On the coast

Literature & Fiction

BROWN, WAYNE

Poetry

A. Deutsch

Edna Manley wife of the first Jamaican Prime Minister.

Edna Manley (The Private Years 1900-1938)

Publisher

As a young boy, Ed Cutts grew up loving boats as his father took him to major boatyards in and around Long Island. He drew beautiful boats and at 13 wanted to be a designer. And he wanted to learn wooden boat building, but there was nothing for a teenager. Attending a new school at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, he and others learned metal work half the day, and even worked on valves for a battleship.  Following U.S. Navy ordnance work in the Pacific, he tried to find boatbuilding work. He met L. Francis Herreshoff in Marblehead, and asksed him questions about yacht design. Later he brought up his own drawings for criticism. The famous designer said a designer should learn to build his designs by working in a boatyard. Ed finally did basic work in a small boatyard, and then found an opportunity to become an apprentice at the great Nevins Boatyard at City Island, NY. He worked in all departments for about two years, learning under the top boatbuilders. Then he built and designed for other boatyards on Long Island, NY.  For his own client, he designed and built a 23 ft. sloop, which won an Invitational race, with Ed sharing the helm for the owners. Married and living in Northport, NY, he built a shed in back of his house and built a 29 ft. sloop for a second client. His designs impressed executive John Case, who ordered a 33 ft. sloop. Then, he and Ed teamed up to open Cutts & Case Shipyard in Oxford, MD, in 1965. Ed was 38 years old.  While creating beautiful boats, Ed began extensive research on an improved way to build boats, and received a patent for his "Cutts Method." This technique used the new Kevlar in epoxie between two layers of planking. Kevlar had 10 the strength of steel, so that frames were not needed. He used no exterior fasteners on the hull. He found the boats were lighter and stronger as a result.  After testing he used this technique in major repairs and then on new boats, In his senior years, Ed designed and his shipyard built a 27 ft. cabin yacht, a 28 ft. runabout that went 50 knots, a 24.5 ft. sailboat, and a 65 ft. yacht hull. Boatbuilding students from Finland came to Cutts & Case for two years to work on this and to learn the "Cutts Method." Years before, Ed had been invited to Finland to lecture to boatbuilders and designers.  Ed was one of the last classic designers who carved a half-hull to scale, to take the loft measurements. The author described him as "a vigorous, opinionated, talented, inventive, often humorous, and unique individual." 

Ed Cutts Designer, Boatbuilder, and "Cutts Method" Inventor

Biographies & Memoirs

Leeward Pubns

What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires.
In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up stellar breakthroughs—again and again. It is the key ingredient that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value. 
As the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or reach ever-stronger competitive positions. 
Through entertaining stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its principles—adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles, lofty goals, and innovation, among others—to achieve operational excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change the world. 
Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7:
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Your company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for.</li>
<li>Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through.</li>
<li>Culture: Your company must create the conditions that allow people to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles.</li>
<li>Spirit: Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is bigger than they are.</li>
<li>Networking: Your company must provide the means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow their internal and external networks continuously.</li>
<li>Knowledge: Your company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make it readily available to everyone who needs it.</li>
<li>Leadership: Your company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they want others to adopt.</li>
</ul>
Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That—along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution—will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world.

Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel

Business & Money

Schuh, Christian

Triplat, Alenka

Kearney, AT

Plaizier, Wim

Chevreux, Laurent

Management & Leadership

Apress

Alone in My Universe: Struggling with an Orphan Disease in an Unsympathetic World

Battling a chronic disease can often be a lonely and frustrating ordeal. It doesn't have to be. Alone in My Universe, compiled by Wayne Brown, presents a series of writings from patients suffering from acromegaly. Based on actual personal experiences, these narratives provide a primer of understanding for others dealing with this chronic, debilitating disease that affects many of the body's systems. This collaborative effort, written by real people touched by acromegaly, attempts to raise awareness of this low-profile disease. Each patient tells his or her story as it relates to the disease and its complications. Topics include the following: • Handling pre-diagnosis frustration • Dealing with fears of medical treatment and surgery • Managing family issues and work issues • Talking with children • Managing negative energy • Coping with good and bad days • Living life each day With sympathy, empathy, and mutual support, Alone in the Universe shares the heartfelt stories of those suffering from acromegaly to show others that they are not alone in their battle.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

iUniverse

Amazing Space Adventures

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gaming

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A popular therapist helps readers understand how, by staying with commitments long enough to see them through natural struggles and disillusionment, unrealistic expectations can be released and renewed motivation can make those commitments even more rewarding.

Living the Renewed Life

Self-Help

Relationships

Golden Books Adult Publishing

The first time he saw Sara she was the most beautiful girl Craig had ever seen, a year later he fell in love with her. Craig could never imagine falling in love with a girl of Sara's beauty. But, while on vacation she met Oliver, the most perfect boy she had ever seen. Oliver was not as he appeared to be, although very handsome, highly intelligent, perfect, he hid his evil agenda well. Oliver used his intelligence, looks and charisma to manipulate Sara, who had never known how beautiful she really was.What would take place on that Tybee Island vacation would forever change the destinies of many people. Heartbreak would follow and the path of a young man who had been so in love would direct him down a path he had never imagined.Craig Kirkland would become a stone cold assassin. They should never have laughed.

One Flower In My Garden

Romance

Paranormal

Independently published

The Five Minute MBA

Random House New Zealand LTD.

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