Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive conversation between the author and Donald Miller, creator of StoryBrand!Negotiators might be born, but great negotiators are made.This book offers a useful and comprehensive approach to negotiation that can springboard a career or a company, one deal at a time.Business and organizational leaders spend well over half of their professional time engaged in this process. I...

This important book lays bare the dangers of global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions stemming from fossil fuel use, and proposes pathways toward mitigation. A discussion of the current main uses of fossil fuels acts as a basis for presenting viable, economically sound alternatives. The author outlines a clear, practical strategy for establishing a carbon-free future by deploying proven policy structures and technologies that are already commercially available.

Come to 221B Baker Street for fifteen incredible capers from the world's only consulting detective -- presented in full cast audio! Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and dramatized by noted British writer M.J. Elliott, these absorbing adventures star John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Dr. Watson. Also heard in these sterling stories are Dennis Bateman, Rick May, David Natale, Jeffrey Hitchen, Rachel Glass, Hugh Hastings, Louise Moore, and Jim French himself!Ep...

The fog is thick, the atmosphere is heavy, and the game's afoot once again! World famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted aide Dr. Watson roam the streets of Victorian London in search of the vital clues that will bring malefactors to justice!Adapted from the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and produced by Jim French, The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is radio drama at its 21st Century best! John Patrick Lowrie stars as Holmes, with Lawrence Albert a...

Follow wild cases of snowmen, dragons and ghosts…loot, letters, and lyricism…revenge, curses, and clues. Here are nineteen engrossing all-new dilemmas of deduction for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.Produced with meticulous attention to detail by Seattle radio great Jim French, these modern radio productions are rich with classic radio flavor. John Patrick Lowrie stars as Holmes with Lawrence Albert as Watson in puzzles featuring persons both power...

Corporate governance in financial institutions has come under the spotlight since the banking crisis in the UK in 2008-9. In many respects, the banking business raises unique problems for corporate governance that are not found in other corporate sectors. The Law on Corporate Governance in Banks is the first work to provide a detailed survey and practical examination of key topical issues in the corporate governance of banks and financial institutions.Combining the insight...

The name of Sherlock Holmes conjures images of gas-lit streets and dark mysteries from a bygone age. Solving crimes alongside his trusted friend Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes is without a doubt the most famous sleuth the world has ever known. For more than 100 years, he has been the subject of countless literary works, stage plays, films, television shows, and radio programs.Now, with full authorization from the Conan Doyle estate, we bring you 23 newly written adventures as presented on the ...

Once again, the game's afoot! Out of the fog-shrouded night comes the world-renowned consulting detective and his ever-faithful amanuensis to battle the crimes, solve the mysteries, and reveal all that could ever possibly be known. Here are Holmes and Watson at their best.John Patrick Lowrie stars as Sherlock, with Lawrence Albert as the good doctor in seventeen elegant adaptations of original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Produced by radio legend Jim French, these nineteenth century ...

The frank and revealing memoirs of James Lowry, a young surgeon in Nelson's Mediterranean fleet 1797 to 1804.This is his hand-written journal, never intended for publication, describing his rugged life afloat and fascinating (often erotic) adventures ashore.As one reviewer wrote, it is a "fantastic primary [historical] source and is full of firsthand accounts of several conflicts in His Majesty's Navy." While he describes "details of battles hitherto unknow...

Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World is an eight-hour audio mini-series, based on the classic by R.L. Stevenson.The adaptation resets the story in the Bayous of Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans, and the Caribbean in 1828. This fully dramatized production stars the voices of Keith David as Long John Silver, John Goodman as Billy Bones, and Glynn Turman as the storyteller, along with members of the Firesign Theatre—David Ossman and Phil Proctor. Th...

Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports ofsame-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways atdistrict, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations of the Council of Bishops where we hear prayers,questions, and an outpouring of conviction or anguish.We observe The United Methodist Church grappling with issue...

Painting and Understanding Abstract Art is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of 'what am I doing when I paint?' and 'what am I trying to say in this painting?' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a g...