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Download or read book The Baram Venture written by Lee Werrell and published by Lee Werrell. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When There Are Armies Gathered For Invasion, Hermits Foretelling Prophecies and Wizards Planning on Taking Over The World, Two Unlikely Heroes Emerge When Elves and Humans worked alongside each other, struggling to find meaning in the changing world around them, magic, greed and power threaten to destroy civilisation as they knew it Excerpt - "Night closed around the two travellers like a falling blanket of black cotton wool. The wisps of evening mist danced and teased before them, vanishing like a gypsy dancer when the travellers got too close. The sun had only just finished weaving its way through the thick trunks and canopy of trees that had been their shelter for three days, and the sudden plunge into darkness seemed even more dramatic because of it. A heavily wooded region this part of the Kingdom of Taron was reputed to be, and there was no evidence to challenge that belief here, except a slight thinning of the trees as a villagers’ evening lanterns filtered their light softly through the maze of trees, providing a beacon for the weary travellers to follow." Thought provoking and yet endearing, the characters are real, the setting is believable and the underlying messages are poignant. A fantasy adventure that has violence and sexual innuendo. Not suitable for pre-teens. Using their guile and wit, fighting their emotions and cultural belief, in a struggle to do the right thing, Halon & Saldon, with their mysterious allies, fight the madmen and try to restore order to the world in turmoil.
Book Synopsis The Venture Alchemists by : Rob Lalka
Download or read book The Venture Alchemists written by Rob Lalka and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We once idolized tech entrepreneurs for creating innovations that seemed like modern miracles. Yet our faith has been shattered. We now blame them for spreading lies, breaking laws, and causing chaos. Yesterday’s Silicon Valley darlings have become today’s Big Tech villains. Which is it? Are they superheroes or scoundrels? Or is it more complicated, some blend of both? In The Venture Alchemists, Rob Lalka demystifies how tech entrepreneurs built empires that made trillions. Meta started as a cruel Halloween prank, Alphabet began as a master’s thesis that warned against corporate deception, and Palantir came from a campus controversy over hateful speech. These largely forgotten origin stories show how ordinary fears and youthful ambitions shaped their ventures—making each tech tale relatable, both wonderfully and tragically human. Readers learn about the adversities tech entrepreneurs overcame, the troubling tradeoffs they made, and the tremendous power they now wield. Using leaked documents and previously unpublished archival material, Lalka takes readers inside Big Tech’s worst exploitations and abuses, alongside many good intentions and moral compromises. But this story remains unfinished, and The Venture Alchemists ultimately offers hope from the people who, decades ago, warned about the risks of the emerging Internet. Their insights illuminate a path toward more responsible innovations, so that technologies aren’t dangerous weapons but valuable tools that ensure progress, improve society, and enhance our daily lives.
Book Synopsis Ventures in Social Interpretation by : Henry Winthrop
Download or read book Ventures in Social Interpretation written by Henry Winthrop and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1968 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier by : joan e cashin
Download or read book a family venture: men and women on the southern frontier written by joan e cashin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history examines the westward migration of US farming families from the southern seaboard in the years before the American Civil War.
Book Synopsis A Woman Ventures by : David Graham Phillips
Download or read book A Woman Ventures written by David Graham Phillips and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1970 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Venturing Into No Man's Land by : John Ramsland
Download or read book Venturing Into No Man's Land written by John Ramsland and published by Brolga Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A flash blinds me... We are lost in a chaos of flying mud... Smoke, filth, confusion, racket! I spit and splutter and swear... Oh Christ! I think I'm flamin' well dead.' This is the compelling story of Lieutenant Joseph 'Darkie' Maxwell DCM, MC and Bar, VC - the second highest decorated Australian soldier of the First World War. Meticulously researched by historian John Ramsland, Maxwell's colourful life is traced from his childhood on the Hunter coalfields until his death at age 71 in a soldier's settlement home in Matraville Sydney. Maxwell was a vivid storyteller who wrote Hells Bells and Mademoiselles, telling of his experiences in the war. In telling Maxwell's story, Ramsland has uncovered many forgotten documents to piece together an extraordinary life of an extraordinary man.
Book Synopsis The London Venture by : Michael Arlen
Download or read book The London Venture written by Michael Arlen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiographical novel about life in London as experienced by the writer in the 1920s. It was Arlen's first book and tells his back-story - that of an Armenian who has learned to pass as an English gentleman and gain the trust and secrets of young women.
Book Synopsis To Venture Further by : Tristan Jones
Download or read book To Venture Further written by Tristan Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. Yet despite efforts over the last century by expeditions from several Western navies, there was no record of a successful crossing—none, that is, until renowned sailor Tristan Jones took on the challenge. To Venture Further is the inspiring story of this memorable exploit by one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time. Accompanied by his German mate, Thomas, and three disabled Thai youths, Jones makes the short but exceedingly difficult passage across the Kra in a small seagoing fishing boat. Facing floating debris, homemade dams, mechanical failure, and precariously low funds, Jones—whose left leg was amputated several years before—remains determined to win out against all obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they seem. With characteristically acerbic wit, Jones offers shrewd commentary on the Westernization of modern Thailand, bemoaning the destruction of a once-idyllic land. And whether confronting a band of raucous teenage monks, outwitting pirates in the Gulf of Thailand, or cruising a dry riverbed by hitching his boat onto an elephant, he continues to exhibit the awesome stubbornness and implacable courage of a man willing to sacrifice all comforts for the unknown and seemingly impossible.
