Download or read book Maverick Teachers written by David E. Baugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dwindling resources and high-stakes testing, public school teachers all over the country are managing to breathe life, passion, and excitement into their classrooms. In this new book by bestselling author A.J. Juliani and lifelong educator David E. Baugh, you’ll meet a diverse group of teachers—Mavericks—who are doing exactly that. You’ll hear from teachers across the country and how they are shaking up the norm. Each story includes a powerful vignette and a breakdown of tactics used, so you can bring inspiration and strategies back to your own classroom. Together, these teachers and their stories will show you how to relate and respond to your students’ most pressing needs, leaving you feeling reenergized in your role as a change-maker.
Download or read book Maverick written by Melissa Stevens and published by Melissa Stevens. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick is back in town after a two-year undercover assignment, and he just wants to get settled back into his life and club. A lot of things have changed. New men, new chapters, new rules around the clubhouse. There are women managing the clubhouse and first rattle out of the box he insults his Vice President's woman by propositioning her. How does one apologize for something like that? He's got a lot of figuring out to do now that he's home. Dana likes her life. She loves her little chocolate shop and is content with her life. Until a strange man seems to step out of the fog after a fender bender. She was about to ask who he was when he disappeared just as fast. Haunted by the memory of the mystery man, she wonders if she'll ever see him again, not likely in a city the size of Tucson... or is it?
Download or read book Saving Dave written by Richard Grainger and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have what is called locked-in syndrome. Yes ... Read that again ... Locked. In. Syndrome. The trouble is that I'm the only person to have figured this out." Meet Dave. Dave is an eighteen-year-old blind, quadriplegic victim of medical negligence. He is highly intelligent, has an almost photographic memory, and is capable of absorbing knowledge at a phenomenal rate. Dave's world revolves around the antics of his dysfunctional, avaricious, unloving family and everything he learns from BBC Radio 4 which provides a link to an outside world he knows he will never belong to. Life is bleak for Dave. Until he meets the one person who may be able to save him. "Just when I'd thought things had got as bad as they could get, they got even worse. There's a singer called Morrissey who writes songs about stuff like this, and even he would struggle to make this sound as miserable as it is."
Download or read book Saving San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.
Download or read book Maverick Jack An Out of Time Novel Saving Time Book 4 written by Monique Martin and published by Monique Martin. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Wells is back in the saddle again – literally! Along with fellow time travelers Simon & Elizabeth Cross, Jack travels back to the Old West for another rip-snorting, time-bending adventure! It's 1879 and President Rutherford B. Hayes (Remember him? No? Anyway...) is touring the West by train. It's a shrewd political move and a campaign promise fulfilled. There's just one problem – someone in Dodge City has other ideas and plans to assassinate the president, killing everyone on board. Now Jack, Simon, and Elizabeth must discover who is behind the assassination plot and stop it before it begins. But first, they have to survive the wild, reckless, and violent streets of "The Wickedest Little City in the West." Nothing short of the fate of a nation – and the future – lies in the balance!
Download or read book Saving the Sun written by Gillian Tett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan's brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against the economic failure in the 1990s. Into this climate of despair, where Japan seemed incapable of reviving prosperity, came a group of wily and determined Americans who would discover just how different the Japanese really are.
Download or read book Maverick written by Lewis F. Fisher and published by Maverick Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of Maverick family and a cultural exploration of the iconic word
Download or read book Maverick and Me written by Katherine Schwarzenegger and published by WorthyKids. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog lover and animal advocate Katherine Schwarzenegger draws from her own experience with fostering and adopting dogs to create a picture book that introduces children to the concept of “adopt, don’t shop.” In the heartwarming story of Maverick and Me, Maverick is rescued by a kind-hearted stranger after being dumped on the side of the road. The little puppy’s luck takes a turn for the better when young Scarlett meets him at an adoption event. Scarlett is so moved by Maverick’s story that she and her mother decide to give him the forever home he is looking for. Each year, millions of dogs find themselves in shelters and with animal rescues through no fault of their own. Maverick will help teach children about these dogs and empower even young readers to advocate for shelter pups.
