Download or read book Billy Strobe written by John S. Martel and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer and ex-con Billy Strobe fights to clear the names of the two men he respects the most. One is a soft-spoken lifer Billy befriended in jail. The other is Billy's father, the best criminal defense lawyer in Oklahoma until allegations of fraud and suicide ended his life. Entangled in conspiracies, Billy's dual quest for justice soon forces him to choose between loyalty and protecting a woman he's come to love.
Download or read book The Duology written by Zahn Pesh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duology combines and revises two previous books – Visions, Voices & Violence (VVV) and Not Blood Uncle (NBU) – all by Zahn Pesh, to tell one story: How Vaney got in trouble with the San Francisco police (Chapters1-11) and how Zahn got him out of it (Chapters 12-17). Based on a true story, Pesh created these fictional memoirs to memorialize the epileptically disabled youth. To make Billy’s non-verbal communications intelligible to readers, Pesh created an argot based on the youth’s Midwestern dialect. Also, especially for strong verbs, the youth forms past tenses by adding d’s or t’s to infinitives (e.g., instead of “go, went, gone,” Billy says “go, go’d, go’d” or where t’s sound more natural “think, think’t, think’t”). Pesh also created a way (e.g., a new punctuation mark “hyphen hyphen” before direct thoughts) to indicate internalized thoughts. Further, all print-to-order royalties go directly to a nonprofit organization for gifts to the needy or matching awards to train police to distinguish between disabled persons and criminals. These books – The Duology, VVV and NBU – are available individually as e-books or in soft covers through Xlibris, Barnes and Nobel, and Amazon and the nonprofit organization James Floyd McKinney Foundation, where tax deductible donations are gratefully acknowledged and accepted.
Download or read book Biofeedback for the Brain written by Paul G. Swingle and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurofeedback is a cutting-edge, drug-free therapeutic technique used by over a thousand licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and depression. First popularized in the 1970s, this naturalistic method is based on the idea that we can control our brain activity and that, through training, the brain can learn to modify its own electrical patterns for more efficient processing or to overcome various states of dysfunction. In Biofeedback for the Brain, Dr. Paul G. Swingle describes in clear and coherent language how these procedures work. With numerous actual case examples, readers follow the progress of clients from the initial "brain map" that shows the location and severity of the neurological abnormalities to the various stages of treatment. Conditions often considered untreatable by conventional health practitioners respond positively to neurotherapeutic treatment and Swingle describes many of these remarkable recoveries. Other chapters describe the use of neurotherapy for a variety of surprising purposes, including performance training for elite athletes, of which the most famous example is the Italian soccer team who considered the technique to be their "secret weapon" in attaining a World Cup victory. Despite wide-ranging success stories and the endorsement of the American Psychological Association, many health care practitioners remain skeptical of neurofeedback and the procedures are still not well-known by the public or conventional health care providers. This book provides a thorough, definitive, and highly readable presentation of this remarkable health care alternative that offers millions of individuals a chance for healing.
Download or read book It s a Hell of a Thing written by Tim McDowell and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy River has hit rock bottom. Ten years earlier, he achieved his dream of fighting in Madison Square Garden, but the great Hector Gomez turned his dream into trauma, disfiguring Billy's face and leaving him with a disabling brain injury. Downing double shots of Jack in a smoky bar and shadowboxing with his failed life, Billy shares the story of his shattered life with a dancer and the bouncer. Billy has lost his identity, his wife is about to divorce him, his son despises him, and God seems like an impotent voyeur watching his suffering. Billy fears he is becoming his father, the man he called the "wrath of God," and that he will end up like his sister, who committed suicide. With the help of his two unlikely companions, Billy fights to save his family, discover a God capable of blowing the roof off his heart, and come to terms with his childhood traumas. His son's disappearance and near-death experience is a turning point for Billy and his friends as they face choices and events that could lead to Billy's self-destruction or renewal through forgiveness.
Download or read book Fossils written by Robert A. Webster and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age is just a number and getting old doesn't mean you can't have fun. It just means you know how to get away with it... Viagra, Snuff, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Fossdyke Retirement Home has seen its fair share of quirky characters, but it’s never seen the likes of these four geriatric musicians who form a band called Fossils. Chaos erupts after winning a national competition, when a local DJ who entered their recording into the contest labels Fossils as a vibrant young rock band. Fearing the English press persecuting them and their families when they find out the truth, the four flee England until they can resolve their situation. Follow the madcap adventures of Britain’s most irreverently lovable elderly rockers as they trip, stumble, and fall into one situation after another while traveling around Southeast Asia evading adoring fans, journalists, and a ruthless record producer. Viagra, Snuff, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Download or read book Cash Out written by Paul Boray and published by Onyx. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi comes up $300,000 short, some Chinatown thugs beat it out of him and his showgirl girlfriend, Sherri. Unable to report the crime, Rossi turns to down-and-out ex-cop John "Tomb" Tomei, who agrees to get the money back. Soon, Sherri disappears, and Tomb's crazy friend Red Vanes, retired king of the Chinatown beat, has his own psychotic idea about settling the score.
