Rosso, Henry A.

Contents: Setting realistic expectations -- Growing a successful fund raising program -- Developing leadership for fund raising -- The art of asking with composure -- It's all about being friends-- Diversifying funding sources -- Classic mistakes and their lessons -- Evaluating fund raising programs and capabilities -- Our heritage -- A blend of art and science -- Language and the gentle art of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass Publishers 1996

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Rosso, Henry A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2003

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Gross, Paul. (Paul H.)

Contents: Why does weather happen? -- What is "normal weather"? -- Severe storms and tornadoes -- Snow and ice -- Water and floods -- Heat and cold -- Global warming -- Miscellaneous questions -- Michigan weather extremes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010

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Rowse, A L

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988

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Gross, Robert A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1976

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Mueller, Ross A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Mueller Publications 1995

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Offit, Paul A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2008

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Offit, Paul A.

Summary: Scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists-- people taking advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation. He discusses the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2018

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Volcker, Paul A

Summary: As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents. Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker's career illuminates the changes that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018

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Opler, Paul A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992

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Offit, Paul A.

Summary: "Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count surged, the FDA made a risky decision: it approved an anti-malarial drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite limited data on its efficacy or side effects. A month later, the FDA withdrew its recommendation, but by then, the damage had been done. The drug was ineffective and sometimes even lethal. The mistake was hardly a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Rees, Paul A.

Summary: Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Offit, Paul A

Summary: "In Bad Faith, acclaimed physician and author Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion. Never afraid of controversy, Offit takes a stark and disturbing look at our surprising capacity to risk the health and safety of children in service of our beliefs. He tells the story of two...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015

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Offit, Paul A.

Contents: Questions parents have about vaccines -- General -- What are vaccines? -- Why do we still need vaccines? -- How do vaccines work? -- How are vaccines made? -- What steps do pharmaceutical companies go through to make vaccines? -- Who recommends vaccines? -- How do we know vaccines work? -- Are vaccine-preventable diseases really that bad? -- Isn't it better to be naturally infected than...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2011

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Tucci, Paul A.

Summary: From the basics of banking, investing, insurance, and taxes, to getting in and out of debt, Tucci, a partner in a private-equity investment banking firm, answers many frequently asked questions about finance with a minimum of jargon. The guide includes checklists, government sources, a glossary, appended real estate tips, a template for writing a business plan, and statistics on college cost...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2012

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Rosen, Richard A.

Summary: Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016

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Pillemer, Karl A.

Summary: More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. Pillemer interviewed people over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues-- children, marriage, money, career, aging-- and found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2011

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Marks, Paul A

Summary: "Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature of cancers cure to its inherently anarchic processes. There can be no hope for a miracle cure when defective cells use a myriad of tools to succeed in their relentless assaults. There are many ways cancers get started, and turn healthy cell division and growth into lethal attacks....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

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Merriman, Paul A.

Contents: Why investors fail -- Stress versus success: a tale of two investors -- Lessons from smart people -- The psychology of successful investing -- Who are you and what are your goals? -- Your ideal portfolio -- Profit from real estate and small companies -- Value: owning what others don't want -- Putting the world to work for you -- Controlling risk -- Meet your enemies: expenses and taxes --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2008

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Ball, Carlos A.

Summary: "An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement's achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause. Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward sexual minorities and transgender...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019

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Ball, Carlos A.

Summary: The author describes five lawsuits that have helped change the way lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people are treated in the United States. The cases are Braschi v. Stahl Associates, in which an appellate court recognize that two men can constitute a family; Nabozny v. Podlesny (1996), in which a Wisconsin jury recognized that a bullied gay teenager had his constitutional rights...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2010

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