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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race by Rob Mundle, Robert Mundle Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race by Rob Mundle, Robert Mundle PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad A gripping, first-hand account of the worst sailing disaster in recent history! Fatal Storm is a first-hand, edge-of-the-seat account of the awesome power of nature. Written by a seasoned journalist who covered the race, it contains haunting images that are both vivid and unforgettable--the scream of the wind, the roar of the waves, the last sight of a lost crewmember floating face down while his boat is swept helplessly away. Above all, it is a tale of raw adventure. From reader reviews: Donna Bradford: The ability that you get from Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race is a more deep you searching the information that hide into the words the more you get serious about reading it. It does not mean that this book is hard to understand but Fatal Storm: The ...

Critical Success Factors in Multichannel Mobile Marketing: A Delphi Study with International Experts by Raymond Yiwen Huang Critical Success Factors in Multichannel Mobile Marketing: A Delphi Study with International Experts by Raymond Yiwen Huang PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This research contributes to our understanding of mobile marketing success factors. Given the emergent nature of multichannel m-Marketing, a group of experts were recruited globally for and variously participated in a 3-round Delphi study. Through their input this research achieved its two stated objectives: to investigate the importance of multichannel integration to the future success of mobile marketing; and to determine the factors that influence multichannel mobile marketing success. The research found that an initial precursor to success is acceptance. A success model for multichannel m-Marketing was proposed, with particular emphasis on the connections between m-Marketing acceptance and two ‘outcome’ variables ...

Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices by National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, Palmer Hickman Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices by National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, Palmer Hickman PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The NJATC’s authoritative electrical experts train top-quality electrical workers across the country. This Third Edition text covers electrical safety requirements and safety-related work practices of OSHA and the National Fire Protection Association electrical safety in the workplace code, NFPA 70E®. Specific topics include electrical safety culture, hazard awareness, lockout/tagout, justification and assessment of working in hazardous conditions, calculation of short-circuit currents, arc flash hazard analysis methods, PPE, equipment maintenance, and design considerations. Chapters explore calculations required to comply with NFPA 70E, and techniques that can be applied to significantly reduce or eliminate electrical hazards. Each chapte...

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than 1,600 days, he was tortured and lived through hell. He was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. Finally, in August 2006, Kurnaz was released, with acknowledgment of his innocence. Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's story is both sobering and poignant--an important testimony about our turbulent times when innocent people get caught in t...

Haute Africa: People. Photography. Fashion by Christophe de Jaegher, Ramona Van Gansbeke Haute Africa: People. Photography. Fashion by Christophe de Jaegher, Ramona Van Gansbeke PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Haute Africa does not refer to a geographical location but to fashion on the African continent. Haute couture is most frequently associated with Paris, Milan, London and New York. Connecting Africa to the associated luxury and decadence of the fashion industry in this way, creates a new and exciting concept that challenges traditional preconceived ideas and perceptions of Africa. Haute Africa presents a different side of a continent where fashion and design, crucially generate wealth. This flourishing creativity is expressed within a vibrant and growing fashion industry. African artists, designers, fashion designers, entrepreneurs and photographers are increasingly visible within the fashion scene with their inspired take on African identity. This is a collection of some of the most ex...

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America by Jacqueline Jones A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America by Jacqueline Jones PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fields. Three hundred years later, Simon P. Owens battled soul-deadening technologies as well as the fiction of race that divided him from his co-workers in a Detroit auto-assembly plant. Separated by time and space, Antonio and Owens nevertheless shared a distinct kind of political vulnerability; they lacked rights and opportunities in societies that accorded marked privileges to people labeled white. An American creation myth posits that these two black men were the victims of racial discrimination, a primal prejudice that the United States has haltingly but gradually repudiated over the course of many generations. In "A Dreadful Deceit," award...

Firefighting and Blowout Control by L. William Abel, Joe R. Bowden, Patrick J. Campbell Firefighting and Blowout Control by L. William Abel, Joe R. Bowden, Patrick J. Campbell PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad From reader reviews: Karen Chan: What do you concerning book? It is not important to you? Or just adding material when you need something to explain what you problem? How about your spare time? Or are you busy person? If you don't have spare time to accomplish others business, it is gives you the sense of being bored faster. And you have spare time? What did you do? Every person has many questions above. They must answer that question because just their can do that will. It said that about publication. Book is familiar on every person. Yes, it is right. Because start from on kindergarten until university need that Firefighting and Blowout Control to read. Marvin Davidson: Information is provisions for folks to get better life, information presently can get by anyone in everywhere. The...

