Download or read book Taking on the World written by Ellen MacArthur and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they can do anything! This is her story, written intrue Ellen style, in her own words, without the help of a ghost writer. Passionate, dramatic and and deeply affecting, her story will move and inspire all who read it.
Download or read book A World for the Taking written by E. Keble Chatterton and published by Fireship Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time when one of the most powerful rulers in the world wasn't a government-it was a corporation. It's official name was "The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies." Some simply called it "John Company," others "Company Bahadur." But most people knew it as the Honourable East India Company. It was the first major shareholder-owned business enterprise. At its height it ruled more than a fifth of the world's population, and generated a revenue greater than the rest of Britain combined-including the government. To hold all this together it had it's own private army and navy consisting of over a quarter million men. But at it's heart, it was still a "company of merchants" and it was her merchant ships that made everything else possible. This is E. Keble Chatterton's authoritative account of those ships and the men who helped forge the history of two continents.
Download or read book Taking Power written by John Foran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico 1910, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Iran 1979, and Nicaragua 1979, the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. It closes with speculation about the future of revolutions in an age of globalization, with special attention to Chiapas, the post-September 11 world, and the global justice movement.
Download or read book Taking the World for Jesus written by Kevin Swanson and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the account of the most exciting story in all of human history. Something truly remarkable occurred when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and gave His disciples a great commission. The world would never be the same again. Kevin Swanson takes the reader through the 2,000-year, worldwide saga of this epochal mission to the world. From Judea to Rome, Ireland, Denmark, China, Japan, Uganda, New Zealand, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, the light of Christ shines into the darkness, transforming every nation throughout the centuries. This book describes the condition of the nations before Jesus came, and follows the missionary work that confronted formidable strongholds and brought about the transformation of nations. This book tells the story of the Lord Jesus Christ’s transforming influence in countries across every continent over the last 2,000 years.The world will never be the same . . . “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” (Matt. 28:18) The history of Christianity is even more important to understand than American or world history because it provides us with a better foundation for our own faith. Sadly, many Christians never formally study the history and growth of the church, depriving themselves of knowledge that would strengthen their faith. Taking the World for Jesus makes such a study easy. This book tells the story of the Lord Jesus Christ's transforming influence in countries across every continent over the last 2,000 years. Provides a very accessible overview of the history of Christian missionsGives inspirational accounts of the challenges Christianity has experienced and overcomeShares an overview of the current state of Christianity and missions work today From Judea to Rome, Ireland to Denmark, China to Uganda, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, the light of Christ shines into the darkness, transforming every nation throughout the centuries. This book describes the condition of the nations before Jesus came, and follows the missionary work that confronted formidable strongholds and brought about the transformation of nations.
Download or read book Taking on the World written by Robert W. Merry and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue-blooded journalists Joseph and Stewart Alsop dominated the Washington press corps from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Their influence in the highest government circles was so great that they even initiated policy decisions. This rich and entertaining portrait of the Alsops and their age is an unusually illuminating window into American history. 16 pages of photos.
Download or read book Winners Take All written by Anand Giridharadas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news. "Impassioned.... Entertaining reading.” —The Washington Post Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world’s wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world—a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.
Download or read book How to Win in a Winner Take All World written by Neil Irwin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and senior economic correspondent at The New York Times, how to survive—and thrive—in this increasingly challenging economy. Every ambitious professional is trying to navigate a perilous global economy to do work that is lucrative and satisfying, but some find success while others struggle to get by. In an era of remarkable economic change, how should you navigate your career to increase your chances of landing not only on your feet, but ahead of those around you? In How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World, Neil Irwin, senior economic correspondent at the New York Times, delivers the essential guide to being successful in today’s economy when the very notion of the “job” is shifting and the corporate landscape has become dominated by global firms. He shows that the route to success lies in cultivating the ability to bring multiple specialties together—to become a “glue person” who can ensure people with radically different technical skills work together effectively—and how a winding career path makes you better prepared for today's fast-changing world. Through original data, close analysis, and case studies, Irwin deftly explains the 21st century economic landscape and its implications for ambitious people seeking a lifetime of professional success. Using insights from global giants like Microsoft, Walmart, and Goldman Sachs, and from smaller lesser known organizations like those that make cutting-edge digital effects in Planet of the Apes movies or Jim Beam bourbon, How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World illuminates what it really takes to be on top in this world of technological complexity and global competition.
Download or read book November Project The Book written by Brogan Graham and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November Project: The Book is the story of how two irreverent, way-outside-the-box fitness fanatics are flipping the fitness industry on its head and literally making the world a better place, one city at a time. No facility. No machines. Just two dudes and a tribe of thousands. Welcome to November Project’s world takeover. What started 4 years ago as a simple monthlong workout pact between two former Northeastern University oarsmen in Boston has grown into an international fitness phenomenon. November Project espouses free, public, all-weather, outdoor group sweats that turn strangers into friends and connect everyone to the city in which they live. It’s been described as everything from flashmob fitness to “the fight club of running clubs” and a cult. But November Project prides itself on defying categories. In November Project: The Book, Brogan Graham (a.k.a. BG) and Bojan Mandaric, in their own spicy, big-hearted words, chronicle, along with tribe member and writer Caleb Daniloff, their fitness movement’s genesis, evolution, operations, membership, “secret sauce,” and future—and along the way, show you how you can get fit and societally engaged. The book also includes illustrated workouts; the keys to meaningful civic engagement; information on using your city as a gym; advice on starting an NP tribe; tips on growing, sustaining, and invigorating membership through social media; and thoughts on the collective power of community.
