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Author : Wim|Brumbaugh Wetzel (Marilyn)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1005719349
Author : Marilyn (Penny) Brumbaugh,Wim Wetzel, PhD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463558634
This memoir, written in novel form, is the true story of a legal immigrant family that had a price on its head, a dream in their hearts and a chance to come to America. The Wetzels were Dutch-Indonesian colonists living in South East Asia until 1950 when they made a harrowing escape from Muslim rebel insurgents in Indonesia and fled back to Holland. It includes family pictures and exclusive historical photos and brings transparency and truth to a complicated family history and disparages past vicious rumors and attempts to rewrite the history of the Wetzel family. Their journey brought them from Holland to the United States in 1956 where the family patriarch, Willy Wetzel, built an American dynasty around a successful family business bringing a previously close kept secret of Indonesian style martial arts to mainstream America. As children, Wim and his younger brothers and sister were trained and groomed to be the first Poekoelan Tjimindie karate instructors in the United States. As Willy Wetzel's oldest son, Wim takes the reader on a unique tumultuous journey through their family history and his personal experiences while walking in his father's shadow. He reveals his personal challenges and triumphs over a brutally dysfunctional family, undiagnosed dyslexia, typhoid fever, and the brothers coming of age while being engaged in the bloodiest battles of the Viet Nam war. The sons returned home from war with life altering injuries and were greeted by a family in crisis that was so intense that his brother Roy is forced to take their father's life in self-defense in order to save his own life and the life of his daughter. It is a story of family love and forgiveness and as the oldest son, Wim tells his personal story beyond his father's death and walks the reader through the good and bad choices that he made throughout his life.
Author : Michael J. Graetz,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400839181
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a congressional pay raise. It came at the end of a multiyear populist campaign launched by a few individuals, and was heralded by its supporters as a signal achievement for Americans who are committed to the work ethic and the American Dream. Graetz and Shapiro conducted wide-ranging interviews with the relevant players: members of congress, senators, staffers from the key committees and the Bush White House, civil servants, think tank and interest group representatives, and many others. The result is a unique portrait of American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax repeal saga. Graetz and Shapiro brilliantly illuminate the repeal campaign's many fascinating and unexpected turns--particularly the odd end result whereby the repeal is slated to self-destruct a decade after its passage. They show that the stakes in this fight are exceedingly high; the very survival of the long standing American consensus on progressive taxation is being threatened. Graetz and Shapiro's rich narrative reads more like a political drama than a conventional work of scholarship. Yet every page is suffused by their intimate knowledge of the history of the tax code, the transformation of American conservatism over the past three decades, and the wider political implications of battles over tax policy.
Author : Timothy Brook,Jérôme Bourgon,Gregory Blue
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674027736
In Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts.” This is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the 10th century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905.
Author : Andrew Butters
Publisher : Potato Chip Math Creations
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781778132247
Pregnant and dealing with a bout of morning sickness, Andrew Butters' soon-to-be mom handed the keys to her car to her husband and asked him to start it up. He cranked the engine and released the clutch, not realizing it was still in gear. The car lurched forward, striking her in the caboose and launching her into the ditch. Thus began her unborn son's adventures in misfortune. Told in the style of a friend at the pub recounting a tall tale that begins, "Have I told you about the time...," Near Death by a Thousand Cuts takes you on a wild and crazy forty-eight-year journey filled with accidents, injuries, and medical procedures guaranteed to make you simultaneously wince and laugh to the point of tears. "I hope Andrew wrote this book from a soft chair in a padded room wearing a Nerf suit." ―Dave Hemstad, Comedian (Just For Laughs, CBC's The Debaters)
Author : Andrew Tillyard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000548624
A respected medical professional, family man, and keen athlete, Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising struggles he faced to rebuild his life. Drawing from regular blog entries written throughout his rehabilitation, Andrew provides an authentic reflection of the lived experience at some of the key stages along the road to recovery, from pragmatic concerns about new daily difficulties to wider concerns about his new place in life. He highlights the specific challenges and support he encountered as a person with a medical background who finds themselves in a healthcare system as a patient. With frank honesty, he takes readers beyond the simple message that things can and do improve, by demonstrating that negativity, bitterness, and occasional rage are all necessary parts of the journey. However, he also describes the many little victories that helped him keep battling on, knowing there is always hope for the future. In particular, he narrates how he learnt to do things the doctors said he would never do: walking, reading, running, and ultimately writing this book. With the perspective of ten years since his injury, the book also charts a longer-term view of the ebb and flow of recovery. This is essential reading for neuropsychologists, neurologists, and other rehabilitation therapists, as well as students in medicine, nursing, allied health, and neuropsychology. This is also a compelling and compassionate story for anyone who has survived a brain injury, who feels – as Andrew did at times – that life might not be worth living anymore, as it can show that there is always hope for the future.
