The “revealing” (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a “front-row seat on the hidden world of intelligence” (The Washington Post). Former CIA director George J. Tenet called Company Man a “must read.”Over the course of a thirty-four-year (1976-2009) career, John Rizzo served under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, ultimately becoming a controversial public figure and a symbol and victim of the toxic wind...

Guide to create unlimited value in any organization, supported by rich, granular company storiesDrawing from real stories of how companies relentlessly improved quality, delivery, service, and cost structure, Creating Value: Empowering People for Sustainable Success that Benefits Employees, Customers, and Owners offers simple, powerful ways to think and act to unlock the nascent value of any enterprise. This book shares a dynamic business system that, when...

A worker suggested moving a machine six inches. It changed everything.Nobody Ever Asked Before is a multigenerational business novel that traces the arc of participative management from the 1927 Hawthorne experiments to a modern-day factory transformation in Syracuse, New York, and into the era of artificial intelligence.It is a story about what happens when organizations stop treating workers as costs to be managed and start treating them...

In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figure—a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington. From serving as the point person answering for the Iran-Contra scandal to ap...

Class pet Peanut Buttercup is thrilled to learn that Ms. Markela's class is going to the zoo. The little guinea pig wants to meet her hero: Athena, the zoo's capybara! Sneaking a ride to the field trip, Peanut Buttercup finds herself closer to her hero than she ever could have imagined. Is the zoo ready for the class and its sneaky class pet?

Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario. First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Its history is deeply tied to its water. Situated in the narrows where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching, Orillia was a gathering place for centuries before Europeans used it to bring furs to market. Sir John Simcoe, first governor of Upper Canada, fostered permanent settle...

Blind Visionaries and AI: Seeing Differently is an in-depth exploration of how individuals with diverse visual impairments leverage technology, and especially AI, to reimagine their perceptions of the world. Central authors Dagmar Jamieson, who lost her sight due to cone-rod dystrophy, and Mark Rawleigh, diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), provide foundational narratives informed by their personal journeys, establishing context for insightful contributions from a diverse gro...

Effective use of driving simulators requires considerable technical and methodological skill along with considerable background knowledge. Acquiring the requisite knowledge and skills can be extraordinarily time consuming, yet there has been no single convenient and comprehensive source of information on the driving simulation research being conducted around the world. A how-to-do-it resource for researchers and professionals, Handbook of Driving Simulation for Engineering, Medicin...

Amigo, Ms. Garcia's class pet axolotl, overhears his class talking about a local Mexican American festival and decides he wants to go. He quickly catches a ride in a student's water bottle, and soon he's taking in the sights and sounds of the party! But before long, he realizes that a festival can be a dangerous place for little axolotl. Will Amigo make it back to the classroom in one piece?

Terrence, Mr. Saz's class pet turtle, likes things slow and quiet. But when a rowdy student named Randall volunteers to take Terrence home for spring break, Terrence's world will be turned upside down. Can the turtle survive the terror of Randall's home and, even worse, a trip to the beach?

Topics include: Why Economics Matters to Critical Care Clinicians, Overview of Health Economics: Basics Concept for Clinicians;Health Economic Methods; Costs of Critical Care Medicine; Economic Aspects of Sepsis and Severe Infections; Economic Aspects of Renal Failure and Acute Kidney Injury; Economic Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease; Economics of Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Failure and Comparative Effective Research and Health Care Reform.

The class pet hedgehog is spending the weekend before Valentine's Day with one of the class's students. Love is in the air with valentine crafting and talk about the upcoming class party. So when the sweet hedgehog spots the family pet, it's no surprise that she becomes lovestruck! How will this class pet's love story end?