Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.
The former Apple CEO “delivers a clear message to individuals, entrepreneurs, and corporations: change . . . or wither” (Booklist). The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious. This is the most exciting time ever to be part of the business world. Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know it. The Apollo moon landing of 1961 was one of those events—the invention of the Apple personal computer was another. In this book, John Sculley, former CEO of both Pepsi and Apple, discusses an era that is giving birth to numerous groundbreaking events and inventions—moonshots—that will change the way we live and work for generations to come. He offers wisdom for a new breed of innovative entrepreneurs to build businesses across industries that will bring in billions of dollars—while changing people’s lives for the better. Moonshot! lays out a roadmap for building a truly transformative business, beginning with a can’t-fail concept and drawing on clear examples from companies who’ve done innovation right.
This is an autobiography-cum-business book by John Sculley, one of the most successful businessmen in America, who became Pepsi's president and CEO at the age of 38. At the height of his success with Pepsi he joined the high-risk young Apple, co-founded by a young genius named Stephen Jobs. This book describes the turbulent relationship between Jobs and Sculley, their break-up over the future of Apple, and the eventual transformation of Apple into one of the most unconventional and dramatic success stories in business history. It offers an insight into the emotions and personal drama of life at the top.
In the waning days of World War 2, an American fighter pilot from the famed Red Tails crash-lands in southwest Germany. A man helps the pilot escape from the burning plane and takes him home. The rescuer turns out to be a German Luftwaffe pilot recovering from an aerial combat injury. He, his wife, and the American pilot become friends over discussions on racism, anti-Semitism, families, books, and anti-war sentiment. The war ends several days later.
The biography Cry for Justice is the account of how it all went terribly wrong for my family and me when we attempted to fulfil a lifelong dream of mine to own my own grocery store. By the time I reached sixteen the dream had become my life
The Beauty She was a gorgeous swimsuit model. He was a charming Greek sailor. They met on a cruise in November of 1997 and soon thereafter began a clandestine love affair. Little more than a year later, thirty-one-year-old Julie Scully left her millionaire ex-husband and three-year-old daughter behind, and moved to Greece to be with twenty-four-year-old George Skiadopoulos. The Beast But there was trouble in paradise. Julie, tired of Skiadopoulos' jealous and controlling nature, and badly missing her young daughter, decided to return to the States. Skiadopoulos wouldn't have it. When she told him of her plans to leave-and take her $600,000 divorce settlement back with her- Skiadopoulos took Julie to a remote area and strangled her to death. Then, to cover up his deed, her burned her lifeless body and tried to stuff the charred corpse into a suitcase. When it wouldn't fit, Skiadopoulos delivered the final blow-he chopped off her head and tossed it into the Aegean Sea. The Brutal Murder ow, find out the stunning inside story on a murder case that made national headlines, as acclaimed true crime writer John Glatt lays bare a shocking story of greed, betrayal, and...
Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder. This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious This is the most exciting time ever to be part of the business world. Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know it. The Apollo moon landing of 1961 was one of those events the invention of the Apple personal computer was another. In this book, John Sculley former CEO of both Pepsi and Apple claims we are in an era that is giving birth to numerous groundbreaking events and inventions moonshots that will change the way we live and work for generations to come. The time is ripe, according to Sculley, for a new breed of innovative entrepreneurs to build businesses across industries that will bring in billions of dollars while changing people s lives for the better. And in this book, he ll show you how to do it. Moonshot! lays out a roadmap for building a truly transformative business, beginning with a can t-fail concept and drawing on clear examples from companies who ve done innovation right.
As Jack Russell, a newly-retired academic Ceramist, attempts to write a novel he learns that his younger sister, Susan, is separating from her husband, Martin, and setting up house with a young painter, Mary. This change greatly surprises him and his wife Jill. They subsequently meet Mary whom they find quite charming. Martin seeks their sympathy. The two themes of writing a novel and dealing with a family problem dominate Jack's life as he and Jill go about their normal life, meeting friends and visiting relatives. Progress with his book is slow. He finds himself continually distracted when he tries to write, unable to avoid thinking instead about various writers, about when he was young, and about the consequences of ageing. Martin is arrested for sexually assaulting young children. He later commits suicide before his trial. In considering this tragic sequence of events Jack sees his failure to understand the breakup of Susan and Martin as typical of much in life: one never knows the full story of anything. There are always gaps. Things are never constant: situations and people's attitudes are forever changing. That is also true of novels.Such reflections result in his feeling optimistic about finishing his novel. Change and Changeability presents a very sympathetic portrait of a warm, modern, ageing man, engagingly uncertain about many things.
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