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Book 30 Days at Sea

Download or read book 30 Days at Sea written by Bev Pizzano and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Bev Pizzano in her light-hearted, thirty-day adventure aboard cruise ship Rotterdam. From San Diego to Hawaii to the Polynesian and Marquesas Islands, Pizzano shares the daily antics of cruising in style through a series of emails that both inform and entertain her family and friends. Her goals are few: to avoid sea sickness and gaining weight, and to have fun while learning. Bev more than survives her thirty-day excursion-she thrives! 30 Days at Sea encourages others who are considering an ocean voyage to plan ahead, then toss that plan aside to enjoy being in the moment.

Book And They Say We ll Have Some Fun when it Stops Raining

Download or read book And They Say We ll Have Some Fun when it Stops Raining written by Michael B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hello Muddah  Hello Fadduh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Bernstein
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780573694677
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh written by Douglas Bernstein and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Without a Paddle

Download or read book Without a Paddle written by David Moffatt and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and bred in the North East of England, David Moffatt had no intention of disturbing his deep roots in the banks of the Tyne until his University tutor asked him to go to Mato Grosso in Brazil. With a fraught love life, and his football team heading for relegation, suddenly a year in the jungle sounded like a good idea. His life is changed forever... Against a backdrop of growing up in postwar Tyneside, Without a Paddle describes David’s travels in a series of tales and delightful vignettes. Amusing, sometimes hilarious, occasionally sad, we meet his drunken bush guide that he has to disarm, his incompetent camp cook who nearly poisons his boss, an odd assortment of expeditionaries from the elderly entomologist that David has to save from the wasps to a sexchange capybara, and the young female zoologist who…well, it’s all in the book. With a major bid submission hours away, David gets locked stark naked in his bathroom in Cairo, exiting via the window to a busy street seems his only option. At the height of the ‘red terror’ in post-revolutionary Ethiopia, his room is searched while he sleeps – and was the hammering on his door in a seedy hotel in Ogaden the beginning of a kidnap? New Year’s Eve in Rio finds him in a club to which he doesn’t belong and discover what happens to the Gambian beauty queen in Banjul market. After growing up on Tyneside with a teddy bear that travelled to South Africa, playing and watching football and more football, singing with The Invaders and being suspended from school, none of this had equipped David with the paddle he needed to steer him through his travels. Without a Paddle is a light-hearted memoir that will appeal to those with an interest in foreign travel, or who simply enjoy a good laugh.

Book The Nurture of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Wall
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0774858842
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book The Nurture of Nature written by Sharon Wall and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies � antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity � shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation, The Nature of Nurture will also appeal to anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to explore why.

Book New Old fashioned Ways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Santino
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780870499524
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book New Old fashioned Ways written by Jack Santino and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Santino's analysis encompasses everything from movies to romance novels, from television shows to comic books. One especially fascinating feature of this study is its examination of the packaged-foods industry and the manner in which soft drinks, beer, snack cakes, cookies, candy, and breakfast cereals are regularly repackaged to reflect particular holidays. In what becomes a central theme of the book, Santino shows how holidays give companies the opportunity to create an illusion of novelty for products that otherwise remain unchanged over time. For example, the holiday Chips Ahoy cookies or Halloween Oreos differ only in their appearance from the everyday products, but they assume a quality of uniqueness through their association with a special time of the year. Throughout the book, Santino examines the logic by which commercial culture and holidays are linked. Halloween, for instance, with its traditional symbolism of death, evil, and monsters, has served as a theme for heavy metal music and slasher films. This, in turn, has led to some interesting transmutations as one text borrows from another in the wake of a commercial success. When John Carpenter's pioneering 1978 slasher film Halloween became a box-office hit, it was perhaps inevitable that other holiday-based slasher films - New Year's Evil, April Fool's Day, and Silent Night, Deadly Night - would follow. Copiously illustrated, New Old-Fashioned Ways is at once entertaining and informative - a treat for general readers as well as an important work for scholars in a variety of fields, including communications, folklore, anthropology, sociology, and business.

Book Tied Up in Knotts

Download or read book Tied Up in Knotts written by Karen Knotts and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Knotts tells the full story of her father, Don Knotts Much has been written about Don Knotts's career, especially about his iconic role as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, but personal views into the man himself are few and far between. In Tied Up in Knotts, a loving daughter provides a full-life narrative of her father: Don's difficult childhood in an abusive home, his escape into comedic performance, becoming a household name, his growth as a feature film actor, his failing health, and his family life throughout, leading to touching and hilarious moments that will make the reader laugh and cry. Those looking for a behind-the-scenes peek at the show, from the nuts and bolts of production to the hilarious pranks and heartfelt moments between the cast and crew, will see it all through the eyes of the little girl who grew up on the set. Knotts will delight readers with the memories of celebrities touched by Don's life, including Ron Howard, Tim Conway, Andy Griffith, Elinor Donahue, John Waters, Barbara Eden, Katt Williams, and Jim Carrey. Tied Up In Knotts delves beyond Barney Fife nostalgia to tell the life story of a man and father.

Book Off the Hook Too

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Besonen
  • Publisher : Modern History Press
  • Release : 2024-06-15
  • ISBN : 161599825X
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Off the Hook Too written by Nancy Besonen and published by Modern History Press. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, L'Anse Sentinel publisher Ed Danner unleashed the madness when he invited a rookie reporter from Chicago's South Side to work for his Upper Michigan weekly newspaper. Nancy Besonen's Off The Hook is a collection of humor columns she successfully slipped by her editor over a 30-year reporting career. However, there were still a few very silly things left unsaid. Her second and final installment, Off the Hook Too!, keeps the laughter alive and rounds out what she likes to call "The Compleat Works of Nancy Besonen." (take that, William Shakespeare!) "Nancy Besonen's weekly columns in the L'Anse Sentinel always made me smile, or chuckle and, quite often, even snort with mirth. Besonen connects so well with our quirky Yooper culture and its priorities. Her perspective of our everyday lives is hilarious and reminiscent of the late Erma Bombeck." -- Terri Martin, author and U.P. Notable Book Award recipient "It takes a special person to write a weekly column year after year and decade after decade. There have to be times when life is not funny, you're just not in the mood to be humorous, or you simply can't think of a damn thing to satirize, or poke fun at. So, hats off to Nancy Besonen because judging by this collection of her weekly columns in the L'Anse Sentinel she has a genuine talent for finding humor in everyday life." --Tom Powers, Michigan in Books "Besonen has written a book that reads like standup comedy, à la 'up-north' humor. If you have only heard of Northern Michigan or are an actual resident (Yooper) you will find the clever writing in this book to be enjoyable. Short chapters make reading easy on the days there isn't much time to read. The entire book does not have to be finished to find out whodunnit, although it's still difficult to put down." -Carolyn Wilhelm, Midwest Book Review "Besonen, a gifted journalist who moved north from Chicago for the fishing and brought with her a deep sensibility for the U.P, both teaches and inspires. This is true nonfiction at its best, both wit and investigative journalism. I am glad she collects it here." -- Mack Hassler, former professor of English, Kent State University for U.P. Book Review ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Excerpts ~ ~ ~ ~ Hunting—There is