The Lights Of Marfa Enhanced Version

Author : Doyle Dykes
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802479280

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The Lights of Marfa (Enhanced Version) by Doyle Dykes Pdf

Doyle Dykes is one of the premier fingerstyle guitarists in the world. When guitar great Chet Atkins was asked a few years ago who he'd pay money to go see, his answer was, "People like Doyle Dykes, who is just an amazing fingerpicker, I think." He has thrilled secular and church audiences all over the world, from the Grand Ole Opry to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England (home of the some of the most famous rock concerts in history) to Shanghai, China; James' Burton's International Guitar Festival, Saddleback Community Church, and Harvest Christian Fellowship. But this book isn't just about his life as a guitar player. Infused into stories like how he was invited to be part of the Stamps Quartet (Elvis' backup band), why a white rose is on the headstock of his signature-model guitar, and how his worst night at the Opry turned out to be anything but, are accounts of the remarkable ways God has shown up in Doyle's life. His warm, engaging style will draw you into each chapter--and you'll finish the book having been inspired, feeling like Doyle is a new friend, and never viewing God the same way again. Includes embedded videos of music & interviews.

Author : James Bunnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0970924941

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Hunting Marfa Lights by James Bunnell Pdf

"Hunting Marfa Lights" reports the results of an eight-year investigation into mysterious lights seen near Marfa, a small west Texas town. Bunnell finds that while most of the lights can be explained, about three percent are truly mysterious and of unknown origin.

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781607108061

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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Texas Bigger and Better by Bathroom Readers' Institute Pdf

Uncle John ropes, wrassles, and rides into the Lone Star State in this updated, king-sized grab-bag of all things Texas. Packed with 60 new pages, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Texas Expanded Edition! is bigger and badder than the previous edition. This cowboy-sized collection of Texas talents, truisms, and tales offers fans everything they love about the Lone Star State: its colorful history, fascinating figures, good grub, bona fide Texas brews, and much more. Like what? How about . . . * Cowboy street cred: How to tell a drugstore cowboy from the real deal. * Hogs gone wild! * The funniest Texas tombstones. * A few facts about the grand Rio Grande. * Oil myths, rodeo clowns, water wars, and all the weird, wild, and wonderful things that can be found only deep in the heart of Texas.

Author : Doyle Dykes
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802478030

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The Lights of Marfa by Doyle Dykes Pdf

Doyle Dykes is one of the premier fingerstyle guitarists in the world. When guitar great Chet Atkins was asked a few years ago who he'd pay money to go see, his answer was, "People like Doyle Dykes, who is just an amazing fingerpicker, I think." He has thrilled secular and church audiences all over the world, from the Grand Ole Opry to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England (home of the some of the most famous rock concerts in history) to Shanghai, China; James' Burton's International Guitar Festival, Saddleback Community Church, and Harvest Christian Fellowship. But this book isn't just about his life as a guitar player. Infused into stories like how he was invited to be part of the Stamps Quartet (Elvis' backup band), why a white rose is on the headstock of his signature-model guitar, and how his worst night at the Opry turned out to be anything but, are accounts of the remarkable ways God has shown up in Doyle's life. His warm, engaging style will draw you into each chapter--and you'll finish the book having been inspired, feeling like Doyle is a new friend, and never viewing God the same way again. Includes DVD with music & interviews.

Author : David Courtney,Jack Unruh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781477312971

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The Texanist by David Courtney,Jack Unruh Pdf

A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Author : Christopher D Bader,Joseph O Baker,F. Carson Mencken
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479814619

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Paranormal America (second edition) by Christopher D Bader,Joseph O Baker,F. Carson Mencken Pdf

The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be an insatiable public hunger for mystical happenings. But who believes in the paranormal? Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, Christopher Bader, Joseph Baker and Carson Mencken reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America. Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees. The second edition includes new and updated research based on findings from the Baylor Religion survey regarding America’s relationship with the paranormal. Drawing on these diverse and compelling sources of data, the book offers an engaging account of the social, personal, and statistical stories of American paranormal beliefs and experiences. It examines topics such as the popularity of paranormal beliefs in the United States, the ways in which these beliefs relate to each other, whether paranormal beliefs will give rise to a new religion, and how believers in the paranormal differ from “average” Americans. Brimming with fascinating anecdotes and provocative new findings, Paranormal America offers an entertaining yet authoritative examination of a growing segment of American religious culture.

Author : Ross Gay
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781643755472

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The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay Pdf

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, and St. Louis Public Radio** The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with exactly the book we need in these unsettling times. Margaret Roach of The New York Times says, “Yes, please. I'll have another dose of delight.” In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015062896496

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The Better of McSweeney's by Anonim Pdf

The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier -- Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle -- The tears of Squonk, and what happened thereafter / Glen David Gold -- Do not disturb / A.M. Homes -- The man from out of town / Sheila Heti -- Fat ladies floated in the sky like balloons / Amanda Davis -- Eulogy for Saul Steinberg / Ian Frazier -- The observers / Paul La Farge -- Mollusks / Arthur Bradford -- The bees / Dan Chaon -- Three meditations on death / William T. Vollmann -- Yet another example of porousness of certain borders / David Foster Wallace -- The Republic of Marfa / Sean Wilsey -- Flush / Judy Budnitz -- A mown lawn / Lydia Davis -- Banvard's folly / Paul Collins -- Cross-dresser / Gabe Hudson -- The girl with bangs / Zadie Smith -- The hypnotist's trailer / Ann Cummins -- Four institutional monologues / George Saunders -- The double zero / Rick Moody -- K is for fake / Jonathan Lethem -- The days here / Kelly Feeney -- Solicitation / Rebecca Curtis -- The Kauders case / Aleksandar Hemon -- Tedford and the Megalodon / Jim Shepard.

