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John Kruth

To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt

Editura: Da Capo Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as "Pancho & Lefty" and "If I Needed You." Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hounded by alcoholism and depression, Van Zandt pursued a nomadic existence following his muse, whatever the cost to himself, friends, and relatives. Based on exclusive interviews with those close to Van Zandt, including his best friend Guy Clark and colleagues like Steve Earle and John Prine, To Live's to Fly captures all the humor, hijinks, poetry, and heartbreak of this revered, genuinely outlaw country artist.

William J. Poorvu

Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth: The 4 Stages to a Lifetime of Success

Editura: FT Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

"This well-organized book shows what a typical life in real estate is like so that newcomers can decide whether the field is right for them. It also offers advice on how to grow real estate investments for people who are already in the industry. Poorvu includes a variety of real world stories about people and their career experiences to make for an interesting read with a practical edge." -Publishers Weekly "This new book by Bill Poorvu trumps any real estate book you've ever read." -James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer There are plenty of "get rich quick in real estate" books. This is not one of them. Your guide, William Poorvu, is a lifelong real estate investor and consultant, and former head of the real estate program at Harvard Business School. Drawing on his personal experience-and hundreds of interviews with many of the most successful real estate investors and entrepreneurs-Poorvu illuminates every stage of your "life" in real estate: creating wealth, growing it, and managing it successfully. He reveals the milestones, pitfalls, and rewards associated with real estate investing, offering powerful insight into the challenges and opportunities you'll face ...

Garry Ridge, Gary Ridge, Ken Blanchard

Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called ''Don't Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A''

Editura: FT Press

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Ken Blanchard's Leading at a Higher Level techniques are inspiring thousands of leaders to build high-performing organizations that make life better for everyone. Now, in Helping People Win at Work, Blanchard and WD-40 Company leader Garry Ridge reveal how WD-40 has used Blanchard's techniques of Partnering for Performance with every employee--achieving levels of engagement and commitment that have fortified the bottom line. Ridge introduces WD-40 Company's year-round performance review system, explaining its goals, features, and the cultural changes it requires. Next, he shares his leadership point of view: what he expects of people, what they can expect of him, and where his beliefs about leadership and motivation come from. Finally, Blanchard explains why WD-40 Company's Partnering for Performance system works so well--and how to leverage its high-value techniques in your organization. In this book, you'll learn how to: - Stop building failure into your mentoring of employees - Set goals using the SMART approach: specific, motivational, attainable, relevant and trackable - Help people move through all four stages of mastery - Create a culture that shares knowledge and ...

Jim Oleson

The End and the Beginning

Editura: Outskirts Press

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The End and the Beginning is a story of early 19th century America that weaves an accurate history of the period with real and fictional characters into a novel of adventure and suspense where historical events are vividly presented in the narrative, dialogue and journals of its many characters. It describes through the experiences of the determined but desperate chief Tecumseh the End of the Native American civilization on the Northwest frontier. Captured in the narrative and through the adventures of many of the books characters is the work of the early abolitionists who protect runaway slaves from the violent and determined slave catchers and fosters the Beginning of the anti slavery movement and eventual overthrow of the slave culture of the south. Jim Morgan who, at the age eleven is living alone in the dense and virgin forests of southeastern Ohio to escape the murderous wrath of his alcoholic stepfather. He is helped by Wild Bird an Indian shaman who protects Jim and teaches him the ways of the forest and of her language and culture. One day he meets General Jonathon McGuire a revolutionary war hero, successful farmer and strident abolitionist who welcomes Jim into his ...

Sir Chris, C.B.E. Bonington, Chris Bonington

Annapurna South Face (Tr)

Editura: Da Capo Press

Anul aparitiei: 2001

In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping classics. One could also argue that all that has happened in the big mountains in the past 30 years has come out of this expedition and out of this book. Bonington and his team--most of whom subsequently died in the mountains--represented a kind of "greatest generation" of modern mountaineers. They pioneered a new, bolder approach to high altitude climbing, and this book is about how they hit the big time.

Edgar H. Schein

Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series)

Editura: FT Press

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Focusing on the interaction between consultant and client, this volume explains how to achieve the healthy relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the adviser is a therapist, social worker, manager or friend, the relationship can be difficult to understand and manage.

Charles Todd (Author)

A Long Shadow

Editura: HARPER COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

"Seamless in its storytelling and enthralling in its plotting." -- Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Dark and remarkable....Once [Todd] grabs you, there's no putting the novel down." -- Detroit Free Press The Winston-Salem Journal declares that, "like P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Charles Todd writes novels that transcend genre." A Long Shadow proves that statement true beyond the shadow of a doubt. Once again featuring Todd's extraordinary protagonist, Scotland Yard investigator and shell-shocked World War One veteran, Inspector Ian Rutledge, A Long Shadow immerses readers in the sights and sounds of post-war Great Britain, as the damaged policeman pursues answers to a constable's slaying and the three-year-old mystery of a young girl's disappearance in a tiny Northamptonshire village. Read Todd's A Long Shadow and see why the Washington Post calls the Rutledge crime novels, "one of the best historical series being written today."

