Download or read book Through Life and Round the World Being the Story of My Life written by Raymond Blathwayt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tears of a Tiger written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Download or read book Cosmic Boom written by Pauline Baird Jones and published by Pauline Baird Jones. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step aboard the spaceship of intrigue, love, and cosmic events in "Cosmic Boom," the thrilling second installment of The Cyborg Chronicles, a captivating spin-off of the award-winning Project Enterprise series. USAF Captain Hedy Quinton's dream of intergalactic exploration turned into a tangled web of responsibilities, unanticipated complications, and unexpected affection. Tasked with managing a lonely AI, a handsome ex-robot deck officer, a disgruntled ally, and an array of suspicious scientists, she's got her hands full. But it's the captivating ex-robot, Boom, who complicates her life the most. Boom, adjusting to his newfound human emotions and vulnerabilities, finds himself irresistibly drawn to Hedy. His unfamiliar human sensations are most potent when she's near, sparking a powerful realization—his human form, unlike his previous robotic one, is delicate and mortal. When Boom embarks on a mission to investigate strange phenomena on an unknown planet, Hedy's professional responsibilities clash with her burgeoning feelings. Her heartstrings are pulled tight as things spiral out of control both on the ship and the unknown planet, forcing her to question her life's decisions. Can their emerging love withstand a cosmic catastrophe, deceit, and the enigma of Boom's past, or are they fated to be adrift in the endless expanse of space? "Cosmic Boom" is your gateway to a universe brimming with high-stakes adventure, thrilling suspense, and heartwarming romance. If you're a fan of character-rich narratives, high-octane action, and expansive space operas, this is a journey you don't want to miss. Join Hedy and Boom as they navigate through the stars and their feelings. Step into the cosmos and grab your copy today.

Download or read book Tiger Woods written by Jeff Benedict and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the HBO documentary from Academy Award–winning producer Alex Gibney. The #1 New York Times bestseller based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life—this “comprehensive, propulsive…and unsparing” (The New Yorker) biography is “an ambitious 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized figure…brimming with revealing details” (Golf Digest). In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. “Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” (The New York Times).

Download or read book Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation written by David Malvinni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen years since the death of lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stand as a symbol of the unresolved cultural clashes of the 1960s. The band's thirty-year odyssey is a testament to the American imagination, with thousands of live concert recordings by fans and the band itself, preserved alongside an impressive array of images, artwork, and paraphernalia. Most recently, the Grateful Dead have released from their vault their entire 1972 European tour, one of the largest boxed sets of live music--seventy-three compact discs--ever released. This publicly available archive of recorded music lays the groundwork for David Malvinni's exploration of the band's musical signature as the ultimate jam band in Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation. Malvinni considers a select group of songs from the Dead's early repertoire, from its unique covers of "Viola Lee Blues," "Midnight Hour," and "Love Light" to original masterpieces like "Dark Star." Marrying basic music analysis to philosophical frames offered by improvisatory musings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Deleuze, Malvinni presents the core aesthetic underlying the Dead's musical styling. In tracing the evolution of the band's unique jam style, Malvinni outlines the Dead's gift as gatherers and inventors of old and new soundscapes in their multifaceted improvisations. Like no other band, the Dead brought together a variety of styles from roots and folk to country and modal jazz to postmodern European art music. Devoted Deadheads reveled in the band's polyglot, risk-filled approach to playing live and the joint band-audience quest to reach a type of sonic cosmic ecstasy, commonly described as the "X factor." Although fans and scholars alike recognize the Grateful Dead as icons of psychedelic music, the band's improvisatory approach still remains an enigma to the uninitiated. In Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation, Malvinni unravels this mystery, walking readers through the band's musical decision-making process. Written for rock music fans with little to no background in music theory, as well as scholars and students of popular music culture, the book reveals the method behind the seeming chaos of America's greatest jam band.

