Measure Of The Year

Author : Roderick L. Haig-Brown
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926971667

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Measure of the Year by Roderick L. Haig-Brown Pdf

Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in which the Earth governs the events in our lives. Haig-Brown observes salmon, blue grouse, blacktail deer and robins, with a soft eye and gentle appreciation for their trials. He discerns how the weather interacts with the land, and how the land interacts with our attempts at civilization. Haig-Brown also discusses his work at a magistrate, and the challenges of marriage, amateur book collecting, the craft of the writer, and the meaning of community. A snap shot of rural BC in the 1950s, Measure of the Year is a country story, told by a man happy in his chosen way of life.

Author : Ken Alder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743249027

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The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder Pdf

In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.

Author : Roderick L. Haig-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Country life
ISBN : OCLC:745144018

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Measure of the Year by Roderick L. Haig-Brown Pdf

Author : Roderick L. Haig-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Authors, Canadian 20th century Biography
ISBN : OCLC:1249580031

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Measure of the Year by Roderick L. Haig-Brown Pdf

Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633692572

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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Clayton M. Christensen Pdf

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Nikki Erlick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063204225

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The Measure by Nikki Erlick Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster for readers of The Midnight Library. Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge? The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is a sweeping, ambitious, and invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.

Author : GAEL. SELLWOOD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999845781

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MEASURE OF THE YEAR by GAEL. SELLWOOD Pdf

Author : Ken Alder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743216768

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The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder Pdf

The story of the creation of the metric system in 1792 traces the endeavors of Delambre and Méchain, the backlash of superstitious contemporaries, and the mistake that drove Méchain to the brink of madness.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521854481

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Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Pdf

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

Author : Elizabeth Gray Vining
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013774891

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Being Seventy by Elizabeth Gray Vining Pdf

Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1525 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270671

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The Statesman's Year-Book by M. Epstein Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : Frederick Martin,Sir John Scott Keltie,Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick,Mortimer Epstein,Sigfrid Henry Steinberg,John Paxton,Brian Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Economic geography
ISBN : PRNC:32101072368267

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The Statesman's Year-book by Frederick Martin,Sir John Scott Keltie,Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick,Mortimer Epstein,Sigfrid Henry Steinberg,John Paxton,Brian Hunter Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : OSU:32437122240993

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Author : John Doerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525536239

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Measure What Matters by John Doerr Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1912 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Radio
ISBN : WISC:89031605421

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The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony by Anonim Pdf

Includes "Literature".