My Brother S Bicycle

Author : Les Stanley
Publisher : Les Stanley
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780648189275

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A journey of contemplation and misadventure as I attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to re-live a bicycle trip I first embarked on as a fresh-faced 20 year old. More than 40 years ago I headed south with a guy I met on Liverpool Street station in London. Enfield to Athens on a tandem. They said it couldn't be done. For the re-run I was better prepared, or so I thought. But as it turned out it didn't really matter. My Brother's Bicycle is a story of (limited) endurance, survival (over boredom) and indomitable human spirit.

Author : Sharif Abdunnur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1450091962

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Author : Les Stanley
Publisher : Les Stanley
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780648189268

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My Brother's Bicycle by Les Stanley Pdf

A journey of contemplation and misadventure as I attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to re-live a bicycle trip I first embarked on as a fresh-faced 20 year old. More than 40 years ago I headed south with a guy I met on Liverpool Street station in London. Enfield to Athens on a tandem. They said it couldn't be done. For the re-run I was better prepared, or so I thought. But as it turned out it didn't really matter. My Brother's Bicycle is a story of (limited) endurance, survival (over boredom) and indomitable human spirit.

Author : Wendie C. Old
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766065055

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The Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old Pdf

Orville and Wilbur Wright are best known for their historic flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement inspired Americans of all ages, but it also brought forth a host of competitors, and the Wright brothers had to struggle to get the credit they deserved. The airplane, however, was just one of a long list of the brothers' accomplishments. The author details the Wright brothers' impact on history as they set out to prove what others had thought impossible—that human beings could fly.

Author : Wesley J. Wildman,F. LeRon Shults
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350367326

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Modeling Religion by Wesley J. Wildman,F. LeRon Shults Pdf

What role has religion played in the major civilizational transformations associated with the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age, and Modernity? This book introduces new methodological tools and material insights for guiding conversations about these debates. The authors introduce a new branch of computational humanities, using computational modeling to simulate civilizational transformations. They integrate multiple theories across many disciplines, including the scientific study of religion, and evaluate the relative importance of those causal theories in processes of civilizational change. Materially, the book sheds new light on major debates among historians, archaeologists, and other social theorists on the role of religion within these major transitions. The book tackles the urgent question of what sort of civilizational transformations might be possible in a world where the influence and significance of religion continues to decline wherever technology, education, freedom, and cultural pluralism are most advanced.

Author : Abd Samad Moussaoui
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609803315

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Zacarias, My Brother by Abd Samad Moussaoui Pdf

Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in the United States in August 2001. He is currently in a federal prison in Virginia, charged with "conspiring with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania." Moussaoui , who trained to be a pilot in Oklahoma, admits to being a member of Al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the events of September 11. He has opted to defend himself. Written by his brother, Zacarias, My Brother tells the story of Zac’s life from birth to the time in 1996 when he broke contact with his family and became deeply involved with Muslim fundamentalists in London. It is a unique document about what it is to grow up a Muslim in Western Europe today and how an extremist is made. In Zacarias, My Brother, author Abd Samad Moussaoui describes the struggle that young Arab men and their families endure in Europe, seeking an education and equal opportunity, only to find most avenues of assimilation effectively barred to people of color. At the same time, he authoritatively details the techniques of the extremist sects that recruit potential terrorist cadres. Members of the Wahhabi sect have perfected a rhetoric that appeals to the wounded pride of these young Arab men, Moussaoui writes—for example, offering funds to help them complete their education. Moussaoui deplores the route taken by his brother. He is not in any way an apologist for terrorism. Even so, he shows convincingly that normal young men can end up terrorists, and suggests how and why this happens. Moussaoui shows with gripping clarity how Wahhabism distorts true Islamic faith and the threat it poses to Islam. And his book strongly suggests that the best defense against terrorist groups like the Wahhabi sect in the future is anything people can do to end racism.

Author : John Passfield
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781425963262

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Making of Inside the Wright Brothers in by John Passfield Pdf

This journal, a companion book to the novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, is a record of the thoughts that occur to a writer while in the process of writing a novel. In recording these thoughts, the journal provides an exploration of a number of topics: the working out of a pattern, in novel form, to reflect the author's conception of the meaning of the Wright Brothers' experience; a consideration of the achievement of the Wright Brothers as an example of the creative process at work; and a step-by-step record of the writing process, which includes the planning, writing, editing and polishing of a novel about the Wright Brothers. In addition, the journal presents the challenge of matching form and meaning in the novel genre as a response to the complexities of life, and a discussion of the possibilities of the novel as an art form. This journal is the seventh in a series of companion books pairing novel and journal which explore the concept of form and meaning in the novel.

