What would you do if you were trapped in an abusive relationship? And what would you do if you were presented an opportunity to escape? Riley Davenport-Westins dream of success is measured by fame and fortune. She achieves her ideal life as a New York TV journalist, married to the CEO of a fourth-generation family business. But her world comes crashing down when her husbands abuse escalates and she discovers he is cheating on her. She announces shes leaving him but meets with his strong objections. To avoid the stares and whispers she anticipates from her colleagues at the sight of her bruised face, Riley decides not to go to work the next day. Instead, she wanders the streets of New York, searching for answers. How could she know that one decision would change her life forever? Greater Heights is the story about one womans choices and how having the most valuable things in life comes at a price. Sometimes, the cost is ones own life.

Attaining greater heights in Academics is an essential and comprehensive pamphlet for every student who is looking to achieve academic success. Inspired by the irresolute attitude of many young students to abandon the traditional school system and opt for remedial centers. The author argued that the experience in traditional school is quite different and he also insisted that these centers are uncontrolled environments and as such not suited for effective teaching and learning. This is an unfortunate reality in our contemporary society, but who is to blame for this social decay, Student? Parents? or the Government? Find out in this book. The book also points out several element and principles that would ensure success for student at all levels, a step by step approach has been elaborately discussed in this book and if adopted greater heights in academics is assured.

"A memoir by Vanessa O'Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world's highest mountains"--

This book, RIDE ON YOUR GIFT & REACH THE GREAT HEIGHTS, helps you to appreciate the significance of your natural ability in helping you to reach great heights in life. It helps you to identify your gift and ride on it until celebration day. It is a book for everyone. The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part highlights the seven attributes that will assist you to understand a natural gift or talent, a distinctive natural ability. It gives you a good idea about gifts or talents. The second part of the book makes your understanding of gifts complete and it guides you towards turning your own gift into a successful career. The worlds most famous individuals are people who simply discovered their gifts and turned them into careers. Our major challenge as ambitious people is to turn inappropriate foundations into careers. Instead, we should turn our gifts into careers so that we become accomplished individuals. This book is an asset which every home must have. The book demonstrates that your gift is something right under your nose.

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The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss’s Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into “master builders,” these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular “superman” discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America’s propulsion into a new cultural consciousness.

Avery Washington has spent his entire life in Patterson Heights, a Baltimore neighborhood with a mean rep. It's a good place to grow up—it has heart and soul as well as a few street hustlers, and plenty of solid families just like his. Then one day, his older brother Rashid ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Avery's life changes forever. Once an A-plus student with hopes of going to college, Avery now has to rethink his future. While his parents struggle to cope with the loss of one son, Avery has to prove himself at his new school, and deal with pressures he can't admit to anyone—not even Natasha, the one person who seems to really get him. But now he'll have to choose between doing what's expected and being true to himself…between maintaining a reputation and growing up too soon….

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book • When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father’s last, best hope. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. It’s about the love between women and men, and children and parents; about the things we give up in the face of adversity; and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.

Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York

Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.