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Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008211264
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Tightrope Men written by Desmond Bagley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland.
Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006173076
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Tightrope Men written by Desmond Bagley and published by . This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312368784
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written by Mordicai Gerstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Tightrope Men written by Desmond Bagley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giles Denison, an alcoholic documentary movie maker, wakes up in an Oslo hotel, wearing another man's pyjamas and with another man's face. He has been kidnapped and transformed into a famous Finnish scientist. To regain his life he embarks on a dangerous escapade from Norway to Finland and across the border into Soviet Russia.
Author : David Almond
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763673102
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Tightrope Walkers written by David Almond and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told. A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand, he craves the freedom he feels when he steals away with the eccentric girl artist next door, Holly Stroud—his first and abiding love—to balance above the earth on a makeshift tightrope. With Holly, Dom dreams of a life different in every way from his shipbuilder dad’s, a life fashioned of words and images and story. On the other hand, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the brutal charms of Vincent McAlinden, a complex bully who awakens something wild and reckless and killing in Dom. In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood, a boy so curious and open to impulse that we fear for him and question his balance—and ultimately exult in his triumphs.
Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0399585362
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Tightrope written by Amanda Quick and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1930, Burning Cove, California, and an ex-trapeze artist walks the tightrope between desire and danger as she is caught up in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the onstage death of an inventor. The race is on to find his missing invention before others, who are willing to kill for it, find it first."--
Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564179
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Tightrope written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
Author : Tim McLaughlin
Publisher : NavPress Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781576838198
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Juggling Chainsaws on a Tightrope written by Tim McLaughlin and published by NavPress Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each study in The Real Life Stuff series for men and women includes eight sessions highlighting anecdotes and excerpts from current events and insights, leading to rich, rewarding, and lively conversation and study.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442206500
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Humanity on a Tightrope written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever, the world finds itself faced with common problems that affect most of the planet's population in some way: climate change, poverty, escalating violence, international conflicts, illness. And while an 'us v. them' mentality persists, a growing sense of empathy, of connection, with those in remote parts of the world has caught hold and is spreading. The authors argue that empathy and feelings of kinship with others are necessary to preventing the collapse of civilization. Through a careful examination of how humans must learn to relate to one another to avoid global calamity, they show how empathy can help to create a sustainable society of many billions of individuals.
Author : Donna Janell Bowman
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 168263406X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book King of the Tightrope written by Donna Janell Bowman and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, The Great Blondin took the most dangerous tightrope walk of his career—a death-defying walk across Niagara Falls. History and STEAM combine for an edge-of-your-seat read. At the age of four, Jean-Francois Gravelet walked across his first balance beam. Later, he took to the tightrope like a spider to its web and climbed toward stardom. Though his feats became more and more marvelous, he grew bored. That is, until he visited Niagara Falls and imagined doing something that no one else had ever accomplished. To cross the raging river, the Great Blondin needed determination, an understanding of engineering, and a belief that what he could imagine, he could accomplish. And in 1859, with all of his preparation complete, Blondin stepped out onto the most dangerous tightrope walk he'd ever faced. Award-winning nonfiction author Donna Janell Bowman uses her trademark in-depth research to give readers a close look at the hard work and meticulous mathematic and scientific planning it took to plan and execute and astonish feat. Adam Gustavson's detailed illustrations turn this book into an experience that will astound and inspire. This fascinating, STEAM-filled story will have readers holding their breath!
Author : D. John Jackson
Publisher : Houndstooth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781544519012
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America written by D. John Jackson and published by Houndstooth Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt unseen, unheard, misjudged, or misunderstood? In What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America, D. John Jackson, a Fortune 50 corporate leader with over thirty years of engineering and business leadership, shares a simple, powerful message: Your life matters. Your dreams matter. And you can achieve them, no matter who you are or where you're starting out. Through the stories and lessons of his own personal journey, Jackson proves time and again that what you say and do can change the trajectory of your life. Written specifically for young Black men and boys in America today, What About Me speaks to, and for, all marginalized or underrepresented voices with a call of courage and perseverance. When young Black men and boys are fully appreciated, when we all come together through stories of success and hope, this country will finally reach its true potential.
