Download or read book Life Stinks Dead s Worse written by Lawrence Paul Belitsky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FUNNY, HISTORIC, INSPIRATIONAL, SELF HELP AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT CLIMAXES WITH THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. -- OR IS IT REALLY JUST THE BEGININNING? AFTER HIS DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY, THE AUTHOR LOOKS BACK ON HIS WORLD-WIDE LIFE'S ADVENTURE IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE, ONLY TO RECOGNIZE THE UNSEEN FORCE THAT HAS ALWAYS GUIDED HIM. THESE AMAZING MEMIORS HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - EVEN THE MOST JADED OF READERS---ADVENTURE, MURDER, FOREIGN INTRIGUE, A TOUCH OF MYSTERY ALONG WITH A DASH OF ESPIONAGE, A LOVE STORY, AND EVEN A GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE LORD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!!! IT'S ALL PRESENTED IN A WITTY, ENTERTAINING UNIQUE STYLE WORTHY OF HOLLYWOOD'S FINEST FICTION. BUT IT'S NOT---IT'S ALL TRUE!! GUARANTEED TO BE NOTHING LESS THAN THOUGHT PROVOKING AS WELL AS AN ENJOYABLE READ.
Download or read book The Medieval Crossbow written by Stuart Ellis-Gorman and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, illustrated history and technical study of this iconic weapon of the Middle Ages. The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which is why Stuart Ellis-Gorman’s detailed, accessible, and highly illustrated study is so valuable. The Medieval Crossbow approaches the history of the crossbow from two directions. The first is a technical study of the design and construction of the medieval crossbow, the many different kinds of crossbows used during the Middle Ages, and finally a consideration of the relationship between crossbows and art. The second half of the book explores the history of the crossbow, from its origins in ancient China to its decline in sixteenth-century Europe. Along the way it explores the challenges in deciphering the crossbow’s early medieval history as well as its prominence in warfare and sport shooting in the High and Later Middle Ages. This fascinating book brings together the work of a wide range of accomplished crossbow scholars and incorporates the author’s own original research to create an account of the medieval crossbow that will appeal to anyone looking to gain an insight into one of the most important weapons of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book A Fae worse than Death written by Andie M. Long and published by Andrea M. Long. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Andie M. Long returns with another hilarious matchmaking romance in the supernatural world. Boone is looking for a date, but so far no-one is finding this Brownie to their taste. Mainly because his obsession for cleanliness is getting him banned from the local restaurants. Frustrated, Boone takes matters into his own hands when he bumps into an attractive woman leaving the Supernatural Dating Agency and follows her home. Zara is unlucky in love. Mainly because her house is as messy as her love life. Waking to find her home spotless, a confused Zara wonders how it’s happened. When the dating agency pairs the two of them, it seems like fate. Then Ebony the seer has a vision of Zara doing the fae ‘dance of the dead’. It’s fae or fate. Boone has been sweeping her floors, now can he sweep Zara off her feet? SUPERNATURAL DATING AGENCY SERIES: #1 The Vampire wants a Wife #2 A Devil of a Date #3 Hate, Date, or Mate? #4 Here for the Seer #5 Didn't Sea it Coming #6 Phwoar and Peace #7 Acting Cupid #8 Cupid Fools #9 Dead and Breakfast
Download or read book YER BORN LIFE SUCKS DEATH HAPPENS plus THE IRAQLE DEBACLE A WRECK TROSPECTIVE written by appleton schneider and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from my "Existential Series" -- herein, just my thoughts and theories regarding various aspects of being, and being human. I derived these ideas and perspectives over my lifetime -- and wrote it up over a period of several years. These pages contain my mind, so to speak. It and they seem unique. I hope those who read will find interest in combining my ideas with theirs.
Download or read book Dr Drop Dead s Dictionary written by Max Alexander and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Drop Dead's Dictionary will have you laughing from start to finish. It is a roller coaster of laughter while touching on real world problems and ideas. The authors interpretations on many of these topics come firsthand and are meant strictly in good fun despite their potentially serious undertone. At the end of the day, what's the sense of crying over something if you can't laugh about it later. Read it and weep, I always do!
Download or read book For Better or For Worse written by Diann Hunt and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's a wedding coordinator. He's a divorce attorney. She begins marriages. He ends them. How could these two possibly find common ground? Wendy Hartline is finally starting to settle into the single life. After a difficult season of grief following her husband's death, she's taken over the family business of coordinating memorable weddings. Life has become . . . comfortable. Then the charming and incredibly frustrating Marco Amorini opens a legal practice--specializing in divorces--right next to her wedding chapel and stirs up everything. Wendy learns that perhaps there is such a thing as second chances in this hilarious story of the pleasures and pains of new love in midlife.
Download or read book Life Sucks Death Bites written by Julie Kushner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 36-year old actuary Gerald Blumenstein despised every aspect of his life. His butterball-esque appearance was unappealing, his dull job unnerving, his cramped apartment uncomfortable, and his love life nonexistent. And yet, not a soul in the world was more petrified of death than Gerald. In fact, Gerald Blumenstein would do anything to avoid dying, even if it meant remaining trapped forever in an existence that, quite frankly, sucked. Then, one fateful night, while attending a highly unorthodox therapy session mandated by his boss, Gerald Blumenstein died. Now his life will never be the same ...Life Sucks, Death Bites is a dark comedy about the inconveniences of daily life and nightly undeath, with some romance and a bit of psychotherapy thrown in for good measure. If the three critically acclaimed HBO series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Blood, and In Treatment, could procreate, this novel would undoubtedly be the lovechild that they would produce.
Download or read book Deep Healing and Transformation written by Hans TenDam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a text book used in training programs around the world. It describes a methodical way of working that transcends ordinary psychotherapy while retaining a professional attitude. It avoids artificial hypnotic inductions and psychic interventions, but ties in directly with the experiences of the client.The style is down-to-earth, to-the-point, practical and fearless
Download or read book Reaching Reluctant Young Readers written by Rob Reid and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young person to read the rest of the book on their own. Further, the book contains several hundred additional recommended titles. The books selected for this collection were chosen following the criteria of reluctant reader books created by the Quick Picks committee sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. While these guidelines were designed for young adult books, they also work well for middle-grade books. The criteria include: clear writing (no convoluted long sentences with sophisticated vocabulary), high interest “hook” in the first few pages, well-defined characters, interesting plot, and familiar themes.
Download or read book Parnassus written by Markus Vossi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each book contains its own message, thematic expression, and overall effect. This book of selected poems and writings are based on experiences, observations, and moments of realization. Ultimately, this book is a small anthology of human experience from the eyes of a simple and trained observer of human and inhuman nature. Naturally with poetry, one can’t produce the printed word void of feeling. In spirit and intent, this volume of writing is meant to awaken something inside our brains, our sodden lumber of flesh, and of course, our immovable spirit. Expression is our dispensation of talents, beliefs, and self-appointed choices. It may be said this book of poetry is raw, unconventional, and is made of ramblings of yet another man—all of which contains truth in its own right as with truth comes its final resting place. This book of poetry is a valiant attempt to experiment with the word and breakthrough any mechanical restrictions that are inherent in the English language. We are all language artists.
Download or read book The Rebellion written by Jean Rabe and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rabe returns to the world of Dragonlance with a tale of slavery, rebellion, and the struggle for freedom! When a series of earthquakes strike a Dark Knight mining camp, goblin and hobgoblin slaves take advantage of the bedlam and revolt. A fast and deadly rebellion erupts, pitting the Dark Knights against their slaves... and against the still-rumbling ground. Casualties on both sides climb as a leader emerges among the slave force --Direfang, a hobgoblin foreman with deep scars and a long, brutal history of servitude. He must rally the surviving goblins and hobgoblins and lead them out of Neraka, turning his rag-tag force into an army that will not allow itself to be enslaved again.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Believing is Seeing written by Bruce McNab and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are you looking for?" These are Jesus's first words in John's Gospel, and he asks us the same question when we decide to follow him. We read John's Gospel because it helps us get closer to Jesus. We're like the first disciples, who answer his question with their own, "Master, where can we find you?" Only near the end of John's story do we learn the answer: Jesus lives in the hearts of all who love him. Believing is Seeing guides readers to believe more deeply in Jesus of Nazareth as the human face of God, seen through the eyes of his beloved disciple. It beckons us to bring to his gospel our soul-searching questions. Do Jesus's words stake a claim on my life? Does John's gospel test me intellectually, spiritually, or morally? Does John's portrait of Jesus make me see him a new way, pray differently, even live differently? Believing in Jesus, the Son of God, shapes how we perceive our own identity, the world around us, the nature of truth, and our relationship with God. To believe is to see with love's eyes.
Download or read book Contemporary Anti Natalism written by Thaddeus Metz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the pain, discomfort, anxiety, heartbreak, and boredom that most humans experience in their lives, is it morally permissible to create them? Some philosophers lately have answered ‘No’, contending that it is wrong to create a new human life when one could avoid doing so, because it would be bad for the one created. This view is known as ‘anti-natalism’. Some contributors to this volume argue that anti-natalism is true because: agents have a prima facie duty to prevent suffering; it is immoral to violate another’s right not to be harmed without having consented to it; and it is a serious wrong to exploit the weakness of a poorly off being to become a biological parent. Others here argue against anti-natalism on the ground, for instance, that many of our lives are not so bad and in fact are quite good and that the logic of anti-natalism absurdly entails pro-mortalism, the view that we should kill off as many people as possible. This book explores these and related issues concerning the evaluative question of how to judge the worthwhileness of lives and the normative question of what basic duties entail for the creation of new lives. Excepting one, all the chapters in this book were originally published in the South African Journal of Philosophy.
Download or read book Mrs Death Misses Death written by Salena Godden and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who – enthralled by her stories – begins to write Mrs Death’s memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced (or facilitated), their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .
Download or read book Beyond Rationalism written by Bruce Kapferer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.
Download or read book Night Theater written by Vikram Paralkar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called “otherworldly” and “a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, “as if the crickets had been bribed,” during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have. In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, Night Theater is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.