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Download or read book Tiger Tales written by K. Ullas Karanth and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tiger S Enduring Appeal Has Generated A Vast Body Of Literature. This Anthology, Compiled From Non-Fiction Sources By Tiger Scientist And Conservationist K. Ullas Karanth, Opens Up A Captivating World Of Rich Descriptions, Deeply Felt Personal Experiences And Serious Reflections By Hunters, Amateur Naturalists And Wildlife Scientists Who Encountered This Most Charismatic Of All Animal Species. The First Section Of The Book Explores Tiger Hunting And Old-Style Natural History, And Revives Some Of The Earliest Essays On The Tiger. Historian Mahesh Rangarajan S Overview Of The Pre-Colonial And Colonial Periods, When Ruthless Hunting Of Tigers Was The Dominant Social Ethos, Sets The Stage For English Forester C.E.M. Russell S Narration Of Tiger Hunting In Mysore, Published In 1900. Then Follow Tales By Hunter-Naturalists Dunbar Brander, Fred Champion, Kenneth Anderson, William Bazé And Arthur Locke. The Descriptions By More Recent And Less Justifiably Bloodthirsty Hunters, Such As Kesri Singh, A Game Manager In Princely India, And Jack Denton Scott, An American Safari Hunter, Provide Grim Examples Of The Slaughter Of Tigers. The Second Section Covers The Post-Colonial Period. This Was The Era When A New Natural History , Driven By The Sheer Joy Of Watching Tigers, Emerged Leading To The First Steps To Save This Magnificent Cat From The Brink Of Extinction. Essays By Forest Managers Such As A. Hoogerwerf, Kailash Sankhala And Vladimir Troinin, Who Were Fascinated By The Tiger, Are Complemented By The Writings Of Perceptive Amateur Naturalists Such As E.P. Gee, Arjan Singh And Valmik Thapar. In The Last Section The Reader Steps Into The World Of Modern Tiger Science And Conservation. An Account Of The First-Ever Scientific Study Of Tigers By George Schaller Is Followed By The Observations Of Other Biologists, Such As John Seidensticker, Melvin Sunquist, Dale Miquelle And John Goodrich, Who Followed In Schaller S Footsteps And Generated New Insights Into Tiger Ecology And Behaviour. The Concluding Essay, By Naturalist-Historian Geoffrey Ward, Offers A Lucid Overview Of Current Tiger Conservation Issues. With Its Judicious Blend Of Adventure, Natural History And Tiger Science, This Anthology Will Appeal To Wildlife Enthusiasts As Well As Serious Conservationists.

Download or read book Flying Tiger written by Robert Lee Scott Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Tiger: Chennault of China by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. tells the story of a rebel whose concepts as to the use of air power often clashed with the orthodox and standardized teachings of the military schools of his time.

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Download or read book The Bird The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych written by Doug Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanky, mop-topped, and nicknamed for his resemblance to Big Bird on Sesame Street, Fidrych exploded onto the national stage during the Bicentennial summer as a rookie with the Detroit Tigers. He won over fans nationwide with his wildly endearing antics, but quickly emerged as one of the best pitchers in the game. Fidrych was named starting pitcher in the All-Star Game as a rookie and became the first athlete to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Wilson recounts Fidrych's meteoric rise, his heartbreaking fall after a torn knee ligament and then rotator cuff, and captures Fidrych's post-baseball life to his death in a freak accident in 2009.

