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We walk further in. Dark, unbelievably dark. Creepy dark. But I know that for Hannah and her family the remains of their burned home constitute a religious site, sanctified by the daily unearthing of melted toys, sooty clothing, and water-stained photographs. It's the only reason the fire officials allow them back in here. Despite the dangers inside, indicated by the big red X sign stapled onto the front clapboards, they are fulfilling the man...

Uncle! Ear to the phone, I hear my niece's voice for the first time in how many years? I'm chewing on a tiny ear of baby corn, probably slathered in MSG, and her voice sounds tired. It's a distant kind of tired, as if broadcast light years ago from an unknown galaxy. Of course she wants to see me, she says. She's a kind, non-vindictive person. She works really hard at not judging, although cross her on Tuesday, by Wednesday you'll be eviscerat...

All I have is an email address. Not Hannah's, but that of a friend who's made a quickie GoFundMe site to help out the family. The amount in the donation box at the bottom of the screen is impressive, over fifteen thousand dollars and rising, pledged in tiny increments, drib by loving drab, many by strangers. Finally a message comes in. Hannah's fundraising friend. She sends me a phone number, and says good luck. Tommy, Hannah's son, picks up o...

June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian ma...

Some of the sharpest writing ever from a comic genius." -Kurt Luchs, Talking Book Review "Good sentence structure." -Chevy Chase Philip Austin, one of America's great comedy writer/performers and one quarter of the notorious Firesign Theatre, was the editor and main contributor of an alternative-universe 1930s-era New Yorker that never was. Influenced in equal parts by the noir of Hammett, the deeply personal short stories of Saroyan, and the ...

Some of the sharpest writing ever from a comic genius." -Kurt Luchs, Talking Book Review "Good sentence structure." -Chevy Chase Philip Austin, one of America's great comedy writer/performers and one quarter of the notorious Firesign Theatre, was the editor and main contributor of an alternative-universe 1930s-era New Yorker that never was. Influenced in equal parts by the noir of Hammett, the deeply personal short stories of Saroyan, and...

An exploration of intergenerational cancer, a patients eye view of cancer treatment in a big city hospital.

A Cornish adventure of love and redemption set against the backdrop of a small fishing town on the south coast of the county. It is a tale of one man, his lovers, two families and modern day smuggling interwoven with an evil deed, the curse of a notorious pirate captain and his treasure, that legend has it, was buried on an island that holds secrets to a forgotten past.On a cold spring day in Looe, in the final year of the twentieth century, a...

More than just a rousing send-up of Shakespeare, Anythynge You Want To: Shakespeare's Lost Comedy is a full-length theatrical entertainment, written and rewritten continually throughout The Firesign Theatre's long performing career. This volume collects every iambic double entendre and silly soliloquy into a surreal comedy opus, complete with Firesign's "scholarly" Introduction, tongue-in-cheek Footnotes, diagrams, and even recipes!The Firesig...

Natural bamboo fibre-reinforced composite are biogradable, lightweight and non-corrosive. They have good temperature resistant and low environment pollution. These advantages placed the natural fibre composite among the high performance composites. The compounding and the volume fraction of these materials will determine the performance and hence the acceptability to these composites as an engineering materials. This book covers the extraction...

The acceptability of an engineering material largely depends on the ease with which sits behaviour can be predicted under a given loading and working conditions. These predictions can be done based on thorough and extensive investigation of the micro-structural and mechanical response of the material. With the increased interest in plant fibre reinforced plastics, it becomes necessary to understand the influence of aspect ration on the mechani...