Sharps

Author : K. J. Parker
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316194107
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharps written by K. J. Parker and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K.J. Parker's new stand-alone novel is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception. For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things: resources, land, money. . . Now, there is a chance for peace. Diplomatic talks have begun and with them, the games. Two teams of fencers represent their nations at this pivotal moment. When the future of the world lies balanced on the point of a rapier, one misstep could mean ruin for all. Human nature being what it is, does peace really have a chance?

Author : Frank M. Sellers
Publisher : Sellers Frank
ISBN 13 : 9780960812202
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharps Firearms written by Frank M. Sellers and published by Sellers Frank. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Dean
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165710
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharp written by Michelle Dean and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review). In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing despite the extreme condescension of the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.

Author : Artemis Joukowsky
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071838
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defying the Nazis written by Artemis Joukowsky and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film. For readers captivated by the story of Antonina Zabinski as told in The Zookeeper's Wife and other stories of rescue missions during WWII, Defying the Nazis is an essential read. In 1939, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Seventeen ministers had been asked to undertake this mission and had declined; Rev. Sharp was the first to accept the call for volunteers in Europe. Armed with only $40,000, Waitstill and Martha quickly learned the art of spy craft and undertook dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France. A fascinating portrait of resistance as told through the story of one courageous couple, Defying the Nazis offers a rare glimpse at high-stakes international relief efforts during WWII and tells the remarkable true story of a couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to risk their lives to save countless others.

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136685642
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Card Sharps and Bucket Shops written by Ann Fabian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.

Author : Matthew Joseph Sharps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932777895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Processing Under Pressure written by Matthew Joseph Sharps and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW!! Get an understandable, practical look at the pressurized world of law enforcement and the impact of stress on mental and physical performance. *Discover the complexities of decision-making in high risk situations and prepare to improve your own decision power. *Explore how the nervous system functions under the kind of stress faced on the streets. *Analyze the impact of stress on the memories of witnesses, victims and police officers. *Filled with actual, real-world examples of how mental processes actually come into play in the field. Eye opening and Career Changing!!

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selecting, Evaluating, and Using Sharps Disposal Containers written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Buchdahl
Publisher : High Stakes
ISBN 13 : 9780857304841
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squares and Sharps, Suckers and Sharks written by Joseph Buchdahl and published by High Stakes. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have been gambling, in one form or another, for as long as history itself. Why? Money, entertainment, escape and a desire to win are all traditional explanations. Arguably, however, these are secondary considerations to a higher order purpose: a craving for control. Gambling offers a means of gaining authority over the unknown, granting us a sense of control over uncertainty. Almost always that sense is illusory - gambling, including betting and investing, is essentially random - yet for many it is nonetheless profoundly rewarding. This book attempts to explore the reasons why. Along the way, it examines: The science of probability and uncertainty Why gambling is often condemned The difference between expectation and utility The irrationality of human beings Evolutionary perspectives on gambling Luck and skill Market efficiency and the wisdom of crowds Why winners take all Cheating Why the process matters more than the outcome

Author : F. L. Cutler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scale with Sharps and Flats written by F. L. Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Sharperson, Jr.
Publisher : Sharperson's Executive Leadership
ISBN 13 : 9780999202364
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharp Leadership written by Carl Sharperson, Jr. and published by Sharperson's Executive Leadership. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Sharperson, Jr. takes readers on a journey of how to transition life experiences, good or bad, into leadership opportunities. He shares with transparency how racism, cancer, the United States Naval Academy, The Marine Corps, hiring and firing shaped him into the entrepreneur he is now. From his stories, you will receive a blueprint for how you, too, can transform¿ ¿your trials to triumph by leading your team, your family, or your business to the next level. Sharp Leadership is for those who: Have been counted out Faced seemingly insurmountable obstaclesFelt stuck in their circumstancesAre unclear about how to navigate corporate AmericaAre trying to build cohesive military or sports teamsSharp Leadership inspires and offers strategies on how to: Lead from an authentic placeOvercome adversity with sanity Form a tribe of supportersMake every circumstance a learning opportunity