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  • The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    by John Wood Sweet ...
    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardJournal of the American Revolution Book of the YearWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Design for Micro-Utopias

    Making the Unthinkable Possible

    by John Wood ...
    Series series Design for Social Responsibility
    Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not the problem. What we lack most is creative thinking, fuelled by collective optimism. In a pragmatic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • From Shiftless to Shifty: My Forty-six Years as a Public Defender

    by John Wood ...
    This is the story of how Attorney Wood practiced law in the criminal courts for forty-six years, starting off with little training or background from his traditional law school education (and, as he says, "with little aptitude for it!"). The story is told with humor and compassion for the clients he represented. During the course of his career, Mr. Wood learned how to successfully navigate the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Creating Room to Read

    A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

    by John Wood ...
    The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of booksWhat’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How I Clawed My Way to the Middle

    by John Wood ...
    ‘Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!’ I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke – had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got.John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of high school, an employment officer told him, ‘You have the mind of an artist and the body of a ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

    An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children

    by John Wood ...
    John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers

    Describing the Most Desirable Plants for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, Including Foliage as Well as Flowering Plants

    by John Wood ...
    “Hardy Perennials And Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers” is a vintage guide to gardening, focusing on planting and maintaining long-lasting and temperature-resistant plants and shrubs. It deals with a large range of different varieties, providing descriptions, instruction, and other notable information for each treated. Clearly written and full of invaluable tips, this volume will be of utility to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia, the Asymmetric Threat to the United States

    A Potent Mixture of Energy and Missiles

    by John Wood ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    Exploring themes critical to understanding the current world order, this book lays bare the reality of the new Russia that emerged under Vladimir Putin.Russia holds the world's largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal and uranium reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Europe is dependent on Russia for 25 percent of its oil and gas. Russia is also positioning itself to play a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Woody’S World Turns Left into New Zealand...

    More Hilarious Travelling Tales

    by John Wood ...
    Woody enters a new dimension in his World as he travels on from Australia to New Zealand where his folks (the kids) join him. Their intention to travel via a family camper was somewhat tainted. They arrive during the Rugby World and were offered something akin to a Mr Whippy van. Join Woody on more hilarious travelling tales as they explore the wonders of New Zealand together. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Role of Legal Compliance in Sustainable Supply Chains, Operations, and Marketing ​

    by John D. Wood ...
    Sustainability is a global megatrend with ramifications across all functional areas of business. This book addresses an underdeveloped topic in the field of sustainable business—the use of corporate resources dedicated to legal compliance. In order to comply with the law, supply chain, operations, and marketing professionals must know what the applicable legal frameworks are. In order to promote ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love

    Thirty-Three Tales of Cowboys, Homesteads, Adventure, and Frontier Life

    by Ridgwell Cullum, Kathryn Pocklington, Alice M. Winlow, Alice MacGowan, B. M. Bower, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay, Mary Ellen Chase, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Frances Parker, Dane Coolidge, Izola L. Forrester, Kate Boyles Bingham, Virgil D. Boyles, Les Savage, Vingie E. Roe, Onoto Watanna, F. S. Brereton, Peter B. Kyne, Clarice E. Richards, Josephine Chase, Harold Bindloss, Lily Munsell Ritchie, George Bird Grinnell, Albert Payson Terhune, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, Amy Bell Marlowe, Grace May North, Evelyn Raymond, Edith Lavell, John Luther Langworthy, L. Frank Baum, Clair Blank, Margaret Vandercook, Howard Roger Garis, James Captain Carson, Frank V. Webster, Joan Clark, Mayne Reid, Hermann Hagedorn, Edward G. Cheyney, Laura Lee Hope, Thomas Carson ...
    Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Maker's Guide to Axles

    by John Wood ...
    Illustrated by Amy Li ...
    Series series A Maker's Guide to Simple Machines
    What is an axle, and how does it make life easier for us Earthlings? Join Maker, a supersmart alien engineer, in a deep dive into axles, from wind turbines to rolling pins. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD