Tim: 4567 books
Bicycle Touring How-To
What We Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Discover the secrets of a successful bicycle tour.Bicycle Touring How-To is all about learning how to bicycle tour from the ground up—and quickly—because that's just what authors Tim and Debbie Bishop did when they ventured across America after marrying. "How-To" contains tips on equipment,...
Tropical Warning
An Original Serge Storms Story and Other Debris
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A quirky new collection by New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey. In the tradition of Pineapple Grenade and The Riptide Ultra-Glide, a peculiar new volume of odds and ends from the world of everyone's favorite Florida psychopath—Serge Storms!
Among the flotsam and jetsam of Dorsey's...
The Grail Bird
The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“The Grail Bird is an enjoyable read . . . A powerful call for conservation, and an exciting bird adventure” (The Boston Globe).
What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range...
The Legend of Red Klotz
How Basketball’s Loss Leader Won Over the World—14,000 Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Red Klotz helped introduce the game of basketball to more than 100 countries around the world during a career spanning back to the 1920s. As owner of the Washington Generals for 60-plus years, Red played in and/or coached—and lost—more than 14,000 games to the Harlem Globetrotters. However, in 1971,...
Translating Style
A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of...
Out of the Ashes
The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Afghanistan cricket team
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Cool Runnings meets Joseph O'Neill's Netherland in an inspiring and feel-good story of bravery and sporting success from a country so widely known for war and extremism. This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations....
Smarter Investing 3rd edn
Simpler Decisions for Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Simple yet effective advice for anyone who wants their money to work harder than they do.
Most investment books offer a bewildering array of complex strategies for how best to invest your money. But often the chances of success are remote and the rules are impossible to follow in...
REO Boom
How to Manage, List, and Cash in on Bank-Owned Properties: An Insiders Guide for Real Estate Agents
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Imagine having a proven how-to manual for cashing in on the next big wave to hit the real estate industry. That next wave is REOs—real estate owned, or bank-owned, properties that have been repossessed through foreclosure—and REO Boom is that guide.Aram and Tim know REOs. They have over 7 years of...
The Business of IT
How to Improve Service and Lower Costs, Portable Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Drive More Business Value from IT…
and Bridge the Gap Between IT and Business Leadership
Apply business practices throughout IT to optimize budgets and improve ROI
Create higher satisfaction and more realistic expectations for IT throughout the business
Written by two leading IBM experts...
Money in a Free Society
Keynes, Friedman, and the New Crisis in Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the 15 years to mid-2007 the world economy enjoyed unparalleled stability (the so-called Great Moderation”), with steady growth and low inflation. But the period since mid-2007 (the Great Recession”) has seen the worst macroeconomic turmoil since the 1930s. A dramatic plunge in trade, output...
The 1% and the Rest of Us
A Political Economy of Dominant Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
While the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth and privilege held by 1% of the population in nations across the world. In The 1% and the Rest of Us, Tim Di Muzio...
by Tim Conde
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This is a one-stop source book into the field of buying and selling merchandise from garage sales, estate sales, auctions, etc., preparing it for resale, and reselling it for substantial profits. The book covers everything from the things you will need before making this into a business, the best,...
3 Weeks to Startup
A High Speed Guide to Starting a Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Three weeks? Can you really start a business in three weeks? Yes, you can. Tim Berry, business planning expert and principal author of Business Plan Pro, the country’s bestselling business plan software, and Sabrina Parsons, co-founder of Palo Alto Software UK, unveil a new, more innovative business...
Drive
A Road Trip Through Our Complicated Affair With The Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Liberation, lust, envy, rage, power, thrill—our cars provoke enough emotion to jam a six-lane highway.
If you name your ride, reminisce about sex in the back seat or enjoy roaring down the open road, you know why we love our wheels. But if you hate traffic, curse at the price at the pump...