Búsqueda de Editorial : VELLUM (ORM)

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  • "I HEREBY RESIGN"
    STEVEN L. MANCHEL
    A concise, practical guide to problem-free job transitions for employees, recruiters, and business leaders: "Incredibly user-friendly." —James B. Adelman, Esq., Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Commonwealth Financial Network The fundamental purpose of this book is to provide a useful how-to guide for people who are deciding whether to leave their current employer and joi...

    $229.00

  • WE DO KNOW HOW
    JAMES T. RIORDAN
    An insider with practical experience in development work reveals how understanding market realities can more effectively reduce poverty. This book by a practitioner—not an academic, government official, or pundit—has been written for practitioners and offers fresh thinking on how to do international development work. It combines that thinking with practical guidance, in plain E...

    $251.00

  • POT SHARDS
    DONALD P. GREGG
    "Donald Gregg's career . . . would make a great spy novel. This autobiography makes an even better book." —Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and bestselling author of Enemies Pot Shards is a memoir, based on the author's unforgettable experiences. He served as a CIA agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, and a tour in Burma. He then spent four years...

    $229.00

  • BLAMING NO ONE
    DAN WHITMAN
    Personal and professional reflections from a former US Foreign Service officer. This book is a series of reflections at the point of retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service after a career spent in locations around the globe. The collection of public blog postings, all colored by the author's experience, include short essays on the following themes: personal anecdote, people/pr...

    $251.00

  • CHINA BOYS
    NICHOLAS PLATT
    In this political memoir, an American diplomat offers an insightful and personal account of the beginnings of U.S. relations with China.   Diplomat Nicholas Platt was an integral part of President Nixon's historic visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972, as well as the creation of America's first diplomatic office there. In China Boys, Platt candidly describes his exper...

    $251.00

  • LIES THAT MATTER
    ALLAN GERSON
    The true story of a DOJ prosecutor's complicated quest to deport Nazis: "The lessons that Mr. Gerson learns, and shares, could not be more timely." —Seth Waxman, former US Solicitor General As the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought his professional assignment to investigate and deport those who persecuted his family and others like them would ma...

    $229.00

  • "THE TRIPLE WHAMMY" AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    LUIS MENASHE
    An American historian, film specialist, and documentary filmmaker shares candid stories of his life in Russia during and after the Cold War. A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist, and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author's experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, ...

    $229.00

  • LEFT-HANDED IN AN ISLAMIC WORLD
    JOHN P. MASON
    A social anthropologist recounts his time living and working in the Middle East. In Left-Handed in the Islamic World, the author, a social anthropologist, shares stories of Arabs he met and lived with, covering a period from 1968 to 2012. Lawrence of Arabia serves as an inspiration for the journey. Throughout the book the author calls upon a significant amount of history to giv...

    $229.00

  • RADIO FREE EUROPE
    J. F. BROWN
    The story of Radio Free Europe's role during the Cold War, as recounted by veteran RFE official J. F. Brown, who served as director from 1978 to 1983. Jim Brown had written about Eastern Europe from RFE, but never about RFE?until he wrote this book. He conveys his understanding of how Radio Free Europe functioned as a decentralized organization that empowered exiles, while also...

    $229.00

  • THE REAGAN-GORBACHEV ARMS CONTROL BREAKTHROUGH
    DAVID T. JONES
    An analysis of the negotiations, both international and domestic, behind this landmark treaty through the words of those directly involved. This book analyzes the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles through vivid, fresh impressions by those who conducted the INF negotiations. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough brings this period to life through ...

    $229.00

  • THE ITALIANS OF NEW YORK
    MAURIZIO MOLINARI
    An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds. "If you want to learn something about Italian creativity, come to New York. Here, you will find the pride of flying the Italian colors at the Fifth Avenue Columbus Day Parade, the American patriotism of those who perished at Ground Zero, th...

    $229.00