Nose to the grindstone? Skip it! "Grindhopping" is the fastest career path for you-and this is the definitive book on the subject From the journalist who "broke the story" in a much-talked-about USA Today article on the rise of self-employment, Grindhopping is packed with real-life stories and how-to advice for how you can bypass the corporate grind. Including dozens of nontraditional success stories, career options, and interviews-plus "Grindhoppers' Guidelines" for starting a business, freelancing, consulting, job-hopping, and networking-it's the ultimate do-it-yourself guide for planning your career path.

Originally published in 1977 by Contemporary Books.

skatebook6 is destine to be a classic, featuring a cover photograph of Heath Ledger from the movie Z Boys, people do not know that Heath was a skateboarder at heart and rode the pools on set while making the movie. This volume is dedicated to Login Kincade whom performed as Heath's stunt double For The movie and was a personal friend. Login is a highly respected artist and skateboarder and has a chapter in this book of his unique art comprised of layer'd photography. Remy Stratton who is one off the genius's behind the brand Volcom is also featured in this volume with a 30+ page chapter show casing his 20 plus years as a professional skateboarder. Scott Pommier a award winning photography supplies a chapter on Ryan Smith notable endorsed skater by DC Shoe Company and Mystery skateboard which takes a look photographically at a 10 year period of a epic career. The skatebook staff goes where no other publication has gone before with a look at a completely non corporate contest that was held just outside of Sacramento California in a barn just inches away from livestock, The 2nd annual ranch jam. 5boro is a company based in New York City, skatebook goes indepth about with the creaters of this brand with a photo pictorial with writing about New York pride and existing a company that is far from the center of the industry in california. Patrick Ryan is 12 years old and is considered to be the next child prodigy in skateboarding, skatebook ask this youngster about what the future of skateboarding has in store, girls and cars. Chris Phanner is Spains great hope, Chris came from South Africa and escaped to Spain to avoid being killed. While in Spain he picked up a skateboard and discovered he had a talent that could take him around the world and aiding his family with money, he literally skated out of the ghetto, Chris's chapter is features a black and white pictorial that is simply epic. This summer hosted the second Maloof Money cup, In the vert contest a almost complete unkown named Alex Perelson became the second person in history to make a 900 and did so in competition, he is the next Tony Hawk and skatebook spent an afternoon with Alex at a vert ramp in San Diego taking text request from some of the greatest vert skaters of all time asking him to do the tricks the only dreamed of. Book6 is very epic.

Have you ever thought about starting your own Twitch stream? Are you having a hard time taking your Twitch stream to the next level? If so, look no further! This book is the complete no-bull guide on what it takes to truly be successful in the industry. After reading this book, you'll be leagues ahead of the competition, giving you the tools you need to go from Twitch dreamer to successful Twitch streamer. Jeffrey Johnston--better known as "MaximusBlack"--was one of Twitch's first partners back in 2011, and he is still streaming with great success today. He's also the co-creator of the hit YouTube series When Cheese Fails. MaximusBlack has played on three professional Esports teams and clocked in over 14,000 hours of Twitch streaming. Now he's sharing his industry knowledge to help other streamers on The Grind.

"He had sought to be the agent of all forces and actions on the Earth, and thus, just as he had transformed iron ingot into a music box, so had he strived to transform the Earth and all it contained into a machine." Ihsan Oktay Anar's 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author's fictional world set in the Ottoman times. Here are the wonderful histories of the triumphs and tribulations of three Ottoman inventors, "as reported by the narrators of events and relators of traditions." By turns humorous and touching, these interlinked stories are nutshells of vividly imagined past. While we follow Yafes Chelebi and his two successors in their search for the secret of the perpetual motion, the crumbling empire undergoes drastic changes in the background and the city of their dreams, Istanbul, witnesses coup d''tats, Westernizing reforms, and the advent of technological innovation. Written in a unique idiom that is both a tender mimicry and witty parody of the Ottoman bureaucratic prose, The Book of Devices is Anar at his imaginative best. One cannot help but wonder how a twenty-first-century author can dwell in the past with such ease and come back to the present, as in a Borgesian parable, with a cabinet of dreamy curiosities.