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Author | : Hakeem Oluseyi |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0349430322 |
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In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics. Navigating poverty, violence, and instability, a young James Plummer had two guiding stars-a genius IQ and a love of science. But a bookish nerd was a soft target in his community, where James faced years of bullying and abuse. As he struggled to survive his childhood in some of the country's toughest urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Houston, and LA, and later in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, he adopted the persona of "gangsta nerd"-dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that model Einstein's theory of relativity. Once admitted to the elite physics PhD program at Stanford University, James found himself pulled between the promise of a bright future and a dangerous crack cocaine habit he developed in college. With the encouragement of his mentor and the sole Black professor in the physics department, James confronted his personal demons as well as the entrenched racism and classism of the scientific establishment. When he finally seized his dream of a life in astrophysics, he adopted a new name, Hakeem Muata Oluseyi, to honor his African ancestors. Alternately heartbreaking and hopeful, A QUANTUM LIFE narrates one man's remarkable quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice.
Author | : Anne Millard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1465407731 |
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Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.
Author | : Geoff Smart |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0345504194 |
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In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.
Author | : Reed Farrel Coleman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440561176 |
Download Onion Street Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Robert B. Parker’sBlind Spot comes a Moe Prager Mystery. It's 1967 and Moe Prager is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Suddenly, Moe has purpose. He is determined to find out who's done this to Mindy and why. But Mindy is not the only person in Moe's life who's in danger. Someone is also trying to kill his best and oldest friend, Bobby Friedman. Things get really strange when Moe enlists the aid of Lids, a half-cracked genius drug pusher from the old neighborhood. Lids hooks Moe up with his first solid information. Problem is, the info seems to take Moe in five directions at once and leads to more questions than answers. How is a bitter old camp survivor connected to the dead man in the apartment above his fixit shop, or to the OD-ed junkie found on the boardwalk in Coney Island? What could an underground radical group have to do with the local Mafioso capo? And where do Mindy and Bobby fit into any of this? Moe will risk everything to find the answers. He will travel from the pot-holed pavement of Brighton Beach to the Pocono Mountains to the runways at Kennedy Airport. But no matter how far he goes or how fast he gets there, all roads lead to Onion Street.
Author | : Ann Petry |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547525346 |
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Author | : Rob Marriott |
Publisher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African American entertainers |
ISBN | : 9780812967937 |
Download Astrology Uncut Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
""The wait is over. Astrology "Uncut" is heah to provide salvation to the confused, wayward, and game-deprived. Now let us bow our heads and read. . . ." With "Astrology "Uncut, the language of the stars meets the code of the streets, the zodiac goes gangsta, and you find out how the day you were born makes you Superfly or Superfreak. Whether you're a schizophrenic Scorpio like Ol' Dirty Bastard, Capricorn cool like Mary J. Blige, or a prideful Leo cat like Jennifer Lopez, this post-hiphop manifesto dishes out the good, the bad, and everything in between--from why you gossip so damn much (communication rules Geminis!) to why you are likely to cry while watching Oprah (sensitive Cancers). You will also discover your sign's - booty rating (none, onion, or badoonkadoonk?) - worst-case scenario (Virgo: postsurgery Michael Jackson; Aries: Suge Knight?) - favorite accessory (mirror or money counter?) - erogenous zone (your office or your mama's bed?) - mix tape (music by and for cats under their sun sign) - moment (Capricorn Frazier knocking out Capricorn Ali or Libran Cochran rhyming in the courtroom?) Written by former editors of "The Source and "Honey, this is the no-holds-barred astrological guide to ghettobility--a combination of mental fitness, trifeness, and street smarts. It tells you the real deal on your sign's personality in a way that no other astrology book can.
Author | : Tamora Pierce |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545405858 |
Download Street Magic (The Circle Opens #2) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle Opens quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.Briar Moss been training four years as a plant mage, but he hasn't put his past behind him. He meets a street girl, Evvy, using powerful magic to polish stones for a merchant, and resolves to find her a teacher. But Briar understands the city's gangs as well as he understands Evvy. When gang warfare breaks out, he discovers that the fiercest gang is seeking a stone mage to lead them to hidden gems. Only Briar and his magic can offer Evvy protection. Swept up in a bloody conflict, Briar must decide if he's ready to make the final step away from his former life as a "street rat".
Author | : Jerrie Oughton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395779385 |
Download How the Stars Fell Into the Sky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
Author | : Sue Soltis |
Publisher | : Candlewick |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763698342 |
Download The Stars Just Up the Street Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A grandpa’s memories of brilliant night skies inspire a little girl to take action in a tale for budding community organizers and star lovers alike. Mabel loves stars. She counts five from her window and thirty-seven from her backyard. But her grandfather tells her that, as a child, he could see thousands. Could it be true? Mabel climbs a hill looking for more stars — only to discover that the glow from the nearby town makes them hard to see. What would it take for her neighbors to turn off their lights, just for one night, so that everyone could see the starlit sky? Sue Soltis’s tale of a young activist and Christine Davenier’s luminous illustrations will leave readers curious about the dark-sky movement — and the wonder that is waiting for them just up the street.
Author | : Boris Groysberg |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012-03-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691154511 |
Download Chasing Stars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be. Chasing Stars offers profound insights into the fundamental nature of outstanding performance. It also offers practical guidance to individuals on how to manage their careers strategically, and to companies on how to identify, develop, and keep talent. --Publisher's description.