Описание: It's Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best. Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of the remarkable late-life comeback that brought the famed oilman and maverick back from bankruptcy and clinical depression. Along the way, the man often called the "Oracle of Oil" shares the insights that have made him a legend-and describes the billion-dollar bets he is now making in hopes of securing America's energy independence. "Sassy...breezes along...salted with earthy aphorisms."--Bloomberg.com "Boone's analysis of America's energy situation is 100 percent on the money....The country should listen to him-now " --Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway "Self-deprecating and audacious...overall, it's decidedly informative about the machinations of business." -Dallas Morning News "A fascinating, eye-opening book by one of America's greatest iconoclasts and entrepreneurs. Boone Pickens' sense of daring and innovation has never been sharper."-Steve Forbes, president and CEO, Forbes Inc., and editor in chief of Forbes magazine
Описание: Every girl goes through phases of her life where she may not always know what to do. Whether it is feeling inadequate, unloved, bullied or full of emotions, there is nothing more comforting than having the right answer for a tough moment. Author and influential pioneer, Elizabeth Pickens, gives young girls helpful tools throughout the book, The Leading Young Ladies. This inspirational manual is catered towards answering the "how to's" of a girl's life by teaching young girls how to handle different obstacles including, Hygiene, Friendships, Hobbies and even... Boys This must have guide helps young girls walk out the difficult moments in life as they mature into their adulthood while embracing biblical insight found in each narrative. Every girl needs to be empowered and influenced to lead a life of Purity, Standards and Moral Values.
Автор: Theri Alyce Pickens Название: Black Madness :: Mad Blackness ISBN: 147800374X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478003748 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11907.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Автор: Pickens Jordan D., Tribe Ivan M. Название: Meigs County ISBN: 1531668992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531668990 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pickens Loretta Quesinberry Название: The Last Drumbeat: Civil War Drummer ISBN: 1977208223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977208224 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Inspired by true events and based on the recorded history of one southern family's struggles and endurance in the Civil War.
"No one's going to take Quesinberry land." With those words eighteen year old Oliver Quesinberry joins the Civil War. Leaving his young wife Mahala, his infant son, and family farm to do what he believes is his duty to preserve their land from Northern aggressors. A powerful story of how war forces a boy, a family and a country to question long held beliefs and endure tremendous loss.
At the family home, his parents Abigail and Andrew struggle to keep the farm going, caring for five young children, as their grown sons all enlist. Abigail, a strong resourceful woman, the best horsewoman in the area, is determined not to let the war overwhelm her, or her family. When Andrew joins the war effort in the last year, Abigail is left alone to hold the family together. Proving her toughness of spirit and tenacity, she overcomes heartbreak and fear to emerge as the backbone of the family.
In September of 1861, at the age of eighteen, Oliver Quesinberry follows his older brothers Isaac and Asa into the Civil War. Volunteering against the wishes of his wife and his parents, he leaves the farm near Hillsville, Virginia that has been in the family for over a hundred years. Confident the war will over within months, he departs with the conviction the Southern Cause is just and the war will be short-lived.
Oliver is assigned the position of drummer for 29th Virginia regiment. As the war continues he comes under the command of General James Longstreet, whom General Lee called his "Old War Horse" and later General George Pickett. He is there for the infamous assault by Confederate troops at the center of the Union's lines at Gettysburg, known as "Pickett's Charge." We follow Oliver's regiment from it's inception, to the retreat at Gettysburg, to Cold Harbor and Petersburg, as he becomes disillusioned and struggles to come to terms with the reality and brutality of the war.
A family saga which takes the Quesinberry family through the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 to it's conclusion with Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
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