Author: Rick Chesler
Publisher: Variance LLC
ISBN: 1935142070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
When a blue whale tagged with a webcam as part of a hit reality television series broadscasts a brutal murder at sea, an FBI agent with a fear of water, finds herself in a deadly race to reach the animal before an unknown kiler can destroy the digital evidence it carries.
Wired Kingdom
Author: Rick Chesler
Publisher: Variance LLC
ISBN: 1935142070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
When a blue whale tagged with a webcam as part of a hit reality television series broadscasts a brutal murder at sea, an FBI agent with a fear of water, finds herself in a deadly race to reach the animal before an unknown kiler can destroy the digital evidence it carries.
Publisher: Variance LLC
ISBN: 1935142070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
When a blue whale tagged with a webcam as part of a hit reality television series broadscasts a brutal murder at sea, an FBI agent with a fear of water, finds herself in a deadly race to reach the animal before an unknown kiler can destroy the digital evidence it carries.
Wired
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451665989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—one of the most interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the same narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune). John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose March 5, 1982, in a seedy hotel bungalow off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Belushi’s death was the beginning of a trail that led Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on an investigation that examines the dark side of American show business—TV, rock and roll, and the movie industry. From on-the-record interviews with 217 people, including Belushi's widow, his former partner Dan Aykroyd, Belushi’s movie directors including Jack Nicholson and Steven Spielberg, actors Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, and Carrie Fisher, the movie executives, the agents, Belushi’s drug dealers, and those who live in the show business underground, the author has written a close portrait of a great American comic talent, and of his struggle to succeed and to survive that ended in tragedy. Using diaries, accountants’ records, phone bills, travel records, medical records, and interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward has followed Belushi’s life from childhood in a small town outside Chicago to his meteoric rise to fame. Bob Woodward has written a spellbinding account of rise and fall, a cautionary tale for our times, and a poignant and gentle portrait of a young man who had so much, gave so much, and lost so much.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451665989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—one of the most interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the same narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune). John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose March 5, 1982, in a seedy hotel bungalow off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Belushi’s death was the beginning of a trail that led Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on an investigation that examines the dark side of American show business—TV, rock and roll, and the movie industry. From on-the-record interviews with 217 people, including Belushi's widow, his former partner Dan Aykroyd, Belushi’s movie directors including Jack Nicholson and Steven Spielberg, actors Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, and Carrie Fisher, the movie executives, the agents, Belushi’s drug dealers, and those who live in the show business underground, the author has written a close portrait of a great American comic talent, and of his struggle to succeed and to survive that ended in tragedy. Using diaries, accountants’ records, phone bills, travel records, medical records, and interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward has followed Belushi’s life from childhood in a small town outside Chicago to his meteoric rise to fame. Bob Woodward has written a spellbinding account of rise and fall, a cautionary tale for our times, and a poignant and gentle portrait of a young man who had so much, gave so much, and lost so much.
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
Author: Mark Pagel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065871
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065871
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Eurostorm
Author: Payne Harrison
Publisher: Variance LLC
ISBN: 1935142143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Payne Harrison's "Storming Intrepid" was a New York Times Bestseller and a cold war classic that helped define the techno-thriller genre. Now with "Eurostorm" he weaves his narrative magic yet again - this time aboard the Eurostar bullet train as it races under the English Channel from London to Paris. Sealed within the vault of an impregnable security car is a substance so secret and so lethal that only a handful of "mandarins" within Her Majesty's Government even know of its existence. Yet when the train exits from the Chunnel and heads toward Paris, Scotland Yard learns that an evil force has literally risen from the grave to ensnare the train and hijack a cargo that could alter the world as we know it.
Publisher: Variance LLC
ISBN: 1935142143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Payne Harrison's "Storming Intrepid" was a New York Times Bestseller and a cold war classic that helped define the techno-thriller genre. Now with "Eurostorm" he weaves his narrative magic yet again - this time aboard the Eurostar bullet train as it races under the English Channel from London to Paris. Sealed within the vault of an impregnable security car is a substance so secret and so lethal that only a handful of "mandarins" within Her Majesty's Government even know of its existence. Yet when the train exits from the Chunnel and heads toward Paris, Scotland Yard learns that an evil force has literally risen from the grave to ensnare the train and hijack a cargo that could alter the world as we know it.
