Author: William Scheiber
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480827231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Everyone dreads a cancer diagnoses. The word itself strikes fear and hopelessness into those who are afflicted. When the disease targets the mother-in-law of veterinarian Bill Schneider, he is desperate to see her cured, so much so that he begins a simple treatment on some of his pet patients and is shocked when it works. First, though, theres a question: just because Bills vaccine worked on animals, does that mean it will work on human beings, too? Frantic for a remedy, he treats his mother-in-law, and amazingly, his discovery saves her life. Word travels fast of Bills medical breakthrough, as people everywhere fear the loss of loved ones, too, and seek a miracle. As word spreads of positive results, Bill is led down a path of questionable morals regarding illegal medical practices. The question becomes, is it more important to follow the law or save a life? Bills moral struggle could cost him a lot more than his practice; it could cost his freedom, but can you put a price on human survival?
One Shot at Life
Author: William Scheiber
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480827231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Everyone dreads a cancer diagnoses. The word itself strikes fear and hopelessness into those who are afflicted. When the disease targets the mother-in-law of veterinarian Bill Schneider, he is desperate to see her cured, so much so that he begins a simple treatment on some of his pet patients and is shocked when it works. First, though, theres a question: just because Bills vaccine worked on animals, does that mean it will work on human beings, too? Frantic for a remedy, he treats his mother-in-law, and amazingly, his discovery saves her life. Word travels fast of Bills medical breakthrough, as people everywhere fear the loss of loved ones, too, and seek a miracle. As word spreads of positive results, Bill is led down a path of questionable morals regarding illegal medical practices. The question becomes, is it more important to follow the law or save a life? Bills moral struggle could cost him a lot more than his practice; it could cost his freedom, but can you put a price on human survival?
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480827231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Everyone dreads a cancer diagnoses. The word itself strikes fear and hopelessness into those who are afflicted. When the disease targets the mother-in-law of veterinarian Bill Schneider, he is desperate to see her cured, so much so that he begins a simple treatment on some of his pet patients and is shocked when it works. First, though, theres a question: just because Bills vaccine worked on animals, does that mean it will work on human beings, too? Frantic for a remedy, he treats his mother-in-law, and amazingly, his discovery saves her life. Word travels fast of Bills medical breakthrough, as people everywhere fear the loss of loved ones, too, and seek a miracle. As word spreads of positive results, Bill is led down a path of questionable morals regarding illegal medical practices. The question becomes, is it more important to follow the law or save a life? Bills moral struggle could cost him a lot more than his practice; it could cost his freedom, but can you put a price on human survival?
One Shot at Forever
Author: Chris Ballard
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 140130432X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a Chicago powerhouse in a dramatic game that would change their lives forever. In this gripping, cinematic narrative, Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet: a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966, bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era. Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly took over the ragtag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball. Together they embarked on an improbable postseason run that buoyed a small town in desperate need of something to celebrate. Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among a coach, a team, and a town. "Macon's run at the title reminds us why sports matter and why sportswriting has such great power to inspire. . . [It's] one hell of a good story, and Ballard has written one hell of a good book." -- Jonathan Eig, Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 140130432X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a Chicago powerhouse in a dramatic game that would change their lives forever. In this gripping, cinematic narrative, Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet: a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966, bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era. Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly took over the ragtag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball. Together they embarked on an improbable postseason run that buoyed a small town in desperate need of something to celebrate. Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among a coach, a team, and a town. "Macon's run at the title reminds us why sports matter and why sportswriting has such great power to inspire. . . [It's] one hell of a good story, and Ballard has written one hell of a good book." -- Jonathan Eig, Chicago Tribune
You Get One Shot at Life-Aim for Success
Author: Aaron Lumpkin
Publisher: Winning Publications
ISBN: 9780971160521
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
You Get One Shot At Life is A Self-help, inspirational book which helps readers realize the tremendous significance of their lives. The book includes the principles of success, the emotional dangers of life to Avoid, ways to live A meaningful life, ways to develop A winning edge, And insights into making sense of ourselves And the world. The values that Are most important in life Are revealed through stories, examples And insightful concepts.
Publisher: Winning Publications
ISBN: 9780971160521
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
You Get One Shot At Life is A Self-help, inspirational book which helps readers realize the tremendous significance of their lives. The book includes the principles of success, the emotional dangers of life to Avoid, ways to live A meaningful life, ways to develop A winning edge, And insights into making sense of ourselves And the world. The values that Are most important in life Are revealed through stories, examples And insightful concepts.
A Shot to Save the World
Author: Gregory Zuckerman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593420403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter Isaacson Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life’s work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough—and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed. A #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times), Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It’s a story of courage, genius, and heroism. It’s also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities, and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593420403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter Isaacson Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world’s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn’t muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress. Yet they and their colleagues wanted to be the ones to stop the virus holding the world hostage. They scrambled to turn their life’s work into life-saving vaccines in a matter of months, each gunning to make the big breakthrough—and to beat each other for the glory that a vaccine guaranteed. A #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times), Zuckerman takes us inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots. Deeply reported and endlessly gripping, this is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time. It’s a story of courage, genius, and heroism. It’s also a tale of heated rivalries, unbridled ambitions, crippling insecurities, and unexpected drama. A Shot to Save the World is the story of how science saved the world.
OneShot. OneLife.®
Author: Doug Fitzgerald
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1683508661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
OneShot. OneLife.® helps people start achieving real and meaningful success in every area of their lives. Readers learn how to use five powerful principles that have been proven over and over again to help people succeed, specifically in the vital areas of Money, People, Faith, Work and Health. The Success Formula will help establish clear priorities in these vital areas, find a proven plan to achieve each priority, and apply critical secrets needed to stay persistent in implementing plans to completion. Readers also discover “The Multipliers,” two bonus principles that provide an edge and help multiply overall success. Whatever goals or dreams people have for their lives, OneShot. OneLife.® is the proven roadmap to help them stop worrying, start winning at anything in life, and achieve those dreams.
