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Slingshot

Mercedes Helnwein
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Author : Mercedes Helnwein
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250253019

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"Helnwein debuts in striking fashion... The writing, especially the dialogue, is magnetic, honest, and brimming with caustic wit... [an] enrapturing take on the intense highs and lows of teenage love." —Booklist (Starred Review) "Wildly real and bursting with all the romance and pain of coming into oneself." —Kirkus (Starred Review) "Helnwein frankly conveys the joy, fear, and awkwardness of an all-consuming first love, poignantly depicting Gracie’s growth: particularly the hard-won knowledge that she can exist 'just by the sheer force of herself,' and the grace she learns to show herself and others." —Publishers Weekly "One of Eight 2021 YA Books To TBR ASAP" —BookRiot Mercedes Helnwein's Slingshot is an exciting debut contemporary young adult novel perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Mary H. K. Choi "I didn’t think it was going to be anything like this when I finally fell in love. I thought it was going to be pretty simple. Like, I’d love someone and they’d love me. I thought that’s the way it worked.” Grace Welles is stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, where her method of survival is a strict, self-imposed loneliness. And it works. Her crap attitude keeps people away because without friends, there are fewer to lose. But when she accidentally saves the new kid, Wade Scholfield, from being beaten up, everything about her precariously balanced loner world collapses and, in order to find her footing again, she has no choice but to discover a completely new way to exist. Because with Wade around, school rules are optional, weird is okay, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought. Nothing’s perfect, but that’s not the point. When they're together everything seems uncomplicated in a way that Grace knows is not possible. Except it is. So why does Grace crush Wade’s heart into a million pieces? Acidly funny and compulsive readable, this debut is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, stupidity, sex, friendship, bad poetry, very bad decisions and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.

Slingshot

Anonim
Slingshot Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781629635224

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Disguised as a book of innocent postcards, Slingshot is a dangerous collection of Eric Drooker’s most notorious posters. Plastered on brick walls from New York to Berlin, tattooed on bodies from Kansas to Mexico City, Drooker’s graphics continue to infiltrate and inflame the body politic. Drooker is the author of two graphic novels, Flood! A Novel in Pictures (winner of the American Book Award), and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He collaborated with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg on the underground classic Illuminated Poems. His provocative art has appeared on countless posters and book covers, and his hard-edged graphics are a familiar sight on street corners throughout the world. Eric Drooker is a third-generation New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island. His paintings are frequently seen on covers of the New Yorker and hang in various art collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Slingshot

Tom Kovach
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Author : Tom Kovach
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780615137704

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A collection of the early writings of Tom Kovach -- soldier, author, activist, candidate. Topics include: military, aviation, terrorism, illegal aliens, politics. REVIEWS "This book should be required reading for every American, age 16 and older...." -- Charles Jones III (Brigadier General, USAF, Retired; chairman, National Veterans Coalition) "If you want to straighten out America, think of it as a compass." -- Jack Cashill, Ph.D. (author, columnist, documentary producer) ..". this guy is like Charlie Daniels with a pen instead of a fiddle." -- Mark A. Rose (columnist and blogger)

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Hector Ruiz
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Author : Hector Ruiz
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608325573

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When Hector Ruiz joined AMD, quickly ascending to the CEO’s suite, he took the helm of a dynamic company that was nonetheless struggling against perceptions that it could not contend with Intel, the Goliath of the microchip industry. Though AMD’s technology, products, and pricing were keeping pace with or outstripping Intel’s, the market wasn’t responding. Why? Ruiz found deals unaccountably collapsing, his executives stonewalled by business partners, and promising innovations thwarted. As Intel made it almost impossible for its customers to use competitors’ chips, rumors floated that the only reason Intel “allowed” AMD to exist was to stave off antitrust investigations by the Federal Trade Commission. As government investigations began to reveal the truth about Intel’s predatory business practices, Ruiz realized that AMD’s only option was to become David to Intel’s Goliath. Recruiting a team of renowned strategists and industry leaders, Ruiz developed tactics based on superior technology and innovative alliances. And when he finally made the decision to file a historic lawsuit against Intel, the battle between the two rivals escalated, enveloping the entire personal computer industry and bringing to a head a conflict that had been building for more than a decade. This unprecedented inside account of the microchip industry at war offers lessons to all readers interested in the thrust and parry of the high-technology sector—or who face daunting competitive challenges of their own.