Download or read book Inside Maverick s written by Grant Washburn and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every winter when the ocean buoys start to read 10-, 15-, and 20-feet, the coast of Half Moon Bay, California, is transformed by an enormous wave called Maverick's. Recognized as one of the most dangerous big wave surf breaks in the world, Maverick's is big, cold, and sickeningly powerful. It's the best show in town, but until now you could only see it through a pair of binoculars. Inside Maverick's brings you right onto the sickening ledge of a 75-foot wave with jaw-dropping photographs and gritty insider accounts of what it's really like out there. Sports columnist Bruce Jenkins and Maverick's surfer Grant Washburn have interviewed top big wave surfers Peter Mel, Zach Wourmhoudt, Evan Slater, and others to discuss every aspect of the freakish wavefrom the paddle out to the terrifying drop to the inevitable and brutal wipeouts. Covering fifteen years of incredible surfing with photos that have never before been published, Inside Maverick's grants unparalleled access to this legendary wave and the elite core of big wave surfers that are obsessed with challenging it.
Download or read book Maverick s written by Matt Warshaw and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its massive faces, punishing rocks, and treacherous currents, Maverick's presents a surfing challenge like no other. Author Matt Warshaw has updated his critically acclaimed illustrated history of Maverick's to cover important recent developments, and we've added a fresh new cover to kick this edition off in style. "A fascinating account," to quote Surfer magazine, it takes "a cue from Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm...Warshaw focused on a single event...and expands on it to illuminate an entire culture and its world beyond waves." The event was the death of celebrated surfer Mark Foo, one of those who congregate every winter to test themselves in the dark, foreboding waters. And what unfolds in Maverick's is no less than the story of big-wave surfing, from its ancient Hawaiian origins to modern tow-in riders. It's a book to be enjoyed not only by those who surf deep in the waves, but also by those whose taste for adventure is satisfied deep in the pages of a very good book.
Download or read book Maverick written by Lewis F. Fisher and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By definition, a maverick is a “lone dissenter” who “takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” or “a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas.” The word maverick has evolved in the English language from being the term for an unbranded stray calf to a label given to a nontraditional person to a more extreme “uncontrollable individualist, iconoclast, unstable nonconformist.” The word has grown into an adjective (“he made a maverick decision”) and become a verb (mavericking or mavericked). Of all the words that originated in the Old West and survive to the present day, author Lewis Fisher notes, maverick has been called the least understood and most corrupted. But where did the word come from? The word’s definition is still such a mystery that Merriam-Webster lists it in the top 10 percent of its most-looked-up words. All of the origin stories agree it had something to do with Samuel A. Maverick and his cattle, but from there things go amok rather quickly. Was Sam Maverick a cattle thief? A legendary nonconformist who broke the code of the West by refusing to brand his calves? A Texas rancher who believed branding cattle was cruelty to animals? A runaway from South Carolina who branded all the wild cattle he could find and ended up with more cattle than anyone else in Texas? Samuel A. Maverick was a notable landholder and public figure in his own time, but his latter-day fame is based on the legend that he was a cattle rancher. No amount of truth-telling about maverick seems to have slowed the tall tales surrounding the word’s origination. Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend is a whodunit, a historical telling of the man who unwittingly inspired the term, the family it’s derived from, the cowboys who embraced it as an adjective meaning rakish and independent, the curious inquirers intrigued by its narrative, and the appropriators who have borrowed it for political fame. Texas historian (and secondhand Maverick by marriage) Lewis Fisher has combed through Maverick family papers along with cultural memorabilia and university collections to get at the heart of the truth behind the far-flung Maverick legends. Maverick follows the history of the word through the “Maverick gene” all the way to Hollywood and uncovers the mysteries that shadow one of our country’s iconic words. Taken as a whole, the book is a fascinating portrayal of how we form, use, and change our language in the course of everyday life, and of the Maverick family’s ongoing relationship to its own contributions, all seen through the lens of a story featuring cowboys, Texas Longhorns, rustlers, promoters, movie stars, athletes, novelists, lawyers, mayors, congressmen, and senators—to say nothing of named maverick brands ranging from Ford cars and air-to-ground missiles to computer operating systems, Vermont maple syrup, and Australian wines. Ironically, given its literal meaning as unbranded, maverick is a brand name that helped shape the history of the American West and represents the ideal of being true to oneself.
