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Ohio Tiki

Polynesian Idols, Coconut Trees and Tropical Cocktails

By: Jeff Chenault

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Ohio Tiki

Polynesian Idols, Coconut Trees and Tropical Cocktails

By: Jeff Chenault

Hula girls, palm trees and Tiki gods beckoned Ohioans of the 1950s and '60s as tropical hot spots sprang up in suburban neighborhoods and concrete jungles alike. The Kon Tiki restaurants of Cleveland and Cincinnati slung rum cocktails to patrons eager for escape to a South Seas paradise. Visitors to the famed Kahiki Supper Club of Columbus, the Tropics in Dayton and Toledo's Aku-Aku could spot celebrities swaying to the exotic sounds of steel guitars and native percussion. Venturing a step beyond restaurants and bars, others decked out theaters, bowling alleys and even a McDonald's in sultry island décor. Join author and Tiki veteran Jeff Chenault on an excursion into a bygone era when the South Pacific came to Ohio.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439668728

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Kahiki Supper Club

A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

By: David Meyers,Elise Meyers Walker,Jeff Chenault,Doug Motz

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Kahiki Supper Club

A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

By: David Meyers,Elise Meyers Walker,Jeff Chenault,Doug Motz

Inspired by Florida's famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. Patrons lined up for hours to see the celebrities who dined there--everyone from Betty White to Raymond Burr. Sapp and Henry set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. Outside, two giant Easter Island heads with flames spouting from their topknots stood guard while customers dined in a faux tribal village with thatched huts, palm trees and a towering fireplace moai. One wall featured aquariums of exotic fish and another had windows overlooking a tropical rainforest with periodic thunderstorms. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625851332

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9781625851338

The Mormon Way of Doing Business

How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America

By: Jeff Benedict

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The Mormon Way of Doing Business

How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America

By: Jeff Benedict

An unprecedented look at how the Mormon faith has shaped some of today’s most successful CEOs and businessmen. The Founder of JetBlue.The CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their Sundays exclusively with their families, never work long hours, and always put their spouses and children first. How do they do it? Now, critically acclaimed author and investigative journalist Jeff Benedict (a Mormon himself) examines these highly successful business execs and discovers how their beliefs have influenced them, and enabled them to achieve incredible success. With original interviews and unparalleled access, Benedict shares what truly drives these individuals, and the invaluable life lessons from which anyone can benefit.

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Business Plus

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0759516693

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9780759516694

Then Everything Changed

Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n

By: Jeff Greenfield

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Then Everything Changed

Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n

By: Jeff Greenfield

The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are true: * In December 1960, a suicide bomber paused when he saw the young President-elect John F. Kennedy's family come to the door to wave good-bye.... * In June 1968, Robert F. Kennedy declared victory in California, and then instead of heading to another ballroom, as intended, was hustled off through the kitchen.... * In October 1976, President Ford made a critical gaffe in a debate against Jimmy Carter, turning the tide in an election that had been rapidly narrowing. But what if they had gone the other way? In three narratives based on memoirs, oral histories, fresh reporting with key participants, and his own knowledge of the principal players, Jeff Greenfield explores how accidents of fate could have altered the course of history. The scenarios that Greenfield depicts are startlingly realistic, rich in detail, shocking in their projections, but always deeply, remarkably plausible.

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Penguin

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1101486422

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9781101486429

Hot Seat

What I Learned Leading a Great American Company

By: Jeff Immelt

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Hot Seat

What I Learned Leading a Great American Company

By: Jeff Immelt

A fascinating and candid memoir about successful leadership from the former CEO of General Electric, named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by Barron’s, and the hard-won lessons he learned from his experience leading GE immediately after 9/11, through the devastating 2008–09 financial crisis, and into an increasingly globalized world. In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch, at the helm of General Electric. Less than a week into his tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy—GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real estate that was insured by GE-issued policies. Facing an unprecedented situation, Immelt knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—one of America’s biggest and most-heralded corporations—for direction. No pressure. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis to the 2011 meltdown of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it more global, more rooted in technology, and more diverse. But the stock market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers a rigorous and raw interrogation of himself and his tenure, detailing for the first time his proudest moments and his biggest mistakes. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But knowing what to do is a thousand times easier than knowing when to do it. Perseverance, combined with clear communication, can ensure progress, if not perfection, he says. That won’t protect any CEO from second-guessing, but Immelt explains how he’s pushed through even the most withering criticism: by staying focused on his team and the goals they tried to achieve. As the business world continues to be rocked by stunning economic upheaval, Hot Seat “takes you into the office, head, and heart of the man who became CEO of GE on the eve of 9/11, and then led the iconic behemoth for sixteen fascinating, and often turbulent, years. A handbook on leadership—and life” (Stanley A. McChrystal, General, US Army [Retired], CEO and Founder, McChrystal Group).

