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Book Fateful Visions

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  • Author : Joseph S. Nye
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Fateful Visions written by Joseph S. Nye and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mad as Hell

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  • Author : Dave Itzkoff
  • Publisher : Times Books
  • Release : 2014-02-18
  • ISBN : 0805095705
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Mad as Hell written by Dave Itzkoff and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behind-the-scenes story of the making of the iconic movie Network, which transformed the way we think about television and the way television thinks about us "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Academy Awards and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power. In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. Such a movie rarely gets made any more—one man's vision of the world, independent of studio testing or market research. And that man was Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter whose vision—outlandish for its time—is all too real today. Itzkoff uses interviews with the cast and crew, as well as Chayefsky's notes, letters, and drafts to re-create the action in front of and behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and still-startling film. Itzkoff also speaks with today's leading broadcasters and filmmakers to assess Network's lasting impact on television and popular culture. They testify to the enduring genius of Paddy Chayefsky, who foresaw the future and whose life offers an unforgettable lesson about the true cost of self-expression.

Book Fateful Visions

Download or read book Fateful Visions written by Joseph S. Nye and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fateful Triangle

Download or read book Fateful Triangle written by Noam Chomsky and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship as well as its impact on the fate of the Palestinian people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Westminster

Download or read book The Westminster written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Happy at Any Cost

Download or read book Happy at Any Cost written by Kirsten Grind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, “a startling portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh” (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on his short life, untimely death, and what that means for our pursuit of happiness. Tony Hsieh—CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and beloved entrepreneur—was famous for spreading happiness. He lived and breathed this philosophy, instilling an ethos of joy at his company, outlining his vision for a better workplace in his New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness. He promoted a workplace where bosses treated employees like family members, where stress was replaced by playfulness, and where hierarchies were replaced with equality and collaboration. His outlook shaped how we work today. Hsieh also aspired to build his own utopian cities, pouring millions of dollars into real estate and small businesses, first in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada—where Zappos is headquartered—and then in Park City, Utah. He gave generously to his employees and close friends, including throwing notorious Zappos parities and organizing gatherings at his home, an Airstream trailer park. When Hsieh died suddenly in late 2022, the news shook the business and tech world. Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre discovered Hsieh’s obsession with happiness masked his darker struggles with addiction, mental health, and loneliness. In the last year of his life, he spiraled out of control, cycling out of rehab and into the waiting arms of friends who enabled his worst behavior, even as he bankrolled them from his billion-dollar fortune. Happy at Any Cost sheds light on one of our most creative, yet vulnerable, business leaders. It’s about our intense need to find “happiness” at all costs, our misguided worship of entrepreneurs, the stigmas still surrounding mental health, and how the trappings of fame can mask all types of deeper problems. In turn, it reveals how we conceptualize success—and define happiness—in our modern age.

Book Omens and Oracles

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  • Author : Matthew Dillon
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-14
  • ISBN : 1317148959
  • Pages : 569 pages

Download or read book Omens and Oracles written by Matthew Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.

Book Foreign Affairs

Download or read book Foreign Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enactments

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  • Author : Daniel Dervin
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780838635919
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Enactments written by Daniel Dervin and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These models begin with analogies to the theater as arena of accepted illusion and dramatic characters as types of imposters. Political processes then come into sharper focus as the leader serves as delegate for a host of popular wishes, fears, and agendas that extend into the unconscious and comprise a group-fantasy. Group-fantasy not only empowers the delegate, but also defines and occasionally destroys this chosen figure as well.

Book Fateful Journey

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  • Author : Joseph R. Graziano
  • Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
  • Release : 2012-10
  • ISBN : 1938223578
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Fateful Journey written by Joseph R. Graziano and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Owens, an ambitious man with an ominous past, will stop at nothing to stay at the top. He soon hatches a plan to intercept perhaps the most important news that has ever broken in the medical world--news of a chemotherapy drug that has successfully treated cancer in people. When Owens enlists the help of the easily distracted Jeff Marshall in his plan, everything begins to unravel. As Marshall seduces Jennifer's beautiful and naive secretary, Jennifer gets caught in the eye of the storm. Fateful Journey weaves together these lives, motives, and desires--some less admirable than others--into a treacherous web. Author Joseph Graziano captures a story of intrigue, romance, and murder set against a seemingly idyllic 1950s Northeastern town. His debut novel will leave you gasping at the twists involved in the characters' own fateful journeys.

Book Military Review

Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Alamos Science

Download or read book Los Alamos Science written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuclear Times

Download or read book Nuclear Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Back to the World

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  • Author : Gaston Bascle de Legrèze
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Back to the World written by Gaston Bascle de Legrèze and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Choice

Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Visions  Dreams and Miracles

Download or read book The Road to Visions Dreams and Miracles written by I. M. Faithful and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has many visions, dreams and miracles that happened to I.M. Faithful and her family. The gifts of the spirit are real and everything she stated in this book are events she believes to have really happened. Imagine God giving someone visions and dreams about the future of this world. To know the future would change many things in your life such as attitudes, jobs and relationships. There is no limit to the things you might change if you knew what was going to happen next. God is coming very soon – this is the main reason why this book was written. Many of I.M. Faithful’s visions are about the end of times. She just explains it very simply and good for average people like herself. That is what God really wanted from this. – just an average person, being obedient to His calling.

Book The Fabric of Dreams

Download or read book The Fabric of Dreams written by Katherine Taylor Craig and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1918, this fascinating blend of science and spirituality compiles dream-related information from many sources. Contents include discussions of clairvoyance, hypnotic sleep, narcotics, and dream interpretation plus a dream dictionary.