Download or read book Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World written by Frances E. Mascia-Lees and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World offers an engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context. At the end of the twentieth century, an increasingly globalized world has given rise to a cultural complexity characterized by a rapid increase in competing discourses, fragmented subjectivities, and irreconcilable claims over cultural representation and who has the right to speak for, or about, "others." While feminism has traditionally been a potent site for debates over questions that have arisen out of this context, recently, it has become so splintered and suspect that its insights are often dismissed as predictable, seriously reducing its capacity to offer powerful cultural criticism. In this postfeminist context, the authors argue for a cultural criticism that is strategic, not programmatic, and that preserves the multiple commitments, ideas, and positions required of interactions and identifications across lines of cultural, racial, and gender difference. Selecting sites where such interactions are highlighted and under current scrutiny—film, consumer culture, tourism, anthropology, and the academy—the authors theorize and demonstrate the struggles and maneuvers required to "take a stand" on a wide range of issues of significance to the contemporary cultural moment.
Download or read book Taking a Break from Saving the World written by Stephen Legault and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The climate crisis is an overwhelming phenomenon and eco-activist Stephen Legault knows all about that. He's been a burnout casualty a number of times and seeks solutions for the malaise, knowing people can't be effective politically unless they take care of themselves. He has recommendations on everything from diet to organizational restricting - leaves of absence, anyone? Think about it." - NOW Magazine Toronto Professional conservation and political activist Stephen Legault examines the consequences of overwork in the "save the world" movement. A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Following a river-running metaphor, and proposing a variety of techniques to help with various states of anxiety resulting from burnout, including clarity of purpose, recognition of limits, fitness and diet, mediation and yoga, as well as organizational structural changes such as leave-of-absence policies, Legault encourages readers to find time to "eddy out"--to rest a moment in quieter waters and scout downriver--to ensure our lifetime of engagement is fulfilling, effective, and self-sustaining. Just as with teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, paramedics, steelworkers, students, and airline pilots, burnout is a growing concern in many social-change circles. Taking a Break from Saving the World takes a look at the impacts of eco-anxiety, over-work, and the associated stress surrounding the present and future state of the environment and offers practical and insightful suggestions on how to deal with it.
Download or read book Fic written by Anne Jamison and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology—about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why. With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction—not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has. Fic features a foreword by Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians) and interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Doug Wright, Eurydice (Vivean Dean), and Katie Forsythe/wordstrings. Cyndy Aleo (algonquinrt; d0tpark3r) V. Arrow (aimmyarrowshigh) Tish Beaty (his_tweet) Brad Bell Amber Benson Peter Berg (Homfrog) Kristina Busse Rachel Caine Francesca Coppa Randi Flanagan (BellaFlan) Jolie Fontenot Wendy C. Fries (Atlin Merrick) Ron Hogan Bethan Jones Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs/tby789 and Lauren Billings/LolaShoes) Jacqueline Lichtenberg Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni Chris Rankin Tiffany Reisz Andrew Shaffer Andy Sawyer Heidi Tandy (Heidi8) Darren Wershler Jules Wilkinson (missyjack) Jen Zern (NautiBitz)
Download or read book Taking the Leap written by Kasia Wezowski and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized into three sections: Finding Yourself and Your Purpose, Finding Your Clients, and Finding Success, Taking the Leap provides relevant and practical advice from twenty-four well-known coaches who have built sustainable coaching businesses whole doing what they love-helping people. Success tips and strategies from global, coaching masters infused with their own personal accounts of how they got their start: MARSHALL GOLDSMITH on becoming a better businessperson JACK CANFIELD on continuous improvement KIERON SWEENEY on promoting yourself HEATHER RAMSEY on selecting a business model MARK THOMPSON on partnering with industry leaders and influencers KELVIN LIM on specialization JOHN DEMARTINI on putting your mission first PATRYK WEZOWSKI on scaling your business MARC STEINBERG on inner wisdom MIRNA BACUN on leveraging LinkedIn VISHEN LAKHIANI on building a visionary business
Download or read book Change the World Without Taking Power written by John Holloway and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a radical rethinking of Marx's concept of revolution that shows how we can bring about social and political change today.
Download or read book The Ultimate Top Secret Guide to Taking Over the World written by Kenn Nesbitt and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-help guide for would-be world conquerors provides a ten-step program for becoming an archvillain, including picking a name and a costume, setting up a lair, making robots, and acquiring minions.
Download or read book Girls Guide to Taking Over the World written by Tristan Taormino and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GIRL'S GUIDE TO TAKING OVER THE WORLD Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution
Download or read book Taking on the World s Repressive Regimes written by W. Korey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Taking the World by Storm written by Warren Storm and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Warren "Storm" Schexnider is a Louisiana musical legend. Know to many as, "The Godfather of Swamp Pop," Now, at the age of 82, Warren's career has spanned over 70 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. Taking the World, by Storm - A Conversation with Warren "Storm" Schexnider, is just that. It is a conversation, accompanied by photographs of Warren's amazing musical career. From meeting Elvis at Graceland, to shaking Hank Williams hand, to sharing the stage with the Robert Plant and his idol, Fats Domino, Warren's endless stories will keep you entertained. Warren's story has been one of his own making. As is the case for many a career musician, it's never been an easy road to travel. But, it is one that allows a man like Warren to carve out his own path and plant his flag in whatever ground he can cover"--
