Pitfalls and Parachutes
Pitfalls and Parachutes

Author: Durgesh Shastri

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2013-08-14

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1482801418

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Pitfalls and Parachutes is a collection of fifteen short stories. The stories are youthful and lively. Entertainment is at the core of each of the stories. Watch out for exciting endings. A glimpse of the collection: 1. The protagonists decision to help a lost lady might cost him his job. 2. Television news becomes a reality in the life of Cyrus. 3. Pramaniks reputation is at an all-time low. Someone can make it worse. 4. Can anything other than ragging make ones first day of college hell? 5. Why does an anonymous donation trouble Kanha so much that he hires goons to hurt an old man? 6. Deepak decides to overcome his superstitions; will they leave him so easily? 7. Michael sets out to fulfill his wifes last wish. Whats his last wish? 8. Can a kick change somebodys life? 9. Does Sumit land a job in spite of a disastrous interview? No recommendation is entertained. 10. Kanchan has to choose between her lover and husband. Her son holds a dark secret. 11. Rishi has vowed never to fly kites again. What if he breaks it? 12. Valentines Day and fanatics ultimatum. Will love Blossom?

The Spacefaring Earth
The Spacefaring Earth

Author: Michael G. Smith

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-12-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1040185118

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This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth. The volume encompasses the new astronomy and sciences of the modern era, the early dreamers and pioneers after 1903, the national competitions of the First World War, the rocket states that prepared for the Second World War, the rivalries and “space race” of the Cold War between the US and USSR, as well as more recent developments including the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, national space programs, orbital technologies, transhumanism, and military and commercial ventures in space. It also stresses the importance of geography in the geopolitics of spaceflight competition and in the nature of the planetary biosphere. Taking a chronological approach to lived human experience and threshold achievements, the chapters show how these themes have been reflected in literature, art, music, film, and our new digital worlds. This book is essential reading for students of the history of the Space Age, as well as an excellent companion to courses on twentieth‐century science and technology, the Cold War, and American history.

Problems and Pitfalls in Medical Literature
Problems and Pitfalls in Medical Literature

Author: Adam L. Cohen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-29

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 3031402952

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This book aims to teach the skills for assessing the quality of a medical article. It focuses on problems and pitfalls that may interfere with the validity of an article so that readers know what problems to look for and how to tell if an article has successfully addressed them. It focuses on concepts rather than formulas. In each chapter, one article will be analyzed to illustrate a particular concept, demonstrating when to look for that pitfall, how to recognize it, what effect it would have on results, and how to tell if an author has successfully mitigated the pitfall. Written with clarity and precision, this invaluable resource ensures that readers develop a deep understanding of the critical elements that underpin the quality of medical literature. Each chapter presents a specific concept and employs a practical approach, utilizing the analysis of a real-world medical article to illustrate the concept in action. By dissecting the research, readers learn to identify common pitfalls, recognize their influence on the results, and determine whether the author has effectively addressed them. By exploring topics such as research methodology, bias detection, and result interpretation, Problems and Pitfalls in Medical Literature empowers readers to go beyond a superficial understanding of articles and critically evaluate their reliability and relevance.

Parachuting Cats into Borneo
Parachuting Cats into Borneo

Author: Axel Klimek

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1603586814

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In Parachuting Cats into Borneo, change-management experts Axel Klimek and Alan AtKisson offer crisp, concise, and targeted advice for success. They expose the most significant impediments helping readers recognize their habitual patterns of thinking and perceiving a situation, critique their own beliefs regarding change, and then move beyond these unhelpful patterns using improved systems thinking. Named after a classic tale of unintended consequences, Parachuting Cats into Borneo delivers tools that help leaders and others keep their change initiatives on track. The advice imparted will help you move away from agonizing over immediate problems toward stoking action, identifying collaborators, focusing at the right level for your cause, and aiding others in pursuing their change.

Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Author: John B. Manbeck

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-08-29

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1614237891

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From America's first suburb to its favorite borough, Brooklyn is by all accounts matchless. Taking readers away from the film sets and off the tour buses, borough historian John Manbeck reveals the communities that have defined its diverse neighborhoods, from the early Dutch settlers to today's colonizing hipsters. Through urbanism and war, depression and gentrification, Manbeck's columns, first printed in the Brooklyn Eagle and now collected here, show Brooklyn for what it isa cultural and social nonpareil that just happens to sit across the East River from Manhattan.

1001 Pitfalls in Spanish
1001 Pitfalls in Spanish

Author: Marion Peter Holt

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780812004335

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A supplementary textbook outlining fundamentals of the Spanish language and providing help for common obstacles such as complex sentence structure, vocabulary, and telephone conversations.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1580089895

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Thoroughly revised for 2010, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, career searching online and more, in a guide that reflects the current market.

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition
What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition

Author: Mark Emery Bolles

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1607740338

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Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you must know, like: • Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective? • What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process? • How do you find the information that search engines like Google can’t? • How can you tell the difference between a genuinely helpful job board, and a website designed only to collect resumes? • When are hobby forums more helpful than business networking sites? • When is the Internet not helpful when job-hunting? • What is the fatal flaw of all social networking sites? The Guide to Job-Hunting Online, 6th Edition, not only answers these questions and many more, but shows you how to comprehensively and effectively use the Internet for all aspects of your job-hunt. This companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, has been completely rewritten for our changing times and includes hundreds of updated website recommendations and descriptions. The Guide to Job-Hunting Online shows you how to quickly find the data that will be most helpful to you, how to identify and research the places where you will most enjoy working, how to leverage the power of social networking sites, and how to use your Internet time most effectively, avoiding the common pitfalls and setting you up for success.

Packing Your Parachute
Packing Your Parachute

Author: Michael Hale

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-08-17

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1543443915

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Not many people complain of parachutes failing. It is usually too late. Like parachutes, inadequate insurance programs are many times discovered post haste following a catastrophe, often much to the surprise of management. In this book, we discuss some real-life stories of uninsured or underinsured disasters and coverage disputes. These stories are largely based upon our experiences as insurance expert witnesses in cases where an improperly designed insurance program led to years of litigation, unimaginable costs, and sometimes the bankrupting of the business and its owner. The mission of this book is to capture the attention of executives on why the way they may be buying business insurance could be all wrong and to provide suggestions on how to improve the process. We write this book as an antivirus scanning program of sorts for the insurance buyer to use in analyzing whether a business insurance agency and insurer are properly packing the companys parachute.