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In No Mere Pastime: A Life in High Places, Ken Stanton's ambition to climb the big walls of Yosemite and follow in the footsteps of heroes like Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard lead him to discover his most substantial strengths by confronting his deepest fears. With a keen eye for the beauty of the natural world, Stanton leads readers from the mountains of California, to the snows of the Canadian Rockies, to the overhanging limestone walls of Italy's Dolomites, to the monarchs of the alpine world, the Himalaya. Whether it's a quirky, airy and clearly illegal climb on the under span of a spectacular arch bridge, or pondering the sentience of a hitchhiking butterfly while paddling whitewater ...
Johnny Zen and his girlfriend Jessica Sellars are back with another adventure when they are asked by a close friend to look into the cold case murder of a college student, Hannah McGuire. Who would want Hannah dead? From the viciousness of the crime it was obvious this was no random act of violence. Someone wanted to make sure Hannah was dead. The main suspect at the time was Hannah's own professor and thesis advisor. But almost as quickly as he the number one suspect, the police suddenly dropped their investigation of him and no one else ever seemed to come onto their radar. Now fourteen years later, Johnny and Jessica start digging into the bones of the stone cold case. There are those who will stop at nothing to prevent them from revealing secrets that will change everything we've been led to believe about 9/11. In the quiet recesses of Johnny's mind, he must ask himself, - What if it's true?
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Playfully poignant, this highly entertaining psychological drama is a dark, intensely imaginative and unique work. Dr. Sharma's Fantabulous Fantasies is life-affirming with a distinctly original voice and a style laced with black comedy.Thirty-eight-year-old Dr. Dev Sharma is in a sticky situation after a misadventure. An experiment of sorts has left him struggling to breathe while his unruly imagination inspires blackly comical and surreal hallucinations. Meanwhile, the voice of a mysterious stranger propels him through disturbing memories; a devastating childhood loss, a fractured family, simmering compulsions boiling over, a quest for truth, and mighty secrets that will be revealed. Together the stranger and Dev discover why he is face-down on his friend Katie's hideous floral bedspread.
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Market globalization is changing the way companies do business. It is now necessary for businesses to use mergers, joint ventures, and research consortia if they want to stay competitive and increase returns. The problem is that venturing into such partnerships has a substantial failure rate. In many cases, failure is due to poor preparation, inability to manage conflict, and simply being overwhelmed by the complexity of the partnership issues. The Nature of Chaos in Business offers answers to why such partnerships fail and how successful partnerships can be fostered through the complexity and supposed chaos of the situation. Based on models of complexity formulated and studied at the esteem...
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