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Book Synopsis Flight of the Buffalo by : James A. Belasco
Download or read book Flight of the Buffalo written by James A. Belasco and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.
Book Synopsis How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead by : Ralph Stayer
Download or read book How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead written by Ralph Stayer and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Book Synopsis Miracle on Buffalo Pass by : Harrison Jones
Download or read book Miracle on Buffalo Pass written by Harrison Jones and published by Avlit Press. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of December 4, 1978, Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217 departed Steamboat Springs, Colorado bound for Denver with twenty-two souls on board. Less than an hour later, the flight was forced down on Buffalo Pass at an altitude of 10,500 feet when it encountered severe icing conditions and downdrafts created by the winds of a mountain wave. The tragic accident triggered one of the most intense search and rescue efforts in Rocky Mountain history. This true story is told in the words of the courageous passengers and crew- who found themselves struggling to survive the arctic type blizzard conditions with no hope of immediate help-and the heroic search and rescue personnel who risked lives to save lives. Led by an elite Civil Air Patrol unit, and civilian volunteers, the search and rescue effort is considered one of the most successful in the organization's history.
Book Synopsis Flight of the Old Dog by : Dale Brown
Download or read book Flight of the Old Dog written by Dale Brown and published by Trident E-Book Distribution Services. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight of the Old Dog is one of the original and classic military techno-thrillers in the entire world. It is the basis of the PC flight simulator "Megafortress" published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It has been translated into twelve languages, and sales have exceeded a million copies. The United States and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war. At a top-secret research facility at Kavaznya, Sibera, the Soviets have developed a ground-based laser weapon capable of shooting down American satellites, and they are betting that the American president doesn't have the guts to risk starting a nuclear exchange. But at a top-secret flight test site in the Nevada desert called "Dreamland," a team of test pilots and engineers have created the Megafortress: a venerable B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers modified with stealth technology, computers, digital avionics, state-of-the-art weaponry, and performance-enhancing features that makes it unlike any B-52 bomber--or any other warplane--ever flown. Now it's time to flight-test the Megafortress, and the Air Force assembles the best pilots, bombardiers, and navigators to see what this creation can do. One of them is Captain Patrick McLanahan, considered the best B-52 bombardier in the Air Force. The others on the crew are hard-charging pilots and world-class engineers, and McLanahan is nothing like them. But the team leader and aircraft commander, Lt. General Brad Elliott, can see that McLanahan is a quiet professional and a natural-born leader. Soviet spies soon discover the Megafortress, and they recognize that a fleet of these advanced planes can practically neutralize all of the Soviet Union's air defenses. Back-channel negotiations begin, and the U.S. is willing to mothball the Megafortress if the Soviets mothball the Kavaznya laser. That is completely unacceptable to the Soviet leader, and he hatches a daring plan to deal with the Megafortress while keeping his devastating laser weapon. Just prior to a live fire flight test, a team of Russian commandos invade Dreamland with the goal of stealing the Megafortress…or destroying it. The crew just barely manages to escape. The American president orders the top-secret aircraft back to Dreamland, but Brad Elliott and the vice president hatch a daring plan of their own: use the Megafortress to penetrate the Soviet Union's stiff air defenses and destroy the Kavaznya laser. Thus begins the aerial cat-and-mouse game across ten thousand miles and wave after wave of the Soviet Union's most advanced air defenses and fighter-interceptors, which are all on full alert. Most of the Megafortress's crew have no military training. They have supplies for only a few hours, and are outfitted for the deserts of southern Nevada, not the frigid steppes of Siberia. They have flown the Megafortress only a few times, and only in carefully scripted test flights. With Brad Elliott at the controls, Patrick McLanahan realizes that it's up to him to organize and get the rest of the crew ready for the fight of their lives.
Book Synopsis The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo by : Kent Nerburn
Download or read book The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo written by Kent Nerburn and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight. Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo is filled with the profound insight into humanity and Native American culture we have come to expect from Nerburn’s journeys. As the American Indian College Fund has stated, once you have encountered Nerburn’s stirring evocations of America’s high plains and incisive insights into the human heart, “you can never look at the world, or at people, the same way again.”
