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"Misadventures In Small Business" shares humorous, personal stories and funny anecdotes from years of being a small business owner and manager. There are countless examples of employees, random strangers, or even the author doing things that would qualify as stupid or embarrassing.

Read by the author and father of young Jimmy and Stewart, Ten Thousand Jupiters, A Memoir, provides an intimate look at the world of childhood cancer in 1992. Diagnosed with what doctors at Texas Children's Hospital call, "the best childhood cancer," young Stewart pushes the envelope in cancer research by participating in a "conscious sedation" study that forever changes hospital protocols for young children during bone marrow tests and spinal taps.

Dr. Wayne Z. Burkhead Jr. is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in shoulder disorders, and being special, in Dallas, Texas. He has lectured on an international level designed medical devices, and authored book chapters, scientific papers, and a Textbook, Rotator Cuff Disorders. As a youth, he fancied himself an artist but, ended up sculpting bones. He also fancied himself a musician but lacked talent. He never fancied himself as a doctor, especially a surgeon.

In 2008 Peter F. Bowers bought the WACO Aircraft Company—the only modern maker of FAA-certified open-cockpit biplanes—and discovered how expensive ignorance can be. He had manufacturing in his bones and almost no experience selling airplanes. The first year’s statements showed a loss of more than a million dollars. The accountant’s job was to report the number. His job was to face it. What followed was not a romance about flying.

She risked her life to protect the natural world, only to discover that nature was not her greatest danger. In this powerful memoir, Michelle Schuman takes listeners from the savanna of Zimbabwe to the bamboo forests of the Virunga Mountains and the oil-soaked shores of Prince William Sound. Along the way, she witnesses unforgettable scenes of beauty, violence, and survival: a grieving baby elephant beside its slaughtered mother, the touch of a mountain gorilla deep in the wild, and seals struggling through the toxic devastation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

In Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, one impulsive decision sets in motion the compounding chaos and allure of four love stories—igniting in seduction and collapsing in disillusionment.

Lynette Charity’s grit, grief, and gratitude will have readers rooting for this timeless memoir about growing up in the early ‘60s South and overcoming all the odds against her to become a doctor in a time when the idea of a Black woman physician was practically unheard of. At nine years old...

संपूर्ण शरीराचा डोलारा ज्या पायांवर उभा असतो, त्या पायांची काळजी घेत; धावपटूंपासून ते सर्वसामान्यांच्या...

Catastrophic injuries. Immediate and total blindness. An innocent young life shattered at the hands of a drunk driver. This is an unforgettable account of turning tragedy into triumph. With heart wrenching honesty, humor and insight, Marcus Engel guides us on a path to self-discovery. This coming-of-age story will cause you to view obstacles as opportunities and discover that choices, not circumstances, determine ultimate happiness.

He was not a doctor. He was admitted to the Academy of Medicine by a majority of exactly one vote, and once, after explaining to that same Academy where chicken cholera comes from, he was challenged to a duel by an eighty-year-old orthopedic surgeon who did not believe in germs and did not intend to start. Louis Pasteur also saved more human lives than anyone else alive in his century. The Invisible World follows him from a tanner's yard in the Jura to a crypt lined with gold mosaic, and argues that everything he did came out of a single stubborn conviction formed when he was twenty-five...

Carl Sagan established that the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt lead, that the seasonal color changes on Mars are blowing dust rather than creeping vegetation, and that the orange smog of Titan is made of complex organic molecules drifting down onto an alien shore. He briefed the Apollo astronauts. He designed the first physical message our species ever sent beyond the Solar System. He also spent a portion of his youth calculating, for the United States Air Force, what a nuclear detonation on the Moon would look like from Earth.

Jeder kann alles schaffen, wenn er sich nur anstrengt? Schön wär's. Ramona Wuttig zeigt in diesem Debattenhörbuch eindrücklich: Sozialer Aufstieg gelingt in Deutschland oft trotz – und nicht wegen – der bestehenden Strukturen. Ihre eigene Geschichte beginnt im ländlichen Thüringen in extremer Armut: ohne fließendes Warmwasser, geprägt von Arbeitslosigkeit der Nachwendezeit und gesellschaftlicher Ausgrenzung.

A man’s destiny is shaped by the work he does, but also by his attitude towards life, his values and his ethics.

Je fais partie des gens timides. Longtemps, j'ai cru être seule. Les timides sont un groupe éparpillé, sans conscience de lui-même, isolé dans un monde où tout paraît si simple pour celles et ceux qui maîtrisent l'art oratoire autant que le small talk. Dans une enquête intime, Joséphine Legeay apprivoise ce malaise qui nous envahit parfois. Mobilisant aussi bien des témoignages que des textes sociologiques et philosophiques, ce livre nous invite à repenser cette manière si sensible, si profondément humaine, de vivre avec les autres.

Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

Nobody hands you the actual terms before you sign up for a PhD. You get the pitch instead: the campus tour, the flattering conversation about your "potential," the acceptance email with its exclamation point. What you don't get is the document—what it actually costs, what it pays, what happens even when everything goes right. The Fine Print of the PhD is that missing document. This isn't a book by someone who didn't make it.

"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the West, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to...

Wie behält man die Nerven, wenn von der eigenen Arbeit ein Menschenleben abhängt? Ein einzigartiger Einblick in die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt des Spitzenchirurgen Rüdiger Lange. Operationen am offenen Herzen sind die Königsdisziplin der Chirurgie. Rüdiger Lange erzählt von seinen wichtigsten Operationen – und von den Abgründen, über die nur wenige der absoluten Spitzenoperateure zu sprechen wagen.

Few people have as informed a perspective on good versus evil as Judge Travis Bryan III. With nearly fifty years of experience in the criminal justice system—as a prosecutor, defense attorney, and since 2008 a district court judge for the State of Texas—Bryan has seen the struggle between right and wrong play out from all sides time and time again.

Richard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet he is hardly known outside the physics community. This is the first biography of one of America's...