Author : Todd LeDuc
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593704865
Firefighting is an inherently dangerous calling. Firefighters can be exposed to extreme environments from the firehouse to the fireground. Occupational health risks - occupational cancers, cardiovascular events, and behavioral health injuries - continue to be the scourge of the fire service. Surviving the Fire Service contains vital information about cancer, cardiovascular risk, medical exams and screening, nutrition, managing heat stress, women in the fire service, human performance and the tactical athlete and fireground survival. This book addresses how to manage and reduce risks in the fire service and use the tools you need to implement within your fire department to address each of these threats. Edited by Chief Todd J. LeDuc (ret.) CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: --Susie Day, MS, PhD --Bryan Frieders, Firefighter Cancer Support Network --Michael Hamrock, MD --Denise Smith, PhD, FACSM --Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM --Gavin Horn, PhD --Sara Jahnke, PhD --Jeffery S. Johnson, Newport News (VA) Fire Chief --Adam LaReau, O2X founder --Frank Leto, captain, FDNY --Lori Moore-Merrell, International Public Safety Data Institute
Author : Janina Scarlet
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781472145857
How do we survive when it feels like our world has ended? This interactive book is for anyone that has experienced trauma and feels the after-effects of fear, panic, worry, anxiety, anger or depression. You will join a group of other survivors who have lived through extraordinary times and situations, including a doctor who saw many patients die in a pandemic, a firefighter who feels ashamed about developing anxiety after a major tragedy, a nurse who lost a sibling in a school shooting, and others affected by a global health crisis and trauma in differing ways. This self-help manual is based on the techniques of Superhero Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and will teach you the skills of acceptance, mindfulness, self-compassion, sense of purpose and commitment to action, as well as helping you to develop your own survivor story. This is the first book of its kind to help us deal with the realities and mental health impact of a world emerging from the unprecedented effects of COVID-19, as well as other natural disasters and violence.
Author : Paolo Magri,Annalisa Perteghella
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788867056538
2017 is a crucial year for Iran. In January, while the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) entered the second year of implementation, in Washington the Trump Administration took office, with the promise to “renegotiate a disastrous deal”. In May, in Tehran, the incumbent President Hassan Rouhani won re-election by a wide margin. This Report intends to trace what lies ahead for Iran after the May 2017 Rouhani’s re-election. The analysis builds upon the assumption that Iran does not act in a vacuum: the US, as well as the EU actions, will inevitably help define the future trajectory of the country. A trajectory which is set domestically also by the generational transition Tehran is going through. The inter-factional struggle affecting Iran since the early years of the Revolution is now revived by what is actually at stake: the very future of the Islamic Republic.
Author : Liz Nickles,Savita Iyer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137096821
Branding has become ubiquitous, with new brands becoming word-of-mouth successes literally overnight, and many welcome the easy familiarity they bring to daily life. But now brand proliferation is threatening not only to stifle true choice in the marketplace, but to render hard-won brand identities - some decades in the making - meaningless. With today's unprecedented access to thousands of brands a day, via Twitter, Facebook, and the rest, the balance of brand power is shifting irrevocably away from the businesses behind them. In Brandstorm, branding guru Liz Nickles argues that, as a result, the brand is no longer a value proposition in itself, and that marketers and brand managers must stop the dilution and focus on meaningful, market-specific reinvention for those brands that can stand the test of time. She offers the success secrets behind leading brands like Ralph Lauren, Justin Bieber, and Revlon, and how to channel them today.
