Author: Russell Mullen Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0578004054 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 254
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Everybody wants to be a project hero, don't you? IT project heroes work long hours, attend endless meetings, do their own work along with everyone else's and sacrifice family, hobbies and any form of personal life for the sake of the project. Is this the heroism to which we aspire? Steve Caudill and Russell Mullen, veterans of both successful and failed IT projects over the past 20 years, share their insights into IT project failure. They provide simple and effective techniques to combat common non-technical issues. A Hero Behind Every Tree is packed with real-life stories of dismal failure and soaring success along with practical approaches to getting more success and less failure in your IT projects. If you are tired of investing good money after bad in IT projects that fall short of your expectations, don't buy another project management methodology, software quality tool or IT training program. Read this book.
Author: Jeremy Agnew Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476618143 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 245
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As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
Author: Frank Laumer Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 156164594X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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In December 1835, eight officers and one hundred men of the U.S. Army under the command of Brevet Major Francis Langhorne Dade set out from Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Florida, to march north a hundred miles to reinforce Fort King (present-day Ocala). On the sixth day, halfway to their destination, they were attacked by Seminole Indians. By four o'clock in the afternoon, only three wounded soldiers survived what came to be known as the Dade Massacre. Only two of those men managed to struggle fifty miles back to Fort Brooke. One of them—wounded in the shoulder and hip, a bullet in one lung—was Private Ransom Clark. It is the story of great duplicity, not on the part of Seminole Indians, but of the politicians and officers who sent the men of Dade's command to their death. The Dade Massacre was the pretext the U.S. government needed to begin the Second Seminole War, the longest and most expensive Indian war in American history. In 1839 Ransom Clark wrote a brief account of his ordeal, entitled The Surprising Adventures of Ransom Clark, Among the Indians in Florida. Although he promised to later supply an entire account, he didn't live long enough to do so, succumbing to his grave wounds. In Nobody's Hero, Frank Laumer completes Clark's story.
Author: Elias Sassoon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465324607 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Ira Nettleman was your ordinary garden variety schnook who had that certain combination of qualities you can only get by crossing Woody Allen with Danny Kaye, and then throwing them into a breeding pool with Lassie, the famous Collie dog. A schnook, definitely, that is, until the Central Intelligence Agency comes calling, and, then, well, that same schnook turns into a delightful butterfly, or, in this case, everyone's hero, a sometimes fumbling, sometimes babbling, sometimes irritating hero who trashes the villains of international terrorism. One after another, right and left, the bad guys fall before Ira's Jell-O-like stature, Qaddafi, Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, and hosts of others; they can never stand against him.
Author: Andrea Pickens Publisher: ePublishing Works! ISBN: 1614174172 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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Penniless and alone, Octavia Hadley accepted a governess position that took her to faraway Russia. Now she and her young charge are caught up in Napoleon’s invasion of Moscow. Fleeing for their lives, the pair embark on a perilous trek northward, and to Octavia's dismay, the only way to reach the safety of St. Petersburg is to join forces with a roguish Englishman and his young nephew. With the French army at her back and safety miles and miles ahead, the greatest danger just might be Alex Sheffield and the passion sparking between them. Awards: RWA RITA Finalist, 2002 REVIEWS: "...exciting adventure and an entertaining romance. A real page turner." ~The Romance Reader LESSONS IN LOVE, in series order The Defiant Governess Second Chances The Storybook Hero Also by Andrea Pickens... DANGEROUS LIAISONS SERIES, in order A Diamond in the Rough Sweeter Than Sin Devil May Care INTREPID HEROINES SERIES, in order Code of Honor The Hired Hero A Stroke of Luck Pistols at Dawn SCANDALOUS SECRETS SERIES, in order The Banished Bride Lady of Letters The Major's Mistake
Author: Steven E. Weick Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1638672016 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 194
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I’m No Hero: Story of a WWII Soldier By: Steven E. Weick Growing up, Steven E. Weick heard very short snippets of his father’s time in World War II. But like many veterans, his father never talked much about his harrowing experiences. After graduating high school and joining the Air Force, Weick’s father decided it was time to share with his son more in-depth the journey, small joys, and traumatizing moments from his time in the trenches of WWII. After his father’s passing in 2012, Weick dove into more research about his father’s unit and scoured through thousands of morning reports, battle narratives, causality reports, after-action reports, and company rosters, resulting in I’m No Hero: Story of a WWII Soldier, a retelling of his father’s experiences in WWII along with historical records to show the everyday life of one solider fighting in one of bloodiest wars in our nation’s, and the world’s, history.
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