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Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Gabor Ernster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Jousting with Windmills written by Peter Gabor Ernster and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Jousting with Windmills" (volume two of a trilogy) Peter Ernster charges full tilt into his intrepid legal and business career-his steed, confidence, his armor, a good brain. His career commences in the mid '60s "humping" freight cars in a New Jersey switching yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad while studying law (and later working on that railroad's bankruptcy!). After clerking for a federal judge in NYC and several years at a major NYC law firm, he becomes an international lawyer and later the international trouble shooter for a top U.S. multinational company, negotiating diverse, often tense international business deals (in three languages) in the cities of Europe and the Developing World. Dead honest, full of self-analysis and a fair amount of mea culpa, the memoir never flags. Along the way Ernster as a law clerk tactfully explains the antics in a porn film to a strait-laced judge preparing for an obscenity trial, learns about the business of chicken sexing in Belgium, and combats post-colonial economic nationalism, indigenous opportunism, byzantine governmental regulations and corruption. Always willing and curious, he gains knowledge from a Nigerian street peddler, a "tribal" mystic, a maharajah, the mayor of Bombay, a self-made Turkish industrialist, Chinese officials, among the many intriguing characters he encounters. Traveling the globe has its downsides. He misses his wife and sons, dines solo hundreds of evenings in foreign cities and mainly works alone. The work is difficult, and his efforts sometimes seem Quixotic and come to naught. Daunted but not defeated, when he breaks a lance, he picks up another and rides on. He also faces challenges within the company and to his integrity, unwilling to go along to get along. Throughout, Ernster's recall of his many adventures, capturing both place and time, is fascinating.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103780
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mark Colenutt
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781479241811
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Jousting with Windmills written by Mark Colenutt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent account... This was a book that I couldn't wait to finish but also wished it didn't have to end. Tom Meeks on Goodreads Ever wondered why it is that international opinion is so strongly in favour of the Mediterranean approach to life? Why is it that the countries of the Northern Hemisphere are possessed by an unreasoning passion for the Latin race as if they retained some basic ingredient that we have long been missing? Mark, curious to find some answers, decided to take root in the Spanish capital Madrid and go native with three other unfamiliar post-grads briefly riding the TEFL bandwagon. Come the end, a part of them had become irrevocably Spanish. They discovered a country where Franco has been 'forgotten' not forgiven, a land famous for music but has no lyrics to their national anthem and where running red lights and double parking are the norm. A country where macho men kiss their male friends 'hello' and people go out to dine at ten. Where nobody speaks Spanish but 'Castilian' and where everyone still greets strangers at the bus-stop. What they hadn't reckoned on was the extent to which their 'year abroad' would change their lives. As the Spanish speaking world learns our language we in turn take on their customs: greeting friends by kissing them, throwing flowers onto passing hearses, the siesta, Mediterranean cuisine, the benefits of olive oil, bands playing among the crowds at football matches and learning to express rather than repress ourselves. If you want to discover what the Spanish get up to behind closed doors far from the costas in the cultural heart of this extraordinary land then you only have to get on a plane and go and live there. Alternatively, you can save yourself the fare of a low-cost flight and start your armchair odyssey here.
Author : Dan McLaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960212415
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Neon Windmills Or Surely You Joust written by Dan McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Lambert
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059534741X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Million Dollar Detective written by T. Lambert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They resisted love, but love insisted. He muttered to himself, not really intending for her to hear, "I could possibly fall in love with you." With an amused twinkle in her eye, she replied, "You silly man, you already have." He is a wealthy detective with a black belt. She is a brilliant executive with a law degree. "How do you feel about me, Meredith?" "You're the great detective," she said. "What do you deduce?" In a cynical age, he embraces the role of hero, a chivalrous knight for modern times. She is his lady fair, his partner, adviser, and sometimes his rescuer. Bart rested his chin lightly on the top of her head and smiled. "I deduce," he whispered, "That I am a lucky, lucky man." In the days preceding the 9/11 attacks, they restore each other's faith in love, and dedicate themselves to fighting evil. They embark on a romantic adventure, chasing a murderer from Michigan to Venezuela while dodging suspicious police officers, FBI agents, and Venezuelan mobsters. During their return, their plane is diverted, and we get to hear the deductions of professionals as the biggest crime in recent history unfolds.
Author : Julie L. Mell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137397780
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender written by Julie L. Mell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political antisemitism. This book also documents why it is a myth for medieval Europe, and illuminates how changes in Jewish history change our understanding of European history. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of central topics, such as the usury debate, commercial contracts, and moral literature on money and value to demonstrate how the revision of Jewish history leads to new insights in European history.
