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The Beermat Entrepreneur

Turn Your Good Idea Into A Great Business

By: Mike Southon,Chris West

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The Beermat Entrepreneur

Turn Your Good Idea Into A Great Business

By: Mike Southon,Chris West

The 2018 Edition has been radically updated whilst maintaining all of the classic advice from earlier, successful editions. “This book changed my life and helped me found an international business that eventually sold for many millions of pounds. If only I’d found it sooner!” Justin Gayner, Founder, ChannelFlip “This book is packed with brilliant advice which will give you the confidence to develop wings and fly high as you throw yourself into your new business.” Henrietta Morrison, Founder, Lily’s Kitchen" ‘I recommend this book to any aspiring entrepreneur.’ Sir Charles Dunstone CVO, Founder, Carphone Warehouse “If you want to know how to successfully grow a company, this is the book for you!” Brendan Robinson, Founder, Village Vet This business book is great for leaders, middle managers and entrepreneurs interested in the following categories; SMALL BUSINESSES START-UP BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Beermat Entrepreneur helps you convert your jotted notes about your business idea into a big and successful business. With wit and humour, this quick-to-read and simple-to-use book could turn your beermat inspiration into reality. You’ve got a bright idea. An idea that you think maybe, just maybe, could become a brilliant business. But what next? The Beermat Entrepreneur is the answer. It takes you through all the crucial stages between those first notes on a beermat and a business that is sound, lasting and profitable. It tells you what the other books don’t – the lessons that most people have to learn by bitter experience; the tricks that all entrepreneurs wish somebody had told them before they set out. From testing your idea and finding a mentor, through selecting and motivating the right people and securing your first customer, to deciding when to ‘go for growth’ – this is the guide to turning good ideas into real businesses. Revised and updated completely, this classic book for entrepreneurs contains the distilled wisdom of serially successful entrepreneur Mike Southon and is packed with advice and insight for any aspiring business person, either within an existing company or thinking of starting up on their own. Happy Reading! Please do share your thoughts with us.

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1292243856

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The Beermat Entrepreneur PDF eBook

The Beermat Entrepreneur, 3e, UK Import

By: Mike Southon,Chris West

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The Beermat Entrepreneur PDF eBook

The Beermat Entrepreneur, 3e, UK Import

By: Mike Southon,Chris West

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1292243848

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Tourism and Entrepreneurship

By: Mike Rimmington

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Tourism and Entrepreneurship

By: Mike Rimmington

Part of the Contemporary Review Series. Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. Written by leading thinkers and academics in the field they provide flexible, current and topical information as an instant download.

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Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

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1906884382

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Kneeling Before Corn

Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

By: Mike Anastario,Elena Salamanca,Elizabeth Hawkins

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Kneeling Before Corn

Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

By: Mike Anastario,Elena Salamanca,Elizabeth Hawkins

Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816553378

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9780816553372

Quaternary Dating Methods

By: Mike Walker

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Quaternary Dating Methods

By: Mike Walker

This introductory textbook introduces the basics of dating, the range of techniques available and the strengths and limitations of each of the principal methods. Coverage includes: the concept of time in Quaternary Science and related fields the history of dating from lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy the development and application of radiometric methods different methods in dating: radiometric dating, incremental dating, relative dating and age equivalence Presented in a clear and straightforward manner with the minimum of technical detail, this text is a great introduction for both students and practitioners in the Earth, Environmental and Archaeological Sciences. Praise from the reviews: "This book is a must for any Quaternary scientist." SOUTH AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, September 2006 “...very well organized, clearly and straightforwardly written and provides a good overview on the wide field of Quaternary dating methods...” JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, January 2007

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118700090

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9781118700099

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania

Inhabiting a Sea of Islands

By: Mike T. Carson

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Archaeology of Pacific Oceania

Inhabiting a Sea of Islands

By: Mike T. Carson

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology. The Pacific Ocean covers 165 million sq. km, nearly one-third of the world’s total surface area, yet its thousands of islands and their diverse cultural histories are scarcely known to the other two-thirds of the world. This book asks how and why did this vast sea of islands come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What were the roles of overseas contacts in the development of social networks, economic trade, and population dynamics? What can any or all of the thousands of islands offer as ideal model systems for comprehending globally significant issues of human-environment relations and coping with changing circumstances of natural and cultural history? What do the island archaeology records reveal about coastal setting as part of the larger human experience? How does Pacific Oceanic archaeology relate with a larger Asia-Pacific context or with the scope of world archaeology? The new second edition of Archaeology of Pacific Oceania addresses these questions and more, providing an updated synthesis of this important region. Archaeology of Pacific Oceania is for scholars of Asia-Pacific archaeology and anthropology and will support students investigating the archaeology of Pacific Oceania.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000958205

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9781000958201

Experimental Coasts in Mixed Media

By: Mike Bernard,Susie Hodge

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Experimental Coasts in Mixed Media

