Download or read book Upside Down and Blindfolded written by Daniel J. Pukstas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might a two-month visit to Australia and New Zealand be like if the traveler were not distracted and overwhelmed by the spectacular scenery? In this book Dan Pukstas, a blind professor, answers this question by providing a series of humorous and insightful perspectives about the places and people he encountered. Whether he is trying to find his way out of a strange restroom or climbing to the summit of a dormant volcano after by-pass surgery, Dan is ready with a philosophical quip or amusing observation. In the company of his wife Nancy, Dan covers a broad geographical area from Auckland to Adelaide, from Ayers Rock to Sydney, and from Cairns to Brisbane along 2000 kilometers of Queensland highway. His topics of interest are just as broad-from his observations about food, wine prices, parenting styles, public transportation, human behavior to the joys and challenges of travel for the visually impaired. Those who like witty and pointed observations served up with a modest amount of inspiration will find this book a tasty treat. Those who have healthy vision might also find that they will see things a bit more clearly after reading this book.
Download or read book Approach written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naval aviation safety review.
Download or read book Wake Up Stupid written by Mark Harris and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1959, this is the hilariously explosive account of Youngdahl, a novelist, playwright, ex-Mormon, and father of seven. He is a frenzied man who is beginning a letter-writing campaign to escape his curiously ironic situation, and, of course, his profession. Along with Abner Klang, his not-so-literary agent who seems to have misplaced the F key on his typewriter, Youngdahl joins forces with a Mormon bishop, a TV adapter, and a prizefighter, among others, to spearhead a comic revolution.
Download or read book The Air Between Us written by Michael Averon and published by Averon Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOVE TORE THEM APART. WAR WILL BRING THEM TOGETHER ENGLAND, 1913 Storm clouds gather over Europe, but for Jen Edwards, the future remains bright. Betrothed to a brilliant photographer, her path to married bliss seems guaranteed until tragedy upends the safe and comfortable life they’d planned together. Now desperate to escape the wreckage of her past amidst the onset of a World War, she enlists as a volunteer in the newly-formed Royal Flying Corps, and is dispatched to France. In the skies over the Somme, many young pilots will meet a brutal end, and Jen learns not to give her heart to anyone when love comes so cheap. Anyone, that is, until her past arrives at the airfield one day, camera in hand… Combining thrilling action with a heart-wrenching love story, The Air Between Us is a breathless descent into love and loss through impossible odds, and the horrors of war.
Download or read book Darkness and Light written by Kyle Hoy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its been thousands of cycles since the sphere of light drove the darkness from Terra. Auron and his remaining Omans understood they could no longer interfere with the natural progression of human life, so they created a structure concealed within the clouds to watch over and protect the life upon their planet. In time, Auron believed the humans could become more powerful than the Omans but knew the darkness would stop at nothing to return Terra to its original desolate state. This is the third installment for the Darkness and Light series. Any new readers who have not read the first two installments may begin reading on chapter 27 where you will be immediately introduced to Addicus Walker.
Download or read book Intersensory Perception and Sensory Integration written by Richard D. Walk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on intersensory perception and sensory integration is the second volume of the series, Perception and Perceptual Development: A Critical Review Series. The topic of the volume is timely, for in recent years, many investigators have noted that information about any natural event is obtained by a perceiver from a variety of sources. Such an observation immediately leads to the question of how this information is synthesized and organized. Of course, the implication that there are several discrete input channels that must be processed has come under immediate attack by researchers such as the Gibsons. They find it extremely artificial to regard natural information as being cut up and requiring cementing. Nevertheless, the possibility that during ontogene sis, perception involves the integration of separate information has attracted the attention of scholars concerned with both normal and abnormal development. In the case of normal development, a lively controversy has arisen between those who believe perceptual develop ment goes from integration toward differentiation and those who hold the opposite view. In the case of abnormal psychological development such as learning disabilities, many workers have suggested that percep tual integration is at fault. In thinking about the issues raised in this volume, we are particularly indebted to our former teachers and colleagues: Eleanor and James Gibson, T. A. Ryan, Robert B. MacLeod, and Jerome Bruner. We are pleased to acknowledge the secretarial help of Karen Weeks in the preparation of this volume.
Download or read book Circus written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a “dazzlingly seductive” fever dream written in “brilliant poetic vernacular” (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner. For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family’s home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music students, his aunt, and occasionally his wife. As he prepares for a comeback recital in Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval town in southern France, he becomes obsessed with the idea that the Italian circus star Moira Orfei must join him there to perform alongside him. Extravagantly (and tragicomically) describing his hallucinatory plans in a series of twenty-five notebooks, he assembles an incantatory meditation on performance, failure, fame, decay, and delusion. "If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this. --John Ashbery
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 4 Arts and Crafts written by A. C. Haddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume concentrates on various traditions in arts and crafts from Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo.
