Download or read book Red or Dead written by David Peace and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice "[T]he stuff of great literature." —The New York Times | "Red or Dead is a winner." —The Washington Post The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and there was widespread unemployment, with no assistance from a government tightening its belt. Even the Beatles moved to London. Into these hard times walked Bill Shankly, a former Scottish coal miner who took over the city’s perpetually last-place soccer team. He had a straightforward work ethic and a favorite song – a silly pop song done by a local band, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Soon he would have entire stadiums singing along, tens of thousands of people all dressed in the team color red . . . as Liverpool began to win . . . And soon, too, there was something else those thousands of people would chant as one: Shank-lee, Shank-lee . . . In Red or Dead, the acclaimed writer David Peace tells the stirring story of the real-life working-class hero who lifted the spirits of an entire city in turbulent times. But Red or Dead is more than a fictional biography of a real man, and more than a thrilling novel about sports. It is an epic novel that transcends those categories, until there’s nothing left to call it but – as many of the world’s leading newspapers already have – a masterpiece.
Download or read book Don t Kill the Bosses written by Samuel A Culbert and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2001-09-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boss/subordinate relationship is an age-old problem cited in almost every management book and on-the-job survey as an area rife with dishonesty and inefficiency. All too often, subordinates spin the truth for those above while bosses fail to establish the conditions required for subordinates to tell it to them straight. The end result is warped communication, corrupt internal politics, illusionary teamwork, pass-the-buck accountability, and personal dispiriting-and the company is always the big loser. Don't Kill the Bosses! reveals the "trap" created when people fail to differentiate between the positives of hierarchical structure and the negatives of hierarchical relationships. Far from being opposed to hierarchy, the authors believe strongly that an accurate and cleanly defined organization chart is vital. But they show how to implement an alternative model of hierarchy: two-sided accountability. Drawing on case studies from their consulting practice, Culbert and Ullmen show how this new model leads to a freer flow of information, more creative problem-solving, and quicker response to changing conditions. Unlike other books that acknowledge boss/subordinate relationships as a systematic, continuing problem and offer skill development suggestions for dealing with it, Don't Kill the Bosses! tells how to think about the problem in a way that will enable readers to understand the steps they need to take to change things. It diagnoses what's missing in boss/subordinate relationships, connects what's wrong with them to personal and organizational outcomes, and defines the whole new mentality required to make them work successfully.
Download or read book Deathstruck written by Jerome Chester and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A janitorial man and his daughter find a huge box, filled with drugs. They decided to bring it to the neighborhood to sell it. Little did they know, that the drugs belong to a major druglord who began to stalk them to execute. They were able to survive though the drug lord, but a small offer was made to them to go overseas, that cause them to be trapped with vampires in a mansion. Just when you thought it was over from Tales from the Gee, Jerome Chester, returns to his book readers with his newe legacy novel Deathstuck
Download or read book Needless written by Verle D. Dresback and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is baseball unavoidably a game of failures? The author calls upon a lifetime of experience to answer that question in three parts. One: Failures by hitters on an average team exceed four thousand per season. That number can be reduced by at least 50 percent, drastically reducing the frequency of batting slumps. Two: Failures by starting pitchers can be eliminated. Three: The two biggest on-field problems for managers today are when to pull the starting pitcher and finding a way to get the players to play the game the proper way, and those problems can also be eliminated. If you think these claims are not realistic, be prepared to change your mind. As much as Verle D. Dresback loved baseball through his high school years, it did not love him. However, he was good enough in other sports to receive scholarship offers to play basketball and football at Montana State, the Butte School of Mines and Carol College in Billings, Montana. These three scholarship letters only offered books and tuition. However, he received a fourth letter from the draft board. He chose the Air Force, where he served his country from 1954 to 1974. During the last half of his USAF career, he taught advanced airborne electronic maintenance in the mornings, and coached youngsters in baseball, football and basketball in the afternoons. About the Author: What Verle D. Dresback did during his next twenty-year career makes him uniquely qualified to give advice. When he retired from Ingalls Ship Building in 1994, he was a senior engineer in the reliability section of the engineering department. His credentials include identifying failures and creating solutions. http: //sbpra.com/VerleDDresback
Download or read book All the King s Men written by Robert Penn Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic backwoods lawyer batters his way into the governor's mansion, where he uses his unprincipled charm to become a brutal dictator.
Download or read book The Face Reader written by Lavanya Nair and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you crossed paths with someone you felt you had known before? Would you fall in love with someone you hated? Is it possible to love someone who has caused you pain? When such a connection is made, you have no idea whether it is good or bad and you are drawn to them like a magnet. Relationships like these offer opportunities to learn and grow, most importantly they put an end to any unfinished business from the past. This is not the easiest of tasks. As a matter of fact, it becomes a reason to learn some outstanding lessons from the pain the other soul inflicts upon you, the very same soul that demands your attention, respect and love.
Download or read book Gate of Mysterious Grave written by Huo Lang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because he was ordered to be too old, the old father managed to obtain a bit of light from the temple before Zi Qing Yu fell on him, but accidentally brought a nightmare with him. Because it was originally just a dream, because of the appearance of Zi Qing Yu, the person fighting to save the person was targeted. After the person came out to save the person, only then did I find out that Zi Qing Yu was hiding the mysteries of my Tang Family. After receiving the order from Zi Qing Yu, under his helplessness, he walked onto a path of life and death.
