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  • Spy Chiefs: Volume 2

    Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia

    by Paul Maddrell, Ioanna Iordanou, Emrah Safa Gürkan, Iain Lauchlan, Kristie Macrakis, Bodo V. Hechelhammer0, Paul M. McGarr1, Dina Rezk2 ...
    Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the rule of law. In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was and remains a frightening and opaque figure who exercises secret ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Exchange of Words

    Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity

    by Richard Moran ...
    The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. In The Exchange of Words, Richard Moran ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Executioner's Current

    Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

    by Richard Moran ...
    A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Trump @ Work

    Really Huge Lessons on Leadership, Believe Me

    by Richard Moran ...
    "Unprecedented" is the adjective most often ascribed to everything about Donald Trump. Trump @ Work is about the unprecedented impact that Donald Trump and his Presidency and style has had on attitudes and perceptions of leadership and management. This book brings a unique perspective about what has changed and what has not changed through humorous and true "bullets" and observations.Why do some ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Authority and Estrangement

    An Essay on Self-Knowledge

    by Richard Moran ...
    Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Philosophical Imagination

    Selected Essays

    by Richard Moran ...
    The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in our responsiveness to art, to literature, to the lives of other persons, and in the practice of ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Accidental Vineyard

    An Old House, New Vines, and a Changed Life in Wine Country

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    In a story reminiscent of A Year in Provence and We Bought a Zoo, a spontaneous drive from San Francisco to wine country leads a harried corporate executive and his family to a dilapidated 19th century Victorian home.They set out to return the house to its former grandeur—a journey that yields much more, ultimately restoring their hope for a well-rounded life.Consulting wi... ... Read more

    $21.74 CAD

  • Never Say Whatever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    Life Is Choices. Make Them.Calling in late to a Zoom meeting with kids playing in the background. Avoiding optional meetings. Dodging low-profile assignments. Giving H.R. lunch-and-learns a hard pass. There are countless ways we've become the apathetic version of our corporate selves—dismissing what seems unimportant with a big shrug emoji. Whatever. Who cares?In Never Say Whatever, veteran author ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Nuts, Bolts and Jolts

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    There isnt anyone with a job that cant find a few ideas here that they can use to improve the quality of their work or their life...at a minimum the reader will find plenty of observations that they can claim as their own to establish a reputation as witty, insightful, and good to have at a cocktail party.George Bailey, General Manager Electronics Division, IBM; Author of A Thousand TribesIf you ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Thing About Work

    Showing Up and Other Important Matters [A Worker's Manual]

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    Why does a CEO who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars continue to work?Why does a rock star who has made a bundle continue to tour?Why do retirees’ miss work as soon as they stop doing it?Why do we all wrestle with our life’s work and talk about it incessantly?The thing about work is that we love it, we hate it, we need it, we miss it, we measure ourselves by it, we judge others by ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Accidental Vineyard, The

    An Old House, New Vines, and a Changed Life in Wine Country

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    In a story reminiscent of A Year in Provence and We Bought a Zoo, a spontaneous drive from San Francisco to wine country leads a harried corporate executive and his family to a dilapidated 19th century Victorian home.They set out to return the house to its former grandeur—a journey that yields much more, ultimately restoring their hope for a well-rounded life.Consulting with internationally known ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Never Say Whatever

    How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference

    by Richard A. Moran ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    Calling in late to a Zoom meeting with kids playing in the background. Avoiding optional meetings. Dodging low-profile assignments. Giving HR lunch-and-learns a hard pass. There are countless ways we've become the apathetic version of our corporate selves—dismissing what seems unimportant with a big shrug emoji. Whatever. Who cares?In Never Say Whatever, veteran author and radio host Dr. Richard ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus