Showing results for "scott griffiths"

by

Scott Skipper, Toni Eastwood, Holly Iris Scott, Tamara Miller, Lisa Griffiths, Carol J. Elek, Timothy D Coupland, Sharri Cohen

This anthology offers a little something for everyone. You will confront dangerous beasts, demons, dragons, and cold blooded killers. Travel from the Orient to the Grand Canyon and into the universe. Get scared, get amused, and get enchanted. These stories have been crafted by a group of talented and experienced writers from the foothill community of La Verne, California.

by

K. Scott Griffith

Be prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits.Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there is some-game changing technology or catastrophe that gives rise to a “new normal” and sends businesses scrambling for how to rethink themselves to operate under these new conditions.In ...

by

K. Scott Griffith

Narrated by

K. Scott Griffith

Read by the author.Be prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits.Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there is some-game changing technology or catastrophe that gives rise to a “new normal” and sends businesses scrambling for how to rethink themselves to op...

by

Eric Elfmar, Scott Griffiths

What do Richard Branson, Quincy Jones, Yvon Chouinard, David E. Stewart, Elon Musk, Frank Nuovo, John Paul DeJoria and Steve Jobs have in common with Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Sir Isaac Newton? They all share the 12 Essential Traits of the Renaissance Man. BEYOND GENIUS travels through history to determine the 12 essential traits that define a Renaissance Man, then applies those attributes to determine some of the Renaissance Men of today. ...

by

E. Vance Randall, Scott C. Esplin, Casey Paul Griffiths

Educating for Eternity tells the sweeping story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its nearly two-century commitment to K12 education, from log cabins in Kirtland to academies across the American West and schools spanning Mexico, the Pacific, and South America. Rooted in a theology that declares “the glory of God is intelligence,” this volume explores how faith, persecution, migration, financial constraint, and global expansion shaped a distinctive system of ed...

by

Robert Falcon Scott, Beau Riffenburgh, Tom Griffith

Series -

Classics of World Literature

The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott – written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier – are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. ‘Had we lived,’ he wrote, ‘I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.’Scott’s diaries, discovered with his body the next spring and then used as...

by

Jarrod McGrath

Narrated by

Jarrod McGrath, Andrew Griffiths, Rob Scott, Christopher Brown, Rebecca MacCauley

The roles and responsibilities of CEOs have been put to the test in recent years. Never before has the corporate leader had to do business in such a rapidly evolving, globally influenced and turbulent time. For many CEOs this means it's time to rethink strategies, philosophies and tactics.As a CEO of his own company, an Australian Financial Review Top 100 Fast Growth company, Jarrod McGrath knows only too well just what it takes to lead effectively, managing the challenges of being ...

by

Robert Falcon Scott, Tom Griffith

Series -

Classics of World Literature

When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind . . . Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'.So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. When this account of Scott's first Antarctic expedition appeared in 1905 the reviewers recognised it as a masterpiece and the first printing sold out immediately. Scott is best kno...

by

Scott Skipper, Tamara Miller, Lisa Griffiths, Sharri Cohen, Jonathan Chaus, Toni Eastwood, Holly Iris Scott

Contributing authors: Don Ball, Jon Chaus, Sharri Cohen, T.L. Eastwood, Carol Elek, Lisa Griffiths, Sue Maywood, Tamara Miller, Holly Scott, and Scott Skipper offer some autobiographical memories, a little historical fiction, several good creepy tales, some heartwarming stories, a couple of talking animal escapades, action and adventure, and even a children's book about baby hummingbirds. No matter what you're hankering to read, you'll find it here.

by

Ernest Shackleton

South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent.Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing on the Endurance into the Weddell Sea, which was to attempt the actual crossing; and another party o...

by

Benjamin E. Park

**Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize (for best book on the history of Christianity by a North American scholar)New Yorker — "Best Books of 2024"Finalist, Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical SocietyThe first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.**The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in t...

by

David Sedaris

**#1 New York Times bestseller!In this unforgettable collection of essays, acclaimed humorist David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.**Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all so...