Download or read book Double Diamonds written by Karl James and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese. The story of these elite independent companies and commando squadrons, whose soldiers wore the distinctive double-diamond insignia, is told here for the first time. Through 130 powerful images from the Australian War Memorial’s unparalleled collection – some never published before – Double Diamonds captures the operational history of these units and the personal stories of the men who served in them, many of whom lost their lives or the friends who trained and fought alongside them.
Download or read book Motor Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Double Down written by Frederick Barthelme and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exquisitely crafted memoir” by two brothers who lost their parents, lost their inheritance—and almost lost their freedom (The Wall Street Journal). Frederick Barthelme and his brother Steven were both accomplished, respected writers with stable adult lives when they lost both of their parents in rapid succession. They had already lost their other brother, just a few years earlier. Suddenly they were on their own, emotionally unmoored—and unprepared for what would happen next. Their late father had been a prominent architect, and the brothers were left with a healthy inheritance. Over the following several years, they would lose close to a quarter million dollars in the gambling boats off the Mississippi coast. Then, in a bizarre twist, they were charged with violating state gambling laws, fingerprinted, and thrown into the surreal world of felony prosecution. For two years these widely publicized charges hung over their heads, shadowing their every step. Double Down is the wry, often heartbreaking story of how Frederick and Steven Barthelme got into this predicament. It is also a reflection on the allure of casinos and the pull and power of illusions that can destroy our lives if we aren’t careful. “One of the best firsthand accounts ever written about organized gambling. Like Goodman Brown, taking a walk with a hooded stranger into the darkness of the New England woods, the Barthelme brothers suddenly find themselves inside the maw of the monster. The compulsion to control, to intuit the future, to be painted by magic, could not be better or more accurately described.” —James Lee Burke “Beautifully evoking the gamblers’ addiction, their mesmerizing account is best read as a novel Camus might have imagined, with the writer/protagonists as their own lost characters. A work of high art; enthusiastically recommended.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Lucy s Double Diamonds written by Ruby Storm and published by Ellora's Cave. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy's Double Diamonds By Ruby Storm Lucy O'Malley wants to find a man-someone who will cool the fire that crackles in her blood. That doesn't seem too much for a gal to ask. Then Matt Diamond, the man of her heated dreams, strolls through the door of the cafi where she is employed. Bulging muscles, worn jeans, and bedroom eyes wrapped up in one big package of pure male testosterone are enough to make Lucy slide right off a stool. Matt is blindsided by the redheaded woman prone to fumbling her way throughout her days. All he meant to do was duck into a restaurant for a quick burger. What he got was a red-hot tamale lying on the floor at his feet. Setting out for only a one-night stand, Matt is surprised at the depth of emotion that comes over him the first time he holds Lucy in his arms. Enter Jake, Matt's twin brother and mirror image. Never in his wildest dreams did he think his brother's new love would steal his heart instantly. Lucy's going to have to figure out how to deal with the double love of her double Diamonds-because both brothers set her body on fire, and both of them have captured her heart.
Download or read book Casino Gambling written by Dennis R. Harrison and published by Frederick Fell Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional gambler offers his secrets for winning at all major casino games, with tips on betting strategies, successful money management, and self-control under pressure. 64 illustrations.
Download or read book From Adam Smith to Michael Porter written by Tong-s?ng Cho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough explanation of the evolution of international competitiveness theories and their economic and strategic implications. The theories range from classical theories such as Adam Smith's theory of absolute advantage, to new theories such as Michael Porter's diamond model.
Download or read book Double Dare written by Cassandra Dee and published by Cassandra Dee Romance. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two grooms. One fake fiancée. Mason and Derek are billionaire partners in a corporate conglomerate. They struck a business deal and needed a girl to be their fake fiancée – me. But first I had to be convinced. So they taught me everything there is to know about pleasing two men. How to whisper. How to tease. How to give. And before I know it, I’m head over heels in love. Because even though the engagement’s fake, suddenly it feels all too real. Engaged? To two men? YES PLEASE. Hey Readers – Let your fantasies soar with this steamy MMF romance. You’ll love the M/M romance between two dominant alpha males who can’t get enough of each other or the feisty curvy girl who’s brought them together. As always, there’s no cheating, no cliffhangers, and always a guaranteed HEA. Enjoy! Love, Cassie
Download or read book Exposing the Magic of Design written by Jon Kolko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design synthesis is a way of thinking about complicated, multifaceted problems of a large scale with a repeatable degree of success. Design synthesis methods can be applied in business, with the goal of producing new and compelling products and services, and they can be applied in government, with the goal of changing culture and bettering society. In both contexts, however, there is a need for speed and for aggressive action. This text is immediately relevant, and is more relevant than ever, as we acknowledge and continually reference a feeling of an impending and massive change. Simply, this text is intended to act as a practitioner's guide to exposing the magic of design.
