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  • Legal Knowledge in Organizations

    A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage

    by Robert C. Bird ...
    This work offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult for rivals to imitate. Bird presents a five-part framework that outlines how firms can use legal knowledge in competitive markets and how ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Tenderfoot Days

    by George Robert Bird ...
    This book is neither a History nor a Topography of the Territory of Utah in the early seventies of the last century. The volume is due to the experiences of an outsider who tried to be impartial in his views and sympathies. The personal note, of course, rings in this record of those past days. No onslaught is made on the "wild and woolly" west, nor on the eccentric religion of the majority of the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert C. Byrd

    Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

    by ROBERT C. BYRD ...
    This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service.His journey from the hardscrabble coalfields to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Letter to the New President

    Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

    by Robert C. Byrd, Steve Kettmann ...
    A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nationUnited States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation, for fifty-four years, and has served alongside eleven Presidents. He was twice elected by his ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Tangled Web

    by Donald J. Hunt, Anne Bishop, Chris Gerrib, James Lovegrove, Jason Evans, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Steve H Silver, Toni Johnson, Michael Auld, Wren Roberts, Joshua Byrd, Peter J. Borger ...
    From E.B. White's motherly Charlotte to J.R.R. Tolkien's monstrous Shelob, spiders both lovable and loathsome have crept their way into human literature. Here is a collection of tales about these fearsome, yet fascinating creatures. A golden spider learns how to spin webs of dreams and visions…A modern London barrister is chosen to be the vessel for an ancient African god…A scientist discovers ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Senate of the Roman Republic

    Addresses on the Roman Constitutionalism

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by Robert Bird ...
    Series Book 40 - Critical Lives
    Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot – the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most enduring characters. He is acknowledged by critics as a pre-eminent writer of psychological fiction and a precursor of twentieth-century existentialism.Set in the troubled political and social world of nineteenth ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Vision and Communism

    Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith, Matthew Jesse Jackson ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vision and Communism

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an "avant-garde late Communist art" would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    by Robert Bird ...
    The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Tenderfoot Days

    by George Robert Bird ...
    This is a memoir by a nonMormon about his experiences in the prospecting camps of Utah at the turn of the 19th century. Written as a firstperson perspective by an outsider, it gives a sympathetic account of the Mormons, but also brings up some darker aspects about their history. It's also pretty racist towards Native Americans, so, as always with these old books, please bear in mind the context ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

    Voices from a Medieval Village

    by Laura Amy Schlitz ...
    Illustrated by Robert Byrd ...
    Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Winner of the Newbery Medal.Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

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