Barry: 2877 books
World Development
An Essential Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This essential text addresses the growing need for a dedicated coursebook for students and teachers of world development. As the source of the most respected international magazine on world development issues, the publishers have created a highly credible and accessible text to illuminate this increasingly...
by Barry J Ashmore
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Very few books explore the problems which are particular to the relationship between Specialist Contractors and the Main Contractor, or Clients with whom they are in contract. Fewer still provide solutions in such a down to earth no-nonsense way as The Streetwise Subbie does.
The Streetwise...
Context, Context, Context
How Our Blindness to Context Cripples Even the Smartest Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Barry Oshry explains the problem with organizational structures in this dialogue between two consultants about a change initiative. A guide to Systems Thinking for organizations, it’s as engaging and helpful as any business book you’ve ever read. Give it to team leaders, trainers, HR people, managers and chief execs and transform your organization.
Lifers
Ireland’s evil killers and how they were caught
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons.
Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release.
Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland’s most notorious murderers...
What to Eat in the Zone
The Quick & Easy, Mix & Match Counter for Staying in the Zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
More than two million people worldwide are already experiencing the health and performance benefits of the Zone. Based on the hormonal consequences of food rather than the caloric content, the Zone treats food like a powerful drug that can help you maintain peak mental alertness, increase your energy,...
The Shy Guy's Guide to Dating
The Best Places to Meet Women, the Ten Best Pickup Lines, How to Tell if She Likes You, Eleven Women to Avoid, Do's and Don'ts for the First Date, What Girls Say...and What They Really Mean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The authoritative guide that will take shy guys everywhere-from the first date to home plate.
"Hey baby, what's your sign?" "Come here often?"
These lines may work in the movies, but not in real life, and not for the millions of guys too shy to risk their dignity...
by Patricia Barry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Weave your way through the tangled web of Medicare
Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the Medicare system. In simple language, with clear step-by-step instructions, the book helps you determine how and when to enroll, avoid costly mistakes,...
by Michael Barry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
A vineyard is potentially a very valuable use of land. There is a lot to learn but the results can be impressive – even in a cool climate like Britain, even with only an acre or so available for use.
This e-book details most of what you need to know to make a success of a vine-growing and...
Pop Song Piracy
Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly...
by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont, Laura Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This Element is an excerpt from Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits: Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence (9780137047659) by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont and Laura Watkins. Available in print and digital formats. How to manage both the predictable and unpredictable challenges...
Ungifted
Intelligence Redefined
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing...
The Gospel of Food
Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of celebrity chefs. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and others are bad. We believe that if we eat the right foods, we will live longer, and if we eat in the right places, we will raise our social status....
by Barry H. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Praise for the previous edition of Explaining Psychological Statistics
"I teach a master's level, one-semester statistics course, and it is a challenge to find a textbook that is at the right level. Barry Cohen's book is the best one I have found. . . . I like the fact that the chapters have...
Shadows of Doubt
Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films, Barry Keith Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic function of genre movies is to offer audiences an ongoing dialogue...