By: Mike Bernard,Susie Hodge

Acclaimed mixed-media artist Mike Bernard has been at the forefront of collage painting for decades and his work has a sought-after vitality. He brings his latest guidance, ideas and techniques on a subject about which he is passionate: coastal painting. From his home near the Devon coast, he and co author (art writer) Susie Hodge, cover all aspects of mixed media painting. From considering composition and looking for contrasts to reducing elements for greater impact (and even moving towards abstraction). From working with limited palettes to including imaginary colours to a painting. From collaging with torn magazines, tin foil, plastic, newsprint to combining inks, oil pastels, PVA, acrylic and watercolours. From playing with proportion to create mood to using thick and thin oils for effect. And, of course, how to capture the mood and atmosphere of coastal life, from quiet stretches to busy harbours around the world. The authors include several step-by-step projects to demonstrate techniques plus a series of experimental exercises helps the reader try something new. A masterclass from a popular artist with stunning artwork of coasts from around the globe.

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Batsford Books

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1849947244

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Rediscovering Heritage through Artefacts, Sites, and Landscapes: Translating a 3500-year Record at Ritidian, Guam

By: Mike T. Carson

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Rediscovering Heritage through Artefacts, Sites, and Landscapes: Translating a 3500-year Record at Ritidian, Guam

By: Mike T. Carson

The Ritidian Site in Guam reveals the full scope of traditional cultural heritage in the Mariana Islands since 1500 B.C. The material records here have been incorporated into a cohesive narrative in chronological order to learn about the profound heritage of this special site and its larger research contributions.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784916641

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Substantive Evidence of Initial Habitation in the Remote Pacific: Archaeological Discoveries at Unai Bapot in Saipan, Mariana Islands

By: Mike T. Carson,Hsiao-chun Hung

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Substantive Evidence of Initial Habitation in the Remote Pacific: Archaeological Discoveries at Unai Bapot in Saipan, Mariana Islands

By: Mike T. Carson,Hsiao-chun Hung

At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784916668

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First Settlement of Remote Oceania

Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands

By: Mike T. Carson

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First Settlement of Remote Oceania

Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands

By: Mike T. Carson

This book offers the only synthesis of early-period Marianas archaeology, marking the first human settlement of Remote Oceania about 1500 B.C. In these remote islands of the northwest Pacific Ocean, archaeological discoveries now can define the oldest site contexts, dating, and artifacts of a Neolithic (late stone-age) people. This ancient settlement was accomplished by the world’s longest open-ocean voyage in human history at its time, more than 2000 km from any contemporary populated area. This work brings the isolated Mariana Islands into the forefront of scientific research of how people first settled Remote Oceania, further important for understanding long-distance human migration in general. Given this significance, the early Marianas sites deserve close attention that has been awkwardly missing until now. The author draws on his years of intensive field research to define the earliest Marianas sites in scientific detail but accessible for broad readership. It covers three major topics: 1) situating the ancient sites in their original environmental contexts; 2) inventory of the early-period sites and their dating; and 3) the full range of pottery, stone tools, shell ornaments, and other artifacts. The work concludes with discussing the impacts of the findings on Asia-Pacific archaeology and on human global migration studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319010476

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9783319010472

Excavations at Cill Donnain

A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist

By: Mike Parker Pearson,Marek Zvelebil

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Excavations at Cill Donnain

A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist

By: Mike Parker Pearson,Marek Zvelebil

The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides. The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used in the period c.300 BC – AD 500; under which lay the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. This settlement was partly investigated by Marik Zvelebil in 1991 and then later by Mike Parker Pearson and Kate MacDonald in 2003. The site itself is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edge of a large sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report of the excavation at the Cill Donnain wheelhouse shows that, in comparison with contemporary neighbouring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that they were linked by social and economic inter-dependency. The wheelhouse thus provides striking new evidence that contributes to developing theories about the social, material and economic life in the period. This volume presents the extensive archaeological evidence found at the site, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone and metal tools, illustrating that the Cill Donnain landscape is rich in archaeological sites of all periods from the Beaker to the post-Medieval.

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Oxbow Books

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1782976302

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9781782976301

Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

By: Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall

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Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

By: Mike Parker Pearson,Jacqui Mulville,Helen Smith,Peter Marshall

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC. Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain. Cladh Hallan’s remarkable stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into how daily life was organized within the house – where people cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.

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Oxbow Books

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1789256968

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9781789256963

Compl Diy Manual

By: Anness Publishing,Mike Lawrence

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Compl Diy Manual

By: Anness Publishing,Mike Lawrence

Provides step-by-step instructions for decorating projects plus maintenance and repair tips for around the home.

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1843090236

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The Complete Book of Home Improvement

By: Anness Publishing,Mike Lawrence

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The Complete Book of Home Improvement

By: Anness Publishing,Mike Lawrence

Advice on a full range of home decorating tasks including painting, paperhanging, tiling, laying floor coverings, fittings, furnishings, storage, maintenance and repairs.

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0681891580

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9780681891586

The Complete Decorating and Home Improvement Book

By: Mike Lawrence

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The Complete Decorating and Home Improvement Book

By: Mike Lawrence

Ideas and techniques for decorating your home - a complete step by step guide.

