Joan: 2841 books
by Joan Magretta
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
A beginner's guide and a bible for one of the greatest social innovations of modern times: the discipline of management.
Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles...
How to Write and Give a Speech
A Practical Guide for Anyone Who Has to Make Every Word Count
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
With more than 65,000 copies sold in two editions and recommended by Forbes and *U.S. News & World Report,*this newly updated how to guide offers sound advice on every aspect of researching, writing, and delivering an effective speech. Filled with anecdotes, tips, examples, and practical advice,...
Six Rules for Brand Revitalization
Learn How Companies Like McDonald's Can Re-Energize Their Brands
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Are you responsible for reinvigorating your brand to achieve enduring profitable growth? Or for keeping your still-strong brand from fading in relevance and value? This extraordinary book teaches the invaluable lessons of one of the most successful brand revitalization projects in business history:...
by Joan Benavent
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Una biografía extensa y documentada, escrita a medio camino entre el ensayo histórico y la novela, explorando el pulso de un país y el de su actor político más célebre y controvertido. Esta versión corrige y aumenta el texto originalmente impreso en el 2004, sumándole nuevos elementos. Lo...
by Joan Benavent
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2003
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2003
Un bello libro restaurado por el código virtual, gracias al esfuerzo mancomunado de su autor y Maria Aparecida da Silva, su esposa y estrecha colaboradora. En esta edición vuelve a brillar uno de los inconos femeninos más destacados del siglo XX; a la vez que, película por película, se analiza...
by Joan Benavent
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Los varones de Hollywood lucían desde la pantalla imágenes extraordinarias, muy distantes de una vida real plagada de infortunio, alcohol y sórdidos dramas que arrastraban desde la infancia. La industria los asimiló parcialmente, brindándoles la posibilidad de ensayar otras vidas, no menos azarosas,...
by Joan Hess
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this hilarious cozy mystery, small-town police chief Arly Hanks tries to stop a right-wing militia from turning Maggody into a battlefield.
The sign welcoming travelers to Maggody, Arkansas, reads “Pop. 755,” and don’t expect Hizzoner Jim Bob to repaint it just because there’s someone...
Tom Thomson
Design for a Canadian Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim.
Joan Murray's new biography is part detective work, too: she investigates his beliefs, and the origins of his...
The Raw, Bold Truth
The Memoirs of Johnny B.
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
When John B. died on January 26, 2001, he died sober. That was his greatest desire. In The Raw, Bold Truth, author Joan Hammersmith, Johnny B.s widow, finishes the story John himself started in the late 1990s before he passed away prematurely. In this memoir, Hammersmith narrates the real story of...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
A Man Is Not a Financial Plan
Investing for wealth and independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
How do you see your future? Will you be working hard until you're seventy? Or retiring early - wealthy, independent and financially free? The difference between these scenarios is simple: investing.
In this life-changing book, Joan Baker demystifies the jargon and shows how you can make investment...
Calling This Place Home
Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Swedish domestic worker Emina Johnson witnessed the great Peshtigo fire in 1871; Cherokee nurse Isabella Wolfe served the Lac du Flambeau reservation for decades; the author's own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was one of numerous immigrants who eked out a living on the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This...
It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It
Ready-to-Use Advice for Presentations, Speeches, and Other Speaking Occasions, Large and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
Why do some speakers succeed while many bore their audiences and lose their listeners? Speaking coach Joan Detz has worked with top clients for more than 15 years and has the answers. In this useful and lively book she presents strategies and tips for speeches, sales presentations, brief remarks,...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.
In Miami, the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit...