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Way Out There

Author : J.R. Harris
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680511215

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• The author is a distinguished member of the Explorers Club • The author is an unexpected adventurer, disarmingly positive and companionable • Lively stories of remote treks around the world Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris’s extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world’s most tantalizing places―largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, “J. R.,” as he’s known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down‐to‐earth, friendly style. For J. R., it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively drives his VW Beetle across the country to the very end of the northernmost road in Alaska, searching for an answer to a simple question: What is it like to be way out there? How this happened, whom he met, and what he encountered along the way became the foundation for a lifelong attraction to trekking and adventure travel. Subsequent chapters chronologically explore some of his many journeys, revealing an enduring wanderlust honed by his emerging maturity and outdoor skills. Stories of J. R.’s solo treks point to stark contrasts between his urban upbringing and his wilderness wanderings, while tales of adventure with small but diverse groups of friends are enriched by their collective experiences and varying viewpoints about exploration. Way Out There is a lively yet introspective book by a restless soul that will attract countless readers who love to travel, as well as armchair adventurers and communities looking for outdoor role models. The foreword is by the late Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots during World War I

Way Out There In the Blue

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743203777

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Way Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prize­winning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the twentieth century. Reagan's presidency and the man himself have always been difficult to fathom. His influence was enormous, and the few powerful ideas he espoused remain with us still -- yet he seemed nothing more than a charming, simple-minded, inattentive actor. FitzGerald shows us a Reagan far more complex than the man we thought we knew. A master of the American language and of self-presentation, the greatest storyteller ever to occupy the Oval Office, Reagan created a compelling public persona that bore little relationship to himself. The real Ronald Reagan -- the Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book -- was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the American national psyche and at the same time an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration and from the people who surrounded him. The idea that America should have an impregnable shield against nuclear weapons was Reagan's invention. His famous Star Wars speech, in which he promised us such a shield and called upon scientists to produce it, gave rise to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan used his sure understanding of American mythology, history and politics to persuade the country that a perfect defense against Soviet nuclear weapons would be possible, even though the technology did not exist and was not remotely feasible. His idea turned into a multibillion-dollar research program. SDI played a central role in U.S.-Soviet relations at a crucial juncture in the Cold War, and in a different form it survives to this day. Drawing on prodigious research, including interviews with the participants, FitzGerald offers new insights into American foreign policy in the Reagan era. She gives us revealing portraits of major players in Reagan's administration, including George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan and Paul Nitze, and she provides a radically new view of what happened at the Reagan-Gorbachev summits in Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington and Moscow. FitzGerald describes the fierce battles among Reagan's advisers and the frightening increase of Cold War tensions during Reagan's first term. She shows how the president who presided over the greatest peacetime military buildup came to espouse the elimination of nuclear weapons, and how the man who insisted that the Soviet Union was an "evil empire" came to embrace the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and to proclaim an end to the Cold War long before most in Washington understood that it had ended. Way Out There in the Blue is a ground-breaking history of the American side of the end of the Cold War. Both appalling and funny, it is a black comedy in which Reagan, playing the role he wrote for himself, is the hero.

There Is a Way out of Fibromyalgia

Author : Andrea Rose
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452514406

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There Is a Way out of Fibromyalgia by Andrea Rose Pdf

Personal Basics by Andrea Rose has been a blessing for those of us on the guaifenesin protocol. Andrea has created a line of high quality salicylate free products that not only take the guesswork out of shopping but also make it enjoyable! Kudos to Andrea for not only working her own program and regaining good health with guaifenesin but paying it forward and helping thousands get started on the protocol. I tell all of my new patients about the products by Andrea Rose. Many thanks! Melissa Congdon, MD Ill never forget the many FM patients that we have seen over the years that have had their lives turned around through the focused use of guaifenesin. As a physician who treats fibromyalgia patients with guaifenesin, I have found Andrea Roses salicylate-free cosmetics to be invaluable. Not only do these products work very well, they also save patients time and money. George Juetersonke, D.O. It is frightening to try to get cosmetics that do not block guai since so many products arent well marked. Thank you for giving us a safe alternative. Devin Starlynyl; Author of Healing Through Trigger Point Therapy: A Guide to Fibromyalgia, Myofacial Pain and Dysfunction

'the Last Trail Ride'

Author : Roger L. Scott
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781409243731

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Being brought up in the early fifties, with the sources of entertainment limited, the battery operated radio that the Scott's owned helped to take Roger into a world of imagination. With stories of the Old West played on a regular basis. He was more than familiar with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autrey, along with so many others that captured his fancy in a way to influenced him still to this day. All this adoration of the Wild-West is so obvious in all the poems in this book which is a tribute to those hearty men who rode the West with just their horses and guns, carving out a civilization and establishing laws where none had existed before. You will enjoy re-living life as you read once again like they did. Both the harshness and the joy of being out on the prairie you will find here, as Roger opens up the world of Cowboys, Gunslingers and Lawmen......All to show how the West was won through the blood and sweat of the American cowboy.

Seahorses

Author : Ian Wood
Publisher : Ian Wood
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In the female empowering world of Terrene, a world very much like our own, but where young girls can have real power, a new story has arisen. Set on the beautiful Queensland coast in northeast Australia, four thirteen-year-old girls - and a boy this time - are all riders of the waves: they each have the power to call up a seahorse drawn from the crystal blue waters of the Coral Sea. But a life on the ocean waves leaves them all at sea when Petra Kerr, the Oil Baroness, starts pumping illegal oil in the area, threatening the precious ecosystem. It’s up to twins Melbourne and Sydney Fisher, Indonesian cousin Memberi Bambang, and friends Adelaide Brewer and native Australian Darwin Tonkin, to find a way to stop her. Their safe plan seems to be working - until Petra Kerr learns who they are, and decides to stop them before they can stop her. Like its predecessor Cloud Fighters, this is a top-of-the-line story aimed at middle-graders and young teens.

One Way Out

Author : Alan Paul
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466835863

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A New York Times Best seller! One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long. For twenty-five years, Alan Paul has covered and written about The Allman Brothers Band, conducting hundreds of interviews, riding the buses with them, attending rehearsals and countless shows. He has interviewed every living band member for this book as well as managers, roadies, and contemporaries, including: Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, the late Allen Woody, Jimmy Herring, Eric Clapton, Bob Weir, and many others. Tracking the band's career from their 1969 formation to today, One Way Out is filled with musical and cultural insights, riveting tales of sometimes violent personality conflicts and betrayals, drug and alcohol use, murder allegations and exoneration, tragic early deaths, road stories, and much more, including the most in-depth look at the acrimonious 2000 parting with founding guitarist Dickey Betts and behind-the-scenes information on the recording of At Fillmore East, Layla, Eat A Peach, Brothers and Sisters, and other classic albums.

JACK LONDON: All 22 Novels in One Illustrated Edition

Author : Jack London
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 4624 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027220915

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JACK LONDON: All 22 Novels in One Illustrated Edition by Jack London Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of the complete novels of Jack London. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Cruise of the Dazzler A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Kempton-Wace Letters The Sea-Wolf The Game White Fang Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Adventure The Scarlet Plague A Son of the Sun The Abysmal Brute The Valley of the Moon The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Star Rover (The Jacket) The Little Lady of the Big House Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor and war correspondent.

Eli and the Blue Star

Author : Charles F. David
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499008302

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Eli and the Blue Star by Charles F. David Pdf

This book ELI and the BLUE STAR is a spin off from this author’s previous book ELI. In the book ELI, the United States was attacked with Nuclear weapons delivered by countries that have long awaited to deliver death and destruction upon the U.S. The character ELI and the men that follow him take the fight to the enemy that invade us. These men are those that would be responsible for turning things around in our favor.

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802134904

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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.

Retail Tales and Nonsense

Author : Michael Dichter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781469117812

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Retail Tales and Nonsense by Michael Dichter Pdf

Who Ya Bagging For? I have been told to bag for the cashier, the other bagger, or the supervisor. But very rarely have I been told to bag for the guest. This seems funny to me. Now if they wanted to tell me to take over for the other employee or the guest(s), that would make sense, but the easy, lazy way to communicate seems to be the only way they know how. You’d think someone that has the skills to do this job would at least know the difference between bagging for the cashier, etc., and the guests

The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ayn Rand,David Lindsay,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Abraham Merritt,H. G. Wells,H. Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Edwin A. Abbott,Hugh Benson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3900 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547684381

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The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ayn Rand,David Lindsay,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Abraham Merritt,H. G. Wells,H. Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Edwin A. Abbott,Hugh Benson Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Edgar Allan Poe: A Descent into the Maelstrom The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald : Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines William Hope Hodgson: The Night Land Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland Ayn Rand: Anthem Hugh Benson: Lord of the World David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster

The Greatest Sci-Fi Tales Ever Written

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,David Lindsay,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Abraham Merritt,H. G. Wells,H. Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Edwin A. Abbott,Hugh Benson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3855 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547684442

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The Greatest Sci-Fi Tales Ever Written by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,David Lindsay,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Abraham Merritt,H. G. Wells,H. Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Edwin A. Abbott,Hugh Benson Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Edgar Allan Poe: A Descent into the Maelstrom The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines William Hope Hodgson: The Night Land Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland Hugh Benson: Lord of the World David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster

Alliance Rising

Author : C. J. Cherryh,Jane S. Fancher
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756412739

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Alliance Rising by C. J. Cherryh,Jane S. Fancher Pdf

SFWA Grand Master Cherryh returns to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga. For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe the unidentified ship belongs to Pell and has come to investigate another massive ship docked at Alpha, The Rights of Man. Though Rights is under the command of the Earth Company, it is not quite perfected—and its true purpose is shrouded in mystery. James Robert Neihart, captain of Finity's End—a huge faster-than-light ship flown by one of the Merchanter Families—has heard whispers of The Rights of Man and wonders at its design and purpose, especially as Sol struggles to rival the progress of the Farther Stars. Now docked at Alpha, he must convince the crews that there is more to The Rights of Man than meets the eye. Because the reasons behind the creation of The Rights of Man, and its true plans, could change everything—not just for Sol, but for the Hinder Stars and the Beyond itself.

The Only Plane in the Sky

Author : Garrett M. Graff
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501182204

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Visceral...I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” —NPR “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son working in the North Tower, caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.

The Year Before the Flood

Author : Ned Sublette
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781569763230

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With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.