Snook: 34 books
by David Snook
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Growing up Snook is the humorous memoir of surviving a large family of 11 children. The book deals with the trials and tribulations of poverty, with enduring friendships, and it is written with a wicked sense of humor that was honed by the need to stand out in a crowded living room.
The book begins...
Of Land, Sea And Sky 2nd Extended Edition
Escapades Of A Modern Day Adventurer And Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The unconventional and unlikely life of an east end lad. Born and raised in Walthamstow by parents from Stoke Newington and Hackney the life Malcolm Snook has lead and continues to lead could hardly be what his parents or peers would have expected.
His first real career was as a skydiving...
How Ya Gettin’ On?
Snook Writes about Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
“HowYaGettin’On?” is how downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, corner boy Snook says hello. He’s been hanging around, telling yarns, and having a laugh for over thirty years now, and this is his welcome for you to read all about some of that. Known as a fast talker and funny laugher, Snook...
Friendly Fire
The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their...
by Edith Snook
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts,...
The Discover Your True North Fieldbook
A Personal Guide to Finding Your Authentic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A personal guide for becoming an authentic leader
Whether you are just starting your leadership journey or leading a large organization, The Discover Your True North Fieldbook will help you find your leadership purpose, that internal Compass that provides direction and keeps you oriented—your...
by Malcolm Snook
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Many people still read Napoleon Hill's iconic book 'Think And Grow Rich' but Hill took it for granted that his readers knew the men he had studied. And indeed his contemporaries did know them, just as we are familiar with the life stories of men like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Bill Clinton...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 and 24
Invention of the Barbarian and Greek Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 23 and 24 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group:
Invention of the Barbarianby Alastair Thorley
Greek Artby Athina Mitropoulos and...
How To Anchor Safely
So You Sleep Well!
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
When I did my sailing courses anchoring was discussed but not practiced. When I became a liveaboard boat gypsy, spending most of every summer at anchor, (whenever I wasn't sailing anyway) in order to avoid peak visitors rates in marinas, I suddenly discovered there's a lot more to it than just how...
Into the Jaws of Death
British Military Blunders 1879 - 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the 20th century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the 'savage wars of peace'. In his new work on the most dramatic Victorian campaigns Mike Snook...
Like Wolves on the Fold
The Defence of Rorke’s Drift
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment...
Make It Right
5 Steps to Align Your Manufacturing Business from the Frontline to the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Leading a manufacturing business does not need to be so difficult!
Manufacturing can be frustrating because of endless people challenges, equipment failures, schedule interruptions, and the looming threat of major quality issues. Labor costs rise, employee and customer expectations increase,...
Beyond the Reach of Empire
Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn...
Let Me Be Frank
My Life at Virginia Tech
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on more than a quarter-century leading the Virginia Tech program....