Download or read book The Sky Is Not the Limit written by James E. Woolam and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sky Is NOT the Limit is a collection of adventures that have taken us around the world. Each chapter is an individual story and can be read independently. Perhaps when Joan and I are old and gray we will sit together and read and re-live all these memories. The stories take you to the four corners of the world, on all seven continents, and the major cities of the world. At last count the number was sixty countries and counting. I am not too sure who else would be interested - perhaps one day our grandchildren and then one day their grandchildren. Young people who would be curious to know something about their ancestors and what life was like at the close of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21 century. Oh well, who knows. But it sure was fun writing about these travels. And a whole lot more exciting creating these memories with my soul-mate.

Download or read book Cairo written by Hermann A. Peine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two young brothers didnt understand while on the river, that the encounter would impact their lives and ultimately that of all Egyptians. Selling homemade trinkets to cruise ship tourists returned more than expected. Years later, Moses, the older, became an influential London lawyer before rising up through the ranks of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. His approach was different, and the events of 2005 required it. His brother, Abraham, had struck out for the US and had become a distinguished USC professor in conflict resolution. Their tumultuous Cairo reunion would be amidst hundreds of hostages, including the US Embassy staff, three U-20 international soccer teams, and enough explosives to blow up much of Cairo. Ann Lawrence, political advisor at the embassy was also there, as she had been 20 years earlier on that fateful river day.

Download or read book The Arabian Epic Volume 1 Introduction written by M. C. Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. Published in three volumes, the first introduces the background to the cycles, while the second analyses their contents and literary formulae. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide further insight into their literary nuances.

Download or read book Just Say Yes written by Bob McDonald and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, offers a personal and inspiring memoir of life-changing events in his early years through five decades in science journalism. Revered science reporter and radio host Bob McDonald has devoted a decades-long career to turning our attention away from everyday perspectives and outward to the vast, intricate wonders of our planet and universe. Now, in this revealing and captivating memoir, he looks within, offering an intimate view of the path that brought him from a blue-collar background to his long-standing role as Canada’s foremost explainer of all things scientific. It’s an engrossing and often jubilant story that allows McDonald to share powerful insights on overcoming fear of failure and tackling life-transforming challenges. Early on, he describes a childhood and youth plagued by difficulties in school that eventually convinced him to drop out of university. Yet, despite the academic obstacles, his love of science burned bright. Soon, through an innate stage sense and sheer enthusiasm, he landed a gig doing high-spirited demonstrations for the public at the Ontario Science Centre, which in turn led to self-produced TV spots. And as each hard-won, never-certain success built on the last, he arrived at the role that would make him a national figure: the witty, engaging, passionately curious host of the perennially popular CBC Radio show Quirks and Quarks, reporting from the frontiers of scientific exploration and rubbing elbows with such luminaries as Chris Hadfield, Buzz Aldrin and Stephen Hawking. Told with all of McDonald’s trademark pace and humour, Just Say Yes is bound to please, surprise and inspire his numerous fans in entirely new ways.

Download or read book New York The Movie Lover s Guide written by Richard Alleman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black’s Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island…the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters’ Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow’s A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace’s Upper West Side building . . . The All in the Family block in Queens . . . The Sopranos’ New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld’s favorite diner . . . Sex and the City’s sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . . Stars’ childhood homes: Lena Horne’s Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra’s Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand’s Flatbush housing project . . . J.Lo’s Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart’s Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers’ Upper East Side brownstone . . . Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen’s greatest legends: Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . . Plus: Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . . For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide is the ultimate insider’s guide to the Big Apple’s reel attractions.

Download or read book Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity written by Diana Barsham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.

Download or read book Miles To Go Before I Sleep written by Jackie Nink Pflug and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of her experience during the terrorist hijacking, and how she recuperated from this devastating trauma. " ... her memoir is an inspirational chronicle of personal tragedy surmounted by raw courage" - Publishers Weekly Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of courage and inspiration, told from a survivor's perspective, with a new preface written by the author. Ms. Pflug, who was shot and thrown onto the tarmac during the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight 648, tells her story and the lessons learned as she recuperated from this devastating trauma.