Download or read book The Minotaur written by Travis Hill and published by Travis Hill. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minotaur is a collection of novellas and short stories in the Horror and Science Fiction genres: "The Minotaur" - 12-year-old Billy Jacobs battles the devil for his soul in a game of pinball. "Members Only" - How much would you pay to experience your darkest desire? "Symbiosis" - 'I know how you feel' is no longer an empty platitude thanks to the latest STRIKE therapy for soldiers returning home from combat. "Paradoxis" - A serious vehicle accident ruins Anthony's day, but it's only the beginning... "A Christmas Tale II" - A dark tale of Santa, stressed-out parents, and naughty little children. 42,000 total words (200 pages)
Download or read book Strobe Light Generation written by Billy Lamont and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pacification of Earth written by Dean Warren and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacification of Earth is presented in three sections. Part I, American Revolt: By 2090 almost half of the now immense American population is on welfare. Brilliant, talking computers have stolen most service and middle management jobs, while exploding populations in the southern hemisphere monopolize dumb factory work. And aquifers dry, world wide, causing food shortages. Ben Bjorn, a blond, young Welfie of the merged San Diego and Los Angeles ghetto, escapes a life of squalor by entering the Marine Corps. Well educated by his uncle, he vows to somehow fix the worlds present ugliness. The U.S. invades Mexico with the object of building a death strip along the border that will keep back desperate migrants. Bjorn excels in the resulting combat that involves underwater fleets, personal armor, flechette weapons, and invisible vehicles. We see him grow from a nave, lusty youth to a self-disciplined warrior. The administration cuts Welfie rations while exporting wheat. In the disorder that follows, Bjorn helps his people, is given command of a self-defense Welfie battalion. Fights escalate to a civil war in which Bjorn is the military fist of a Welfie triumvirate. As Part I ends, the Welfies win, rations are equalized, and fertility depressant is dumped into all water supplies. Part II, The Crescent Strikes: As 2100 dawns, Chinese agents kidnap Bjorn and require, as ransom, the shipment of American wheat to their starving people. After our hero escapes by cleverly killing his captors, Europe pleads for military help against the Turkish-led Moslems who threaten invasion from across the Bosphorus. As if those two threats werent enough, American Achievers, the educated and employed class, seek their old power and perquisites. Rebellion simmers below the feet of the Welfie government. After Bjorn survives a Turkish assassination attempt, he flies one hundred and fifty thousand high technology troops to Romania and assumes command of European forces. Estranged from his wife, he also acquires a gorgeous German mistress. In early spring, the Moslems cross the Bosphorus into Europe and throw back part of Bjorns army. He builds defenses behind the Danube Canal. While retreating to that line, Bjorn wins the loyalty of European Achiever officers and raw Balkan units. Moslem armies strike Bjorns line. Defenders respond with fuel-air explosives, smart missiles, flechette rifles, stealth tanks, and microwave weapons that shut down electrical systems. Bjorns mistress, a tool of Achiever conspirators, tries to murder him. He encircles and defeats the Moslems. Bjorn then crushes an Achiever-led rebellion in Western Europe and establishes personal control. News that Chinese armies threaten Siberia convinces Bjorn that the survival of civilization requires he continue his conquests. A world empire is the only cure for humanitys ills. Part III, Imperial Power: In early spring of 2102, Bjorn is thirty years old. He boards his ramjet transport for Irkutsk, in Siberia, while the Chinese gather overwhelming forces nearby in Mongolia. Near his destination, anti-aircraft missiles hunt his aircraft but a brilliant pilot--an Anne Scowcraft--pancakes the aircraft on a swamp in the Siberian taiga. His small party ambushes the killers sent by the Achiever commander of the Russian defenses and finally reaches safety with the German Corps Bjorn has sent as reinforcements to the Slavs. Bjorn manages a Russian command change and a retreat. A romance with Anne grows while Bjorn prepares a defense on the Ob River and establishes a blocking force on the Old Silk Road into Kazakastan. These are the two major land invasion routes to and from China. He sets in motion the conquest of Turkey and Iran, and appoints his ex-wife chief of a world-wide fertility depressant campaign. He announces a World Federation and asks Latin America and Asia to
