A collection of ten deeply insightful stories captures with psychological insight the pathos and small triumphs of everyday life, with its fumbling attempts at deeper human relations, disappointments, and moments of grace, in a new edition of the author's acclaimed literary debut. Reprint.
The Reminiscences of Robert Bostwick Carney, Naval History Project, Oral History research Office, Columbia University, 1964, 442 (hereafter cited as Carney Oral History). 21. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieutenant Commander J.
Traces how the professional rivalry between Apple and Google has reshaped the way people think about technology, assessing infamous legal battles and the contributions of such figures as Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt to explain how they are ...
Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull ...
Filled with dozens of illustrative examples of inspiring successes and dispiriting falls from grace, this book provides deep insights on how to become the cat in a dogfight, whether you are a CEO, mid-level manager, aspiring business school ...
NORWAY, OCTOBER 1940 Norway, a country invaded by the Nazis.
Dogfight reads like a novel: vivid nonfiction with never-before-heard details. This is more than a story about what devices will replace our cell phones and laptops.
In many of Knight’s offerings, animals act as agents of change: in the title story, a dogfight is the catalyst for an adulterous affair and results in a parallel clash between the dogs’ owners. ‘Gerald’s Monkey’ uses a man’s ...
This book is the complete story of head to head aerial combat in World War II. In the skies above a world at war, individual skill, technical edge, and superior tactics all determined which pilot would emerge victorious from an aerial duel.
This book tells the story of Australians and New Zealanders in one of the Second World War’s defining and most memorable campaigns.
Land at Castle Bromwich near Birmingham was bought from Dunlop for a plant to make at least sixty Spitfires a week, especially welcome from a company with mass production experience. Construction began in July 1938 just as Supermarine ...