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Smithmark Publishers

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083172739X

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9780831727390

Easy Home Improvements

By: Mike Lawrence

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Easy Home Improvements

By: Mike Lawrence

You'll be sanding floorboards and papering ceilings in no time with the help of this comprehensive step-by-step handbook. More than 50 projects cover all the different areas of do-it-yourself, and there is full information on the tools used and advice on the types of materials available, along with illustrative photographs. The book includes not only paperhanging and laying floors, but painting, tiling, features and fittings. There is also a section on the everyday maintenance and repairs that every householder has to face from time to time. Expert tips, explanatory illustrations and useful charts and checklists make this book a useful guide to home improvement for the reluctant beginner or the decorating devotee.

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Lorenz Books

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0754811913

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9780754811916

Great Home Decorating Ideas

Planning Surfaces, Lighting, Storage, Soft Furnishings

By: Mike Lawrence,Eaton

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Great Home Decorating Ideas

Planning Surfaces, Lighting, Storage, Soft Furnishings

By: Mike Lawrence,Eaton

Offers practical, step-by-step projects on using color, pattern and texture in interior design, as well as advice on surface coverings and treatments, using space, fixtures, fittings, lighting, storage, soft furnishings and more.

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0831740574

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9780831740573

This Is How Yoodoo It

By: Mike Southon

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This Is How Yoodoo It

By: Mike Southon

This is how Yoodoo it is a collection of sixty-five articles written by Mike Southon for the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph. Mike Southon is a serially successful entrepreneur, and co-author with Chris West of several best-selling business books including The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat. He is now one of the world's top business speakers, appearing at over 100 events per year, all over the world. This is How Yoodoo it has a wealth of practical advice on a wide variety of topics, including getting started, sales, marketing and communication, finance, team building, mentoring, growing your business, dealing with the recession and social entrepreneurship. Experts featured include Sir Keith Mills, who led the successful London 2012 Olympics bid, the actor and writer Stephen Fry, Harold Goddijn founder of Tom Tom, Kelvin Mackenzie, former editor of The Sun, Sir Philip Trousdell, former Commandant of Sandhurst, Sir Robin Saxby, founder of chip maker ARM and Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com.

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Ecademy Press Limited

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1905823983

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9781905823987

The Beermat Entrepreneur

Turn Your Good Idea Into a Great Business

By: Mike Southon,Christopher West

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The Beermat Entrepreneur

Turn Your Good Idea Into a Great Business

By: Mike Southon,Christopher West

The beermat entrepreneur is a down-to-earth, easy-read guide to converting a good idea into a large and profitable business, by somebody who's been there and done it. Previous ed.: 2002.

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Pearson Education

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0273704540

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9780273704546

Finance on a Beermat

By: Mike Southon

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Finance on a Beermat

By: Mike Southon

Are you afraid of finance? If so, don't worry. You're in good company: many entrepreneurs and small business owners are the same. And now, here is the book for you. Jointly written by Mike Southon and Chris West, the Beermat Entrepreneurs, and two experienced finance directors, Stephen King and Jeff Macklin,Finance on a Beermatdemystifies the whole topic. It shows you how to turn finance from something scary, dull, backward-looking or incomprehensible (sometimes all four!) into a clear, powerful and proactive tool for building businesses. Cash is the lifeblood of every small business - but how do you control it? How do you minimise risk while maximising the potential of your business? What do you need to know about taxes, NI and PAYE ? When people start using accountancy-speak, when do you need to listen, and when can you ignore them? What sort of people make the best finance directors for growing businesses? And if you are a finance specialist looking to escape the corporate / professional grind and get involved in enterprise, how do you go about it? Unlike most finance books,Finance on a Beermatis aimed purely at small and growing businesses. It is accessible, comprehensive and written from many years' experience in the start-up / SME sector.

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Vintage

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1905211031

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9781905211036

Open Mike

By: Mike Hill

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Open Mike

By: Mike Hill

Who is Mike Hill? For 49 years, he attempted to answer the question, to no avail. Hill was known to the world as the polished, versatile talent with multi-decade broadcast experience. After joining ESPN in 2004, Hill made a name for himself at the network, beginning at the highlight desk for ESPN News and later transitioning to some of the carrier's highest-priority programming, appearing as a host on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight and NBA Tonight among others. In August of 2013, Hill joined FOX Sports. The embodiment of professionalism, Hill appeared to be living the American Dream; however, his private, internal struggles were taking a toll on his ability to live and to love.Eventually, the mounting trauma resulting from childhood memories of witnessing his mother victimized by domestic violence, a lack of proper male tutelage, discovering that his stepfather was a murder for hire, and the demise of two marriages, forced Hill to his breaking point. Amidst a silent cry for help and a quest to heal from within, forced him to pick up his pen to chronicle the most prolific moments of his life.

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13th & Joan

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1734234679

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9781734234671

In Search of Midnight

The Mike McGee Handbook of Awesome

By: Mike McGee

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In Search of Midnight

The Mike McGee Handbook of Awesome

By: Mike McGee

A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.

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