chuck wolfe (3 resultados)

single_issue_magazine. Condición: Good. no markings some shelf wear spine good binding good.

Blanda. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Nuevo. No Aplica Ilustrador. 2. Best Practices in Action has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the realities of a maturing business incubation industry. Eight chapters explore these broad practice categories: governance; staffing; finances; facilities; management; program evaluation; client entrance and exit; leveraging innovation; client services. Each category is broken down into specific practice areas, with examples of how more than 40 working incubation programs have implemented best practices. A chapter of case studies highlights 11 incubation programs from the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Israel that are overall exemplars of best practice. 2145 gr. Libro.

First edition of Wolfe's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, hand-made Italian marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and by pilots Chuck Yeager and John Glenn on pages bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero." "One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril." (The Boston Globe). Basis for the acclaimed 1983 film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sam Shepard and Ed Harris. Listed by Modern Library as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century.