The Second Bounce Of The Ball

Author: Sir Ronald Cohen
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297856316
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is to take advantage of that uncertainty: for it is only in situations of uncertainty that significant gains can be made. Putting it another way, successful entrepreneurs know how to turn risk into opportunity. The book is essential reading for entrepreneurs, wannabe entrepreneurs and all those who want to apply entrepreneurial approaches in all walks of life. It provides relevant background on the development of entrepreneurship and of the venture-capital and private-equity industry through the prism of Cohen's experience at Apax. It provides guidance about how to take advantage of business opportunity: the right people and the right money and the roles played by personality and luck and underlines the importance of ethics.

The Bouncing Ball

Author: Deborah Kelly
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 085798005X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Try to keep up with the bouncing ball as it travels down the street, between two cars, into a gutter, down a storm drain ... This picture book will delight young readers as they follow the adventures of the bouncing ball through colourful fields and cities, past animals, cars, boys and girls.

Bounce the Balls and They Will Come

Author: Betty Wiseman
Publisher: New Hope Publishers (AL)
ISBN: 9781596692459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
Evangelism has many forms for today’s Christians. Some use tracts, others use memorized plans of salvation. Betty Wiseman uses a basketball. Sports evangelism has become increasingly popular in Third-World countries. Betty Wiseman, a Hall of Fame coach, is a walking, talking, dribbling testimony of this. She has led sports teams to numerous countries in South America and Europe and used a bouncing ball to tell a lost world about the love of Christ. Through her globe-trotting adventures, you will see just how simple sharing your faith can be when you use something you so dearly enjoy as a catalyst for evangelism.

The Pinky Ball Book and the Pinky Ball

Author: Dina Anastasio
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761119777
Category : Ball games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Introduces a type of ball that was originally manufactured only for the insides of tennis balls but became popular itself.

Why Does a Ball Bounce?

Author: Adam Hart-Davis
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Simple answers to 100 truly perplexing questions. Curiosity spans all ages as kids, teenagers and adults have lots of questions about everyday occurrences they never think to ask. Why does syrup spiral off the spoon? Which metals can be recycled? The answers to these and 98 other important questions about life, the universe and a whole lot more are found in Why Does a Ball Bounce? Fully illustrated with color photographs, this book explains complex ideas in easy-to-understand terms. The book's 100 questions are organized into the following topics: Air: bouncing balls, bursting bubbles, fizzy drinks Earth: mountain-making, lava, the age of the Earth Plants: sowing wild oats, why the numbers 3, 5, 8, and 13 crop up so often in plants Fire and ice: the sparkler's sparks, why skates slide, what is dew Water: why water ripples, how soap works, bouncing rain Food: seeing underground, why barley needs the sun Weather: overflowing drains, sky color, seeing the wind Electricity: why electricity sparks, hair standing on end, shrinking computers Mathemagic: seeing musical notes, how knots work, swinging pendulums Little critters: worm heads, how slugs breathe, patient spiders Health and sickness: dilating pupils, smoking facts, vaccination safety Technology: level playing fields, stone age tools, the first computer. Why Does A Ball Bounce? is the ideal title for anyone who needs to explain these ideas to children, students... or just to themselves.

The Secret History of Balls

Author: Josh Chetwynd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101514876
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics The Nerf ball was originally created to be part of a board game featuring cavemen Balls are the unsung heroes of sports. They are smacked, flung, dribbled, crushed, thrown, and kicked. They're usually only the subject of scrutiny when something goes wrong: a tear, the application of an illegal foreign substance, or a dent from overuse. Nevertheless, if you're watching nearly any major sporting event from around the world, you're likely following the ball wondering where it will go next... The Secret History of Balls mines the stories and lore of sports and recreation to offer insight into 60 balls-whether they're hollow, solid, full of air, or stuffed with twine or made of leather, metal, rubber, plastic, or polyurethane-that give us joy on playing fields and in every arena from backyards to stadiums around the globe.

Play Activities for Elementary Schools, Grades One to Eight

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

Boomer Gets His Bounce Back (Disney Junior: Doc McStuffins)

Author: Andrea Posner-Sanchez
Publisher: Golden/Disney
ISBN: 0385383584
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Doc McStuffins helps a ball named Boomer in this Little Golden Book retelling of an episode from the popular Disney Junior series. Kids ages 2–5 will love finding out how Doc gets Boomer bouncing again. And they'll relate to Boomer's fear of needles—and learn how to be brave at their next doctor's visit.

More Super Science with Simple Stuff

Author: Susan Popelka
Publisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 1596472707
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Using everyday items found at home and in the classroom, students perform eye-opening experiments and demonstrations in order to learn about fundamental physical-science principles. Topics include motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, and chemistry. Each of the 90 activities comprises a reproducible student worksheet and a page of step-by-step instructions with an explanation of the scientific principle. Students learn to state a scientific problem; predict results; gather, record, and graph data; and draw conclusions. Grades 3-6. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 283 pages.

Every Man's Battle

Author: Stephen Arterburn
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307457974
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Updated for a new generation, a resource for overcoming sexual temptation shares the stories of men who have escaped sexual immorality and offers a practical plan for achieving sexual integrity.