Author: Diane Lindsey Reeves
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438128533
Category : Job descriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Some people get scared for a living. Scary is blasting off in a spaceship bound for out-of-this-world destinations. Scary is flying into the eye of a hurricane, crossing your fingers, and hoping to come out safely on the other side. Scary is rolling out of a fiery car during a high-speed chase on the set of a movie. Yet these are things that some people do for a living, day in and day out.
Scary Jobs
Author: Diane Lindsey Reeves
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438128533
Category : Job descriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Some people get scared for a living. Scary is blasting off in a spaceship bound for out-of-this-world destinations. Scary is flying into the eye of a hurricane, crossing your fingers, and hoping to come out safely on the other side. Scary is rolling out of a fiery car during a high-speed chase on the set of a movie. Yet these are things that some people do for a living, day in and day out.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438128533
Category : Job descriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Some people get scared for a living. Scary is blasting off in a spaceship bound for out-of-this-world destinations. Scary is flying into the eye of a hurricane, crossing your fingers, and hoping to come out safely on the other side. Scary is rolling out of a fiery car during a high-speed chase on the set of a movie. Yet these are things that some people do for a living, day in and day out.
Scary Jobs
Author: Susan Blackaby
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 1571289062
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Meet workers who chase tornadoes, climb erupting volcanoes and cell-phone towers, and even dive into raw sewage! This high-interest nonfiction series includes reading experiences in five content areas: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, History/Social Studies, Technology, and Careers. It introduces grades 4-8 content-area vocabulary in a medium that struggling readers can master. Read-UP! with 3 levels of readability. Each level (set of 5 books) contains a book from the five content areas, so a student can keep reading in one content area if he or she prefers.
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 1571289062
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Meet workers who chase tornadoes, climb erupting volcanoes and cell-phone towers, and even dive into raw sewage! This high-interest nonfiction series includes reading experiences in five content areas: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, History/Social Studies, Technology, and Careers. It introduces grades 4-8 content-area vocabulary in a medium that struggling readers can master. Read-UP! with 3 levels of readability. Each level (set of 5 books) contains a book from the five content areas, so a student can keep reading in one content area if he or she prefers.
Dangerous Jobs
Author: Abigail Gehring
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626368945
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The success of A&E’s hit series “Deadliest Catch” and Discovery Channel’s new reality show, “The World’s Toughest Jobs” prove that Americans are fascinated with danger and the people who make it their livelihood. Here readers will find all the harrying details on dozens of the riskiest jobs on earth. Ever thought about becoming a bounty hunter? Wondered how much bullfighters make? Considered training lions or jumping out of helicopters into forest fires for some extra cash? Did you know truck drivers have steered themselves into one of the most dangerous jobs in America? Dangerous Jobs offers an entertaining and informational guide to employment for the truly adventurous soul.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626368945
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The success of A&E’s hit series “Deadliest Catch” and Discovery Channel’s new reality show, “The World’s Toughest Jobs” prove that Americans are fascinated with danger and the people who make it their livelihood. Here readers will find all the harrying details on dozens of the riskiest jobs on earth. Ever thought about becoming a bounty hunter? Wondered how much bullfighters make? Considered training lions or jumping out of helicopters into forest fires for some extra cash? Did you know truck drivers have steered themselves into one of the most dangerous jobs in America? Dangerous Jobs offers an entertaining and informational guide to employment for the truly adventurous soul.
Scary Smart
Author: Mo Gawdat
Publisher: Bluebird
ISBN: 9781529077650
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year. Scary Smart will teach you how to navigate the scary and inevitable intrusion of Artificial Intelligence, with an accessible blueprint for creating a harmonious future alongside AI. From Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] and bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predict outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong and cause harm? The answer is us: the human beings who write the code and teach AI to mimic our behaviour. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love, and the planet itself. 'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of the podcast Ctrl Alt Delete
Publisher: Bluebird
ISBN: 9781529077650
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year. Scary Smart will teach you how to navigate the scary and inevitable intrusion of Artificial Intelligence, with an accessible blueprint for creating a harmonious future alongside AI. From Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] and bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predict outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong and cause harm? The answer is us: the human beings who write the code and teach AI to mimic our behaviour. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love, and the planet itself. 'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of the podcast Ctrl Alt Delete
The New Geography of Jobs
Author: Enrico Moretti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547750110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547750110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Israeli Backpackers
Author: Chaim Noy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research—based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad—this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research—based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad—this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.
