Download or read book Five Nickels written by Jim “Boots” Demarest and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1991, Captain Steve Phillis was leading his wingman, Lieutenant Rob Sweet, on their thirtieth combat mission of Desert Storm flying the A-10 Warthog. They were tasked with attacking Iraq’s vaunted Medina Division of the Republican Guards—by far their most dangerous mission of the war. Near the end of their attacks, Rob was forced to eject from his aircraft and began a five-minute parachute ride down to the troops he and Steve had just finished bombing. Steve, an experienced combat search and rescue pilot and distinguished graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, immediately sprang into action to save the life of his wingman. After spending three minutes and forty-five seconds circling Sweet, Steve’s A-10 was hit by an enemy surface-to-air missile. Five Nickels: True Story of the Desert Storm Heroics and Sacrifice of Air Force Captain Steve Phillis, is a love story. Steve loved his family, fiancée, fellow fighter pilots, country, wingman, and life. Yet he was willing to risk them all to fight—and if necessary, die—for what he believed in. Steve’s story—from Rock Island, Illinois to the Air Force Academy, to his life as an A-10 fighter pilot—is the stuff of heroes. As Steve’s Academy classmate and boxing partner, fellow fighter pilot and “Top Gun” graduate, Jim “Boots” Demarest is uniquely qualified to tell Steve’s story. A gifted storyteller, Boots shares his experience with Steve from the Academy Boxing Team to paint a complete picture of the man who had so much to live for, yet was willing to risk it all to do the right thing. Five Nickels is filled with the details of Steve’s life and loves that will capture, enchant, and pull readers in. His story of combat heroics in the face of incredible danger will captivate and inspire all who read it.
Download or read book Million Dollar Nickels written by Paul Montgomery and published by Zyrus Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed in the backdrop of a nationwide media frenzy and a public mad with the hope of finding the multi-million dollar coin, this is the story of America's most eccentric and famous collectors, persistent reporters searching for the truth, shameless profiteers, and agents of the Smithsonian Institute desperate to stay above the fray. Enterprising collectors spared no expense over the decades advertising to purchase a 1913 Liberty Head nickel, prompting generations of collectors to search cans of coins and old collections they inherited, all for the hope of finding the prized 1913 Liberty Head nickel. In the end, it was an anonymous heiress with an old envelope, upon which was written the word fake, that held the truth. With that envelope and the coin inside, six of the world's most respected coin experts sat in a small room under the vigilant watch of armed guards. Few expected what they found. And what they found rewrote numismatic history...
Download or read book Nickel and Dimed written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Download or read book Jefferson Nickels written by Whitman and published by Whitman Coin Pub. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the Statehood Quarter Program, coin collecting has never been more popular. And to take advantage of this new interest in the hobby, we're giving our complete line of Whitman Classic Coin Folders a beautiful new look. -- Multi-million dollar cover updates for the entire Whitman line! -- True-to-life foil colors reflect and beautifully represent the coins each folder holds -- e.g. Copper foil for Lincoln Cents, Silver foil for Jefferson Nickels. -- Traditional Whitman blue vinyl matches past Whitman products.
Download or read book A Nickel written by Allan Morey and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a nickel different from other coins, and how much is it worth? Four curious kids are here to investigate Money Values. Have fun singing along as you learn all about A Nickel! This hardcover book comes with CD and online music access.
Download or read book A Guide Book of Buffalo and Jefferson Nickels written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a smarter buyer and collector of the popular buffalo and Jefferson nickels. Bowers provides historical background, grading, and collecting information.
Download or read book Nickels written by Elizabeth Morgan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers see nickels often in their everyday lives. These coins can be used to teach basic math skills, such as skip-counting and addition. As they read, they also learn concepts that commonly appear in elementary social studies curricula, such as early American history. The close relationship between the text and detailed photographs help build strong reading comprehension skills, and a picture glossary helps build vocabularies. Exciting designs hold readers’ interests with each turn of the page. Whose house is on the back of the nickel? The answer to this question and many more are waiting for readers to discover!
Download or read book Nickels and Dimes written by Nina Brown Baker and published by Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros. This book was released on 1954 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American success story of F.W. Woolworth, who with his idea for a ten-cent store, built a merchandising empire in the late 1800s.
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Download or read book Math Grade 2 written by Teacher Created Resources, Inc and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "2 CD-ROMs: Bonus parent materials! English & Spanish"--Cover.
Download or read book Ancient Coins at the Elvehjem Museum of Art written by Elvehjem Museum of Art and published by Chazen Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coins, because of their abundance and intimate connection to the ruling elite of the ancient Greco-Roman, world offer a unique insight into the historical events of their time and into the social history of power and propaganda. This catalog illustrates and describes 193 coins from a 6th century B.C. Lydian coin to one minted at Constantinople under Theodosius I circa A.D. 380. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Download or read book Mountain and Plain written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Region 7 and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Nickels Dimes and Dollars Book written by Ellen Sabin and published by Watering Can Press. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to make smart decisions about how to spend, share, save, earn, and grow your money.
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Download or read book A Nickel for the Boatman written by Carol Luter Milot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miami was roaring in the 1920s, not only with boat loads of bootleg whiskey and snow birds seeking warmer climes, but also relocated families like Eddies who had left generational homes to forge a new life among Miamis up and comers. It was a city of temptation and excitement, of Prohibition and the beginnings of commercial flight. Eddie, the only child of preoccupied parents, a social-climbing mother and distant, reticent father, feels trapped under the thumb of nuns and priests in a strict Catholic school. Then, Manny Silver appears, and Eddies life changes forever. In the hulking, fastidious mobster he finds a surrogate father and mentor with a soft spot for the teenager. But, there are difficulties. Eddie is torn between his desire for the adult pleasures and freedom Manny offers and the straight path defined by the moral principles of Father Horka, his spiritual guide, who tries to watch over him. In this place and time where the ordinary, the infamous and the famous met on a single stage, Eddie grows up. Set against the backdrop of the most beautiful and untamed places of the era, Eddie discovers the complexities of friendship, betrayal, guilt and loss.
