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We Ain't Too Bright, Are We?

By: David Aragon

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This book was written by a middle class, construction worker, welder, mechanic, ranch hand, cowboy, educator, former president of a union local, shop steward and US Marine who cares about Americans and America. I wanted to let my feelings out as to what I see happening to this country. For this to be happening in this country, we couldnt be too bright. When people forget to use common sense, stop representing the people who voted them in, all in the name off lobbyists, special interest, lies, to be bought out to pass bills that spend money they dont have. When this country is set up to bring hard times on hard working Americans for power and money, America is in trouble. When the news media sells out for high salaries to lie to Americans and not in their best interest its time you question what they are doing. When Americans are willing to give their lives for this country and come back from overseas duty and are said to be enemies of the state, along with people who still believe in religion, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Its time to start asking question of our leadership. When our leaders tell illegal aliens to break our laws, the laws they took an oath to defend, its time we start looking for leaders who will up hold the laws. Money doesnt make you rich but knowing right from wrong does, as does being willing to stand for that your country makes you richer. Our forefathers gave us that gift by doing just that stood up for this country with their blood. Freedoms and the right to pursue happiest makes you rich because if you use it right youll find happiness. Money doesnt always give you that. Now the government thinks they know whats best for use. But as Jefferson said when then government acts under the pretense of taking care of you lose freedoms and rights. Now they are using backdoor tactics to take these rights away from you under the pretense they know what better for you then you do and theyll protect us from ourselves. Why? Because we just aint to bright are we? I am richer than 95% of these rich people because I was blessed with a beautiful wife of 38 years, two sons, a new grandson, and two great daughter-in-laws along with great families on both sides. I have friends from Mexico to Canada because I traveled competing in the sport I love and skill does compete in. I dont have to destroy peoples lives because of money and power. My family has had its hard times as well as our good times but we were willing to work them out for the betterment of the whole. All because of what our forefather taught us about freedoms. We now have people in government calling us a dirty nation (but look what this country has given them) and yet they belittle it to other countries for their interest with no pride in what this country has done to make the world a better place. They point fingers while they are doing the same thing under the cover of their pointed fingers and Americans cant see for the words and promises and lies. All this because of smooth talking salespeople. Wake up before they spend you and your grand kids into a debt they never recover from. Wake up before the end of this country as we know it and want to pass on to our future is gone because of people wanting an elite ruling class. They are willing to divide this country with an old war tactic of divide and conquer, by using hate and prejudice to get the job done with not caring about the aftermath of what they have done. Thats not leadership but greed. All we have to do to change for the better is get smart, find Americans who believe in Americans and America and vote them in. Not Politicians, but Americans with common sense and desire to made this once great country Great Again. Vote in 2010 for true change by voting us out of debt by voting our congress out.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514453886

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Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours

Turning Adversity into Success

By: David Heenan

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Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours

Turning Adversity into Success

By: David Heenan

The dark hours: They occur when we find things spiraling out of control, when we feel most vulnerable and incapable of finding a solution. In a world often turned dark and cold, more and more people seem to be trapped in nightmarish circumstances. Americans, the world's optimists, when faced with an intractable situation, are taught to believe that through hardwork and will power they can "beat the odds." Yet, according to David Heenan, keeping one's nose to the grindstone may actually make things worse. Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours examines the lives of ten extraordinary people who overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success. From New York City school chancellor Joel Klein taking on the monumental task of overhauling the city's embattled public school system to renowned scientist Shirley Ann Jackson breaking down barriers to become the first African American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT and head a major research university to retired U.S. Navy Commander Scott Waddle reshaping his life after the Ehime Maru disaster--in these inspiring stories Heenan identifies key strategies that helped each person stay upbeat in the swirling vortex of tough times. The final chapter outlines these practices in greater detail and explains how they can be used to create personal roadmaps to negotiate life's darkest hours--from which come its greatest successes, its brightest triumphs.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860551

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Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone.

