The world's biggest doers;: The story of the Lions
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The Story Of The Development And Growth Of The Lions Clubs Into The World's Largest Service Organization. Read more...
In The Arena: Geoff Metcalf interviews with doers of deeds
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Read more...
About Grace: A Novel
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When Anthony Doerr's "The Shell Collector" was published in 2002, the "Los Angeles Times" called his stories "as close to faultless as any writer -- young or vastly experienced -- could wish for." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Discover Prize, Princeton's Hodder Fellowship, and two O. Henrys, and shared the Young Lions Award. Now he has written one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling first novels of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen -- a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.
On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.
Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. "About Grace" is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
Kim Scipes's AFL-CIO's Secret War
(1999), A study of the nation's labor boss-friendly, radical-hating bureaucracy. Scipes has also been studying the phenomenon for decades, asking the painfully obvious question: why have labor leaders been so eager to do the dirty work of intelligence agencies in supposed "democracy" and "solidarity" that, at close glance, are usually quite the opposite? And more recently, the crucial follow-up question: have these policies changed significantly since a palace revolution in the AFL-CIO pushed the worst of the creatures aside in 1996? We scholars and others have also, it is important to say, been following the lead of critics within labor, especially Harry Kelber and Fred Hirsch, often defeated but never daunted in their efforts at real labor solidarity.
Mergers & Acquisitions: An Insider's Guide to the Purchase and ...
The vast majority of M&A activity is in the Middle Market, where enterprises are highly idiosyncratic. So, any author who hopes to illuminate this topic in any meaningful way faces several challenges. Dennis Roberts overcomes them all to produce a volume that owners of enterprises will find as useful and accessible as his professional peers.
The first challenge is credibility. Mr. Roberts is no unsullied academic, and he proves as much through his choice of real-world examples that every business owner will identify with. Another winner – for me, at least – is his use of the first person. Mr. Roberts makes more observations than declarations. Those observations are as instructive as his conclusions.
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