“william l grossman”

Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggl... More

Praise from "Industry Week," January 2003,,"."In Henry Ford's Lean Vision...Levinson shows how the father of American mass production toiled to eliminate waste, instituted just-in-time delivery of inventory, and applied many other tools now identified with lean...""Japanese manufacturers have made c... More

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges, "Epi... More

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly... More

This book describes the mass spectrometric and closely related analytical techniques that are more useful for the separation, identification, and measurement of organic and inorganic compounds and ions in environmental and related media. Environmental media are air, water, and earth; related media i... More

Nonprofit leaders are beginning to confront the most important unfinished business of their sector. Having invented scores of successful model programs to address virtually every type of social problem or goal, they are discovering that large-scale, sustained impact remains elusive. Today, the only ... More

A missing girl, a stolen painting, and a mysterious tattoo lead attorney Victor Carl into his most challenging case yet in this latest thriller from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Falls the Shadow.""It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world... More

The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Marked Man" returns with this thriller featuring Victor Carl, one of the genre's most compelling, most morally ambiguous characters ("Booklist")."You want to know what deceit tastes like? It's sweet. Like honey." Over the course of his shady legal career,... More

Through extensive interviews with employees at all levels, William and Kathleen Lundin document typical "dumb" behavior demonstrated by management and survey the damage those behaviors can have on both the people and the organizations they work for. Using the popular "co-dependence" model, they prov... More