Shooting the Sleaze is a comic thriller that tingles the spine while tickling the funny-bone. It sets official state agencies at loggerheads with private sector counter-intelligence, each employing its own little band of killers. These frequently fall over each others feet. Meanwhile, someone is killing off reporters of the nations leading tabloid. Odd movements like The Poor Peoples Army and the Last of the Republicans are planning to blow away half of Londons famous landmarks. In additio...

Here's the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It's an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson.

This is the story of Andrew; A man with a troubled childhood who escaped the madness of home to the library. His life was turned around by an act of Christian charity; when a believer he met at a free bbq in the park paid his Boy Scout fees. It made him a man fit to survive in a harsh world of homelessness, madness and addiction. It attacks the absurdity of the mental health and addiction system in Australia; not even AA escapes its critical eye. His story deals with a dark subject in a br...

**"Examples from all over the world make it fun to read . . . convincingly demonstrate[s] the power of incorporating frontline thinking into your organization." —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of TriggersToo many organizations overlook, or even suppress, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation—and it's right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products...

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants efficient government. But most innovation efforts try to change the very nature of government-such as dismantling bureaucracy or privatizing services-and thus they usually fail.Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder accept government on its own terms and simply ask how some existing o...

Haunted by an intrinsic truth he denies, yet relishing his first gay experiences, a Southern man wrestles with prejudice, faith, and desire in this raw and intimate work of LGBTQ+ literary fiction from Alan Jay Robinson.A man in the Bible Belt does the unforgivable: He cheats on his wife...and not with another woman. Roy Stevens will go to any length to bury his shame-he'll lie, he'll run. And when a loved one's quest sends him to New York City, he walks straight i...

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones.In their six-year, five-country study of seventy-sev...

"A clear and concise prescription for turning an organization into an idea machine." —Jeff Taylor, Founder of Monster.comThe fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work, front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas.Ideas Are Free sets out a ro...

The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder draw on their ten years...

Most companies know that their creative performance falls far short of potential, but they don't know what to do about it. Corporate Creativity has the answers.

Collects New Fantastic Four #1-5. Spider-Man! Ghost Rider! Wolverine! The Hulk! When these unlikely heroes first banded together to briefly become the new Fantastic Four, they made Marvel history. Now this fan-favorite team returns in an all-new adventure! Set shortly after the events of the group's first appearance, brace yourself for a wild ride and guest stars aplenty - including, of course, the original FF! And a series of mystery villains you'll never see coming! But can even this pow...