Author: Robert W. Langston
Publisher: BookPros, LLC
ISBN: 1934454346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In The Power of Dyslexic Thinking, Robert Langston shares the inspirational stories of people who overcame the hurdles of living with dyslexia to become influential business and cultural leaders. From Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea to prominent financier Charles Schwab to Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters, Langston profiles some of the biggest players in the business world and elsewhere to paint amazing portraits of courage and dedication. Through both research and personal experience, Langston has come to believe that dyslexia is a condition that does not need curing, but rather a greater understanding of the different capabilities and skills it can provide those who have it. He hopes that understanding more about the creative and intuitive benefits of dyslexia will allow educators and parents, as well as dyslexic children, to see dyslexia not as a disability, but as a gift.
The Power of Dyslexic Thinking
Author: Robert W. Langston
Publisher: BookPros, LLC
ISBN: 1934454346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In The Power of Dyslexic Thinking, Robert Langston shares the inspirational stories of people who overcame the hurdles of living with dyslexia to become influential business and cultural leaders. From Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea to prominent financier Charles Schwab to Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters, Langston profiles some of the biggest players in the business world and elsewhere to paint amazing portraits of courage and dedication. Through both research and personal experience, Langston has come to believe that dyslexia is a condition that does not need curing, but rather a greater understanding of the different capabilities and skills it can provide those who have it. He hopes that understanding more about the creative and intuitive benefits of dyslexia will allow educators and parents, as well as dyslexic children, to see dyslexia not as a disability, but as a gift.
Publisher: BookPros, LLC
ISBN: 1934454346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In The Power of Dyslexic Thinking, Robert Langston shares the inspirational stories of people who overcame the hurdles of living with dyslexia to become influential business and cultural leaders. From Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea to prominent financier Charles Schwab to Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters, Langston profiles some of the biggest players in the business world and elsewhere to paint amazing portraits of courage and dedication. Through both research and personal experience, Langston has come to believe that dyslexia is a condition that does not need curing, but rather a greater understanding of the different capabilities and skills it can provide those who have it. He hopes that understanding more about the creative and intuitive benefits of dyslexia will allow educators and parents, as well as dyslexic children, to see dyslexia not as a disability, but as a gift.
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Subversive Elements
Author: Lee Bond
Publisher: Lee Bond
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
“It was the most goddamn fun I’ve had in thirty thousand years.” Garth Nickels regrets a lot of things he’s said in his life, but those twelve words rank highest on his list. He said them, though, and there’s nothing he can do except change. Warned that his actions since coming to Hospitalis have been driven by the very thing he seeks, Garth resolves to undertake a new, less violent approach to his goals ... a worthy plan given his newest ... ‘problem’: He’s become a celebrity. Surviving the Port Disaster, defeating an augmented soldier in hand-to-hand combat in The Game, donating billions of dollars to the relief effort and offering to essentially build a new spaceport for Hospitalis ... all this has transformed him into something of a systemic hero. How in the hell can he get into The Box if every camera, every reporter, every man, woman, child and avatar in Latelyspace is looking for an autograph or an interview? Still as desperate as ever to get into The Box, Garth begins laying down roots in his adopted city, preparing for the future, preparing to one day -hopefully soon- discover the truth behind his existence, the reasons he slept for thirty thousand years ... everything. First, though, he has to survive a date with Naoko Kamagana. The two lovebirds decide to take a day off so he can get a better view of just how very important The Museum, The Box and The Game are to Latelians. When The Museum becomes the scene of a terrorist action that pushes the Chairwoman and the OverCommander into revealing the true military might of the Latelian Regime, when Chadsik al-Taryin decides to ‘protect’ the man he’s been hired to kill, when Trinity begins to unveil It’s manipulations... It becomes exceptionally difficult for Garth to take the high road.