no arguing that antlers are important. They help deer decide who gets a date. They help successful hunters get a grip while dragging their prize from the woods. They are the ultimate Northwoods accent piece, suitable for hanging in any room but mostly those frequented by Northwoods men. Photography—There is something horribly wrong with a society that requires its young to become certified in Hunter Safety before handling a gun, yet will put a fully loaded camera into a child’s hands at a wedding and say, “Get a shot of Daddy doing the Chicken Dance!” Berry picking—If someone asks if we’ve been picking blueberries, we say yes, because it’s hard to lie when you have leaves in your hair and blue spots on your butt. When they ask where, we say “The Plains.” Then we say “Goodbye.” We’re there to pick. It’s the way of the sticks. Toys—My particular generation is the baby boomers. We were born as a direct result of WWII. Our daddies were very happy to come home to our mommies. They expressed their joy by populating the earth with many children who were easily entertained. Cell phones--“Don’t those damn things ever stop ringin’?” my husband bellowed. Our son, seated beside him in the car, bent his head in obvious shame, focusing on the offending cell phone in his hand. A moment later his sister’s cell phone rang in the back seat. It was her brother, calling her from the front. Bugs—I opened the cap on my shampoo, and knew just how Janet Leigh felt when Norman Bates joined her for a shower in Psycho. There was an earwig underneath it, and it wasn’t finished bathing. We are used to being bugged and having nowhere to hide. If Norman had made his move on a Maki in the sauna, she’d have parted his hair with a pickaxe. Food—There is a time and a place for eating healthier. I have no idea when or where that is, but I am pretty sure it’s not Thanksgiving Day, when every dish is meant to shine, mainly from its high fat content. We are thankful for giblet gravy and real butter. Barbie—In the beginning, she was blonde or brunette. Then she became black or Hispanic, which was a good thing. Then you cut her hair, which was a bad thing because it devalued your investment and caused Ken to lose interest, though nobody thought Ken was much of a catch, anyway. Data breach—What makes a data breach even more frightening is that 400 of our personal, private characteristics may also be fully exposed. The computing element may, at this very moment, be tuning into the facts that you are a smoker and a dog owner. What are they going to do? Sniff you out and steal your dog? Crafting—It was a controlled burn, but just barely. The wood burner warmed up faster than the artist, from “cool” to “incinerate” before I could warm my coffee. When the smoke finally cleared, I keenly perceived with my artist’s eye that I had succeeded in creating charcoal. And it wasn’t even good-looking charcoal. Bathrooms—Ever since the outhouse found its way in, man has struggled to delicately define his waste space. The new spa-like bath­room isn’t a place where you just go. Well, it kind of is, but you also go there to relax, unwind and pamper yourself while family members try to beat the door down because they need to take care of business. Grandparenting—My mom never played canasta, but she didn’t roll around on the floor with our kids, either, because old grandmothers had something NEW grandmothers lack: their dignity. My mom raised her eyebrows, said stuff like “Oh dear,” and kicked naked Barbies under the couch to be with their clothes. Naked Kens, too, different couch. Guilt—Not to brag (sin of pride), but we Catholics have kind of cornered the market on guilt. Catholics can confess our sins to a priest and receive penance--prayer, more or less of it, depends on the week--to wipe our slates clean. Then we walk out of the confessional, speculate on why the next guy is going in, and bam! We’re back in the red again.

Book It s Separation Of Church And State  Not Divorce by Randy Russ

Download or read book It s Separation Of Church And State Not Divorce by Randy Russ written by Randy Russ and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "separation of church and state", is one of the most well known and least understood phrases in modern American lexicon. A majority of Americans are certain it is contained in the Constitution but the dirty little secret is the term is not mentioned anywhere in that revered document.The phrase entered the American political environment when President Thomas Jefferson responded to a letter he received from constituents.Why could a portion of a single letter trump the United States Constitution? Why would a metaphor be taken literally and used for settled law?Jefferson was not even in the United States while the amendment was debated and adopted. Jefferson and Madison comprise less than 6%% of the total number of founders cited, but their words are used by Supreme Court Justices more than 79%% of the time. Heck, eight percent of Americans think Elvis is alive. Founders such as, George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Henry are virtually ignored.

Book A Paradise For Boys and Girls

Download or read book A Paradise For Boys and Girls written by Hallie E. Bond and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century children have spent their summers at "sleepaway" camps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories and created an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely American tradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of the same name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children’s camps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact on the communities in which they exist. Drawing on the rich documentary and pictorial evidence gathered from the histories of 331 camps located in the Adirondacks from 1886 to the present, this collection chronicles the changing attitudes about children and childhood. Historian Leslie Paris details social change in "Pink Music: Continuity and Change at Early Adirondack Summer Camps." In the title essay of the book, Hallie Bond offers a history of Adirondack camping from the establishment of Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain in 1892 to the present. Finally, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes the collection with "A Wiser and Safer Place: The Meaning of Camping During World War II." Lavishly illustrated with historic photographs, the book includes a directory of Adirondack camps, with brief descriptive notes for each of the camps. The photographs and essays in this volume offer readers a richer understanding of this singular region and its powerful connection to childhood.

Book Summary of Karen Knotts s Tied Up in Knotts

Download or read book Summary of Karen Knotts s Tied Up in Knotts written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-23T22:59:00Z with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My father, Don Knotts, was an actor. He was preparing to make his second feature film, The Reluctant Astronaut, the second of five he would star in for Universal Pictures. His conversations with me frequently went like this: If this picture doesn’t work out, I’ll go back to square one. I knew he was thinking negative thoughts, and I wanted to help him break out of that cycle. #2 When I decided to write this book, I met Dad’s first cousin Ray Lewis Knotts for the first time and asked him how Dad’s family ended up so poor. I was surprised to learn that Dad’s father, Jesse, had originally come from money. #3 Don was born in 1924. His family moved to Westover, a suburb of Morgantown, when he was young. His mother, Elsie, was thirty-nine years old when she got pregnant with him. When she asked her youngest boy if he would rather have a baby boy or a baby girl, he answered that he would prefer a pony. #4 Don was a boy on his daybed in the kitchen, freezing cold nights, anxious and afraid, listening to his toes talk to him to keep him company. He would later learn how to shoot the. 22 rifle.

Book On Being

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn "Kiki" Cummings
  • Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
  • Release : 2010-02
  • ISBN : 1608606082
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book On Being written by Carolyn "Kiki" Cummings and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like it. Like it. YES, I DO. Rock & roll saved my life. (Fact: Kiki does not speak or write in hyperbole. When she makes a statement like this, it's the truth, pure & simple.) For Kiki rock & roll is not just great music, but a state of being that saved her (Praise Jesus) from an ordinary, soul-stifling, errand-running life. Kiki has never been ordinary (read: conventional). Rock & roll gave her a place to go and to be. From The Beatles to Bruce Springsteen, beyond, and before she experienced a world of Thrills & Chills, laughter & cheers, adventures in botany, better living (and dying) through chemistry, and a lot of TROUBLE and sex. Don't forget the sex. STOP. Disregard this back cover prattle. Kiki is a FAN, pure & simple. Her story includes a very funny satire of a standard rock & roll concert. BONUS: The lyrics to four songs, none of which could or should be set to music. Running through her story is a thoughtful (but still funny) commentary on the state of disrepair in American culture, politics, government, economics, AND why Kiki ran from the synagogue and never looked back (I'm sure going to Hell for this one.) Except for 10 years (they call it 'higher education.' I call it getting my ticket punched) and 18 months (being born, being a baby, toddling toward the terrible twos), Carolyn Kiki Cummings has lived in Houston, a city in the great State of Texas. She has practiced clinical psychology for the past 30 years (because they didn't teach me how to do it in school and because I'm a slow learner.) For the past 16 years, she has been bossed around by her cat, Miss Chloe. Kiki does not like writing about psychology. Miss Chloe stopped listening to me years ago. She says, 'If you want to yap, get a dog.' Recounting people's pain and suffering is no fun. Anyway, that's what singing the blues is for. ON BEING: A Rock & Roll Fan is Kiki's very funny account of her life. You can either laugh, cry, shoot somebody, or shoot yourself. I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to die just yet. I hate crying. There's nothing left to do but laugh. LOUDER!

Book Children s Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Paris
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2010-05-10
  • ISBN : 0814767826
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Children s Nature written by Leslie Paris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighbourhoods. This title chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century"--OCLC.

