Authors: I. B. McIntosh.
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date: 2002-07-01


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Microman is a book about the cult of personality surrounding the world's richest man—Bill Gates.

Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, is richer than royalty. How did such a shy, unassuming guy with glasses attain so much wealth and power? This question and others are answered in Microman, a collection of quotations, statistics, and anecdotes about the Man from Redmond, Washington.

Just over ten years ago, relatively little was known about Gates. Even when he became an overnight millionaire in 1986 people shrugged him off as another "techie." But today, a cult of personality has developed around the man who has shaped our future. Who is Bill Gates? What is it like to have so much money? What would you do with it? What would life be like if you were Bill Gates?

Microman shows you Bill's world through your own eyes: how your parents were worried because you were "different" (perhaps because at the age of five you signed an agreement with your sister allowing you unlimited access to her baseball mitt in exchange for five dollars); how you dropped out of Harvard in your junior year and moved to New Mexico, where you founded a company called Micro-Soft; and how you are now so rich, if you wanted to spend your entire fortune in eleven years, you would have to spend $145 for every second of every hour of every day.

Microman is full of notions, proposals, and suggestions on how life would be different if you were Bill Gates instead of the ordinary, broke chump that you are. This irreverent book is a primer for would-be self-starters and a cautionary tonic for corporate conspiracy theorists. In the world of Bill Gates, bigger may be better, but "Micro" is best.

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Authors: Clark R. Mollenhoff.
Hardcover, 274 pages
Publisher: Iowa State Pr
Publication Date: 1988-04-30

Authors: Elliott Roosevelt.
Audio Cassette, 4 pages
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
Publication Date: 1986
Edition: Unabridged 4 Audio Cassettes

Authors: Souleiman Valiev.
Paperback, 700 pages
Publisher: Authorhouse
Publication Date: 2003-09

Authors: Glencoe.
Paperback, 27 pages
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1997

Authors: Robert P. Robertson.
Paperback, 284 pages
Publisher: Robert P. Robertson
Publication Date: 2008-07


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    August 29, 2005 would be a day to be remembered and discussed for generations to come: the morning Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and severely impacted the coastal regions of four states. Millions of homes and businesses were destroyed, and millions of lives were changed forever. Just when everyone thought that the storm was over, walking around inspecting the devastation of their homes, or retired to bed to catch up on a restless early morning, the levees breached, filling the old, historical city with five to fifteen feet of flood waters. Thousands drowned in the violent rush of the waters that wiped out homes and leveled trees in ninety-degree sweeps of its power and every breach, and thousands more were shocked and horrified by the sudden inundation. The violence of the storm compromised the strongest building in New Orleans which was being used as a shelter, the New Orleans Superdome, and that single event unfolded horror after horror of three days of suffering, misery, and needless deaths.

In the midst of it, one family of six, with the mother of the family seven months pregnant, held strong in their storm ravaged home, pulling together to secure it against the elements and to make it livable. They resolved to survive. Through the Storm is the amazing, true story of their survival and what they did to pull themselves through one of America's deadliest, most catastrophic events for an incredible two weeks after the storm and the flood. Only when the mother began to have complications with her pregnancy from intense heat and the stench of the stagnant water did the thought of evacuation set in. Yet, it did not end their ordeal, but began their astonishing journey to get back home....

Authors:
Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: IOS Press
Publication Date: 2007-02-15


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    This book is dedicated to the memory of Zdzislaw Pawlak, a great scientist and a great human being. A short perspective on the life and work of Zdzislaw Pawlak is given at the beginning of this volume. During his lifetime, the research interests of Pawlak were rich and varied. His research ranged from his pioneering work on knowledge description systems and rough sets during the 1970s and 1980s to his work on the design of computers, information retrieval, modeling conflict analysis and negotiation, genetic grammars and molecular computing. One should also mention his active lifelong interest in painting, photography and poetry. During his lifetime, Pawlak nurtured worldwide interest in approximation, approximate reasoning and rough set theory and its applications. A compelling evidence of the scientific influence of Pawlak is the literature on rough sets that now includes over 4000 publications as well as the growth and maturity of the International Rough Set Society. Many papers that appear in this book reflect the profound influence of a number of research initiatives by Pawlak in a whole range of research areas. It can also be inferred from the papers included in this volume, that research concerning the foundations and applications of rough sets remains a vivid and still growing research area worldwide. During the past 35 years since the introduction of knowledge description systems in the 1970s by Pawlak, the theory and applications of rough sets as well as the advent of approximation spaces to facilitate perception and observation concerning classes of objects has developed in a truly impressive way....

Authors: S.S Kshatriy.
Paperback, 286 pages
Publisher: Sangam Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2003-11-15

Authors: David Thomas.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Longman Sc & Tech
Publication Date: 1983-06

Authors: Christabel Bielenberg.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
Publication Date: 1993-09