Book Synopsis Who Shot the Water Buffalo? by : Ken Babbs
Download or read book Who Shot the Water Buffalo? written by Ken Babbs and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut novel of the Vietnam War from the veteran and famous Merry Prankster is a “cross between Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson” (Booklist). Lt. Tom Huckelbee, leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage, and Lt. Mike Cochran, loquacious son of an Ohio gangster, make an unlikely pair training to be marine corps chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. But they soon go through a strange transformation together—from a couple of know-nothing young men straight out of flight school into marine aviators caught in the middle of a disorienting war. Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous, and always vivid and poetic, Ken Babbs—who cowrote The Last Go Round with fellow Prankster Ken Kesey—is at the top of his craft in this debut novel. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? manages to capture the tumult of the 1960s in all its guts and glory through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another. “An impeccable, humorous heirloom, a shock of napalm that smells like . . . victory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis The Peacock and the Buffalo by : Friedrich Nietzsche
Download or read book The Peacock and the Buffalo written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of Nietzsche's poetry.
Book Synopsis The Buffalo Soldier by : Chris Bohjalian
Download or read book The Buffalo Soldier written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can’t believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry’s involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West. Out of the entwining and unfolding of their lives, The Buffalo Soldier creates a suspenseful, moving portrait of a family, infused by Bohjalian’s moral complexity and narrative assurance.
Book Synopsis Buffalo at the Crossroads by : Peter H. Christensen
Download or read book Buffalo at the Crossroads written by Peter H. Christensen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture. The essays examine Buffalo's architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world's fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city's economic fate. The contributors pay attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a compelling introduction to Buffalo's architecture and developed landscape that will frame discussion about the city for years to come. Contributors: Marta Cieslak, University of Arkansas - Little Rock; Francis R. Kowsky; Erkin Özay, University at Buffalo; Jack Quinan, University at Buffalo; A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester; Annie Schentag, KTA Preservation Specialists; Hadas Steiner, University at Buffalo; Julia Tulke, University of Rochester; Stewart Weaver, University of Rochester; Mary N. Woods, Cornell University; Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan
Download or read book The Cape Buffalo written by Lisa Owings and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating images accompany information about the Cape buffalo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Teaching The Elephant To Dance by : James A. Belasco, Ph.D.
Download or read book Teaching The Elephant To Dance written by James A. Belasco, Ph.D. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But, we've always done it that way." This is a warning sign, a symptom of impending disaster for any organization. Shackled, like powerful elephants, to the past, organizations rob themselves of the ingenuity required to meet new competitive challenges and escape the "re" dimension trap of "re-engineering, re-organization and re-structuring that concentrate on short term fixes rather than long term solutions. Teaching the Elephant to Dance is a practical, hands-on guide for creating the right change in any organization, large or small, corporate or governmental, manufacturing or service based. Filled with illuminating case studies, it shows how to devise new corporate visions and strategies... how to overcome inertia .. and how to form labor-management partnerships. Clear, authoritative, practical and inspiring, Teaching the Elephant to Dance provides a step-by-step guide for making the impossible happen.
Book Synopsis Where the Buffaloes Begin by : Olaf Baker
Download or read book Where the Buffaloes Begin written by Olaf Baker and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the blazing campfires, where the wind moaned eerily through the thickets of juniper and fir, they spoke of it in the Indian tongue—the strange lake to the southward whose waters never rest. And Nawa, the medicine man, who had lived such countless moons that not even the oldest member of his people could remember a time when Nawa was not old, declared that, if only you arrived at the right time, on the right night, you would see the buffaloes rise out of the middle of the lake and come crowding to the shore; for there, he said, was the sacred spot where the buffaloes began." Ten-year-old Little Wolf, an imaginative and courageous boy, is determined to observe this spectacle, and his quest leads not only to a miraculous vision but also to the salvation of his tribe. This Caldecott Honor picture book and National Book Award nominee was hailed by Booklist as "an eminent picture book and, incidentally, one that proves that black and white can move as forcefully as color." The New York Times praised artist Stephen Gammell for his "spectacular scenes of tumbling clouds, of earth churned by flying hoofs, of teepees in the early dawn. But most of all he conveys the hulking, surging, rampaging strength of the shaggy buffaloes as they rise out of a shadowy mist, the mist of legend or dream."
Book Synopsis Flight from Colditz by : Anthony Hoskins
Download or read book Flight from Colditz written by Anthony Hoskins and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.Though the glider was built, the war ended before it could be used, and it was subsequently destroyed. Using the original plans and materials used by the prisoners, in March 2012 a replica of the glider was constructed in a bid to see if the escape attempt would have succeeded. The glider was then launched from the roof of the castle roof.Anthony Hoskins is the man who built, and helped launch, the glider. As well as examining the story behind the building of the original glider, he details the construction of the replica and the nail-biting excitement as the Colditz Cock finally took to the skies. Packed with photos of the glider and its flight over Colditz, this is the inside story of the recreation of one of the most intriguing episodes of the Second World War.
Book Synopsis There's Something Happening Here by : John Einarson
Download or read book There's Something Happening Here written by John Einarson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of Buffalo Springfield, a group whose members included Neil Young and Stephen Stills. Though acknowledged as a talented and adventurous group of the late-60s, they did not achieve international success. This book gives insight into the group and the American music scene of the 60s.
Book Synopsis Buffalo and Other Stories by : Wayne Ude
Download or read book Buffalo and Other Stories written by Wayne Ude and published by Lynx House Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection comprises the best short stories of plains Indians I've every read. In fact, these rank with the best short stories of Indians anywhere. Each one of them ends with a great surprise, a pure delight. And the characters are magnificently drawn -- thinking, feeling, and actions all pure Indian as I know them. It is difficult for me to express my admiration and enthusiasm." -Frank Waters Wayne Ude grew up in Harlem, Montana, near the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation. He is the author of three published books of fiction, including a book of short stories, Buffalo and Other Stories, a novel, Becoming Coyote, and an award winning children's book, Maybe I Will Do Something: Seven Tales of Coyote. He is currently the Director of the Whidbey Writers Workshop, a low-residency MFA program on Whidbey Island, Washington.
Book Synopsis GardenWalk Buffalo by : Elizabeth Licata
Download or read book GardenWalk Buffalo written by Elizabeth Licata and published by Buffalo Heritage. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This large-format, high-quality volume offers 120 pages of words and pictures that capture the best of Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest and one of the oldest garden walks in the nation. More than 225 beautiful photographs capture highlights of all 260+ gardens on the Walk, while sidebars on the architecture and history of these exceptional Buffalo neighborhoods explain their unique ambiance. New and fascinating aspects of Garden Walk are illuminated, including behind-the-scenes stories of how the gardeners prepare for the annual weekend deluge of thousands of visitors. The book includes interviews with 27 gardeners, as well as photos of more than 80 additional gardens. There is a photo section for the gardens of Frederick Law Olmsted¿s Delaware Park, a spread on community gardens, a list of selected plants grown in Western New York (Zone 5), a history of Garden Walk Buffalo and its impact on local urban gardens and how it helps rejuvenate city streets, and even a brief bit on how to start your own garden walk.
Book Synopsis The Year of the Buffalo by : Marshall Cook
Download or read book The Year of the Buffalo written by Marshall Cook and published by Savage Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall J. Cook is one of the most beloved and prolific writers in Wisconsin. The Year of the Buffalo, a novel of love and minor league baseball, his second book for Savage Press, is a touching tale of love, baseball and transcendence. The baseball action is accurate, emotional and inspiring.Synopsis: The lowly Buffalo, a triple minor team from Beymer, Wisconsin, The Smallest Town in the USofA with it's own professional baseball team hires a washed out lefty who finds true love and leads the team to its first ever championship. Keen drama. Truely fine insights into the human condition. W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which inspired Field of Dreams said of the book, Fine storytelling, genuinely touching moments.