Career Essentials for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Sales Representatives

By: David Currier

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Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone.

Career Essentials for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Sales Representatives

By: David Currier

A great way to jump-start your career in pharmaceutical and biotechnology sales! "Be brief, be bright, be gone" is the philosophy that launched David Currier to a successful career as a pharmaceutical sales representative. Simply stated, this approach encourages aspiring sales professionals to: Be brief-Keep your sales presentations short and to the point. Be bright-Understand your product and its clinical context. Be gone-Respect your customer's time. But that is only one piece of advice an aspiring representative should retain from this book. This book also covers: Pros and cons of a career in pharma/biotech sales How to land a job with a major pharma/biotech company Getting to know your customers (physicians and hospitals) Selling skills, basic etiquette, sales call basics and lots more, including 10 key tips that help ensure long-term career success. This is the book that top pharmaceutical and biotech sales trainers have asked for! "I wish I read this book when I got started. It is easily the best book I have seen on the subject."-Ellen F. Simes, Springfield, MA, Pharma/biotech trainer "Anyone even thinking about a career in the industry should read this book."-Pam Marinko, Wilmington, NC, Pharma/biotech trainer "Wow! Very well done. Some really good information for folks just starting out-and for veterans like me, too."-JoAnne Skypeck, Holyoke, MA, Pharmaceutical sales representative

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iUniverse

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1462040748

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9781462040742

The Ciphers of the Monks

A Forgotten Number-notation of the Middle Ages

By: David A. King

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The Ciphers of the Monks

A Forgotten Number-notation of the Middle Ages

By: David A. King

This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.

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Franz Steiner Verlag

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3515076409

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9783515076401

The Bright Ages

A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele,David M. Perry

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The Bright Ages

A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele,David M. Perry

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante—inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy—writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world “lit only by fire” but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.

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HarperCollins

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0062980912

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9780062980915

Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges

By: Kay W. Scott,David L. Scott

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Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges

By: Kay W. Scott,David L. Scott

This book is an insider’s guide to finding the best lodges throughout the United States—and to securing a reservation well in advance to beat the crowds.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762755784

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9780762755783

Satellites of the Outer Planets

Worlds in Their Own Right

By: David A. Rothery

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Satellites of the Outer Planets

Worlds in Their Own Right

By: David A. Rothery

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of David A. Rothery's acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black and white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery, a noted planetary scientist, explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets. This fascinating book is written in an introductory style ideal for first- or second-year college courses. Amateur geologists and astronomers will also find its insights rewarding.

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019512555X

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Japan

A Documentary History

By: David John Lu

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Japan

A Documentary History

By: David John Lu

Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. This is a combination of volumes one and two.

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M.E. Sharpe

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1563249065

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9781563249068

Bright Eyes

A Kunoichi Tale

By: David Kudler

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Bright Eyes

A Kunoichi Tale

By: David Kudler

Can one girl stop a killer? The future of Japan hangs in the balance, and it's up to a girl who likes to climb to save the day Two armies have descended on the Full Moon, and the war that has torn Japan apart for over a century threatens to destroy Lady Chiyome's school for young shrine maidens (and assassins). In this thrilling sequel to Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale, Risuko must face warlords, samurai, angry cooks, a monster in the hills, the truth about her father, a spy among the kunoichi... And a murderer. Someone kills a Takeda lieutenant, staging it to look like suicide. Can Risuko figure out who would do such thing? And can she keep it from happening again? Reviews: "Once again David Kudler has fully succeeded as a novelist with a genuine flair for historical fiction populated by memorably crafted characters and decidedly entertaining plot twists and turns. Like the first novel in the author's 'Seasons of the Sword' series, Bright Eyes is imaginative, original, exceptionally well written, and highly recommended" - Midwest Book Review

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1938808622

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9781938808623

Shadows of Bright

By: David Trevelyan

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Shadows of Bright

By: David Trevelyan

Twenty years after joining St Julians Hospice, Dr David Trevelyan faces a crisis of conviction with the opening of an assisted dying centre within its grounds. But then something extraordinary happens that has repercussions for him, the hospice and further afield. The evolving story, linked to events at a mission hospital in Africa almost fifty years before, encompasses the satirical, the supernatural and the surreal, and provides a backdrop to an exploration of moral courage, dignity in dying, and Christian faith.

