A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin. With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, this is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying in vast wheels over the colony, bringing fish in their beaks back to the chicks. However, the species has declined sharply over the last decade; this is due to a collapse in fish stocks caused by overfishing and global warming, combined with an exponential increase in Pipefish (which can kill the chicks). The Puffin is a revised and expanded second edition of Poyser's 1984 title on these endearing birds, widely considered to be a Poyser classic. It includes sections on their affinities, nesting and incubation, movements, foraging ecology, survivorship, predation, and research methodology; particular attention is paid to conservation, with the species considered an important 'indicator' of the health of our coasts.
The author describes his life as he overcame alcoholism and a vascular disease to become a business coach and yoga instructor, offering insights on how to overcome adversity and live one's life with passion.
This story is true, although it reads like fiction. During WWII Charles Woods flew B-24 Liberators loaded with gasoline across the "hump" from India to China, to help supply Gen. Clair Chennault's "Flying Tigers". When he crashed on takeoff his bomber exploded into flames, Charles was the only survivor. Horribly burned, his only hope for survival was a pass that read "Priority One". This is an inspiring story of how Charles Woods willed himself to live, became a success in life, and at his death was honored in the U.S. Senate.
Would you love to start your own business but feel daunted by the slim odds of success? Do you dream about making millions but simply don't know where to start? Find Your Lightbulb answers all these questions, helping you to harness your ability to make millions from nothing more than a simple idea. You don't need to be superhuman, you don't need to have funds in the bank - you don't even need to have an amazing idea in order to get started. Serial entrepreneur Mike Harris shows you that all it takes is enthusiasm, commitment and a willingness to learn. And Mike should know - he's spent the past 20 years creating successful businesses from apparently impossible ideas - ideas which everyone told him would never work. With invaluable business advice and case studies from entrepreneurs and innovators on both sides of the Atlantic, this make-it-happen manual will help you fix the odds of success firmly in your favour.
Winner of the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Book Award—“An impressive interpretation of the battle” (Arthur S. Lefkowitz, author of Benedict Arnold’s Army). Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington’s colonial army and led to the capture of the capital city of Philadelphia was one of the most important military events of the war. Michael C. Harris’s impressive Brandywine is the first full-length study of this pivotal engagement in many years. Though the bitter fighting around Brandywine Creek drove the Americans from the field, their heroic defensive stand saved Washington’s army from destruction and proved that the nascent Continental foot soldiers could stand toe-to-toe with their foe. Although more combat would follow, Philadelphia fell to Gen. Sir William Howe’s British legions on September 26, 1777. Harris’s Brandywine is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account. More than a decade in the making, his sweeping prose relies almost exclusively upon original archival research and his personal knowledge of the terrain. Enhanced with original maps, illustrations, and modern photos, and told largely through the words of those who fought there, Brandywine will take its place as one of the most important military studies of the American Revolution ever written. “Take[s] the reader into the fields and along the front-lines . . . A first-rate military history that has a deserving spot on any student’s bookshelf of the American Revolution.” —Emerging Revolutionary War Era
Governor General's Award-winner Michael Harris explores the profound emotional and intellectual benefits of solitude, and how we may achieve it in our fast-paced world. The capacity to be alone--properly alone--is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that garners tangible rewards: it allows us to reflect and recharge, improving our relationships with ourselves and, paradoxically, with others. Today, the zeitgeist embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on online and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive distraction that dangerously undervalues solitude. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded loneliness--we are ever-connected, but only shallowly so. Award-winning author Michael Harris examines why our experience of solitude has become so impoverished, and how we may grow to love it again in the frenzy of our digital landscape. Solitude is an optimistic and encouraging story about discovering true quiet inside the city, inside the crowd, inside our busy and urbane lives. Harris guides readers away from a life of ceaseless pings toward a state of measured connectivity, one that balances solitude and companionship. Rich with true stories about the life-changing power of solitude, and interwoven with reporting from the world's foremost brain researchers, psychologists and tech entrepreneurs, Solitude is a beautiful and convincing statement on the benefits of being alone.
As ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications grow increasingly important to long and short term cruising, Mike Harris, a veteran sailor and the author of Understanding Weatherfax, offers this complete guide to all forms of communication at sea. He examines the international marine use of cell phones, satellites, amateur radio, and email, cutting through the jargon and sales hype and allowing readers to make the right choices for their needs.
In the autumn of 1955, as a four year old boy, Mike Harris had his very first race - he finished 3rd from 3! Advance 60 plus years to the spring of 2016 and now just three months short of his 65th birthday, Mike had yet another race, literally one of thousands since 1955, but this time, despite his advancing years, and unlike his first outing so long ago, he finished 1st. On conclusion of the event, as the other competitors departed for a well-earned rest and something to eat, Mike went directly to the nearest swimming baths and swam 150 lengths, before he too went for a rest and something to eat. As simple as it is, therein lies the secret of Mike's latest win and the many hundreds of sporting victories which preceded it. His theory is that he simply trained 'more' and did it 'more often'. The continuous extraordinary sporting successes over the previous 60 years were earned by being different! A quite remarkable journey, from 1955 to 2016!