Download or read book Television Series of the 1990s written by Vincent Terrace and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s the big three networks were being challenged by upstarts FOX and the WB for viewer loyalty. Alongside must-see stalwarts like Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld, the new networks introduced pop culture touchstones like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files. Such shows not only made household names of their stars, but also thrived in syndication and some even graduated to the big screen. In that decade, shows such as ER, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Northern Exposure were vying for awards while programs like Beverly Hills, 90210 and Home Improvement drew in millions of viewers each week. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they live on in syndication and on DVDs, entertaining many generations of viewers. In Television Series of the 1990s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about sixty programs from the decade. For example, did you know that Ally McBeal’s favorite brand of ice cream is Ben and Jerry’s? Or that Hank Hill’s shoe size is 12? Or that Carrie Bradshaw’s favorite cookie is Double-Stuff Oreos? These are just a handful of hundreds of fun and intriguing specifics found inside this volume. Programs from all of the major networks—as well as select syndicated programs and HBO—are represented here. This is not a book of opinions or essays about specific television programs but a treasure trove of facts associated with each show. FromNiles Crane’s I.Q score to George Constanza’s high score on Frogger, readers will discover a wealth of fascinating information that, for the most part, cannot be found elsewhere. In some cases, the factual data detailed herein is the only such documentation that currently exists on bygone shows of the era. Television Series of the 1990s is the ideal reference for fans of this decade and anyone looking to stump even the most knowledgeable trivia expert.
Download or read book Lightwalker written by Michael Ashton and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two worlds, light years apart, both on the brink of destruction. From California to the Plains of Japral two groups of friends make choices for the destiny of worlds they inhabit. Lightwalker is a journey of mind, body and spirit to a distant star system and back again. A totally unique book! Your novel is like an ingenious transcendental documentary that helps the reader de-identify from the delusional material reality and re-identify with the actual transcendental reality governing the world. You might just have invented a new form of writing; a science nonfiction novel. - Andris Heks BA Hons, BSS
Download or read book Visions Voices and Violence written by Zahn Pesh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a "fictional memoir," Zahn Pesh tells the true story of a mentally disabled young man Billy, known affectionately as Vaney and Billy's run-in with the San Francisco police. Often using "Billy speak," the youth's arcane lingo, the author reveals society's neglect and injustices toward such individuals. Wrongly, Billy is accused of making "terrorist threats" against a paramedic, but few other than Pesh believe the disabled kid's story. Avoiding the blame game, Pesh shows how each from personal perspective does his duty, indiscriminately, but nonetheless Billy, or Vaney, suffers because the system fails. Billy is treated like a criminal, not as a patient, which Pesh insists he is. Try as he might, Pesh only meagerly reforms that system, before . . .
Download or read book When Spirits Break Free written by Andy Evans & Vesna Kovac and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy had never fit into the mould of tradition. Born into a world where coal was king and sons followed their fathers into the depths to cut out the coals to feed a hungry nation.He preferred the comfort and solace of his own company rather than playing the games of old along the cobbled streets of Castlefields.At times however, Molly, Billy's mother suspected her son was never quite alone within the family home. At times hushed voices would be heard creeping from the darkest corners, voices she was sure were not of imagination.In later years experiments with hallucinogenic mushrooms once more opened the doorways to the darkened recesses within his mind. The key had once again been turned, foretelling not only of Billy's destiny, but also the destiny of those around him.
Download or read book The San Francisco Attorney written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Idea Factory written by Pepper White and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's great technological universities. This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's great technological universities. Pepper White entered MIT in 1981 and received his master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1984. His account of his experiences, written in diary form, offers insight into graduate school life in general—including the loneliness and even desperation that can result from the intense pressure to succeed—and the purposes of engineering education in particular. The first professor White met at MIT told him that it did not really matter what he learned there, but that MIT would teach him how to think. This, then, is the story of how one student learned how to think. There have of course been changes at MIT since 1984, but its essence is still the same. White has added a new preface and concluding chapter to this edition to bring the story of his continuing education up to date.
Download or read book United States Government Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official handbook of the United States government, presenting information on executive, legislative, and judicial agencies, as well as descriptions of boards, commissions, committees, and international organizations in which the United States participates.
Download or read book Warhol written by Victor Bockris and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist, filmmaker, magazine publisher, instigator of Pop Art, Andy Warhol (19281987) used his canvasses of dollar bills, soup cans, and celebrities to subvert distinctions between high and popular culture. His spectacular career encompassed the underground scene as well as the equally deviant worlds of politics, show business, and high society. Warhol is the definitive chronicle of Warhol's storied life.
