Download or read book Cows on the Freeway written by G. Murray Thomas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p>Cows on the Freeway is a collection of poems inspired by the ocean and freeways of Southern California. These poems were polished in performances on stages as diverse as Lollapalooza, The Whiskey, National Poetry Slams, and coffeehouse open mikes. They combine a sharp critique of modern life with an absurd sense of humor. "It's all Murray: dry humor, charm, a big heart—with a little cynical edge to it. He gets his point across with a little ambiguity, but he doesn't push it in your face." —Pat Cohee, The Inevitable Press "At first glance, G. Murray Thomas's poetry is simplistic—even prosaic—but don't be fooled. Whether he's remarking on women washing their clothes in sinks, or cows wandering blithely onto the freeways, Thomas focuses in on the tiny moments that provide character and flavor to what is otherwise an incomprehensible wash development and advertising." —Victor D. Infante, journalist and poet

Download or read book Uncertain Mirrors written by Jesús Benito Sánchez and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno's concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different "location of culture" and "direction of culture;" they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.

Download or read book The Behaviour of Cattle written by Jack L. Albright and published by Cabi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a review of our knowledge of cattle behaviour and how this can contribute to improve the care, management and well-being of cattle. Examples are drawn from around the world, and while there is some emphasis on dairy cattle, mention is made of beef, dual-purpose or draught cattle where appropriate. All of the key topics such as social, reproductive and feeding behaviour are covered with reviews of the research literature.

Download or read book While Born During Wwii written by Brunhilde Maurer Barron and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were born in a hospital? Hilde says as she lays down her black bread and cheese sandwich. She sits opposite me at my kitchen table. Looking up from my salad, I nod. Yes, I thought everyone by the 1940s was born in a hospital. Hell no. Hilde stares at me. In Germany I was born at home, on the couch, delivered by a midwife. Thus began the noontime conversations of an American housewife and a German cleaning lady about their contrasting lives during and after WWII. My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. While one thing is happening, so is another. While I wash dishes, Peggy, you dry. While we are in nighttime, someone is in daylight. While one person dies, another is born. While WWII began, two little girls were born and grew up in opposing countries and living in its aftermath. With this word while, we started this book of extreme contrasts, startling discoveries and sometimes striking similarities.

Download or read book Crossing the Yard written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds. Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” in national magazines—shared his brooding verse. But for Shelton, the novelty of meeting a death-row monster became a thirty-year commitment to helping prisoners express themselves. Shelton began organizing creative writing workshops behind bars, and in this gritty memoir he offers up a chronicle of reaching out to forgotten men and women—and of creativity blossoming in a repressive environment. He tells of published students such as Paul Ashley, Greg Forker, Ken Lamberton, and Jimmy Santiago Baca who have made names for themselves through their writing instead of their crimes. Shelton also recounts the bittersweet triumph of seeing work published by men who later met with agonizing deaths, and the despair of seeing the creative strides of inmates broken by politically motivated transfers to private prisons. And his memoir bristles with hard-edged experiences, ranging from inside knowledge of prison breaks to a workshop conducted while a riot raged outside a barricaded door. Reflecting on his decision to tutor Schmid, Shelton sees that the choice “has led me through bloody tragedies and terrible disappointments to a better understanding of what it means to be human.” Crossing the Yard is a rare story of professional fulfillment—and a testament to the transformative power of writing.

Download or read book Blinded by the Broken Compass written by Shane Steinhart and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From high jinks on the high seas, to war and despair, Shane Steinhart has lived it all. Five deployments on five aircraft carriers, two Naval ratings, crossing the equator twice, and circling the globe, Shane has truly "Searched the world over, looking for a better beer." From the harsh challenges of boot camp to the book's powerful conclusion, My Navy Life will give you a unique look into the life of a combat sailor at sea and during wartime serving in the United States Navy. These are stories that'll make you laugh and cry and you'll shake your head in surprise and wonderment. And have you turning each page with anticipation and excitement.