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1524633402

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Big and Bright

A History of the McDonald Observatory

By: David S. Evans,J. Derral Mulholland

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Big and Bright

A History of the McDonald Observatory

By: David S. Evans,J. Derral Mulholland

By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the night sky. This is the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, one of the world's largest university-operated astronomical installations. Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory is the story of a remarkable collaboration between two major universities, one a prestigious private school, the other a growing southwestern state institution. The University of Chicago had astronomers, but its Yerkes Observatory was aging and underfunded; the University of Texas had money for an observatory but no working astronomer to staff it. Out of their mutual need, they formed a thirty-year compact for a joint venture. Unusual in its day, the Yerkes-McDonald connection presaged the future. In this arrangement, one can see some of the beginnings of today's consortium "big science." Now the McDonald Observatory's early history can be put in proper perspective. Blessed with a gifted and driving founding director, the world's (then) second-largest telescope, and an isolation that permitted it to be virtually the only major astronomical observatory that continued operations throughout World War II, the staff of McDonald Observatory helped lay the foundations of modern astrophysics during the 1940s. For over a decade after the war, a lonely mountaintop in West Texas was the mecca that drew nearly all the most important astronomers from all over the world. Based on personal reminiscences and archival material, as well as published historical sources, Big and Bright is one of the few histories of a major observatory, unique in its focus on the human side of the story.

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0292707622

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Bright Air Black

A Novel

By: David Vann Bright

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Bright Air Black

A Novel

By: David Vann Bright

A “sensual, brutal . . . ambitious, dazzling, disturbing, and memorable” retelling of Jason and the Argonauts seen through the eyes of Medea (Financial Times). International bestselling and multi-prize-winning author David Vann transports readers to the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 3,250 years ago, for “[a] stunning depiction of one of mythology’s most complex characters” (The Australian). It is thirteenth century BC, and the Argo is bound for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia’s Colchis with the valiant Jason, the equally heroic Argonauts, and the treasured symbol of kingship, the Golden Fleece. Aboard as well is Medea, semi-divine priestess, and a believer in power, not gods. Having fled her father, and butchered her brother, she is embarking on a conquest of her own. Rejected for her gender, Medea is hungry for revenge, and to right the egregious fate of being born a woman in a world ruled by men. In Bright Air Black, “David Vann blow[s] away all the elegance and toga-clad politeness . . . around our idea of ancient Greece . . . to reveal the bare bones of the Archaic period in all their bloody, reeking nastiness (The Times, London), and to deliver a bracing alternative to the long-held notions of Medea as monster or sorceress. We witness Medea’s humanity, her Bronze Age roots and position in Greek society, her love affair with Jason, the cataclysmic repercussions of betrayal, and the drive of an impassioned woman—victim, survivor, and ultimately, agent of her own destiny. The most intimate and corporal version of Medea’s story ever told, Bright Air Black “a compelling study of human nature stripped to its most elemental” (The Guardian).

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0802189636

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9780802189639

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

By: Iván Blanco ,David Wehrheim

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Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

By: Iván Blanco ,David Wehrheim

Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.

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Ed. Universidad de Cantabria

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8481028770

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Book's by David Bright

We Ain't Too Bright, Are We?

We Ain't Too Bright, Are We?

Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours

Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours

Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone.

Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone.

The Ciphers of the Monks

The Ciphers of the Monks

The Bright Ages

The Bright Ages

Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges

Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges

Satellites of the Outer Planets

Satellites of the Outer Planets

Japan

Japan

Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes

Shadows of Bright

Shadows of Bright

Big and Bright

Big and Bright

Bright Air Black

Bright Air Black

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

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