Download or read book City Notebook A Reporter s Portrait of a Vanishing New York written by McCandlish Phillips and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCandlish Phillips, whose by-line has been familiar to readers of The New York Times since 1955, has looked into just about every corner of the city and has written about nearly every aspect of its life. New York is not the same city today as it was yesterday. You cannot set foot in the same New York twice. Yet you can capture its momentary essence in City Notebook. One of the best metropolitan reporters of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s has brought together his best pieces on the City’s life. You will learn, for example, about the “rainbow rain” that sometimes falls on the City, about the Great Bee Roundup, the Case of the Garrulous Parrot, the Small World of Melvin Krulewitch, and the fate of the Gowanus Canal. The reality of New York is made up of millions of such instances, a mosaic of people, places, and things. The ones in this book have been chosen because they are compulsively fascinating, utterly irreplaceable, or just very funny. Gay Talese has called McCandlish Phillips “one of the best reporters” on The Times. People who know his byline relish his crisp style and dry wit.
Download or read book Liberty Justice written by Satta Kendor and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty and Justice is a multimillionaire church and Christian journal enterprise that is built from criminal roots. There's a stigma that leaders of the Christian church are nearly perfect people. However, that is not the case for the first couple of the Liberty and Justice enterprise, Aminata Smith and Pastor Sahele. The first couple of the church are involved in a criminal system called the Network. The Network gains financial proceeds from criminal activities like money laundering and drug trafficking. These proceeds help maintain the church, the journal, and the rich pleasures of the first family's desires. The quench to maintain the Liberty and Justice empire is strengthened when a flash drive goes missing, and all hell breaks loose. This particular flash drive holds critical information that the Network needs to continue its money-making criminal activities. Consequently, there is a very bloody witch hunt that takes you around the globe. With a multifaceted plot line, Liberty and Justice has enough drama that satisfies your reading wants, as well as makes you heed to worldly conversation and encounters dealing with sexuality, politicism, crime, and religion. Who has the flash drive? We'll see.
Download or read book Learning from the Boys written by Valarie G. Lee and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Boy Crisis” is cited often in educational and news reports due to the consistent reading achievement gap for boys and the statistics paint a dismal picture of boys in school. Politicians and researchers often focus on boys’ low scores on reading achievement tests and compare these scores to the girls’ scores with little consideration for the actual reading lives of boys. As a result, adolescent boys’ vernacular reading is most often misunderstood. This book documents my journey as a mother of three boys and teacher of adolescents, as I attempt to articulate both the in-school and out-of-school experiences of boys. The book describes my attempts at creating a more complete picture of the reading lives and experiences of adolescent boys by describing three boys and their reading experiences in their natural contexts. It provides a rich description, revealing disconnects between school literacy practices and boys’ vernacular literacy practices. In this book, parents, administrators, and teachers will find discover the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for "the boy problem" so often seen in response to low test scores. This book provides parents, administrators, and teachers with an in-depth description of three boy readers. What emerges is a description of the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for “the boy problem” so often seen in response to low test scores. Teachers interested in mentoring boy readers will find this book helpful. This book can also be used with pre-service and in-service teachers, in undergraduate and graduate courses, and in professional development.
Download or read book The Jungle written by Erik Feldmanis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jungles of Brazil are filled with intrigue, undiscovered mysteries, and dangers. Aerocopters International, an aircraft charter service, is hired by Carl Jennings to help him in his quest to uncover the mysteries of two hidden cities, buried deep in the jungles. During the exploration and subsequent finds, one of the helicopters crash, leaving the three survivors to fend for themselves until they are rescued. Within weeks, Aerocopters International, known by the CIA for their unique mission capabilities is contacted, asking for help in a planned rescue mission of two known survivors, who's jet was shot down deep inside Brazil's Drug Cartel territory. A dramatic and destructive plan comes together as does the possibility that the archeological explorations, the Cartel, and KGB may somehow be related- and that included the crash. But how did they know about the discoveries and why were they so interested in them? What secrets lay buried within the forgotten cities, and why would people be killed for them? In the end, man is his own destiny, and in searching for answers one must be cautious, for the answers one seeks can be lost as quickly as they are found.
Download or read book Gum s Story written by Rick Turnbull and published by Harbor House. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vietnam War is only a fading memory for former Air Force Sergent Phillip Turner who now leads a simple life with his wife and 7-year-old son on their small Georgia farm. Then one day he spots a photograph in the local newspaper that turns his whole world upside down."--Jacket.
Download or read book Harlem on Our Minds written by Valerie Kinloch and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginwright examines the role of community based organizations (CBOs) in the lives and development of black urban youth. The author argues that these organizations have the potential to provide a powerful influence in "how young people choose to participate in schooling and civic life." Ginwright bases his observations on a five-year study of a CBO he created in Oakland, California. The book shows readers that the lives of poor, black, urban youth are not quite as determined by locale and income as more deterministic readings have argued, and that there is real hope for positive change in these urban communities.
Download or read book Writers and Their Notebooks written by Diana M. Raab and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.
Download or read book The Growly Books written by Philip Ulrich and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the bears of Haven have lived quiet lives, high in the mountains at the edge of the great Precipice. That all changes for a young cub named Growly when he receives a mysterious message. With just his backpack and glider, Growly sets out on a desperate journey to find his grandfather's long lost friend ... and to find a way back home.