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1683508661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
OneShot. OneLife.® helps people start achieving real and meaningful success in every area of their lives. Readers learn how to use five powerful principles that have been proven over and over again to help people succeed, specifically in the vital areas of Money, People, Faith, Work and Health. The Success Formula will help establish clear priorities in these vital areas, find a proven plan to achieve each priority, and apply critical secrets needed to stay persistent in implementing plans to completion. Readers also discover “The Multipliers,” two bonus principles that provide an edge and help multiply overall success. Whatever goals or dreams people have for their lives, OneShot. OneLife.® is the proven roadmap to help them stop worrying, start winning at anything in life, and achieve those dreams.
Leap of Faith: The New Autobiography
Author: Frankie Dettori
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008465487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
‘After all this time Frankie Dettori still ranks amongst the all-time greats of the sport’ LESTER PIGGOTT ‘An autobiography as gripping as any Dick Francis thriller’ YORKSHIRE POST ‘Endearingly honest... a fastpaced, funny autobiography’ COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008465487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
‘After all this time Frankie Dettori still ranks amongst the all-time greats of the sport’ LESTER PIGGOTT ‘An autobiography as gripping as any Dick Francis thriller’ YORKSHIRE POST ‘Endearingly honest... a fastpaced, funny autobiography’ COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE
One Shot
Author: Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780871951748
Category : War photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Assigned to Yank, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, John A. Bushemi, nicknamed "One Shot" for his ability to capture action on film, documented World War II through his photographs. The book captures Bushemi's early days photographing soldiers training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to his frontline assignments among the grizzled American forces engaged in fighting in the Pacific.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780871951748
Category : War photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Assigned to Yank, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, John A. Bushemi, nicknamed "One Shot" for his ability to capture action on film, documented World War II through his photographs. The book captures Bushemi's early days photographing soldiers training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to his frontline assignments among the grizzled American forces engaged in fighting in the Pacific.
One Shot
Author: Tanya Landman
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 178112888X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A powerful and deeply moving coming-of-age drama from Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman, inspired by the life of infamous sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 178112888X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A powerful and deeply moving coming-of-age drama from Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman, inspired by the life of infamous sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
One-Shot Harry
Author: Gary Phillips
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 164129292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. LOS ANGELES, 1963: Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, “One-Shot” Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers as he attempts to solve the mystery. Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one dead body.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 164129292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. LOS ANGELES, 1963: Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, “One-Shot” Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers as he attempts to solve the mystery. Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one dead body.
Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices
Author: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119664004
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Provides authoritative guidance on statistical analysis techniques and inferential methods for one-shot device life-testing Estimating the reliability of one-shot devices—electro-expolsive devices, fire extinguishers, automobile airbags, and other units that perform their function only once—poses unique analytical challenges to conventional approaches. Due to how one-shot devices are censored, their precise failure times cannot be obtained from testing. The condition of a one-shot device can only be recorded at a specific inspection time, resulting in a lack of lifetime data collected in life-tests. Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices: Data Collection and Analysis addresses the fundamental issues of statistical modeling based on data collected from accelerated life-tests of one-shot devices. The authors provide inferential methods and procedures for planning accelerated life-tests, and describe advanced statistical techniques to help reliability practitioners overcome estimation problems in the real world. Topics covered include likelihood inference, competing-risks models, one-shot devices with dependent components, model selection, and more. Enabling readers to apply the techniques to their own lifetime data and arrive at the most accurate inference possible, this practical resource: Provides expert guidance on comprehensive data analysis of one-shot devices under accelerated life-tests Discusses how to design experiments for data collection from efficient accelerated life-tests while conforming to budget constraints Helps readers develops optimal designs for constant-stress and step-stress accelerated life-tests, mainstream life-tests commonly used in reliability practice Includes R code in each chapter for readers to use in their own analyses of one-shot device testing data Features numerous case studies and practical examples throughout Highlights important issues, problems, and future research directions in reliability theory and practice Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices: Data Collection and Analysis is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and engineers working on accelerated life testing data analysis.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119664004
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Provides authoritative guidance on statistical analysis techniques and inferential methods for one-shot device life-testing Estimating the reliability of one-shot devices—electro-expolsive devices, fire extinguishers, automobile airbags, and other units that perform their function only once—poses unique analytical challenges to conventional approaches. Due to how one-shot devices are censored, their precise failure times cannot be obtained from testing. The condition of a one-shot device can only be recorded at a specific inspection time, resulting in a lack of lifetime data collected in life-tests. Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices: Data Collection and Analysis addresses the fundamental issues of statistical modeling based on data collected from accelerated life-tests of one-shot devices. The authors provide inferential methods and procedures for planning accelerated life-tests, and describe advanced statistical techniques to help reliability practitioners overcome estimation problems in the real world. Topics covered include likelihood inference, competing-risks models, one-shot devices with dependent components, model selection, and more. Enabling readers to apply the techniques to their own lifetime data and arrive at the most accurate inference possible, this practical resource: Provides expert guidance on comprehensive data analysis of one-shot devices under accelerated life-tests Discusses how to design experiments for data collection from efficient accelerated life-tests while conforming to budget constraints Helps readers develops optimal designs for constant-stress and step-stress accelerated life-tests, mainstream life-tests commonly used in reliability practice Includes R code in each chapter for readers to use in their own analyses of one-shot device testing data Features numerous case studies and practical examples throughout Highlights important issues, problems, and future research directions in reliability theory and practice Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices: Data Collection and Analysis is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and engineers working on accelerated life testing data analysis.