Core Strategy: A Framework for Planning and Predicting High Growth Ventures Common to all high-growth new ventures is impeccable timing for their product/business model – when either a large volume of customers or a handful of customers, who order large volumes, will soon be in “must have” mode and competitors lack the “motivation/means to co-opt”.  Conventional approaches to discover and design this “holy grail” have only been providing winners 20% of the time.  This book describes a Silicon Valley tested framework that increases the acceleration and predictability of new venture strategy making by 2x – 4x over conventional approaches.  The Core Strategy Framework provides a surprisingly easy-to-use pattern recognition logic for planning technology, product, production, business model, management team and finance requirements.  The Core Strategy Framework offers an unconventional but critically decisive and proven schema for identifying your marketplace’s circumstances of customers, competitors, complementors and the technological/innovation trajectory of lead platforms and the migration of end-users’ value expectations.  The Core Strategy framework provides a common navigational language that allows technologists, business experts and venture investors to transform the current hip-shoot fuzzy Front End Innovation into a predictable next-generation process.

The Innovator's Holy Grail: The Core Strategy Framework for Planning and Predicting High Growth Ventures

Business & Money

Long, Mark

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Mark Long Law

This best-selling book provides everything you'll need to know about selecting, installing, operating, and maintaining your home satellite system. DBS, digital video compression, HDTV, and other innovations coming your way are also presented in a down-to-earth style that is accessible to everyone.

The world of satellite television

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Book Pub. Co

From the authors of best-selling books on CB radio and satellite television (with a combined 40 years of expertise in the consumer electronis field) comes information on AM, FM, SSB, HAM, SKIP, and DX. includes sections on CB slang, buying and installing radios and antennas, trouble-shooting your rig, American and British CB rules and regulations, and emergency procedures.

The World of CB Radio

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crystal, Bonnie

Keating, Jeffrey

Crafts & Hobbies

Book by Long, Mark, Keating, Jeffrey

The World of Satellite TV

Humor & Entertainment

Television

M L E

The World of Satellite TV: International Edition for Asia, the Middle East, & the Pacific Rim

A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families―one white and one black―who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas.
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. 
The Silence of Our Friends follows events through the point of view of young Mark Long, whose father is a reporter covering the story. Semi-fictionalized, this story has its roots solidly in very real events. With art from the brilliant Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature. 
Praise for The Silence of Our Friends:
"[A]n engrossing narrative about race in America, while honestly dealing with a host of other real-world issues, including familial relationships, friendship, dependency, "other"-ness, and perhaps most importantly, the search for common ground." ―Publishers Weekly 
"A moving evocation of a tipping point in our country's regrettable history of race relations, Long and Demonakos's story flows perfectly in Eisner and Ignatz Award winner Powell's graceful and vivid yet unpretty black-and-gray wash." ―Library Journal 
"[C]onvincingly depicts the systemic racism, blatant and subtle, that suffused and corroded everything during [the] period…[Popwell's] imagery amplifies the effects of the book's multiple perspectives―the overwhelmed kid's-eye view of uneasy family dynamics and open Texas spaces, the hyperkinetic chaos on campus, the cropped literalism of TV newscasts." ―The New York Times 
"Powell uses a mixture of large and small panels along with a variety of frame compositions and points of view to give the book a cinematic realism. From this intimate vantage point, racist incidents are shockingly ugly, while happy domestic moments―as when the kids from both families belt out "Soul Man"―are unself-consciously beautiful. The youthful protagonist and graphic-novel format will plunge readers into a time that can seem very distant. Ideal as a class read, absorbing for solo readers." ―School Library Journal 
"Covering a time period of societal unrest from Viet Nam to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Silence uses realistic black-and-white illustrations to convey a subject that is not black and white." ―VOYA

The Silence of Our Friends

Comics & Graphic Novels

Demonakos, Jim

Graphic Novels

Square Fish

This best-selling book provides everything you'll need to know about selecting, installing, operating, and maintaining your home satellite system. DBS, digital video compression, HDTV, and other innovations coming your way are also presented in a down-to-earth style that is accessible to everyone.

The World of Satellite Television

Reference

Consumer Guides

Book two outlines a definitive 10 step program to business  capital without using credit or collateral for the new century economy.

