Book Description
What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an ôun-book,ö one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in easily managed segments.
Author : John E. Langhorne
Publisher : Corridor Media Group Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780615337913
What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an ôun-book,ö one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in easily managed segments.
Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0385544510
A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder. Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith, goodtime girls and desperate miners, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich.
Author : Betsy Erkkila
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199762287
Breaking Bounds invigorates the study of Whitman and American culture by presenting essays that demonstrate Whitman's centrality to the widest range of social, political, literary, sexual, and cultural discourses of his time and ours. Bringing together a distinguished group of cultural critics working in the fields of literature, American studies, Latin American studies, European studies, art history, and gay/lesbian/queer studies, the volume persistently opens new vistas in the ways we see Whitman and provides a model for the newest and brightest intellectual efforts associated with "cultural studies." Central to the volume is a set of provocative essays in queer studies that break the bounds of decorum that have too long separated Whitman's sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from both. The Whitman that emerges from these collected essays is renewed for a new generation of literary scholars working to define the places and the functions of his poetic words in the world. Taken as a whole, the volume points to the interdisciplinary future of American literary and cultural studies. Breaking Bounds is essential reading for anyone interested in Whitman both inside and outside the academy.
Author : Dave Diss
Publisher : The Book Guild, Lewes, East Sussex
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857769272
This is the opening volume (Volume 1) of a series of Autobiography. Serious stuff. Volume 2 is "Creatures of Our Time, in a Land fit for Heroes" dealing with my efforts to become a civilian after nine years of bobbing up and down on the seven seas. Volume 3 is "Australia Ahoy!", from the arrival of my family of five at Outer Harbor in sunny South Australia on "Castel Felice", a vessel of the Italian Sitmar Line and our adventures in this exciting country, where surely, nothing could ever go wrong...
Author : Sandro Galea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190916842
"A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up. The problem, Sandro Galea argues, is that Americans focus on the wrong things when they think about health. Our national understanding of what constitutes "being well" is centered on medicine -- the lifestyles we adopt to stay healthy, and the insurance plans and prescriptions we fall back on when we're not. While all these things are important, they've not proven to be the difference between healthy and unhealthy on the large scale. Well is a radical examination of the subtle and not-so-subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in America. Galea shows how the country's failing health is a product of American history and character -- and how refocusing on our national health can usher enlightenment across American life and politics.
Author : Wai Chee Dimock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520336852
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Author : Virginia Walden Ford
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0825308216
Winner of the 2020 Silver Nautilus Book Award On a cold winter night in February of 1967, a large rock shattered a bedroom window in Virginia Walden Ford's home in Little Rock, Arkansas, landing in her baby sister's crib. Outside, members of the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on her family's lawn. Faceless bigots were terrorizing Virginia, her parents, and her sisters–all because her father, Harry Fowler, dared to take a job as the assistant superintendent of personnel for the Little Rock School District. He was more than qualified, but he was black. In her searing new memoir, legendary school choice advocate Virginia Walden Ford recounts the lessons she learned as a child in the segregated south. She drew on those experiences—and the legacies handed to her by her parents and ancestors—thirty years later, when she built an army of parents to fight for school choice in our nation's capital. School Choice: A Legacy to Keep, tells the dramatic true story of how poor D.C. parents, with the support of unlikely allies, faced off against some of America's most prominent politicians—and won a better future for children.
Author : Chris Humphreys
Publisher : Orion
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473226082
'Brilliant: smoothly-written, engaging, fascinating' Conn Iggulden, author of the bestselling War of the Roses series Three lands. Each ruled in different ways by a decadent immortal elite for their own pleasure and power. They know nothing of each other. But there is a fourth, vast land of mortals. Led by black-eyed priests, the tribes have put aside centuries of hate to unite under the prophecy of 'the One': a child saviour who is neither boy nor girl. Now they are finally ready to conquer the whole world... and wipe the immortals out. Yet in each of those other worlds there are some who will resist, even unto a final death. Luck, a malformed god of the Northmen, desperate to give up a drug that shows him the whole world clearly, even as it destroys his will to fight for it. Ferros, a brilliant warrior recently made immortal, torn between new and old loyalties and loves. Atisha, mother of 'the One', determined to defeat all plans that have been made for her child. Among battles on sea and land, the fall of empires and the rise of the Mortals, will come the Triumph of the One. But will it be a final darkness? Or is there someone who can still save the light?
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 15303 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Ultimate Western Collection is a monumental anthology that captures the rugged ethos and sweeping landscapes of the American frontier. Through a rich tapestry of narratives, this compilation spans a wide array of literary styles, from the gritty realism of pioneer life to the romanticized vistas of the Wild West. The anthology showcases the diversity and significance of the genre, including standout pieces that have shaped the cultural imagery of the American West. The esteemed array of authors contributes stories that vary from high adventure to introspective character studies, each adding depth and nuance to the understanding of the Western ethos. The contributors to this anthology, including luminaries like Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Jack London, among others, bring with them backgrounds as diverse as the landscapes they describe. Their collective works, rooted in different epochs of American history, offer a panoramic view of the cultural, social, and economic forces that have shaped the American West. By aligning with historical, cultural, or literary movements, these authors enrich the anthology's thematic coherence, providing readers with an immersive experience into the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Western life. The Ultimate Western Collection offers readers a unique opportunity to delve into the multifaceted world of Western literature. It is an educational journey through the heart and soul of America, encouraging exploration of its vast and varied narratives. Through its comprehensive selection, the anthology fosters a dialogue between the works of established masters and lesser-known authors, each contributing distinct voices to the collective story of the American frontier. It is a must-read for anyone eager to explore the depth and breadth of Western literature, and to understand the enduring allure of the Wild West.
Author : Meir Dan-Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199985200
Combining constructivist and hermeneutical themes, this book explores normative aspects of human self creation seen as a matter of fixing and elaborating the values and norms that shape human identity, individually and collectively. The book focuses especially on a conception of dignity as the value that accrues to us qua authors of the meanings constitutive of human life.