Robert Brown

BECOME A FORCE OF NATURE The authors combine a Stanford MBA and a psychology Ph.D. with the wisdom of nature to provide new insights into the jungle of business competition. Survival does not go to the swiftest, the strongest or the smartest. Business survival goes to the organization that best fits its environment and best adjusts to change. Discover how to: Identify hidden threatsBecome a superorganismBe ruthlessly customer-centricCreate super-responsive leaders This unique business management book will teach you how to succeed in ways that you would never think of such as wearing a green necktie rather than red one. Learn how to see & how to perceive, how to think, how to act, and how to prevail. Each chapter ends with an actionable survival guide. It may be the most unusual, entertaining, and helpful business book you will read.

SUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFEBob Brown grew up in a middle-class, mid-western family. He mowed lawns, delivered papers, went to Sunday school and otherwise enjoyed an uneventful, happy childhood. Adolescence was even better: girlfriends, vice-president of his senior class, decent grades and the family car for date nights. Next would come college, a wife, 2.4 children and a thatched roofed cottage. However, seven seconds of a WWII documentary film showing the execution of an American airman destroyed his idyllic youth. The other kids wondered if the movie would be on the test. Bob wondered: Where was God? Why is life unfair? Who has the answers? How will I recognize the right answers? Simply Bob: Searching for the Essence is the story of his forty-year effort to find the one, true, last-forever meaning of life for everyone. Now in his early seventies, Bob describes his discovery. His memoir shares lessons from some of the great thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne and Viktor Frankl in an easy to read, thoughtful and engaging way. Readers will learn the one idea that can create meaning for everyone.

AN INTENSE AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT A BROKEN PROMISE AND LOVE SO STRONG THAT LIFE AND DEATH UNITE. Harold Spencer's research at a prestigious Scottish university is within reach of a long-sought cure for genetic disease. His only worry is resisting his wife Shelly's desire for children; not until his research is completed, he says, promising they will not wait too long. He wanted no chance of their child dying like his dad and brother. But Harold miscalculated. Within days his life is upended, his marriage and research destroyed. Grief and guilt meld into depression. For the first time, he cannot find an answer or a way to recover. Unless he can keep his promise, a child for Shelly, he has no reason to live. Harold fights his way forward with his imposing intellect, the power of science, and his willingness to sacrifice everything. Follow his descent into a world of desperation where love becomes obsession.

Dimensional metrology is an essential part of modern manufacturing technologies, but the basic theories and measurement methods are no longer sufficient for today's digitized systems. The information exchange between the software components of a dimensional metrology system not only costs a great deal of money, but also causes the entire system to lose data integrity.Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology analyzes interoperability issues in dimensional metrology systems and describes information modeling techniques. It discusses new approaches and data models for solving interoperability problems, as well as introducing process activities, existing and emerging data models, and the key technologies of dimensional metrology systems. Written for researchers in industry and academia, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book gives both an overview and an in-depth understanding of complete dimensional metrology systems. By covering in detail the theory and main content, techniques, and methods used in dimensional metrology systems, Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology enables readers to solve real-world dimensional measurement problems in modern dimensional metrology practices.