Book 1000 Songwriting Ideas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Aschmann
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781423454403
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book 1000 Songwriting Ideas written by Lisa Aschmann and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all starts with an idea! From melodies to lyrics, great songs need great ideas to spark the creative energy that will help you write your next big hit. 1000 Songwriting Ideas is a handy book of creative exercises that stop writer's block and turn your imagination into a powerful songwriting machine. The book offers a thousand concepts to ponder as starting points for lyric and melody writing, along with some of the most provocative and inspirational examples you may encounter anywhere. These proven exercises move the lyrical self, stir the melodic soul, and give you the power to be the creative songwriter you've always wanted to be.

Book Make  Em Laugh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Kantor
  • Publisher : Twelve
  • Release : 2008-12-02
  • ISBN : 0446555754
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Make Em Laugh written by Michael Kantor and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'Em Laugh illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor draw on countless sources to chronicle the past century of American comedy and the geniuses who created and performed it-melding biography, American history, and a lotta laughs into an exuberant, important book. Each of the six chapters focuses a different style or archetype of comedy, from the slapstick pratfalls of Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball through the wiseguy put-downs of Groucho Marx and Larry David, to the incendiary bombshells of Mae West and Richard Pryor . And at every turn the significance of these comedians-smashing social boundaries, challenging the definition of good taste, speaking the truth to the powerful-is vividly tangible. Make 'Em Laugh is more than a compendium of American comic genius; it is a window onto the way comedy both reflects the world and changes it-one laugh at a time. Starting from the groundbreaking PBS series, the authors have gone deeper into the works and lives of America's great comic artists, with biographical portraits, archival materials, cultural overviews, and rare photos. Brilliantly illustrated, with insights (and jokes) from comedians, writers and producers, along with film, radio, television, and theater historians, Make 'Em Laugh is an indispensible, definitive book about comedy in America.

Book Adolescence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dena Phillips Swanson
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2010-01-04
  • ISBN : 0080922244
  • Pages : 569 pages

Download or read book Adolescence written by Dena Phillips Swanson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited textbook will be appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses and will serve as a comprehensive and timely introduction to the field of adolescent development, providing students with a strong foundation for understanding the biological, cognitive and psychosocial transitions occurring during adolescence. While certain normative biological and cognitive processes are relevant for all youth, development varies dramatically based on a youth's position in society. The volume will focus on contextual factors such as culture, racial identity, socioeconomic position and sociopolitical and historical events, highlighting the impact such factors have on the physiological and psychological processes and treating them as key elements in understanding development during this life stage. The authors will cover the major theoretical positions (both historical and contemporary) about adolescence as well as the relevant research and application. Additionally, modern phenomena - the ever-increasing influence of pop culture (i.e. Hip Hop), mass media and technology (i.e., the internet, gaming) and the evolution of family, education and the church - will be explored in depth. Each chapter will be written by a known expert in the field. - More extensive analysis of cultural, political and socioeconomic factors impacting development than competing texts - Research-to-Practice section covers evidence-based research on practice implementation

Book We Are Jackie

Download or read book We Are Jackie written by Wilkinson B. Dunlace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkinson B. Dunlace married his wife, Jackie, without realizing the extent of her early-childhood abuse. He would learn that she was victimized from an early age, and she recorded a vast quantity of material intending to share her story to help others struggling to cope with the after-effects of abuse. Jackie died before she could write her personal history, but relying on her journals and his insights, her husband reveals her journey toward healing and empowerment. While Jackie did not know it at the time, her healing received a boost in May 1990 when she was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. The diagnosis explained her feelings of low self-esteem, a sense of lost time and bouts of unexplained depression. Coping with the trauma of abuse, however, was not easy, as Jackie was frequently hospitalized and suffered from anxiety and severe depression. Many people have written books about multiple personality disorder in a clinical manner. This one brings readers into the family to highlight the highs and lows that those coping with the condition can expectand how they and their loved ones can persevere.