Download or read book Moving to Mexico written by H. Douglas Cooper, M.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to Mexico? Things We Wish We Would Have Known By: H. Douglas Cooper, M.D. Moving to Mexico? recounts one family’s relocation and all the things they wish they had known before making that move. For anyone considering such an endeavor, take this opportunity to learn from their experiences, the pros and cons, and plenty of helpful suggestions.

Download or read book Book of Extremes written by Ted G. Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently; and why the Internet – invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of normal distributions. In the complex 21st century, almost nothing is linear or normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal, and punctuated. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk – Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.

Download or read book The Age of Consequences written by Courtney White and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon – soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas – at an unsustainable rate. We've burned up half the planet's known reserves of oil – one trillion barrels – in less than a century. When these sources of energy–rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow. Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences—a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions– or inaction – have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How should we respond? What are effective (and realistic) solutions? In exploring these questions, White draws on his formidable experience as an environmentalist and activist as well as his experience as a father to two children living through this vital moment in time. As a result, The Age of Consequences is a book of ideas and action, but it is also a chronicle of personal experience. Readers follow White as he travels the country ––– from Kansas to Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, France, Yellowstone, and New England.

Download or read book Chosen Country written by James Pogue and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whoever you are, whatever side you’re on, if you care about the American west and what’s happening to it, read this book." —Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires An extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection. In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Pogue met ranchers and militiamen ready to die fighting the federal government. He witnessed the fallout of communities riven by politics and the danger (and allure) of uncompromising religious belief. The occupation ended in the shooting death of one rancher, the imprisonment of dozens more, and a firestorm over the role of government that engulfed national headlines. In a raw and restless narrative that roams the same wild terrain as his literary forebears Edward Abbey and Hunter S. Thompson, Pogue's Chosen Country examines the underpinnings of this rural uprising and struggles to reconcile diverging ideas of freedom, tracing a cultural fault line that spans the nation.

Download or read book Every Inch a Cowboy written by Madeline Baker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And all Dana Westlake wanted was to be left alone to mend her broken heart. Then one stormy night, a wounded cowboy appeared on her doorstep. And though Dana tried to protect her emotions while she nursed Chay Lone Elk's wounds, she couldn't stop her pulse from racing at his touch, or her heart from melting. Chay's wild days on the rodeo circuit were behind him. Now the brooding bachelor lived for one thing—the Montana ranch that would one day be his. But when city-girl Dana treated him with tender care, Chay realized exactly what he'd been missing—the love of a good woman…

Download or read book In the Summer of My Life written by David Guillen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Summer of My Life, is David Guillens second book of autobiography. In it the author recalls his time in Hollywood in the 1950s, and the hedonistic lifestyle of young hopefuls like himself hoping for a break in the towns glamorous industry. He revisits his old drama school and recalls the acting classes, the voice lessons, the student camaraderie, the Saturday night parties, the auditions, the temporary jobs, the lonely times and the constant struggle to survive. And then one day he meets a pretty English girl with blue eyes and a dimpled smile and his days in the wilderness are over.

Download or read book The 1929 Depression written by Marvin Carpenter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to grow up during that Great Depression? Here is the autobiography of one such boy and his family. Began as a memoir written to preserve the history for future generations, it is a peek into life as it was. This book is great for others who lived through this time in history and would like to revisit that time and it is great for readers who would like to experience this simple time including its joys, sorrows, worry and triumphs.

