Return to the Big Fancy: A Riotous Descent Into the Depths of Customer, Corporate, and Coworker Hell

Freeman Hall, “Return to the Big Fancy: A Riotous Descent Into the Depths of Customer, Corporate, and Coworker Hell”
2012 | EPUB | 272 pages | ISBN: 1440536775 | English | 1.16 MB

Bigger, Fancier, and more cutthorat than ever!

When Freeman Hall left The Big Fancy to pursue his screenwriting dreams, he thought the horrors of working in a handbag department were finally over. But instead of fame and fortune, he found himself stuck behind a wall of script-killing rewrites, unable to make a living.

In Return to the Big Fancy, Freeman shares his wildly entertaining journey back through the fiery gates of Retail Hell. He thought he had seen it all in his day, but with the bar set higher than ever before, employees are now graciously bowing before Corporate as they climb over fellow salespeople, and even friends, to earn enough transactions and commissions to actually survive. As he learns more of the wretchedness that has befallen the sales floor, he realizes that The Big Fancy has its customers and its employees on a short leash. But leave it to Freeman and the threat of disappearing commissions to rally the retail slaves and show Corporate who’s really in charge!

Bruce Berman - From Assets to Profits: Competing for IP Value & Return [Repost]

Bruce Berman – From Assets to Profits: Competing for IP Value & Return
2008 | ISBN: 0470225386 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB

Edited by IP communications expert Bruce Berman, and with contributions from the top names in IP management, investment and consulting, From Assets to Profits: Competing for IP Value and Return provides a real-world look at patents, copyrights, and trademarks, how intellectual property assets work and the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which they are used for competitive advantage. Authoritative and insightful, From Assets to Profits reveals the most relevant ways to generate return on innovation, with advice and essential guidance from battle tested IP pros.

Flights of No Return: Aviation History"s Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality

Flights of No Return: Aviation History’s Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality by Steven A. Ruffin
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0760347921 | 256 pages | EPUB | 36 MB

Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn’t end as planned.

The history of aviation is full of accounts of history’s most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return?

• A celebrated millionaire–who also happened to be the world’s foremost aviator–lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and disappeared.

• The glamorous son of a beloved fallen president took off on a hazy summer night in 1999 and plunged himself and two others into the Atlantic Ocean.

• A US Navy blimp landed one Sunday morning in 1942 in the middle of a city street in California with no one aboard.

Some of these “non-returns” occurred because of errors in judgment; others were intentional, and some resulted from causes still unknown. Get the full, meticulous account of the fascinating people involved in these flights, the mistakes they made, and the ways in which their “flight of no return” affected the world. Pilot and aviation writer Steven A. Ruffin covers the entire 230-year span of manned flight in all types of aircraft through war and peace. Balloons, blimps, biplanes, jets, and spaceships have all suffered mishaps over the years.

Don’t miss the mystery, adventure, intrigue, and a sprinkling of the supernatural and extraterrestrial in Flights of No Return.