Best Selling Books by Paul Rogers

Rich in anecdotes and humor, Bill Werber''s Memories of a Ballplayer is a clear-eyed memoir of the world of big-league baseball in the 1930s. Originally published by SABR in hardcover in 2000 and in paperback in 2001, the book is still in print, but now also available as an ebook.

Dithering. Decisions that turn out wrong. Decisions that people sabotage or don''t know how to implement. If your company''s experiencing these problems, it''s not alone. Most organizations don''t know how to make and execute good decisions. And they''re paying a high price—as profitability and competitiveness erode. It doesn''t have to be this way. In Decide and Deliver, the authors draw on Bain & Company''s extensive research to present a five-step process for improving your firm''s decision effectiveness: 1. Assess your decision effectiveness—and how your organization affects it. 2. Identify your critical decisions. 3. Set individual critical decisions up for success. 4. Ensure that your company enables and reinforces great decision making and execution. 5. Embed the changes in everyday practice. Master this process, and you see immediate results: people across your organization collaborate to make crucial decisions better and faster than your rivals. And they execute them flawlessly-fueling unprecedented financial performance. Filled with powerful hands-on tools and detailed examples from companies as varied as Ford Motor Company, British American Tobacco, Telstra, Lafarge, and ABB UK, Decide and Deliver helps you make decision management a potent competitive weapon in your company.

If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaida in Yemen, the chaos in Libya and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan have all shown that to be wishful thinking. Once again the West is at war in the Middle East.

-- World''s leading security expert asseses prospects for a war with Iran --Iraq stands on the edge of civil war. As sectarian killings escalate, and troops become more deeply entrenched, is there any prospect of an exit strategy? Leading security expert

This is my third book of Poetry reflecting my thoughts on life experiences based upon my Christian faith and my own humanity. Poems on The Book of Revelation fill the centrepages. The Poem "The State of Nothing" is my interpetation of a state where nothing exists. The poems on Revelation are, for Christians, the contradictory evidence, offering us the hope and certainty for our future in Him.

Although forest health may be difficult to define and measure, a strong demand exists for assessment of forest conditions at various state, regional, and national scales. Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) is a national program designed to measure the status, changes, and trends of forest conditions annually. This report presents a broad view of forest health issues affecting the Interior West region of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. We found that the forests of the Interior West have changed considerably in the past century. What is more difficult to assess is whether humans have promoted change that is irreversible, or whether the change we see in the forested landscape is within healthy bounds. Discussions of forest health and forest cover change, the developed and wildland interface, insect and disease disturbances, watershed health, biodiversity, and air quality comprise the body of this report. This initial report sets the stage for more in-depth reports on forest health in the Interior West by introducing the FHM program, defining "the forest" regionally, discussing prominent issues, and displaying summary FHM data taken from 1996-1999. A website address is provided on the inside back cover of this report to solicit reader suggestions for improving future FHM reports.

Presents illustrations of a parade of animals whose appearance or behavior suggests appropriate alternate names.

Route Nationale is a differentiated and integrated approach to teaching and learning French for National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4 and the Standard Grade examinations. It provides authentic materials and a wide choice of valid activities whilst understanding the students'' needs for a sense of enjoyment and motivation. Students are encouraged to take an active part in their learning and to develop their ability to work collaboratively, as well as independently.

Voyage is a French course with grammar and progression at its heart designed to help teachers cover all the requirements of the National Curriculum. The course provides clear explanantions and a variety of practice activities, making learning and teaching easier. It fully integrates differentiation to meet the needs of a wide-ability range and includes regular assessments such as end-of-unit tests at Key Stage 3 and examination practice at Key Stage 4. It addresses the information and communication technology component of the National Curriculum.

Voyage is a French course with grammar and progression at its heart designed to help teachers cover all the requirements of the National Curriculum. The course provides clear explanantions and a variety of practice activities, making learning and teaching easier. It fully integrates differentiation to meet the needs of a wide-ability range and includes regular assessments such as end-of-unit tests at Key Stage 3 and examination practice at Key Stage 4. It addresses the information and communication technology component of the National Curriculum.

This series provides full preparation of the National Curriculum, Standard Grade and Junior Certificate. Students'' books, online teacher''s material and copymasters have been revised to incorporate the new German spelling. It provides lively, differentiated activities which cater for a wide range of abilities. Assessment is fully integrated at all stages.

Designed to complement any Key Stage 4 French course, this series of large-format French readers has a photo-roman style. This fourth book in the series, like each of the others, contains three stories of increasing length which are presented with manageable amounts of everyday spoken language in the form of speech-bubbles. The photographs complement the text and aim to bring an element of fun to the learning process. Also included are vocabulary lists and exercises, for which the answers are available separately.

Zickzack neu new German spelling is a four-stage course leading a wide ability-range of students to success.

Zickzack neu new German spelling is a four-stage course leading a wide ability-range of students to success.

A look at the different families that have lived in a house during the two hundred years since it was first built.

Leading security expert analyses the implications of war in Iraq, and the possibility of an attack on Iran and its consequences.

