Cross Eyed Optimist

Author : Robert Crockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999574125

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Cross-eyed Optimist by Robert Crockett Pdf

Eye muscle surgery is the second most common operation after cataracts. In most cases it's unnecessary and ineffective-and can lead to a lifetime of trauma for children. Before considering eye surgery for yourself or your child, read this true story. After developing crossed eyes (strabismus) as an infant, Robert underwent two eye muscle operations by the age of five. He was left with two eyes that appeared straight but did not work together effectively. All his life, doctors told him he'd never see in 3D. Like the four percent of people who have a binocular vision disorder, he saw his world as "flat." Worse, he felt broken and learning disabled, enduring lifelong difficulties with reading, concentration, behavior, spatial awareness and more. Despite his vision challenges, he became a pilot, master boat builder, MBA recipient and life coach -- by first hiding his problem, then learning how to adapt to a world he couldn't see properly. At 70, he discovered vision therapy -- a non-invasive method of retraining the brain and harnessing the power of neuroplasticity to see in 3D. This is Robert's story of a lifelong struggle, and the joy of finally getting his eyes to work as a team. As an optimist, he never gave up, and now encourages others to consider vision therapy, a proven alternative to surgery.

Author : Jeffrey Dean Fogel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781465340832

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Cockeyed Optimist by Jeffrey Dean Fogel Pdf

Meet Bryn, the self-proclaimed unluckiest girl in the world. She lives for sailboat racing, but doesnt own a boat. She has friends, but none who arent crazy. Her Dad hates his job. Her Mom hates anything fun. But when an eccentric old salt turns up at their yard sale, Bryns life is about to set an entirely new course.

Author : Nigel Quiney
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783015153

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Cock-Eyed Optimist by Nigel Quiney Pdf

This unusually frank and honest memoir deals with the life of Nigel Quiney from his earliest memories of living through the blitz of London in WWII, to when he was twenty-one and boarded the Queen Elizabeth believing he was emigrating to the USA. His experiences there and travelling coast-to-coast are a fascinating read as he details how a young Englishman saw this country in 1960. In this book he details how he realised that he was gay at a very early age in London and how he came to terms with it, at the same time discovering what was then the underworld of London's gay life.A fascinating read for anyone interested in this period of war and the difficult after-years for a young man knowing that he was different and ultimately discovering his gayness when the very mention of the subject was taboo, but acting upon it. This is the first of four memoirs.

Author : Mary Barnard
Publisher : Larks Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Housewives
ISBN : 0948400323

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Diary of an Optimist by Mary Barnard Pdf

Author : Danny Baker
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297870142

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Going on the Turn by Danny Baker Pdf

In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner. Along the way this time we encounter, among others, David Bowie, Kanye West (I think), John Cleese, Peter O'Toole, and have several adventures in the Fourth Dimension. Oh, and I can reveal the Man With The Foulest Mouth In All Show Business. Plus assorted high-kicking hoopla and a whole lot of rather stark stuff about what it's like to be told you could be On The Way Out. *** (SPOILER ALERT: I don't actually die.)

Author : Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101199534

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The Rest of Us by Jacquelyn Mitchard Pdf

For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s newspaper column, “The Rest of Us,” have been calling their mothers, boyfriends and sisters to say, “See? That’s exactly what I meant!” Mitchard’s clear-eyed takes on everyday life in process are described over and over as “a letter from home,” as “the best friend I can really count on,” and as “the kind of story you tell at the coffee machine—and keep under your pillow.” Jacquelyn Mitchard reaches for heart and mind simultaneously, with both wit and nostalgia but never with sentimentality. Whether writing of gun laws and garage sales, the loneliness of the long-haul single mother, fear of gardening, or the late great American game of baseball, Mitchard stresses the personal stake each of us has in the stand-up drama of daily life. The single mother of five children, she shares her own family’s dramas and epiphanies—her own mother’s tradition of optimism based on nothing, the early death of her husband, the adoption of her baby daughter, as well as the great wheeling issues that confound Americans every day.

Author : Tom Pezzuti
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 059535758X

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Baseballgolf by Tom Pezzuti Pdf

"While drying your sparkling clean ball on the dirty towel hanging from the ball washer, you take a deep breath and survey the scene. After teeing up your ball, you're immediately confronted with the first of many questions of detail-the nagging minutiae of golf. What's my target? Where do I stand? How do I stand?" For many, learning traditional golf is often confusing and complicated. Conflicting tips and extraneous motion produce a difficult, high-maintenance sport that few golfers master. Combining the techniques of baseball and golf may be the answer. Hitting a ninety-five-mile-an-hour fastball is arguably one of the most difficult tasks in sports. But many golfers have trouble hitting a tiny golf ball lying motionless in the grass. Why? Author Tom Pezzuti offers a solution. Baseball does not use a backswing technique, and Pezzuti suggests this procedure lies at the root of many golf swing problems. "Baseballgolf "shows you how baseball principles apply to your grip, stance, power stroke, pitch shots, and putting. If you are not a touring pro who practices six to eight hours a day, then you need low-maintenance, simpler methods of playing golf. Try "Baseballgolf," and watch your game soar!

Author : Susan R. Barry
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786744749

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Fixing My Gaze by Susan R. Barry Pdf

A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she saw the city of Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a "critical period" in early childhood. According to this theory, Barry's brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision - and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. Dubbed "Stereo Sue" by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Susan Barry tells her own remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.

Author : Herbert Gold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : College students
ISBN : UOM:39015003931345

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The Optimist by Herbert Gold Pdf

Author : Boston Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : NYPL:33433090804471

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Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers by Boston Society of Civil Engineers Pdf

Author : Sophie Kipner
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783523634

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The Optimist by Sophie Kipner Pdf

Meet Tabitha Gray, a delusional girl from Topanga, California, who redefines what it means to be a truly hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers from an aggressive strain of cock-eyed optimism – no amount of failure, embarrassment or humiliation can dent her fierce belief that real, true, lasting love is just around the corner. Where most people think, fantasise and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. Whether waiting in her lingerie for Harrison Ford to open the door of his hotel room; following Al Pacino around a Russian bathhouse; seeking passion with a blind man on the advice of a wise old woman with dementia; or sending intimate photos to a random sexter, Tabby refuses to be crushed by her many misadventures. In this warmly witty novel, Sophie Kipner takes a satirical look at the extremity of romantic desperation, and pays tribute to the deep human need to keep on heroically searching for love despite our many absurdities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595262717

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The Bogeyman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerald Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199771172

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American Musical Theater by Gerald Bordman Pdf

Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its original publication in 1978. In this third edition, he offers authoritative summaries on the general artistic trends and developments for each season on musical comedy, operetta, revues, and the one-man and one-woman shows from the first musical to the 1999/2000 season. With detailed show, song, and people indexes, Bordman provides a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production.

Author : Jay Conrad Levinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0395924782

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The Way of the Guerrilla by Jay Conrad Levinson Pdf

From hiring responsible employees to finding more time for family and sustaining passion for work, the guru of the guerrilla lifestyle guides business owners through the changing marketplace and into the next century.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000007754783

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Life by Anonim Pdf