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Author : John McMahon
Publisher : Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0889821437
Author : Robert Iger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399592102
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Today, Disney is the largest, most admired media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era. In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including: • Optimism. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming. • Courage. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Fear of failure destroys creativity. • Decisiveness. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale. • Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them. This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger for forty-five years, since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC. It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology. “The ideas in this book strike me as universal” Iger writes. “Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.”
Author : Helga Jensen
Publisher : Hera books Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912973590
'I simply couldn’t put this down. I laughed out loud several times before I’d even finished the first chapter.’ Jules Wake, author of The Spark and The Saturday Morning Park Run Amelia might have met The One. But is she twenty years too late? After her husband left her out of the blue, the only relationship 48-year-old Amelia Simpson has enjoyed recently is with Nutella and Pinot Grigio. While her 8-year-old twin boys, Jasper and Rupert, keep her busy, Amelia dreams of a life more than washing muddy rugby kits and weekly chats with best friends Sian and Jamie. Amelia needs some magic back in her life – but magic seems in short supply in her small Welsh town. So when she finds the phone number that was given to her twenty years ago by a handsome stranger in New York, Amelia wonders whether he might be The One That Got Away. But when Sian takes matters into her own hands, launching a worldwide hunt to find the handsome stranger Amelia met outside Tiffany’s two decades ago, Amelia finds herself on a flight to the Big Apple to reconnect with her ‘Perfect Patrick’. But as the two explore the sights of NYC, has Amelia reconnected with The One? Or will she discover that the sparkle she was missing is actually closer to home? A gorgeously funny and heart-warming debut romcom for fans of Sophie Ranald, Jo Watson and Beth O’Leary. Readers are falling in love with Twice in a Lifetime: ‘A joyous tale of rediscovering your dreams, love and sense of self. Sheer fun and absolute UpLit!’ Pernille Hughes, Author, Probably the Best Kiss in the World ‘I love this book so much! All I wanted was for it not to end! It's right there on my top romcoms list now.’ Natalie Normann, author of Summer Island ‘Wow, just wow...Right from chapter one I was hooked...It's funny, cute and romantic and that twist...What more can you ask for?’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Such a cute read I read it in one sitting. This book had me smiling.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘What a fantastic read! I enjoyed the characters in the book and the story line! This was a fun, fast read’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘This book is a GEM! It’s painfully funny, totally real and the twists and turns, oh my goodness gracious!...such a feel good book.’ Reader Review ‘What an enchanting novel...I certainly laughed out loud numerous times!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547687412
This carefully crafted ebook: "Mrs. Dalloway" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Author : Alice H. Cook
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558612572
"This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value." --Library Journal
Author : Patricia A. Williams
Publisher : Time Broker
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 0968140009
Author : Christian Bauer
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Austrian
ISBN : 3777424072
"Drawing on new sources and featuring unpublished photos, this publication sheds light on aspects that have hitherto received little attention. ... [It] shows how Schiele's art of expression was guided by a keen awareness of the scientific and cultural developments of his time and why, in many respects, it remains ahead of its time to this day."--P.[4] of cover.
Author : Fredrik Backman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781501193491
It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.
Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307566720
Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. But America's most popular novelist remained a closed book to the world — guarding her life with a fierce privacy no reporter could crack. Her life hides a myriad of secrets. The husband and daughter she lost in a fire. The son who barely survived it and would be deaf forever. The victories, the defeats, the challenges of facing life as a woman alone and helping her son meet the challenges of his handicap. A strong woman, she would not accept defeat, or help from anyone... until she found she could no longer face it alone.
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307776617
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.
Author : James Whale
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843176633
"Almost a Celebrity" is the no-holds-barred autobiography of radio megastar James Whale, a man who, for over thirty years, has never been afraid to say the unsayable. In his typically deadpan style, "Almost a Celebrity" charts James' rise to the top - with plenty of trademark rants along the way - from his Surrey childhood, where he avoided school by hanging out in Soho strip joints, through his humble beginnings in local radio, via the self-titled TV show which made his name, to his current status as late-night king of the airwaves.
Author : Pamela Pavuk,Stephen Pavuk
Publisher : Triangel Pubishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0970062605
This personal and unique gift expresses the elegant sentiment to your loved one: This Family Channel Seal of Quality-winning gift says to someone whose story you want to know: Your life is important to me. I value who you are. Please tell me more. It invites your mother or father, a grandparent, favorite aunt or uncle, or special friend to share memories, facts, perspectives, beliefs, knowledge, and wisdom gained from a lifetime of experience. Hundreds of gentle questions encourage thoughtful responses. When complete, it's a priceless heirloom for future generations. "Your life is important to me. I value where you've been, what you've done and who you are. Please tell me more." The recipient is invited to write his or her life story and perspective by answering almost 500 thought-provoking questions right in the book. Perfect gift for almost any occasion -- holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's and Father's Days, weddings, baby and bridal showers, Grandparents' Day, graduation, Valentine's Day, family reunions, etc. Shows honor, respect and loving interest in the life of the person to whom it is given. Assists a person in telling his or her life story and philosophy easily and quickly, guiding every step of the way with a comprehensive series of gentle questions. Passes along wisdom and knowledge gained from life experience. Richly restores and preserves special memories and perspectives while there is still time. Strengthens bonds with loved ones by providing a deeper understanding in the present. Instills lasting appreciation for family heritage, legacies and traditions by memorializing the storied past. Enhances personal growth through the therapeutic value of introspection. Becomes a timeless and priceless heirloom to be treasured for generations. Keeps on giving.
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 039307661X
"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles Times It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high—a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex Award.
Author : Ciahnan Darrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798891322028
Unfold the intertwined dramas of three generations of small-town Maine women challenging societal norms in A Lifetime of Men. Bo, defying expectations, embarks on a career in photojournalism in an era when women are meant for marriage and homemaking. Her pursuit of captivating stories leads her into perilous situations, jeopardizing her life on multiple occasions. Despite her best friend's offers of help, protection, and marriage, Bo remains resolute in carving her own path. Sarah, a teenage orphan, discovers a meaningful connection with someone twelve years her senior-a convicted felon. Caught between a stable home and a loving relationship provided by the woman supporting her, Sarah faces a difficult choice. Tolan stumbles upon a file on her mother's computer, unraveling disturbing questions about her past. Simultaneously, her best friend transitions from confidante to secret girlfriend. Overnight, Tolan's understanding of herself and her family undergoes a seismic shift, compelling her to risk her closest relationships in pursuit of answers. Interweaving the tales of Bo, Sarah, and Tolan, A Lifetime of Men navigates the delicate balance between reality and hope, commitment and independence, and love and self-reliance.
Author : Ed Stafford
Publisher : Collins
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0008306354
An inspiring selection of hand-picked adventures, chosen by Ed Stafford. For those who don't mind a bit of discomfort in order to experience the wilder side of our amazing planet.