Hawks On High

Poems by Phil Fitzpatrick. Drawings by Penny Perry.Celebrating the annual raptor viewing extravaganza at Hawk Ridge in Duluth, Minnesota.

A motivational book about the lives of Montana high school students. A dream of a cross country state championship and the 1000's of miles of sweat to live this dream. Future leaders of the world - and from Montana! High school life in its finest form, running at a high level, and a quest that will make a person smile, laugh, and cry.

Using intelligence and skilled flying, hawks are able to find great success in their hunting pursuits. These small predators use their talons to snatch prey, often in midair! This low-level title will take reluctant readers into the world of these feathered fighters through engaging text and eye-catching photos.

A lyrical celebration of the fascinating ways birds move through the air. This collection of captivating poems celebrates the distinctive movements of twelve birds in flight and the special words associated with those movements, from geese that skein and puffins that wheel, to crows that mob and starlings that murmurate. The evocative language conveys the beauty of these animals and describes how each one makes its own unmistakable way in the world. An informational sidebar complements each poem, describing the reasons behind the bird’s unique way of flying. Children will be captivated by the magnificence of these birds in flight.

A portrait of the renowned film director based on seven years of interviews: “I am very happy that this book exists.” —François Truffaut Howard Hawks is often credited as the most versatile of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood’s greatest stars—including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe—and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo. Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with the stars, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. In its new edition, this classic book is both an account of the film legend’s life and work and a guidebook on how to make movies. “There are going to be many biographies of Howard Hawks, but they will all lean heavily on this book; the pioneer so honestly reveals himself and the people with whom he worked.” —Los Angeles Times

Red-tailed hawks have excellent eyesight. These birds of prey soar high in the air, scanning open fields for small prey. When they find their target, they go into a dive and ambush their prey. Elementary students will be all eyes when they grab this informative title on red-tailed hawks.

Hawks, Seagulls, & Mice is an eye-opening resource for executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalist, and everyone else involved in sales and marketing in business markets. It presents business-tested conceptual and quantitative models for driving performance in creating customers and capturing profits in plain-spoken terms and supported by numerous case studies and examples. Explore business markets from the following perspectives: Strategic growth patterns Sales and marketing organization design Sales and marketing activity management Customer buying process Psychological and business value communication Sales and marketing performance audits ¿Finally! Someone has shifted the old B2B paradigm of sales and marketing and provided some dynamic, new, easy-to-use, quantitative models for integrating the two around business goals.¿ Gordon Hochhalter, Partner, Creativitystrategyconnectivity, Mobium Creative Group fills two major gaps in the marketing book universe¿marketing in business-to-business markets and the integration of sales and marketing functions. Smith addresses these gaps in a systematic and comprehensive manner. A solid effort.¿ Puneet Manchanda, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago Graduate Schools of Business ¿Smith¿s¿Hawks, Seagulls, & Mice is a just-in-time work, immediately needed by many and useful to all those businesses that wish to grow their revenues in today¿s dynamic and exceedingly complex competitive marketplace.¿ Green R. Miller, PhD, Professor of Economics, Morehead State University A comprehensive understanding of business markets conveyed through abstract, mostly impenetrable prose. Smith, an adjunct professor of marketing at DePaul University and chief editor of the Wiglaf Journal, demonstrates considerable insight about business systems. He reviews various strategies for business growth, examining marketing theory, organizational structure, models of communication between businesses and the integration of sales and marketing. which help simplify abstract concepts. Equally welcome are the few included case studies. Smith's analyses will not appeal to casual readers, but the text has a place in the marketing classroom. Knowledgeable and authoritative. -Kirkus Discoveries

" This revised edition surveys key aspects of hawks, describing these birds of prey's appearance, behaviors, and habitats. A folk tale explains how the sun is carried by hawks."--