Alan Hull provides...
Boom Country?
The New Wave of Indian Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
In Boom Country?, Alan Rosling, entrepreneur and strategic advisor in India for over 35 years, explores an unmistakable and profound change that is underway in the Indian business landscape. A fresh wave of enterprise and start-ups; rapid advancements in technology; government reform; and recently...
The Idea-Driven Organization
Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation. And it’s right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into...
by Alan S. Pierce, Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Forced to flee the brutal pogroms of Europe, Jewish immigrants sought refuge in the beauty of Boston's North Shore. Drawing on their artisan skills, many found work in the tanneries of Peabody and the shoe factories of Lynn, while other enterprising Jews established their own businesses in Salem and...
by Alan Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire. Regular flights began from the airport in 1935 with a service to Newcastle, Edinburgh and London (Heston). During the war, the airfield was used as a shadow factory and constructed almost 700 Lancaster bombers,...
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted...
The Benn Heresy
Foreword by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new edition of the classic biography of Tony Benn captures the essence of Benn’s formidable impact on the British Labour Party and British politics. Written at the apogee of his career, immediately after the Labour Party’s 1981 Deputy Leadership campaign under Harold Wilson, it charts the evolution...
Make Your Move
Change the Way You Look At Your Business and Increase Your Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“I wish I had known” is commonly heard after major economic disruptions. Make Your Move shows you how to spot future changes well in advance so you have plenty of time to take advantage of them. It’s packed with practical strategies and proven solutions that businesses of all sizes can immediately...
by Alan Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Fans of Flavia de Luce rejoice—here’s a special eBook original short story, in which the eleven-year-old connoisseur of chemistry is immersed in her element: solving a mystery!
Murder! the letter says, Come at once. Anson House, Greyminster, Staircase No. 3. How can Flavia de Luce resist such...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Flavia de Luce Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”—USA Today
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving...
by Robert Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Investing in Dividend Stocks: Making High Profit Even in Difficult Times by Robert King is a booklet with over 4,200 words. It discusses high dividend stock investing and the method King uses to generate annual dividend income of approximately 9-10% while diversifying his portfolio and minimizing...
by Alan Mallory
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
A fast-paced and engaging story that takes the reader on a remarkable family journey from the flatlands of suburbia to the top of the world.
Climbing Mount Everest is one of humanity’s greatest feats of physical, emotional and psychological endurance. In 2008 Alan Mallory and his family took...
by Alan Fry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.
Excerpt from Eldon Lee's foreword:...