Bøger af Christopher Jackson

When we lose someone close to us it can be a very difficult and emotional time. It is often hard to find the words to express how we feel at this time, whether we are the person who has lost someone or we are a friend of someone in need. Forever Remembered is a book of 30 poems written to help those who have lost someone to remember them through words. Poems are a wonderful way to tell stories as well as express emotions. From Dancing On The Moon to a Field Of Dreams, from Soft Silk Petals to Ice Cream In The Park, I hope there are poems for everyone. Christopher Jackson

Making reliable 'new' products in innovative ways often results in (initially) things that fail. Often. And one of the problems is that sometimes we try to look backwards instead of looking forwards. This book chronicles some key lessons learn during a recent investigation into small satellite reliability. Small satellites are an emerging technology, and the industry is not ready for them yet. And this is making it difficult for everyone. Read this book if you are interested in some of the problems faced by creating a reliable 'new' product, as the lessons learnt have been 'learnt' many times before.

Can the Red and Blue extremes of America ever get along? Can men and women? Possibly...if held at gunpoint and an African leopard is involved. In one memorable night Gage Randolph steals the Confederacy's most sacred Civil War relic, gives a ride to America's dumbest domestic terrorist, and accidentally kidnaps a liberal cable TV host. This wildly incompatible group needs to lie low and a bankrupt restaurant run by Gage's friend, Bud Roy Roemer, is the perfect hideout. Extricating themselves from a litany of felonies-only some of which they committed on purpose-is complicated by an African leopard Bud Roy's fianc brings home to join the Roemer household and a tenacious deputy sheriff intent on righting a past wrong. Trying to stay one step ahead of the law and out of paw's reach of carnivorous African mega fauna, Bud Roy and Gage seek guidance and inspiration from two uniquely grotesque American institutions: a talk radio host who dispenses pellets of white rage over the airwaves four hours a day, and a lawyer with very few ethical redlines. The answer to their problem, they discover, is cruising 13 miles off the North Carolina Coast. Freedomland is an exploratory oil rig converted into a luxurious, mobile, sovereign state by a tax-hating Silicon Valley billionaire who loves America so much he can't wait to leave it. For this collection of misfits-and one angry leopard-getting to Freedomland proves difficult. But leaving is murder. FreedomLand's satiric look into the ailing heart of America skewers the political right and left as they battle over the issues animating the American conversation: gun control; the wasteland that is talk radio and cable news; the idiocy of white supremacy; misogyny; remembrance of the Civil War; and the increasing disparity between the super rich and everyone else. Why? Because sometimes things are so bad all you can do is laugh.

Literary Nonfiction. Sports. Roger Federer is a modern obsession. He is one of those few athletes--like Muhammed Ali, or Usain Bolt--who has transcended his sport. His long career has seen him win the most Grand Slam singles titles of any man in history, while amassing untold wealth, and a heroic reputation. But why does Federer matter so much to so many people? In ROGER FEDERER: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST, Christopher Jackson considers Federer's place in philosophy, in history--and even in the history of aesthetics--to approach the meaning of the man. When you've finished this book, you'll never look at Federer--or at sport--in the same way again.