Bob: 3827 books
Fair Ball
A Fan's Case for Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC's award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game's best interests.
In this...
Graham Henry
Final Word
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Explosive and controversial - this is the must-read autobiography of one of the world's most successful sporting coaches. Although he would eventually be knighted in recognition of one of the most remarkable coaching careers in the history of rugby, Graham Henry experienced his share of crushing setbacks...
Michael Phelps
The Untold Story of a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Michael Phelps is an American sports hero, perhaps the greatest Olympic athlete the world has ever known. His unprecedented eight gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics have made him a superstar. But his journey to Olympic immortality is every bit as compelling as his achievements in the pool. From...
Low Risk, High Reward
Starting and Growing Your Own Business with Minimal Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Contrary to popular belief, most entrepreneurs don't like risk. While they are not afraid to take chances, the most successful entrepreneurs do what they can to anticipate, minimize, and offset risk at every opportunity, insists Bob Reiss, who in his own flourishing entrepreneurial career has managed...
by Bob Luke
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because “I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.” From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned...
My Greatest Day in NASCAR
The Legends of Auto Racing Recount Their Greatest Moments
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Here are the words of Jeff Gordon, Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, and many others--all talking about their greatest racing moments. For the first time ever, Bob McCullough has brought together a first-person account of the most exciting races, personal achievements, and events for the last 50 years....
Chasing Perfect
The Will to Win in Basketball and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.
In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably,...
The Battle To Do Good
Inside McDonald’s Sustainability Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
In The Battle to Do Good, former McDonald's executive Bob Langert takes readers on a behind-the-scenes eye witness account of the mega brand's battle to address numerous societal hot-button issues, such as packaging, waste, recycling, obesity, deforestation, and animal welfare. From the late 80s,...
Getting Unstuck
Break Free of the Plateau Effect
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Just try harder.
Just work harder. Just do more.
But what happens when working harder doesn’t seem to be getting you better results? You’ve got to get unstuck.
In Getting Unstuck, Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson show the different kinds of plateaus that can hold you back and how they can be overcome....
The ABCs of Success
The Essential Principles from America's Greatest Prosperity Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
An accessible guide to the principles of success by one of the most respected and sought-after motivational speakers of our time. In the tradition of Og Mandino and Zig Ziglar, this inspirational guide uses a wide variety of subjects, from “Achievement” to “Worry,” to bring clarity, information,...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
The rules of Lifetime Economics are: 1. Value in use time, 2. Price in work time, and 3. Profit in free time. Economics as we know it today has departed so far from reality that it needs to be replaced. Lifetime economics is intended to do that, bring economics back down to earth. Learn here the meaning of real capital, real debt, real investment, and real Gross Domestic Product.
The New Leadership Literacies
Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Over the next decade, today's connected world will be explosively more connected. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized....
The Alternative Answer
The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best Performing Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The first book to explain the new world of alternative investing, showing how anyone can use nontraditional options to significantly increase returns and lower risks
The world's elite investors have long relied on alternative investments to produce superior returns. Until now, these strategies...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The economics profession is ripe for a paradigm shift. Anomalies proliferate with an increasing number of economists searching for a more valid, reliable and helpful approach, whether it is adjustments in GDP, neoKeynesianism, critical theory, monetary reform, or more sublte changes such as modifying...