Fifty Years Of Resumes And Passport Stamps

It is amusing, inspiring, and touching. Fifty Years of Resumes and Passport Stamps shares Elizabeth Lydia Palmers journey through life. Go to work with her as her career in data processing follows the development of computersfrom mechanical accounting machines and punched-card systems to minicomputers, mainframes, and databases. Through hirings and firings, Elizabeth shares the accolades she received from bosses and the criticisms when she was the subject of a case study in how to deal with an incompetent employee. Teaching computer software classes, attending volleyball clinics, and joining family activities put some unusual, out-of-the-ordinary trips on Elizabeths calendar. Travel with her as she climbs Mt. Fuji to watch the sunrise, braves the border guards in iron-curtained Czechoslovakia, files past Pope John Paul Is body as he lies in state in St. Peters Basilica, watches for white smoke announcing a new pope, smokes a peace pipe in Colorado and a water pipe in Istanbul, scalps tickets at the Montreal Olympics, and skiis at the Womens Olympic Downhill Run in Innsbruck. Elizabeths Fifty Years of Resumes and Passport Stamps offers anecdotes of marrying, raising four children in Illinois, Texas, Ottawa, and California, surviving cancer, divorcing after thirty years, dating after age fifty, and finally filing away her rsums as she retires.

This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong. After that-although it took him forty-seven more years-Albert Podell set another record by going to every country on Earth. He achieved this by surviving riots, revolutions, civil wars, trigger-happy child soldiers, voodoo priests, robbers, pickpockets, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. He went around, under, or through every kind of earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, snowstorm, and sandstorm that nature threw at him. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and the brain of a live monkey. And he overcame attacks by crocodiles, hippos, anacondas, giant leeches, flying crabs-and several beautiful girlfriends who insisted that he stop this nonsense and marry them. Albert Podell's Around the World in 50 Years is a remarkable and meaningful tale of quiet courage, dogged persistence, undying determination, and an uncanny ability to extricate himself from one perilous situation after another-and return with some of the most memorable, frightening, and hilarious adventure stories you have ever read.

A bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy and radical solutions to reverse the drift. Bestselling author Dambisa Moyo gives a fresh insider's perspective on the erosion of Western power over the past 50 years. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to favour the emerging world. Moyo is uniquely positioned to examine the West's errors and the techniques the emerging countries used to rise on the global economic stage: As a former economist and banker she gives a new perspective on the dramatic shifts in the global economy Her "Wall Street" vantage point captures the nuances of what role the financial sector had in the decline of Western power Her world view as someone neither from the West nor from any of the emerging countries produces an unbiased, non-Western analysis Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to regard the up-and-comers simply as menacing gatecrashers and proposes radical solutions it needs to adopt in order to reassert itself as a global economic power.

Olive is an introverted young woman who has never ventured more than four hours away from home, nor has she ever had the desire to do so. Olive is stunned when her struggling-to-make-ends-meet single mother passes away, leaving her a trust fund, with the stipulation that in order to receive her inheritance, Olive must get out of her box and explore the world. These are the stories of Olive's adventures, the extraordinary places she visits around the globe, and the array of interesting people she meets along the way, as well as some unavoidable sticky situations she occasionally finds herself in.