![]() ![]() ![]() In this age of start-ups, Knight’s Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world.īut Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. ![]() ![]() Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. Phil Knight opens up in ways few CEOs are willing to do.”įresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. It’s a messy, perilous, and chaotic journey, riddled with mistakes, endless struggles, and sacrifice. In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.īill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of the year and called it “an amazing tale, a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. ![]()
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National Hypertension Control Initiative.Pets and Your Health / Healthy Bond for Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He later taught English in Busan, South Korea before embarking on a pioneering multi-year digital nomad journey, writing from-the-road travel dispatches for such dialup-era online outlets as (which later became ). The son of schoolteachers from Wichita, Kansas, Potts' earliest vagabonding journeys included hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest, and taking an eight-month "van life before #VanLife" Volkswagen Vanagon journey around North America in the early 1990s. The lifestyle philosophies he outlined in Vagabonding are considered to have been a key influence on the digital nomad movement. ![]() He has written five books, including Vagabonding (Random House, 2003), Marco Polo Didn't Go There (Travelers Tales, 2008), Souvenir (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Vagabond's Way (Ballantine, 2022). Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, podcaster, and author. Rolf Potts talks about his book Marco Polo Didn't Go There ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The district attorney’s office, Randy tells her, isn’t just about “pulling legal tricks….These guys are in deep with the police and the sheriff’s department.” Evidently, they’re suspiciously connected to a few judges as well. This is the first of several cases that Sam will handle over the course of the novel, and it’s also the one that causes her private-detective colleague, Randy Martinez, to warn her that moving into felony work has placed her in a new, and nasty, arena. Andrea’s defense is that Robbie was attacking her and that she was just holding the knife for protection. ![]() She’s spent a year handling mostly misdemeanor cases, but as this book opens, she’s representing Andrea Owens, a woman who’s been accused of stabbing her boyfriend, Robbie Johnson. Her clients are mainly poor, with many sitting in the county lockup, unable to make bail. Debut author Fomby ( Private Eyes, 2017), a Texas attorney, takes on the entrenched legal system in Blair County, Texas, in the first installment of a new series featuring young criminal defense attorney Samantha “Sam” Tulley.Īfter her husband, Luke, was killed in a car crash, Sam left a promising career at a large Houston law firm to start her own small-town practice in criminal law, working out of her home in Blair County, where she raises her 3-year-old daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse-mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. ![]() ![]() For a time, Siddhartha is content with his life and is able to maintain a Samana-like distance from material concerns. Siddhartha begins working for a wealthy merchant named Kamaswami and becomes Kamala’s lover. Kamala says he needs money, clothes, and shoes. He offers himself to her as a student in the art of love, but is gently rebuffed. Siddhartha travels to a nearby town where he is entranced by the beauty of a well-known courtesan named Kamala. ![]() He decides instead that he’s an independent learner and is done with doctrine. Despite Govinda’s urgings and despite recognizing Gotama as the Holiest Man Ever, Siddhartha opts not to follow Gotama. Govinda is impressed and chooses to join Gotama’s community of monks. Although the two friends learn quite a bit from the Samana way of life, they are still dissatisfied and decide to hear the teachings of Gotama Buddha. His best friend, Govinda, accompanies him, and the two men spend three years with the Samanas learning how to withstand pain and hunger in an effort to flee the body’s limitations. Siddhartha decides to join the Samanas, who are a group of wandering ascetics. He is spiritually dissatisfied and believes the elders in his community have nothing more to teach him. He’s well-loved, but unhappy despite his popularity. Siddhartha (don't call him Sidd he hates that) grows up in a prosperous Brahman family. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It could be a curriculum vitae, a resume. The ache of knowing that dust's history, without knowing its exact origin, haunted McCann. The reactions of McCann's main characters to the stunt range from gripping fear that the tight-rope walker will fall, to disinterest or even disgust. "What I was most interested in was not so much Philip Petit but the people who were on the ground, the people who walk the sort-of little tightrope of our ordinary everyday moments," McCann says. ![]() Petit's death-defying act is familiar - it's also the subject of the documentary Man On Wire - but McCann tells Steve Inskeep that the people below were the ones whose lives he wanted to explore. The book, by Colum McCann, won the National Book Award for fiction earlier this month. The tight-rope walk is the event around which a new novel, Let the Great World Spin, revolves. He danced, ran and lay down, performing for the crowd that had gathered more than 100 stories below his feet, before dismounting into the custody of New York police officers. That morning, Philippe Petit crossed a wire stretched between the towers eight times. On a gray morning in August 1974, a man stepped off the edge of the yet-to-be completed World Trade Center and into history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Persephone, formally known as Kore, has suffered the effects of having a helicopter mother her entire life, so when she earns a scholarship to Olympus University, she jumps at the chance to be on her own. ![]() ![]() In Smythe’s comic, the mortal world is still in the time of ancient Greece, and the immortal world is set in modern times with modern luxuries like phones, laptops and Fatesbook, a social media site. The story is based on the tale of Persephone who is traditionally stolen by Hades to become his wife, but the creator spins a new tale of how the King of the Underworld fell in love with a nineteen year old, spring goddess, leaving home for the first time. Rachel Smythe, creator of Lore Olympus, takes the legends of the Greek gods in a new direction by depicting them in a modernized Olympus. The comic takes the audience into the world of the Greek gods, exposing all of the drama and romance of their lives. Olympus, the fabled paradise of the gods is a bustling human like city with the crazy drama of a reality show in WEBTOON’s Lore Olympus. ![]() ![]() ![]() They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals to sell or barter for goods. However their ambitions are sorely tested by hunger and thirst, while dangerous creatures such as the grizzly bear strike terror in their hearts. The Adventures of the Mountain Men The mountain men were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mi d-1800s. Many members of the group were fur traders by profession in scouting the vast landscape of the Rockies, they hoped to discover new and prized game to catch. The band of explorers are beset with difficulties the harsh, craggy lay of the land, ferocious creatures, and the various Native American tribes put the men through the greatest physical and mental tests. Embarking on his spectacular journey with a company of seventy like-minded fellows, Leonard chronicles the many perils and trials the group encountered through their lengthy voyage deep into unknown territory. Zenas Leonard was a wilderness explorer who journeyed across and charted the perilous Rocky Mountains in the early 19th century, keeping this diary as he went. The band of explorers are beset with difficulties the harsh, craggy lay of the land, ferocious creatures, and the various Native American tribes put the men. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But since their crazy-sexy night together, he’s been trying to forget about her alluring body by falling into bed with every woman in Nashville, and it’s not working. Only a check to the head could make Erik fall for a nice girl like Piper. And then, a few weeks later, a very big surprise: two blue lines on a pregnancy test. followed by inevitable heartbreak the next morning. What follows is the wildest night of her life. So when he sidles up to her at a bar and slinks his arm around her waist, she’s lost. The instant Piper Allen sees Erik Titov, she wants him-wants his rock-hard body, sure, but the strength and mystery that lie behind that superstar hockey jock demeanor, too. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROpposites do more than just attract in USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo’s latest Nashville Assassins novel about a very bad boy and the good girl he can’t resist. ![]() |