Download or read book The Melody of Motion Following Phish and Widespread Panic written by Carl Cole and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of The Grateful Dead there has always been a certain percentage of the population who have found deep meaning in improvisational rock music. With the death of Jerry Garcia the torch was passed to a new generation of musicians and fans who continue this legacy through Phish and Widespread Panic. The Melody of Motion is able to do what no other book has been able to do: explain in depth why people forsake their jobs, families, and responsibilities to cross a continent following these bands. The story follows Melody, a young woman intent on living her life to the fullest, as she discovers Phish and Widespread Panic. The music and the people she meets effect the rest of her life. This is not the story of the bands, but of the people living their lives in the parking lots. The story is filled with colorful characters one is likely to meet on tour and the insane episodes everyone who has been to one of these concerts can relate to.
Download or read book Meeting the English written by Kate Clanchy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exceptional . . . Clanchy has a wincingly accurate eye for social comedy, a vivid descriptive sense, and profound understanding of her characters. This is a delectable read." --Daily Mail (UK) In response to an advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives at a creaky mansion in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though Phillip's two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round his large house, they are each too busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer. Kate Clanchy's Meeting the English is a bright book about dark subjects--a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. It is a coming of age story for anyone who has ever felt themselves to be an outsider; a love story for the awkward; and a comedy for anyone who has ever lived in a family. Written by an acclaimed writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories, this glorious debut novel is spiked with witty dialogue and jostling with gleeful, zesty characters.
Download or read book Hindsight written by Chris E. Hagler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hindsight” begins three hundred years after a biochemical disaster that decimates the global population. Ruby Williams, along with her friends, Matthew and Rachel, struggle to exist in the harsh world that remains. The three of them are the only survivors of a raid on their small village by human traffickers. Traffickers take people against their will and force them to help rebuild for a new nation taking over part of what was once the United States. After escaping the slavers, the friends stumble upon an ancient experimental technology that allows them to witness the past and eventually make contact with the inventor of the device. They then hatch a plan to thwart the catastrophe that occurred three decades earlier. As the inventor travels in the past, Ruby and her friends try to evade packs of giant wild dogs and capture by an ambitious empire in order to set the world back as it was.
Download or read book The Education of Phillips Brooks written by John Frederick Woolverton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age." Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. One of the most influential ministers of his time, Brooks delivered the sermon over the body of Abraham Lincoln at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is known for penning the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Although Brooks was not a major theologian, he was nurtured in an atmosphere of serious religious thought. In the crisis era of pre-Civil War America, he sought a religious and cultural ideal in the perfect manhood of Jesus Christ and consequently "won a name" for himself, as his slightly envious cousin, Henry Adams, once remarked. Woolverton places Brooks in his cultural context and shows how this religious leader was shaped psychologically and by his times and how those factors helped him forge a spiritual ideal for a troubled nation. "Not only casts new light on the young manhood of one of the preeminent Anglican ministers in America, but enhances our understanding of key cultural trends in the mid-nineteenth century." -- Anne C. Rose, author of Victorian America and the Civil War
Download or read book Making Her Smile written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie had been in love with her boss ever since the first week she’d started working for him. But he was engaged. Off limits. And then he wasn’t! How had it happened that she was in the Caribbean – with Phillip!? He was supposed to be here with his new bride but Lillian was married to someone else and…Okay, Marie wasn’t sure what was going on.
Download or read book Two in the Game written by Stanley D. Beck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature of the Absurd written by John Northern and published by John Northern. This book was released on 2010-09-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title is self-explanatory. These short stories are absolutely ridiculous.
Download or read book Natural Curiosity written by Louise Anemaat and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parrots and lorikeets swoop down, vivid, bright and colourful. Black swans glide through the air. Owls stare out from pages, wide-eyed. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and plants – and striking watercolour illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large number of these watercolour illustrations has revealed much about the early years of the colony. In Natural Curiosity, Louise Anemaat uncovers never-before-published works from the artists of the First Fleet, including convicts-turned-watercolourists Thomas Watling and John Doody, and the anonymous 'Port Jackson Painter'. She unravels the complex network of natural history collectors who spanned the globe – eagerly acquiring, copying and exchanging these artworks – from New South Wales Surgeon-General John White to passionate British collector Aylmer Bourke Lambert.
Download or read book John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science written by Jack Morrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Phillips was one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Orphaned at the age of seven and brought up by his uncle, he rose to hold a number of highly prestigious posts within the British academic and scientific community, despite lacking a university education. By the time of his death in 1874 he was widely regarded as one of the pioneers and champions of the science of geology, yet until now there has been no full length biography of Phillips. In rectifying this lacuna, Jack Morrell has produced a meticulous and magisterial piece of scholarship that does justice to the achievements and legacy of John Phillips. Adopting a broadly chronological approach, the book not only traces the development of Phillips's career but clarifies and highlights his role within Victorian culture, shedding light on many wider themes. It explores how Phillips' love of science was inseparable from his need to earn a living and develop a career which could sustain him. Hence questions of power, authority, reputation and patronage were central to Phillips's career and scientific work. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and a rich body of recent writings on Victorian science, this biography provides a fascinating and compelling account of John Phillips and his legacy. Pulling together his personal story with the scientific theories and developments of the day, and fixing them firmly within the context of wider society, this biography will be vital reading for anyone with an interest in the history of British and nineteenth-century science.