Download or read book The Giza Enigma written by Miles Augustus Navarr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many mysteries about ancient Egypt. But perhaps the most enigmatic puzzle is the Great Pyramid. Established Egyptologists insist with fervor and uncommon zeal that it was built as a tomb by Khufu or Cheops, the fourth dynasty pharaoh who reigned about forty-five hundred years ago. No mummy has ever been found in any of the one hundred or so Egyptian pyramids so far discovered, particularly the Great Pyramid. There are no funerary hieroglyphics or paintings in the Great Pyramid. In-fact there is not a single hieroglyph or painting within or without the whole structure. The mathematical and geometrical skills as well as advance precision engineering attest to an erudite company with capabilities far beyond what was available to ancient Egyptians. Giza Enigma is an attempt to highlight the discrepancies and inconsistencies inherent in the assertion by the mainline Egyptologists who have, for the past century, vehemently maintained the “Tomb Theory”. Despite being a fictional tale, our protagonist, Dr. Sebastian Crane, an independent Egyptologist, dares to challenge a team of conformists Egyptologists in a public debate. Furnishing well documented facts and detail evidence, he manages to deliver a credible and convincing argument against the “Tomb Theory”. But this is just the beginning. Dr. Crane is enticed to investigate a recently discovered clay disc that may give him the physical proof he needs to validate his unconventional hypothesis. Eventually, his quest leads him to Egypt and the underground halls of Giza, where he encounters codes and cyphers, steering him to a discovery more sensational than he ever envisaged. A discovery with potential to change the course of human civilization, for better or worse.

Download or read book Cairo Malachi and the Adventure of the Silver Whistle written by Samantha SoRelle and published by Balcarres Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The first time I met the love of my life, he died in my arms.” Cairo Malachi, Conduit to the Spirits is a liar, a thief, and a fraud. He may be building a reputation as one of the most fashionable mediums in London, but he doesn’t even believe in ghosts and has certainly never conjured one. Which is why, after he witnesses the brutal slaying of a handsome young constable, he’s shocked when the man’s spirit appears in his home, begging for his help. Constable Noah Bell is everything Mal can never be—honest, funny, and kind. But it’s ridiculous to be attracted to a man he can’t even touch, especially when every step they take towards solving Noah’s murder is one step closer to bringing him the justice he needs to move on—and out of Mal’s life forever. As their investigation brings unexpected enemies to light, the secrets they’re keeping from each other may prove even more dangerous. Mal and Noah will have to work together... or risk a fate worse than death.

Download or read book Tales of Latino Heroes and Villains written by Randolph Lascurain and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantastic but plausible were the guiding words in developing this book. These ten stories have been spun from the essence of dreams and scientific theories and each seeks to evoke a different emotion. Take an unconventional journey to the Sphinx, encounter something amazing in a Brazilian rainforest, and marvel at a rock unearthed in Mexico City. These tales explore wondrous phenomena that will simply entertain and delight the reader. Randolph Lascurain has given his imagination free rein to create situations that ordinary people could find themselves in, people who might want to challenge convention or push the limits of reality.

Download or read book Gateway of the Sun A Novel written by Michael Joseph DeRosa and published by Michael J. DeRosa. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were instantly teleported thousands of miles away? Two teenagers accidently harness mysterious forces in New Hampshire at America?s Stonehenge. All at once they find themselves high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru, where evil savages are about to sacrifice a young virgin girl. Driven by curiosity, they recreate the phenomenon and go on a globe-hopping excellent adventure that rivals Bill and Teds.The paranormal forces whisk them to the archeological wonders of the world; each sacred stone ruins revealing more about spontaneous teleportation, a real but little known occurrence.Why do astronomically aligned megaliths stand on every continent? Who engineered it all? The answers lie at the heart of their adventure, but can they control the phenomena before it?s too late?

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Black Lambs and Grey Falcons written by John B. Allcock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century the Balkan countries b ecame the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This has had important consequences for the way in which the region has been viewed since then, and the creation of this image has had an impact on the many aspects of West European and North American responses to the Balkans, ranging from diplomatic and military involvement to the burgeoning flow of tourists. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travellers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travellers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these travellers contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons, and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general.

Download or read book State Labor and the Transition to a Market Economy written by Agnieszka Paczyńska and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries? In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions—the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the “critical junctures” provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state. This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.

Download or read book Get Ahead By Going Abroad written by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for businesswomen on how to advance a career by working overseas presents anecdotal guidelines from successful women, in a resource that outlines key strategies for landing an assignment, thriving on the job, and enjoying a lifestyle abroad.

Download or read book On a Tall Budget and Short Attention Span Full Color written by Teresa Cline and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job, selling your house and embarking on the adventure of a lifetime? Follow Teresa the Traveler on her 3-month solo backpacking adventure from London to Cairo