Andokides On the Mysteries (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Andokides Andokides On the Mysteries (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Andokides PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad More than any other work, the speech of Andokides, On the Mysteries , provides an intimate and vivid glimpse of Athenian political life during and directly after the Peloponnesian War. This new paperback version of MacDowell's standard edition (first published in hardcover in 1962) is intended for both undergraduates and scholars. It includes a full introduction surveying Andokides's life, trial, and literary style; a note on the basis of the text; and a detailed commentary and appendices that discuss Andokides' innocence or guilt, the chronology and political significance of events in 415 B.C., the legal revision ordered by the decree of Teisamenos, the date of the trial and speech, and aspects of the historical and stylistic background relevant to the work. From reader reviews: Raymond Hernandez: Within other ca...

Innovation in Emerging Markets (International Political Economy Series) Innovation in Emerging Markets (International Political Economy Series) PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Innovation is sweeping the globe at breakneck speed, and emerging markets are where tremendous growth and opportunity reside. Jerry Haar and Ricardo Ernst delve into the forces and drivers that shape innovation in emerging markets and present case studies, along with a summation of the key features and outlook for innovation over the next decade. From reader reviews: Beverly McGahey: This Innovation in Emerging Markets (International Political Economy Series) is great guide for you because the content which is full of information for you who all always deal with world and still have to make decision every minute. This kind of book reveal it information accurately using great organize word or we can state no rambling sentences inside it. So if you are read this hurriedly you can have whole information in it. Doesn't ...

Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan by Hugh Dargan, Mary Palmer Dargan Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan by Hugh Dargan, Mary Palmer Dargan PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, renowned landscape architects Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan" -- a unique method they've perfected over the past two-and-a-half decades of creating award-winning gardens and yards for clients. The Dargans share a blend of specific design techniques and practical advice on how to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size and type of property. Examples of specific design treatments are beautifully illustrated with scores of color photographs taken from their own archives, plus landscape plans from historic gardens around the world that have provided inspiration to the authors, and before and after...

Cartooning: The art and the business by Mort Gerberg Cartooning: The art and the business by Mort Gerberg PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad An expanded and updated edition of The Arbor House Book of Cartooning (1983), acclaimed by both critics and professionals. "A definite help to anyone who would like to be a cartoonist."--Charles M. Schulz. From reader reviews: Frank Ouellette: Have you spare time for the day? What do you do when you have considerably more or little spare time? Sure, you can choose the suitable activity for spend your time. Any person spent their spare time to take a walk, shopping, or went to the particular Mall. How about open or maybe read a book called Cartooning: The art and the business? Maybe it is for being best activity for you. You understand beside you can spend your time using your favorite's book, you can better than before. Do you agree with the opinion or you have additional opinion? Mary Gilbert: Do you one of the book lovers? If so, do you ever...

Preaching to Pluralists: How to Proclaim Christ in a Postmodern Age by Chris Altrock Preaching to Pluralists: How to Proclaim Christ in a Postmodern Age by Chris Altrock PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Effective evangelistic sermons require preachers to know their audience and to tailor their preaching accordingly. Chris Altrock uses findings of the Barna Research Group and his own experiences as a preacher to support his descriptions of several characteristics common to the unchurched or the lost crowd today. Recognizing that the audience today is vastly different from previous generations, Altrock suggests several approaches to these postmodern listeners, challenging preachers to change in order to reach the "field of harvest" that Jesus calls the church to love. From reader reviews: Harriet Dupree: The publication with title Preaching to Pluralists: How to Proclaim Christ in a Postmodern Age has a lot of information that you can study it. You can get a lot of profit after read th...

Velocity Calendar 2016 by Pete Lyons Velocity Calendar 2016 by Pete Lyons PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The Velocity Calendar 2016 celebrates the race cars of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) series. The Can-Am series featured cars with practically unrestricted power and technology driven by the best race drivers of the time. The Velocity Calendar 2016 includes 26 historical images from award-winning journalist/photographer Pete Lyons. The large-format 11.5x17-inch calendar displays thundering McLarens, Chaparrals, Porsches and other fabulous machines as they raced back in the day. From reader reviews: Sally Oneal: Do you have favorite book? In case you have, what is your favorite's book? Publication is very important thing for us to learn everything in the world. Each guide has different aim or goal; it means that book has different type. Some people really feel enjoy to spend their a chance to read a book. These are reading whatever they have because their hobby is usually...