Light the Fires
Light the Fires

Author: Nate Crandall

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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Ethan's life couldn't possibly get any worse. His mom's job isn't enough to pay the rent, let alone anything that could make life more bearable. And to make it worse, now she's decided to move them both in with her brother-some boring guy who has nothing better to do than make Ethan's life miserable. Uncle Garrett seems to be everywhere. Everyone knows him, everyone adores him, and it's driving Ethan crazy. But when Ethan gets himself into trouble, those irritating things about Uncle Garrett start to make more sense. As Ethan learns to navigate his way through high school, he has to decide if he's going to continue to do what he wants, or if he's going to let his uncle change his life for the better.

Turbulence
Turbulence

Author: David Szalay

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1982122749

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*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* A “masterful” (The Washington Post), “cathartic” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world—from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of All That Man Is. In this “compelling” (The Christian Science Monitor), “crisp and clever” (Vanity Fair) novel, Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the planet in twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience the full range of human emotions from loneliness to love and, knowingly or otherwise, change each other in one brief, electrifying interaction after the next. Written with magic and economy, “Szalay explores the miraculous ability of our shared humanity to lift us from loneliness” (Esquire) and delivers a dazzling portrait of the interconnectedness of the modern world.

Triumph Over Turbulence
Triumph Over Turbulence

Author: Jim Magoffin

Publisher: Jim Magoffin

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780963780607

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An indomitable young couple meets Alaska's challenge and achieves the American dream. -- True and exciting rags-to-riches aviation success story. -- Documentation of historical events in Alaska. -- Follows the Magoffins through long, terrible, cliffhanger years filled with trouble, turmoil and near-failure. A factual account of a lifetime of flying, from starting an airline in Alaska with a one-passenger aircraft, to developing it into a worldwide carrier and a domestic passenger jet airline. Follows the fortunes of two vibrant people, husband and wire team Jim and Dot Magoffin, in situations ranging from a desolate log cabin with outside temperatures at -70degree, all the way to their great success in aviation. "An entertaining and informative saga of one of the last great Alaskan aviation pioneering efforts". -- Ted Spencer, Executive Director Alaskan Aviation Heritage Museum "Above all, this remarkable story is a testament to the human spirit. It demonstrates once again how hard work and determination on the part of just a few can make life richer and better for us all". -- Cliff Cernick, Public Relations Officer, Retired Federal Aviation Administration

Major League Turbulence
Major League Turbulence

Author: Douglas M. Branson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1476640661

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The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.

Turbulence
Turbulence

Author: Annette Herfkens

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1682450422

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The author discusses her eight day trek through the Vietnamese jungle after surviving a plane crash and how the lessons learned during that experience prepared her to be a mother to her autistic son.

We Meet Again: Poems on Truth, Turbulence & Triumph
We Meet Again: Poems on Truth, Turbulence & Triumph

Author: Savita Nair

Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9354580580

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If you are drawn towards heady emotions, endless conversations, the highs and lows of everyday life and the deliberations of love, then WE MEET AGAIN by Savita Nair is for you. It is a cornucopia of feelings, a kaleidoscope of reflections and a melange of opinions. It is the author's very soul and heart, mirrored in words. And she aims to share this with her poetic renditions - sometimes gentle, sometimes brutal. Read it at leisure, while sipping a glass of wine or coffee - and mull over each line. Let the words romance you, unhurried. The pleasure of a poem is in your own interpretation, so draw yours, fearlessly. Take care…till We Meet Again.

A Turbulent Time
A Turbulent Time

Author: David Barry Gaspar

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1997-03-22

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780253332479

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"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." —Choice "[An] eminently original and intellectually exciting book." —William and Mary Quarterly This volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.

Turbulence
Turbulence

Author: Peter Davidson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 0198722591

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This is an advanced textbook on the subject of turbulence, and is suitable for engineers, physical scientists and applied mathematicians. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the elementary accounts of turbulence found in undergraduate texts, and the more rigorous monographs on the subject. Throughout, the book combines the maximum of physical insight with the minimum of mathematical detail. Chapters 1 to 5 may be appropriate as background material for an advanced undergraduate or introductory postgraduate course on turbulence, while chapters 6 to 10 may be suitable as background material for an advanced postgraduate course on turbulence, or act as a reference source for professional researchers. This second edition covers a decade of advancement in the field, streamlining the original content while updating the sections where the subject has moved on. The expanded content includes large-scale dynamics, stratified & rotating turbulence, the increased power of direct numerical simulation, two-dimensional turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, and turbulence in the core of the Earth

The Business of Projects
The Business of Projects

Author: Andrew Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781139447843

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The Business of Projects broke ground when it was first published in 2005, by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organisations become more dynamic and adaptable. The book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and production of high-value complex products and systems (CoPS), which have always been project-based. As well as frameworks and management tools, it provides case studies of high-technology industries - such as telecommunications, flight simulation and medical devices - to show how projects are used to achieve strategic objectives, perform systems integration, organise productive activities, manage software, achieve organisational learning and deliver solutions for customers. This book is essential reading for project professionals, academics, students, engineers, managers and policy makers seeking a strategic, innovative perspective on projects.