The Hot Spot

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN 13 : 9049983715
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Spot written by Charles Williams and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Madox, a dull town, a beautiful woman, and an easy bank heist spell doom In a town so small that Main Street is only three blocks long, there isn’t a lot to do—other than work, ogle women, and think about fast ways to get rich. After a year of aimless wandering, Madox has landed here, nearly broke and with no prospects but a dead-end job selling cars to yokels. Until one afternoon a fire at the burger joint draws the attention of everyone in town—including the men who are supposed to be guarding the bank. It’s almost too good to be true, but there it is—$15,000 lying around, watched by no one. Now all Madox needs is a little nerve and a second distraction. And while one woman will give him the nerve, another will make him ready to kill.

Author : Lynda Gratton
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609943554
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Spots written by Lynda Gratton and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You always know when you are in a Hot Spot. You feel energized and vibrantly alive. Your brain is buzzing with ideas, and the people around you share your joy and excitement. Things you've always known become clearer, adding value becomes more possible. Ideas and insights from others miraculously combine with your own to create new thinking and innovation. When Hot Spots arise in and between companies, they provide energy for exploiting and applying knowledge that is already known and genuinely exploring what was previously unknown. Hot Spots are marvelous creators of value for organizations and wonderful, life-enhancing phenomena for each of us. Lynda Gratton has spent more than ten years investigating Hot Spots--discovering how they emerge and how organizations can create environments where they will proliferate and thrive. She has studied dozens of companies and talked to hundreds of employees, managers, and executives in the US, Europe, and Asia. She has asked the important questions: Why and when do Hot Spots emerge? What is it about certain groups of people that support the emergence of Hot Spots? What role do leaders play? She's discovered a host of elements that together contribute to the emergence of Hot Spots--creating energy and excitement, and supporting and channeling that energy into productive outcomes. In this groundbreaking book, Gratton describes four crucial qualities that an organizational culture must have to support the emergence of Hot Spots, looks at what leaders can do to encourage them, and offers activities and tools you can use in your own company to increase the probability of them arising. In these days when traditional organizational boundaries are becoming barriers to progress, Gratton offers advice and guidance that you can use right now to increase the probability of Hot Spots emerging in your organization.

Author : Michael Craft
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466828625
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Spot written by Michael Craft and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his distinguished career as a journalist, Mark Manning has seen it all--riots, murder, political corruption, and every manifestation of the dark heart of the human species. But even his proven emotional resources will be stretched when the home he shares with his lover, architect Neil Waite, and his ward and nephew, Thad Quatrain, becomes the site of one of the most daunting, taxing, and potentially dangerous of all human rituals--a wedding. Roxanne Exner, best friend to both Mark and Neil, is having her nuptial ceremony at their house in the normally bucolic Dumont, Wisconsin, partly because Carl Creighton, her husband to be, is in the final weeks of his campaign for lieutenant governor of Illinois. For Roxanne, Dumont will afford some needed distance from the campaign, and for the city of Dumont, it will be the social event of the season. The wedding, despite everyone's fears, comes off with nary a hitch. The reception, however, takes a disastrous turn when a local matron, who happens to be a major donor to the campaign of Creighton's rival, is killed in what appears to be a freak electrical mishap. Authorities soon discover that the electrocution was no accident. Then another shocker--Roxanne herself becomes the prime suspect. If Roxanne is ever to enjoy her honeymoon, and if Carl and his running mate are to stand a chance of election, Mark finds himself in a race against the clock to solve a most perplexing murder.

Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307817652
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. Now a mini-series drama starring Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, James D'Arcy, and Noah Emmerich on National Geographic. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.

Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552143035
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and power of the Black Death. Imagine something so deadly that it wipes out 90% of those it touches. Imagine an organism against which there is no defence. But you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists: it is a virus and its name is Ebola. The Hot Zone tells what happens when the unthinkable becomes reality: when a deadly virus, from the rain forests of Africa, crosses continents and infects a monkey house ten miles from the White House. Ebola is that reality. It has the power to decimate the world's population. Try not to panic. It will be back. There is nothing you can do...

Author : R. Dale Guthrie
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Hot Spots written by R. Dale Guthrie and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Wildenberg
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682474693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Spot of Invention written by Thomas Wildenberg and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: Hot spot of innovation and invention -- A milestone in aviation history -- The formative years -- Back to MIT -- Aircraft instruments and the beginnings of the Instrumentation Lab -- From turn indicator to gunsight -- War work -- Directors and gun fire-control systems -- The A1-C(M) gunsight -- The "immaculate interception" and other air-defense activities -- Inertial navigation -- Floated gyros and SPIRE -- SINS : the submarine inertial navigation system -- Professor, prodigious worker, family man -- Inertial guidance for Atlas and Thor -- Titan, FLIMBAL, AIRS, and the MX/Peacekeeper -- Polaris -- Poseidon and trident -- Spy satellites and space planes -- To the moon and beyond -- The road to divestiture -- A heterogeneous engineer

Author : Katherine Stannett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780230533714
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hotspot Level 1 written by Katherine Stannett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453266267
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Spot written by Charles Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small Texas town heats up as a drifter turns to crime in this “ingeniously plotted” tale of guilt, greed, and lust that inspired the Dennis Hopper film (The New York Times). In a town so small that Main Street is only three blocks long, there isn’t a lot to do—other than work, ogle women, and think about fast ways to get rich. After a year of aimless wandering, Madox has landed here, nearly broke and with no prospects but a dead-end job selling cars to yokels. Until one afternoon a fire at the burger joint draws the attention of everyone in town—including the men who are supposed to be guarding the bank. It’s almost too good to be true, but there it is—$15,000 lying around, watched by no one. Now all Madox needs is a little nerve and a second distraction. And while one woman will give him the nerve, another will make him ready to kill.

Author : Alex Braithwaite
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754679370
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict Hot Spots written by Alex Braithwaite and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study introduces the concept of a conflict hot spot to the broader empirical literature on conflict processes. It identifies common causes and consequences of conflict hot spots across many regions globally, offering a theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging literature on the spatiality of conflict processes.