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Day Trips® from Houston

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Paris Permenter,John Bigley

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Day Trips® from Houston

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Paris Permenter,John Bigley

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Houston. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Houston metro area. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from Houston helps make the most of a brief getaway.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762795751

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9780762795758

DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED

By: Paris Permenter,John Bigley

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DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED

By: Paris Permenter,John Bigley

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762795743

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9780762795741

Leading the Lean Initiative

Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in

By: John W. Davis

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Leading the Lean Initiative

Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in

By: John W. Davis

In his latest offering, John Davis tackles the "human" side of a lean initiative -- cultivating a lean culture and gaining employee buy-in. How managers deal with these issues will ultimately determine their success. Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in shows you how to lead a lean effort and effectively manage change. It is a practical manual for the new manager. Though directed at plant managers, and specifically those new to their jobs, this book benefits anyone taking on a leadership role. Davis provides complete direction on the crucial first steps and advise on competently responding to the "unknown and unexpected." In addition the book covers how to: Gain the respect and active support of the workforce. Work effectively with unions and customers. Create a culture for change. Actively seek out key people in your organization. Diplomatically buck the system. Extend lean to the entire enterprise. Develop and effectively earmark your plan for operation. Cultivate a winning relationship with your boss. Deal with major setbacks in business conditions. Throughout the text, Davis weaves the story of Jim Warring, a plant manager who is new to the job, detailing his frustrations, challenges, and accomplishments, and how he handles the daily responsibilities of a plant manager. At the end of each chapter, Davis rates Warring on how he performed in his role as plant manager and as a leader of the plant's lean initiative by presenting "The Warring Scorecard." Davis points out where he succeeded, and where he made some serious mistakes. Leading the Lean Initiative: Straight Talk on Cultivating Support and Buy-in, is a valuable resource or all managers in any industry. This book will show you how to effectively lead in your organization and how to cultivate a cooperative environment.

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276

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CRC Press

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1563272474

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9781563272479

Inside U.S.A.

By: John Gunther

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Inside U.S.A.

By: John Gunther

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther’s classic portrait of America John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent superpower. This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.

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1160

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The New Press

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1620977370

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9781620977378

Lean Manufacturing

Implementation Strategies that Work : a Roadmap to Quick and Lasting Success

By: John W. Davis

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Lean Manufacturing

Implementation Strategies that Work : a Roadmap to Quick and Lasting Success

By: John W. Davis

Typically understood and/or accepted as the general path of implementation it took. It contains a list of important 'Key Reflections' at the end of each chapter

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202

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Industrial Press Inc.

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0831133856

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9780831133856

Goodbye, Judge Lynch

The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin

By: John W. Davis

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Goodbye, Judge Lynch

The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin

By: John W. Davis

Tells the fascinating story of how lawlessness finally came to an end in the Big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming--one of the last frontiers in the continental United States.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806137746

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9780806137742

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

By: John Z. Sadler

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Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

By: John Z. Sadler

In this work, John Z. Sadler examines the nature and significance for practice of the value-content of psychiatric diagnostic classification.

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Oxford University Press

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0198526377

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9780198526377

White Shoe

How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century

By: John Oller

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White Shoe

How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century

By: John Oller

The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing."—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury. But by the year 1900, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law. Working hand in glove with their clients, over the next two decades these New York City “white shoe” lawyers devised and implemented legal strategies that would drive the business world throughout the twentieth century. These lawyers were architects of the monopolistic new corporations so despised by many, and acted as guardians who helped the kings of industry fend off government overreaching. Yet they also quietly steered their robber baron clients away from a “public be damned” attitude toward more enlightened corporate behavior during a period of progressive, turbulent change in America. Author John Oller, himself a former Wall Street lawyer, gives us a richly-written glimpse of turn-of-the-century New York, from the grandeur of private mansions and elegant hotels and the city’s early skyscrapers and transportation systems, to the depths of its deplorable tenement housing conditions. Some of the biggest names of the era are featured, including business titans J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, lawyer-statesmen Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Among the colorful, high-powered lawyers vividly portrayed, White Shoe focuses on three: Paul Cravath, who guided his client George Westinghouse in his war against Thomas Edison and launched a new model of law firm management—the “Cravath system”; Frank Stetson, the “attorney general” for financier J. P. Morgan who fiercely defended against government lawsuits to break up Morgan’s business empires; and William Nelson Cromwell, the lawyer “who taught the robber barons how to rob,” and was best known for his instrumental role in creating the Panama Canal. In White Shoe, the story of this small but influential band of Wall Street lawyers who created Big Business is fully told for the first time.

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450

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Penguin

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1524743259

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9781524743253

Last Time Out

Big-league Farewells of Baseball's Greats

By: John Nogowski

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Last Time Out

Big-league Farewells of Baseball's Greats

By: John Nogowski

Last Time Out recounts the circumstances surrounding the final games of some of the greatest baseball players like Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb and others, and puts you in a box seat to witness and sense the moment as these glorious careers ceased, most often with little fanfare.

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352

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589790804

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9781589790803

Manchester

By: John B. Clarke

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Manchester

By: John B. Clarke

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385236215

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9783385236219

Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing

Straight Talk from a Plant Manager

By: John W. Davis

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Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing

Straight Talk from a Plant Manager

By: John W. Davis

Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition, yet large numbers of manufacturers simply do not recognize what it is all about. Many still operate under out dated manufacturing practices and do not see that the enemy is not the competition, but rather their own system of production.

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CRC Press

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1000077551

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9781000077551

My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917

A Memoir

By: John J. Pershing

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My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917

A Memoir

By: John J. Pershing

The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture and how it influences Americans' perceptions of the country's highest political office. In this timely volume, editors Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren lead a team of scholars in examining how the president and the first lady exist as a function of public expectations and cultural gender roles. The authors investigate how the candidates' messages are conveyed, altered, and interpreted in "hard" and "soft" media forums, from the nightly news to daytime talk shows, and from tabloids to the blogosphere. They also address the portrayal of the presidency in film and television productions such as Kisses for My President (1964), Air Force One (1997), and Commander in Chief (2005). With its strong, multidisciplinary approach, Women and the White House commences a wider discussion about the possibility of a female president in the United States, the ways in which popular perceptions of gender will impact her leadership, and the cultural challenges she will face.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813141990

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9780813141992

Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County

By: John W. Davis

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Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County

By: John W. Davis

Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806183802

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9780806183800

Book's by John W. Davis

Day Trips® from Houston

Day Trips® from Houston

DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED

DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED

Leading the Lean Initiative

Leading the Lean Initiative

Inside U.S.A.

Inside U.S.A.

Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing

Goodbye, Judge Lynch

Goodbye, Judge Lynch

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

White Shoe

White Shoe

Last Time Out

Last Time Out

Manchester

Manchester

Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing

Fast Track to Waste-Free Manufacturing

My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917

My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917

Wyoming Range War

Wyoming Range War

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