Greater Heights
Greater Heights

Author: Valerie Davis Benton

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1449718922

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What would you do if you were trapped in an abusive relationship? And what would you do if you were presented an opportunity to escape? Riley Davenport-Westins dream of success is measured by fame and fortune. She achieves her ideal life as a New York TV journalist, married to the CEO of a fourth-generation family business. But her world comes crashing down when her husbands abuse escalates and she discovers he is cheating on her. She announces shes leaving him but meets with his strong objections. To avoid the stares and whispers she anticipates from her colleagues at the sight of her bruised face, Riley decides not to go to work the next day. Instead, she wanders the streets of New York, searching for answers. How could she know that one decision would change her life forever? Greater Heights is the story about one womans choices and how having the most valuable things in life comes at a price. Sometimes, the cost is ones own life.

Attaining Greater Heights in Academics
Attaining Greater Heights in Academics

Author: Thankgod Ugochukwu Kalu

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2020-04-12

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 374873574X

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Attaining greater heights in Academics is an essential and comprehensive pamphlet for every student who is looking to achieve academic success. Inspired by the irresolute attitude of many young students to abandon the traditional school system and opt for remedial centers. The author argued that the experience in traditional school is quite different and he also insisted that these centers are uncontrolled environments and as such not suited for effective teaching and learning. This is an unfortunate reality in our contemporary society, but who is to blame for this social decay, Student? Parents? or the Government? Find out in this book. The book also points out several element and principles that would ensure success for student at all levels, a step by step approach has been elaborately discussed in this book and if adopted greater heights in academics is assured.

Rise to Greater Heights
Rise to Greater Heights

Author: Nompumelelo Real Kunene

Publisher: Nompumelelo Real Kunene

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Rise to Greater Heights Have you ever feared your own power from dreaming and achieving your goals? Fear of success may be the small obstacle that can generate powerful signs of reaction when we’re in difficulties. For many people, it is paralyzing them from attempting to do something new, so understanding how to transform this fear into greater success have become repetitions of different tries. Rise to greater heights book will guide you to discover what’s holding you back from going confident in the direction of your dreams. You need to be able to: chase after success, grow your business, cultivate your mindset, and empower yourself. This book will help you understand that: • The success of your enterprise depends on your endeavors to expand revenues • You can overcome business obstacles • Establishing a harmonious work-life assimilation is crucial • A terrific leader is constantly competent to lead a team to triumph • Cultivating your team’ progress is a characteristic of great leadership • Development entails all hands-on-deck Nompumelelo is an energetic professional speaker well known for encouraging many to rise from mediocrity into greatness. Her presentations not only motivate but empowers audiences with a fresh perspective inspiration they require to pursue success and drive sustainable outcomes, in a seriously funny way. She believes that we are in full control of our choices. Her title “Rise to Greater Heights” has inspired and empowered many to pursue their personal and professional passion to become go-getters. As a professional Certified SALES MANAGER, CEO, Entrepreneur, Certified travel counsellor, Aesthetician, Philanthropist and a commissioner for oaths, following her dreams gave her purpose to see her goals through and understand that she does have everything she needs to reach her full potential.

Houston Heights
Houston Heights

Author: Anne Sloan

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 146712429X

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Places and spaces -- Homes and surroundings -- Houston Heights Association events -- The arts -- Houston Heights spotlight.

Impossible Heights
Impossible Heights

Author: Adnan Morshed

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2015-01-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 145294296X

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The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss’s Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into “master builders,” these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular “superman” discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America’s propulsion into a new cultural consciousness.

Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights

Author: Joshua Henkin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0525566635

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book • When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father’s last, best hope. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. It’s about the love between women and men, and children and parents; about the things we give up in the face of adversity; and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.

Patterson Heights
Patterson Heights

Author: Felicia Pride

Publisher: Kimani Press

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1426840691

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Avery Washington has spent his entire life in Patterson Heights, a Baltimore neighborhood with a mean rep. It's a good place to grow up—it has heart and soul as well as a few street hustlers, and plenty of solid families just like his. Then one day, his older brother Rashid ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Avery's life changes forever. Once an A-plus student with hopes of going to college, Avery now has to rethink his future. While his parents struggle to cope with the loss of one son, Avery has to prove himself at his new school, and deal with pressures he can't admit to anyone—not even Natasha, the one person who seems to really get him. But now he'll have to choose between doing what's expected and being true to himself…between maintaining a reputation and growing up too soon….

To the Greatest Heights
To the Greatest Heights

Author: Vanessa O'Brien

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 152940312X

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'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing' SIR CHRIS BONINGTON 'Ernest Shackleton listed those qualities an explorer should possess over a century ago: optimism, patience, idealism with imagination, and courage. Vanessa's qualities are truly akin to these' ALEXANDRA SHACKLETON When Vanessa O'Brien was made redundant in 2008 as part of the recession, she moved to Hong Kong with her husband for his career and resigned herself to being 'just the wife'. There she was, aged 46, bored, uninspired, unemployed. Was this going to be how she was going to live the rest of her life? One night in the infamous Kee Club, over shots of tequila, a friend suggested O'Brien climb Everest, and that was the start of an epic journey she never looked back from as she climbed Everest, K2 and many other mountains. This is her inspirational story. As O'Brien says, she couldn't explain to her readers how she got to the top of K2 at the age of 52 without being honest about what came before. In To the Greatest Heights, she reveals the trials and tribulations of her difficult childhood, and the result is a life-affirming book that shows how she achieved these climbs in spite of and because of her past. To read To the Greatest Heights is to know that there is a path to overcoming the worst of what happens to us, a path that helps us reach the summit of our lives too, whatever our age.

Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights

Author: Andrew S. Dolkart

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780231078511

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Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.