Donald A. Forrer (Author)

The Manatee vs. the Local Economy: The Cape Coral, Florida, Experience

Editura: IUNIVERSE INC

Anul aparitiei: 2005

This volatile, emotional issue, inherent to Southwest Florida, crosses several fields of study. To create this case study, faculty and graduate students from International College (Naples, Florida), with the help of a local Ft. Myers News-Press reporter, researched this expansive issue involving many organizations and businesses. This controversial topic encompassed all of Florida, but affected Southwest Florida tremendously. Due to the controversial nature of the issue and its effect on one community in particular, the authors decided to concentrate the case research on the City of Cape Coral and the local dock building industry. This study presents and analyzes the issue from differing sides. Key players include: Cape Coral Construction Industry Association, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Marine Contractors Association, Florida Marine Industry, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Save the Manatee Club. The case study is excellent for the classroom as it is an ongoing issue with a multitude of research opportunities.

Chad Hautmann (Author)

Magic and Grace

Editura: FINGERPR

Anul aparitiei: 2011

"Quirky and funny and heartfelt and rich" -Ft. Myers News-Press In the hazy Florida sunshine, it felt like a great idea... ...move in across the street from his ex-wife and young daughter, to try and win them both back. At first, it seems that all that stands between them is the speeding tourist trolley which sends unsuspecting suburbanites diving for safety. But assorted trials quickly multiply for Gibb Chapman: his mother keeps stealing cars to get his attention; an angry religious group is picketing his house; and a misplaced boot gives his crumbling roof an unplanned skylight. But all Gibb wants is to win back the love of his life by proving that he has never stopped adoring her. Magic And Grace is a novel of self discovery, a lively and life-affirming tale of self discovery set against the backdrop of a beachside holiday town in Florida.

Jonathan Swift (Author)

Cadenus and Vanessa: Or, the Judgment of Venus. a Poem. Written by Dr. SW-FT, Upon Himself and Mrs. Vanh---Y, His Favourite Lady. the Secon

Editura: GALE ECCO PRINT ED

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Cambridge University LibraryT187639Dr. Sw-ft = Jonathan Swift. Mrs. Vanh---y = Esther ...

James Edmund Harting (Author)

British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times - With Some Account of British Wild White Cattle

Editura: DYER PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

BRITISH ANIMALS EXTINCT WITHIN HISTORIC TIMES - WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF BRITISH WILD WHITE CATTLE by JAMES EDMUND HARTING. PREFACE: FEW who have studied the literature of British Zoology can have failed to remark the gap which exists between Owens British Fossil Mammals and Birds, and Bells British Quadrupeds the former dealing chiefly with prehistoric remains, the latter with species which are still existing. Between these two admirable works a connecting link, as it were, seems wanting in the shape of a history of such animals as have become extinct in Britain within historic times, and to supply this is the aim ofthe present writer. Of the materials collected, during many years of research, some portion has been already utilized in a Lecture delivered by the author before the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, in October, 1879, and in several articles in the Popular Science Eeview and the natural history columns of The Field. The exigencies oftime and space, however, necessitated a much briefer treatment of the subject in the journals referred to than is here attempted, and to these essays, now presented to the reader in a con- solidated form, considerable additions have been ...

R. E. Dinlocker (Author)

The United Hates of America

Editura: AUTHORHOUSE

Anul aparitiei: 2010

My years writing in foreign countries had been my life until I quit. When I landed at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, Mary Saint-Baptiste from The Picayune had a job for me. I really had nothing else to do and so I figured what the hell. The cliché says truth is stranger than fiction; but when I returned to the States, it seemed like fiction had become truth. I got curious as to whose truth had become the truth. Having knuckled under to political pressure, the press was too busy entertaining to argue for truth. The media was in a love/hate relationship with the public that definitely accentuated the hate. The relationship had spawned a story when people started turning up dead. So my search for truth became a murder mystery. It seemed two Christian ministers, who hated each other, had banned together to attack common enemies. To cover their actions, they had enlisted the help of an Arab/Haitian restaurateur they felt they could use as a scapegoat if things went wrong. When federal officials arrested the restaurateur as an illegal alien and possible terrorist, the media, now a tool of whoever paid for their services, came to her aid. When the restaurateur became a media darling, the ...