The Slingshot Syndrome

Reid M. Watts
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Author : Reid M. Watts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595208135

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"One of the best descriptions and explanations I have read of the failure of large U.S. corporations to develop and exploit new products and services. I particularly liked the description of the failure of the development of the communications industry within the typical corporate structure and [the] analogy of the history of the U.S. product development to the movie industry. I also agree that distribution and management of services can probably only be efficiently performed through large corporations, a direction that appears to be in the process of being taken by companies originally noted for technological development as illustrated. The recommendation that new products can best be incubated in small independent entrepreneurial startups is intriguing." — DeWitt Bowman, Chief Investment Officer (retired), California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) "This is excellent! I think Reid has it all figured out. The Slingshot Syndrome is easy to read—very clear and to-the-point. Revolutionary ideas presented clearly, strongly and simply. A Real winner in my opinion!" — Terry McPherson, Intellectual Property and Technology Management Director (retired), Lucent Technologies. "I'll be among the first purchasers for a dozen or more copies!" — Susan Gauff, Senior Vice President, Sarnoff Corporation

Slingshot

Gabor George Burt
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Author : Gabor George Burt
Publisher : Franklin Green
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1936487071

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Slingshot explores the connection between systematic creativity and smart strategy. What if you could reignite your childhood creativity in a systematic way, to overstep self-imposed limitations and to discover what you are really capable of achieving? It's all here at your fingertips. Defy conventional wisdom and give reign to your imagination for success in your business and your life. Continuous innovation is both necessary and exhilarating, and we all possess the inner capacity for it. Our capacity has simply been buried and lays dormant within us. As children, our imagination knew no boundaries. We would grab a slingshot and be instantly transformed into a warrior, a spy, a huntress, or protector of treasure. But as we grew older, our intellectual comfort zone shifted from that of continuous exploration and inquisitiveness to that of conformity with accepted norms of perception. All is not lost, however. We just need the right framework to re-engage our youthful creativity: the Slingshot Framework. Find out why you need to infatuate your target audience and to provide them continuous lifestyle enrichment; how to become market-driving and to shape your offering for broadest relevance; and how to channel your reclaimed creativity into smart strategy. Launch yourself to new business and personal heights and have fun doing it. Re-enforcing the book's message, brilliant illustrations by children accompany the text from beginning to end, while original music and toy slingshots (accessible via www.slingshotliving.com ) provide readers with a truly multi-sensory experience.

Slingshot Warbirds

William Neufeld
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Author : William Neufeld
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0786407883

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A unique and little-known chapter in World War II naval aviation history concerns the exploits of the scout-observation pilots who flew from the battleships and cruisers of the U.S. Navy. To carry out their missions, they were launched from their ships by catapult. On returning, their float-equipped aircraft landed on the water and the plane and crew were crane-hoisted aboard the vessel. In compiling this work, the author culled from the naval archives many of the ships' action reports and war diaries that detail the accounts of these airmen. In addition he meticulously edited the personal records of 27 veteran airmen who related stories of intense and excruciatingly difficult missions.

Slingshot

Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Slingshot Book PDF

Author : Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1643620096

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SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation.

Hungry Slingshots

Louis Cabri
Hungry Slingshots Book PDF

Author : Louis Cabri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 155420156X

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Since his first book, The Mood Embosser, was published in 2001, Louis Cabri has established himself as a one of the most distinctive, and entertaining, poets in Canada. Steeped in the transformative poetics of the post-New American Poetry world of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Cabri has followed that impulse into a fresh terrain that is simultaneously familiar and disorientingly strange. Hungry Slingshots, Cabri's fourth book-length work, extends his explorations into language / sensibility / intelligibility, and into the sheer sound (and silence) of the line to produce a suite of poems that return a picquant critique of the excess that stands in for contemporary normality. Original, in the original sense of the word (i.e., returning to the earliest examples of something), Cabri's recent work opens up the the resonating chambers of constraints imposed by poetry conventions --- most noticeably in the title sequence, "Hungry Sling Shots", which hearkens to the French 17th century civil war and the widespread use of the triolet form --- to make our oldest literary genre vibrate in new ways and in unexpectedly contemporary directions. Predominant in Cabri's approach to the page is his consciousness of poetry as being, at its most satisfyingly salient, sound. For Cabri, more than most poets working today, meaning is all about how it sounds. In a live reading, his intonations work like the squeaks and farts of a perfectly tuned saxophone in the mouth and hands of a jazz musician. Could Louis Cabri be the Albert Ayler of contemporary poetry? Louis Cabri has said about his work, "Fiction and non-fiction, more often than not, represent perceptions. Poetry involves more than representing perceptions. .. . Poetry speaks to the mechanics of perception."

