Tales From The Top

The journey up Mount Everest is never easy. Climbers risk their lives as they struggle around jagged towers of ice, over snow-covered boulders, and across gaping crevasses. Pete Athans knows these dangers well. He has climbed Mount Everest fourteen times and reached the summit seven times. What is it like to climb the highest mountain on Earth? In this book, you'll follow Pete to the top—and learn about his adventures along the way.

Tales from the Top is a book to motivate every busy executive. Graham Alexander throws open the boardroom doors and divulges, for the first time, the proven techniques he uses to evoke change and action in thousands of leaders and teams. Top leaders recognise that they can always improve their performance and Graham Alexander knows their problems, because he's hired to solve them. In this inspiring new book, he reveals the 10 questions every leader and aspiring leader must answer in order to stay on top.--1.What's life all about for you?-2.Who are you, and who do others say you are?-3.What's the point for you and your people?-4.What would happen if you did less?-5.What can only you do?-6.Would you do anything differently if you knew you only had a year to live?-7.If your people are your biggest asset, why don't they know who you are?-8.Who pays your salary, and why are you ignoring them?-9.Are you running your business, or is it running you?-10.So now how will you live your life differently ... or is it business as usual?Packed with insights, battlefield stories and real-life successes, Tales from the Top is the must-read book for everyone who wants to reach the top and stay there.

Local historian Paul J. Zuros weaves a rich narrative of the region, reliving these tales as only a local can. The Upper Ohio River runs along the border between West Virginia and Ohio, where the cities of Weirton and Steubenville face each other across the flowing water. The history of these two municipalities has been intertwined from their earliest days. Discover stories of the early pioneers on both sides of the river and what they learned about their Native American predecessors. Tales of bygone celebrations will entertain, and rumors of local haunts will chill readers to the bone. The stories of these industrial centers as well as their preindustrial past will intrigue and delight young and old.

The original weird history book of the Black Hills, this tourist favorite contains over fifty zany but true tales of the Old West.

Ages 9 to 12 years. Text in English & Tibetan. This is a picture book featuring three beautifully illustrated tales from Tibet. A young prince, wise monkey, and magical guardian are some of the engaging characters that fill this book. Each story, told in English and Tibetan, offers a fun, enchanting glimpse of Tibetan culture. The book is written and illustrated with full-page, full colour paintings by Naomi C Rose.

Batter up--here comes the most memorable collection of anecdotes about the national pastime ever assembled. Tales from the Dugout brings together never-before-told stories from baseball personalities such as Roger Maris, Ken Griffey Jr., Pete Rose, Phil Rizzuto, and Gaylord Perry in this illustrated, one-of-a-kind compendium.

The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub - The Tan Hill Inn - located in the bleak landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub's search for a new manager, they arrived just three weeks later as the new landlords of the The Tan Hill Inn. It is a wild, wind-swept place, set alone in a sea of peat bog and heather moorland that stretches unbroken as far as the eye can see. With only sheep and grouse for company, their closest neighbour was four miles away and the nearest town twelve. They had no experience of licensed trade or running a pub, no knowledge of farming and a complete inability to understand the dialect of the sheep farmers who were their local customers. Eager, well-meaning, but in over their heads, our two heroes embarked on a disaster-strewn career that somehow also turned into a lifelong love affair with the Dales.The Inn at the Top is an entertaining ramble around the Inn, the breath-taking Dales countryside and a remarkable array of local characters, giving an insight into life in a very different different time and place.