Author : James Bunnell
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098371445

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In Defense of the Marfa Lights by James Bunnell Pdf

In Defense of Marfa Lights These days, Marfa, Texas, is a mecca for art and artists. But Mitchell Flat, a vast stretch of ranch land to the east of Marfa, is a much older mecca, not for art, but for lights. Since the 19th century, reports of mysterious or unexplained lights have intrigued people who live in this far west Texas area. Some visitors (and there are many) declare distant, moving lights to be mysterious, while more skeptical visitors may tell you that what they saw were ranch lights and vehicle headlights. Who is right? What are these lights? A major research effort might give answers. But the answer boils down not to a concrete, singular fact, but rather to a choice between two camps. Author James Bunnell is squarely in the camp that rejects the headlights theory and pushes for more scientific investigation because he believes the lights are unusual, natural phenomena that have much to tell us about our own Earth. Unlike the headlight theorists, some of whom have never visited Marfa or Mitchell Flat, Bunnell backs up his conclusions about the lights with ten years of firsthand observations, photographs of many mysterious lights from multiple automatic night cameras, and a unique base of his own photographic evidence taken by him, onsite, in real time. He concludes A VERY SMALL NUMBER of these lights are indeed mysterious natural phenomena. A retired aerospace engineer, Bunnell has no quarrel with light gazers who have come to Mitchell Flat, seen lights, and declared them to be headlights. He understands why: Explainable lights heavily outnumber mysterious lights. A much different matter are those who do not come to Marfa, who question him at length over a series of months and then use, without permission, his copyrighted photographs and data to prove that mysterious lights do not exist. Those are the people who made this book necessary. This book is a closer look at what they did, and what James Bunnell did. You choose.

Author : Richard Grossinger
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781583947111

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The Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition by Richard Grossinger Pdf

Ever since Homo sapiens first looked up at the stars, we as a species have been looking for meaning in the mysteries of the night sky. Over the millennia, as our knowledge, science, and technology developed, the stories we told ourselves about the universe and our place in it developed as well. In The Night Sky, Richard Grossinger traces those developments, covering multiple aspects of humanity's complex relationship to the cosmos. Covering not only astronomy but also cosmology, cosmogony, astrology, and science fiction, he offers us a revelatory look at the firmament through his own telescope, fitted with an anthropological lens. Throughout his explorations, Grossinger continually reflects on the deeper meaning of our changing concepts about the universe and creation, offering insight into how each new discovery causes us to redefine the values, moralities, and aesthetics by which we live. He also calls into question the self-aggrandizing notion that humanity can and will conquer all, and injects our strident confidence in science with a healthy dose of humility and wonder. Filled with poetic observation and profound questions, The Night Sky is a brilliant reflection of humanity's relationship with the cosmos--a relationship fed by longing, doubt, and awe.

Author : Frank Bures
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612193731

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The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures Pdf

Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures investigates these and other “culture-bound” syndromes, tracing each seemingly baffling phenomenon to its source. It’s a fascinating, and at times rollicking, adventure that takes the reader around the world and deep into the oddities of the human psyche. What Bures uncovers along the way is a poignant and stirring story of the persistence of belief, fear, and hope.

Author : Frank Bures
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781948742429

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Under Purple Skies by Frank Bures Pdf

In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America’s literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world. Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included here have won, or been shortlisted for, the Newbery Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, the Caldecott Award, the National Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and many others.

Author : Louise O'Connor and Cecilia Thompson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781499010084

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Marfa and Presidio County, Texas by Louise O'Connor and Cecilia Thompson Pdf

In their quest to complete their study and to share a better knowledge and understanding of a part of Texas that is still somewhat a frontier, authors Louise S. O'Connor and Cecilia Thompson reveal the first volume of their book Marfa and Presidio County, Texas: A Social, Economic, and Cultural Study 1937 to 2008 Volume One, 1937-1989. In a book that offers a closer look at the past and the present, readers will see how a place known as a tourist area and a center of contemporary art came to be. It returns to the pre-historic era of Far West Texas and bring readers up to the present with yearly reports on the region as well as extensive formal research and personal interviews with present day people who live in Presidio County. A case study worth reading, this book is an eye-opener for a better understanding of how this small yet historically rich land is what it is now. Packed with the economic, social, and cultural history of Presidio County; this book gives readers, both lay and the historians, a clear and complete picture of the events that lead to the preservation, industrialization, and the improvement of one of the frontiers of the United States of America.

Author : Horace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019744150

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A New Poetical Translation ... Second Edition ... Improved by the Author, W. Green by Horace Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : UOM:39015075716350

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The Skeptical Inquirer by Anonim Pdf