Virginia Tech’s Shayne Graham trots onto the field at West Virginia on November 6, 1999, with two thoughts in his mind. One is a missed field goal that would have beaten Miami a year earlier. The other is the 44-yard field goal he is about to try against the Mountaineers, a kick he must make if the Hokies are to stay unbeaten and on track for a national championship. Head down, he focuses on his mark as the ball is snapped. He steps forward, the dream of an entire team resting with his leg. Now, hear Graham’s memory of that kick in his own words, for the first time. Game of My Life: Virginia Tech Hokies, first published in 2006, celebrates the extraordinary football and basketball moments that have shaped the college’s rich athletic heritage. Through interviews with some of the school’s most prestigious athletes, Hokies fans can relive the big games that defined the school’s winning tradition. Carroll Dale, later a fixture with the Green Bay Packers, dove—arms outstretched—to haul in a crucial two-point conversion in a 1957 game against the University of Richmond. Les Henson shot from the baseline—the other baseline—as the clock neared zero against Florida State in 1980. Chris Smith went well beyond the "double-double" standard for points and rebounds. How about 30 and 31 against Marshall in 1959? Corey Moore made life miserable for Clemson quarterback Brandon Streeter one night in 1999. Bruce Smith did the same for Duke quarterback Ben Bennett in 1983. The Hokies’ Jim Pyne, meanwhile, made sure Syracuse’s Kevin Mitchell didn’t do the same to Tech quarterback Maurice DeShazo in 1993. Carlos Dixon, Mike Imoh, Andre Davis, Dell Curry, Bryan Still, Don Strock, Bryan Randall—all the Tech greats from the gridiron and hardwood—are in these pages, including coach Frank Beamer. Join thousands of Virginia Tech fans in remembering these cherished stories. For the athletes within, these truly were the games of their lives. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Jumping all in to a new career. It s a dream likely far removed from where you re at today. We re talking about a bold move a move other people may think you aren t qualified for or capable of. But it can be done. In Career 180s, Mike Harris proves it with the inspiring stories of ten brave individuals who dove headfirst into their new careers careers they chose and pursued with vigor. Yes, they had doubts, and yes, they had to learn new things but they charged ahead anyway. Do you have what it takes to do a Career 180? Regardless of how you answer, one thing is for sure: after reading the stories in this book, you ll be more prepared, more inspired, and more ready to pursue your passion than ever before. Who knows . . . this book may be what it takes for you to start pursuing that new career!
Free Spirited with Salty Lyric Waves Poet Mike Harris pens his disillusions on his own terms and comes up with truth, philosophy, epiphany and catharsis-in-jest Beaufort, South Carolina. – (Release Date TBD) – For a surety (shoe-rate-ey), True Adventures of the Floating Poet, Mike Harris’ collection of verse, is not The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. But it is as salt- and barnacle-encrusted as that distant predecessor. Born out of a need to get away from Wall Street-induced (and ultimately fake) problems, self-styled Capt. Mike left for the Caribbean on a normal day in New York. All poets who have followed the seabreeze to a life of adventure on the waves share the author’s respect for the sensible in the face of chance and nature. From the first poem “The Holy Clam and the birth of Clamism,” the author divests himself of the trappings of the “civilized” jungles of boardroom and yuppie restaurants, distances himself from them because they induce spiritual phobia, and rides out on the crests of a versified ocean like Neptune riding sea-horses. Not unlike Hunter S. Thompson’s (author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) famous sojourn into pre-Castro Cuba, this Mike Harris’ “vacation” has produced an awesome, seismic new reading of the largely unspotlighted areas of the American dream that few except the disillusioned intellectuals get to comment on. Both Thompson and Harris, like Coleridge, do not get to drink much water. In both the modern writers’ cases, whiskey (or perhaps rum, in Harris’ case) is the philosophical lubrication of choice. The difference is that Harris holds out some hope for the reader whom this volume will surely hook – it makes Harris an excellent, not quite indifferent, grungy, but compassionate fisher of men. He who floats has surely lived to tell a deeply funny, ultimately meaningful, compelling tale...
In 1980 Mike Harris led the first expedition to search for the Titanic in the North Atlantic. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" gives a behind-the-scenes look at the first Titanic expedition, how Mike then formed ORE, Ltd., the company that picked up Titanic artifacts with the French and began exhibiting Titanic artifacts around the world. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" also explains how Mike got his son, G. Michael Harris, involved in the Titanic project, how G. Michael built his own Titanic: "The Experience" exhibit in Orlando, Florida and how G. Michael took his son, Sebastian, down to the Titanic in the Russian submersible Mir 1 when Sebastian was 14 years old. For Sebastian's unique experience, he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 and made a member of The Explorers Club of New York. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" features exclusive color photographs of Mike's original 1980 Titanic expedition, multiple gallery photographs of G. Michael's Titanic: "The Experience" exhibit in Orlando, Florida, a sample of historic Titanic artifacts that have been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic and G. Michael's dive with his son, Sebastian, in the Russian submersible Mir 1. TITANIC: "THE EXPERIENCE" has a unique collection of historic Titanic photographs and illustrations.
Two spectacularly mismatched young people meet at a halfway house in a Seattle suburb in 1971. Paul Siebert is a reporter, a shy, depressive Vietnam veteran, already chastened by the blows life has dealt him. Maggie Ryan is a wild child, a rape victim, a musician, an armed robber, determined to live life to the fullest. They have no business falling in love, no plausible future together. But whatever initially connects them, though it often flickers, refuses to die. Over the next 35 years, as each separately tries to make a settled life, their attraction never stops being an inspiration, and a danger. In the tradition of John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman," Michael Harris' "Romantic History" balances the claims of individual desire and family values, recklessness and prudence, idealism and delusion, the safe and the forbidden. Ranging from Southeast Asian war zones to a hippie encampment on Crete, from Spokane to Los Angeles, from newsrooms to jails, from the foot of Mount Shasta to the down-and-out streets of Boston, full of vivid and memorable minor characters, this novel follows the evolution of two souls who demand more than the world may be willing to give.
As well as being spatial, planning is necessarily also about the future – and yet time has been relatively neglected in the academic, practice and policy literature on planning. Time, in particular the need for longer-term thinking, is critical to responding effectively to a range of pressing societal challenges from climate change to an ageing population, poor urban health to sustainable economic development. This makes the relative neglect of time not only a matter of theoretical importance but also increasing practical and political significance. A Future for Planning is an accessible, wide-ranging book that considers how planning practice and policy have been constrained by short-termism, as well as by a familiar lack of spatial thinking in policy, in response to major social, economic and environmental challenges. It suggests that failures in planning often represent failures to anticipate and shape the future which go well beyond planning systems and practices; rather our failure to plan for the longer-term relates to wider issues in policy-making and governance. This book traces the rise and fall of long-term planning over the past 80 years or so, but also sets out how planning can take responsibility for twenty-first century challenges. It provides examples of successes and failures of longer-term planning from around the world. In short, the book argues that we need to put time back into planning, and develop forms of planning which serve to promote the sustainability and wellbeing of future generations.
In our nation’s capital, many thrilling reminders of the American saga reside in this uniquely purposed slice of geography: with history around every corner, Washington, D.C. is a city that magically blends yesterday and today. This updated guide—often among our top 3 domestic best-sellers—lets visitors discover the myriad, ever-changing charms of the nation’s capital. Expanded Coverage: World-class museums, shady parks, and an important arts scene make Washington, D.C. an ever-changing American showcase (more than 15 million tourists head here every year). Plus, brand new hotel, restaurant, shop, and bar reviews in this annual update offer fresh tips for staying, and playing, in such top hotspots as Dupont Circle and Georgetown. Discerning Recommendations: Fodor’s Washington D.C. offers savvy advice and recommendations from local writers to help travelers make the most of their time. Fodor’s Choice designates our best picks, from hotels to nightlife. “Word of Mouth” quotes from fellow travelers provide valuable insights. TripAdvisor Reviews: Our experts’ hotel selections are reinforced by the latest customer feedback from TripAdvisor. Travelers can book their Washington D.C. stay with confidence, as only the best properties make the cut.
In order to overcome certain obstacles and make more informed decisions in today’s markets, you need to use the appropriate models and apply careful analysis. Nobody understands this better than author Michael Harris. And now, with Profitability and Systematic Trading, he reveals how to achieve this goal, by discussing some of the most important trading concepts he’s worked on during twenty years of research and development in this field.
DATES FROM HELL (And A Few Moments Made In Heaven)' is a collection of true, funny-awful nightmare dating stories. We asked people to send us their 'hell date' tales, and they sure did! We received stories from all over America, as well as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. And, yes, we include a few 'Moments Made In Heaven' just to prove that romance isn't quite dead. Of course, the funniest stories are the 'Dates from Hell' such as...
Georgia’s oldest city plays hostess to a bevy of ghostly guests whose stories are wrapped up in its rich southern history. As one of America’s most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, has a long list of stories of the supernatural, such as the story of the first two people hanged in colonial Savannah for the murder of their abusive master. Or James Stark, a tempestuous planter, and Dr. Philip Minis, who settled their dispute with a duel and still hang around the old building at Moon River Brewing Co. Or the terrifying “boy-giant,” Rene Rhondolia, who preys on young girls and animals. Join authors Michael Harris and Linda Sickler as they navigate the chilling world of those who refuse to leave their Savannah homes. Includes photos! “Story-loving Sickler and research-savvy Harris dug behind the ghost stories of what’s called one of America’s most haunted cities.” —Savannah Now
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