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The memoir of a radical mass-marketing entrepreneur, an autopsy of a super successful serial entrepreneur told with honesty and a wry sense of humour, revealing intimate details of his journey to massive wealth and the melt-down. This story spotlights essential life lessons for achieving happiness and fulfillment in business and in ones personal life. Ron Hume was genetically programmed to be an entrepreneur. He achieved success because he was able to identify unmet needs and his insights allowed him to build successful businesses. His career included Vice-President of McGraw Hill Canada where he turned a successful educational publisher into a highly innovative best-selling trade publisher. He then turned his entrepreneurial skills into building an empire of self-study publishing programs. At the pinnacle of his success over 5,000,000 individuals in the US and in Canada enrolled in his Successful Investing and Money Management program. He followed that up with other hugely successful self-study programs. He had offices and warehouses in Toronto, Los Angeles and Atlanta with over 200 employees.
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This philosophical travelogue is a record of the joys (and frustrations) of disconnecting from our complicated, modern existence and living, at a time of climate upheaval, a simple life as close to nature as possible. Eager to know what life might be like if we choose another path, Leonard lived for a year in a cabin in the most remote Arctic settlement he could find and discovered how the paraphernalia of modern living conspires to eliminate our dreams. In the manner of a flat-earther, he went to the High Arctic not just in search of the ice edge, but also to examine the boundaries of our human psyche. No longer ruled by time and blessed by transcendences that flashed him the totality of life, he found harmony with the external world led to an inner dialogue that challenged everything he had known before. Whilst sitting aloof at the top of the world watching humanity having gone astray with our actions threatening to literally change the color of the map, he put the small and great into perspective with the aid of a poetry volume.
Climatic Changes --- Religion --- Personal Memoirs --- Science --- Biography & Autobiography
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Sir Nick Young's memoir is a fascinating and candid account of his thirteen years as chief executive of the British Red Cross (2001-2014). During this critical period he led the organization's response to the financial crisis, the Iraq War, the Asian Tsunami, the London bombings, a kidnapping, the fighting in Syria, media challenges, and numerous earthquakes, floods and other disasters.The author shares the strains and moments of fulfillment, relief and humor, as he played a key role in the response to some of the 21st Century's most dramatic and dangerous events. His book paints a vivid yet modest picture of what is involved running one of the world's best-known disaster response organizations, reacting to catastrophes, both man-made and natural, and saving the lives and livelihoods of those caught up in global disasters, conflicts and health emergencies.It is rare for charity leaders to reveal their insights in this way and, at the same time, paint such a vivid picture of life at the top of a large voluntary organization. The result is a compelling read, particularly for those interested in international affairs, the way charities work, and what makes them different from other types of world class organizations.
Personal memoirs --- Biography & autobiography --- War --- Relief of sick and wounded. --- Young, Nicholas, --- British Red Cross Society.
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Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. This is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem - a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle's primary language.
Acteurs --- Actors --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Culture sourde. --- Deaf culture. --- Deaf --- Mannequins (Personnes) --- Models (Persons) --- Personnes sourdes --- DiMarco, Nyle,
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When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on multiple occasions. It's a miracle that Javier survived the crossing, and a miracle that he has the talent to now tell his story so masterfully. While Solito is Javier's story, it's also the story of millions of others who have risked so much to come to this country. A memoir that reads like a novel, rooted in precise and authentic detail, this story is destined to be a classic of the immigration experience. --
Américains d'origine salvadorienne --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Border crossing --- Border crossing. --- Enfants immigrants clandestins --- Enfants immigrants non accompagnés --- Illegal immigration --- Illegal immigration. --- Immigrant children. --- Immigrants clandestins --- Immigration clandestine --- Niños inmigrantes. --- Niños refugiados. --- Noncitizen children --- Noncitizen children. --- Noncitizens --- Noncitizens. --- Passage de frontière --- Poets, American. --- Refugee children. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Salvadoran Americans --- Salvadoran Americans. --- Salvadorans --- Salvadorans. --- Salvadoriens --- Unaccompanied immigrant children --- Unaccompanied immigrant children. --- Undocumented Immigrants. --- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional --- Hispanic & Latino. --- Personal Memoirs. --- Conditions sociales --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Emigration & Immigration. --- Zamora, Javier --- Childhood and youth. --- El Salvador. --- Mexico. --- North America --- United States.
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