Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate By Trụ Đình Trần, Jana Lipman, Bac Hoai Tran
2017 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0824872495 | PDF | 60 MB
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family finally immigrated to the United States, Trần Đình Trụ's memoir provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese reeducation camps.In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States. While waiting in the Guam refugee camps, however, approximately 1,500 Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being repatriated back to Vietnam. Trần was one of these repatriates. To resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the Vietnamese a large ship, the Việt Nam Thương Tín. An experienced naval commander, Trần became the captain of the ship and sailed the repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, he was imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.Trần's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam, internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps. While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.

Todd Whitaker, "Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers "
English | ISBN: 1936763087 | 2014 | 128 pages | EPUB | 360 KB
Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these monkeys back to the under-performers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, the author helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organization.

Dr. David Jeremiah, "Shelter in God: Your Refuge in Times of Trouble"
English | ISBN: 0785241221 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1225 KB
In a period of almost unbearable uncertainty and fear, many of us have wondered, "Does God see us? Can he help us through this nerve-racking time?" Beloved Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah shares through psalms that God is always walking beside us. Now is the time to Shelter in God.

She and Her Cat: Stories by Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
English | November 22, 2022 | ISBN: 198216574X | True EPUB | 144 pages | 9.8 MB
For fans of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka's Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.

Diane Kiesel, "She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer"
English | ISBN: 1612345050 | 2015 | 408 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented, and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically flawed.

Seventeen: Last Man Standing by John Brownlow
English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1335469591 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 0.5 MB
You'll never know my name.

Service Science: Design for Scaling and Transformation
English | 2009 | ISBN: 9812836764 | 317 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.24 MB
Service science is an emerging field, but many still consider it lacking in substance. This book aims to change the situation by addressing the following questions: What is the big story about service? What are the main research problems in service? What does a connected world mean? Does service require a different kind of design science? What will be the next waves of the Web? How to support universal value co-creation? How to unite Cyberspace wilt physical space? Is it feasible to connect information resources everywhere? To answer these questions, the book presents and substantiates a digital connections scaling (DCS) model, complete with a population-oriented design paradigm and a new class of microeconomic production functions to explain the paths of transformation into the future - one of the most original results today. Next, the book analyzes new business designs on the Web and characterizes a service-led revolution for the Knowledge Economy. Thirdly, it develops systems planning and design methods to help implement the DCS model at the level of Information and Database Systems, Business Strategy, and Digitization Engineering, thereby enhancing these fields. Finally, certain intriguing new applications, especially smart highways and information supply chains, are discussed.

Gena Thomas, "Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey"
English | ISBN: 0830845755 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as an unaccompanied minor after being separated from her stepdad who was deported. Gena Thomas tells the story of how Julia came to the United States, what she experienced in the system, and what it took to reunite her with her family. A Spanish-speaking former missionary, Gena became Julia's foster mother and witnessed firsthand the ways migrant children experience trauma. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love.

Jonathan Paine, "Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola"
English | ISBN: 0674988434 | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 21 MB
A literary scholar and investment banker applies economic criticism to canonical novels, dramatically changing the way we read these classics and proposing a new model for how economics can inform literary analysis.

Self-Esteem: 3-in-1 Guide to Master Assertive Communication, Confidence Building & How to Raise Your Self Esteem by Lawrence Finnegan
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BLT3RKSV | 150 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
Self-Esteem - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Assertiveness, Social Skills and Persuasion.