Kingdom Empowerment
Author: Bert Mullings
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1606476408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
All of us are seeking the kingdom to live an empowered life. Kingdom empowerment challenges every human potential to rediscover the ultimate reason why man was sent to earth. Man can power himself into an empowered lifestyle by taking a closer look at God's Word as a blueprint to vision and destiny. These principles lay the foundation for man to answer the age-old question, am I born empowered, and can I live an empowered life. As you journey through this book you will be powered with: The meaning of kingdom empowerment. How to execute the spoken Word to live an empowered life. The keys to bury the past. How to pursue the king. How to pursue personal, corporate, and global vision. How to embrace process. How to invest in the kingdom. Why every human potential needs to be stubborn and persistent. How to start the empowerment journey. Bert Mullings is founder and President of Kingdom Empowerment Ministries International, (KEMI), a global network of ministries that focus on "Empowering Leaders To Take Dominion." Reconnected to the Source of Empowerment at age of 11 and empowered with a global vision at the age of 37, Bert Mullings is now on a mission to fulfill the Kingdom empowerment mandate of Heaven. Mr. Mullings has held numerous Chairman & CEO positions for organizations in marketing, training and organizational development, and consulting. He is the author of the "First Principles of Customer Service College Textbook" in the world called Principles of Customer Service-A Systematic Approach to Customer Service Delivery. He has earned his business degree in Marketing from Savannah State University with honors and has traveled extensively. He is a preacher and a teacher with a passion to spreading the uncompromised message of the Kingdom to every ethnos.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1606476408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
All of us are seeking the kingdom to live an empowered life. Kingdom empowerment challenges every human potential to rediscover the ultimate reason why man was sent to earth. Man can power himself into an empowered lifestyle by taking a closer look at God's Word as a blueprint to vision and destiny. These principles lay the foundation for man to answer the age-old question, am I born empowered, and can I live an empowered life. As you journey through this book you will be powered with: The meaning of kingdom empowerment. How to execute the spoken Word to live an empowered life. The keys to bury the past. How to pursue the king. How to pursue personal, corporate, and global vision. How to embrace process. How to invest in the kingdom. Why every human potential needs to be stubborn and persistent. How to start the empowerment journey. Bert Mullings is founder and President of Kingdom Empowerment Ministries International, (KEMI), a global network of ministries that focus on "Empowering Leaders To Take Dominion." Reconnected to the Source of Empowerment at age of 11 and empowered with a global vision at the age of 37, Bert Mullings is now on a mission to fulfill the Kingdom empowerment mandate of Heaven. Mr. Mullings has held numerous Chairman & CEO positions for organizations in marketing, training and organizational development, and consulting. He is the author of the "First Principles of Customer Service College Textbook" in the world called Principles of Customer Service-A Systematic Approach to Customer Service Delivery. He has earned his business degree in Marketing from Savannah State University with honors and has traveled extensively. He is a preacher and a teacher with a passion to spreading the uncompromised message of the Kingdom to every ethnos.
The Motion-picture Industry in the United Kingdom ...
Author: James Summerville (jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The United Kingdom
Author: Hugh D. Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Wild Connection
Author: Jennifer L. Verdolin
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616149469
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Wild Kingdom meets Sex and the City in this scientific perspective on dating and relationships. A specialist in animal behavior compares the courtship rituals and mating behaviors of animals to their human equivalents, revealing the many and often surprising ways we are both similar to and different from other species. What makes an individual attractive to the opposite sex? Does size matter? Why do we tend to keep score in our relationships? From perfume and cosmetics to online dating and therapy, our ultimate goal is to successfully connect with someone. So why is romance such an effort for humans, while animals have little trouble getting it right? Wild Connection is full of fascinating and suggestive observations about animal behavior. For example, in most species smell is an important component of determining compatibility. So are we humans doing the right thing by masking our natural scents with soaps and colognes? Royal albatrosses have a lengthy courtship period lasting several years. These birds instinctively know that casual hook-ups are not the way to find a reliable mate. And older female chimpanzees often mate with younger males. Is this the evolutionary basis of the human cougar phenomenon? Fun to read as well as educational, this unique take on the perennial human quest to find the ideal mate shows that we have much to learn from our cousins in the wild.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616149469
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Wild Kingdom meets Sex and the City in this scientific perspective on dating and relationships. A specialist in animal behavior compares the courtship rituals and mating behaviors of animals to their human equivalents, revealing the many and often surprising ways we are both similar to and different from other species. What makes an individual attractive to the opposite sex? Does size matter? Why do we tend to keep score in our relationships? From perfume and cosmetics to online dating and therapy, our ultimate goal is to successfully connect with someone. So why is romance such an effort for humans, while animals have little trouble getting it right? Wild Connection is full of fascinating and suggestive observations about animal behavior. For example, in most species smell is an important component of determining compatibility. So are we humans doing the right thing by masking our natural scents with soaps and colognes? Royal albatrosses have a lengthy courtship period lasting several years. These birds instinctively know that casual hook-ups are not the way to find a reliable mate. And older female chimpanzees often mate with younger males. Is this the evolutionary basis of the human cougar phenomenon? Fun to read as well as educational, this unique take on the perennial human quest to find the ideal mate shows that we have much to learn from our cousins in the wild.
Clio Wired
Author: Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231150865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In these visionary essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digitalskeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions academic historians' practices and professional rites while analyzing and advocating for amateur historians' achievements. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the unprecedented access afforded by the Internet. Rosenzweig draws attention to the opening up of the historical record to new voices, the availability of documents and narratives to new audiences, and the attractions of digital technologies for new and diverse practitioners. Though he celebrates digital history's democratizing influences, Rosenzweig also argues that we can only ensure the future of the past in this digital age by actively resisting the efforts of corporations to put up gates and profit from the Web.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231150865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In these visionary essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digitalskeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions academic historians' practices and professional rites while analyzing and advocating for amateur historians' achievements. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the unprecedented access afforded by the Internet. Rosenzweig draws attention to the opening up of the historical record to new voices, the availability of documents and narratives to new audiences, and the attractions of digital technologies for new and diverse practitioners. Though he celebrates digital history's democratizing influences, Rosenzweig also argues that we can only ensure the future of the past in this digital age by actively resisting the efforts of corporations to put up gates and profit from the Web.
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Author: Jing Tsu
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.