Download or read book Perfect Party Games written by Stephen Curtis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect Party Games is essential reading for anyone who has a party to plan. Whether you need some ideas to keep everyone entertained at a family get-together or you're organising a big do for your child's whole primary school class, you're bound to find inspiration in this collection of over 200 fun-filled games. With easy-to-follow instructions for everything from 'Alphabet tales' to 'Yes or no', and an indispensable guessing games section offering film, book and TV programme titles, Perfect Party Games will help provide hours of fun for everyone. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Download or read book Space Medicine written by Ursula T. Slager and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition free Birthday Teamwork Games for Kids written by Ayleen Lyschamaya and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your child ́s birthday has finally arrived! It ́s a very special day that your child has been looking forward to for months. Do you want to make their party an unforgettable experience? There is much you can do by carefully selecting the games. The children ́s good mood is not just down to chance alone, but can be influenced very specifically. While traditional competitive games provoke an atmosphere of rivalry among the children, non-competitive games reinforce the concept of working together. This book introduces you to a wide range of indoor and outdoor non-competitive games ranging from the imaginative and creative, comical and fun-packed to the exciting and adventurous.
Download or read book The Reader s Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do Elephants Have Knees written by Charles R. Ault and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking whimsically makes serious science accessible. That’s a message that should be taken to heart by all readers who want to learn about evolution. Do Elephants Have Knees? invites readers into serious appreciation of Darwinian histories by deploying the playful thinking found in children’s books. Charles R. Ault Jr. weds children’s literature to recent research in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Inquiring into the origin of origins stories, Ault presents three portraits of Charles Darwin—curious child, twentysomething adventurer, and elderly worm scientist. Essays focusing on the origins of tetrapods, elephants, whales, and birds explain fundamental Darwinian concepts (natural selection, for example) with examples of fossil history and comparative anatomy. The imagery of the children’s story offers a way to remember and recreate scientific discoveries. By juxtaposing Darwin’s science with tales for children, Do Elephants Have Knees? underscores the importance of whimsical storytelling to the accomplishment of serious thinking. Charles Darwin mused about duck beaks and swimming bears as he imagined a pathway for the origin of baleen. A "bearduck" chimera may be a stretch, but the science linking not just cows but also whales to moose through shared ancestry has great merit. Teaching about shared ancestry may begin with attention to Bernard Wiseman’s Morris the Moose. Morris believes that cows and deer are fine examples of moose because they all have four legs and things on their heads. No whale antlers are known, but fossils of four-legged whales are. By calling attention to surprising and serendipitous echoes between children’s stories and challenging science, Ault demonstrates how playful thinking opens the doors to an understanding of evolutionary thought.
Download or read book My Heart at Zero Gravity written by Carolina Dellonte and published by Cartabianca Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years spent zipping through the sky, chasing a deep passion for flying, for limitless spaces, for horizons that are wider when observed from great heights. The author recounts her experiences as a civil pilot, describing unexpected encounters and revealing both the background of a traditionally fascinating and intriguing job as well as its darker sides, like her efforts to make her way as a woman at the controls of an airplane or the small and large battles to be faced every day to overcome the problems and hostilities of a complex and compelling profession. Giving her a helping hand is her love for her work, the awareness of knowing how to do it well and, in the end, the courage to make a painful but necessary choice.The thin, elegant wings of a Piaggio P180 allow the author to rise above the earthly shadows, transporting the reader into a story written with freshness and a sincere heart, without artifices, through a series of adventures that are both entertaining and evocative. A narrative that is also a vital inspiration for learning to never give up.
Download or read book Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 2nd Edition written by Anne-Marie Brownhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 written by Eric Wight and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie Pickle returns for another imaginative adventure—drag racing! Well, not quite drag racing, but the Pine Run Derby for scouts. Frankie may not advance to the next rank with the rest of his troop if he doesn’t win the race. Frankie wants to do everything on his own and imagines himself as a mad scientist, a professional magician, and even a Greek sculptor completing his masterpiece. But in the end, Frankie learns that teamwork is the only way he won’t get left in the dust.
Download or read book Parenting Like a Ninja written by Faith Clarke and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting Like a Ninja is an authentic discussion of the complexity faced by working autism moms, with clear steps to increase energy and productivity in all areas of work and life. As a mommy of a child with autism, the daily reality of food wars, tantrums, a steady variety of body fluids, erratic non-sleep, and the revolving door of therapists is just exhausting. Autism moms keep it together, but sometimes, they just want the relentless pace of chaotic activity to stop so they can figure out the rest of their life, move ahead with their professional dreams, and just be more productive. In Parenting Like a Ninja, Faith Clarke walks moms through well-established principles of psychological well-being and thriving to create balance and energize their professional productivity, so they can build more of what they have been looking for professionally, all while being able to nurture their child’s well-being.