Author : William C. Banks
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526563
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book New Battlefields/Old Laws written by William C. Banks and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally-recognized authority on constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism, William C. Banks believes changing patterns of global conflict are forcing a reexamination of the traditional laws of war. The Hague Rules, the customary laws of war, and the post-1949 law of armed conflict no longer account for nonstate groups waging prolonged campaigns of terrorism—or even more conventional insurgent attacks. Recognizing that many of today's conflicts are low-intensity, asymmetrical wars fought between disparate military forces, Banks's collection analyzes nonstate armed groups and irregular forces (such as terrorist and insurgent groups, paramilitaries, child soldiers, civilians participating in hostilities, and private military firms) and their challenge to international humanitarian law. Both he and his contributors believe gaps in the laws of war leave modern battlefields largely unregulated, and they fear state parties suffer without guidelines for responding to terrorists and their asymmetrical tactics, such as the targeting of civilians. These gaps also embolden weaker, nonstate combatants to exploit forbidden strategies and violate the laws of war. Attuned to the contested nature of post-9/11 security and policy, this collection juxtaposes diverse perspectives on existing laws and their application in contemporary conflict. It sets forth a legal definition of new wars, describes the status of new actors, charts the evolution of the twenty-first-century battlefield, and balances humanitarian priorities with military necessity. While the contributors contest each other, they ultimately reestablish the legitimacy of a long-standing legal corpus, and they rehumanize an environment in which the most vulnerable targets, civilian populations, are themselves becoming weapons against conventional power.
Author : Kent Keith
Publisher : Terrace Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Silent Revolution written by Kent Keith and published by Terrace Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Silent Majority: The Problem of Apathy and the Student Council is a 2004 reprint of the original classic that was shared at student council workshops in 1969 and published in 1971 by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Kent Keith was 20, a junior at Harvard, when he wrote the book as a companion to his first book, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council. Keith says: "The Silent Majority is written for high school student council leaders who want to give the student council its noblest meaning and purpose: people helping people." Keith argues that no one is completely apathetic-- everyone is interested in something. It's up to student leaders to find out what their fellow students are interested in, and then offer activities that respond to those interests. In the process, student leaders will learn more about themselves, and discover the richness of life that is available to those who become "people people.”
Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873516990
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Spirit Car written by Diane Wilson and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother's hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family's powerful Native American past.
Author : Joad Raymond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199282340
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Invention of the Newspaper written by Joad Raymond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
Author : Peta Motture
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444396765
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Re-thinking Renaissance Objects written by Peta Motture and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture. Puts forward original research, including evidence provided by an in-depth study arising from the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery project Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety of approaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of the objects themselves New theories emerge from several papers, some of which challenge current thinking
Author : Mickey S. Eisenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195101790
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Life in the Balance written by Mickey S. Eisenberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This medical detective story traces the ongoing quest to reverse sudden death, looking at such breakthroughs in our understanding as respiration, circulation and defibrillation. It includes a guide to emergency CPR
Author : Manuel Duran
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134967
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Fighting Windmills written by Manuel Duran and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cervantes’ Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In Fighting Windmills Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully written excursion into Cervantes’ great novel and trace its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? Durán and Rogg explore the details of Cervantes’ life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. The authors then provide an insightful, panoramic view of Cervantes’ powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges.
Author : Joe Eszterhas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307530876
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Animal written by Joe Eszterhas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. But here, in his candid and heartwrenching memoir, we see the rest of the story: the inspiring account of the child of Hungarian immigrants who, against all odds, grows up to live the American Dream. Hollywood Animal reveals the trajectory of Eszterhas's life in gripping detail, from his childhood in a refugee camp, to his battle with a devastating cancer. It shows how a struggling journalist became the most successful screenwriter of all time, and how a man who had access to the most beautiful women in Hollywood ultimately chose to live with the love of his life in a small town in Ohio. Above all, it is the story of a father and a son, and the turbulent relationship that was an unending cycle of heartbreak. Hollywood Animal is an enthralling, provocative memoir: a moving celebration of the human spirit.
Author : Clayton Gingerich
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1591600022
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Effective Education written by Clayton Gingerich and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lane Metcalf
Publisher : Lane Metcalf
ISBN 13 : 1964516234
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Broken Scrimshaw written by Lane Metcalf and published by Lane Metcalf. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by memories stirred by a broken piece of scrimshaw, Lanny searches for the woman he loves and for their son whom he has never seen. Past events leave his faith in God tattered and bruised. Brought to America as a thirteen-year-old indentured servant but raised as an adopted son by his master, he looks forward to a good life in his new country. His dreams are dashed when tragedies separate him from loved ones and take his adopted family. Evil men kill his plans for his future. His life becomes a search for survivors of those tragedies, and especially for the girl who had given him half of a sailor's broken scrimshaw when they were children. Years of failures and disappointments strain his faith in God and in himself. He fears he will be without family forever, and worse, that he will never reconcile with God. After a severe injury, he finds himself in the care of a newspaper woman and her Cherokee friend. Sensing a news-worthy story, the two women persist in querying him about his past. They, and he, find more than anyone ever expected. Lane Metcalf is the author of three novels. An avid sailor, he often incorporates the thrills and dangers of sailing on the high seas in his stories. His characters grip us as they live out or conflict with Christian principles in his fictional settings.