Download or read book Venture written by Darlene McCullough and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orla has never been far from home. She's lived her entire life on Ardalan as a weaver's wife in the village of Sinsea. She has a loving husband, a few simple luxuries, and a comfortable home; but when she undergoes a terrifying change she is forced to flee and save her life. She must give up everything she knows to keep her secret, and herself, safe. In Mithe, Orla finds the anonymity she's looking. As she acclimates to city life she's faced with the hard lesson that her life in Sinsea was sheltered and she can never go back. She's confronted with new species, new powers, magic, and finding a way to survive. If she can learn to trust her new friends, and control her new 'gifts', she could survive; but can she forget the life she left behind?
Book Synopsis A Venture in Africa by : Andrew Sardanis
Download or read book A Venture in Africa written by Andrew Sardanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a vivid personal history of an international business career. "A Venture in Africa" takes the reader through the twists and turns of doing business with African states and leaders in the turbulent 1970s and later. Drawing on his long experience of modern Africa and international business, Sardanis portrays the crises, disasters and personalities he has encountered in the continent. He shows how the old Africa of corruption, despotism and nepotism is being replaced by a new Africa in which a rising generation of business leaders is emerging - with practical technical and professional skills and free from the post-colonial mentality. A hugely intriguing and entertaining story which shows that Africa, despite the bad press, presents an immensely important and a rich source of commercial opportunities for the successful businessman.
Book Synopsis "Bergmann's Equestrian Venture," by : George G. Pinneo
Download or read book "Bergmann's Equestrian Venture," written by George G. Pinneo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bergmann’s Equestrian Venture is the 4th book in the nine-book series. Earth was spared the brunt of a comet-induced planet-wide winter by the Striver-led, Banderat-implemented, redirection of three comets. Bergmann’s Team played an important part in that cometary redirection. Now the Team has been invited to move a small herd of horses to the planet Baldon: Banderat would like to ride! This venture is the first feat Guy hopes to execute in his long-term plans to forge an extraterrestrial Human presence. The interstellar trip aboard Climber, a first for Humans, is a prelude to their successful arrival at the city of Bandalu, where they help finish an equestrian resort. Nita’s ‘surprise’ is a shock to all the team: the first Human child to be born off Earth. A family of Sayen reveals their presence to Guy, Nita, Greg and Raquel, on the mountain slope above Highlands Resort. The presence of a hidden seventh sapient race sends Shockwaves through the Concordat.
Book Synopsis Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China by : Margaret M. Pearson
Download or read book Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China written by Margaret M. Pearson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chinese leaders announced in late 1978 that China would "open to the outside world," they embarked on a strategy for attracting private foreign capital to spur economic development. At the same time, they were concerned about possible negative repercussions of this policy. Margaret Pearson examines government efforts to control the terms of foreign investment between 1979 and 1988 and, more broadly, the abilities of socialist states in general to establish the terms of their own participation in the world economy. Drawing on interviews with Chinese and foreigners involved in joint ventures, Pearson focuses on the years from 1979 through 1988, but she also comments on the fate of the "open" policy following the economic retrenchment and political upheavals of the late 1980s. "Since the policy of `opening' was launched in Beijing in 1979 some Chinese leaders have favoured foreign investment, while others have feared that it would carry ideas and institutions that would corrupt Chinese socialism. This study of Chinese policies toward foreign-invested enterprises (FIFs) during the 1980s broadly charts significant changes in the impact of these competing views on policy. . . . Pearson's overview and analysis provide thought-provoking perspectives. . . . Pearson furnishes excellent evidence that throughout the 1980s the pressure for reform was so great that the conservatives had to retreat repeatedly, despite their concerns about the decline of collectivist values and the Maoist dream."--Stanley Lubman, The China Quarterly
Book Synopsis Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 by : Shirley Ardener
Download or read book Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 written by Shirley Ardener and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895) which is published here for the first time. It gives fascinating insights into everyday life in Cameroon and into the multifaceted relationships among the various Europeans, and between them and the Africans, at the end of the 19th century; we learn about the Swedes' quarrels first with the Germans and later with the British, over land purchases, thus revealing the origins of long on-going disputes over Bakweri lands. We are given vivid descriptions of Bakweri notables and their, and the Europeans', cultural practices, a rare eye-witness account of the sasswood witchcraft ordeal, and learn about Knutson's friendships with slaves. Together with appended contemporary correspondence, legal opinions, and early (translated) texts, this memoir must be considered as a unique and invaluable primary source for the pre-colonial history of Cameroon.
Book Synopsis Text-book of General Pathology by : Marcus Seymour Pembrey
Download or read book Text-book of General Pathology written by Marcus Seymour Pembrey and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Knock at a Venture by : Eden Phillpotts
Download or read book Knock at a Venture written by Eden Phillpotts and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knock at a Venture" by Eden Phillpotts is an early 20th century book that was almost lost to obscurity. Saved from being forgotten, this book offers readers an atmospheric and compelling story that will keep them entertained from the first page until the very last word.
Book Synopsis Venture To The Interior by : Laurens Van Der Post
Download or read book Venture To The Interior written by Laurens Van Der Post and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure and discovery, flying from London across Europe and Africa, and after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa.
Book Synopsis The First Venture Capitalists by : Georges Frederic Doriot
Download or read book The First Venture Capitalists written by Georges Frederic Doriot and published by Calgary : Gondolier. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Doriot created the first institutional venture capital fund in 1946 and set a standard for VC forever. Harvard Business School professor, war strategist and founder of INSEAD, one of Europe's most respected business schools, Doriot brilliantly articulated views on business formation, entrepreneurship, development and the dynamism of capital.
