The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
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The Right Stuff
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-06-11
The Right Stuff written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY 'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to light the fuse?' Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'? A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making. 'Tom Wolfe at his very best... Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...The Right Stuff is superb' New York Times Book Review
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03 with Science categories.
Men first flew into space in 1961, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth.
Left Brain Right Stuff
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Author : Phil Rosenzweig
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Left Brain Right Stuff written by Phil Rosenzweig and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Dozens of books have been published recently on the errors and biases that affect our judgments and choices. Drawing on cognitive science, their lessons are excellent for many kinds of decisions - consumer choice and financial investments, for example - but stop short of addressing many of the most important decisions we face in management, where we can actively influence outcomes and where competitive forces mean we have to outperform rivals. As Phil Rosenzweig shows, drawing on examples from business, sports and politics, this sort of decision-making relies on mastering two very different abilities. First, the analytical problem-solving skills associated with the brain's left hemisphere; and second, what Tom Wolfe called 'the Right Stuff': the ability to take calculated risks. Bringing fresh and often surprising insights to topics including confidence and overconfidence, the uses and limits of decision models, leadership and authenticity, expert performance and deliberate practice, competitive bidding and new venture management, Left Brain, Right Stuff, the myth-busting follow-up to The Halo Effect, explains how to perform when making even the most difficult decisions.
Summary Of Tom Wolfe S The Right Stuff
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-22T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Tom Wolfe S The Right Stuff written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-22T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The wives were constantly on the phone trying to find out what had happened. The wives would phrase it as if they thought something had happened to their husbands, when in reality, they just wanted to know whose husband it was. #2 The final news that a wife receives is usually delivered by a man with some authority or moral standing. The protocol is for the husband to bring the news in person, not on the telephone. #3 The next series of calls increased the likelihood that it was Pete who had died. Only 20 men were left in the squadron, and soon 9 or 10 had been accounted for by the fluttering reports of the death angels. Jane knew that only two men were unaccounted for: her husband, Pete, and a pilot named Bud Jennings. #4 The smell of burned beyond recognition permeated the air when airplane fuel exploded. It was so intense that everything except the hardest metals burned and gave up the ghost in the form of every stricken putrid gas known to chemistry.
The Man Eating Leopardof Rudraprayag
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language : en
Publisher: Saptarshee Prakashan
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The Man Eating Leopardof Rudraprayag written by and has been published by Saptarshee Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
A Man In Full
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-06-21
A Man In Full written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with Fiction categories.
A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom Wolfe Charlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king. His expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000 acre quail shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty downtown tower with a staggering load of debt. Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. ‘Enthralling enough even to satisfy The Bonfire of the Vanities devotees...humane and redemptive’ – Sunday Times
Hooking Up
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-10-31
Hooking Up written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with Literary Collections categories.
In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush art at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting and wise, Wolfe remains a unique master-chronicler of America and its future.
The Kingdom Of Speech
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-08-25
The Kingdom Of Speech written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Science categories.
'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe’s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books Of All Time
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Author : Robert McCrum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books Of All Time written by Robert McCrum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Back To Blood
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-23
Back To Blood written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Fiction categories.
A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.