A young coal heiress is missing. There are precious few clues to indicate whether she has been murdered, kidnapped, or has run away. She was trapped in an unhappy marriage in a coal town where her husband is the manager of the mine. He is a suspect, and so are the gangsters that operate out of the Shady Rest, a local roadhouse and hangout. It is southern Illinois during the Great Depression. The job of finding the missing heiress falls to Marcus Dixon, the young sheriff of the county. He gets help from Mary Ellen Selvedge, who runs the City Café and who wants desperately to be a detective. She has a good head for this type of work, but most of what she knows comes from the movies. She wants to be like Nora Charles in the Thin Man movies, and she wants Marcus to be her Nick Charles. Will they find the right clues to solve the Perfect Murder?
Another Helping of Usable Answers for Practical Problems from Dr. Dave Conrad" This book is written for anyone who works, has worked, will work, or hates work. That just about covers everyone. Our work and our workplace presents challenges, such as, dealing with negative people, working with coworkers who just don't care, or having a boss who makes Josef Mengele look like Mr. Rogers. The business of working and conducting business is tough and we need to do things we like and don't like. However, there are tools and tactics that can be used to make one's work-life a whole lot more pleasant and constructive. Building on Dave's first book, Ask Dave: Applicable Answers to Business Questions, you will read real worker questions that are answered with implementable and focused advice. Dave offers reflection, analysis, and recommendations to the inquiries of organizational staff and management, who are just trying to do their best, get along, with others, have purpose in their life, and feel good about what they do. After all, isn't that what we all really want? The book is based on Dave's newspaper column, which is read by over 100,000 readers. The column is a business Q & A format and has been successfully published for the last 4 years in Southern Minnesota. Dave offers sage (at least interesting and usable) advice to management, employee, leadership, and general business questions.
It is 1899 as twenty-three-year-old Jackie Lindquist settles into a window seat on the train to St. Paul. Dissatisfied as a school marm, Jackie waves goodbye to her forlorn parents on the platform as her former life disappears behind her. Jackie does not look back, only ahead, for she is seeking adventure, riches, and possible romance-and she hopes to find it all amid the Klondike gold rush. Jackie quickly learns that a beautiful young woman traveling alone must face many challenges-one of which is dealing with lecherous men. Determined to not let anyone stop her from realizing her dreams, Jackie transforms her appearance that night and becomes Jack Lindquist. After she continues on to Seattle, she temporarily transforms back into a woman, finds a creative way to fund the remainder of her trip, and soon partners with the handsome Matt Stonemark. While making the dangerous trek to the Klondike, the two rescue and acquire another partner, the newly-widowed Maureen Wilson. As the trio finally reaches their destination in Canada, now only time will tell if each will find exactly what they are seeking. In this historical tale, three partners seeking adventure, love, and riches in the Klondike gold rush must learn to rely on perseverance, courage, and each other to make their dreams come true.
An unknown sniper is systematically killing the prominent men of Franklin, Illinois. No one knows who will be next. Sheriff Marcus Dixon and Detective Mary Ellen Selvedge must catch the killer, and they must do it with little help from the local police or from anyone outside. Its 1936 in the heart of the Great Depression. Th ere are plenty of potential suspects- -men who have lost their jobs, had their homes foreclosed, are broke, or who are just plain angry and desperate. Th en, there are the communists, anarchists, and fascists, all of whom are becoming more active in the Depression. Marcus and Mary Ellen are in love, but they must put their marriage plans on hold until they can catch the killer. Th eir investigations take them from the homes of the rich and powerful in Franklin to a miserable shack in shantytown, even to a training camp for the German American Bund. Every new shooting by the sniper raises the levels of fear and panic in the people of Franklin, and Marcus and Mary Ellen must bring the killer to justice before the town comes apart.
From working with an irate boss, or interacting with a disgruntled colleague, have you ever felt that you needed a trusted advisor or confidant to provide you direct, usable solutions? ... "Prof. David Conrad's book is provides practical answers to those thorny and sensitive questions and issues that arise at our work place. The 80/20 rule reminds us-80 percent of problems arise from 20 percent of our colleagues and employees ... " The] book explores organizational issues written in a conversational style supplying tough questions with applicable, implementable answers. The answers are a distillation of the knowledge gained from Dr. Conrad's management experience and business education.... "As I read the book, I found answers based on strong evidence from business literature, dealing with real business struggles (conflict management, negotiation, team-building, etc.) and the answers describe the best tactic to handle the unique situations.... There is a wealth of information in this book. I recommend this book to anyone working in small or large organizations, students, or any lifelong learners to advance their workplace knowledge and skills." From the Foreword, by Amit K. Ghosh, MD, MBA, FACP Director of International Program, Division of General Internal Medicine Professor, College of Medicine College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota "I will give copies of this book to friends and relatives who are just starting out--and, yes, to some who are already enmired in the complex world of business relationships. More experienced readers will sgain even more from Dave Conrad's wisdom. I've learned a lot from this book, even after 50 years of management and teaching experience." Robert J. Banis, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.M.A. CEO, Science & Humanities Press Teaching Professor of Logistics & Operations Management (ret.) University of Missouri-St Louis "Dr. Conrad's book tells you the time and spares you the process of having to make the watch " Richard Arians, former MBA student Dave Conrad, Ed.D. isBook Title: Ask Dave: Usable Answers to Business Questions Author Bio: Dave is Assistant Professor of Business at Augsburg College and Associate Director of the Augsburg MBA program, director at the Rochester campus. He is also an independent consultant working with companies in sales and marketing, management, and leadership development. Previously, he was the Minnesota Enrollment & Marketing Manager for Cardinal Stritch University. Prior to that, he was the Director of Continuing Education and The Leadership Institute for Winona State University in Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to that position, he taught business and management for four years at Winona State University, and served as adjunct at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Concordia University in St. Paul, Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Saint Mary's University of MN, and The University of Minnesota. From 1975 though 2001, Dave was successful in sales, marketing, and sales and marketing management for public and private companies in the wine and spirits, industrial, and medical supply industries. Dave has an Ed.D. in Leadership (organizational track) from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He has a Master's Degree in Management from Saint Mary's and a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Winona State University. He has lived in Rochester since 1978 with his wife, Patricia RN (36 years of wedded bliss) and has three grown-up(?) children. His passion is teaching and helping people and organizations develop and succeed. Book Background. My book is based on my newspaper column, which is read by over 100,000 readers. My column is a business Q & A format and has been successfully published for the last 3 years in Southern Minnesota. I offer sage (at least interesting and usable) advice to management, employee, leadership, and general business questions. The book is a compilation of select articles grouped in chapters with lead-ins for each
In-depth visual refernence guides you can carry anywhereEach DK Pocket guide is a feast of information in a handy size. Every page is filled with fascinating facts and full-color photography for quick reference and stimulating reading. These six titles are part of the ongoing DK Pockets reference library -- a library you can carry anywhere.
Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richter's letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, this biography offers an intimate account of Richter's personal struggle to achieve success in his own and in other people's terms. Johnson's biography will engage anyone interested in the art of biography and in a novelist's act of writing. Admirers of Richter's novels will also find much of interest in his life. So, too, will those who find value in the story of a man who, despite his sense of himself as an imperfect vessel for God's plan for human evolution, lived his life with as much grace, determination, and courage as he could.
Originally published in 1985, as with the earlier volumes in the series, the reader of The Rover is here provided a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. Using the tables in this concordance, the reader should be better able to address the issue of style and determine on a more informed basis whether Conrad has deliberately eschewed the adjectival and even the figurative in favour of a lean, spare style, or whether he has simply tangled his style in rhetorical excesses and imprecisions.
This work includes Foreword by Ian Banks - President, Men's Health Forum. Traditionally, men have been seen as reluctant to access health services, but getting men to engage with their health isn't an impossible task once you're equipped with a few tricks of the trade. This concise, easy to read guide offers a no-nonsense, practical approach to the development and implementation of men's health programmes. Based on years of wide-ranging experience, the book is designed for anyone who is involved in service delivery for men and boys, and demonstrates what can be achieved with adequate resources, a flexible approach and a sound understanding of men's needs. It is ideal for all healthcare professionals and managers, and medicine and nursing students undertaking specialist men's health and health promotion courses. It is also of great interest to teachers and youth leaders, including school nurses. Healthcare policy makers and shapers will find it enlightening reading. 'This book is for anyone who wants to find out how to successfully set up and deliver health services aimed at men and boys. Traditionally, men have been seen as reluctant to access health services, but getting men to engage with their health isn't an impossible task once you're equipped with a few tricks of the trade. Although this is primarily intended to be a practical guide, much of the book will also be of interest to academics, policy makers and managers. It demonstrates what can be achieved with adequate resources, a flexible approach and a sound understanding of men's needs.' - David Conrad and Alan White, in the Preface. 'As an issue men's health is plagued by myth, ignorance and inequality, but most of all by a lack of solid research based on evidence-based work with men themselves. Lofty academics pontificate endlessly on the meaning of 'masculinity' yet never get their invariably white Caucasian, middle class hands dirty on what really impacts on Y chromosome owners. The Bradford team didn't just wonder about masculinity and scratch male pattern baldness, they did something measurable about men's health and ethnicity so other workers could use their evidence base to actually change the dreadful health status quo. An excellent and unique "Dirty Hands Manual".' - Ian Banks, in the Foreword.
This collection of Civil War-era letters includes epistles from the family of Charles Leverett, an Episcopal clergyman and Lowcountry planter, and his wife, Mary Maxcy Leverett."--Carolinian.
This book looks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the American market, before it was extensively revised and published in novel form. Presciently anticipating the climate of modern terror, Conrad’s text responds to the failed Greenwich Bombing, the first anarchist atrocity to occur on English soil. This book charts its historical and cultural milieu via press and anarchist accounts of the bombing, to place Conrad foremost among the dynamite fiction of revolutionary anarchism and terrorism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a pioneering American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.Throughout his six-decade career he forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and defined a vast range of culture, including rock music and public access television.In music, Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (The Dream Syndicate), which included John Cale and La Monte Young. In the early 1960s he was also influential in the origins of the iconic band, The Velvet Underground. In film, Conrad was associated with the Structuralist movement which included filmmakers such as Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton.This richly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth introduction to Conrad's life and career: presenting his early Structuralist films projects in which he treated film as a sculptural and performative material; his Invented Acoustical Tools which presented as sculptures themselves; the ambitious films about power relations, set in the military and in prison; and his final sculptures and installations, which evoke and critique what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control, and containment.This book also includes Conrad's own writings writings from 1966 to 2016, as well as texts by curators, theorists and notable artists such as Tony Oursler, Christopher Müller, and Christopher Williams.Accompanying the exhibition, Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University (2018/2019), and ICA, University of Pennsylvania (2019).
Originally published in 1985, as with the earlier volumes in the series, the reader of The Rover is here provided a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. Using the tables in this concordance, the reader should be better able to address the issue of style and determine on a more informed basis whether Conrad has deliberately eschewed the adjectival and even the figurative in favour of a lean, spare style, or whether he has simply tangled his style in rhetorical excesses and imprecisions.
Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.
Profiles Wilma Rudolph, who overcame polio to become a runner, the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals, and the founder of a group that helps poor children to do better in school and learn sports.
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