Best Selling Books by GRAHAM BROWN

A Simple Guide for Creating Efficient Winning Organizations Designed to help businesses understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, this work is not about the award, but rather is a concise explanation about how to use the criteria to improve an organization. Employed by thousands of organizations around the w

This booklet is a guide to interpreting the criteria in the seven Baldrige categories to help your organization improve quality. It begins with answers to commonly asked questions about the Award criteria. Then it breaks down the 19 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with concise explanation and quick tips of what excellent companies do in each area.

The Definitive Guide to Mastering the Baldrige Award Now in its 17th fully updated edition, this volume is the most widely used and recognized guide to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. This simple and comprehensive resource enables companies to master the exhaustive criteria of the nation’s leading business performance award. This exclusive reference guide provides detailed descriptions of the 18 examination items and the 32 areas that comprise the seven major categories. It reveals what examiners look for in each area and provides powerful suggestions to achieve results. By consulting this reference, businesses will acquire the winning knowledge necessary to capture the award.

From Graham Brown, co-author of the New York Times bestselling thriller Devil’s Gate with Clive Cussler, comes Black Sun . . . In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it. What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created them—and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save us—or to destroy us once and for all?

DIVE INTO THE ELECTRIFYING NEW ADVENTURE OF THE NUMA CREW FROM THE "GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE" CLIVE CUSSLER, THE LATEST IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES --- A VANISHED NATO WEAPON RIVAL POWERS CLOSING IN ONE CHANCE TO STOP WORLD WAR THREE When a NATO super-weapon is successfully tested at the North Pole, the aircraft carrying it suddenly vanishes off the radar, the crew are found murdered at their stations, and the weapon – capable of triggering global catastrophe – disappears into the Arctic mists. The only American asset in the area is a small research vessel operated by NUMA’s Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, who are pulled into a race against time to lead the search. As rival Russian and Chinese powers close in to find the missing weapon, international rules of engagement are perilously suspended. But as Kurt and his team race to reach the wreck first, a darker mystery emerges: the world’s great powers are all being carefully manipulated by one vengeful man with a deadly plan . . . Praise for Clive Cussler: ''The Adventure King'' Sunday Express ''Just about the best in the business'' New York Post ''Cussler is hard to beat'' Daily Mail

Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler. A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival groups of hackers, both of whom want to control the flow of data around the world. With no allies except a group of pirates who operate under their own crude laws, Kurt and Joe must rescue a colleague held hostage--while keeping the computers out of Russian or Chinese hands and the world''s digital information safe from the hackers.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.

Throughout the 1990s, Iraq has been the target not only of military attack but of the most draconian and protracted economic embargo ever imposed by the international community. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, the embargo was accompanied by an effort to provide aid to the Iraqi people and to protect them against human rights abuses: an initiative that seemed to break new ground in providing protection for civilians in a situation of conflict. Yet the outcome of the international community''s efforts has fallen short of the promise. Why has there been such a large gap between the rhetoric and reality? How exactly have the combinatin of economic sanctions, international humanitarian aid and limited protection of civilians affected Iraq? What lessons can be drawn from the experience? This is the most carefully documented, comprehensive account of the consequences of intervention in Iraq during the 1990s. It examines not only the record of intervention but also the complicated political context which has shaped international policy and the Iraqi response to it, and which has made events seem so unpredictable.

Graham Brown, co-author of the New York Times bestselling thriller Devil’s Gate with Clive Cussler, takes readers to the furthest edges of civilization with his signature blend of ancient legend and modern suspense. Gear up for the next installment of his Hawker/Laidlaw series, The Eden Prophecy, with this eBook bundle of the first two novels: Black Rain and Black Sun. BLACK RAIN Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city, assisted by a mercenary named Hawker—unaware that their team is a replacement for a group that vanished weeks before. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the expedition desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of a Mayan legend and the chilling secret buried beneath the ruins. BLACK SUN In the heart of the Amazon, Danielle Laidlaw has made an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it. What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created them—and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But were these artifacts meant to save us—or to destroy us once and for all? Contains a preview of Graham Brown’s next thrilling Hawker/Laidlaw novel, The Eden Prophecy!

NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world''s most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind''s last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don''t--that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster. but they may be caught in a race that no one can win.