Author: Cheryl J. Corriveau
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646546814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Jordan Harris is a feisty, energetic, and highly motivated woman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Many conflicts arise with her new CEO at the national real estate franchise. She is approached by a South Florida boat dealer to partner with him to open a second location in Central Florida. She declines his offer but is intrigued with the idea. Six months later, she determines that it is time to leave the real estate world and open her own boat dealership. None of Jordan's prior experiences prepare her for the challenges and problems that she would face and must overcome in the male-dominated marine business. The difficult situations involve stolen boats, a mysterious death, major problems at the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami boat shows, being suspected of drug smuggling, sued for a fraudulent act committed by someone else, accused of breaking federal and state finance laws and a Mafia connection-all leading up to possible jail time. Her troubles continue when new federal and state boating laws change. The river demands even more from her with its hurricanes, ice storms, and droughts. The harder she must fight to survive, the stronger her determination and entrepreneurial spirit becomes. Her landlord receives an offer to sell the marina along with her boat dealership. Jordan is now confronted with another life-changing decision. The many twists, turns, and surprises throughout the book will keep the reader in suspense, entertained, and wondering what's next. Will Jordan and her business survive? Take the journey with her on The Demanding River.
The Demanding River
Author: Cheryl J. Corriveau
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646546814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Jordan Harris is a feisty, energetic, and highly motivated woman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Many conflicts arise with her new CEO at the national real estate franchise. She is approached by a South Florida boat dealer to partner with him to open a second location in Central Florida. She declines his offer but is intrigued with the idea. Six months later, she determines that it is time to leave the real estate world and open her own boat dealership. None of Jordan's prior experiences prepare her for the challenges and problems that she would face and must overcome in the male-dominated marine business. The difficult situations involve stolen boats, a mysterious death, major problems at the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami boat shows, being suspected of drug smuggling, sued for a fraudulent act committed by someone else, accused of breaking federal and state finance laws and a Mafia connection-all leading up to possible jail time. Her troubles continue when new federal and state boating laws change. The river demands even more from her with its hurricanes, ice storms, and droughts. The harder she must fight to survive, the stronger her determination and entrepreneurial spirit becomes. Her landlord receives an offer to sell the marina along with her boat dealership. Jordan is now confronted with another life-changing decision. The many twists, turns, and surprises throughout the book will keep the reader in suspense, entertained, and wondering what's next. Will Jordan and her business survive? Take the journey with her on The Demanding River.
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646546814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Jordan Harris is a feisty, energetic, and highly motivated woman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Many conflicts arise with her new CEO at the national real estate franchise. She is approached by a South Florida boat dealer to partner with him to open a second location in Central Florida. She declines his offer but is intrigued with the idea. Six months later, she determines that it is time to leave the real estate world and open her own boat dealership. None of Jordan's prior experiences prepare her for the challenges and problems that she would face and must overcome in the male-dominated marine business. The difficult situations involve stolen boats, a mysterious death, major problems at the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami boat shows, being suspected of drug smuggling, sued for a fraudulent act committed by someone else, accused of breaking federal and state finance laws and a Mafia connection-all leading up to possible jail time. Her troubles continue when new federal and state boating laws change. The river demands even more from her with its hurricanes, ice storms, and droughts. The harder she must fight to survive, the stronger her determination and entrepreneurial spirit becomes. Her landlord receives an offer to sell the marina along with her boat dealership. Jordan is now confronted with another life-changing decision. The many twists, turns, and surprises throughout the book will keep the reader in suspense, entertained, and wondering what's next. Will Jordan and her business survive? Take the journey with her on The Demanding River.
Between the Bridge and the River
Author: Craig Ferguson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811858199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the south suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre adventures that are somehow interconnected.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811858199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the south suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre adventures that are somehow interconnected.
The River of No Return
Author: Bee Ridgway
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0142180831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Named a Notable Fiction Book of 2013 by The Washington Post “An engrossing adventure, with mystery, romance, humor, and impeccable historical detail.” –The Boston Globe Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war. Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he escaped certain death by leaping two hundred years forward to the present day where he finds himself in the care of a mysterious society – the Guild. Questioning the limits of the impossible, Nick is desperate to find a way back to the life he left behind. Yet with the future of time itself hanging in the balance, could it be that the girl who first captured his heart has had the answers all along? Can Nick find a way to return to her?