Download or read book Machine Design written by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 2220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Understanding the Military Design Movement written by Ben Zweibelson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the history and development of the military design movement, featuring case studies from key modern militaries. Written by a practitioner, the work shows how modern militaries think and arrange actions in time and space for security affairs, and why designers are disrupting, challenging, and reconceptualizing everything previously upheld as sacred on the battlefield. It is the first book to thoroughly explain what military design is, where it came from, and how it works at deep, philosophically grounded levels, and why it is potentially the most controversial development in generations of war fighters. The work explains the tangled origins of commercial design and that of designing modern warfare, the rise of various design movements, and how today’s military forces largely hold to a Newtonian stylization built upon mimicry of natural science infused with earlier medieval and religious inspirations. Why does our species conceptualize war as such, and how do military institutions erect barriers that become so powerful that efforts to design further innovation require entirely novel constructs outside the orthodoxy? The book explains design stories from the Israel Defense Force, the US Army, the US Marine Corps, the Canadian Armed Forces, and the Australian Defence Force for the first time, and includes the theory, doctrine, organizational culture, and key actors involved. Ultimately, this book is about how small communities of practice are challenging the foundations of modern defence thinking. This book will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, defence studies, and security studies, as well as design educators and military professionals.
Download or read book DIAMONDS English Edition written by and published by Marijan Dundek. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Slot Expert s Guide to Playing Slots written by John Robison and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In this guide John Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them. Formerly sold only in bulky report format, this new pocket-sized book can be easily carried into the casinos to be used as a reference. Contains graphics of slot and video poker pay schedules you will encounter, along with representative return percentages.
Download or read book Three of Diamonds written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would Tim Diamond, the world's worst private detective, dowithout his quick-thinking brother Nick? The bumbling detective and his kid brother are at it again in these three hilarious, fast-paced mysteries. Whether it's finding out who flattened a philanthropist with a steamroller in The Blurred Man, outsmarting Parisian drug smugglers on a vacation gone miserably wrong in The French Confection, or catching the murderer behind a deadly class reunion in I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, there's never a dull moment with this crimesolving duo around. Find out if Nick can get to the bottom of these mysteries before Tim messes everything up, or worse, gets them both killed.
Download or read book NanoBioTechnology written by Oded Shoseyov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NanoBiotechnology is a groundbreaking text investigating the recent advances and future direction of nanobiotechnology. It will assist scientists and students in learning the fundamentals and cutting-edge nature of this new and emerging science. Focusing on materials and building blocks for nanotechnology, leading scientists from around the world share their knowledge and expertise in this authoritative volume.
Download or read book Two of Diamonds written by Anthony Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Diamond is the world's worst detective - and these two mysteries will test his nerves to the limit. What does strawberry yoghurt possibly have to do with Paris? Why on earth are Tim and his kid brother Nick invited to a remote Scottish island? The answer - a murder
Download or read book From Adam Smith To Michael Porter Evolution Of Competitiveness Theory written by Dong-sung Cho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest Edition: From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory (Extended Edition)Traditionally, a nation's international competitiveness has been explained by international trade theories originating from Adam Smith. However, today's global economy is too complicated to be explained by the traditional trade theories. Recently, Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School introduced a new competitiveness theory, the so-called diamond model. He differentiated his theory from the traditional trade theories by arguing that national prosperity is not inherited, but created by choices; in other words, national wealth is not set by factor endowments, but created by strategic choices. He showed different choices of creating wealth, which had been quite limited in the world of traditional trade theories. His diamond model has lately been extended by several scholars. This book highlights Porter's achievement by comparing it with those of traditional trade theorists and presents new developments of competitiveness theory. By discussing the “before” and “after” of Porter's theory, the authors provide the reader with a holistic picture of competitiveness theory.
