Missy is a little girl with a big dream: she wants to see the world from higher up. Her father is an airline pilot. He gets to see the world from higher up all the time. But, Missy needs a wheelchair to go everywhere. How could she see the world like her dad does? Then one day, Missy and her family go to the circus and her dream changes a bit—maybe she could see the world from up high. On top of a horse Missy could feel on top of the world! And people would need to look UP into her big blue eyes instead of down at the top of her head. Eye-to-eye, that would make Missy very happy. So come, let’s see if Missy does find her dream!
A story of adventure and danger among the Polar Eskimos.
The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen.
The summit of great Everest, the world's highest mountain,was only 13,000feet (3,962 m) higher than where we stood. My Pakistani companions knelt down inthe snowand said their midday prayers. I thought how very odd it was to see men in ...
Riding the rails tests her resolve like nothing before, but what she comes home to just might crush her.In this debut by Cheryl King, spunky and lovable June goes from sitting on top of the world to carrying the weight of the world on her ...
How to build a company that can survive the worst disaster imaginable and emerge even stronger
Almost immediately we realized we needed a leader: someone with a lot more experience than we had, and who could raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to get us to the top of the world and back.
Hewitt's Law
Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
What drew the five profiled in this book -- three British, one American, one French -- was Tibet, then the ultimate in exploration. Nina Mazuchelli organized a small expedition, urging the party on when they were lost on a glacier.
We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news.