Slingshot to the Juggernaut

Sander Hicks
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Author : Sander Hicks
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781593764647

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In the ten years since 9/11, a grassroots truth movement has sprung up that unites the best elements of the right and left. The call to resist the secrecy, imperialism, and the manipulation of the elite has been heard by a wide spectrum of people, across religious and political lines. This is a revolutionary moment that has lacked a clarifying manifesto. Until now. Pulling from his personal confrontations with the FBI, Rudolph Giuliani, Eliot Spitzer, and Dick Cheney, activist, maverick, and investigative reporter Sander Hicks reaches for a broader understanding of who was behind the 9/11 attacks. He reports the mysterious murder of Dr. David M. Graham, a Shreveport dentist who met two of the 9/11 hijackers but was then harassed by the FBI and poisoned. Scientific evidence leads him to take a hard, critical stance against Bush, Cheney, and the 9/11 “Official Story.” Weaving evidence with anecdote, Slingshot to the Juggernaut is an inspiring ride into the 9/11 cover-up and the revolutionary possibilities it inadvertently created. Provocative and unyielding, Hicks examines the evidence, draws conclusions, and offers a vision for the future of the United States.

The Complete Girls with Slingshots

Danielle Corsetto
The Complete Girls with Slingshots Book PDF

Author : Danielle Corsetto
Publisher : Iron Circus Comics
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781945820083

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The Complete Girls with Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto Pdf

The MASSIVE compiled and remastered edition of Danielle Corsetto's long-running hit webcomic about 20-something BFFs Jamie and Hazel. One of the most popular webcomics of all time, Girls with Slingshots’ eleven-year run followed the adventures of Hazel Tellington, Jamie McJack, and their close-knit group of friends as they unsteadily and enthusiastically navigated their twenties and beyond. Girls with Slingshots collects the entire strip in one place for the very first time, including thousands of full-color comics with never before seen creator insights and art.

Slingshot

Matthew Dunn
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Author : Matthew Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062038081

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Matthew Dunn uses his experience as a former MI6 field officer to bring transfixing realism to Slingshot, his third Spycatcher novel featuring Will Cochrane—MI6’s, and now the CIA’s, most prized asset and deadliest weapon. In Slingshot, Cochrane is ordered to recover a mysterious document stolen by a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SRV) traitor working for a former high-ranking East German Stasi officer. The officer, years before, had instigated a secret pact between Russian and U.S. generals. The agreement stipulated that should it be broken, an assassin would immediately be set loose after an unknown target. The SRV has sent their own version of Cochrane, a cold-blooded, brilliant operative, to retrieve the document, pitting spycatcher against spycatcher. Slingshot, with its cat-and-mouse espionage, brutal action, and complex protagonist, is a must-read for fans of Robert Ludlum and Lee Child.

Slingshot and Burp

Richard Haynes
Slingshot and Burp Book PDF

Author : Richard Haynes
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763691073

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Slingshot and Burp by Richard Haynes Pdf

Slingshot and Burp—two pea-shootin’, slingshot-totin’ cowhands on two wheels—are on the lookout for action. Bleached bones? Bring ’em on! Lost outlaws? Let’s go! Hidden loot? Yee haw! Rattlesnakes! Scorpions! Ghost cats!Wait, what . . . ? Whoa! Saddled up to battle the boredom of summer, these two double cousins, best friends, and next-door neighbors have fitted themselves out like Old West cowboys to charge boldly (and sometimes bravely) into the southwestern desert that is their backyard. And sure enough, in two rattles of a snake’s tail, the boys find themselves boots-deep in adventure, dodging sisters, jail time, coyotes, and squirting skulls! Boll weevil!

Slingshots & Key Hooks

Geoffrey Fisher
Slingshots Key Hooks Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1497100046

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Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 under the title: Catapults & key hooks.

Slingshots & Key Hooks

Geoffrey Fisher
Slingshots Key Hooks Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Fisher
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607656876

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Slingshots & Key Hooks by Geoffrey Fisher Pdf

Transform found wood into artfully designed crafts such as a slingshot, whistle, jump rope, cup and ball game, key hook, table brush, and more. This beautifully illustrated book includes 15 step-by-step projects and advice on how to responsibly forage for wood.