Download or read book Friday Night Jam written by Nowick Gray and published by Cougar WebWorks. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday Night Jam is an anecdotal, instructional how-to (and sometimes painful how-not-to) guide to group improvisation, based on the firsthand learning experiences of author and African drummer Nowick Gray in a weekly open jam in rural British Columbia, in the early 1990s. African drumming was booming in popularity then but not well integrated into conventional Western music mixes. This chronicle conveys the challenge of merging diverse musical instruments, genres and personalities; of attempting to produce quality music in a venue that welcomes relative beginners, lifelong amateurs, and random drop-ins for the night. The book offers experiential advice to beginning drummers, or to longtime musicians who have not yet had the opportunity or courage to attempt improvisational collaboration with others. At the core of the journey is the learning of the limited individual ego, with its unique talents and limitations, to negotiate the free and structured spaces with others, to merge in the greater group striving for excellence and beyond, ecstatic union. Nowick offers an overview of the confluence and conflict of different musical styles and expectations: acoustic/electric, world beat/rock, drummers/guitarists, perfectionists/amateurs, safe/risk, stoned/straight, standards/improvisation, men/women, fifties/sixties, tight/free. In rendering this spirit and process, the words too speak for themselves, players in the mix, jamming on the universal pulse.

Download or read book Decoding the New Consumer Mind written by Kit Yarrow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a glimpse into the mind of the modern consumer A decade of swift and stunning change has profoundly affected the psychology of how, when, and why we shop and buy. In Decoding the New Consumer Mind, award-winning consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow shares surprising insights about the new motivations and behaviors of shoppers, taking marketers where they need to be today: into the deeply psychological and often unconscious relationships that people have with products, retailers, marketing communications, and brands. Drawing on hundreds of consumer interviews and shop-alongs, Yarrow reveals the trends that define our transformed behavior. For example, when we shop we show greater emotionality, hunting for more intense experiences and seeking relief and distraction online. A profound sense of isolation and individualism shapes the way we express ourselves and connect with brands and retailers. Neurological research even suggests that our brains are rewired, altering what we crave, how we think, and where our attention goes. Decoding the New Consumer Mind provides marketers with practical ways to tap into this new consumer psychology, and Yarrow shows how to combine technology and innovation to enhance brand image; win love and loyalty through authenticity and integrity; put the consumer’s needs and preferences front and center; and deliver the most emotionally intense, yet uncomplicated, experience possible. Armed with Yarrow’s strategies, marketers will be able to connect more effectively with consumers—driving profit and success across the organization.

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Download or read book The Conjure Man Dies written by Rudolph Fisher and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress to highlight the best of American crime fiction When the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate. Together with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations. This groundbreaking mystery is the first ever to feature a Black detective and all Black characters, written by Black author Rudolph Fisher, who was a principal writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Download or read book Cosmic Astrology written by Mantak Chia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Chinese Taoist astrology, Western zodiac astrology, and birth destiny cards to develop your innate talents and transform your negative traits • Includes charts to discover your Chinese animal year, your Western zodiac sun sign, your moon sign, and your birth destiny card as well as those of your friends, lovers, relatives, and colleagues • Provides insightful and accurate descriptions for each animal year, zodiac sun sign, and birth card as well as each year and sun sign combination and each sun and moon sign combination • Offers career suggestions based on your innate gifts and relationship advice on which animals, sign combos, and birth cards to seek out and which to avoid With your first breath of life, you take in the energy pattern radiated by the sun, moon, and stars at that moment in time and space. This internal energy pattern underlies your persona--your behavioral patterns, personality traits, and life’s path. Understanding these underlying patterns enables you to balance and transform your negative traits and highlight and develop your innate talents. Blending Eastern and Western astrological methods, Master Mantak Chia and William Wei explain how to identify the five key patterns of your internal energy persona based on the year, month, and day of your birth. Including charts to discover your Chinese animal year, your Western zodiac sun sign, your moon sign, and your birth destiny card, they explore how each of these astrological profiles interact to build your unique persona and provide profoundly accurate descriptions for each year and sun sign combination, each sun and moon sign combination, and each birth card. Each description also includes career recommendations to best utilize your innate gifts and relationship advice on which animals, sign combinations, and birth cards to seek out and which to avoid. Not only useful for personal insight and self-development, this new astrological approach can also be used to understand the underlying energetic personality patterns of your lovers, friends, relatives, and colleagues.