Download or read book The Maverick Paradox The Secret Power Behind Successful Leaders written by Judith Germain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All successful leaders have a secret power - where's yours? When leadership becomes a byword for control, and trust is outdated - how should YOU respond? 'Believe nothing, test everything'. This is the war cry of the maverick. This scream, an essential cornerstone of the maverick mindset. Leadership and maverick expert Judith Germain provides the blueprint to becoming a successful leader. - Discover the 5 maverick attributes all 'natural leaders' possess - Master the 8 maverick capabilities that all successful leaders demonstrate - Extend your influence by utilising the 3 key power bases - Become a transformational leader by deploying the Maverick DRIVEN Leadership(TM) Methodology 'Judith is one of those rare people who actually knows what she's talking about. She provides results based on good research and a professional approach'. Peter Clayton, author of 'Body Language at Work' and body language consultant for the BBC and ITV
Download or read book Maverick written by Ed Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick: Legend of the West is an in-depth look at the classic television series created by Roy Huggins and starring James Garner.
Download or read book Saving Maverick written by Debra Elise and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick Jansen and Kelsey Sullivan fall into a complicated game of PR strategy by day and searing passion by night where they both find a new meaning to fast and hard.STRIKE ONEDays before the biggest game of playboy pitcher Maverick Jansen's career, his brother is killed in a horrific car accident. Determined not to let his teammates down, Mav pushes through his grief only to lose control of his signature pitch-and the series. STRIKE TWOStill dealing with the backlash of his once adoring fans, Maverick learns the team's owner plans to move the ball club to small town America. During a night of hard drinking Mav rails against the move to Hicksville while a fan records the entire tirade. His career takes a nosedive when the video goes viral right before spring training. Kelsey Sullivan, Media Consultant, is hired by the team's owner and her childhood friend, ThomasScott, to help restore Maverick's image and find a way to get his mojo back. Asthe daughter of a former minor league ball player who walked away from her andher unstable mother, Kelsey breaks her main client rule--no male athletes--tohelp her friend and gain a coveted position with the ball club. STRIKE THREE, or...Happily Ever After?Forced to pretend they're a couple as a last ditch effort to secure his place on the team and fix his public image, Maverick and Kelsey's romance goes from on the bench to rounding the bases in no time. Maverick knows what they have is more than just soul-shattering sex, but he'll have to overcome his fear of commitment to prove to Kelsey love can save them both. But once burned, twice shy Kelsey might not be able to trust again, unless she can bury her long-held belief that this bad boy baseball player isn't the happily-ever-after type.
Download or read book The Maverick s Summer Sweetheart written by Stacy Connelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is definitely not the honeymoon she was expecting . . . It’s summertime in Rust Creek Falls, Montana, and Gemma Chapman is here on her honeymoon . . . alone. Now the town gossips are atwitter about the jilted city girl who’s been spotted with local single dad and rancher Hank Harlow! His daughter, Janie, is doing her darnedest to play matchmaker for them, but is she leading her papa down the trail to disappointment? Or will this can-do cowboy lasso Gemma’s wary heart for good? Praise for the author “The well-paced narrative gives this sweet and saucy romance its genuine feel.” —RT Book Reviews
Download or read book Maverick written by Phil Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maverick written by Ricardo Semler and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco S.A., a family-owned Brazilian manufacturing firm describes the unusual management decisions that have made Semco known worldwide.
