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In the summer of 1824, British merchant Matthew Davis finds himself drunk and delirious in the port of Honolulu, thinking he might like to hear about ¿the military exploits of the natives, their feather-bedecked kings and ferocious armies.¿ Instead, he stumbles into a confrontation with disease and misery and bears witness to the harrowing life story of Ka`alokulokupono, an elderly Hawaiian kidnapped in his youth by the dreaded privateer Roger Beckwith, a man dead-set on pursuing the design of a world consumed by one atrocity after another. From master storyteller Ian MacMillan comes his most sweeping epic yet, a tale of three men and a perilous voyage of discovery traversing Hawai`i and the Pacific Rim¿laying bare our primal flaws and ultimately finding our humanity.
The author of" Proud Monster" and "Orbit of Darkness" returns with a fictionalized account of the heroic 1943 Treblinka uprising, told from the viewpoints of the Nazi guards, their victims, and residents of the surrounding countryside.
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The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles you can use personally to transform the arenas in which you compete. The authors present simple but powerful ways to stop thinking and acting by the old rules and start thinking with the discipline of a habitual entrepreneur. They show how to: eliminate paralyzing uncertainty by creating an entrepreneurial frame that shapes a shared understanding of what is to be accomplished; create a richly stoc...
'World-class – one of today's greatest poetry performers.' (Carol Ann Duffy) 'A force of nature.' (Guardian) 'An inspiring figure, an encouraging and democratic spirit, a strong and popular poet and one of the funniest people in Britain.' (Poetry News) 'It's impossible not to like McMillan. If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday, a lot more people would be reading poetry by Monday.' (Sue Arnold, Guardian) 'The verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe.' (Frome Festival) 'Inching towards the status of a National Treasure.' (Andy Kershaw) 'The John Peel of poetry.' (Alec Finlay)
This work is the result of a collaboration between two artists - Andy Martin, seasoned imagemaker, visually interprets the poetry and prose of writer and broadcaster Ian McMillan.
Novel about family life in Hawaii during the period from World War II to the present. Centers on a young man who learns how to build canoes.
In this collection, Hawai'i Award for Literature recipients depict island life as complex, multivoiced, and multi-layered.
In an engaging and interesting style that draws on a wide variety of literature as well as on Scripture and theological texts, Jones shows how the practices of Christian forgiveness are richer and more comprehensive than often thought.