Beating The Odds

Author : Eddie Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118061322

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Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

Author : Michael Oher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101560037

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I Beat The Odds by Michael Oher Pdf

The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

Author : Nichola Garvey
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780730494089

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Beating the Odds by Nichola Garvey Pdf

The high-stakes story of Australia's largest private bookmaker Alan tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal, became the world's most successful private bookmaker. He was Australia's most convicted SP bookmaker and was the prime target of gaming and vice squads around the country in the 1980s. Yet he would eventually sell his businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars. this is his story. Starting-price bookies, although illegal, were long a feature of Australian life, giving punters the opportunity to have a bet away from the track. But with the rise of the tAB, police were ordered to stamp out all other off-course bookmaking in order to protect the state governments' monopoly. Alan tripp, the biggest SP bookie in Australia, was their number-one target. His punting clientele ranged from the high society of Sydney to the underbelly of Melbourne, and included Prime Minister Bob Hawke, media baron Kerry Packer, gangsters Lewis Moran and Alphonse Gangitano, and underworld figure Mick Gatto - as well as many leading trainers and jockeys of the day. tripp's life quickly became a rollercoaster of high-stakes gambling, with the dual threats of bankruptcy and prison never far behind. In a fearless and thrilling narrative, Nichola Garvey recounts the drama and intrigue of the life of Alan tripp, the billion-dollar bookie who beat the odds.

Author : Sherrod Tunstall
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945855054

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Brad Carter is down on his luck. He loses his job, catches his woman in bed with another man, and he’s days away from being booted out of his home. Wanting to get away from his problems, Brad and his boys go to a nightclub, where they meet a wealthy stranger who offers them each $50,000 to go to Rio de Janeiro and traffic cocaine back to the U.S. They jump at the opportunity and have the time of their lives in Rio, but when it’s time to return to the U.S. with the drugs, all hell breaks loose. Brad and his friends are caught, and being in jail is not anything they could have imagined. With the help of a fellow prisoner with powerful connections, they plan an escape. Brad is determined to find his way back to the U.S., but not without Diamond, the beautiful woman he met before things went awry in Rio. Can he rescue her from the clutches of Armand, the sick crime boss who’s been holding her captive for years? He soon discovers that the web of criminal connections between Armand, his wife, and his associates are deep and dangerous. With the obstacles he faces, Brad’s journey to freedom may be impossible.

Author : Justin Yifu Lin,Célestin Monga
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691192338

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Beating the Odds by Justin Yifu Lin,Célestin Monga Pdf

This powerful book shows how poor countries can ignite growth without waitingfor global action or the creation of ideal local conditions.

Author : Brandon Lang,Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602396807

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Beating the Odds by Brandon Lang,Stanley Cohen Pdf

The amazing true story of one of the world s greatest sports...

Author : Marcia Devlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0645101036

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Beating the Odds by Marcia Devlin Pdf

Based on the author's 30 years of experience, this humorous book outlines the serious challenges facing women in in Australian universities. The book is a call to arms to women to take matters into their own hands. The first chapter, The Odds are Against You, paints a depressing picture. The numerical odds of women making it to the professoriate, university executive and board positions are outlined. Spoiler alert: they're not good and aren't improving. When almost one-third of Australian vice-chancellors left their posts in 2020, men mostly replaced men.Chapter Two, You're Expected to Be a Good Girl, outlines the gendered expectations, implicit assumptions, unconscious biases and sexism that university women face. Anecdotes of female professors being asked about cakes, carpets, curtains and colours help the reader confront shocking facts about their likely trajectory. The matters of invisibility; man-terruptions; bro-propriation; having the 'wrong' style; and being successful and liked at the same time are explored.In Chapter Three, Get An Attitude, the practical advice begins. The power of working within gendered expectations and avoiding 'unladylike' attitudes is examined. Examples of being a bad girl abound, including when it comes to so-called women's work. This chapter asks readers to start thinking about saying no and being bad at housework - at home and work. Emphasising the need to keep your ambition quiet if you are female, the fourth chapter, Prepare a Secret Strategy, focuses on defining success on your own terms, setting priorities and goals, and taking action. It ups the ante on saying no more often and being very bad at housework and sets some challenges for people-pleasing women.The title of Chapter Five, Do More of What Counts and Less of What Doesn't, gives away its focus. The summary is: do more self-promotion and less housework, but there's a bit of nuance for academic women seeking promotion.The advice to Form a Support Squad in Chapter Six draws on women's talents in building relationships and suggests an unusual approach to this endeavour. Chapter Seven, Beating the Odds, brings it all home with some humour and a shampoo ad.

Author : Patty Rowland Burke,Kelly Simmons
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781604919868

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Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM by Patty Rowland Burke,Kelly Simmons Pdf

Aiming to inspire and empower, Beating the Odds highlights real-life success stories of technical women who made it. This book explores critical turning points that make or break careers and provides tools for putting insight into action — both for women and organizations supporting them.

