Download or read book Vietnam by Chinook written by Edward Corlew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other young men during the Vietnam War, Ed Corlew enlisted in hopes of having some influence regarding assignment--safety and training. Instead he found himself in the dangerous door gunner position and, soon after, the crew chief aboard a CH-47 Chinook, 15 miles from the DMZ in 1967 and 1968. Assigned to the famed 1st Cavalry Division, Corlew was shot down three times: in the Battle of Hue, the Battle of Quang Tri, and the A Shau Valley. This memoir began both as a journal and as counselor-recommended therapy for PTSD. He earned four bronze service stars for his service (an estimated 1000 flying hours) during the war's bloodiest year, enduring enemy mortar and rocket attacks. Engaging, frank, and full of action, Corlew describes his many combat experiences as well as the emotional effects--all through the lens of his Christian faith.
Download or read book The Cowboy s Valentine written by Kate Fargo and published by Footloose Publishing. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curl up with a steamy western series from small-town romance author Kate Fargo Will tragedy make them stronger... or tear them apart? As darkness falls at the lake in the mountains, Isabel waits in her room... dressed to the nines and ready for a night of dancing at the luxurious New Year's Eve Ball. Then the phone rings. Tucked into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, this cute and steamy reverse age-gap romance is filled with laughter, witty banter, and heart-warming moments. The Cowboy's Valentine is Book 5 of Second Chance Cowboys, a six-part serial with a satisfying HFN at the end of Book 3 and guaranteed HEA at the end of Book 6. The series is hot, steamy, filled with outdoor adventures, twists you won't see coming, and a cast of good friends and family. * You should start the series with Book 1, The Cowboy's Mrs. Robinson. It's available to read for FREE here on Google Play. Praise for the Second Chance Cowboy series: ♥ "Well-developed, interesting characters you can root for." ♥ “Story is wonderful – sweet, funny, and lighthearted.” ♥ “Charming story of a sex therapist who meets up with a lover who need a Mrs. Robinson.” Reading Order: The Cowboy's Mrs. Robinson The Cowboy's Secret Hideaway The Cowboy's Mountain Rescue The Cowboy's Christmas The Cowboy's Valentine The Cowboy's Wedding KEYWORDS: romance books, cowboy love, happily ever after, romance novels, romantic novels, small town romance, smokin' hot cowboy, sexually romantic books, contemporary romance books, cowboy romance books, free western romance, novels for romance, series books, steamy romance books free, opposites attract, second chance romance, reverse age-gap, older woman younger man, learning to love again, holiday romance, Valentine romance, guaranteed HEA
Download or read book My Ranch Too written by Mary Budd Flitner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many outsiders, the word “ranching” conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this absorbing memoir of life in the Wyoming high country, Mary Budd Flitner offers a more authentic glimpse into the daily realities of ranch life—and what it takes to survive in the ranching world. Some of Flitner’s recollections are humorous and lighthearted. Others take a darker turn. A modern-day rancher with decades of experience, Mary has dealt with the hardships and challenges that come with this way of life. She’s survived harsh conditions like the “winter of 50 below” and economic downturns that threatened her family’s livelihood. She’s also wrestled with her role as a woman in a profession that doesn’t always treat her as equal. But for all its challenges, Flitner has also savored ranching’s joys, including the ties that bind multiple generations of families to the land. My Ranch, Too begins with the story of her great-grandfather, Daniel Budd, who in 1878 drove a herd of cattle into Wyoming Territory and settled his family in an area where conditions seemed favorable. Four generations later, Mary grew up on this same portion of land, learning how to ride horseback and take care of livestock. When she married Stan, she simply moved from one ranch to another, joining the Flitner family’s Diamond Tail Ranch in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The Diamond Tail is not Mary’s alone to run, as she is quick to acknowledge. Everybody pitches in, even the smallest of children. But when Mary takes the responsibility of gathering a herd of cattle or makes solo rounds at the crack of dawn to check on the livestock, we have no doubt that this is indeed her ranch, too.