Download or read book In the Path of Destruction written by Richard Waitt and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A napping volcano blinked awake in March 1980. Two months later, when that mountain roared, Jim Scymanky was about twelve miles northwest, logging a north slope above Hoffstadt Creek. “Rocks zinged through the woods, bouncing off trees, then the tops of trees snapped off... Suddenly I could see nothing...it got hot right away, then scorching hot and impossible to breathe. The air had no oxygen, like being trapped underwater...I was being cremated, the pain unbearable.” Steve Malone, at the University of Washington Seismology Laboratory, was inconsolable. “We’d failed. For two months we’d counted and located thousands of earthquakes, looked for changes to anticipate an eruption. Then it just happened. It killed many people. It killed David Johnston. We could hardly work.” Author Richard Waitt was part of a U.S. Geological Survey team doing volcano research in the Cascades, and was one of the first to arrive following the mountain’s early rumblings. His journey collecting eyewitness accounts began with a conversation in a bar the third week after Mount St. Helens erupted. The couple he met barely outraced a searing ash cloud, and Waitt realized their experiences could inform geologic studies. He eventually conducted hundreds of interviews--sometimes two and three decades later--often making multiple visits to gather additional details, correct errors, and resolve discrepancies. A meticulous scientist with intimate knowledge of Mount St. Helens, Waitt delivers a detailed and accurate chronicle of events. He tapped numerous primary sources--interviews, legal depositions, personal diaries, geologists’ field notes, radio logs, and police records. Newspaper stories and even sun shadows on photographs revealed additional intricacies. In the Path of Destruction’s eruption story unfolds through unforgettable, riveting narratives--the heart of a masterful chronology that also delivers engrossing science, history, and journalism.

Download or read book First You Let It Go written by Shiana Seitz and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First You Let It Go is invigorating, consoling, heartbreaking, funny, informative, philosophical, adventurous, courageous, and inspirational. I found myself in awe of her risk-taking ability and also completely resonant with her emotions, fears, anxieties, angers and her way of dealing with them. Her honesty and heart come through. George Breed, PhD, author of Embodying Spirit: The Inner Work of the Warrior This is an inspiring chronicle of a womans search for self. Her adventurous trek around the world as a single, senior woman is captured with dramatic imagery overlaid by insightful commentary of the universal human connection. Jerry Lopper, author of Jump for Joy! Clearing the Hurdles to an Easy Life First You Let it Go is for anyone who has ever made a change, or wanted to changein short, a book for everyone. Written with warmth and wisdom, joy and honesty, youll read it with your passport in your hand. Sheila Dickson, PhD in psychology It is an honest account of loss and renewal. First You Let it Go is filled with insights that find an immediate home. The author will move you towards optimism, and you will not want the journey to end. Denice Helwig, chief of staff, Humboldt State University

Download or read book West Coast 101 a culinary road trip written by Roland Petrov and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chef Roland took early retirement and immediately left on a road trip, driving the entire length of highway 101 on the West Coast of the U.S. It was over a thousand miles of beautiful scenery and delicious local food and drink, not to mention adventure. This book aims to take you along for the ride and inspire you to eat local.

Download or read book The Changing Scale of American Agriculture written by John Fraser Hart and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the award-winning geographer and landscape historian John Fraser Hart describes the transformation of farming from the mid-twentieth century, when small family farms were still viable, to the present, when a farm must sell at least $250,000 of farm products each year to provide an acceptable level of living for a family. The increased scale of agriculture has outmoded the Jeffersonian ideal of small, self-sufficient farms. In the past farmers kept a variety of livestock and grew several crops, but modern family farms have become highly specialized in producing a single type of livestock or one or two crops. As farms have become larger and more specialized, their number has declined. Hart contends that modern family farms need to become integrated into tightly orchestrated food-supply chains in order to thrive, and these complex new organizations of large-scale production require managerial skills of the highest order. According to Hart, this trend is not only inevitable, but it is beneficial, because it produces the food American consumers want to buy at prices they can afford. Although Hart provides the statistics and clear analysis such a study requires, his book focuses on interviews with farmers: those who have shifted from mixed crop-and-livestock farming to cash-grain farming in the Midwest agricultural heartland; beef, dairy, chicken, egg, turkey, and hog producers around the periphery of the heartland; and specialty crop producers on the East and West Coasts. These invaluable case studies bring the reader into direct personal contact with the entrepreneurs who are changing American agriculture. Hart believes that modern large-scale farmers have been criticized unfairly, and The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the result of decades of research, is his attempt to tell their side of the story.