Download or read book Good Old fashioned Yankee Ingenuity written by Harry Harris and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the background of products, sports, foods, ideas, styles, institutions, and inventions developed in the United States
Download or read book The One Year Book of Did You Know Devotions for Kids written by Nancy S. Hill and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interesting and sometimes silly facts that relates to a Bible verse.
Download or read book The One Year Did You Know Devotions 2 written by Nancy S. Hill and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fun facts and trivia including how a pearl forms and the origin of safety glass, connecting them to Christian life using passages from the Bible.
Download or read book A Time for Reflection written by William E. Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic. Simon's insightful and often humorous autobiography, A Time for Reflection, includes a diverse cast of characters whose lives intersected with Simon's: from the president and his advisers at the White House; to the highest realms of the Catholic Church (in particular, Cardinal Egan), to celebrities, like actress Meryl Streep; and sports figures, like basketball coach Bobby Knight. In A Time for Reflection, Simon offers us some behind-the-scenes glimpses of history being made, including: President Nixon as Simon knew him, both in office and after; How Simon confronted Ronald Reagan during the Republican convention in 1980 to help nix the idea of a co-presidency with Gerald Ford; The tumult of the 1980 Moscow Olympic games, boycotted by the United States, and the 1984 Los Angeles games, boycotted by the Soviet Union; How Simon battled the Arab 'oil crisis' as 'energy czar' for President Nixon; Simon's fight in the Ford administration against Vice President Nelson Rockefeller on how to help a bankrupt New York City; Making the case for freedom with his best-selling books A Time for Truth and A Time for Action. Simon's fascinating life also encompassed sailing adventures -- including conquering the Northwest Passage from Alaska to Greenland and being named king by a group of Fiji islanders -- as well as adventures of the soul: giving away millions to charity; becoming a eucharistic minister; and helping to care for the sick, the poor, and the dying. William E Simon passed away on June 2000, but his autobiography, written in conjunction with and completed by John M Caher, is now published for the first time, a testimony to one of the truly impressive Americans of the twentieth century.
Download or read book First You Have to Row a Little Boat written by Richard Bode and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Book of Investing Wisdom written by Peter Krass and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es gibt zwar viele lehrreiche Bücher über Geschäftsweisheiten, aber nur wenige bekannte Investoren haben ihr Erfolgsgeheimnis tatsächlich gelüftet. Dieses Buch ist eine Anthologie bestehend aus 50 Essays und Reden von so schillernden Größen wie z. B. Charles Dow, B.C. Forbes, Peter Lynch und George Soros: In einem Band: Geschäftsweisheiten aus mehreren Jahrzehnten von der Crème de la Crème! Die verschiedenen Persönlichkeiten der Investoren und deren Umfeld wird deutlich durch ihren Sprachstil. Zu jeder Persönlichkeit gibt es als Vorwort einleitende Informationen über deren jeweiligen Hintergrund. Nach Themen gegliedert, erlaubt es dem Leser sich bequem auf bestimmte Informationen oder Ratschläge zu konzentrieren. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören u.a.: Die richtige Einstellung für erfolgreiche Investitionen, Theorie und Strategie, Marktzyklen und -verhalten, etc. Es bietet ein leserfreundliches Layout mit Fettdruck der besten Zitate, einen Namensindex aller zu Wort gekommenen Investoren sowie einen chronologischen Index. Die ideale Lektüre für alle in der Investmentbranche. (02/99)
Download or read book The Innovator s Hypothesis written by Michael Schrage and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the best way for a company to innovate? That's exactly the wrong question.The better question: How can organizations get the maximum possible value from their innovationinvestments? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may bewonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. But this book addresses theinnovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits. They want fast, frugal,and high impact innovations. They don't just seek superior innovation, they want superiorinnovators. In The Innovator's Hypothesis, innovation expertMichael Schrage advocates a cultural and strategic shift: small teams, collaboratively--andcompetitively -- crafting business experiments that make top management sit up and take notice.Creativity within constraints -- clear deadlines and clear deliverables -- is what seriousinnovation cultures do. Schrage introduces the 5X5 framework: giving diverse teams of five people upto five days to come up with portfolios of five business experiments costing no more than $5,000each and taking no longer than five weeks to run. The book describes multiple portfolios of 5X5experiments drawn from Schrage's advisory work and innovation workshops worldwide. These includefinancial service approaches for improving customer service and addressing security challenges; apharmaceutical company's hypotheses for boosting regulatory compliance; and a diaper divisions'efforts to give babies and parents alike better "diapering experiences" withglow-in-the-dark adhesives, diagnostic capability, and bundled wipes. Schrage's5X5 is enterprise innovation gone viral: Successful 5X5s make people more effective innovators, andmore effective innovators mean more effective innovations.
