Author: Eliza Watson
Publisher: Elizabeth Watson
ISBN: 1950786161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
What do you do when a career in family history turns your life into a mystery?At last Caity Shaw is engaged to her Irish love, Declan. However, rather than planning their future together, she is stuck organizing other couples' weddings and special events at her uncle's English estate. Desperate to escape the manor's media frenzy due to the home's recent appearance on a popular TV show, Caity quits despite her sister Rachel's objection. To everyone's surprise, including her own, Caity hires her former coworker and archenemy as her replacement.Shortly after returning home to Declan in Ireland's tranquil countryside, Caity lands a job assisting a renown probate genealogist, a.k.a. heir hunter. Her first task is to deliver a family heirloom to a beneficiary in Scotland. What seems like a simple courier job soon has Caity involved in an intriguing family mystery. Caity's wedding plans are put on hold and her genealogy skills are put to the test when she must solve the mystery to save her and her boss's reputation.
If at First You Don't Succeed, Fly Again
Author: Eliza Watson
Publisher: Elizabeth Watson
ISBN: 1950786161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
What do you do when a career in family history turns your life into a mystery?At last Caity Shaw is engaged to her Irish love, Declan. However, rather than planning their future together, she is stuck organizing other couples' weddings and special events at her uncle's English estate. Desperate to escape the manor's media frenzy due to the home's recent appearance on a popular TV show, Caity quits despite her sister Rachel's objection. To everyone's surprise, including her own, Caity hires her former coworker and archenemy as her replacement.Shortly after returning home to Declan in Ireland's tranquil countryside, Caity lands a job assisting a renown probate genealogist, a.k.a. heir hunter. Her first task is to deliver a family heirloom to a beneficiary in Scotland. What seems like a simple courier job soon has Caity involved in an intriguing family mystery. Caity's wedding plans are put on hold and her genealogy skills are put to the test when she must solve the mystery to save her and her boss's reputation.
Publisher: Elizabeth Watson
ISBN: 1950786161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
What do you do when a career in family history turns your life into a mystery?At last Caity Shaw is engaged to her Irish love, Declan. However, rather than planning their future together, she is stuck organizing other couples' weddings and special events at her uncle's English estate. Desperate to escape the manor's media frenzy due to the home's recent appearance on a popular TV show, Caity quits despite her sister Rachel's objection. To everyone's surprise, including her own, Caity hires her former coworker and archenemy as her replacement.Shortly after returning home to Declan in Ireland's tranquil countryside, Caity lands a job assisting a renown probate genealogist, a.k.a. heir hunter. Her first task is to deliver a family heirloom to a beneficiary in Scotland. What seems like a simple courier job soon has Caity involved in an intriguing family mystery. Caity's wedding plans are put on hold and her genealogy skills are put to the test when she must solve the mystery to save her and her boss's reputation.
Fly, Fly Again
Author: Katie Jaffe
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626346356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Fly, Fly Again is a clever and charming story about Jenny, a child who dreams of flying. After years of tinkering in makeshift laboratories and studying the mechanics of flight with her pet Hawk, Jenny builds a plane—only to crash into the yard of her skateboarding neighbor, Jude, and his pet cheetah. Working with Jude, Jenny successfully learns how to control and fly her plane. This unique story includes lessons about problem solving, teamwork, and determination as well as family-friendly information about the basics of aeronautical engineering like lift, drift, and more!
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626346356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Fly, Fly Again is a clever and charming story about Jenny, a child who dreams of flying. After years of tinkering in makeshift laboratories and studying the mechanics of flight with her pet Hawk, Jenny builds a plane—only to crash into the yard of her skateboarding neighbor, Jude, and his pet cheetah. Working with Jude, Jenny successfully learns how to control and fly her plane. This unique story includes lessons about problem solving, teamwork, and determination as well as family-friendly information about the basics of aeronautical engineering like lift, drift, and more!
Air Travel
If at First You Don't Succeed...
