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2015
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Forty-five-year-old Gus Henderson has climbed to the top of the ladder in the corporate world, makes good money, and is considered successful according to the outside world. But there is just one problem: Gus is not happy. While searching for something that will leave him less lonely and more fulfilled, Gus stumbles across a newspaper ad for a remote shack for rent in the hills. Gus has just found his answer.A short time later, Gus leaves everything he knows and settles into the di...
2019
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Leading with Strategic Thinking
Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results
2015
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Be a more effective leader with strategic thinkingLeading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effective leaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadership model, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership types and demonstrates how each type achieves success – whether through personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or by empowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills that distinguish strategic leadershi...
2022
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Finding Ourselves In the Age of Collapse offers gentle wisdom and practical advice gleaned from a range of experts, as well as inspiring real life stories of ordinary people from around the world. It is a study guide for those seeking understanding and ideas for cultivating resilience in this time of unprecedented change and is recommended for anyone who recognizes that all is not well on planet earth and wonders what one person can do.
The Rule of Lawyers
How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law
2002
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Big-ticket litigation is a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot--something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settlement, and by courtroom assaults that have followed against industries ranging from HMOs to gunmakers, from lead paint manufacturers to "factory farms." Each massive class-action suit seeks to invent new law, to ban or tax or regulate something that elected lawmakers had chosen to leave alone. And each time the new process works as intended, the new litiga...
2021
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A widow's journey into a new life... My Walk with Grief is a spiritual memoir about Elaine Olson's obsessive ten-year search for identity and love after living in the shadows as a pastor's wife for thirty years, eventually marrying an agnostic who embodies Divine grace. When her husband died, part of Elaine died, too. Unimpeded as a widow, her obsessive search for her own identity and love pulled her into soul struggles, grief, world travel, disastrous dating, dog drama, and spiri...
Leading with Strategic Thinking
Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results
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- Daniel Thomas May
Unabridged
9 hours 25 min
2022
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Increasing complexity throughout the world and within organizations raises new challenges for leaders charged with forming and executing strategy. The most effective leaders address this complexity in a way that consciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholder expectations and personal ability. Rather than providing a formulaic one-size-fits-all approach to strategic management, Leading With Strategic Thinking defines four types of strategic leadership. The Futurist driving s...
Under The Blade
The Conversion Of Agricultural Landscapes
2018
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Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes examines the patterns, causes, and consequences of current land use decisions in the United States, particularly the conversion of farmland to housing, roads, and other development. Changes in land use are the result of complex interactions among law, economics, landscape characteristics, social and political forces, ethics, and aesthetics. By examining farmland loss from each of these perspectives, and then integrating the results...
Gone
A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life
2020
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A triple amputee physician’s memoir of resilience, love, and difficult decisions—essential reading for the amputee, Parkinson’s, and rehabilitation medicine communities.For the 2 million Americans living with limb loss, for every family navigating a Parkinson’s diagnosis, and for rehabilitation professionals who sit with patients and try to describe how full life can still look—this book was written for you.In 1979, Linda Olson was a third-year radiology re...
U.S. Foreign Policy And The New International Economic Order
Negotiating Global Problems, 1974-1981
2019
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This is an up-to-date, authoritative account of the development of U.S. policy toward the New International Economic Order Nieo from its inception in 1974 through the Eleventh Special Session of the General Assembly in August-September 1980. Mr. Olson concentrates on the latter stages of the North-South dialogue, analyzing U.S. policy in the conte
Financialization of the US Nursing Home Industry
Profiteering and Patient Neglect
2026
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How financial profiteering has reshaped long-term care and jeopardized the well-being of nursing home residents.Nursing homes care for some of the nation's most vulnerable citizens. They are also increasingly controlled by financial actors whose priorities lie far from the bedside. In Financialization of the US Nursing Home Industry, Laura Katz Olson and Michael K. Gusmano examine how for-profit companies—and increasingly private equity firms and real estate invest...
Available Dec 1, 2026
The Two-Edged Sword
A Story of Alpha and Omega
2012
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This is a fascinating story that begins long before the age of mankind, & continues well after all earthly events are over. With characters we can relate to, it is Bible-based fiction at it best.











