Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393040166
A true story of men against the sea.
Author : Patrick Hollingworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0730328287
Cut the organisational and operational dead weight to climb higher, faster The Light and Fast Organisation presents a blueprint for organisations looking to thrive in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity - has become the dominant mode of modern business, and leaders are overwhelmed. Competition and instability has increased while barriers to entry have fallen, chronic employee disengagement is on the rise and the global economic recovery is incredibly fragile; business leaders are uncomfortable, with threats to their business looming on all sides. This book proposes an alternative to the VUCA paradigm, one in which we learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, and a model for helping your organisation climb above the fray. Case studies from both business and mountaineering illustrate the benefits and practicalities of becoming light, fast, and agile and underscore the importance of self-awareness and self-reliance in minimising your exposure to risk. Business and mountaineering share many parallels, including frequent operation outside of the comfort zone. This book shows you the strong skills and effective strategies you need to reach the summit. Get comfortable with discomfort Adopt an 'Alpine Style' approach to business Operate outside of the VUCA paradigm Stretch outside your comfort zone to achieve more, faster Leaders must accept the current VUCA state and assess their preparedness, but it's possible to move beyond it by ingraining a 'light and fast' approach at the core of their organisations' values and operations. It's only through reaching beyond the 'safe' zone that we learn what we're made of, and build the foundations for successful leadership and teamwork. The Light and Fast Organisation is your practical coach for climbing the mountain, and your guide to the quickest route to the summit.
Author : Phoebe Rivers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144248960X
In the aftermath of a hurricane, Sara’s got a new secret—and an old crush—to decipher. A hurricane hits the New Jersey shore, and while Sara’s hometown of Stellamar is spared from any major damage, things will still never be the same. At home, a spirit reveals to Sara that he has a secret about her mother...but then the spirit is spooked by the storm and leaves before Sara can find out more. Sara enlists the help of her best friend, Lily, and together they try to find out what other secrets might be hidden away in the old house. At school, there are some new faces as kids from a neighboring town start attending Stellamar Middle School since their own school was damaged in the storm. One of the new kids is Mason, Sara’s summer crush. Will sparks continue to fly between Sara and Mason?
Author : Lori Foster
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459225651
He never saw her coming… Spencer Lark already knows too many secrets about Arizona Storm, including the nightmare she survived and her resulting trust issues. But in order to expose a smuggling ring—and continue avenging his own tragic past—the bounty hunter reluctantly agrees to make Arizona a decoy. Yet nothing has equipped him for her hypnotic blend of fragility and bravery, or for the protective instincts she stirs in him. Arizona wants to reclaim her life, which means acting as bait to lure the enemy into a trap. Sure it's dangerous, especially with a partner as distractingly appealing as Spencer. But as their plan—and their chemistry—shifts into high gear, Arizona may discover there's an even greater risk in surrendering her heart to a hero….
Author : A. M. Kusi
Publisher : Our Peaceful Family
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
She lives for her art. He longs to settle down. Can love overcome prejudice and bring two souls together? Isa won’t compromise her creative freedom with a serious entanglement. So when her friends try to set her up during a two-week retreat, the wealthy commitment-phobe isn’t falling for their tricks—even if the serene African man is charming. But the only way to end the aggressive meddling is to fake it. Dedicated high-school teacher Ethan longs to find the perfect wife. And he knows a spoiled, headstrong artist is the polar opposite of the Ghanaian girl his parents hope he’ll marry. But when Isa proposes they pretend to date, he somehow can’t say no. Though the relationship is a ruse, their feelings become all too real. But just when they embrace the courage to accept their hearts’ desires, their disapproving families threaten to tear them apart. Can Isa and Ethan defy convention and triumph over expectations for a chance at lasting love? Her Perfect Storm is a moving standalone novel in the Orchard Inn Romance series. If you like interracial romance, touching relationships, slow burn chemistry, and complex issues, then you’ll love A. M. Kusi’s beautiful drama. Buy Her Perfect Storm to let passion conquer intolerance today! ***HEA guaranteed. No cheating. Can be read as a standalone.*** ---------- Keywords related to this contemporary romance novel: Contemporary romance novel, interracial romance books, multicultural romance books, fake relationship romance, new adult romance, strong female lead, strong women, pretend romance beach reads, strong heroine, wwbm romance, interracial romance books, white woman black man interracial romance, bmww, ir romance books, contemporary romance series, wwbm, romance series book 3, african american romance, ir, IR romance books, romance novels to read, love story books, interracial relationship, romance with kids, interracial romance pregnancy, interracial romance bmww, interracial romance wwbm, interracial romance authors, interracial romance new adult, multicultural romance wwbm, fake, relationship, romance books, romance,
Author : Jodi Taylor
Publisher : Headline
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472264517
A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. You don't have to travel through time to experience catastrophe on an epic scale, as the disaster-magnets from St Mary's are about to find out... For Max, what starts off as a perfectly normal week is about to degenerate into a quagmire of egotistical film producers, monumental pub crawls, unsigned contracts, exploding rocks, Professor Rapson and his megaphone, the world's biggest bacon butty - and Angus - the third component of the most notorious love triangle since Menelaus, Paris and Whatshername - the one with the face they launched ships off. A Perfect Storm of calamity, devastation and misfortune only ever encountered at St Mary's. Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'
Author : David Wroblewski
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307371891
An Oprah's Book Club Pick A #1 New York Times Bestseller A National Bestseller Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father's sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival—the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.
Author : Anna Black
Publisher : Urban Renaissance
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1601621035
A playboy bachelor helps a grieving widow learn to love again, but her heart is broken once more when she learns their relationship was based on a bet in the latest novel from Anna Black. Chase Storm is a rich, young bachelor with no intention of settling down. His reputation as the town's playboy is ruining his family's name, so his brothers decide to take action. To tame their youngest brother's appetite for women, they offer him a sweet deal. Unwilling at first, Chase finally agrees to take on the challenge and is introduced to Madison Atkins-Morgan. Madison, a widow, has moved back to her hometown of Tyler, Texas. After losing her husband and twin sons in a car wreck, she needs a fresh start. When things don't go as planned, she finds herself in a slump. Four years later, after having isolated herself, she decides to rejoin the real world and start living again. Unaware of Chase's reputation for being a ladies' man, she accepts his dinner invitation. They've met before, but he hadn't seemed interested in her during any of those brief encounters. Now, however, there is a definite connection between the bachelor and the widow. When his reputation comes to light, she chooses to continue their budding relationship. She is falling in love with the person the whole town warned her about, and she couldn't be happier--until she discovers she was part of a wager that could cost both of their hearts.
Author : Linda Greenlaw
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786871350
The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman. . . I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right -- proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster. There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing -- in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory -- is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." -- Svenja Soldovieri
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393077055
Forest fires, terrorism, war: explorations of danger by the author of The Perfect Storm. In Fire, Sebastian Junger brings to bear the same meticulous prose that made A Perfect Storm a modern classic onto the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force—an out-of-control inferno burning in the steep canyons of Idaho—and the cast of characters risking everything to bring that force under control. Few writers have been to so many desperate corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger; fewer still have provided such starkly memorable evocations of characters and events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of Junger's nonfiction will take you places you wouldn't dream of going to on your own.
