Author: Kathryn B. Hull Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1617771945 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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What would you do for buried treasure? Best friends Randy and Jennifer are confronted with that very question inPure Luck.It all began with the metal detector they received for their twelfth birthdays. The two old coins they find on the beach lead them on a fantastical treasure hunt ending in a treacherous cave at the edge of the ocean. They enlist the help of a trusted teacher to retrieve the chest they find there. Assailed by rising tides, a storm that floods the cave, and an injury leaving their trusted teacher with amnesia, the two best friends soon find themselves in a pickle trying to juggle all their secrets. It wasPure Luckthat they found the treasure chest, but now Jennifer and Randy are asking themselves was that good luck or bad?
Author: Paul Wattenberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780615455792 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 306
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AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY Told in his own voice, this is the story of a remarkable man who, despite the tragedy of his family's past, is by nature an eternal optimist. His is an American success story. It is also a story of love and remembrance, and, perhaps most importantly, a plea to future generations to "never forget."
Author: Michael J. Mauboussin Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422184234 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 312
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In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.
Author: Ed Smith Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408830604 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
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For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck.Tracing the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day - in religion, in banking, in politics - Ed Smith argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it ever has been. He challenges us to think again about privilege and opportunity, to re-examine the question of innate ability and of gifts and talents accidentally conferred at birth. Weaving in his personal stories - notably the chance meeting of a beautiful stranger who would become his wife on a train he seemed fated to miss - he puts to us the idea that in life, luck cannot be underestimated: without any means of explaining our differing lots in life, the world without luck is one in which you deserve every ill that befalls you, where envy dominates and averageness is the stifling ideal. Embracing luck leads us to a fresh reappraisal of the nature of success, opportunity and fairness.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author: David Jonathan Newman Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1469708094 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 178
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Humor, depression, anger, loss, and spiritual transcendence. David Jonathan Newman's first collection of poems, Pure Luck and Good Fury, artfully delves into the fragile state of the human condition. Provocative sentiment and satisfying imagery join forces to wage a war of words that is at once terrifyingly beautiful and painful. Pure Luck and Good Fury is a powerful first personal statement. The fire and grace of Newman's poems heralds a new era for contemporary American poetry.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
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