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Old Man: And Other Colonel Weatherford Stories (The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library)
by Gordon GrandFirst published by Derrydale in 1934, this third volume of short stories by Gordon Grand includes the marvelous comic story, Everything Is Alright, Sonny . Featuring Colonel Weatherford and his Millbeck hounds, the warm and humorous stories are ideal for fireside reading for young and old. Illustrations by W. J. Hayes with a color frontispiece.
Babe Ruth: A Daughter's Portrait
by Julia Ruth Stevens George Beimis a family photo album filled with over 200 new, never-before-published images of Ruth. Each photo is accompanied by a caption by Julia Ruth Stevens in which she identifies and reflects on the event.
Let's Go Fishing!: A Book for Beginners
by Gerald D. SchmidtThe ideal companion to a child's first tackle set, and a useful reference for years to follow.Ages 8 and up
Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
by David PorterUsing extensive background research as well as interviews with the principal characters, Fixed provides the first in-depth reconstruction of the point-shaving scandal involving the 1978-1979 Boston College basketball team, from the genesis of the plot in the summer of 1978, through the uncovering of the scheme during an unrelated investigation in 1980, to the trial that captivated the sports world in the fall of 1981 and its aftermath. This multi-layered story of greed and betrayal combines sports, gambling, and the Mafia into an irresistible morality tale with a modern edge.
Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
by Anthony B. PinnA former African American minister revealshis unusual journey from faith to atheism. Anthony Pinn preached his first sermon at age twelve. At eighteen he became one of the youngest ordained ministers in his denomination. He then quickly moved up the ministerial ranks. Eventually he graduated from Columbia University and then received a Master of Divinity in theology and a PhD in religion from Harvard University. All the while, Pinn was wrestling with a growing skepticism. As his intellectual horizons expanded, he became less and less confident in the theism of his upbringing. At the same time, he became aware that his church could offer only anemic responses to the acute social needs of the community. In his mid-twenties, he finally decided to leave the ministry and committed the rest of his life to academia. He went on to become a distinguished scholar of African American humanism and religious history. The once fully committed believer evolved into an equally committed nonbeliever convinced that a secular approach to life offers the best hope of solving humanity's problems.
Swing Under the Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom
by Mike ZwerinFor a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock ' n' roll is today. In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent two years traveling across Europe talking with individuals who performed and enjoyed jazz in Hitler's dark shadow, including the Ghetto Swingers, a Jewish jazz band that "toured" Auschwitz and Theresienstadt; the Luftwaffe pilot who listened to Glenn Miller while bombing London; Django Reinhardt, the brilliant guitarist who refused to flee Nazi-controlled France; and many others.
Texas Indian Myths & Legends
by Jane ArcgerStep into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.
The Spirit of Yellowstone
by Judith L. MeyerYellowstone National Park's famous geysers, exotic landscape, and beautiful wildlife partially explain its enormous popularity, but there is something more to the Yellowstone experience—a powerful spirit to the place that is more than the sum of its parts. This fascinating history of America's favorite national park shows how that spirit has endured over Yellowstone's 127-year existence. Meyer shows that Yellowstone has consistently evoked awe in different generations of Americans, even as our attitudes toward nature have changed over the years. That awe is also captured in photographer Vance Howard's evocative images, which, alongside historic photographs and other early artistic interpretations of the Park's wonders, support Meyer's view that Yellowstone's unique sense of place makes it worth preserving not only for its ecological value but for its lasting importance in American culture.
The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder
by Douglas A. RileyThe perfect book to help you give your oppositional-defiant child the help he or she needs.
Ghosts on the Coast of Maine
by Carol SchulteA ghostly tour of Maine's coast - twenty-five tales of hauntings and unexplained supernatural occurrences compiled by a woman whose family's home in coastal Maine is home to more than one ghost. Her interest in psychic phenomena was sparked by a request from the NBC series In Search of... for an interview about her family's haunted house. This is a different kind of tour, an intriguing, spine-tingling tour full of witches, mysterious disappearances, and things that go bump in the night.
Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook
by Douglas Ubelaker Henry ScammellFascinating, educational, and highly readable, Bones takes readers into the dark world of forensic science.
Diary of an Eating Disorder: A Mother and Daughter Share Their Healing Journey
by Chelsea Smith Beverly RunyonIn Diary of an Eating Disorder, Chelsea Smith bravely comes forward with a day-to-day account of her life with an eating disorder. This book provides enlightening insights into the mind of a person affected with anorexia and bulimia.
Footprints of Schizophrenia
by Steven Lesk M.D.Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have made in psychiatric treatment, schizophrenia remains misunderstood, almost complacently mythologized. Without a reason for the illness, patients feel even more alienated than they already do, families are left hopeless, and doctors struggle to provide accurate care. Steven Lesk, though, after a medical career dedicated to those affected by schizophrenia and a determination to find the answer to its existence, presents a groundbreaking theory that will forever change the lives of the mentally ill. In Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Madness, Lesk threads evolutionary evidence with neurological evidence, turning the mysteries of our minds into a tapestry of logic. With his breakthrough theory and this unprecedented book, Lesk will invite necessary cultural dialogue about this stigmatized illness, provoke new psychiatric and pharmacological research, and provide unequivocal comfort to those afflicted and affected by schizophrenia.Lesk&’s &“primitive organization theory&” is based in human evolution, from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens, and the specific changes to our brains after the emergence of language. We have existed in human-like form for six million years, but we&’ve only had language for 50,000; within the vast span of evolutionary time, that&’s hardly any time at all. Lesk elucidates us to the hormones affected by language, especially dopamine, and with brilliant clarity, connects human evolution, our brain affected by language, and those with schizophrenia whose dopamine doesn&’t flow in our new, adaptive way. In other words, the twenty million people who have schizophrenia in the world don&’t suppress dopamine in the way evolution has trained us, so their brains don&’t process language well and function as if they&’re in a hallucinatory, delusional dream state. Not only will Lesk&’s theory focus treatment efforts for schizophrenia, but it will also affect that of other dopamine-related mental illnesses like Alzheimer&’s, Parkinson&’s, Huntington&’s chorea, Tourette&’s, ADD, and more. Publishing Lesk&’s work will usher in a new era of psychiatric understanding, one that the field and the public desperately needs.
The Calcium Cookbook
by Genell Subak-Sharpe Joanne NessOsteoporosis, the brittle-bone disease, was long considered one of the inevitable curses of aging. Many of us have watched our grandmothers and mothers gradually become more stooped, more prone to bone fractures. Medical evidence indicates that osteoporosis may be prevented if we increase our calcium intake beginning in our late twenties, and prevention is still possible even if we do not start increasing our calcium intake until our forties.For calcium to work most effectively against bone loss it must be taken in specific proportion to other kinds of foods—something a simple calcium supplement does nothing to ensure. The Calcium Cookbook shows us how to do just that—in two hundred delicious ways. It offers recipes that provide the calcium and other nutrients essential for prolonged well-being, without depending on high-calorie or high-cholesterol foods. Each recipe is carefully designed to maximize the absorption of calcium.
Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs
by Michael McKenzieArrowhead: Home of the Chiefs is a monument to imaginative and aesthetic sports arena architecture, still after 25 seasons. While other arenas of its era are being replaced, Arrowhead continues to draw compliments as the best there is for football. Relive 25 years of Kansas City Chiefs football history in Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs, the official history of the Kansas City Chiefs and Arrowhead Stadium.
The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander
by James Tertius de Kay"One person in ten is a left-hander. And every last one of them thinks he's sort of special. Which is probably true . . ."Over 400,000 copies in print!
Type it Right!: The Little Black Book for your Computer
by Antia StumbpType It Right! the little black book for your computer describes everything you'll need to know to create correctly-typed documents! Type It Right! represents a compilation of information and advice found in punctuation, typography and design books, style books and dictionaries — combining typographic skills with today's computer technology.
Trout Fly Fishing: An Expert Approach
by John Dawson Martin CairncrossThis authoritative and magnificently designed book applies the latest developments to all aspects of trout fly fishing around the world. Techniques are suggested for fishing a large range of lakes, rivers and springs in a straightforward, detailed and sometimes humorous, approach. The authors have also included examples of their favorite fly patterns including those found in their own tackle boxes.
Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View
by Jeffey MeyersThe works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a German Pension, and numerous anthologies. Biographies appearing after her death idealized her, but Meyers sets the record straight in his assessment of the author's life and career, revealing a woman with a self-destructive disdain for convention and respectability. Born and raised in New Zealand, Mansfield threw herself into several love affairs with men and women before living with literary critic John Middleton Murray. Meyers chronicles their tempestuous relationship (one that mixed abuse with devotion) and the years she fought a losing battle with tuberculosis.
Circle of Friends Cookbook: 25 Chili Recipes
by Gooseberry PatchWarm up your family on the chilliest days with these 25 tried & true recipes for hearty, zesty chili of all kinds...from Chili With Corn Dumplings and Slow-Cooker Steak Chili to Creamy White Chicken Chili and Rio Grande Green Pork Chili, you're sure to find a favorite!
Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zeland
by Zane GreyNew Zealand is one of the"hot" fly-fishing spots in the world today. Known for brilliant, crystal clear rivers, Zane Grey's New Zealand conjures up images of huge and mythic trout. In Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, Grey fishes both these now legendary streams as well as pursues the monster swordfish off the coast of the New Zealand shores. It's an adventure story and a fishing story at once.
Everything You Need to Know About Building the Custom Home: How to Be Your Own General Contractor
by John FoldsThis book helps the reader save a great deal of money by demonstrating how to manage the project and act as one's own contractor.
The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
by Edwin P. HoytA chronicle of one of WWII's most dramatic and secret operations.
Coming Of Winter In The Adirondacks
by Brian J. HeinzWinter is on its way and the High Peaks are in celebration. Hillsides and valleys look to be on fire as trees shimmer in the glow of autumn light. Green spires of hemlock and spruce poke their slender necks skyward, as if to get a better view. For surely, Winter is coming. A charming children's book of nature.
How to Master a Great Golf Swing: Fifteen Fundamentals to Build a Great Swing
by Maxine Van LupoAs millions of golfers will attest, mastering a strong, consistent, and accurate golf swing is no easy feat. Yet, as leading golf-swing analyst Maxine Van Evera Lupo shows in this revolutionary book, any golfer, by focusing on the 15 fundamentals and following the step-by-step instruction for each, can master the proper moves and positions that ensure a correct and controlled swing. Using this sequential method of instruction, the author clearly examines each swing part in detail. The golfer can then compare his or her movements with those discussed in the book and depicted in more than 200 line drawings and adjust those components that are not fundamentally correct.This breakthrough book elimates the endless tips and quick fixes that clutter most instructional golf books. The result is a clear, concise blueprint for understanding the swing's makeup that enables the golfer to achieve a consistently smooth and natural swing.