Roland Wetzel (Editor)

Verankerungsprinzipien in Der Ha1/4ftendoprothetik

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2001

1 Die Press-Fit-Verankerung.- 2 Indikation, Technik und Ergebnisse der konischen Schraubpfanne bei Primär-und Revisionseingriffen.- 3 Keramik-Polyethylen versus Metall-Polyethylen - Eine in vivo-Analyse.- 4 Keramische Pfanneneinsätze für totalen Hüftgelenkersatz.- 5 Mittelfristige Ergebnisse mit der Keramik-Gleitpaarung in der Hüftendoprothetik.- 6 Werkstoffkundliche Aspekte zum UHMW-Polyethylen.- 7 Müller-Bogenschaft-Prothese - Langzeitergebnisse mit vollständiger Datenerfassung..- 8 Verankerungsprinzipien des Exeter-Schaftes.- 9 Der Lubinus-Schaft.- 10 CLS-Multicenterstudie - 11jährige Erfahrungen.- 11 Konische Schaftverankerung bei zementfreien Hüftendoprothesen.- 12 Die CHENDO-Femurprothese - Trabekulär orientiertes Endoprothesensystem.- 13 Bionik als Grundlage eines trabekulär orientierten Endoprothesensystems.- 14 CL. ESKA-Stiele/Endoprothesen.- 15 Die Druckscheibenprothese - Frühergebnisse bei Patienten mit Arthritis.- 16 Zementfreie Schaftverankerung der Individualprothese..- 17 Axis-Stufenschaft.- 18 Die ESKA-Schenkelendoprothese Cut zur inneren metaphysären Fixation.- 19 Resultate nach zementfreier Implantation des BiContact-Hüftendoprothesengeradschaftes.- ...

Ray Merriam (Author)

The Battle at St. Vith, Belgium, 17-23 December 1944: An Historical Example of Armor in the Defense: U.S. Army Armor School

Editura: PRENTICE HALL

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Merriam Press Military Monograph No. 5 Fifth Edition, 2012 At the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge two of the most important localities were Bastogne and St. Vith, with their road nets which, if held, would disrupt the plan of any aggressor. Bastogne was an important communications center and has received much of the attention, causing many to lose sight of the importance of St. Vith and the gallant stand made for its defense by elements of the 106th Division and CCB, 7th Armored Division. It was CCB which influenced the subsequent action and caused the enemy so much delay and so many casualties. Though armor was not designed primarily for the role of the defensive, the operation was nevertheless a good example of how it can assume such role in an emergency. This is a detailed, well-written history of a highly significant battle. This is a brand new edition (not a facsimile reprint) of a booklet originally published by the Armor School at Ft. Knox in 1966. Contents Foreword of 1966 Foreword Editor's Note Introduction; Chapter 1: The Front on 16 December 1944 Chapter 2: The German Strike Chapter 3: The March to St. Vith Chapter 4: The Defense is Organized Chapter 5: The Line ...

John G. Sullivan (Author)

Fuel to the Troops: A Memoir of the 698th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company 1943-1945

Editura: ADDISON WESLEY PUB CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Merriam Press Military Monograph 88. Third Edition (February 2012). This story is about a place in time and a military unit which had a profound impact on military operations in the European Theater during World War II. The movement of petroleum products was critical in keeping the war machine moving and operating thousands of miles from the U.S. mainland. Providing the necessary fuels for the vehicles involved in fighting their way into Germany in 1944-45 was accomplished by an organization within the U.S. Army established by Charles A. McCann, a petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Oklahoma. McCann was a patriot who felt he could contribute to the war effort in a very specific way. His exceptional management skills and leadership ability made for a highly motivated organization that overcame the most difficult challenges at that time and place. While many have never known war, this story is a tribute to those men of the 698th Engineer Petroleum Distribution (EPD) Company. The EPD Company is their story and is told through the eyes of one of their comrades-John Sullivan. He recounts these individual sacrifices and lived though the many challenges every day for two ...

Eric Muirhead (Author)

Rindu: A Novel of Expatriate Life in Eastern Malaysia

Editura: GENERAL BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2013

"Rindu" means lovesick in Malay. A young man steps off a yacht on a pristine island, Labuan, and works in a fabrication yard building jackets and decks as a Quality Control Supervisor. The hard life of the Iban welders, engineers and expatriates, the beauty of the island and the waters, the passion of the women for the men and each other, the incredible fecundity of the Orient all contribute to the first real saga of oil men overseas. You will feel what it is like walking one hundred fifty feet above the sand on the jacket leg, or diving into Brunei Bay or sitting with your lover in the Mandarin Hotel in Singapore. Endure the agonies of one man struggling with himself and his lovers, the clash of hard steel with the fluidity of the South China Sea. Read one chapter a night and revel in the sensuality of the language and the vision of a possible future. Eric Muirhead graduated from Yale, moved to Houston, left medical school and drove a taxi. Cab Tales is his first novel, the second edition of which is published by Ink Brush Press. Graduating from Rice with a Master's in English literature, he then went to Labuan, East Malaysia for eight years with his wife, building a 53 ft. ...

