Part travel adventure, part history, part explorationIn The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska, and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania, that lies only a short distance from the East's big cities; the haunting canyons of Central ...

By the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior—“El Norte Misterioso**” —where he was turned back by fierce indigenous resistance that would thwart white rule for the next three hundred years.**In 1540, the grandest exploring expedition ever assembled in the Americas paraded north from the...

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permane...

This autobiographical novel is not only the true story of a child's upbringing by his grandparents in the 1920s, but also a story of the villagers on the Isle of Wight. Through Charles Lansley's research of his late father Peter Lansley's manuscript, most of the characters have been identified along with their places of residence, memorials and places of interest. We learn about the local milkman, the butcher, the shoemaker and other trades persons who made up the community, including Pete...

Discover the critical elements you need for a successful negotiation and 101 tactics to use in any high stakes business deal, when asking your boss for a raise, or even when asking your significant other to take out the garbage.In this book, you'll discover your negotiating behavioral style through self-assessment questionnaires, gain the tools needed to deal with negotiation sharks (or bullies), learn tips for recognizing and interpreting your negotiating counterp...

Discover the critical elements you need for a successful negotiation and 101 tactics to use in any high stakes business deal, when asking your boss for a raise, or even when asking your significant other to take out the garbage.In this book, you'll discover your negotiating behavioral style through self-assessment questionnaires, gain the tools needed to deal with negotiation sharks (or bullies), learn tips for recognizing and interpreting your negotiating counterp...

Every organization faces challenges and hardships. The Only Leadership Book You’ll Ever Need teaches leaders how to overcome their most difficult obstacle: employee engagement. By pinpointing specific areas leaders can focus on and change,this book shows how one leader can effectively change the entire workplace environment-- for the better.Topics addressed include:The 10 Keys to Workplace Excellence.The 11 Stupid Things Managers Do to Mess U...

In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest o...

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social spending, taxation and regulation that changed the nature of the modern state and the functioning...

Leadership isn't what you thought it would be.It's not the title or the corner office. It's the weight of responsibility when the stakes are high, the information is incomplete, and every decision carries consequences you can't fully control.Today's executives are leading in a fundamentally different environment that is defined by volatility, AI disruption, talent shortages, and constant, compounding change. At the same time, expectations have never been higher. You are exp...

You've probably thought about where you will live in retirement and how you plan to spend your time. But do you know how much income you will need to pay for the type of retirement you want?With Social Security's uncertain future, as well as the increasing cost of healthcare, you need to formulate a retirement strategy with an income stream—available from annuities—that you can't outlive.In The Income Revolution, you will learn what questions to as...

This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters – Ground Segment, Product Assurance and Spacecraft System Engineering – have been rewritten, and t...