Booklocker com nov 2016 (5 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This colorful storybook by author Rolla Donaghy, and illustrated by Angela Amato, tells the adventure of Henry and Henrietta, field mouse twins who live on Hooper farm. Playful and happy, they make the mistake of falling asleep in the cornfield. When the corn delivery heads to town, they are excited to discover they are going, too! They want to visit and play in a store. But, the visit does not go the way they expect and they wonder how can they ever get back home to the farm! The 1000-word easy reading story is written for Pre-k through Grade 2, presenting basic concepts, vocabulary and artwork designed for young children.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although it is easy to see that many leaders have lost integrity, I would argue that it is much, much more than that. They have lost their dignity; they have lost our respect; and worst of all, they have lost our trust.Should we just add more and more lawyers to concoct more and more clauses in more and more contracts in a futile attempt to head off more and more deviations from ethical behavior Should we take more fights to the courts, so we can end up on more and more court dockets, and pass more and more expensive legislation to try to control it all, forcing businesses to pay the high price of this legal load Or, it is all really just putting lipstick on a pig.And, we are the pig.In the end, the business reality is that the only real consequences for unethical or irresponsible leadershit behavior might be the self-inflicted hit that one would take to his or her sense of honor and integrity - the very virtues that obviously don't mean a rat's ass to many of those we select and accept as our leaders.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young girl alone on a dark city street, moments from the safety and security of her home, is caught in a terrifying trap. Roving predators change the course of her life, and everyone who cares for her, in a split second of evil.Now she's another victim, a temporary toy for a killer who's eluded police detection for so long, his nightmare of crime stays hidden within the city boundaries. Detective John Bowers and his partner Minola Raye know they have only hours to find the victim before time runs out. Like many homicides, this one is especially hard to take for even hardened detectives. The cruel barbarity of the crime, the youth and innocence of the victim and the frustration of chasing shadows wear John and Minnie down. But there is a break, and then once again they have to catch up to the sinful truth that there is no Hero or Heroine with so many bodies already buried.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is the Union voluntary or an agreement with no escape route Setting the tone, John M. Taylor leads off by noting the travails of a respected ancestor. Major questions in America are explored, including differing views of the meaning of union. Though numerous issues led to war, most modern establishment historians generalize everything down to one. Pre-war and post-war years are largely ignored, trivialized, or sanitized. The four-year travesty of 1861-65 represents the most destructive period in American history and a change in the republic itself. The conflict-the agricultural South versus the North, where agriculture was important, but corporate, banking, and industrial interests swung the most weight. Jeffersonian States' Rights meets Hamiltonian Nationalism. Modern portrayals of Lincoln perpetuate the winner's narrative; facts that fall outside the politically correct script are cast asunder. A power-seeking individual such as Lincoln was required to transform a voluntary confederation into a top-heavy centralized government. Protectionist Whigs and other big government advocates created the centralizing vehicle-the Republican Party-to accomplish their goals. In 1860, they selected Abraham Lincoln to implement the agenda. Taylor shows how Lincoln and the Radical Republicans planted the seeds of leviathan we witness today.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Woodrow Hand and his Buddy Deadeye Dan, who runs a gas station and motel, try to do the right thing by helping out a California redhead passing through the Oregon Badlands. When she turns up an obvious suicide, they rally to her side. But nothing turns out like it's supposed to. She disappears, and when Sheriff Berry tries to figure out how he can have a missing corpse on his beat, he stumbles into more than he bargained for.Woody and Dan are in the thick of it and before they can make sense of their predicament, they're eating mush at the Harney County jailhouse. Now nobody's sure what's a suicide, a kidnap, a runaway or murder. That is, not until bodies start showing up. Maybe the answer to the whole mystery is a long forgotten cold case and a secret that's been kept for years. Right under the Sheriff's nose.…