Dates, Dinners, and Other Disasters
Author: Kat Simons
Publisher: T&D Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Is one normal night out really too much to ask…? All Cary Redmond wants is to go on a date with her new leopard shifter boyfriend. Just one normal, ordinary date. Other people go on dates all the time. Cary and Deacon should be able to manage at least one. That shouldn’t be too much to ask, right? Wrong. Being a magical Protector complicates everything in Cary’s life, including her ability to have a life. Dating and getting to know her boyfriend’s family of powerful shifters is stressful enough. The last thing she needs is constant disruptions and disaster. Unfortunately, Cary’s life is always full of trouble. And when innocent people are in danger, Cary has to help. Stories in the collection: Cary and Deacon (Try to) Go on a Date Date Night Take Two Third Date’s the Charm Dinner with the Joneses Keywords: paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; cat shifter romance; leopard shifter romance; urban fantasy; urban fantasy series; paranormal fantasy; shapeshifter fantasy; contemporary fantasy; dark fantasy; urban fantasy short story series; magic and mayhem; vampires and shifters; witches and wizards; fairies and legends
Publisher: T&D Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Is one normal night out really too much to ask…? All Cary Redmond wants is to go on a date with her new leopard shifter boyfriend. Just one normal, ordinary date. Other people go on dates all the time. Cary and Deacon should be able to manage at least one. That shouldn’t be too much to ask, right? Wrong. Being a magical Protector complicates everything in Cary’s life, including her ability to have a life. Dating and getting to know her boyfriend’s family of powerful shifters is stressful enough. The last thing she needs is constant disruptions and disaster. Unfortunately, Cary’s life is always full of trouble. And when innocent people are in danger, Cary has to help. Stories in the collection: Cary and Deacon (Try to) Go on a Date Date Night Take Two Third Date’s the Charm Dinner with the Joneses Keywords: paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; cat shifter romance; leopard shifter romance; urban fantasy; urban fantasy series; paranormal fantasy; shapeshifter fantasy; contemporary fantasy; dark fantasy; urban fantasy short story series; magic and mayhem; vampires and shifters; witches and wizards; fairies and legends
Date Night Take Two
Author: Kat Simons
Publisher: T&D Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
If at first you don’t succeed… Cary Redmond’s first attempt at a real date with her leopard shifter mate definitely did not go according to plan. In fact, the date went so disastrously wrong, they decide to try again. Clean slate. Another movie. Another dinner reservation. Another interruption she can’t ignore. Wizard and vampire fights wait for no woman. And as Portland’s resident magical Protector, Cary has to answer the call of someone in danger. No matter the cost. Author’s Note: This story takes place between the end of The Trouble with Ghouls and Serial Killers (Book 2 in the Cary Redmond series) and The Trouble with Leopard Queens and Shifter Wars (Book 3 in the Cary Redmond series). There may be some spoilers for the main series, though this story is made to be a standalone. Keywords: Paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; cat shifter romance; urban fantasy; urban fantasy series; paranormal fantasy; shapeshifter fantasy; contemporary fantasy; dark fantasy; urban fantasy short story series; magic and mayhem; vampires and shifters; witches and wizards; fairies and legends
Publisher: T&D Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
If at first you don’t succeed… Cary Redmond’s first attempt at a real date with her leopard shifter mate definitely did not go according to plan. In fact, the date went so disastrously wrong, they decide to try again. Clean slate. Another movie. Another dinner reservation. Another interruption she can’t ignore. Wizard and vampire fights wait for no woman. And as Portland’s resident magical Protector, Cary has to answer the call of someone in danger. No matter the cost. Author’s Note: This story takes place between the end of The Trouble with Ghouls and Serial Killers (Book 2 in the Cary Redmond series) and The Trouble with Leopard Queens and Shifter Wars (Book 3 in the Cary Redmond series). There may be some spoilers for the main series, though this story is made to be a standalone. Keywords: Paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; cat shifter romance; urban fantasy; urban fantasy series; paranormal fantasy; shapeshifter fantasy; contemporary fantasy; dark fantasy; urban fantasy short story series; magic and mayhem; vampires and shifters; witches and wizards; fairies and legends
Birth of a Star
Author: L Loryn
Publisher: L Loryn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
When Ajax's beloved shelter burns down with his two best friends inside of it, it sets off a chain of reactions. Can Ajax and Orion figure out who's attacking them before everyone's gone?
Publisher: L Loryn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
When Ajax's beloved shelter burns down with his two best friends inside of it, it sets off a chain of reactions. Can Ajax and Orion figure out who's attacking them before everyone's gone?
A Sheriff's Star
Author: Makenna Lee
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488070210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A single mother from a family of lawmen wonders if she should risk her heart on a handsome police chief in this heartwarming second chance romance. When police chief Anson Curry returns a lost little girl to her frantic mother, his only goal is to ease the single mom’s anxiety. But it doesn’t take long for Tess Harper’s amazing child to have Anson wrapped around her little finger—and for Tess to have him thinking about a possible relationship. As for Tess, she’s tempted—even though she had planned to be in Oak Hollow, Texas, only temporarily. But after losing her father and brother in the line of duty, Tess thinks Anson’s job poses too much of a risk to her heart. And Anson has no plans to get involved with someone who’s planning on leaving. But the more time they spend together, the harder it is not to follow their hearts. . . .
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488070210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A single mother from a family of lawmen wonders if she should risk her heart on a handsome police chief in this heartwarming second chance romance. When police chief Anson Curry returns a lost little girl to her frantic mother, his only goal is to ease the single mom’s anxiety. But it doesn’t take long for Tess Harper’s amazing child to have Anson wrapped around her little finger—and for Tess to have him thinking about a possible relationship. As for Tess, she’s tempted—even though she had planned to be in Oak Hollow, Texas, only temporarily. But after losing her father and brother in the line of duty, Tess thinks Anson’s job poses too much of a risk to her heart. And Anson has no plans to get involved with someone who’s planning on leaving. But the more time they spend together, the harder it is not to follow their hearts. . . .