Download or read book The Glorious Race of Rats written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hordes of giant rats are attacking the villages around Grunwald forest, killing all the inhabitants. Filistan, a rat catcher, suspecting that his village might be the next, decides to find the rodents' origin and stop them. Accompanied by Tulnan, a ranger, he travels to the center of the forest, a place infested by trolls, where he will find more than what he was looking for.
Download or read book Rush written by Todd G. Buchholz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relaxation makes us stupid. You think that downtime will make you happy. You may even dream about getting out of the rat race for good. But Todd Buchholz—a former White House director of economic policy, award-winning teacher at Harvard, hedge fund director, and co-producer of a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit show—wants you to know that you’re wrong. It’s the race that delivers the rush. So forget about retirement, zen retreats, and making everyone feel like a winner; human beings are hard-wired to compete. Interweaving entertaining stories and cutting-edge research from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to Renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz draws the counterintuitive—yet wholly convincing—conclusion that competition has not only made us taller and smarter, it’s what we love and need.
Download or read book Assorted Fantasies written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts written by Alex Bell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the most perilous places and is full of spiky dangers. Most participants seek out unicorns and dragons to help them on their conquest. But not Eli. He embarks on this journey with his trusted pet and friend, Humphrey, his moon tortoise. Moon tortoises aren't suited to racing and Eli is no natural adventurer. But he soon finds himself in an unlikely partnership with Raven, a rule-breaker and skilled archer, and her ice hare - one of the fastest animals in the world. If the two children put aside their differences and work together, they might just reach the finish line!
Download or read book War of the Rats written by David L. Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. And with it, the world.... German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men—one Russian, one German—each the top sniper in his respective army. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Each man has his own mission: to find his counterpart—and kill him. But an American woman trapped in Russia complicates this extraordinary duel. Joining the Russian sniper's cadre, she soon becomes one of his most talented assassins—and perhaps his greatest weakness. Based on a true story, this is the harrowing tale of two adversaries enmeshed in their own private war—and whose fortunes will help decide the fate of the world.
Download or read book The Glorious Face of Sorrow written by Archibald Hobbs and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Spalding is a man at his lowest ebb. His wife has imposed a trial separation. His legal career is faltering. Though once he was a prince, his future is bleak. But then, in service of a client he did not want, Jack finds a book of love poems he did not expect. Through Hugh McCauley’s poetry, Jack perceives the love the poet has for his soulmate, Jing Zhao. But what has happened to the young couple? Narrated, in turn, by the three central characters, The Glorious Face of Sorrow, tells the tale of Hugh and Jing’s mixed-race romance in 1990s Sydney, where racial tensions are on the rise in an era of dog-whistle politics. But it also tells the story of Jack’s search for unlikely redemption.
Download or read book The Rat written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues--convincingly demonstrating to him that the rats will inherit a devastated earth. Dreams alternate with reality in this story within a story within a story. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Download or read book Beyond the Rat Race written by Arthur G. Gish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒThe daily grind,Ó Òthe treadmill,Ó Òback to the salt mines.Ó The very words so many of us use to describe our work and our lives show a deep discontent. Why? And is there a way out? Art Gish says yes, there is - simplicity. Simplify your wants, your life style, your concerns and the way is open to a fuller, more rewarding life - infinitely rich in joy. But, Gish does not advocate the fake simplicity of the hippy, or the martyrdom of the ascetic. He suggests a true application of the things of the world as well as of the spirit, a radical change in goals and values. Practical as well as inspirational, Art Gish presents specific techniques for simplifying your life as you live it now - ways and means which are well within the reach of every one who wants to live their life - ÒBeyond The Rat Race.Ó
Download or read book A God in Humait written by Joel Puga and published by Joel Puga. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Passage of Humaitá, one of the most important moments of the Paraguayan War, the intervention of a Guarani god changes the course of history. However, for two soldiers on opposite sides, it's a catastrophic event.
Download or read book The Rat pit written by Patrick MacGill and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Rat Race written by Glen Martin and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a third of Americans say they "always feel rushed". In this book, Dr. Martin observes that the only way to escape the frantic treadmill of modern life is to step back and pause to enjoy God's greatest gifts.