Author : David Lambkin
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776380763
Revenge is an act of passion Paul Morgan, a washed-up novelist, is wasting his life away in Zanzibar. But his luck changes when he meets Angelika, a young orphan girl, and her guardian, a retired British spy ... Sandollar, the ex-spy, tells Morgan the story of his deadly World War Two spy career, complete with Nazi gold and assassinations. He then sets Morgan off on the trail of the psychopathic British spymaster who betrayed him. On his quest, Morgan finds himself trapped in a dangerous web of deceit and murder, and finally uncovers the terrible secret the British spy establishment is desperate to keep. Whisper of Death is an action-packed spy and adventure tale that sweeps from Zanzibar to the Tanzanian wilderness, from London to deepest Africa.
Author : Virgil Henry
Publisher : Accomplishing Innovation Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798823203173
Welcome to Adjunct Hell, where second-class teachers do first-class work. A 30-year veteran of higher-education, Professor Virgil Henry uses Dante’s Inferno as a guide to take readers on an epic adventure through the hellscape of higher education in the United States. Follow Virgil and his band of like-minded adjuncts as they battle educational bureaucracy, low-pay, lack of health-care or job security, and social and professional indignities, all while showing up every day (and every night) for the students they care for and the job they love.
Author : Dennis Bartok,Jeff Joseph
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496808622
A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays. The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne discussing Rock Hudson's secret 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening King Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow recounting his decades-long quest to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Other lesser-known but equally fascinating subjects include one-legged former Broadway dancer Tony Turano, who lives in a Norma Desmond-like world of decaying movie memories, and notorious film pirate Al Beardsley, one of the men responsible for putting O. J. Simpson behind bars. Authors Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph examine one of the least-known episodes in modern legal history: the FBI's and Justice Department's campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. Victims included Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. A Thousand Cuts explores the obsessions of the colorful individuals who created their own screening rooms, spent vast sums, negotiated underground networks, and even risked legal jeopardy to pursue their passion for real, physical film.
Author : Phil Sidnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826421050
Cavalry were an important part of almost every ancient army, yet modern writers have neglected them in favour of the infantry of the Greek phalanx and the Roman legions. Warhorse seeks to correct this injustice. Phil Sidnell challenges the common view that ancient cavalry were useful for scouting and raiding but left the real fighting to the foot soldiers. In fact, he argues, they were often used in a shock role and proved decisive on many occasions. The famous victories of great generals such as Alexander, Hannibal and Julius Caesar could not have been won without a full appreciation of the battle-winning potential of the cavalry. Drawing heavily on the ancient sources, Warhorse takes the reader on a thrilling ride through numerous vividly recreated battles, from the earliest civilizations to the Battle of Hastings, to reveal the horsemen of the ancient world in their full and deadly glory. 'A wonderful book ... written in a very clear and quick-paced writing style. It should become a classic.' PETER G. TSOURAS, US defence intelligence analyst and author and editor of many books, including Alexander: The Invincible King of Macedonia. 'Sidnell has produced a highly readable study of the combat role of cavalry in the ancient world ... argues his point in an imaginative thorough fashion ... this book will appeal to a wide range of readers.' CHOICE, June 2007
Author : Kenneth Prewitt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412992589
How do federal statistics strengthen our nation's science as well as its policy? In this latest volume of The ANNALS, leading academics, along with key federal officials, including the president's science advisor, the chief statistician of the U.S., the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the presidents of the National Academies, and the director of the Census Bureau address the argument that the statistics that the federal statistical system produces should be understood as constituting a scientific infrastructure for the empirical social sciences. Further, they see the current federal statistical system as "the best hope for bringing strong science to bear on new data sources" and "the best place to navigate unforeseen challenges in preserving the independence of statistical information from political interference." If federal statistics are the knowledge base from which policy problems and solutions emerge, it is imperative that we pay attention to the lessons they offer. Never before has this topic received this level of attention from such an array of contributors. A must read for all social scientists and policy-makers.