Gerald Ratner (Author)

The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again

Editura: UNIV OF TORONTO PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

In 1991, Gerald Ratner made a landmark speech to the Institute of Directors After over 25 years in the jewellery trade, Gerald Ratner was one of the most well-known and successful retailers of his generation. He had built up a highly profitable, multi-million pound international business, including household names like Ratners, H Samuel, Ernest Jones, Watches of Switzerland, as well as over one thousand stores in the US. Being asked to give the keynote address at the Institute of Directors' annual conference at The Royal Albert Hall was a great honour and should have been the crowning glory on two decades of empire building. Gerald's speech was seized upon by the media after he included jokes about the quality of some of the shops' products. But the far-reaching impact that these jokes would have no one could have predicted. "Even though I had once had my name above hundreds of shops up and down the country, it had become more famous as a byword for crap. It took several years to realise just what an impact the speech had had on every aspect of my life." Press coverage of hardback version: "... a rollicking good read" --Michael Skapinker, The FT "Most business autobiographies are ...

David Poyer (Author)

Thunder on the Mountain: A Novel of 1936

Editura: LITURGICAL PRESS

Anul aparitiei: 2014

"A stunning period tale in which the oft-forgotten essence of the American dream is visible in every chapter." - Publisher's Weekly, starred review "Dramatic and suspenseful, full of despair and hope." - Booklist, starred review "The prizefight and deer hunt sequences are worthy of Jack London"- Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Poyer, who grew up in Bradford, has been compared to Steinbeck, with good cause." - Pittsburgh Post- Gazette

Reinhold Leichtfuss (Author)

Kapitalbudgetierung in Divisionalisierten Unternehmen

Editura: UNICORN PRESS

Anul aparitiei: 1984

Die Koordination betrieblicher Teilbereiche stellt an Unternehmen mit Spartenorganisation erhöhte Anforderungen. Insbesondere bei der Kapitalbudgetierung ergibt sich die Problema- tik einer zieladäquaten Zuteilung von Ressourcen an die einzelnen Sparten des Unterneh- mens. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird nun überprüft, inwieweit Modelle des Operations Research, die auf dem Dekompositionsprinzip aufbauen, geeignet sind, zu einer effizienten Koordination zu führen. Als Voraussetzung dafür entwickelt der Verfasser zunächst ein Effizienzkonzept, welches auch die Motivationswirkung und Akzeptanz von Instrumenten beinhaltet. Aus einer Darstellung von Dekompositionsansätzen in der Literatur ergibt sich die Auswahl der auf verschiedener Weise zu testenden Instrumente. Der Verfasser wendet - was in der betriebs- wirtschaftlichen Forschung selten ist - zwei unterschiedliche Forschungsmethoden an, nämlich die Computersimulation und das Laborexperiment. Um einen Effizienztest verschie- dener Instrumente des Operations Research durchzuführen, vergleicht der Verfasser die Ergebnisse von computergestützten Konferenzen mit denen einer Koordination auf Basis von Dekompositionsprinzipien. ...

Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel (Author)

Nominale Wortbildung Des Alteren Irischen: Stammbildung Und Derivation

Editura: VEHICULE PRESS

Anul aparitiei: 1999

Erstmalige systematische Untersuchung der Bildung nicht zusammengesetzter Substantive und Adjektive im Alt- und Mittelirischen in drei Teilen: Teil I behandelt in 11 Kapiteln (Wurzelnomina o-, a-, i-, i-, u-, n-, r-Stämme, Heteroklitika, s-, Dental- und Gutturalstämme) diejenigen Wörter, die primär aus der Wurzel mittels einfachster Morpheme abgeleitet sind, in bezug auf ihre Flexion und Struktur und ihre Semantik. Teil II befa t sich in 7 Kapiteln mit den vorhistorisch identifizierbaren Suffixen, jeweils nach dem ersten zugrundeliegenden Konsonanten gruppiert, und in weiteren 6 mit den deskriptiv identifizierbaren Suffixen, jeweils nach ihrer Stammbildung gruppiert; weitere 6 Kapitel sind Spezialfragen gewidmet (-as für Nomina essendi, Suffixe mit anlautendem Vokal, Suffixoide, Mehrfachderivate, Interfixe). Teil III beschreibt in 8 Kapiteln sonstige Mittel der Ableitung: Reduplizierung, Geminierung, Dehnung, Stammbildungswechsel (einschl. Calandsches System), Innere Ableitung, Suffixersatz, Rückbildungen, Femininmovierung durch Präfigierung. Die Analyse ist konsequent synchron (inneririsch) und diachron (gesamtkeltisch, indogermanisch) angelegt mit neuen Ergebnissen nicht ...