Author : Desmond Bagley
Publisher : House of Stratus Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842320051
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Enemy written by Desmond Bagley and published by House of Stratus Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial consultant, Malcolm Jaggard, begins a desperate investigation when flourishing industrialist and former Russian scientist, George Ashton, the father of Jaggard's fiancée, mysteriously disappears following a vicious acid attack on his daughter. Ashton is traced from his home in Buckinghamshire to the wintry forests of Sweden, in a compelling tale about rivalries between intelligence groups and shocking experiments in genetic engineering.
Author : Nazli Kibria
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820995
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Family Tightrope written by Nazli Kibria and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria draws on in-depth interviews and participant observation with Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia to show how they construct their family lives in response to the social and economic challenges posed by migration and resettlement. To a surprising extent, the "traditional" family unit rarely exists, and its hierarchical organization has been greatly altered.
Author : Linda Howard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471105261
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book All The Queen's Men written by Linda Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Medina is a living legend with the CIA, a shadowy specialist in Black Ops, those operations that are never openly funded, and the details of which never see the light of day. Only few people inside the CIA know him on sight, while foreign governments offer bounties for him, dead or alive. Neima Burdock is a communications specialist for the CIA who retired from field work after the death of her husband, also an agent and under orders from John Medina. When Niema is needed in an arms deal operation headed by John she is extremely reluctant to take the job but her director convinces her. Niema and John enter the underground world of an international arms dealer and its many dangerous and glamorous intrigues. They discover a passion for each other, but will they survive the race to evade the people who are trying to kill them and transmit the documents they have managed to steal?
Author : Ken Rees
Publisher : Radius Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1635767415
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Teetering written by Ken Rees and published by Radius Book Group. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly half of American adults walk a financial tightrope. They live paycheck to paycheck, in constant danger of job loss or unexpected expenses. Following decades of rising income instability and falling savings—not to mention the twin economic upheavals of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic—they have become the new normal. Rather than treat “Tightropers” as victims or blame them for their financial decisions, Teetering lets them tell their own stories of setbacks, sacrifice, and perseverance, and provides original research into their unique pressures and needs. Tightropers deserve support at all stages of their lives to build savings for both daily emergencies and long-term retirement. Teetering shows how legislators and regulators can make a difference without unintended consequences and how financial technology innovation can help Tightropers manage their money in uncertain times. Teetering makes the case for urgent action by financial institutions, investors, regulators, policymakers, employers, and influencers to recognize and address the financial forces that have pushed the American dream out of reach for so many. It proposes common ground solutions that work regardless of political leaning and provides a roadmap for how innovators can serve this growing need and how banks and others can start saying “yes” to their customers again.
Author : Simon Mawer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1408706199
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Tightrope written by Simon Mawer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.
Author : Renford Reese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594600203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Leadership in the LAPD written by Renford Reese and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful public sector leaders today are ones that have the capacity to lead internally and externally. They are able to see and understand the inherent contradictions in their multiple roles. For instance, appeasing the community with a more humanistic approach to policing, while getting tough on crime; giving the community a greater role in police affairs, but maintaining the autonomy to make unilateral decisions; supporting tough actions against bad cops to appease the community while steadfastly defending the rank and file. These are scenarios that are difficult for police chiefs to reconcile. This book examines how chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have attempted to reconcile contradictory objectives. It explores the history of leadership in this famed police department, analyzing the leadership styles of its contemporary chiefs. This book explores the leader's capacity to walk the public leadership tightrope. This exercise is the most important task of any public sector leader. As one of the most highly profiled public agencies in the U.S., the LAPD has embraced many contradictions. The department has been a model of professionalism and misconduct. The LAPD has been at the center of many of the nation's most racially explosive experiences: the 1965 Watts riots, the Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 riots, and the O.J. Simpson case. Additionally, the Rampart Scandal was one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the nation. Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the contradictory culture of the LAPD has been exposed in television and film. Indeed, America has become familiar with the LAPD through its periodic scandals and by its media and popular culture profile. Specifically written for students of criminal justice and public administration, this book examines the ways in which the LAPD's leaders have attempted to navigate crisis after crisis. The author uses interviews with thirty LAPD officers of various rankings and several Los Angeles residents to tell the LAPD story.
