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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

  • Muerte - Death, It's What I Do

    by John W. Wood ...
    Series Book 1 - Muerte Series
    Within the shadows of the US Government, a decision has been made to declare war on the drug trade. Only a few know about this no holds-barred-war.Colonel Ethan Wade, USMC, has been assigned to place a mole within the Mexican Cartel. Colonel Wade calls upon a man from within his Black Ops team, Ricardo 'Rico' Garcia, also known by his Marine handle, ‘Muerte.’ Rico is known within black ops as a ... Read more

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  • The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    by John Wood Sweet ...
    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardJournal of the American Revolution Book of the YearWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History<... ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • White Crow

    by John W. Wood ...
    Series Book 1 - The House Of Crow
    In the 19th century West begins the saga of a powerful family.After mountain man Isaiah Crow arrives in Alta California, he saves a group of people from local bandits.As luck would have it, they are family and Vaqueros from the rancho of Don Hernando Batista, one of the most powerful families in Southern California - and very anxious to take their new friends to meet the Patron.After Señor Batista ... Read more

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  • 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 House Of Crow Collection

    The Complete Series

    by John W. Wood ...
    Series series The House Of Crow
    All three books in 'The House Of Crow' series by John W. Wood, now available in one volume!White Crow: Isaiah Crow and Jacques LeRue's heroic intervention against bandits leads them to meet the powerful Batista family in Alta California. When Isaiah falls in love with Don Hernando Batista's daughter, Francisca, their union gives birth to Jedadiah, who is destined to become a formidable warrior and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers

    Describing the Most Desirable Plants for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, Including Foliage as Well as Flowering Plants

    by John Wood ...
    “Hardy Perennials And Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers” is a vintage guide to gardening, focusing on planting and maintaining long-lasting and temperature-resistant plants and shrubs. It deals with a large range of different varieties, providing descriptions, instruction, and other notable information for each treated. Clearly written and full of invaluable tips, this volume will be of utility to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Virtual Embodied

    Practice, Presence, Technology

    Edited by John Wood ...
    The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, human actions, ... 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