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The Blind Mechanic

Marilyn Davidson Elliot
The Blind Mechanic Book PDF

Author : Marilyn Davidson Elliot
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771086776

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A daughter’s inspiring biography of her father, who lost his sight in a massive maritime disaster—and went on to build a rewarding life and career. Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler when the historic Halifax Explosion struck, devastating the Nova Scotia capital and killing almost two thousand people while seriously injuring thousands more. Eric lost both eyes—a tragedy that his mother never fully recovered from. Eric, however, was positive and energetic. He also developed a fascination with cars and how they worked—and he later decided, against all likelihood, to become a mechanic. Assisted by his brothers, who read to him from manuals, he worked hard, passed examinations, and carved out a decades-long career. This is the true story of his remarkable life and relentless determination, as told by his daughter.

The Blind Mechanic : the Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion

Anonim
The Blind Mechanic the Amazing Story of Eric Davidson Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091197997

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The Blind Mechanic : the Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Anonim Pdf

Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, he taught himself to become an auto mechanic and had a successful decades-long career as “one of the boys.” Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler when the Halifax Explosion struck, killing almost 2,000 people and seriously injuring thousands of others. Eric lost both eyesa tragedy that his mother never fully recovered from. Eric, however, was positive and energetic. He also developed a fascination with cars and how they worked, and he later decided, against all likelihood, to become a mechanic. Assisted by his brothers who read to him from manuals, he worked hard, passed examinations, and carved out a decades-long career. Once the subject of a National Film Board documentary, Eric Davidson was, until his death, a much-admired figure in Halifax. This book does not gloss over the challenges faced by Eric and by his parents. Written by his daughter Marilyn, it gives new insights into the story of the 1917 Halifax Explosion and contains never-before-seen documents and photographs. While Eric Davidson has been mentioned in previous Explosion accounts, his story has never been told in such fascinating detail. Davidson overcame such odds that his life story might not seem believable if it had not happened.

The Car, the Sled, and the Butch Wax

Marc Maurer
The Car the Sled and the Butch Wax Book PDF

Author : Marc Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1885218265

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Blind Americans writing about their everyday lives in these true short stories that take the mastery out of blindness.

The Mechanic

Tom Fowler
The Mechanic Book PDF

Author : Tom Fowler
Publisher : Widening Gyre Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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John Tyler finally built the life he wanted. But his past casts a long shadow. Eight years retired from the army, Tyler manages his PTSD and begins a job as a classic car mechanic. He’s a single dad to Lexi, who’s about to enter college. Life is looking up. Then, everything comes crashing down. Tyler’s former commanding officer is out of prison and hellbent on revenge. Their mutual hatred has been simmering for years. When it finally boils over, everyone and everything in Tyler’s life is threatened. He wanted to be a father and a mechanic. To save himself and his daughter, he’ll need to use the deadly skills he thought he left behind. Can Tyler stop a monster without becoming one himself? The Mechanic is the first gripping novel in the John Tyler series. It’s perfect for readers who like action thrillers with a little humor and a little heart.

The Halifax Explosion

Ken Cuthbertson
The Halifax Explosion Book PDF

Author : Ken Cuthbertson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443450270

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The Halifax Explosion by Ken Cuthbertson Pdf

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That accident sparked a fire and an apocalyptic explosion that was the largest man-made blast prior to the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Together with the killer tsunami that followed, the explosion devastated the entire city in the wink of an eye and instantly killed more than two thousand people. While much has been written about the disaster, there is still more to the story, including the investigation of the key figures involved, the histories of the ships that collided and the confluence of circumstances that brought these two vessels together to touch off one of the most tragic man-made disasters of the twentieth century. The Halifax Explosion is a fresh, revealing account that finally answers questions that have lingered for a century: Was the explosion a disaster triggered by simple human error? Was it caused by the negligence of the ships’ pilots or captains? Was it the result of shortcomings in harbour practices and protocols? Or was the blast—as many people at the time insisted—the result of sabotage carried out by wartime German agents? December 6, 2017, marks the centennial of the great Halifax explosion. The Halifax Explosion tells the gripping, as-yet untold story of Canada’s worst disaster—a haunting tale of survival, incredible courage and, ultimately, the triumph of the human spirit.