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352

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Simon and Schuster

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1982114789

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9781982114787

Green Syndicalism

An Alternative Red/Green Vision

By: Jeff Shantz

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Green Syndicalism

An Alternative Red/Green Vision

By: Jeff Shantz

It is widely understood that the burdens of ecological destruction are borne disproportionately by working-class and poor communities, both through illness and disease caused by pollutants and through the depletion of natural resources from which they make a living. Yet, consistently, the voices of the working class are the most marginalized, excluded, and silenced when discussing how to address ecological concerns and protect the environment from future destruction. Both mainstream environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, and radical environmentalists, such as EarthFirst!, are reluctant to engage with working-class and poor communities, often viewing blue-collar workers as responsible for the destruction these groups are trying to prevent. In Green Syndicalism, Shantz issues a call to action to the environmental movement and labor activists, particularly rank and file workers, to join forces in a common struggle to protect the environment from capitalism, corporate greed, and the extraction of resources. He argues for a major transformation to address the "jobs versus the environment" rhetoric that divides these two groups along lines of race and class. Combining practical initiatives and theoretical perspectives, Shantz offers an approach that brings together radical ecology and revolutionary unionism in a promising vision of green politics. Green syndicalists work as coalitions to increase community-based economics and productive decision making that encourages the participation of all stakeholders in the process. Drawing, in part, on his own experiences growing up in a working-class family and organizing within radical ecology and labor movements, Shantz charts a path that accesses the commonalities between these groups in an effort to take on the forces that destroy the environment, exploit people, and harm their communities.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815633076

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9780815633075

Tiger Woods

By: Jeff Benedict,Armen Keteyian

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Tiger Woods

By: Jeff Benedict,Armen Keteyian

The inspiration for the HBO documentary from Academy Award–winning producer Alex Gibney. The #1 New York Times bestseller based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life—this “comprehensive, propulsive…and unsparing” (The New Yorker) biography is “an ambitious 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized figure…brimming with revealing details” (Golf Digest). In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. “Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” (The New York Times).

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Simon & Schuster

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150112644X

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9781501126444

Los Angeles

The Rough Guide

By: Jeff Dickey,Jamie Jensen

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Los Angeles

The Rough Guide

By: Jeff Dickey,Jamie Jensen

A comprehensive guide to Los Angeles, this text features accounts of all the attractions of the region, critical reviews of restaurants and accommodation for every price range, lively discussion of the city's history, and detailed neighbourhood and transport maps.

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1858283442

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The Rough Guide to Los Angeles

By: Jeff Dickey

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The Rough Guide to Los Angeles

By: Jeff Dickey

The Rough Guide to Los Angelesis the definitive handbook to the USA's second biggest city. Now in its fourth edition, the guide is jam-packed with up-to-date listings of hundreds of the city's restaurants, bars and hotels, as well as reviews of all the best clubs, shops, cinemas, and live music venues. Along with a thorough look at LA's top tourist areas, from Hollywood and Beverly Hills to Santa Monica and Disneyland, the guide also takes time to explore less well-known but no less deserving destinations, from Downtown's burgeoning arts district to Santa Catalina Island off the coast. There are chapters that look at LA's colourful background, from the landmark architecture and local history, to the rise of the Hollywood film industry. The guide comes complete with plenty of maps to help you plan your trip to this free-spirited metropolis.

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1843535157

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Ohio Tiki

Polynesian Idols, Coconut Trees and Tropical Cocktails

By: Jeff Chenault

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Ohio Tiki

Polynesian Idols, Coconut Trees and Tropical Cocktails

By: Jeff Chenault

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Kahiki Supper Club

A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

By: David Meyers,Elise Meyers Walker,Jeff Chenault,Doug Motz

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A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus

By: David Meyers,Elise Meyers Walker,Jeff Chenault,Doug Motz

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1625851332

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Kahiki Scrapbook, The: Relics of Ohio’s Lost Tiki Palace

By: David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault & Doug Motz

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Kahiki Scrapbook, The: Relics of Ohio’s Lost Tiki Palace

By: David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault & Doug Motz

To aficionados of Polynesian Pop, the Kahiki Supper Club was and remains the touchstone for all things tiki. The epitome of a fad that started at the end of Prohibition, it has been rediscovered by each successive generation, with relics of the original "mothership" proudly displayed in tropical restaurants and bars throughout the country. Years after its razing in August 2000, the legacy of the Kahiki continues to inspire artists, entrepreneurs and other visionaries, many of whom never set foot inside the fabled tiki palace. From the authors of Kahiki Supper Club comes a new collection of more stories, more images and more delicious recipes that explain why the Kahiki was such a historically, culturally and sociologically important artifact of the twentieth century.

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Ohio Tiki

Ohio Tiki

Kahiki Supper Club

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The Mormon Way of Doing Business

The Mormon Way of Doing Business

Then Everything Changed

Then Everything Changed

Hot Seat

Hot Seat

Green Syndicalism

Green Syndicalism

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

The Rough Guide to Los Angeles

The Rough Guide to Los Angeles

Ohio Tiki

Ohio Tiki

Kahiki Supper Club

Kahiki Supper Club

Kahiki Scrapbook, The: Relics of Ohio’s Lost Tiki Palace

Kahiki Scrapbook, The: Relics of Ohio’s Lost Tiki Palace

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