Author: Brent Bowers
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385517610
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
At age nine, Cameron Johnson started an Internet company. Pete Amico quit his job on his first day because he didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss. Greg Herro built a successful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extracted from ashes. If any of these people remind you of yourself, you just might have the kind of personality to take the small business world by storm. In If at First You Don't Succeed..., Brent Bowers, the small-business editor for the New York Times reveals the eight patterns that highly successful entrepreneurs share – and what we can learn from them. Brent Bowers, in covering small business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds of start-ups. In If at First You Don’t Suceed…, he analyzes the common characteristics shared by dozens of successful small-business owners and their companies. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, as well as on the experiences and expertise of business consultants, venture capitalists, academics, and the entrepreneurs themselves, he describes the key traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common. Among them: • The ability to spot and seize opportunities • An overwhelming urge to be in charge coupled with a gift for leadership • The flexibility to come up with creative, out-of the-box solutions to problems or obstacles • Incredible energy and tenacity in the pursuit of their goals • Unwavering faith in their business • The ability to take smart risks • The ability to bounce back from setbacks and see failure as just one step on the path to ultimate success For anyone thinking about starting a business, or attempting a start-up a second or third time, this book offers invaluable lessons and insights.
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385517610
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
At age nine, Cameron Johnson started an Internet company. Pete Amico quit his job on his first day because he didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss. Greg Herro built a successful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extracted from ashes. If any of these people remind you of yourself, you just might have the kind of personality to take the small business world by storm. In If at First You Don't Succeed..., Brent Bowers, the small-business editor for the New York Times reveals the eight patterns that highly successful entrepreneurs share – and what we can learn from them. Brent Bowers, in covering small business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds of start-ups. In If at First You Don’t Suceed…, he analyzes the common characteristics shared by dozens of successful small-business owners and their companies. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, as well as on the experiences and expertise of business consultants, venture capitalists, academics, and the entrepreneurs themselves, he describes the key traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common. Among them: • The ability to spot and seize opportunities • An overwhelming urge to be in charge coupled with a gift for leadership • The flexibility to come up with creative, out-of the-box solutions to problems or obstacles • Incredible energy and tenacity in the pursuit of their goals • Unwavering faith in their business • The ability to take smart risks • The ability to bounce back from setbacks and see failure as just one step on the path to ultimate success For anyone thinking about starting a business, or attempting a start-up a second or third time, this book offers invaluable lessons and insights.
Riddle Riot
Author: Lori Miller Fox
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402708251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Riddle maniacs, beware: this riddle roundup is jam-packed with side-splitters. You'll go crazy over this collection and your friends will go even crazier, because there are new riddles, new fun, and new zaniness to provoke unstoppable giggles. The humorous subjects range from the totally bizarre to everyday hilarity, and they're silly, punny, and drive-you-nutty. For example: How do baby fish know how to swim? Finstinct. What prehistoric creature is shaped like a lemon? A dino-sour. In some cases, the joke's on teachers, parents, pets, TV shows, and sports heroes, while still more poke fun at birthdays, holidays, and other party times. The great cartoons make every spread even an more delightful romp for young riddlers.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402708251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Riddle maniacs, beware: this riddle roundup is jam-packed with side-splitters. You'll go crazy over this collection and your friends will go even crazier, because there are new riddles, new fun, and new zaniness to provoke unstoppable giggles. The humorous subjects range from the totally bizarre to everyday hilarity, and they're silly, punny, and drive-you-nutty. For example: How do baby fish know how to swim? Finstinct. What prehistoric creature is shaped like a lemon? A dino-sour. In some cases, the joke's on teachers, parents, pets, TV shows, and sports heroes, while still more poke fun at birthdays, holidays, and other party times. The great cartoons make every spread even an more delightful romp for young riddlers.
The Little Butterfly That Could (A Very Impatient Caterpillar Book)
Author: Ross Burach
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133876215X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
WHAT IF I CAN'T? “Will elicit plenty of giggles." -- Kirkus Reviews Which way to the flowers? That way. 200 miles. How am I supposed to travel that far?! You fly. Can I take a plane? No. Then I'll never make it! This comical companion to Ross Burach's The Very Impatient Caterpillar pays loving homage to every child's struggle to persist through challenges while also delivering a lighthearted lesson on butterfly migration. Remember, if at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133876215X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
WHAT IF I CAN'T? “Will elicit plenty of giggles." -- Kirkus Reviews Which way to the flowers? That way. 200 miles. How am I supposed to travel that far?! You fly. Can I take a plane? No. Then I'll never make it! This comical companion to Ross Burach's The Very Impatient Caterpillar pays loving homage to every child's struggle to persist through challenges while also delivering a lighthearted lesson on butterfly migration. Remember, if at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again!
