A Curious Discovery

Author : John S. Hendricks
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062128560

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A Curious Discovery by John S. Hendricks Pdf

In A Curious Discovery, media titan John Hendricks tells the remarkable story of building one of the most successful media empires in the world, Discovery Communications. John Hendricks, a well-respected corporate leader and brand builder, reveals that his professional achievements would not have been possible without one crucial quality that has informed his life since childhood: curiosity. This entrepreneur’s story takes you behind the scenes of some of the network’s most popular shows and greatest successes, and imparts crucial lessons from the network’s setbacks. With insights, anecdotes, photographs, and real-world wisdom, A Curious Discovery is more than a powerful autobiography and corporate history: It also a valuable primer for business innovators and entrepreneurs.

Author : John S. Hendricks
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062128560

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A Curious Discovery by John S. Hendricks Pdf

In A Curious Discovery, media titan John Hendricks tells the remarkable story of building one of the most successful media empires in the world, Discovery Communications. John Hendricks, a well-respected corporate leader and brand builder, reveals that his professional achievements would not have been possible without one crucial quality that has informed his life since childhood: curiosity. This entrepreneur’s story takes you behind the scenes of some of the network’s most popular shows and greatest successes, and imparts crucial lessons from the network’s setbacks. With insights, anecdotes, photographs, and real-world wisdom, A Curious Discovery is more than a powerful autobiography and corporate history: It also a valuable primer for business innovators and entrepreneurs.

Author : H. A. Rey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547768595

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Curious George's Dinosaur Discovery (Read-Aloud) by H. A. Rey Pdf

Curious George loves dinosaurs, so he’s excited to visit a dig to look for real dinosaur bones. Will the curious little monkey help make a big discovery?

Author : H. A. Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547347578

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Curious George's Big Book of Curiosity by H. A. Rey Pdf

This oversized paper-over-board concept book takes toddlers all over George’s world and theirs. Each page features a different concept: counting, shapes, opposites, emotions, family, jobs, homes, transportation and lots of new words! From morning to night, city to country, home to town and back again, little readers can follow George as they learn more about their own worlds. Just the right book for toddlers learning to talk to help build their vocabulary.

Author : Todd Kashdan
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0061661198

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Curious? by Todd Kashdan Pdf

Embrace uncertainty. Attract love and abundance. Master your life. Aren't you curious to know more? In Curious? Dr. Todd Kashdan offers a profound new message missing from so many books on happiness: the greatest opportunities for joy, purpose, and personal growth don't, in fact, happen when we're searching for happiness. They happen when we are mindful, when we explore what's novel, when we live in the moment, when we are open to new experiences and relish the unknown. Using science, story, and practical exercises, Dr. Kashdan offers a blueprint for building lasting, meaningful relationships, improving health, increasing creativity, and boosting productivity. You, too, can become a "curious explorer" comfortable with risk and challenge, capable of functioning optimally in an unstable, unpredictable world.

Author : Adriana Craciun,Mary Terrall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503673

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Curious Encounters by Adriana Craciun,Mary Terrall Pdf

With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555061271

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A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371560

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Pdf

A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Author : Lauren DeStefano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619636019

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A Curious Tale of the In-Between by Lauren DeStefano Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano comes a delightful tale of a girl who can talk to ghosts that's perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black. Pram Bellamy is special--she can talk to ghosts. She doesn't have too many friends amongst the living, but that's all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix. Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram's power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost. New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano is beloved by critics and readers alike, and her middle grade debut is lyrical, evocative and not to be missed.

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226319445

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Curious and Modern Inventions by Rebecca Cypess Pdf

'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.

Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215395182

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Science Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton Pdf

This chronology of scientific curiosities comprises a host of cranky theories, crackpot experiments, crazed professors, questionable quacks, mischievous pranksters, deluded pundits, and a priceless host of wild and baseless speculations.

Author : H. A. Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544430679

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Curious George Discovers the Sun (Science Storybook) by H. A. Rey Pdf

"Come along as George explores how the sun gives off heat, light, and energy. Includes experiments, activities, and more!"--

Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698198203

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A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.... London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

Author : Sir Henry Wotton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1667
Category : Christianity
ISBN : BSB:BSB10353214

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The State of Christendom by Sir Henry Wotton Pdf

Author : Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 0894806297

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Expedition by Wayne Douglas Barlowe Pdf

In 2358 Wayne Douglas Barlowe joined the first manned flight to Darwin IV, a newly discovered world beyond our solar system. Here he provides naturalistic paintings that vividly capture the alien creatures he encountered. Illustrations, full-color paintings, and maps.