As film mogul and all-around Hollywood bad boy Robert Evans memorably states at the outset of his revelatory memoir, THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE: "There are three sides to every story: yours...mine...and the truth." With that disclaimer in mind, we're off on a breathless ride. In a dizzyingly short period, ladies' pants salesman Evans is ...
WAR OF THE WORLDS was written in two parts: "The Coming of the Martians", which details the Martians' landing and conquering; and "The Earth Under the Martians", which is a post-apocalyptic account of the Martians' reign and their subsequent vanquishing by microbes which they are unprepared for. Mars, and the possibility of life on it, had ...
The classic work on parliamentary procedure in a masterful new presentation. The 1990, ninth edition, of Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised is the only currently authoritative volume to contain the complete Roberts Rules of Order subject matter. It has been totally reset and redesigned for easier use. This ninth edition supersedes all previous ...
The only authorized parliamentary procedure guide, completely revised and updated by the authorized Robert's Rules Authorship Committee.. Originally published as a slim document in 1896, General Henry M. Robert's classic guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold close to five million copies in nine editions. The only book ...
In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a ...
Students everywhere are harder to reach and teach, their attention and motivation less reliable, their language and behavior more provocative. This is largely because parents, suffering a widespread loss of confidence and competence, are increasingly anxious about their children's success, yet increasingly unable to support and guide them and ...
To succeed in the world today, students need an education that equips them to recognize current trends, to be creative and flexible to respond to changing circumstances, to demonstrate sound judgment to work for society's good, and to gain the ability to communicate persuasively. This book argues for returning to the classical liberal arts ...
One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Fuelling the Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy provides an accessible and concise overview of current energy demand and supply patterns. It then ...
What does it mean to be an expert? In "Rethinking Expertise", Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge - knowledge that we have but cannot ...
Now available in paperback and a new cover with strong teen appeal! 68 Knots is an action-packed story that could best be described as The Breakfast Club meets Lord of the Flies: eight teens from diverse backgrounds have a sailboat to themselves for a summer full of adventure and self-discovery. A perfect summer read for both sexes, it has won ...
"Hilhaven Lodge: The Photo Booth Pictures is the first monograph by white-hot Hollywood director Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour, Rush Hour II, and "Red Dragon, and an upcoming mega blockbuster soon to be announced), and features today's top media moguls, actors, directors, singers, rappers, athletes, artists, and pop icons playing, posing, mugging, and ...
Rudolf II of Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was an extraordinary ruler, a monarch whose court occupied a central position in 16th-century Europe - yet he remained a shadowy and fugitive figure. The decades around 1600 saw sweeping cultural changes in Europe, with the waning of an old-world view and the beginnings of the ...
In the early part of the 21st century disaster struck--an experiment on an orbiting station went wrong. The accident almost destroyed the universe, and ripples in time washed over the Earth. Like the plagues of an earlier millennium, Earth was depopulated, and then it rebuilt. And the people of the post-disaster world learned that things were ...
Sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, this updated Third Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of occupationally related disorders. It provides an excellent overview of technical issues, practical applications, and preventive strategies for illness and injury ...
There have been many media-induced cases of mass hysteria in the twentieth century - perhaps the Orson Welles Mercury Theater broadcast being the most notorious. On Sunday 30 October 1938, many Americans reportedly panicked after listening to a radio play depicting a Martian landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. It is still widely believed that the ...
Conventional materials, such as nickel based alloys, will not be able to match the required performance specifications for the future generation of high temperature materials. This book reviews the characteristics and potential of a wide range of candidate superalloy replacements, such as ceramics, intermetallics, and their composites. Particular ...
Will Evan's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly ...
Senator John Caddrick hires an assassin to murder his own daughter, which threatens to destroy the time-touring industry. But everyone's plans are thrown into chaos when Jack the Ripper escapes to Time Terminal 86. In this sequel to "Ripping Time", time scout Kit Carson and ex-con Skeeter Jackson have to track down the senator's daughter, lost ...
North American Christians have become concerned with justice and human rights struggles of the third-world poor, but such "globalization" has not made connections with the poor of the first-world society who are overwhelmingly rooted in the inner cities of the nation. Recinos examines the meaning of globalization as reflected in Biblical and ...
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