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary Book PDF

Author : Andy Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593135228

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

Car Smarts

Mary Jackson
Car Smarts Book PDF

Author : Mary Jackson
Publisher : Avalon Travel Pub
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1562614576

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Covers such topics as buying and leasing; the engine; the exhaust system and emission controls; oil; the cooling, heating, and air-conditioning systems; the drive train, and road safety

The Fault Tree

Louise Ure
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Author : Louise Ure
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626814639

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This chilling novel of suspense and unseen danger hailed is “a great nail-biter . . . Moran is headed straight for the thriller hall of fame” (Lee Child, New York Times–bestselling author). Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran is no stranger to darkness. Since she was blinded eight years ago in a horrific car accident that also took the life of her three-year-old niece, she has struggled to deal with the lingering guilt and pain. But she manages to get by. Then, on the way home from work, she is almost run down in the street by a speeding car. At first, Cadence thinks she’s the victim of road rage, bad driving, or just plain bad luck. But the truth is far more terrifying. Someone out there thinks she’s a witness to murder—one that needs to be eliminated. Now Cadence must piece together a deadly puzzle in the dark. And if she can’t, that darkness will certainly lead to her death . . . Contrasting the glare of a Southwestern summer with the shadows of a blind woman’s nightmares, The Fault Tree delivers “an original and gripping work, more proof—as if any was needed—that Louise Ure is an exciting new voice in the mystery field (Laura Lippman, New York Times–bestselling author of Wilde Lake).

Empire Falls

Richard Russo
Empire Falls Book PDF

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307809889

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. “Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

Spacesuit

Nicholas De Monchaux
Spacesuit Book PDF

Author : Nicholas De Monchaux
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262015202

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How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those attempts failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.

Aviation Mechanic Handbook

Dale Crane
Aviation Mechanic Handbook Book PDF

Author : Dale Crane
Publisher : Aviation Supplies & Academics
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1560278986

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"Handy toolbox-size reference for mechanics, aircraft owners, and pilots. All the information critical to maintaining an aircraft. Your single source for: mathematics, conversions, formulas; aircraft nomenclature, controls, system specs; material and tool identifications; hardware sizes and equivalents; inspections, corrosion detection and control; frequently used scales, charts, diagrams, and much more."--P. [4] of cover.

Bone Crossed

Patricia Briggs
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Author : Patricia Briggs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441018369

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Welcome to Patricia Briggs’s world, a place where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist). It takes a very unusual woman to call it home—and there’s no one quite like Mercy Thompson. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for. Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she’s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won’t be Mercy’s blood Marsilia is after. It’ll be her friends’.

Mechanics

Cari Meister
Mechanics Book PDF

Author : Cari Meister
Publisher : Community Helpers (Bullfrog Bo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1620310937

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In Mechanics, early readers will learn about the different kinds of mechanics and the machines they fix, including cars, jets, and ships. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they discover what a mechanic's job is like. A labeled diagram helps readers identify different areas of a mechanic's shop while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about mechanics online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Mechanics also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Mechanics is part of the Community Helpers series.

Flying Blind, Fly Safe

M Schiavo
Flying Blind Fly Safe Book PDF

Author : M Schiavo
Publisher : Avon
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 038079330X

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Featuring new, updated information, a paperback edition of a best-seller by the outspoken former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation offers readers the vital information they need to travel more safely by air. Reprint.

The Most Heartless Town in Canada

Elaine McCluskey
The Most Heartless Town in Canada Book PDF

Author : Elaine McCluskey
Publisher : Anvil Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : 177214035X

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Myrtle is not one of those communities with a town historian or a roster of famous residents. Myrtle does, however, have a poultry plant, and looming above the plant are the eagles, massive birds that roost in trees and feast on entrails left by workers, creatures synonymous with power, freedom and might. The story starts with a newspaper photo taken in an obscure Nova Scotia town after the murder of eight bald eagles. The bizarre photo wins a contest and, over time, the unidentified girl in the foreground becomes, like Diane Arbus's Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, infamous. Rita Van Loon decides, after seven painful years, to explain herself and the events surrounding the murders. The Most Heartless Town in Canada looks at media agendas, amateur sport, family dynamics, and the divide between rural and urban Canada.Selected Praise:"... McCluskey's cast of characters 'and it is quite large' is anything but ordinary, especially when it comes to Pammy Pottie, Rita's well-meaning but luckless swim coach, and her motley crew of swimmers. Myrtle is full of oddballs, which is lucky for us, because that, more than anything else, is what gives this novel its quirky charm." (Quill and Quire)"The Most Heartless Town in Canada is explicitly about bearing false witness to a place and what that does to the people there. (It's also extremely funny.) ..." (The Globe and Mail)"McCluskey's complex small town terrific" (Winnipeg Free Press)