Power Lines is a collection of four stories which incorporate elements of autobiography and fantasy. The first is a story of a place and time in the childhood of the author and goes from his introduction to the town of Crofton in a diamond shaped pit to his final days there in which he was a freshman and sophomore in high school, running over the rolling gravel hills with friends and a teenage first love.
"The Adventures of Bob White" is the second and also somewhat autobiographical story with more sci-fi elements and is followed by the lengthy romance of "100 Weddings With Kristen."...

In Growth Leadership, Michael Rodgers examines how growth leaders develop, execute, and produce exceptional results in organizations. In today's turbulent economy it is not enough simply to be a leader. It is critical to be a growth leader, i.e. someone who can manage risk while seizing opportunity to impact the bottom line. Growth leaders are buried within organizations; their skills and talents often go unnoticed-and their potential for generating growth is under-recognized and under-utilized. Author Rodgers helps managers, executives, and leadership trainers identify the diamonds in the...

Popular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. d104books bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these books come about? And why are some of them so spectacularly successful?This is the first ever insider's account of science publishing, written by an editor intimately involved in the publication of some of the most famous bestsellers in the field. Michael Rodgers reveals the...

Popular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. d104books bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these books come about? And why are some of them so spectacularly successful?This is the first ever insider's account of science publishing, written by an editor intimately involved in the publication of some of the most famous bestsellers in the field. Michael Rodgers reveals the...

The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such questions as whether Nabokov was a bad reader, how he defined evil, if he believed in God, and how he constructed fictional works that led readers to become aware of their own moral positions. In order to elucidate his engagement with aesthetics, metaphysics, and ethics, Nabokov and the Question of...