Author : Brenda Stockdale
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781591812760

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You Can Beat the Odds by Brenda Stockdale Pdf

A specialist in biobehavioral medicine presents a holistic program for enhancing immunity and improving your chances of recovery from serious illness. This guide offers practical, science-based techniques that have been proven to help cancer and chronic disease survivors. You Can Beat the Odds reveals surprising risk factors—greater than smoking, diet, or cholesterol—that can make the difference between robust health and life-threatening illness. Even your genetic inheritance isn’t as fixed as you might have imagined.’ Brenda Stockdale’s mind-body approach addresses the underpinnings of illness, health, and healing. Each technique in her program is designed to improve the way your body responds to viruses, illnesses, and even daily stress. This volume includes exercises to help you personalize your program and integrate insights quickly into your everyday life.

Author : Jacqueline Ancess
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807743553

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Beating the Odds by Jacqueline Ancess Pdf

Beating the Odds tells the story of how teachers, students, and leaders in three schools transcend obstacles to beat the odds of failure and achieve impressive success. The schools' a suburban vocational/technical school, an urban school for immigrant, new-English-language learners, and an urban second-chance school for students who have failed elsewhere, all operate as communities of commitment. With accessible language, multiple examples, and rich anecdotes, Ancess describes how these schools are organized, how they use adult-student relationships to leverage high levels of student performance, how they enact teaching and learning for making meaning, and how they confront the obstacles they encounter. Ancess also discusses the systemic conditions for sustaining and scaling up schools such as these three. The high schools described in this volume - Urban Academy, International High School, and Hodgson Vocational-Technical, have come to represent models of successful reform despite their challenging student populations. In addition to telling their story, this book provides samples of school documents that illustrate the day-to-day operation of the schools and can be adapted by practitioners to fit their own circumstances.

Author : Robert Dolezal,Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983-02
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0425059944

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They Beat the Odds by Robert Dolezal,Editors of Reader's Digest Pdf

Author : Kozhi Sidney Makai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683333543

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Born Beating the Odds by Kozhi Sidney Makai Pdf

Ever wondered how and why it is that storms seem to sink your boat while others' rise? If you were honest, could you say that you overcame obstacles instead of them overcoming you? Have you been discouraged by the sheer volume of things not going your way and your dreams turning into nightmares? If you responded yes to just one of these questions, you're not alone. Discouragement, disappointment, and several other negative emotions hide like a cop on the highway, waiting to pull us over and give us a ticket. In Born Beating the Odds, Dr. Kozhi Sidney Makai helps you see that your past trials and disappointments are merely stepping stones leading to your personal and professional growth. In his natural caring and supportive tone, Kozhi reminds you that you can change your pain to power and your disappointments to drive. As the title suggests, you were born beating the odds and he provides insights into raising your boat in the storm, taking back your dreams, and becoming a resilient overcomer.

Author : Arthur Levine,Jana Nidiffer
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015034934326

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Beating the Odds by Arthur Levine,Jana Nidiffer Pdf

Renowned educator Arthur Levine and coauthor Jana Nidiffer explore how some people overcome the most desperate circumstances to achieve the seemingly unreachable goal of a college degree. Drawing on their own study of 24 students, the authors detail the factors--relationships, resources, and activities-- that made a difference and allowed these students to go as far as they did.

Author : Ronnie Nelson Sidney,Traci V Wagoner,Tiffany Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0998601101

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Nelson Beats The Odds by Ronnie Nelson Sidney,Traci V Wagoner,Tiffany Carey Pdf

The Nelson Beats the Odds: Compendium One gives readers a chance to experience Nelson Beats the Odds and Tameka's New Dress in one thrilling graphic novel. The compendium presents real tips for real life situations and is a great addition to library shelves. Nelson Beats the Odds features Nelson, a young man who used to think school was all about playing and talking with his friends. When Nelson learns that he's been diagnosed as having a learning disability and ADHD, he is placed in special education and separated from his friends. Out of fear of being ridiculed and teased by classmates, Nelson attempts to keep his disability and struggles with learning a secret. With the encouragement of his parents and assistance from Mrs. T., his special education teacher, Nelson succeeds academically and reaches his full potential. Tameka's New Dress presents sensitive issues, including childhood trauma, parental substance abuse, kinship care, and bullying in a way that's gentle and suitable for children of all ages. In Tameka's New Dress, a gifted middle school student faces the challenges and fears of being the new kid at school while dealing with the harsh reality of living in an abusive home. Throughout the short story, Tameka receives the encouragement she needs from her caregiver and other adults in the community to fight off the school's bully without using violence.

Author : Ira Chil;dress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948237377

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Beating the Odds by Ira Chil;dress Pdf

Beating the Odds is a collection of stories from my child- andadulthood that chronicles my inspirational journey through life and sport. Thismemoir consists of small glimpses into my lived experiences, lessons learned, andobstacles overcome. These stories range from my experiences growing up inpoverty, navigating adolescence as a student-athlete, and pursuing variouscareers in sport. This book is meant to inspire people, including young people comingfrom underprivileged backgrounds, to dream beyond their surroundings and committo reaching those dreams.