Author : Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628577761

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Incomplete Without My Brother, Adonis by Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba Pdf

“We walked on a patch of grass that seemed to have been burnt a few hours earlier, with soot covering our feet. There, in front of us, lay my beloved brother, Adonis, lifeless, his body facing up. There were numerous stab wounds on his body, including his face, and his lumber jacket was half burnt.” Thus begins Kaizer Nyatsumba’s tragic story of his twin brother’s horrible murder. It is also an intriguing look into aspects of South African life hitherto unknown to many. They were twins of a special kind, the closest of friends, and each other’s confidantes. Their mothers were sisters, they were inseparable when they grew up, they were the first graduates in the extended family, and were the ones the family depended on for leadership. When Adonis was brutally murdered in the Pretoria area in June 2009, Kaizer was shattered and his life irrevocably changed. A part of him died with Adonis, and he has yet to come fully to terms with the loss. A very private man, the author bares his soul in this book.

Author : Rev. George F. Hartz
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781648043932

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Servant Pieces by Rev. George F. Hartz Pdf

Servant Pieces By: Rev. George F. Hartz Experience a true-life occurrence that is far from ordinary and unlike anything you have heard before. Rev. George F. Hartz shares stories from the life with a clergy father, who is a pedophile, to living with an autistic child. With many of Hartz’s traumatic lessons shared and learned, Hartz hopes that readers will find the power to overcome their own giant obstacles

Author : Eleanor Herz Swent
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786486328

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Asian Refugees in America by Eleanor Herz Swent Pdf

When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Language in 1967 at a school for adults in Oakland, California, she soon learned that many of the Asian immigrants in her classes had remarkable tales to tell of struggles in their homelands and their efforts to make new lives in America. This oral history, based on interviews Swent conducted with her students over thirty years, documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here are the stories of desperate individuals who swam to escape from China to Macao and Hong Kong; of Chinese daughters considered worthless by their families; of political refugees from Vietnam; of ethnic Chinese who fled by boat from Vietnam; of refugees from the genocide in Cambodia. As these remarkable new Americans learn different words and customs, they also enlarge our national vision, enriching our culture while assuring us that human dignity can rise above terrible circumstances.

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813129808

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Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers by William Lynwood Montell Pdf

In an educational era defined by large school campuses and overcrowded classrooms, it is easy to overlook the era of one-room schools, when teachers filled every role, including janitor, and provided a familylike atmosphere in which children also learned from one another. In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky's social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fun and fascinating collection of schoolroom stories that chronicle a golden era in Kentucky. The firsthand narratives and anecdotes in this collection cover topics such as teacher-student relationships, day-to-day activities, lunchtime foods, students' personal relationships, and, of course, the challenges of teaching in a one-room school. Montell includes tales about fund-raising pie suppers, pranks, outrageous student behavior (such as the quiet little boy whose first "sharing" involved profanity), and variety of other topics. Montell even includes some of his own memories from his days as a pupil in a one-room school. Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers is a delightful glimpse of the history of education.

Author : Linder McNeely
Publisher : Fultus Corporation
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596820890

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Brothers by Linder McNeely Pdf

Brothers is an honest account of a boy's fears, patriotism, and devotion to his brothers. It is based on true everyday experiences of a seven-year-old boy in 1943, during the darkest and most threatening days of World War II.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : California
ISBN : 9780870832017

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Fellowship Concerning the Lord's Up-to-date Move by Witness Lee Pdf

Author : Janet A Handy
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525508851

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The Secret Tribe by Janet A Handy Pdf

The Secret Tribe is a powerful, insightful memoir about one woman’s survival from childhood physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Janet A. Handy offers a new perspective on resilience; in the moment of abuse the critical question of “How do I stay alive?” is at the core of the fear response. This book is her effort to explore both the moment itself and how the meaning survivors make of this moment evolves into resilience. The Secret Tribe uses stories from Handy’s own childhood woven together with her unique perspective from years of working with victims and survivors. She discusses denial and its various manifestations, forgiveness, belief in something greater than ourselves, the transformation of silence about abuse into having a voice, and overcoming the tendency to self-annihilation. Written primarily for other survivors, this memoir will also be a useful tool for the practitioners who work with them and families and friends who want to understand how their loved ones might think and feel. Handy is a former Anglican priest, an educator who has taught child, adolescent and family development at Ryerson University Toronto and has worked with survivors of sexual abuse for over thirty years.

Author : Shedrick Byrd
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450069847

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The Mississippi Byrd by Shedrick Byrd Pdf

The Mississippi Byrd: From Rural to Urban to Suburban and Beyond was written at the encouragement of many of his relatives and friends to motivate a larger audience. It is filled with challenges, excitement, and scintillation as it chronicles some of his adventure and misadventures. The book describes the tracks of Byrd’s life from rural Mississippi to urban Gary, Indiana to suburban Ann Arbor, Michigan and beyond including twenty years of service and travel in the U.S. Navy. Join Byrd in the experiences, the travel and the transformation of his life as well as the summation of Lessons learned.