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  • Financial Management for Nonprofits
    James Babcock
    Excellence is almost always the aim of any nonprofit. Achieving excellence requires sound planning, marketing, and production. But these areas of performance can be weak and the nonprofit still survive—unless it finally fails to pay its bills. Solvency—the management of cash flow—is the one absolute requirement for survival—and excellence.     This workbook offers the nonprofit...
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    31,12 €

  • Looking Back, Looking Ahead
    James Babcock
    From the perspective of a long and active life, James Babcock—Jim to all who know him—shares anecdotes from his experiences as a college student, Naval officer, international and domestic banker, community activist, amateur cook, fundraiser, violinist, novelist, vexillologist, and traveler. Framed as essays on a wide variety of themes—history, politics, service, perversity, lan...
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    17,38 €

  • Joe and Maryanne, Solving Crimes on Florida’s Emerald Coast
    James Babcock
    Four mystery novels in one collection! Join detective Joe Phillips and banker Maryanne Larkin as they team up to solve four financially motivated murders in their hometown on the Florida Panhandle. Was it suicide—or murder? Who was smuggling drugs? Who poisoned Emily? Who blew up the oil rig? Follow the couple's romance as they combine his sleuthing skill and her financial ...
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    31,16 €

  • Where There’s a Will
    James Babcock
    A wealthy widow, heiress to a fortune from Florida oranges, is poisoned—KGB style. The shocking crime sets tongues wagging in a small town on the Gulf Coast shores of the Florida Panhandle. Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, a bank trust officer, follow the money trail while probing the motives of a dysfunctional family and their prominent local lawyer—each of...
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    15,27 €

  • Where the Money Is
    James Babcock
    Want to know all about banking?  I didn't think so.  But that's where there money is!  And all those employees to steal it! However, you'd have to be more clever than the auditor, even if he's new to the job.  And that's the situation Charley Hayworth finds himself in at Holmes Bank and Trust—where he also finds lovely Lucy….Set in midsummer 2020, this fast-...
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  • Too Rich to Live
    James Babcock
    A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million Florida lottery, is found dead in his bed with a pistol in his hand. Was it suicide, or murder? Detective Lieutenant Joe Phillips romances bank trust oficer Maryanne Larking while they investigate. They discover a wholly unexpected answer! A bizarre crime reflects the ethnic pattern of a small southern town on the Gulf Coast of th...
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    15,09 €

  • Feathers, the Novel
    James Babcock
    Take a trip to the islands of the Pacific with retired professor J. Humbert Flintlock, his pilot son, his Jewish neighbor lady, and her daughter. It’s an entirely innocent project to update the professor’s famous "Guide to the Birds of Oceania." But a murder and an airplane hijacking embroil them in the nefarious plot of an unscrupulous Indian businessman bent on fomenting a re...
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    14,03 €

  • Oil, the Secret War, 2040 A.D.
    James Babcock
    Thirty years in the future, journalist Hank Thomas uncovers a conspiracy—a secret war plan to seize the world’s last big oil field. With the help of a patriotic Russian girl, the newsman visits the war zone in western China’s famous Turpan Depression. There he finds romance while also discovering the final damning evidence that will upend an American presidential election. Join...
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    14,93 €

  • Heat
    James Babcock
    Have you ignored 'climate change'? So has Associate Professor William Fleming, a honeybee specialist—until global warming is suggested to him as a cause of crashing bee populations. He decides to research that, but first he needs a deeper understanding of the climate change controversy. His alarming findings eventually convince him to write a popularization of the science.  His...
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    14,21 €

  • Partners in Crime
    James Babcock
    The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida's Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, the local bank trust officer, share their skills to investigate a murder that leads them to an intricate money-laundering scheme with a sh...
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    15,27 €

  • Jihad for Hire
    James Babcock
    Jihadist terrorism comes to Florida's East Coast. First, a suicide bomber destroys an offshore oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico.  Then the government suspects an extremist plot to destroy airplanes at nearby Eglin Air Force base. Local Sheriff Joe Philips teams up with FBI agent Bill Burkheimer to investigate both crimes.  Join them as they follow the twisted path tha...
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    15,12 €

  • The Many Splendored Thing
    James Babcock
    Love…Some give it, some have it, some lose it, all want it. Among the young and old, past and present, foreign and familiar, the emotion appears with many facets—curiosity, longing, hope, sentiment, playfulness, excitement, bliss, elation, obscenity, guile, suspicion, jealously, cruelty, sadness, loss. So various are the moods of love that it is impossible to deal with all of t...
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    17,46 €

  • The Joke’s on Me
    James Babcock
    Name a genre of funny stuff and there’s a sample here of every length and description: Limericks, Puns, Riddles, Aphorisms, Daffynitions, Spoonerisms, Paraprosdokians, humorous Satires, Shaggy dog stories, Quips, and an introduction borrowed from Bob Hope. It’s a thin volume, but how much space do you need to get off a one-liner? So, help yourself! ...
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    16,73 €

  • A Non-negotiable Demand
    James Babcock
    "Love is a many-splendored thing." It certainly finds expression in myriad ways, and often laughably—as you will see from these funny stories. As Socrates aptly said, "To see ourselves as others see us is to break out laughing." To which Aristotle added, "True love is serious business. But the act of making love, when you think about is, is utterly ridiculous." But perhaps most...
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    17,41 €

  • Of This and That, Essays Mostly
    James Babcock
    The variety of essays included in this volume were written as serious histories, some as would-be editorials never submitted, and some for family as memoirs. The criterion for inclusion was the notion that each contains one or more thoughts that might be of general interest. The essays deal with famous empires, the historiography of the FHA, the Federal Reserve, monetary excess...
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    16,64 €

  • Four Tales of Troubled Love
    Matthew James Babcock
    Enter this tetrad of tangled love tales at the turn of the last millennium when what were then the latest technologies—personal computers, fax machines, and mobile phones—started to short-circuit pacemakers. This tour de four of realistic love stories operates operatically, like a piece of music in four movements, sometimes zany and tragic, at times surreal and sublime.Help Pho...
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    32,17 €

  • Trajectories
    Bryan C. Babcock / Bryan CBabcock / James Spencer / Russell L. Meek / Russell LMeek
    Trajectories meets an urgent need in both undergraduate and graduate study of the Old Testament. Too often Old Testament theology focuses on the end-product and leaves the process obscured. Each chapter of Trajectories provides a clear path connecting biblical research to theological conclusions. The final chapter offers a step-by-step method for completing a thorough hermeneut...
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    31,16 €

  • Strange Terrain
    Matthew James Babcock
    Strange Terrain treats the poetry of memory as Western landscape, with marvelous specificity; each detail contrives to be the perfect descriptor for the experience. The range of forms is itself a highly varied geography. Babcock's poems are like hearing a good friend recount an engaging series of anecdotes from a well-spent life. ...
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    23,45 €

  • Private Fire
    Matthew James Babcock
    Matthew J. Babcock’s Private Fire: Robert Francis’s Ecopoetry and Prose presents an introduction to and analysis of nearly six decades of nature-centered literature produced by one of America’s most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Private Fire tracks the steady trajectory of Francis’s life and career, situates him among more visible twentieth-century writers, and pre...
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    146,66 €