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Author: Ward Just
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2009-09-09
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0786752009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As a young man, Ward Just spent eighteen months in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Washington Post. The experience would earn him both a citation from the Overseas Press Club and a Combat Infantrym"
Author: Andy A. Afrouz
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 149901922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn executive secretary in dark blue business attire and short colored blond hair, sitting behind her office desk, quickly checked her desk top office security screen to see who is outside. She then pushed a button under her desk which unlocked the office door and said: “Come in please” After the man entered the office, its door closed and locked automatically. The man said with a business like American accent: “Good morning Camellia – The boss is expecting me” The executive secretary replied: “I know - Nice to see you Mr. Zorin” She then informed her boss through her office intercom: “Mr. Zorin is here to see you Sir” Her boss, a man in a stripped brown suite, sitting behind an elaborate walnut desk in a modern, secured and sound proof office environments checked his security screen to make sure who is behind his office door, clicked on a strategically located remote door unlock device to his office and replied with a deep and authoritative voice: “Please let him in” Camellia replied: “OK Sir” She then asked Mr. Zorin: “Please, proceed” Zorin thanked Camellia, opened a heavy dark cherry door accessing the boss’s office and entered. This door also closed and locked automatically. Zorin had a rough stone cold face with piercing black eyes and a mild smile. He had about two inches long healed gush above his right eyebrow which seemed to be caused by brushing of a bullet. Upon entry, he said: “Good morning boss” The boss replied: “Good morning Joe – Nice to see you back” He then pointed with his left hand to an armchair opposite his desk and said: “Please, take a seat” Joe Zorin sat and replied: “Thank you, nice to see you too boss” The boss asked: “How you are and what’s up?” Joe Zorin replied: “I am fine thanks – I brought the report you requested” He then opened his briefcase, took out a somewhat thick report, forwarded it to his boss and said: “It’s all there with maps, photos and what not” The boss quickly fanned looking over the report, placed it at a corner of his desk and reiterated: “Thanks Joe; I’ll look at it closely later - In the meantime, we have a more pressing top secret project for you on the Iranian nuclear venture”
Author: Gordon D. Fee
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780802849250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis insightful work amply demonstrates Fee's mastery of the exegetical task and illustrates the goal of exegesis in the service of both academy and church. He explores a wide range of concerns for readers and interpreters of the New Testament.
Author: James J. Kruger
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1329898419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe city is in ruin and who can save them? People are running for their lives, can anyone help them?
Author: Aaron Perzanowski
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-03-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0262535246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation—as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property. Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But, most important, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.
Author: Moises Naim
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0465065686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond. br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor MoiséNaíilluminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naíexplains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world. "The End of Power will . . . change the way you look at the world." -- Bill Clinton "Extraordinary." -- George Soros "Compelling and original." -- Arianna Huffington "A fascinating new perspective . . . Naímakes eye-opening connections." -- Francis Fukuyama
Author: Mike Goldsmith
Publisher: Egmont UK Limited
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405268301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when your poo leaves you? Follow food as it goes through the body and out the other end in this entertaining and educational book. Complete with over 50 flaps to flip, uncovering even more fun facts! Where does your food go after you swallow it? Why is poo brown? What is pee made of? And what happens to poo after it is flushed down the toilet? The answers to these questions and more await readers in this illuminating book, geared towards curious youngsters fascinated with poo. "In One End and Out the Other" not only covers digestion, but also describes other types of waste, as well as what happens at waste treatment facilities.
Author: James Geary
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 039325495X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal). In “this inventive and playful book” (Tom Beer, Newsday), James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Adopting a different style for each chapter—from dramatic dialogue to sermon, heroic couplets to a barroom monologue—Geary embodies wit in all its forms. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktale, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, demonstrating that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
Author: Andrew Root
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1493420178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.
Author: Celeste Ng
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0143127551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
