by mrbooks on February 9, 2010
- ISBN13: 9781439156964
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product DescriptionJeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and non-compliance were both their curse and their salvation hard. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. Initially, they lived like nomads, moving among the cities in the desert south-west, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man, if he sober, captured the imagination of children, teaching them physics, geology, and above all how to embrace life fearlessly. Mary Rose, who wrote and painted and it could not bear the responsibility for providing for his family, called himself an “addict” excitement. “Prepare a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes if no appeal if a painting that could might last forever. Later, when the money is, or is the romance of the wandering life gone, the walls were removed, the mining town of West Virginia dark – and the family – Rex Walls had everything he could to escape done. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for several days. .. More>>
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by mrbooks on February 8, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780307266309
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description Full amazing characters, amazing sports performance, modern science, and especially pure inspiration, “Born to Run” is an epic adventure that began with a simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall is looking for a strain of the greatest distance runners in the world and learn their secrets, while showing us that everything we thought we knew the run was bad. By the wildest country in North America, the shy Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon of Mexico Isolated killers are the guardians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced the techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and something to chase a deer to Olympic marathoner, while enjoying every mile of it. Disturb your superhuman talent through the health and the peace and balance, so that the Tarahumara torment immune diseases and disorders of modern life. With the help of Caballo. . . More>>
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by mrbooks on February 8, 2010
- everything we think we know about what motivates us is wrong
- Riverhead Hardcover
- 1594488843
- Daniel H. Pink
Product DescriptionForget everything you thought about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. He is wrong. When Daniel H. Pink says in his new paradigm shattering book Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, the secret of high performance and satisfaction in today’s world of the profoundly human need is our own direct to live, learn new things, and it better for us and our world. Based on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink describes the gap between what scientists know and what company – and how it affects all aspects of our lives. It shows that even if the old carrot and stick method successfully in the 20th Century work, is a very poor way to motivate people to meet the challenges of today are. The reader is shown that the three elements of the true motivation: * Autonomy: b. the desire to direct your own life * master the urge to . . More>>
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by mrbooks on February 8, 2010
by mrbooks on February 8, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780307268198
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product DescriptionFrom Andre Agassi, one of the most popular athlete in history and one of the most talented ever get on a tennis court, a beautiful haunting autobiography. Agassi incredibly hard training began when he was a child. At the age of thirteen, he is banished to a tennis camp in Florida, which feels like a prison camp. Loneliness, anxiety, ninth class left, he rebelled in a way that he will soon make an icon of the 1980s. He dyed his hair, pierced ears, dressed like a punk rocker. When he was sixteen professional who promises her new face forever change the courts, as well as his back very quickly. And yet, despite its raw talent, he struggles early. We believe that he will lose his confusion, to the best of greatest confusion in the world, as he begins to win. After stumbling to three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world and themselves by capturing the Wimbledon 1992nd One night, he was a lot of favorites and a target media. Agassi BIS. . . More>>
Open: An Autobiography
by mrbooks on February 7, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780425235676
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description The New York Times bestselling series. When Anita Blake meets with potential customers, Tony Bennington, who is desperate to revive his wife have recently died, she was full of sympathy for their loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything you know about the loss. But they also know that even if Tony Bennington is apparently not willing to be convinced that what she can as a magician is not the wonder he thinks he needs. The creature, which could force Anita, from the grave of the late Mrs. Bennington was not the beautiful woman Bennington. Not really. And not for long. . . . More>>
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