The Man With a Million Stories

The Man With a Million Stories
Author: Zenus Windsor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1504929020

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Baptist minister for fifty-eight years, still actively preaching at rural churches. Serving two churches now and lives in Lineville, Alabama, with wife, Margaret. This is his first book. Life in east central rural Alabama during from the forties and fifties.

Outwitting History

Outwitting History
Author: Aaron Lansky
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781565125131

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“Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review “A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New York Post “What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque romp, a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world.” —The Boston Globe “Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book.” —The Sunday Oregonian As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called “the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history.” In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country collecting books. Introducing us to a dazzling array of writers, he shows us how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the old world and the future—and how the written word can unite everyone who believes in the power of great literature. A Library Journal Best Book A Massachusetts Book Award Winner in Nonfiction An ALA Notable Book

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Author: Jim Paul
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231164688

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Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors. This book--winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal--begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul's $1.6 million loss and the essential lessons he learned from it--primarily that, although there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in them, all losses come from the same few sources. Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already made. Paul and Moynihan's cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the dangers of investing, trading, and speculating.

Millions of Cats

Millions of Cats
Author: Wanda Gág
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1928
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

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How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions.

Running & Being

Running & Being
Author: George Sheehan
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1609619315

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A New York Times bestseller for 14 weeks in 1978, Running & Being became known as the philosophical bible for runners around the world. More than thirty years after its initial publication, it remains every bit as relevant today. Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running & Being tells of the author's midlife return to the world of exercise, play and competition, in which he found "a world beyond sweat" that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal growth. But Running & Being focuses more on life than it does, specifically, on running. It provides an outline for a lifetime program of fitness and joy, showing how the body helps determine our mental and spiritual energies. Drawing from the words and actions of the great athletes and thinkers throughout history, Sheehan ties it all together with his own philosophy on the importance of fitness and sport, as well as his knowledge of training, injury prevention, and race competition. Above all, Sheehan describes what it means to experience the oneness of body and mind, of self and the universe. In this, Sheehan argues, we have the power to discover "the truth that makes men free."

Four Million Stories

Four Million Stories
Author: The OMSCWP
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1291382577

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This is the fourth collection of the best international short stories as submitted to the One Million Stories Creative Writing Project at millionstories.net through 2012. It takes a great deal of courage to take a story and put it out there in the world, to try and make a connection. That has happened for all twenty-three of the authors featured here. Some are old hands, others have never had a story published anywhere before. That they chose us is our good fortune, that you now hold this book in your hands, is your good fortune! You will discover stories of childhood both cursed and blessed, but all fascinating. There are tales from the end of life's journey too, some prosaic, others quite mad, but throughout, the general flavour is positive, uplifting. Keep a hold of this book. There are names in here you will read again, perhaps on the spine of a book in your local store, maybe on a blog, who knows?

The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451678185

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Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology

One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology
Author: Million Stories
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446703533

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This exciting new collection is a distillation of the global zeitgeist captured by the Project in 2010. Twenty new stories from new and established writers take the reader on an epic journey across an archipelago of ideas: family tension; volcanic ash; political oppression; the perils of air travel; a suicide bombing. Cleverly weaving questions of cultural identity and belonging, these talented authors present an authentic vision of the world.

10 Million Stories, Volume 6; Parallel of Latitude

10 Million Stories, Volume 6; Parallel of Latitude
Author: Alice The Poet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2011-02-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1257111175

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Parallel of Latitude is the sixth installment of the 10 Million Stories series written by the remarkably talented Alice The Poet Nicholas. Poetry, commentary and short fiction are the elements of this sixth volume and are all at once creative, groundbreaking, funny, serious and relevant, oh so relevant.

Atlantic

Atlantic
Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062020102

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"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchester's Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history.