"What does the end of the Cold War mean for world peace? What kind of new world is being constructed out of the former East-West confrontation? The opportunities now exist to create a genuinely peaceful and just new world order. Paul Rogers and Malcolm Dando, widely respected defence analysts, show how this can be achieved." "A Violent Peace begins by examining threats to global stability in the post Cold War era. It looks at the transformation of the nuclear arms race in the 1980s. Do the current arms control processes really curb the development and deployment of the new weapons or will the armaments momentum built up in the last four decades result in more pressure for proliferation throughout the world?" "Recent events have focussed on the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles and area-impact munitions. As the East-West rivalries appear to diminish, will the industrialised countries of the North slip into a new pattern of confrontation, with the development of military force projection capabilities designed to ''keep the violent peace'' in the Middle East and other parts of the Third World?" "Above all, in a world of finite resources and increased environmental limitations on economic growth, will conflict between the haves and the have-nots usher in a new world disorder just as the ending of the Cold War appeared to be offering a chance of international peace?" "The agenda set by the authors for coping with the challenges now facing the world community includes not only traditional security issues such as arms control but also the wider issues of poverty, the destruction of the environment and the North-South axis of conflict. The intense East-West confrontation over the past 40 years has dominated strategic thinking and excluded large sections of the world''s population from consideration. It is now time to develop new thinking on international security to deal effectively with a changing but not necessarily a less dangerous world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The ABCs of IBM® z/OS® System Programming is a 13-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced system programmer, the ABCs collection provides the information you need to start your research into z/OS and related subjects. If you would like to become more familiar with z/OS in your current environment, or if you are evaluating platforms to consolidate your e-business applications, the ABCs collection serves as a powerful technical tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 8, shows you how to: - Adopt a systematic and thorough approach to dealing with problems and identifying the different types of problems - Determine where to look for diagnostic information and how to obtain it - Interpret and analyze the diagnostic data collected - Escalate problems to the IBM Support Center when necessary - Collect and analyze diagnostic data - a dynamic and complex process - Identify and document problems, collect and analyze pertinent diagnostic data and obtain help as needed, to speed you on your way to problem resolution The content of the volumes is as follows Volume 1: Introduction to z/OS and storage concepts, TSO/E, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, and z/OS delivery and installation Volume 2: z/OS implementation and daily maintenance, defining subsystems, JES2 and JES3, LPA, LNKLST, authorized libraries, SMP/E, Language Environment® Volume 3: Introduction to DFSMS, data set basics storage management hardware and software, catalogs, and DFSMStvs Volume 4: Communication Server, TCP/IP, and VTAM® Volume 5: Base and Parallel Sysplex®, System Logger, Resource Recovery Services (RRS), global resource serialization (GRS), z/OS system operations, automatic restart management (ARM), Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS®) Volume 6: Introduction to security, RACF, Digital certificates and PKI, Kerberos, cryptography and z990 integrated cryptography, zSeries® firewall technologies, LDAP, and Enterprise identity mapping (EIM) Volume 7: Printing in a z/OS environment, Infoprint® Server and Infoprint Central Volume 8: An introduction to z/OS problem diagnosis Volume 9: z/OS UNIX System Services Volume 10: Introduction to z/Architecture, zSeries processor design, zSeries connectivity, LPAR concepts, HCD, and HMC Volume 11: Capacity planning, performance management, WLM, RMF, and SMF.

This IBM Redbooks publication describes the implementation of RACF℗ʼ in z/OS℗ʼ Version 1 Release 8. This release continues to deliver industry leadership for security. Improvements have been introduced to further enhance the security-rich environment z/OS users rely on. These enhancements include: - RACF support for virtual key rings to treat the collection of all the certificates owned by one user ID, including the SITE and CERTAUTH reserved user IDs, as an independent key ring. The use of the CERTAUTH virtual key ring will help to eliminate the need to manually create multiple real key rings for SSL-enabled z/OS client applications such as FTP. - RACF template extensions allow templates to expand beyond their current 4K size. - RACF supports the use of passwords longer than eight characters, now called password phrases. - The RACF access control module exit, DSNXRXAC, has changed substantially with DB2℗ʼ version 9. A RACF administrators can now define a security rule before an object is created and preserve the rule for a dropped object. In addition, RACF general resources for member and group profiles can be used by an installation to protect multiple DB2 resources with a single RACF profile. - A new parameter on the IRRUT200 utility tells the utility to activate the backup data set printed to as output. This is accomplished by the utility internally issuing an RVARY ACTIVE for the backup data set after the copy is complete. IRRUT200 and IRRUT400 utilities now check whether their output data sets are active primary or backup RACF data sets on this system. - RACF in z/OS V1R8 provides a solution to some functional gaps in the way that change logging of RACF profile updates were reflected in z/OS LDAP, and an enhancement is made to LISTUSER to demonstrate whether password enveloping is enabled for a user. In addition to describing the new features, this book includes detailed steps for implementing these enhancements. It explains how to configure them for your installation and how to use them to increase the security of your environment.