Chatterjee, Pratap.
Contents: Introduction: A revolution in military affairs -- Riding the catfish to Anaconda -- Early days of Brown & Root -- Brothers in arms : Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld -- Cheney at the helm -- The birth of LOGCAP -- Supporting the War on Terror -- Operation Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO) -- Corruption in Kuwait -- Camp Anaconda -- Keep on truckin' -- The whistle-blowers -- Investigation and punishment --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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Summary: Examines the power and impact of employee culture within an organization and describes how to keep it energized and open and adaptable to change by using real-world examples from Google, Samsung, and the film crew of the Super Bowl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2015
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Summary: This book is about igniting the power of any manager's emotional commitment to his or her company--worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. Sometimes companies get this from their managers in the early garage days or in times of tremendous gain, but it's almost unheard of to get it on a sustained, self-reinforced basis. Of course your company is only going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1999
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Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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Summary: "From the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward comes the first cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: The Foundation, established after the Old Empire gives way to barbarism, fights against a mutant strain called the Mule and tries to get rid of the Second Foundation after learning it will inherit a future Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everymans Library 2010
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Summary: "A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Contents: A friend of Kafka & other stories -- A crown of feathers & other stories -- Passions & other stories -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Glossary and notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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Summary: "When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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Summary: Presents the rags-to-riches tale of how unemployed ship worker Richard "Skip" Hayward revived the influence and wealth of the dying Pequot clan by establishing Connecticut's controversial and profitable casino, Foxwoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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Summary: "A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7458 BRAMartin, Isaac William.
Contents: Introduction: the riddle of rich people's movements -- The revolution of 1913 -- Populism against the income tax -- The Sixteenth Amendment repealers -- The most sinister lobby -- The power of women -- The radical rich -- Strange bedfellows -- The temporary triumph of estate tax repeal -- Conclusion: the century of rich people's movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "An alternative reading of twentieth-century evangelical history that recovers the stories of some of evangelicalism's least known groups, long neglected movements, and widely overlooked figures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2001
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Summary: Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It's another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed. Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, 'perfect science', and, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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Summary: "In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. Williams encourages starting small, working collaboratively, and beginning locally. Advice on self-care practices, burn-out prevention, and profiles of activists engaged in a range of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1999
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Summary: Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014