Download or read book One Jump Ahead written by Jonathan Schaeffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book tells of the creation of the world-class checkers computer program, Chinook. From its beginnings in 1988, Chinook became a worthy opponent to the world champion and by 1992 had defeated all the worlds top human players. In his fascinating account, Jonathan Schaeffer, the originator and leader of the Chinook team, provides an engrossing story of failures and successes. He describes the human story behind Chinook and his own feelings in his continuous effort to improve the programs performance. We follow the development of Chinook from an innocent question asked over lunch, through to the final match against the then world champion, Marion Tinsley. As the story unfolds, readers are introduced to the rules of checkers and the basics of computer game programs, as well as to the key figures in the story. The culmination of this new edition expounds upon checker finally perfected and solved by Chinook ten years after the story was originally told.
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Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Agnes Regan Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-09-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. Appraisals of 559 titles, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier ones of importance, are provided. Each entry features a plot summary incorporating themes, critical comments with a judgment of the book's value as an example of its genre, suggestions of other books by that writer, and related books of importance. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature, and an advistory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided insightful critical appraisals and expertise and guidance in the selection of titles. Helpful subject, grade-level, author, title, and illustrator indexes are organized for ease of use. Titles in the grade-level and subject indexes are also identified by ethnic group.
Download or read book Penance On The Prairies written by R.L. Syme and published by Hummingbird Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream. Between the police scanners, the coffee ladies, and the senior center, no secret is safe for long. But Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar...especially the police radar. So when her new bakery is linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can't have that. In order to clear her good name and keep her face off the front page, this bakery owner becomes extra nosy...with a little side of breaking-and-entering. But when she comes face-to-face with the Sheriff, Vangie can't ignore the fact that one of her macarons was involved in a murder. She has to find the real murderer. SECOND EDITION First published as: Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron. RECIPE INCLUDED: The Murdered Macaron
Download or read book From Here We Speak written by Primus St. John and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Oregon poetry from Native American tribal lyrics to the present.
Download or read book 105 and Rising written by L. S. Whiteley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 1975. The Fall of Saigon. Chaos and confusion. Desperation and despair. Panic and death. As the North Vietnamese Army closes in, a team of five former American servicemen reenter Saigon. Their mission: to “liberate” the gold reserves of South Vietnam. Things begin to go wrong from the start, and rapidly proceed to get worse.
Download or read book International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lakota Cowboy written by John Hanor and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here, manifest destiny collides with native mysticism.” Meet the last open range cowboy and the last nomadic Native American. Better yet, be present for their first handshake in the pages of Lakota Cowboy. Their stories become entwined in an unlikely friendship, but cannot change the inexorable march of history. You’ll witness that march from the back of a horse as they trot across the Little Bighorn, into the Canadian wilderness, past Wounded Knee Creek, to finally arrive in a homestead world of badlands hardship and romantic heartbreak. This unsentimental and moving portrait is sweeping in scope but intimate in detail. The easy-reading pages are in fact a deep cultural dive into two societies once thought of as irreconcilable. Inspired by true events, Lakota Cowboy the novel is your eyewitness encounter with the winning, and losing, of the American West. “I have been reading the chapters you sent. I must say they are deep and touching for me as a Lakota reader. You are a writer in possession of empathy for detail and human feelings. You’ve managed to shed light and understanding on Lakota thought, philosophy and most of all reverence or as I say, spiritual intelligence.” —Jhon (not John) Goes In Center, noted Oglala Lakota elder
Download or read book Seven Games A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Download or read book The Devils of Eden written by Joseph Holsworth and published by Art Official Media LLC. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to contemporary war, The Devils of Eden is one of the most accurate stories written. The memoir is told from the perspective of a paratrooper from the arrival at his unit, through the occupation of Firebase Gardez in eastern Afghanistan. The narrative follows a squad of recon paratroopers for a four month period of what was called by Time Magazine, the most dangerous place on earth. Each character is a disparate representation of the array of attitudes and perspectives concerning life in contemporary American the Afghanistan War, and the human condition in general.
Download or read book Back to the Future written by University of British Columbia. Fisheries Centre and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