Publisher: Lee Bond
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
“It was the most goddamn fun I’ve had in thirty thousand years.” Garth Nickels regrets a lot of things he’s said in his life, but those twelve words rank highest on his list. He said them, though, and there’s nothing he can do except change. Warned that his actions since coming to Hospitalis have been driven by the very thing he seeks, Garth resolves to undertake a new, less violent approach to his goals ... a worthy plan given his newest ... ‘problem’: He’s become a celebrity. Surviving the Port Disaster, defeating an augmented soldier in hand-to-hand combat in The Game, donating billions of dollars to the relief effort and offering to essentially build a new spaceport for Hospitalis ... all this has transformed him into something of a systemic hero. How in the hell can he get into The Box if every camera, every reporter, every man, woman, child and avatar in Latelyspace is looking for an autograph or an interview? Still as desperate as ever to get into The Box, Garth begins laying down roots in his adopted city, preparing for the future, preparing to one day -hopefully soon- discover the truth behind his existence, the reasons he slept for thirty thousand years ... everything. First, though, he has to survive a date with Naoko Kamagana. The two lovebirds decide to take a day off so he can get a better view of just how very important The Museum, The Box and The Game are to Latelians. When The Museum becomes the scene of a terrorist action that pushes the Chairwoman and the OverCommander into revealing the true military might of the Latelian Regime, when Chadsik al-Taryin decides to ‘protect’ the man he’s been hired to kill, when Trinity begins to unveil It’s manipulations... It becomes exceptionally difficult for Garth to take the high road.
The Forgotten Generation
Author: Lisa L. Ossian
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.
The Muckrakers
Author: Arthur Weinberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
As the twentieth century opened, Americans were jolted out of their laissez-faire complacency by detailed exposures, in journalism and fiction, of the corruption underlying the country's greatest institutions. This rude awakening was the work of the muckrakers, as Theodore Roosevelt christened these press agents for reform. From 1902, when it latched onto such mass circulation magazines as Collier's and McClure's, until it merged into the Progressive movement in 1912, muckraking relentlessly pricked the nation's social conscience by exposing the abuses of industry and politics. Ranging in tone from the scholarly to the sensational, muckraking articles attacked food adulteration, unscrupulous insurance practices, fraudulent claims for patent medicines, and links between government and vice. When muckrakers raised their voices against child labor, graft, monopoly, unsafe mill conditions, and the white slave trade of poor immigrant girls, they found a receptive audience. "I aimed at the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair about The Jungle, "and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Gathering the most significant pieces published during the heyday of the muckraking movement, The Muckrakers brings vividly to life this unique era of exposure and self-examination. For each article, Arthur and Lila Weinberg provide concise commentary on the background of its subject and the specific and long-range repercussions of its publication. The volume features the work of both journalists and fiction writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Charles Edward Russell, and Mark Sullivan. Eloquent and uncompromising, the muckrakers shocked America from a state of lethargy into Progressive reform. This generous volume vividly captures the urgency of their quest.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
As the twentieth century opened, Americans were jolted out of their laissez-faire complacency by detailed exposures, in journalism and fiction, of the corruption underlying the country's greatest institutions. This rude awakening was the work of the muckrakers, as Theodore Roosevelt christened these press agents for reform. From 1902, when it latched onto such mass circulation magazines as Collier's and McClure's, until it merged into the Progressive movement in 1912, muckraking relentlessly pricked the nation's social conscience by exposing the abuses of industry and politics. Ranging in tone from the scholarly to the sensational, muckraking articles attacked food adulteration, unscrupulous insurance practices, fraudulent claims for patent medicines, and links between government and vice. When muckrakers raised their voices against child labor, graft, monopoly, unsafe mill conditions, and the white slave trade of poor immigrant girls, they found a receptive audience. "I aimed at the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair about The Jungle, "and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Gathering the most significant pieces published during the heyday of the muckraking movement, The Muckrakers brings vividly to life this unique era of exposure and self-examination. For each article, Arthur and Lila Weinberg provide concise commentary on the background of its subject and the specific and long-range repercussions of its publication. The volume features the work of both journalists and fiction writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Charles Edward Russell, and Mark Sullivan. Eloquent and uncompromising, the muckrakers shocked America from a state of lethargy into Progressive reform. This generous volume vividly captures the urgency of their quest.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2082
Book Description
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
Repeal of Silver Purchase Acts
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Considers legislation to remove silver price floors and silver bullion sales tax, and to remove all remaining silver certificates from circulation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Considers legislation to remove silver price floors and silver bullion sales tax, and to remove all remaining silver certificates from circulation.
