Download or read book Call Me Roger written by Albert Lee and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of how Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, transformed the industry leader into a fallen giant"--Jacket subtitle.
Download or read book Call Me Roger written by Albert Lee and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of how Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, transformed the industry leader into a fallen giant"--Jacket subtitle.
Download or read book King Me written by Roger Reeves and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the “Best Poetry Books of the Year” list from Library Journal “A sophisticated and breathtaking writer, Reeves takes the reader on a harrowing journey: each poem comes packed with arresting imagery, relentless in its examination of how tragedy and trauma become internalized — cleaning out the wounds to understand the pain.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Roger Reeves' King Me stitches together many worlds into one startling and visceral book. His ranging, encyclopedic knowledge crosses history, medicine, biology, metapoetics and more, but he tackles it all with a bold and sonorous surrealist flow.”—American Microreviews From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, King Me examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, "While writing King Me, I became very interested in the mythology of king, the one who is sacrificed at the end of the harvest season. . . . For me, the myth manifests in the killing of young black men, Emmett Till, and in the ways America deems young, black male bodies as expendable—Jean Michel Basquiat, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson. These are the young kings whom we love to kill—over and over again." From "Some Young Kings": The hummingbirds inside my chest,with their needle-nosed pliers for tonguesand hammer-heavy wings, have left a messof ticks in my lungs and a punctured lullabyin my throat. Little boy blue come blowyour horn. The cow's in the meadow. And Dorothy's alone in the corn with Jack, his black fingers, the brass of his lips, the half-moons of his fingernails clickingalong her legs until she howls—Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker . . . Roger Reeves earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing and his PhD from the University of Texas. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Download or read book Heaven s Call written by Roger Dawson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven’s Call By: Roger Dawson Heaven’s Call sets out to prove the existence of the afterlife through actual paranormal events experienced by an entire family with voice recordings, while also explaining research completed by the CIA and US Army on paranormal science and includes photographic evidence of an Angel visitation. Documentations within this book also provide evidence of past lives through personal paranormal experiences.
Download or read book The Book of Love written by Roger Rosenblatt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations—romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature; love of life itself. Rosenblatt is on a quest to illuminate this elusive and essential emotion, to define this thing called love. Cleverly using lines from love songs to create a flowing ballad—as infectious and engaging as a jazz riff—he intersperses fictional vignettes that capture lovers in different situations, ages, and temperaments along with notes addressed to “you,” his wife of fifty years. “The story I have to tell is of you. Of others, too. Other people, other things. But mainly of you. It begins and ends with you. It always comes back to you.” Lively yet profound, poignant yet joyous, The Book of Love is a triumph of intellect and imagination: a personal discourse on love that is both novel and timeless.
Download or read book They Call Me Supermensch written by Shep Gordon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his storied career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with—and befriended—some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Alice Cooper to Bette Davis, Raquel Welch to Groucho Marx, Blondie to Jimi Hendrix, Sylvester Stallone to Salvador Dalí, Luther Vandross to Teddy Pendergrass. He is also credited with inventing the “celebrity chef,” and has worked with Nobu Matsuhisa, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck, Roger Vergé, and many others. In this wonderfully engaging memoir, the captivating entertainment legend recalls his life, from his humble beginnings as a shy, unambitious kid growing up on Long Island to his unexpected rise as one of the most influential and respected personalities in show business, revered for his kindness, charisma—and fondness for a good time. Gordon shares riotous anecdotes and outrageous accounts of his freewheeling, globe-trotting experiences with some of the biggest celebrities of the past five decades, including his first meeting with Janis Joplin in 1968, when the raspy singer punched him in the face. Told with incomparable humor and heart, They Call Me Supermensch is a sincere, hilarious, behind-the-scenes look at the worlds of music and entertainment from a consummate Hollywood insider.
Download or read book Pax Journey Home written by Sara Pennypacker and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. A New York Times bestseller! It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives. Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Meanwhile Peter—newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt and loneliness—leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined to heal the land from the scars of the war. When one of Pax's kits falls desperately ill, he turns to the one human he knows he can trust. And no matter how hard Peter tries to harden his broken heart, love keeps finding a way in. Now both boy and fox find themselves on journeys toward home, healing—and each other, once again. As he did for Pax, Jon Klassen, New York Times bestseller, Caldecott medalist, and two-time Caldecott Honoree, has created stunning jacket and interior illustrations.
Download or read book A Trip Into the Supernatural written by Roger J. Morneau and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Range written by David Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking—with a new afterword on expanding your range—as seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.
Download or read book Roger Zelazny written by F. Brett Cox and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging convention with the SF nonconformist Roger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s. Yet many critics found his later novels underachieving and his turn to fantasy a disappointment. F. Brett Cox surveys the landscape of Zelazny's creative life and contradictions. Launched by the classic 1963 short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," Zelazny soon won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with ...And Call Me Conrad and two years later won again for Lord of Light. Cox looks at the author's overnight success and follows Zelazny into a period of continued formal experimentation, the commercial triumph of the Amber sword and sorcery novels, and renewed acclaim for Hugo-winning novellas such as "Home Is the Hangman" and "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai." Throughout, Cox analyzes aspects of Zelazny's art, from his preference for poetically alienated protagonists to the ways his plots reflected his determined individualism. Clear-eyed and detailed, Roger Zelazny provides an up-to-date reconsideration of an often-misunderstood SF maverick.
Download or read book Little Stories to Play With in Your Mind written by Judy Kukuruza and published by Natalia Corres via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories and essays in various genres written to inspire you to think or to amuse you.
Download or read book My Infamous Life written by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A memoir about a life almost lost and a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's golden era ... a story of struggle, survival, and hope down the mean streets of New York City" --
Download or read book French s Acting Edition of Plays Dramas Extravaganzas Farces written by Samuel French Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories from the Beat written by Richard Smallwood and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a small-town businessman puts down his briefcase and calculator and picks up a gun and a badge to fight crime in one of the roughest areas of the Southwest? Chaos, donuts, and a hell of a lot of good stories... From naked and insane Ugandan giants to butter knives sticking out of crazy people's arms to unimaginable and shocking human behavior while completely smashed on crack cocaine and beer, "Occifer" Richard Smallwood takes you with him on an action-packed, sarcastic journey through the rough and wild streets of South Phoenix. So, buckle up, check your equipment, and hold on---you're in for a wild ride...
Download or read book Catching Rainbows written by Peter J. Douros and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a work of faith and although the story is fiction. It shows that when we believe we will find the right path. Joy is the by-word. The Love of Roger is always in the forefront of Diane's mind and body. Ever wanting to seduce Roger, her attempts come in many ways. But none are accidental, it is her constant scheming that pushes her on. Aware that he is just a man and human. She goes for the Gold always. They both wake up and see that it was God all along guiding them. As the weeks unfold they share the many works of the Lord. Ending in a christian marriage.
Download or read book Murdered Memories written by David Harder and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murdered Memories" takes you back to 1994 and to a man, Darien, with no memory of his past, yet it's a past that is trying to kill him. He knew he needed answers, answers from her and answers from himself, but all he had right now were "Murdered Memories."
