Author: Joseph S. Nye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lead, powers
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0195335627
ISBN-13: 9780195335620
What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of leaders is on the rise, our ideas about leadership are clearly due for redefinition. With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today’s world, in an illuminating blend of history, business case studies, psychological research, and more. As he observes, many now believe that the more auth
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: powers
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2000-10-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0252069412
ISBN-13: 9780252069413
Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, "The Powers That Be" is David Halberstam’s forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a new introduction by the author. Beginning with FDR’s masterful use of radio to establish the sense of a personal, benevolently paternal relationship with the American people and culminating in the discovery and coverage of the Watergate break-in, Halberstam tracks the firm establishment
Author: Alan Powers
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: books, living
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1402742126
ISBN-13: 9781402742125
Everyone has booksbut most people simply put them on a shelf, neglecting more creative ways to make their treasures an integral part of the interior design. Alan Powers witty, elegant guide to showcasing your precious volumes will change all that. Going room to room, from kitchens to hallways, he reveals inspirational ways that books can create character in the home. Stunningly photographed images from around the world display large-scale libraries, as well as such ingenious space-saving devices as enclosed book lofts; shelves cleverly tucked into stairways; and narrow wall-mounted boarding
Author: Joseph Finder
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: powers, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 449
Published: 1994-02-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0345386213
ISBN-13: 9780345386212
The assassination of ex-operative Ben Ellison’s father-in-law, a CIA spymaster, pulls Ben into pursuit of the former KGB chairman--who holds a multitude of secrets, and billions in smuggled Soviet gold. By the author of The Moscow Club. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
Author: Deborah Lynn Jacobs
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Keywords: powers
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1596431121
ISBN-13: 9781596431126
I let him take my hand. The cold blue flame in his eyes held me, seared me. Do you feel it? he asked. Its a warm tingle, isnt it? In your hands, moving up your arms, like a current.No. My hands tingled with warmth. It moved up my arms like a current.When Gwen and Adrian meet, they unlock each others latent psychic powers. Its too bad they cant stand each other, dont trust each other, and do everything they can to manipulate each other. Will they use their power to save lives? Or will it destroy them both? Written in alternating voices, this is a compelling, suspenseful novel about
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: variations, gold
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 1992-09-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0060975008
ISBN-13: 9780060975005
A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
Author: Samuel S. Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: powers, koreas
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2006-06-26
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521668999
ISBN-13: 9780521668996
This book explores Korea’s place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global powers (China, Russia, Japan, and the United States). The synergy of global transformations has now brought to an end Korea’s proverbial identity and role as the helpless shrimp among whales, and both North Korea and South Korea have taken on new roles in the process of redefining and projecting their national identities. Synthetic national identity theory offers a useful perspective on change and continuity in Ko