Download or read book Meet Him at the Right Time written by Su Baosi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was suffering inhumane torture in a mental hospital, while her fiancé was out enjoying himself with other women.She had thought that her life would only be left with darkness and endless torment, until she met him ...He said, "From now on, you're called a cocoon."Then, a famous name appeared in River City.They heard that she was extremely beautiful, that she treated money like her life, that she was passionate and heartless, and that she could kill the world with a flick of her fingers.She had turned a blind eye to the courtesies of all the men in the city. She was the only one who treated him tenderly and emotionally. He also treated her like a ladle of water.She thought he would be her eternal life, but the truth was ..."Let me go." Her despairing figure teetered on the edge of the cliff."Impossible! Even if we die, we can forget about escaping!"
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Download or read book Star Born written by Dwight Chick and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a diplomatic mission for her mother, The Queen of Liu, Princess Rianna’s convoy is ambushed by bandits but is saved by a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy named Duo. In gratitude for his help, Rianna takes him back home to the palace and the queen makes him a member of her Royal Guard. During his training, it’s revealed that there may be more to Duo than meets the eye. Not only does he have superhuman strength, he also has a superior intellect as well as unique abilities. He quickly rises through the ranks, heading up The Empire’s technological development and even siring Rianna’s heir in preparation for when she becomes queen. However, when her kingdom is faced with a potential alien attack, Rianna’s paranoia grows to the point that she begins to suspect everyone around her of betrayal, including Duo. As a result, he is forced to flee for his life. Hunted by those closest to him, Duo and his pursuers soon find themselves embroiled in a conflict that extends not just across their planet but throughout the galaxy. They must decide whether to stay and fight oppression at home or leave and help battle an even greater evil that is threatening to envelope the entire cosmos.
Download or read book An Unfortunate Place to Die written by Allan Taylor and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic terrorist group al Shabaab has overrun Somalia and is believed to be planning a major terrorist attack across the border in neighboring Kenya. US officials are concerned the attack may be aimed at an American target in retaliation for recent drone strikes the US has been conducting against the terrorists. As part of an all-out effort to thwart the attack, the US sends a young intelligence agent, Alex Morgan, to Mombasa, the center of Kenya’s Muslim community where al Shabaab is known to have a covert presence, to try to uncover information about the group’s plans. But soon after he arrives, Alex and a young French woman he meets run afoul of both al Shabaab and the notoriously corrupt Mombasa police, causing Alex to wonder whether he has in fact been sent into a trap. Caught in a web of terror and deceit, Alex and the young woman must somehow find a way out with their lives hanging in the balance. Keywords: Spy, Thriller, Africa, Terrorist, Espionage, Lies, Murder, Sex, Corruption, Betrayal
Download or read book Beauty Goes Astray written by Yi Ke and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impoverished boss, Ike, was an unlucky guy. When he just arrived at the new unit, he found out that his female boss was a peerless beauty that he had provoked. What's more, he inadvertently discovered her boss's top secret.
Download or read book The Lost Luna written by Taylor West and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TJ wakes with no memory of her past to find that she is apart of a supernatural world. A world where her mate had already been chosen for her long ago and a community where no one will tell her the truth about who she really is or what she really is.
Download or read book THE WINTER SOLDIER written by Diana Palmer and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head back to Jacobsville, Texas, in New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer's fan-favorite tale, The Winter Soldier! Most everyone in town steered clear of taciturn Cy Parks. However, lovely young Lisa Monroe wasn't exactly quaking in her boots at the sight of Cy; instead, she electrified the formidable loner with her sweetly tantalizing kisses. Their fiery passion escalated when the winter soldier returned to the line of duty…and claimed the lovely Lisa as his wife, but only to shield her from a revenge-seeking desperado. Against his own will, Cy found himself getting mighty possessive over this enchanting woman who needed the type of safeguarding only he could provide. But who would protect the beguiling bride from him…? Orignially published in 2001.
Download or read book Five Ways to Forgiveness written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked Hainish stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published as Four Ways to Forgiveness, and now joined by a fifth story, Five Ways to Forgiveness focuses on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe—two worlds whose peoples, long known as “owners” and “assets,” together face an uncertain future after civil war and revolution. In “Betrayals” a retired science teacher must make peace with her new neighbor, a disgraced revolutionary leader. In “Forgiveness Day,” a female official from the Ekumen arrives to survey the situation on Werel and struggles against its rigidly patriarchal culture. Embedded within “A Man of the People,” which describes the coming of age of Havzhiva, an Ekumen ambassador to Yeowe, is Le Guin’s most sustained description of the Ur-planet Hain. “A Woman’s Liberation” is the remarkable narrative of Rakam, born an asset on Werel, who must twice escape from slavery to freedom. Joined to them is “Old Music and the Slave Women,” in which the charismatic Hainish embassy worker, who appears in two of the four original stories, returns for a tale of his own. Of this capstone tale Le Guin has written, “the character called Old Music began to tell me a fifth tale about the latter days of the civil war . . . I’m glad to see it joined to the others at last.”
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