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0142180831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Named a Notable Fiction Book of 2013 by The Washington Post “An engrossing adventure, with mystery, romance, humor, and impeccable historical detail.” –The Boston Globe Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war. Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he escaped certain death by leaping two hundred years forward to the present day where he finds himself in the care of a mysterious society – the Guild. Questioning the limits of the impossible, Nick is desperate to find a way back to the life he left behind. Yet with the future of time itself hanging in the balance, could it be that the girl who first captured his heart has had the answers all along? Can Nick find a way to return to her?
Evaluation of historic, current and future water demand in the Olifants River Catchment, South Africa
Author: McCartney, Matthew P., Arranz, Roberto
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906723
Category : Olifants River Watershed (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Water resource development has played a significant role in the expansion of agriculture and industry in the Olifants River Catchment. However, currently water deficit is one of the major constraints hampering development in the catchment; both the mining and agricultural sectors are producing below optimal levels because of their reliance on insufficient supplies. In this study, the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model was used to evaluate scenarios of historic, current and future water demand in the catchment. For each scenario, the WEAP model was used to simulate demand in five different sectors (rural, urban, mining, commercial forestry and irrigation) over a 70-year period of varying rainfall and hydrology. Levels of assured supply were estimated for each sector and the economic cost of failing to provide water was predicted. For the future scenarios, the impact of infrastructure development and water conservation measures were assessed. The study illustrates how a relatively simple model can provide useful insight for resource planning and management.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290906723
Category : Olifants River Watershed (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Water resource development has played a significant role in the expansion of agriculture and industry in the Olifants River Catchment. However, currently water deficit is one of the major constraints hampering development in the catchment; both the mining and agricultural sectors are producing below optimal levels because of their reliance on insufficient supplies. In this study, the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model was used to evaluate scenarios of historic, current and future water demand in the catchment. For each scenario, the WEAP model was used to simulate demand in five different sectors (rural, urban, mining, commercial forestry and irrigation) over a 70-year period of varying rainfall and hydrology. Levels of assured supply were estimated for each sector and the economic cost of failing to provide water was predicted. For the future scenarios, the impact of infrastructure development and water conservation measures were assessed. The study illustrates how a relatively simple model can provide useful insight for resource planning and management.
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Author: Carla Stang
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as ‘cosmology,’ ‘sociality,’ ‘gender,’ and the ‘everyday’ are understood as they are actually lived. This book contributes to the ethnography of the Amazon, specifically the Upper Xingu, with an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. In doing so it attempts to comprehend what Malinowski called the ‘imponderabilia of actual life.’
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as ‘cosmology,’ ‘sociality,’ ‘gender,’ and the ‘everyday’ are understood as they are actually lived. This book contributes to the ethnography of the Amazon, specifically the Upper Xingu, with an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. In doing so it attempts to comprehend what Malinowski called the ‘imponderabilia of actual life.’
Rivers of Empire
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195078060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195078060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Enter The River
Author: Jody Miller Shearer
Publisher: Herald Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Bible tells of Naaman the Syrian, who entered the Jordan River to be cleansed. Comparing the affliction of racism to Naaman's illness, Enter the River by Jody Miller Shearer invites readers into their own healing. He explores definitions of prejudice and racism, the different effects of racism on white persons and people of color, affirmative action, and many other issues. The accessible presentation provides a strong foundation for study and action.
Publisher: Herald Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Bible tells of Naaman the Syrian, who entered the Jordan River to be cleansed. Comparing the affliction of racism to Naaman's illness, Enter the River by Jody Miller Shearer invites readers into their own healing. He explores definitions of prejudice and racism, the different effects of racism on white persons and people of color, affirmative action, and many other issues. The accessible presentation provides a strong foundation for study and action.
Disappointment River
Author: Brian Castner
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1101973161
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Masterful.” Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named “Disappointment.” Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1101973161
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Masterful.” Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named “Disappointment.” Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.
The River Capture
Author: Mary Costello
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782116443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family’s heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782116443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family’s heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.
River of Life, Channel of Death
Author: Keith Petersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.