In Search of Pipe Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Pipe Dreams write by Rick Newcombe. This book was released on 2006. In Search of Pipe Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of pipe-smoking's greatest craftspeople intertwine with advice and commentary in these essays on the art of pipe smoking. While exploring pipe craftsmanship worldwide, these writings combine tales of the author's visits to Europe's most prestigious pipe-makers with a look at pipe-smoking's history and the hobby's most famous practitioners, including Albert Einstein, Norman Rockwell, and Mark Twain. Interviews with Old World craftspeople provide insight into the delicate and personal craft of pipe-making, and a treatise on pipe-smoking's relaxing benefits intermingles with advice on how to smoke, buy, break in, clean, and use a pipe to cope with the frantic pace of the 21st century. Includes a 16 page color photo insert.
Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pipe Dreams write by Maya K. Peterson. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Pipe Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.
Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pipe Dream write by Solomon Jones. This book was released on 2001-09-04. Pipe Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor’s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house. Enter Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can’t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black’s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it. Soon the hunt is on for all four as they try to stay one step ahead of a police department under tremendous pressure to solve the case—because if a killer isn’t found soon, this could blow up into one of the biggest scandals in Philadelphia history. Solomon Jones weaves a suspenseful story against the backdrop of corruption in the Philadelphia police department and centers it on a group of drug addicts who, in the process of fleeing the law, come to terms with their own addiction, leading to some devastating consequences.
Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pipe Dreams write by Robert Bryce. This book was released on 2004-01-08. Pipe Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the shocking collapse of Enron in fall, 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how America's seventh-largest company had destroyed itself. There were unethical deals, offshore accounts, and accounting irregularities. There were Wall Street analysts who seemed to have been asleep on the job. There were the lies top executives told so that they could line their own pockets while workers and shareholders lost billions. But after all these disclosures, the question remains: Why? Why did a thriving, innovative company with rock-solid cash flow and reliable earnings suddenly flame out in a maelstrom of corruption, fraud and skulduggery? The answer, Texas business journalist Robert Bryce reveals in this incisive and entertaining book, is that bad business practices begin with human beings. Pipe Dreams traces Enron's astounding transformation from a small regional gas pipeline company into an energy Goliath...and then tracks step-by-step, business decision by business decision, extra-marital affair by extra-marital affair, how, when and why the culture of Enron began to go rotten, and who was responsible. The story of Enron's fall isn't just a story about accounting procedures; it's a story about people. Bryce tells that story with all the personality, passion, humor, and inside dope you'd hope for, and the result is an un-putdownable read in the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Predators' Ball.
Pipe Dream Blues
Pipe Dream Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pipe Dream Blues write by Clarence Lusane. This book was released on 1991. Pipe Dream Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lusane argues that "the federal drug war being waged in the nation's capital is parallel to that waged against other communities nationwide and worldwide."--SF Bay Guardian
