To Double Business Bound

Author : René Girard
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801836558
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Double Business Bound written by René Girard and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Girard fuses literary, psychological, and anthropological texts in order to view the activity of mimesis. This includes the phenomena of scapegoating, victimage, and sacrifice. They, in turn, serve as starting points for a breathtakingly daring and encompassing theory of the origins of human culture. In an era of interdisciplinary studies, this volume stands alone."--"Choice."

Author : Michael Useem
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 1400051967
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upward Bound written by Michael Useem and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your team has faltered at a critical moment. A key member says he can’t continue, requiring you to make a snap decision: Do you write him off? Or do you risk the whole venture by trying to get him back on his feet? It could be a scenario straight from the business world. Yet this one occurred high on the slopes of the world’s deadliest mountain, K2, where lives, not just livelihoods, depended on the leader’s choice. Decisions don’t get much starker. That’s why mountains—though seemingly a world apart from business—hold unique and surprising insights for managers and entrepreneurs at any altitude. More than just symbols of our upward strivings, they are high-altitude management laboratories: testing grounds where risk, fear, opportunity, and ambition collide in the most unforgiving of settings. Upward Bound brings together a remarkable team of nine writers equally at home among the high peaks and in the corridors of corporate power, including Good to Great author Jim Collins, legendary climber and outdoor clothing entrepreneur Royal Robbins, and Stacy Allison, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest. Their riveting, often harrowing accounts, reveal • Why rock climbers’ distinction between failure (giving up before reaching the edge of your abilities) and what they call “fallure” (committing 100 percent and using up all your energy and reserves) can help companies transcend their vertical limits • What happens when a leader abdicates responsibility in the Death Zone of Mount Everest—and how a similar vacuum at sea level can corrupt corporate purpose • How large climbing expeditions use exquisite organization and “pyramids of people” to place just two climbers on top, making heroes of some from the sacrifice of all • What “ridge-walking” between deadly avalanches and the lure of Mount McKinley’s summit taught a venture capitalist about nurturing risky high-tech start-ups • How a simple insight—using “proximate goals”—propelled a faltering climber up El Capitan in a seemingly undoable solo ascent, a ten-day lesson that would later jump-start a business • Why more accessible peaks like Mount Sinai can exert a pull every bit as powerful as Mount Everest • How to think like a guide While most people will never find themselves in the thin air of the world’s highest places, Upward Bound brings those places down to earth for anyone seeking the path to his or her own summit. Whether it’s up the career ladder or toward a creative peak, Upward Bound addresses the fundamental question of why we climb, while capturing the power of mountains to instruct as well as inspire.

Author : Sean Manning
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030681921X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound to Last written by Sean Manning and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin

Author : Marilyn Ross
Publisher : Kaplan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781574100693
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Bound! written by Marilyn Ross and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information and resources for remaking one's life in a rural setting.

Author : Saul J. Adelman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130803825
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound for the Stars written by Saul J. Adelman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Crunk
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139538
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Covenant Bound written by Tony Crunk and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help." Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the 1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Western Kentucky area that now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to some 20,000 people, their houses, farms, townships and ancestral history. Residents were subjected to three waves of forced relocation to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley in the 1950s, and Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area in the 1960s. Renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family experienced in this often overlooked episode in Kentucky history. The voices of a grandmother and grandson speak to each other over time, evoking the relentless advance of irrevocable forces that changed the land, forever.

Author : Susan Rebecca White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416560637
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound South written by Susan Rebecca White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and A Place at the Table comes a tale of three vibrant and unique Southern women—Louise, Caroline, and Missy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways. From the outside, Louise Parker seems like a proper Southern matron. But inside, Louise seethes. She’s thwarted by her seemingly perfect husband, frustrated with her talented but rebellious daughter, scarred by her philandering father, and exasperated by her unstable mother. Louise simply doesn’t know how to stop playing the role she’s been starring in for her entire life. A gifted actress, Louise’s daughter Caroline can make any character seem real when she takes the stage. But Caroline is lost when it comes to relationships, especially when dealing with her mother. When Caroline’s young, handsome drama teacher seduces her, she can’t resist. But her forbidden affair will lead Caroline to a different kind of stage, with a new audience. Missy loves Jesus nearly as much as she misses her father, a part-time minister who deserted his family when Missy was three. She accompanies her mother to work as a maid at the Parker residence, for two reasons: to help her mother to clean the house and to save the Parkers’ irreverent son Charles. By turns hilarious and poignant, this is a richly compelling debut novel of family, friendship, and folly.

Author : Sterling D. Evans
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1622880013
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound in Twine written by Sterling D. Evans and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and the twine required for the machine’s operation. Implement manufacturers discovered that the best binder twine was made from henequen and sisal—spiny, fibrous plants native to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The double dependency that subsequently developed between Mexico and the Great Plains of the United States and Canada affected the agriculture, ecology, and economy of all three nations in ways that have historically been little understood. These interlocking dependencies—identified by author Sterling Evans as the “henequen-wheat complex”—initiated or furthered major ecological, social, and political changes in each of these agricultural regions. Drawing on extensive archival work as well as the existing secondary literature, Evans has woven an intricate story that will change our understanding of the complex, transnational history of the North American continent.

Author : Erica Ekrem
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1454710837
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound written by Erica Ekrem and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how beautiful and functional a handbound book can be with this “fresh look at an old art” featuring 20 creative and approachable projects (Library Journal, starred review). In Bound, graphic designer and professional bookbinder Erika Ekrem explains everything you need to know to create your own beautifully handcrafted books. With her whimsical and stylish approach to traditional techniques, and the use of upcycled and repurposed materials, Ekrem has devised creative fun for book artists of all levels. Dividing projects into three categories—Vintage, Nature, and Leather—she takes you step-by-step through the process of making books from mason jars and seashells; a classic leather-bound photo album; and other works of art.

Author : Nick Nolan
Publisher : Amazon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780982555026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Bound written by Nick Nolan and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to Brazil to check on Jeremy's Aunt Katharine's investment in an island resort, Jeremy, Carlo, and their bodyguard, Arthur, run into trouble.