Download or read book Rescue Mode written by Ben Bova and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure from New York Times best-selling author Ben Bova and NASA space scientist Les Johnson. The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole human space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts can’t nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either the first Martian colonists—or the first humans to perish on another planet. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Mars, Inc.: "The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars."—Publishers Weekly About the award winning novels of Ben Bova: “Technically accurate and absorbing . . .”—Kirkus “[Bova is] the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.”—Ray Bradbury “A masterful storyteller”—Vector “Gives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well.”—SFX
Download or read book The First Annual Unofficial Point Pleasure Skimmer Survey and Other Stories of Cape May County New Jersey written by Ray Rebmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jersey shore is frequented by millions of tourists every year. For many people living in the great cities along the East Coast of America, the Jersey shore is their only vacation destination. They come for many reasons, the ocean, the glitz of the casino, and the glitter of the boardwalk. Some come to visit and never leave. The 1st Annual Unofficial Point Pleasure Skimmer Survey tells about a fictional seashore resort populated by colorful quirky locals. They may be the waiters or ticket takers you encounter as shadowy enablers of your vacation pleasures, but when the season's over and the tourists are gone, they live their own lives but oh, those lives!
Download or read book Discovering Dean Koontz written by Bill Munster and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Koontz started his career as a science fiction writer before he left the genre to ultimately become one of America's best-selling authors. In this volume, author Munster looks at Koontz's horror and dark suspense fiction.
Download or read book Haunted Litchfield County written by Thomas D'Agostino and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Litchfield is Connecticut's least populated county, yet it boasts more ghosts and legends than anywhere else in the region. Indian spirits and curses pursue those who wronged them. Haunted caves and camps harbor spirits that once called these places home. The Clairvoyant of Colebrook communicated regularly with the dead, while some guests of the Yankee Pedlar Inn refuse to leave. From the Twin Lakes Ghost Canoe in Salisbury to the friendly literary spirit at the Bank Street Book Nook, echoes of the past abound. Tom D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson reveal the dark secrets of the Nutmeg State's shadowy northwest corner.
Download or read book The American Patriot s Almanac written by William J. Bennett and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read here the storied history of these United States. The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. The American Patriot’s Almanac is a daily source of inspiration and information about the history, heroes, and achievements that sum up what this nation is all about.
Download or read book The Journal written by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Forest Salvage Program and SBA Set aside Sales written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of Dallas written by Jane Roberts Wood and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At their best, short stories are works of art, of the imagination, that 'gather up the day and hold it,' just long enough for us to share the experience, the imagined moment, with the story teller. And that is exactly what the 14 stories in Out of Dallas accomplish."--Texas Books in Review "Most of the time you'll find me here at the mini-warehouse, Pilgrim's Mini-warehouse, owned by Mrs. Etta Fontenot. Etta is the main reason I write here: I met her the day after the night my wife, now my ex-wife, suggested I move out and take my back issues of The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Show Business Illustrated (the whole run) among others, including selected numbers of Sports Illustrated and the New York Times Magazine with me. She could never understand why I kept all those shelves of magazines, cluttering up her closets, she said. We went round and round about that one."--from Ed Garcia's "Here at the Mini-Warehouse" Contents: "Here at the Mini-Warehouse," Ed Garcia; "Thin Silk Kites," Beverlye Brown; "Joy," Donna Dysart Gormly; "The Calf Killing," Sally Schrup; "At Summer's End," D. H. Murray; "In Nomine Xerox," N. T. Casillas; "Bologna Sandwiches and Blackberry Patches," Thelma M. Cruz; "The Blue Curtains," Pamela Vance; "Correspondence," Chris T. Shigenaga; "Charlie McLung Goes to Town," Tom Dodge: "Commodities," Peggy Little; "Moonshot," Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown; "Androgynous Zones," Kay Calvin Sanford; "Beneath the Jacaranda," Jane Roberts Wood.
Download or read book The Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Moon Rising written by Matthew Brzezinski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, the artificial satellite launched by the Russians in 1957, Brzezinskis book vividly recounts the true story of the birth of the space age in dramatic detail, bringing it to life as never before.
