Download or read book The Not So Ordinary People on the Roads I ve Traveled written by Larry Laverentz and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NOT SO ORDINARY PEOPLE ON THE ROADS I'VE TRAVELED is a fascinating memoir of life during a period of sweeping change along with turmoil in American society. The author, Larry Laverentz, weaves the story of his own unique life in with the joyful and meaningful, as well as sometimes tragic stories, of not so ordinary people. His key early experiences were growing up on a Kansas farm and spending six years in Vietnam in the 1960s, initially as an agricultural volunteer, and then as the senior civilian adviser to a province chief in a large U.S. Government supported aid effort. The elements that transcend and make his own life more interesting and meaningful are the people of all backgrounds with whom he shared experiences in work, pleasure and travel. He gives the reader a picture of his life, various insights, the people he met and their influence on his perspective and world view. By sharing the stories of these not so ordinary people he met along the way, Larry has recorded American history as a personal narrative. The individuals he writes about come alive, along with the reader's understanding of time and place. As he wrote in his preface to the memoir: "My goal was to record and recognize the goodness and impact of individuals in their professions and communities ... they have given me an appreciation for the goodness of life and have influenced and changed me as well."
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Download or read book Dialogue of One written by William J. Grimm and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homilies/Sermons for the weekly Sunday Cycle for Years A, B, and C and for principal feasts - Christmas, Holy Family, Easter, Corpus Christi etc. He tries to integrate contemporary biblical understandings with the challenges and opportunities presented by modern life so that people might see how the Gospel is indeed good news.
Download or read book The Road Not Taken written by David Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.
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Download or read book Exodus for Ordinary People written by Paul Poulton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Exodus is sometimes viewed with skepticism--but it need not be. The stories it contains record a turning point in history where God begins to relate to human beings in a new way, and a nation takes its first faltering steps. A reluctant hero is chosen to lead a group of people who are not sure they want to be led at all. We can see ourselves reflected in the strains of the people in conflict with a major power of their day, and sometimes with each other. This second book of the Bible yields much that may go unnoticed by a cursory reading. There are lessons to learn, and an absorbing scene to watch--the gritty life of Jacob's descendants played out in the arena of ancient Lower Egypt. On close inspection we are able to figure out which pharaoh is in power, why Moses is sent to tend sheep in the wilderness, how Aaron acquired his metallurgy skills, and why he used them to cast a golden calf. Exodus for Ordinary People highlights many events that may have puzzled us when we've read the book of Exodus before, but the answers are there if we look.
Download or read book The Way I Remember It written by P.B. Kroumova and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I will always be in debt to the many good people I was lucky to meet and walk the roads of life with. This book is about them. About the times we lived together. About the many ways life united us and pushed us around. About the dead and the living who deserve more than gratitude. It is also about all the wonderful places which revealed their beauty, riches, character, and were my home, where i learned to look at the trees as living and breathing systems, to follow the birds in their flight, and to listen to the winds of times.
Download or read book William Wordsworth and Modern Travel written by Saeko Yoshikawa and published by Romantic Reconfigurations Stud. This book was released on 2020 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thisbook explores Wordsworth's extraordinaryinfluence on the tourist landscape of the Lake District throughout the age ofrailways, motorcars and the First World War. It explores how patterns of tourist behaviour andenvironmental awareness changed in the century of popular tourism, examininghow Wordsworth's vision shaped modern ideas of travel, landscape and culturalheritage.
Download or read book WJEC Level 3 Unit 3 The Dynamic Tourism Industry eTextbook written by Bob Holland and published by Travel & Tourism Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eTextbook (digital download - not a printed book) discusses the dynamic nature of the global tourism industry. It highlights the many events and challenges over which the industry has little control, but must respond to as effectively as possible. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on travel and tourism is discussed in detail. Although the eBook is provided primarily for tutors and students following the WJEC/Eduqas Level 3 Applied Award and Diploma qualifications in tourism, it will be of use to students following similar Level 3 courses, such as BTEC, NCFE and City & Guilds. The structure follows the Assessment Criteria for the Unit, namely: 1.1 Describe the range of external pressures on the UK tourism industry 1.2 Describe how the UK tourism industry has met the changing needs, fashions and expectations of customers 2.1 Describe recent developments in transport and technology 2.2 Discuss how the tourism industry has made use of new information and communications technology 3.1 Explain strategies used to manage important heritage and cultural attractions 3.2 Examine how sensitive tourism destinations are managed 3.3 Evaluate how the tourism industry has responded to the threat of climate change 4.1 Discuss issues facing the global tourism industry 4.2 Assess how the UK tourism industry manages current issues
Download or read book The Wizard Lord written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wizard Lord's duty is to keep the world in its delicate balance. He must govern lightly to protect his domain from power-hungry interlopers, such as certain wizards who previously fought to rule the world...But if the Wizard Lord himself strays from the way of the just, then it is up to the Chosen to intercede. The Chosen ones are the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker. Each are magically-infused mortal individuals who, for the term of their service, have only one function--to be available to remove an errant Wizard Lord, whether by persuasion or by stronger means. Breaker, a young man of ambition, has taken the mantle of Swordsman from its former bearer who wished to retire. Never did he realize that he would be called to duty so quickly, or that the balance of power in his world would be so precarious. He had a duty to perform. A world to save. So why does he still have doubts...not just about himself, but about the entire balance of power?
Download or read book Collier s Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exile and Return written by Jonathan Stökl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box – as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study material remains from the period and integrate the local history of Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem’s temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global, developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society – factors that affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various advances.
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Download or read book North Yorkshire Folk Tales written by Ingrid Barton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether hailing from the open Yorkshire Dales or the close-knit neighbourhoods of its towns and cities, North Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. This collection of stories from around the county is a tribute to their narrative vitality, and commemorates places and people who have left their mark on their communities. Here you will find dragon-slayers, boggarts and giants, tragic love affairs, thwarted villainy, witches, fairies, ghosts and much more. Historical characters, as rugged and powerful as the landscape they stride, drift in and out of the stories, strangely transformed by the mists of legend. North Yorkshire Folk Tales features Dick Turpin, General Wade, St Oswald, Mother Shipton and Ragnar Hairy Breeches, among others. These intriguing stories, brought to life with charming illustrations, will be enjoyed by readers time and again.
Download or read book Pullman Surcharge written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
