Best Selling Books by John Lawrence

Leading case expert L.J. Bourgeois is teamed with well-known researchers and instructors Irene Duhaime and Larry Stimpert, to author the second editon of Strategic Management. A premiere text and casebook, it is unique in that is emphasizes the importance of strategic management from the role of a general manager. In this new edition, special attention is given to the competitive advantage any firm may have with its product or service, as well as to competitive advantage a firm may have within its structure.

This book provides a detailed history of the labourer during this period. A revealing and valuable anaylsis of the social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Explores Mill''s influence on our constitutional rights tradition including the right to privacy, free speech and how we understand liberty.

Escaping the pressures of big-city policing, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. Max''s biggest challenge is to overcome skepticism at her ability to deal with major crimes—like the murder of Billy Ray Edwards. Few people mourn Billy Ray''s passing. He was a bully and was also intent on derailing the biggest development project in the town''s history. But murder''s murder, and Max is ready to solve it on her own and prove her worth to the townspeople. And maybe even to herself. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

A little chick shows that he can make the sounds of the animals in his neighborhood.

Sealed away from public view more than a century at the instruction of their author, Dr John Watson, these three cases of Sherlock Holmes are available here for the first time. Like the earlier volume in this series, each reveals the role Holmes and Watson played in investigating crimes involving actual historical events and prominent personages. "A Grotesquery in Limehouse" explores Holmes'' involvement in solving the mutilation and murder of a Belgian businessman near the London docks, a crime that is linked to the despicable role of King Leopold II in brutally exploiting the people and resources of the Belgian Congo. "The Disappearances at the Flannan Light" recounts Holmes'' role in solving a century and a quarter long mystery concerning what befell the three keeps who vanished without a trace from the remote Scottish Flannan Lighthouse on the cusp of the twentieth century. "The Case of the Shattered Propeller" plunges Holmes and Watson into the inquiry into the disastrous crash of the Wright Flyer during its military trial flight in Fort Myer, Virginia in 1908, revealing long-concealed aspects of this tragic moment in aviation history. These stories have been prepared for public release by John Lawrence, who has edited numerous historic Holmes adventures in the volumes of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures as well as the novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Affair at Mayerling Lodge. He worked for 38 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and is a history Ph.D. and professor living in Washington DC and Santa Fe, New Mexico. His non-fiction works include Arc of Power: Inside the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi, and Class of ''74: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship.

In Russia in the Making (originally published in 1957), John Lawrence presents the long and complicated history of Russia as a living and intelligible whole from the very beginning. Based on a wide knowledge of Russian history and a considerable experience of Soviet ways, his book provides an admirable starting point for wider reading. The author gives a clear outline which demonstrates how authoritarianism is in the tradition of Russian history. Full value is given to the immense changes brought about by the revolution, and the book ends with an analysis of the changes in social structure that forced Stalin’s work into another mould. This book demands no previous knowledge of its subject. The author has used his knowledge of Soviet ways to produce from a complicated and confusing record a most readable and easily digestible narrative.