Download or read book The End Times written by Guy Haley and published by Black Library. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End Times are coming. In the warrens of Skavenblight, a new power is rising. The verminlords walk the earth and they plan to lead the skaven to their destiny as rulers of the world The End Times are coming. In the warrens of Skavenblight, a new power is rising. The verminlords walk the earth and they plan to lead the skaven to their destiny as rulers of the world. But for Queek Headtaker, the only destiny that matters is his own, as he plans his final assault on Karak Eight Peaks. In the depths of that ancient city, two rival kings - the goblin Skarsnik and the dwarf Belegar - prepare to meet the onslaught. And in Karaz-a-Karak, High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer presides over what he knows, in his heart, is the end of the dwarf empire. The Horned Rat rises and nothing will ever be the same...
Download or read book The Great Rat Race for Europe written by Joey Maddox and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Rat Race for Europe: Stories of the 357th Fighter Group (Sortie One) tells the true stories of the Yoxford Boys of the 357th Fighter Group; arguably the best Army Air Force fighter group in the European Theater during World War Two. Aces Kit Carson, Bud Anderson, Johnny England, Pete Peterson, Chuck Yeager and others from this elite group of "tigers" eventually became famous after the war, while other Yoxford Boys just melted back into the scenery that was the American post war years. Those were the lucky ones as scores of these brave, young American lads flying their P-51 Mustangs into combat against the Luftwaffe never saw home again as the result of this epic air war over Europe. Their stories are all here including Leonard "Kit" Carson's account of The Great Rat Race which helped to break the back of the Luftwaffe (from his fantastic book Pursue and Destroy), the strange and sad end of decorated fighter ace Dittie Jenkins who safely returned from his last mission against the Nazis only to be killed while celebrating with an impromptu air show over Station 373 at Leiston, and the first hand account of life in a Stalag Luft (prisoner of war camp) with Colonel Henry Spicer, the irascible commanding officer of the American section of the POW camp (and one-time 357th Fighter Group Commanding Officer) who drove the German officers to the brink with his rock solid spirit of rebellion and the love and admiration of his men. Fly into weather so thick that the ducks are walking with Pete Peterson, one of the leading aces of the Group, as he walks you through a hair-raising landing on Leiston Field with zero visibility and three inexperienced pilots on his wing. Then 357th fighter pilot Joe Shea recaptures the common boredom ridden hours and terror stricken moments faced by replacement pilots of the Group during their first combat missions, including Shea's account of his last encounter, eyeball to eyeball, with a German pilot in an Me-262 jet fighter as it slid over his wing and lined up perfectly in his gun sight. Relive the greatest (as well as the worst) days of the 8th Air Force's first long range Mustang fighter outfit in short stories written by the pilots of the 357th Fighter Group, their families, and this author in this collection of memories and tall tales of the famous Yoxford Boys.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Florida. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rat Pit written by Patrick MacGill and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Ireland and Scotland of the early 1900s, and based on real events, The Rat-Pit is the tragic story of Norah Ryan, a devout and intelligent Donegal girl who leaves her homeland after the death of her father hoping to find a better life 'across the water'. Unable to escape the cycle of grinding poverty, Norah's fate is further sealed when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the son of the farmer on whose land she lives and progressive views on social justice, Alec callously abandons her and, too proud to accept his begrudging offer of financial help, she finds herself bitterly ostracised. More than the story of one woman's decline and death, The Rat-Pit is also a grim and unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the Irish immigrant experience in Scotland, as well as a savage critique of a Church and society that did its best to crush those who could scarcely be more vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 Steps to Leaving the Rat Race written by Ajay Ahuja and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title aims to give the reader the confidence to leave their job and enable them to become their own boss. Ajay Ahuja followed the steps he describes in this book and became a multi-millionaire. He now owns his own accountancy firm, 75 investment properties, a bar and a nightclub and has become a best-selling author - all by the age of 31. The steps he outlines are simple but they require three core ingredients: courage, motivation and foresight. Ajay guides you through a series of thought processes so that you too can gather together these vital ingredients and make the same bid for freedom. CONTENTS: Where are you now? where you want to be the key step - taking you from where you are to where you want to be minimize your fixed cost of living maintain your fixed costs of living identify what type of self-employed person you are raise the initial capital.
