A compilation of short stories written by an old African-Hand, who as an expatriate had to learn how to fend for himself and get on with the job come what may. In post-colonial Africa you could find yourself in the middle of a drama you could not have expected, nor prevented. This collection of true life stories is written with a witty and entertaining pen, taking the reader along an eventful journey to Africa and gives a good understanding of being there. It is a positive book. A tribute to Africa and its people.
Dinos of all shapes and sizes gather at the starting line for a big race in this adorable rhyming Level 1 Ready-to-Read from Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator Kaz Windness. Rolling reptiles, in your places! Time to start the Dino Races! When you hear the whistle blow… Dino Racers, GO! GO! GO! It’s an exciting day when a group of dinosaurs decide to race…but which dinosaur will come in first place? Readers will be charmed by the absolutely adorable illustrations, and this hilarious rhyming story.
Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino band. Born in the inner city, amid the charred ruins of the 1968 race riots, go-go generated a distinct culture and an economy of independent, almost exclusively black-owned businesses that sold tickets to shows and recordings of live go-gos. At the peak of its popularity, in the 1980s, go-go could be heard around the capital every night of the week, on college campuses and in crumbling historic theaters, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs, backyards, and city parks. Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go music and culture. Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie Hopkinson's Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs in the postwar years began to return. Gentrification drove up property values and pushed go-go into D.C.'s suburbs. The Chocolate City is in decline, but its heart, D.C.'s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat. On any given night, there's live go-go in the D.C. metro area.
Hold on to your guts and go-go boots because now you can take a trip back to those 1960's drive-in movies and join the burgeoning youth culture and its experimentation with LSD, psychedelia, and the way-out sounds attributed to it. Read as the teenage swinging-set are hideously murdered by some unknown beast, sending the town into a frenzied panic. Could Tick Johnson's disturbed pal Joey, with his mind-bending powers of ESP be responsible? When Tick's girlfriend disappears, Tick has no choice but to find the answers. Fasten your seatbelt for a non-stop ride of psychedelic acid trips, ESP, go-go chicks, nudity, sixties garage rock, spooky graveyards, and enough blood 'n' guts to fill a 10-gallon vat. What are you waiting for! Read this screenplay and wallow in the depravity that is known as: Teenage Horror A-Go-Go. When you open this book, the gore will literally drop out onto your lap! You've been warned!
THE STORY: Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he's gay, he assumes the news will be readily a
As global competition grows more fierce, companies continue to look for ways to increase their competitive edge without jeopardizing profit margins. Today's corporations are starting to realize the competitive advantage that Information Technology (IT) can bring to a company. These corporations are also realizing that staying current with technology requires a great deal of effort, risk, and expense. This is one of the primary reasons CEO's are considering outsourcing as an alternative. Written by a CIO who has successfully maneuvered through the outsourcing process, Outsourcing: A CIO's Perspective addresses the realistic expectations and the most commonly asked questions about IT outsourcing, while reviewing it's advantages and disadvantages. This text identifies key elements that can be used to assess the feasibility of securing a profitable and manageable outsourcing agreement. It provides a convincing case that even if the final decision is to not outsource, the result of the process will identify potential business improvement opportunities.
LORD ZEDD sets his eyes on something he is sure will defeat the Power Rangers, and unleashes his full force to obtain in. With Jason, Trini and Zack encountering a new threat of their own as OMEGA RANGERS, Tommy must lead Kimberly and Billy into battle at half-power with disastrous consequences.