Since Yesterday
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504011384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A “wonderfully written account of America in the ’30s,” the follow-up to Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (The New York Times). Wall Street Journal Bestseller Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America’s darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. Following Black Tuesday, America plunged into the Great Depression. Panic and fear gripped the nation. Banks were closing everywhere. In some cities, 84 percent of the population was unemployed and starving. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, public confidence in the nation slowly began to grow, and by 1936, the industrial average, which had plummeted in 1929 from 125 to fifty-eight, had risen again to almost one hundred. But America still had a long road ahead. Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen brings to life these ten critical years. With wit and empathy, he draws a devastating economic picture of small businesses swallowed up by large corporations—a ruthless bottom line not so different from what we see today. Allen also chronicles the decade’s lighter side: the fashions, morals, sports, and candid cameras that were revolutionizing Americans’ lives. From the Lindbergh kidnapping to the New Deal, from the devastating dust storms that raged through our farmlands to the rise of Benny Goodman, the public adoration of Shirley Temple, and our mass escape to the movies, this book is a hopeful and powerful reminder of why history matters.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504011384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A “wonderfully written account of America in the ’30s,” the follow-up to Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (The New York Times). Wall Street Journal Bestseller Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America’s darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. Following Black Tuesday, America plunged into the Great Depression. Panic and fear gripped the nation. Banks were closing everywhere. In some cities, 84 percent of the population was unemployed and starving. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, public confidence in the nation slowly began to grow, and by 1936, the industrial average, which had plummeted in 1929 from 125 to fifty-eight, had risen again to almost one hundred. But America still had a long road ahead. Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen brings to life these ten critical years. With wit and empathy, he draws a devastating economic picture of small businesses swallowed up by large corporations—a ruthless bottom line not so different from what we see today. Allen also chronicles the decade’s lighter side: the fashions, morals, sports, and candid cameras that were revolutionizing Americans’ lives. From the Lindbergh kidnapping to the New Deal, from the devastating dust storms that raged through our farmlands to the rise of Benny Goodman, the public adoration of Shirley Temple, and our mass escape to the movies, this book is a hopeful and powerful reminder of why history matters.
Repair Manual for Uncle Sam and America
Author: Valentine L. Krumplis
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466929316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Repair Manual for Uncle Sam and America is written to cut through the infinite mass of psycho-babble that has been thrown at the American people for decades. Thousands of books and articles have been written to analyze our problems, yet with all that verbiage we have not fixed anything. Today we are broke and in debt, we have wasted our wealth on needless wars, our drug problems have not abated, our prisons are overcrowded, illegals mooch off our system, our health care system is broke along with our Social Security, we are in trouble and there is no more American Dream. Our government does not understand globalization and we are loosing jobs because of it. Our politicians are stalemated along party lines and nothing is done to benefit the people. This Repair Manual points out our greatest dangers and offers simple rational, logical solutions to fix the problems. At one time America had a great world image, a great economy, it was a land of opportunity for everyone, where is all that now? Today we must start to fix it, restore it because the road we are on today will lead to anarchy and then to a totalitarian socialist state. Americans must become informed and involved in our political system because without their help our politicians will take us down the same path we are on, leading down
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466929316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Repair Manual for Uncle Sam and America is written to cut through the infinite mass of psycho-babble that has been thrown at the American people for decades. Thousands of books and articles have been written to analyze our problems, yet with all that verbiage we have not fixed anything. Today we are broke and in debt, we have wasted our wealth on needless wars, our drug problems have not abated, our prisons are overcrowded, illegals mooch off our system, our health care system is broke along with our Social Security, we are in trouble and there is no more American Dream. Our government does not understand globalization and we are loosing jobs because of it. Our politicians are stalemated along party lines and nothing is done to benefit the people. This Repair Manual points out our greatest dangers and offers simple rational, logical solutions to fix the problems. At one time America had a great world image, a great economy, it was a land of opportunity for everyone, where is all that now? Today we must start to fix it, restore it because the road we are on today will lead to anarchy and then to a totalitarian socialist state. Americans must become informed and involved in our political system because without their help our politicians will take us down the same path we are on, leading down