Raising Capital In The New Economy -- Book 2

ProMotion Publishing

“The cement slabs and decaying fountains obscured by vegetation at the site of Camp Hearne echo a time forgotten of a bustling city of nearly 5,000 men brought together by world conflict.”
The oral histories, archival research, and archaeological data compiled by author Michael Waters and his team of researchers tells the story of 5,000 German soldiers held as prisoners of war in rural Texas during World War II. Camp Hearne, located on the outskirts of Hearne, Texas, was one of the first and largest POW camps in the United States. Between 1943 and 1945 nearly 50,000 German prisoners, mostly from the German Afrika Korps lived and worked at seventy POW camps across Texas. The story of Camp Hearne told here offers the first in-depth look at one of these camps and includes an archaeological study of the treatment and conditions of the German prisoners. Drawing on newspaper accounts and official records from the time, and the recollections of surviving POWs, guards, and local residents, Waters and his team have constructed a detailed description of life in the camp: educational opportunities, recreation, mail call, religious practices, work details, and the food provided. Also revealed are the more serious issues that faced the Americans inside the POW compounds: illegal alcohol distillation, suicides, escapes, hidden secret shortwave radios, and the subversion of postal services. Fascinating artifacts recovered from the site and from the collections of local residents add concrete details. Waters also discusses the national policies and motivations for the treatment of prisoners that prescribed the particulars of camp life. The shadow world of Nazism in the camp is revealed, adding darkness to a story that is otherwise optimistic and in places humorous. The most sinister and brutal example of Nazi activity was the murder of Corporal Hugo Krauss, a German-born New York–raised volunteer in the German army. Captured in North Africa after service in Russia, Krause was attacked seven months later by six to ten fellow prisoners and beaten with clubs, nail–studded boards and a lead pipe. The dramatic recounting of the murder and the ensuing investigation illustrate much about the underlying political tensions of camp existence. This book makes a unique and notable contribution to Texas history. The narrative is enriched by numerous photographs and drawings. It will engage those interested in Texas history and World War II and hold particular interest for avocational and professional historical archaeologists.

Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne

History

Waters, Michael R.

MASON, BRYAN

Dickens, William

Sweitz, Sam

Presley, Anna Lee

Buvit, Ian

Raisor, Michelle

Standish, Hilary

Dannhaeuser, Norbert

Americas

Texas A&M University Press

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. 
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. 
The Silence of Our Friends follows events through the point of view of young Mark Long, whose father is a reporter covering the story. Semi-fictionalized, this story has its roots solidly in very real events. With art from the brilliant Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.
The Silence of Our Friends Author Q&amp;A
How much of this book's story is based on real events? 
 Mark Long: Creating a book like this one required us to find a balance between factual accuracy and emotional authenticity. Some details as well as names have been changed for storytelling purposes. But the facts are that in 1967 Texas Southern University students began a boycott of classes after the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was banned from campus, and on May 17th they staged a sit down protest on Wheeler Avenue over conditions at the nearby city garbage dump. The protest evolved into an police riot that night when an undercover officer was shot and over 200 officers responded by pouring rifle and machinegun fire into the men's dormitory. The police later stormed the dormitory and arrested 489 students after a policeman was shot and killed. All but 5 of the students were released the next day. They came to be called the "TSU Five" and were charged with the murder of the slain officer. Only one of the students stood trial in Victoria Texas due to publicity in Houston. His trial ended with the dismissal of all charges against the five when it was discovered that the officer was shot accidentally by another officer.
 With the civil rights struggle as a backdrop to the story, how did you balance a contemporary perspective on race with the reality of race issues at the time? 
 Nate Powell: While visualizing and adapting Mark's largely autobiographical work on the story, I found myself calling on my own experiences as a kid in Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas in the 1980's. Though the story takes place in a specific historical framework, many of the attitudes, details, atmospheric elements, and anecdotes were extremely familiar to me -- sometimes too familiar. As the pages progressed, the twenty years between our Southern childhood experiences didn't seem like much of a difference at all, which was certainly disturbing at times. 
There were frequent case-by-case conversations about accurate depictions of racism, the privilege of authorship, and inherent charge carried by racism's role in the book. Generally speaking, we determined that this was in many ways a brutal story but a very accurate one, and respecting the very real violence carried by certain words and actions allowed us to give them their ugly space in the narrative, for better or for worse.
 Is much knowledge of the civil rights movement required? 
 Mark Long: Everything that pushes the narrative forward is contained within the story's pages, and a lot of the civil rights and struggle-related content is specific to Houston in 1967-68. It definitely covers what readers might need to know without having expertise on the civil rights movement. Having said that, however, I think readers are rewarded throughout the book as characters are offered windows through which they witness a much more massive social upheaval, framed within the last few months of Dr. Martin Luther King's too-short life. 
 There's no easy way to categorize this book, how would you describe it? 
Mark Long: I'd say it's a culture's own coming-of-age tale. By that, I mean it's first and foremost an exploration of shifting boundaries: towns and neighborhoods, friends and families, customs and attitudes all on the threshold of massive (and ongoing) change. The boundaries themselves take on lives of their own at times. In a more traditional sense, it's also equal parts a story centering on two families' internal relationships as they find themselves in each other's orbit, struggle narrative, friendship-betrayal tale, and courtroom drama.
 Why choose to tell this story in a graphic format?
 Nate Powell: As the story's climax is dependent on sorting through multiple points of view, it's appropriate that comics are ideal medium by which to tell a tale with so many lenses. The book offers a pretty intimate view of the world through main characters' points of view, but bringing the narrative even closer through Mark's eyes and balancing them all without judgment highlight the strengths of comics storytelling.

The Silence of Our Friends : The Civil Rights Struggle Was Never Black and White

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