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  • 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

  • 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

  • Ordinary Lives Extraordinary Mission

    Five Steps to Winning the War Within

    by John Wood ...
    These are difficult times for the Catholic Church and the United States of America. There is only one solution to the problems we face... saints! Becoming a saint is a choice, and we must begin choosing the saint within each of us. The biggest crisis of our time is not economic, health care, or vocations, but is an identity crisis. We have forgotten our mission to become saints and forgotten our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Blackjack Strategy, How to Beat the House Edge.

    by john woods ...
    Blackjack is the most popular game in casinos.The main reason for this is that it has the lowest house advantage, which is about 2.74%. However, using the correct Blackjack strategy within this book reduces this advantage even further to an incredibly low 0.5% or less. But yet further still there are two ways to place your bet to increase your winnings further and give YOU the advantage, not the ... Read more

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  • A Maker's Guide to Pulleys

    by John Wood ...
    Illustrated by Amy Li ...
    Series series A Maker's Guide to Simple Machines
    Inquisitive makers will love learning about pulleys and how they work thanks to Maker, a wacky alien with a passion for simple machines! A hands-on back matter activity adds to the fun. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Central Banking in a Democracy

    The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives

    by John Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial institutions at taxpayers' expense during the recent Great Recession.This book is a study of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Woody's World Turns Left....Into Australia

    by John Wood ...
    Woody is funny, witty and writes in a unique style which educates and informs, guaranteed to make you laugh. A former dancer from Kent, now living in Surrey, Woody always sees the bright side of life and tells it like it is. Currently expanding his writing to include humorous Romance. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD