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"Packs a powerful message--perseverance and passion pay off. Even non-sports fans will cheer for superstars like LeBron James and Stephen Curry."--Scholastic Teacher

Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in 6th grade. He went on to become a national treasure after single-handedly keeping America competitive in the 2014 World Cup. Stephen Curry was told he was too small, too weak, and too slow to even...

Unlike Holocaust books that focus on the annihilation of European...

To survive a life-long quarrel with authority-and come out the winner-takes luck.

Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to the boardrooms of some of the world's mightiest corporations and beyond? Or was it something else-a series of marvelous coincidences unexplainable by any rational means?

Unlike his previous books, "HIRE POWER" (Putnam/Perigee 1993) and "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker "(iUniverse, 2004), "Just My Luck?" is not a how-to...

Covers the key areas of technology management from knowing which technology trends count and managing technology change, to devising the right level of technology training and and selecting technologies that match your business strategy.

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ACUNIA, Nextel, and Seven-Eleven Japan and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Marc Adreesen and Timothy Berners-Lee

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources...

To survive a life-long quarrel with authority-and come out the winner-takes luck.

Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to the boardrooms of some of the world's mightiest corporations and beyond? Or was it something else-a series of marvelous coincidences unexplainable by any rational means?

Unlike his previous books, "HIRE POWER" (Putnam/Perigee 1993) and "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker "(iUniverse, 2004), "Just My Luck?" is not a how-to...

-Silver- Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category

Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were -getting religion---praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he found, don't worship any god at all, don't pray, and don't give much credence to religious dogma of any kind. Instead of being bastions of sin and corruption, however, as the Christian Right has suggested a godless society...

When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club.