Millard's Review of the Far East
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.
Decision Advantage
Author: Jennifer E. Sims
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197508065
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable and ultimately irrelevant because, at least in international politics and war, military muscle matters more than brains. In Decision Advantage, Jennifer E. Sims counters this argument by investigating the history of intelligence through centuries of international conflict, including the 16th Century's Spanish Armada, two US Civil War battles, the hunt for President Lincoln's assassin, and key diplomatic crises before the two World Wars. Sims dives deep into these events to show that the competitive pursuit of intelligence advantage has been a measurable, buildable, and consequential form of power that can help competitors win against otherwise stronger opponents. From these observations, the author develops a general guide to building intelligence readiness, whether for war, diplomacy, or international manhunts. Refuting arguments that intelligence is a sideshow because intentions are unknowable and predictions risky, she redefines success as gaining information advantages over an adversary, prescribes four practical pathways for gaining them, and confirms what seems to be simple common sense: smart competitors know how to learn, and the ones who learn best tend to win. Thinking of intelligence in this way, Sims argues, adds a moral character to an enterprise that is too often mired in excessive secrecy and tyrannical agendas. By "lifting the veil" on international politics, Decision Advantage shows how good intelligence can lessen the likelihood of wars of misperception and folly.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197508065
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable and ultimately irrelevant because, at least in international politics and war, military muscle matters more than brains. In Decision Advantage, Jennifer E. Sims counters this argument by investigating the history of intelligence through centuries of international conflict, including the 16th Century's Spanish Armada, two US Civil War battles, the hunt for President Lincoln's assassin, and key diplomatic crises before the two World Wars. Sims dives deep into these events to show that the competitive pursuit of intelligence advantage has been a measurable, buildable, and consequential form of power that can help competitors win against otherwise stronger opponents. From these observations, the author develops a general guide to building intelligence readiness, whether for war, diplomacy, or international manhunts. Refuting arguments that intelligence is a sideshow because intentions are unknowable and predictions risky, she redefines success as gaining information advantages over an adversary, prescribes four practical pathways for gaining them, and confirms what seems to be simple common sense: smart competitors know how to learn, and the ones who learn best tend to win. Thinking of intelligence in this way, Sims argues, adds a moral character to an enterprise that is too often mired in excessive secrecy and tyrannical agendas. By "lifting the veil" on international politics, Decision Advantage shows how good intelligence can lessen the likelihood of wars of misperception and folly.
The Triumph of the Dark
Author: Zara Steiner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161355X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Steiner underlines the far-reaching consequences of the Great Depression, which shifted the initiative in international affairs from those who upheld the status quo to those who were intent on destroying it. In Europe, the l930s were Hitler's years. He moved the major chess pieces on the board, forcing the others to respond. From the start, Steiner argues, he intended war, and he repeatedly gambled on Germany's future to acquire the necessary resources to fulfil his continental ambitions. Only war could have stopped him-an unwelcome message for most of Europe. Misperception, miscomprehension, and misjudgment on the part of the other Great Powers leaders opened the way for Hitler's repeated diplomatic successes. It is ideology that distinguished the Hitler era from previous struggles for the mastery of Europe. Ideological presumptions created false images and raised barriers to understanding that even good intelligence could not penetrate. Only when the leaders of Britain and France realized the scale of Hitler's ambition, and the challenge Germany posed to their Great Power status, did they finally declare war.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161355X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Steiner underlines the far-reaching consequences of the Great Depression, which shifted the initiative in international affairs from those who upheld the status quo to those who were intent on destroying it. In Europe, the l930s were Hitler's years. He moved the major chess pieces on the board, forcing the others to respond. From the start, Steiner argues, he intended war, and he repeatedly gambled on Germany's future to acquire the necessary resources to fulfil his continental ambitions. Only war could have stopped him-an unwelcome message for most of Europe. Misperception, miscomprehension, and misjudgment on the part of the other Great Powers leaders opened the way for Hitler's repeated diplomatic successes. It is ideology that distinguished the Hitler era from previous struggles for the mastery of Europe. Ideological presumptions created false images and raised barriers to understanding that even good intelligence could not penetrate. Only when the leaders of Britain and France realized the scale of Hitler's ambition, and the challenge Germany posed to their Great Power status, did they finally declare war.