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If you are interested in the story of the Romanovs' pet prophet this is the book to read.' Boris Akunin, author of the Erast Fandorin mysteries A century after his murder, Rasputin is still widely seen as the personification of evil and the truth has remained shrouded in myth. In this acclaimed biography, Douglas Smith separates fact from fiction to reveal the real Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, ad...

The definitive classic on high-performance teams The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors' clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Using engaging ca...

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Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practica...

The riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the RevolutionWinner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star and SalonEpic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It ...

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Why do some salespeople out-sell, out-earn and outlast everyone else? It is because they think, work and approach selling differently than everyone else! A "must read" for every sales professional serious about making more money, Green Zone Selling is a collection of more than 50 best practices and winning approaches used by top salespeople in business today. Unlike other books on selling that are either far too elementary or full of manipulat...

One of America' s leading hospice experts offers practical, easy-to-follow advice for caregivers and a holistic approach to treating the infirm or the terminally ill. Author Douglas C. Smith organizes his material around " A Bill of Patient' s Rights, " a unique system he has taught to thousands throughout the country. He explains that the caregiver should enable patients to retain these rights: to be in control • to have a sense of purpose • ...

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This book imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems, an immersion in Marie Curie's life.

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Effective Teaching is a BALANCING ACTIF YOU ARE A TEACHER, YOU NEED THIS BOOK! Here you will find a systematic process that will reveal things to you about your students you have never known, then show you how to use that knowledge to radically change the way you teach and the way they learn! As of this writing, the innovative and non-intrusive process explained in this book has been implemented by classroom teachers in public schools with ove...

The use of coal is required to help satisfy the world's energy needs. Yet coal is a difficult fossil fuel to consume efficiently and cleanly. We believe that its clean and efficient use can be increased through improved technology based on a thorough understanding of fundamental physical and chemical processes that occur during consumption. The principal objective of this book is to provide a current summary of this technology. The past techno...

Illustrated collection of the best tales, including: The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree, And The Golden Water The Story Of The Fisherman And The Genie The History Of The Young King Of The Black Isles The Story Of Gulnare Of The Sea The Story Of Aladdin, Or, The Wonderful Lamp The Story Of Prince Agib The Story Of The City Of Brass The Story Of Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves The History Of Codadad And His Brothers The Story Of Sinbad The Voyager.

Subtitled, "A True Tale Of Forbidden Love In Catherine The Great's Russia".