Download or read book Another Man s Shoes written by Sven Somme and published by Polperro Heritage Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying.
Download or read book Another Man s Shoes written by Victor Bridges and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is told from the perspective of a man called Jack Burton. It begins when Jack meets an old acquaintance by chance in a rather sleazy restaurant. As they begin chatting Jack reveals that he has had an adventure and has found some gold which he has hidden
Download or read book Take Off Your Shoes written by Ben Feder and published by Radius Book Group+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A success-driven CEO goes on a year-long journey of self-discovery in Bali in this memoir about rediscovering what’s truly important. A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight, he becomes determined to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose. Risking his career, Feder left New York with his wife and children and set off on a self-prescribed sabbatical year. That experience transforms them all. As Feder navigates the thrills and pitfalls of his time away, he draws readers into remarkable examinations of modern values and modern life. Take Off Your Shoes is Feder’s candid and personable account of a journey across the world, and within himself.
Download or read book Waiting for Dead Men s Shoes written by Donald Chisholm and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navys officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navys personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as tombstone promotions. In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navys history over the first century and a half of its development.
Download or read book Man Shoes written by Tom Watson and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man Shoes" is a deeply personal book, told with humor and grace by a naturalborn storyteller. Watson's story is a raw and genuine look at some very toughexperiences that ultimately shaped the man he is today.
Download or read book A Man s Thoughts On Shoes written by Mark Joseph Rogers and published by Booksocials. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Man's Thoughts on Shoes" is Witty, Uncanny humor and just plain old-fashion FUN reading. The book is not intended to offend anyone. It will surely give those who enjoy clever humor a good laugh. It's the perfect gift for family and friends who would enjoy a fifteen-minute read while they escape from the pressure of their daily routine. A GREAT coffee table book!
Download or read book Another Man s Shoes written by D. C. Page and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this emotionally rich sharing of friendship brings you into the bond! David, who lives outside Philadelphia, receives a call from his best friend’s doctor in California. Gordon is suffering major organ failure and is on the brink of death! Gordon, an unmarried quadriplegic, has been in a wheelchair since he was twenty-two. His life is one of isolation, fear, and relative silence, except when David visits with stories of the world. David hikes internationally, motorcycles cross-country regularly, has a wife and three sons, works a full-time job, and is a nationally known speaker. To save Gordon’s life, the doctor induces a coma to promote rest and healing. Unable to reserve a flight, David leaves his family to drive cross-country, hoping to arrive before Gordon wakes, or dies. As Gordon fades in and out of consciousness, David struggles to stay awake and imagines Gordon into the passenger seat where the stories of their lives are recalled in three dimension. There are 2,700 miles of road to drive. The author invites the reader into the car to experience flashbacks that transport them into all ages of the main character’s lives and all over the world. It’s a wild ride of death-defying uphill battles, duty, arguments, friendship, humor, and love. The clock is ticking as each call to the doctor reveals Gordon’s touch-and-go status with life while every mile marker finds David fighting exhaustion and the fear that he might be too late. The reader comes face-to-face with experiences and people of influence surrounding David’s and Gordon’s lives. They witness what made these men who they are and why these contrasting characters see themselves as brothers. Slip into their shoes. Walk their different paths. Discover their common ground. Experience their brotherhood!
Download or read book Walk in Their Shoes written by Jim Ziolkowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Simon & Schuster reading group guide.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1954 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Download or read book Against Empathy written by Paul Bloom and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion. Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nations—who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and—yes—ultimately more moral. Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, AGAINST EMPATHY shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we can make.
Download or read book The Ant and the Elephant written by Vince Poscente and published by Vince Poscente - Author. This book was released on 2006 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the animals the elephant rescues, only the tiny ant returns the favor.
Download or read book Another Man s Moccasins written by Craig Johnson and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig Johnson's mystery stories have earned him an esteemed position in the pantheon of contemporary crime novelists. In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway. --Amazon.com.
Download or read book On Another Man s Wound written by Ernie O'Malley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the feel of Ireland more than any other book.
Download or read book The Parisian Gentleman written by Hugo Jacomet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new compact edition, a luxurious celebration of the elegant craftsmanship behind the timeless French men’s fashion and lifestyle labels. Home of haute couture and the world’s leading fashion houses, Paris and its inhabitants represent sophistication and refinement to the rest of the world. Debonair Parisian men continue to participate in a centuries-long tradition of sartorial craftsmanship and quality. In its newly accessible compact edition, The Parisian Gentleman is like a dream shopping excursion to the leading men’s style-makers, from hidden ateliers and little- known studios to internationally renowned labels such as shirtmakers Charvet, shoemakers Berluti, and the recently revived trunk-makers Moynat. The stories behind each house, and the creative minds and artisans who give each brand its unique identity, bring the clothes alive, capturing an unceasing dedication to quality in an era overrun with new, mass-produced trends. Author Hugo Jacomet’s portraits of these often-inaccessible marques (or brands) are intimate and illuminating, thanks to his personal connections to many of the leading figures. His text is accompanied by beautifully shot photographs of the designers, studios, garments, and locations, the majority of which were taken exclusively for this book.
Download or read book A Desk book of Idioms and Idiomatic Phrases in English Speech and Literature written by Frank H. Vizetelly and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folklore Unbound written by Sabra J. Webber and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore is a powerful resource that not only manages the past, giving it continuity, but also usefully comments on present cultural and social issues. This thoughtful, incisive work first charts important dimensions in the development of folklore studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Next, it marshals the major theoretical issues of the modern discipline, including performance theory, genre theory, the relationship with culture studies and the study of linguistic and musical art forms, the insights of comparative studies, public folklore, and even the place of folklore in the media. Webber draws heavily on the influential work and maverick charisma of Alan Dundes, world famous folklorist who expanded the definitions of both “folk” and “lore” for thousands of folklore students and underscored why lore should be studied ethnographically and aesthetically. Webber’s aim is to evaluate the study of folklore as a tool for understanding the lived experience of various “folk” and for questioning, rather than reinforcing, the status quo. Her work, which draws from the rich methods and materials of many disciplines, shows originality, breadth, and a firm grasp of the history of folkloristics.
Download or read book Another Man s Poison written by Charles Fountain and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of George Frazier, an American journalist.
