Author: David Marlow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450247296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Kip, Ron, and Gary-three more unlikely roommates you'd be hard put to find. But this is the Big Apple, where anything was possible, and this was the go-go sixties, when instant stardom happened overnight. Three very different guys, each with his own hunger and fantasy, drawn together by their mutual belief that winning is everything. They rise, they fall-in ways that you could never predict, through turns of fate you could never imagine. Their glories, their loves, their anguish and their triumphs-you'll feel like you've lived their lives, and the lives of the people who love them, in the pages of a novel you will simply not be able to put down.
Spartina
Author: John D. Casey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
100+ Winning Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
Author: Casey Hawley
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
ISBN: 9781438004846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Titles in Barron’s Business Success Series are of special interest to newcomers to the corporate world, offering them practical advice on career advancement. The books are written by experienced business professionals and cover a wide range of business topics, from effective methods of communication with business colleagues to dealing with difficult people. Updated to keep pace with today’s business marketplace, this book helps job interviewees meet the challenges of that all-important employment interview. For instance, what’s the best answer to give a job interviewer when he asks about your background and you know you have less experience than other candidates? The author offers good answers for this and for many equally tough questions. She also presents general tips that apply to all interview questions and advises on ways to give answers that are clear, direct, and to the point. This 3rd Edition contains an appendix listing hundreds of possible interview questions as well, making this book a must-have tool for every smart job seeker.
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
ISBN: 9781438004846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Titles in Barron’s Business Success Series are of special interest to newcomers to the corporate world, offering them practical advice on career advancement. The books are written by experienced business professionals and cover a wide range of business topics, from effective methods of communication with business colleagues to dealing with difficult people. Updated to keep pace with today’s business marketplace, this book helps job interviewees meet the challenges of that all-important employment interview. For instance, what’s the best answer to give a job interviewer when he asks about your background and you know you have less experience than other candidates? The author offers good answers for this and for many equally tough questions. She also presents general tips that apply to all interview questions and advises on ways to give answers that are clear, direct, and to the point. This 3rd Edition contains an appendix listing hundreds of possible interview questions as well, making this book a must-have tool for every smart job seeker.
Winning Is Everything
Author: David Marlow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450247296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Kip, Ron, and Gary-three more unlikely roommates you'd be hard put to find. But this is the Big Apple, where anything was possible, and this was the go-go sixties, when instant stardom happened overnight. Three very different guys, each with his own hunger and fantasy, drawn together by their mutual belief that winning is everything. They rise, they fall-in ways that you could never predict, through turns of fate you could never imagine. Their glories, their loves, their anguish and their triumphs-you'll feel like you've lived their lives, and the lives of the people who love them, in the pages of a novel you will simply not be able to put down.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450247296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Kip, Ron, and Gary-three more unlikely roommates you'd be hard put to find. But this is the Big Apple, where anything was possible, and this was the go-go sixties, when instant stardom happened overnight. Three very different guys, each with his own hunger and fantasy, drawn together by their mutual belief that winning is everything. They rise, they fall-in ways that you could never predict, through turns of fate you could never imagine. Their glories, their loves, their anguish and their triumphs-you'll feel like you've lived their lives, and the lives of the people who love them, in the pages of a novel you will simply not be able to put down.
Championship Fathering
Author: Carey Casey
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1604828005
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
As CEO of the National Center for Fathering, Carey Casey uses his experience and stories—and his engaging, personable tone—to inspire champions-to-be in fathering. Championship Fathering will help fathers raise healthy, well-adjusted, confident kids—mentally, physically, and spiritually. It will help fathers use the principles of championship fathering: Loving, Coaching and Modeling. Men will appreciate Carey Casey’s experiences in sports. He is currently chaplain for the Kansas City Chiefs. The book also includes a foreword by Tony Dungy. A 3-minute daily radio feature hosted by Carey Casey, Today’s Father, is heard on over 600 stations nationwide.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1604828005
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
As CEO of the National Center for Fathering, Carey Casey uses his experience and stories—and his engaging, personable tone—to inspire champions-to-be in fathering. Championship Fathering will help fathers raise healthy, well-adjusted, confident kids—mentally, physically, and spiritually. It will help fathers use the principles of championship fathering: Loving, Coaching and Modeling. Men will appreciate Carey Casey’s experiences in sports. He is currently chaplain for the Kansas City Chiefs. The book also includes a foreword by Tony Dungy. A 3-minute daily radio feature hosted by Carey Casey, Today’s Father, is heard on over 600 stations nationwide.
Last to Least
Author: J. Casey Ryals
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989523059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989523059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How To
Author: Randall Munroe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525537104
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525537104
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Purpose and Power
Author: Donald Stoker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009257277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
A new account of grand strategy critical to understanding how America has used its power in both peace and war.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009257277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
A new account of grand strategy critical to understanding how America has used its power in both peace and war.
How about That!
Author: Stephen Borelli
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1582617333
Category : Sportscasters
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"How about that! the life of Mel Allen is the first biography on perhaps the most famous sports broadcaster ..."--Jacket.
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1582617333
Category : Sportscasters
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"How about that! the life of Mel Allen is the first biography on perhaps the most famous sports broadcaster ..."--Jacket.
The Deep End
Author: Debra Purdy Kong
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 1771510943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A fast-paced mystery that delves into the world of at-risk kids and rumours of illegal activity at a youth detention centre. Transit security officer Casey Holland’s latest assignment—to monitor a group of teens who hop the M5 bus after shoplifting sprees—spirals out of control when the kids attack her and her colleagues. Compounding Casey’s stress are the manipulative boy her thirteen-year-old ward, Summer, is dating, and the intense volunteer work she’s doing at Fraserview Youth Custody Center. Casey is shocked to find a friend’s grandson, Justin, inside. Shock turns to horror when the facility’s director suffers a fatal heart attack in front of her. A second death and rumours of illegal activity at Fraserview make Casey wonder whether Justin is part of the problem or a potential victim. As Casey deals with troubled teens on all fronts, the escalating violence could change her and Summer’s lives forever. Who will live and who will die? The Deep End is the fourth installment in the Casey Holland transit mystery series.
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 1771510943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A fast-paced mystery that delves into the world of at-risk kids and rumours of illegal activity at a youth detention centre. Transit security officer Casey Holland’s latest assignment—to monitor a group of teens who hop the M5 bus after shoplifting sprees—spirals out of control when the kids attack her and her colleagues. Compounding Casey’s stress are the manipulative boy her thirteen-year-old ward, Summer, is dating, and the intense volunteer work she’s doing at Fraserview Youth Custody Center. Casey is shocked to find a friend’s grandson, Justin, inside. Shock turns to horror when the facility’s director suffers a fatal heart attack in front of her. A second death and rumours of illegal activity at Fraserview make Casey wonder whether Justin is part of the problem or a potential victim. As Casey deals with troubled teens on all fronts, the escalating violence could change her and Summer’s lives forever. Who will live and who will die? The Deep End is the fourth installment in the Casey Holland transit mystery series.
The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics Since 1960
Author: Renée M. Lamis
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103419X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"Explores electoral changes in Pennsylvania since 1960, finding that the recent "culture-wars realignment" has significantly altered the old New Deal party system, especially since the early 1990s. Contains illustrations plotting political alignment of Pennsylvania counties"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103419X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"Explores electoral changes in Pennsylvania since 1960, finding that the recent "culture-wars realignment" has significantly altered the old New Deal party system, especially since the early 1990s. Contains illustrations plotting political alignment of Pennsylvania counties"--Provided by publisher.