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Read about a boy who was born in Texas just ahead of the Great Depression. His family moved to Avon, Colorado in 1927 and it was a perfect place for his upbringing. His father worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and raised lettuce and peas, so there were lots of things for him to stick his nose into. He must have punched the inquisitive button too many times as his nose was into everything. Perhaps too far into everything, incl...

The assembled uncompromising narratives about the ancient philosophy, mystery, and madness of each generation, and those who seek to correct it by taking the world apart.

The spirit of the Beatles lives on in this satire on both the Beatles and their historians! This is a fun book for Beatles fans who are willing to laugh at the music and musicians they love. It's a humorous, irreverent romp, very tongue-in-cheek and not the least bit serious. While it poses as another stodgy analysis of all Beatles compositions, it really has more in common with the Monty Python flavored "Rutles" film. Old-time drawings make i...

`This book is not simply the best book on the remarkable phenomenon of today's ethical consumer. It is a gift of advice and insight, from the people that know best, to the cause of tomorrow. Many of the writers deserve the plaudits of being pioneers of a new consumer movement. These are the issues of our time' - Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of the UK's National Consumer Council (NCC) Who are ethical consumers and why are they on the rise? Leading...

Rose Colored Glasses is a compilation of poetry and photographs, The poetry is thoughts, ideas, feelings and desires. It comes from the heart, from various experiences that touched me and caused creative juices to flow. Some of the photographs were taken across the United States while traveling, exploring, hiking and sight-seeing. Other photographs depict moments in my children's lives that were just too precious to exclude from, "Rose Colored...

Kidney failure is associated with a high mortality rate. To survive on dialysis, a patient must be wise and have self control. In this book, the keys to surviving dialysis are reviewed in a simple outline form. The handbook is written to help patients with kidney failure understand the important action steps they can take to increase their likelihood of survival on dialysis therapy. Mastering these basic concepts and understanding the importan...

Heiligenleben Bei manchen bemerkt man es früh. Etwa beim heiligen Nikolaus, der als Säugling nur mittwochs und freitags die mütterliche Brust annahm. Aber interessanter sind doch die verschlungenen Wege und Peripetien, die erst zur Heiligkeit führen oder sie zum Vorschein bringen. Und überdies gilt es, sich nicht nur in halbwegs vertrauten christlichen Bezirken umzuschauen. Oder auch zu sehen, was aus vertraut scheinenden Heiligengeschichten ...

Eine Sammlung der schönsten internationalen Abend- und Schlaflieder, stimmungsvoll arrangiert für gemischten Chor (SATB). In neuen, modernen Arrangements erklingen neben den deutschsprachigen Klassikern u.a. spanische, schwedische, schottische, französische, indianische Melodien. Die Stücke eignen sich für Konzerte, Gottesdienste, Feiern oder als Zugabe. Chill-out für Chöre: Das Publikum wie auch die Darbietenden werden die Stücke genießen. A...

Time is running out for a teenager searching for his grandfather's lost plane in Northern Canada. Can he trust the intuitions of Trish, the pilot's daughter? In The Search for Grizzly One, Mark Daniels is a sixteen-year-old whose grandfather, along with the pilot of a bush airplane, has disappeared somewhere over northern Alberta.After an extensive aerial search turns up nothing, Mark sets out with Trish on their own search. Following a hunch ...

Light Vision Color takes a balanced, interdisciplinary approach to our most important sensory system. The book successfully combines the fundamentals behind the visual sciences with recent developments from different areas such as neuroscience, biophysics, psychophysics and sensory psychology. With visual illusions put into context, the book begins by describing the optics of the eye and the physiology of the retina. Later chapters go on to ex...

I hope this book will give you some encouraging words to lift you up. God planted His love in each and everyone of us to be a blessing. Love is light and never dark. Peace overpowers confusion and God loves Each and everyone of us.

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Therefore I Am" is an uplifting, inspiring, eye-opening book. Through the lives and experiences of everyday African American men, you learn the source of their strength and persistence. You learn what words empower them and how these words have affected their lives. You learn from a gamete of experiences from black men of all statuses, backgrounds, and beliefs. You are able to identify with the speakers, and look through their eyes. In many ca...

Mind Crash" sets out to explore the deepest recesses of the human psyche through the utilization of several, quite often brutal, language exploration techniques. The results, a seemingly random collection of metaphysical short stories, cut-ups, koans, poems and automatic writing, are often as unsettling as they are darkly humorous. Whilst employing these frequently painful mental gymnastic routines, the author unwittingly unleashes, and subseq...

Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. The onset of hurricane, earthquake, windstorm, terrorism, systemic financial dislocation, or "clash losses" can create billions of dollars of losses, financially damaging companies and regional/national economies. A single "supercat" event affecting a densely populated and economically productive area may be exceptionally devastating, causing l...

Der Autor schildert nicht nur überaus persönlich und berührend seine eigenen Erfahrungen als magersüchtiger Jugendlicher und junger Mann mit Bulimie (Ess-Brechsucht), sondern widmet sich in einem ausführlichen Ratgeberteil auch erstmals ganz gezielt der Problematik männlicher Essstörungen. Immer noch gelten Magersucht (Anorexie), Ess-Brechsucht (Bulimie) und andere Formen von Essstörungen in erster Linie als "Frauenkrankheiten", dabei spreche...

Marketing Research and Modeling addresses state of the art developments including new techniques and methodologies by leading experts in marketing and marketing research. This work emphasizes new developments in Bayesian Decision Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Conjoint Analysis, Applications of Conjoint and MDS technique, Data Mining, Cluster Analysis, and Neural Networks.

Based on the premise that our sense of meaning and fulfilment comes largely from the work we do, this book recognises the sense of disappointment many people experience in their careers and looks at what they can do to bring purpose and self-expression into their job, exploring the idea of 'vocation' and the attitudes with which we approach our work. Drawing heavily on stories of real people and offering practical exercises, the book covers to...

< P>Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and more. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Volumes include cumulative author, nationality and title indexes.