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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Girl Who Killed Kennedy

    by John Woods ...
    When journalist David Ashcroft meets a mysterious woman in New York, she claims to have been part of the conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. Her name is Alejandra Cortez — an artist's daughter turned CIA asset — and her story challenges everything Ashcroft thought he knew about Dallas 1963.Drawn into a web of secrets, betrayals, and half-truths, Ashcroft follows her trail from New ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Free

  • 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

  • Lady Chevy

    A Novel

    by John Woods ...
    In a forgotten part of Middle America, a defiant act leaves one man dead and one teenage girl faced with a stark decision that could mean losing everything.Amy Wirkner, a high school senior in Barnesville, Ohio, is a loner, nicknamed “Chevy” for her size. She’s smart, funny, and absolutely determined to escape from her small town in the Ohio Valley, a place poisoned by fracking. She does well in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Woody’S World Turns Left into New Zealand...

    More Hilarious Travelling Tales

    by John Wood ...
    Woody enters a new dimension in his World as he travels on from Australia to New Zealand where his folks (the kids) join him. Their intention to travel via a family camper was somewhat tainted. They arrive during the Rugby World and were offered something akin to a Mr Whippy van. Join Woody on more hilarious travelling tales as they explore the wonders of New Zealand together. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Light Entrusted to You

    Keeping the Flame of Faith Alive

    by John Wood ...
    We keep the flame of our faith alive by sharing it with others. But we cannot share what we do not know and love ourselves. That's why author John Wood wrote this practical, inspiring primer, which explains the Catholic faith in six simple and engaging lessons that can be applied to everyday life.The first letters of the six lessons spell the acronym SAINTS, illustrating that the Catholic faith ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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