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  • Our 351 Sons

    by John Gillespie ...
    In 1965, a few years after taking in Jerry Monson, a 13-year old foster boy from an unfortunate family situation into their home, John and Jan founded the non-profit Rawhide Boys Ranch. The following year they enlisted Bart Starr, of Green Bay Packer fame, and his wife, Cherry, to partner with them. With their support, Rawhide became one of the most successful residential programs in the nation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Transplanting Commercial Law Reform

    Developing a 'Rule of Law' in Vietnam

    by John Gillespie ...
    The first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia, this volume examines the prospects for transplanting a 'rule of law' that will attract and sustain international trade and investment in this economically dynamic region. The book develops both a general model that explains how legal transplantation shapes legal development in the region, whilst developing theoretical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

    by John Gillespie ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Piano
    Most listeners can readily distinguish between the works of such keyboard giants as Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt and between various national schools, but when it comes to defining what the differences are, relating the various interconnections, discovering information on the hundreds of other keyboard composers, and actually finding playing editions, the task becomes much greater. To aid the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

    A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes

    by John Gillespie, Albert Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Law in Asia
    Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking towards China and Vietnam as models for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Money for Nothing

    How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America

    by John Gillespie, David Zweig ...
    **A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.According to their employment agreements -- approved by boards -- 96 percent of large company CEOs have guarantees that do not allow them to be fired "for cause" for unsatisfactory performance, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Money for Nothing

    How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions

    by John Gillespie, David Zweig ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Of the world's two hundred largest economies, more than half are corporations. They have more influence on our lives than any other institution, but while boards of directors are supposed to police CEOs and provide independent leadership, they have become enabling lapdogs rather than trustworthy watchdogs. As America contends with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, all eyes are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Unexpected Journal: Dystopia

    Volume 2, #3

    by An Unexpected Journal, Michael S. Heiser, John Gillespie, Alicia Pollard, George Scondras, Cherish Nelson, Daniel Asperheim, Donald W. Catchings, Jr, Annie Crawford, Karise Gililland, Nicole Howe, Korine Martinez, Jason Monroe, Seth Myers, Zak Schmoll ...
    Series Book 3 - Volume 2
    It is in the deepest darkness that light shines most brightly. For this reason, dystopian stories are often an effective channel to communicate the good news of the Gospel. Our worst failings illustrate the transformation of the Holy Spirit most clearly. We cling most tightly to hope in times of deepest despair.This collection of essays and first release short stories illustrates the journey ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Population Genetics

    A Concise Guide

    by John H. Gillespie ...
    This concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipline that connects genetics and evolution. Addressing the theories behind population genetics and relevant empirical evidence, John Gillespie discusses genetic drift, natural selection, nonrandom mating, quantitative genetics, and the evolutionary advantage of sex. First published to wide acclaim in 1998, this ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Inexorable Modernity

    Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, Brenda G. Jordan, David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Jonah Salz, Mayu Tsuruya, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. ...
    Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • European Gastronomy into the 21st Century

    by Cailein Gillespie ...
    Gastronomy is the art and science of good eating and drinking: a concept that extends outwards to embrace wider notions of tradition, culture, society and civilisation. This book provides a rigorous, well researched and much needed treatment of the subject, systematically outlining: * the development of European gastronomic tradition, and the social, economic, philosophical and geographical ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Stars

    by Katie Gillespie and John Willis ...
    Series series EyeDiscover
    Did you know that the Sun is our closest star? On a clear night, we can see about 2,500 different stars in the sky. Discover these andmore intriguing facts in Stars. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Taste

    by Katie Gillespie and John Willis ...
    Series series EyeDiscover
    Did you know that umami foods have a meaty flavor? Our sense of taste lets us enjoy many different flavors. Discover these and otherinteresting facts in Taste. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD