Download or read book Travels with Tommy written by Renee Le Verrier and published by Lim Yoga. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to live with a service dog? Sometimes, it's like being on a dream date with those soulful, adoring and adorable eyes, waiting and wanting to please. Other times, it's more like being leashed to a giant toddler, always on alert for pooping and drooling, lavishing praise for leaving squirrels alone dead or alive.Mostly, it's like any strong partnership, thriving on communication, respect and companionship. Sit. Enjoy the humor and grace in these tales. Stay. Savor the insight into the pulse of a daily life that beats in time with the heart of a Great Dane service dog.
Download or read book Tommy Turner s Tremendous Travels written by Ali Seegar and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 in the Tommy Turner series by Ali Seegar. Tommy time-travels to space and beyond on his quest to save Mr Petrovsky and defeat the Higgins Twins. A real page turner for 8-12 year olds with 27 illustrations.
Download or read book Handbook of Sustainable Travel written by Tommy Gärling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services research; environmental sociology and well-being research. The underlying dilemma is that neither contemporary transportation technology nor contemporary travel behaviors are sustainable. The path toward sustainability is complex, because the consequences of changing technology and attempts to change travel preferences can be extreme both in economic and in social terms. The Handbook of Sustainable Travel discusses transportation systems from environmental, social and economic perspectives, to provide insights into the underlying mechanisms, and to envisage potential strategies towards more sustainable travel. Part I offers an introduction to the subject, with chapters review historical and future trends in travel, the role of travel for a good society, and the satisfaction of travelers with various features of travel options. Part II proceeds from the fact that the car is the backbone of today’s transportation system, and that a break with automobiles is likely to be necessary in the future. Contributors review the development of private car use, explore economic and psychological reasons why the car has become the primary mode of transport and discuss how this can be changed in the future. Part III addresses the social sustainability of travel, providing insights into the social costs and benefits of leisure, business and health travel, and taking into account the social costs or benefits of measures whose goals are primarily environmental. The authors provide the necessary background to judge whether proposed transport policies are also sustainable from a social perspective. Part IV highlights future alternatives to physical travel and surveys ecologically sustainable travel modes such as public transport and non-motorized modes of transportation.
Download or read book An Illustrated Journey written by Danny Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects excerpts from the personal travel journal sketchbooks of forty-three artists, illustrators, and designers.
Download or read book The Push written by Tommy Caldwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY 'DAWN WALL' 'Heart-stopping, absorbing' Daily Mail 'The most daring free climber on the planet' The Times __________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite's vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before. This odds-defying feat was the culmination of seven years planning and a lifetime of determination. Here, he recounts how he got there, the falls and setbacks - being held hostage, losing his index finger, the break-up of his marriage - the summits conquered and the fears overcome. Fans of Free Solo and Dawn Wall, and climbers and non-climbers alike, will be gripped by this story of drive, focus and achieving the impossible. __________ 'The Push is not simply a book about rock climbing' Guardian 'Probably the greatest living athlete most people have never heard of' Telegraph 'Arguably the best all-round rock climber on the planet' National Geographic 'A real page-turner . . . captivating and deeply moving' Climb magazine 'Captivating and unfailingly honest' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Download or read book Tommy Makem s Secret Ireland written by Tommy Makem and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved Irish folk singer takes readers on a personal tour of his favorite Irish sights and sounds. A born storyteller, Tommy Makem brings life to Ireland's legends and history, sharing the Emerald Isle's ancient song. Makem speaks of his homeland with a love of the place and people, and a knowledge of its historic and mythic past that is unmatched. 20 photos.
Download or read book Touching Presence written by Tommy Thompson and published by Easeofbeing Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter into the teaching space of master Alexander Technique teacher Tommy Thompson. With compassion and integrity, Tommy's teaching explores the ways in which each of us can belong to the moment and stop defining ourselves by our habits. With its insightful, moving reflections, Touching Presence will inspire Alexander Technique teachers, trainees, and students -- indeed anyone -- to find their own path to being more fully present for themselves and the person in front of them.
Download or read book Forever and a Day written by Tommy Tran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lee first sees her, he is a straight-A middle school student without many friends. After he falls in the school cafeteria and his lunch splatters everywhere, he hears nothing but laughter. As he lies on the cold floorembarrassed beyond belief and wishing he was anywhere but therehe suddenly feels a hand on his shoulder. Lee slowly looks up into the beautiful emerald green eyes of Autumn, not realizing that she is the girl who will eventually change his life forever. Two years later, Lee has become best friends with Ryan, the superstar athlete of his school. As the two friends become better athletes and better people, Lees social skills flourishalong with his friendship with Autumn. But when Autumn and Lee begin their freshman year in high school, everything changes the day they share their first kiss and make a pact to stay best friends forever. As quickly as Lee and Autumn begin falling in love, they are torn apart by challenges that neither could have ever foreseen. In Forever and a Day, a young man takes a remarkable journey through friendship, family, and unconditional loveand learns that everything happens for a reason.
Download or read book Feed written by Tommy Pico and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico's Feed is the final book in the Teebs Cycle. Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.
Download or read book Nature Poem written by Tommy Pico and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
Download or read book A Ramble Round the Globe written by Thomas Robert Dewar and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Travels Near and Far written by Reynold Burrowes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four travel essays brought together in this volume represent the trips taken by one family living in the huge metropolis of New York. Two of the trips were planned vacations, and two were impromptu weekend visits to get away from the confinements of city life, and its reminder of the pressures work. In these essays, we get an insight into their motivation for travel, its impact, and the reaction of one member of the family. Reynold Burrowes ably chronicles these events with a wit and subtlety which draws his reader in. His wonderful prose gives his readers a sense of presence, whether he takes them along with him to a coal mine or a field of flowers.
Download or read book The Journey written by Sara Niles and published by Josephine Thompson. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn From the Inside Out is the true story of Sara Niles's escape and disappearance with her five children in 1987. The JOURNEY is the rest of the story, covering the decades long saga of the Niles Family. It is estimated that up to seventy percent of people in the world have suffered varying degrees of family dysfunction, yet people rarely speak of it. Secrecy and denial aid in the perpetuation of dysfunction, The Journey tells the stark truth-sometimes leaving in only a new beginning. We left our whole world behind, and fled with nothing, yet the children never even once asked Why?" When a Raging Fire strikes a home in the middle of the night, everyone flees the home, with no regard for possessions, no grabbing of personal belongings, because every second counts. In most cases, there are family and friends, co-workers, and others standing by to help. In 1987, we fled from a different type of 'Fire', a would-be killer who promised to erase us from the earth. The Niles Family would embark on a lifelong Journey of Reparation and searches for Resolution. February 13, 1987 Southern Arkansas After fleeing through three states, my children and I thought we had broken free, and were safe. The looking-over-our-shoulder was finally over, we were free to rebuild our lives, and create happy futures. Thomas Niles had been the problem, the dark shadow in all my children’s lives: he was the antithesis of what was right, the antithesis of all I stood for. Once Thomas Niles was out of our lives, I believed the trauma and tragedy would be over, but I was wrong. A family is a small government, a society, a system, a school, in which children are being educated in functional behavior, or they are being conditioned in dysfunctional patterns. Danger and Damage is not always a visible monster, sometimes it never materializes, it only floats about inside the heads of the abused like a psychotic ghost. People who learn to be afraid in their childhoods and who become stuck in fear for too long, albeit for real, true, and good reasons, sometimes never learn to let go of those fears. The trauma of childhood becomes the monsters of adulthood. Note: Serious subject matter that may be triggering for individuals with raw issues
Download or read book No Tommy No written by Dale Jackson and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy and Dale are friends who had a lot of crazy adventures. Dale tried to keep them out of trouble, but Tommy wouldn't listen. In the end, Tommy finally learned to trust his friend's good advice.
Download or read book A Curious Collection of Entertaining and Interesting Voyages and Travels written by Johann Heinrich Emmert (1748-XXXX) and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
