Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : John Andrews Fitch
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Iron and steel workers
ISBN :
Author : John Fitch
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781734794403
Discover the transformative power of leisure to recapture your calm and creativity.Are your busiest days really the ones that make you feel the most accomplished? It might be time to question whether 'busy' = 'productive'. After reaching breaking points in their careers, business coach John Fitch and AI researcher Max Frenzel learned the critical importance of taking time off. Now these former workaholics will help you revolutionize the way you get things done.History's greatest minds, as well as some of the most successful leaders, thinkers, and creatives of today, found success by practicing a more balanced approach to work and life. Embracing their insights on how constant hustle can be your worst enemy, you will realize that time off means much more than just taking a break. Rediscover a more fulfilled and versatile version of yourself and unlock your true creative potential.Through relatable personal anecdotes, historically sound approaches to downtime, and scientifically backed strategies for increasing your creativity, Time Off will reshape the way you think about work and leisure.In Time Off, you'll discover:- The most effective methods to reclaim leisure, while increasing productivity and creativity- Why having a rest ethic will be a key competitive advantage in the future of work- Tactics for getting away from the work without the dreaded guilt- How to thrive alongside AI and use technology to become more human- The many ways in which time off improves your leadership skills, and much, much more!
Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Inventors
ISBN :
Author : Andrea Sutcliffe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1466892625
In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering there was not a single working steam engine in America in the early 1780s, Fitch's steamboat's development was nothing short of remarkable. But he faced competition from the start, and he and several other inventors fought a string of bitter battles, legal and otherwise. Steam tells the dramatic story of Fitch and his adversaries, weaving their lives into a fascinating tale including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. It is the story behind America's first important venture in technology, the persevering and colorful men that made it happen, and the great invention that moved a new nation westward.
Author : John G. Fitch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199282080
Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism.
Author : John Keane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847377602
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.
Author : John Fitch
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781479286768
What, When & WhereA first person account of the life and multiple careers of John Townsend Fitch. Born in 1926 in Shanghai of missionary parents, Fitch left China in 1937, as the Japanese troops neared Nanking. He attended schools in Pasadena, CA; Wooster, OH; Cambridge, MA, and Lake Placid, NY. He started college at M.I.T. in 1943, but, with America at war, he joined the Navy and learned to be an electronics technician.Shortly after he shipped out for the south Pacific, World War II ended, and the Navy sent Fitch back to Shanghai. He got his first taste of radio broadcasting at an Armed Forces Radio Station there, and went on to build and operate a similar station in Nanking.Once again he had to leave China on short notice when Communist forces advanced on Nanking. Fitch was pictured in LIFE Magazine in 1948, as the U.S. Military Advisory Group packed up and left.Returning to the U.S., he completed his electrical engineering degree at M.I.T. while becoming a radio and television announcer in Boston. Using the name John McLellan, he had a 10-year career as a host of programs on jazz. He also wrote newspaper columns on jazz for the Boston Traveler. Still later, he became the on-camera host for the 6-year run of the "M.I.T. Science Reporter" series on public television.On retirement, Fitch took up family history and genealogy and has written five books on the English and American ancestors of this family. Now, at the age of 87, he has written this book called "What, When & Where" about his life.
Author : Janet Fitch
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316125776
From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss, and the private heroism of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. This is the epic, mesmerizing story of one indomitable woman's journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century.
Author : James Luce Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Inventors
ISBN :
