Best Selling Books by J. Graham

Many Scots sought their fortune on the high seas during the turn of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Some became well-respected pirate hunters, other suffered at the hands of pirates. Eric Graham explores all the elements of Scotland''s connections with piracy, including the trial that triggered the Act of Union in 1707. It charts the life and times of those who followed the ''skull and cross bones'' as often as not, to the gallows.

Ensure the success of your company''s special projects Crisp execution of projects is critical to the survival of today''s organizations. This practical book is filled with ideas and examples that will teach you how to build project management competence in your organization. --Lewis E. Platt, chairman, president and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company Finally, a book that fills the void on how to develop project management as an organizational practice. Using the enviable processes already in place at Hewlett-Packard and other progressive companies as touchstones, Graham and Englund serve up solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects, especially the development of new products. Building on an incisive examination of the critical role upper-tier management plays in the overall success of projects, the authors show managers exactly what they must do to support the process and implement project management as an organization-wide directive. Packed with leading-edge, real-world examples, a sample project review and other tools, this book will help your organization make and sustain the cultural changes that encourage a project manager''s best work.

WHAT WAS IT REALLY LIKE TO FIGHT AS AN AMERICAN DOUGHBOY? Lost and forgotten for over 90 years, this book is the result of one street-wise and peace-loving but fiercely patriotic American soldier who went well beyond the typical censored letters, pocket diaries , and post-war memoirs to help answer that question for future generations. Through a unique combination of skill, circumstance and strong personal motivation, Private William J. Graham (Company B, 103rd Military Police Battalion, 28th Division/First Army) delivers one of the most compelling, detailed, and true real-time eyewitness accounts of an American soldier''s W.W. 1 experience ever recorded and available in print now for the first time. Over four thousand miles from his home, family and work as a Philadelphia mounted policeman, thirty-nine year old William J. Graham found himself fighting as a detached field M.P. in war-devastated northern France as one of over two million men and women who made up the American Expeditionary Forces in the bloody latter half of 1918. Through his keen eyes and artful powers of description, it is not difficult to imagine yourself slogging through the muddy blood-spattered fields of the Western Front as the earth trembles and German shells scream overhead...where hunger, "cooties", and death are constant companions. Private Graham''s uncensored journal of over 650 hand-written pages was penned by him not from memory while resting comfortably by a warm fire in a stuffed chair...but incredibly in France while the events he describes actually unfolded around him under raw filthy field conditions. Richly illustrated with over 300 rare original and previously unpublished images, this book gives readers an authentic and powerfully moving description of the horrific sights and emotions of Americans at war with the German "Hun" in the world''s first-ever global conflict. This work is of unique value to everyone but especially to the historian or student of the period , serving as an accurate and superbly detailed description of what many U.S. fighting men experienced "doing their bit" while struggling to survive yet another day..."Somewhere in France"!

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On the Martian Frontier in 2084, a mystery illness threatens to kill twelve-year-old farm girl Gloria Patri Fowler Cruz. This provokes her dad, Mama''s aristocrat ex-husband Peyton, to defy social class divisions that ripped him from his family. And Gloria''s new, wearable medical device doesn''t work without an artificial intelligence. She substitutes her entertainment AI, dressed as a digital dog, Jake. Her AI develops human qualities, thanks to magic that he believes comes from God. Gloria questions if she can trust her dad, Jake, or God. In the colony''s capitol, Peyton''s vice admiral father rules like a king, hates Mama''s family, and will do anything to keep them out of the aristocracy. But politics is Dad''s thing. Gloria would rather clobber her "bro forever," Holter Sloan. He has no time to play. He''s too busy crushing on her fraternal twin!