Start Something That Matters
Start Something That Matters

Author: Blake Mycoskie

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0679603522

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The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good. “A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal Why this book is for you: • You’re ready to make a difference in the world—through your own start-up business, a nonprofit organization, or a new project that you create within your current job. • You want to love your work, work for what you love, and have a positive impact on the world—all at the same time. • You’re inspired by charity: water, method, and FEED Projects and want to learn how these organizations got their start. • You’re curious about how someone who never made a pair of shoes, attended fashion school, or worked in retail created one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world by giving shoes away. • You’re looking for a new model of success to share with your children, students, co-workers, and members of your community. You’re ready to start something that matters.

How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

Author: Russell Hoban

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781567923223

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Tom likes fooling around and is rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen to play womble, muck and sneedball. Can it possibly end well for all concerned?

Blake; or, The Huts of America
Blake; or, The Huts of America

Author: Martin R. Delany

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-02-13

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0674088727

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Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.

Hawaiian Surfriders, 1935
Hawaiian Surfriders, 1935

Author: Tom Blake

Publisher: Mountain & Sea Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780911449082

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Provides a history of surfing and covers the development of the hollow surfboard. Includes many images of Waikiki Beach.

Monument Maker
Monument Maker

Author: David Keenan

Publisher: White Rabbit

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 1474617115

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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR CONCRETE ISLANDS NO. 1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 'In a dizzying gyroscopic vortex of inner archeology, David Keenan sifts through spiraling past lives to unearth his provocative vision of the future. A colossus of imagination' LENNY KAYE 'Visionary and prismatic, gloriously hallucinatory although grounded in the material, Monument Maker's grand sweep takes in distant historical subterrains, a shimmering summer of the present, the transient, the eternal, the profane, the divine' WENDY ERSKINE 'I sometimes think David Keenan dreams aloud. His prose has the effortless enigmatic, unsettling quality of dream' EDNA O'BRIEN 'A masterpiece' WILLIAM BASINSKI Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War and up to the present day, where the memory of a single summer, and a love affair that took place across the cathedrals of Ile de France, unravels, as a secret initiatory cult is uncovered that has its roots in macabre experiments in cryptozoology in pre-war Europe. MONUMENT MAKER straddles genres while fully embracing none of them, a book within a book within a book that runs from hallucinatory historical epics through future-visioned histories of the world narrated by a horribly disfigured British soldier made prophetic by depths of suffering; books that interact with Keenan's earlier novels, including a return to the mythical post-punk Airdrie landscape of his now classic debut, THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE; whole histories of art and religion; books that are glorious choral appendices; bibliographies; imagined films; tape recorded interviews; building to a jubilant accumulation of registers, voices and rhythms that is truly Choral. Written over the course of 10 years, MONUMENT MAKER represents the apex of Keenan's project to create books that contain uncanny life and feel like living organisms. It is a meditation on art and religion, and on what it means to make monument; this great longing for something eternal, something that could fix moments in time, forever.

The Last Town
The Last Town

Author: Blake Crouch

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593598512

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The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade What’s inside was a nightmare. What’s outside is a thousand times worse. Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. And now that secret is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity. The Last Town at last pitches Ethan Burke and his fellow residents into all-out war against the forces outside the town’s gates—and in doing so delivers every bit the riotously horrific, breathlessly action-packed conclusion that the Wayward Pines trilogy deserves.

Championship Selling
Championship Selling

Author: Tom Blake

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9788126509997

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Market_Desc: · Sales Professionals· Sales Executives and Managers· Senior Management· Management Consultants· Industry Associations in Sales and Training· Students and Professors in MBA and other Business Programs Special Features: · Leading-edge selling concepts: New thinking about the sales function, one which has not evolved very much over the years. Three of North America s most respected sales leaders offer new ways of understanding the sales function, and of engaging the whole company around selling· Appealing message for sales professionals: In an age when many customers are wary of salespeople, and when many salespeople feel adrift and unsupported, this book communicates that sales matters and that salespeople can make a positive difference in the lives and businesses of their customers· A blueprint to follow: Introduces The Four Ps of Selling, and provides a roadmap that sales professionals, executives, managers, and trainers can use to develop customer-centric thinking, and to build long-term, mutually productive relationships with your customers· Practical tools: Features numerous examples, as well as self-assessment scorecards, sample action plans, and other practical tools to help readers hone their selling skills, and create succinct, compelling messages tailored to the customer· Author platform: The authors will promote the book to their clients and through consulting and speaking engagements (over 30 engagements and 8,000 people per year), and tap into the international Procter & Gamble alumni network, as well as into current connections at P&G and other firms About The Book: In Championship Selling, three of North America s most respected sales leaders offer a powerful, yet remarkably simple, vision of what it means to sell, as well as innovative techniques and tools for establishing mutually productive relationships with customers.