Download or read book WTF What the Family written by Larry Moran and published by Larry Moran. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Moran turned out ok with wealth, success and a loving family. He started life with 3 different last names In his first year of birth. When his bio mother got married he was listed In the paper as her brother. Read how he overcame bizarre circumstances to turn disaster to triumph. Learn how he found his father and his paternal family after looking for 73 years. You will not be able to put this book down.

Download or read book Electromechanobiology of Cartilage and Osteoarthritis written by Brianne K. Connizzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. In honor of his 75th birthday, we reflect on the impact of the pioneering work of Alan Grodzinsky and his laboratory. This volume includes in-depth discussions of tissue electromechanics, mechanobiology and biomechanics, and matrix biology in addition to the latest advancements in understanding the pathogenesis, progression and treatment of osteoarthritis. Unique to this volume, we overview decades of groundbreaking research that set the stage for the latest efforts in the field, highlighting the legacy of one researcher and their trainees.

Download or read book The Briefcase Man written by Daniel F. Ilich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS STORY CONSISTS OF CHAPTERS IN DECADES. THROUGHOUT MY LIFE I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED SIMPLY BY POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND A SIMPLE LIFESTYLE. DURING THE WORST TIMES AND THE WORST CIRCUMSTANCES, I ALWAYS MANAGED TO FIND SOMETHING POSITIVE. I WAS BLESSED TO BE A MUSE AND A POSITIVE THINKER.

Download or read book Rebel With a Cause written by Darcus Beese and published by Nine Eight Books. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Darcus Beese is a formidable cat' CHUCK D 'An inspiration' ANNIE LENNOX 'A prince of a man' BONO The must-read memoir from Darcus Beese - the first black president of Island Records and one of the greatest A&Rs of his generation. From growing up as a teenager on the streets of West London to running one of the biggest record labels in the world in New York - this is a truly remarkable rags to riches tale. Rebel With a Cause is the story of how a teenage apprentice hairdresser from Fulham worked his way up from teaboy to head one of the UK's biggest and most successful record labels, Island Records, signing and nurturing some of the greatest artists of the twenty-first century - from Amy Winehouse and Jessie J to U2 and Florence and the Machine. But this is also the story of a young man raised in musically fertile and politically febrile times. His activist parents Darcus Howe and Barbara Beese were tireless campaigners for racial equality at a time when racism was rife, not only on the streets, in schools and on the terraces, but also in the highest institutions of power. Fighting for equality - for himself and for his artists - has therefore been a key part of Darcus's life. This is the incredible tale of an indomitable leader, an industry pioneer and rebel with a true cause.

Download or read book Let Me Say This written by Julie E. Bloemeke and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they encourage us to weave Dolly metaphor into our own family lore. Within these pages, Dolly takes the stage and the dinner table; readers see the public Dolly of the silver screen and the private Dolly of identity contemplation. Dolly raises praise and question, and she butterflies into our hearts to unabashedly to claim the mantra In Dolly We Trust. With Dolly poems from 54 contributors: Kelli Russell Agodon • Nin Andrews • Lana K. W. Austin • David-Matthew Barnes • Nicky Beer • Julie E. Bloemeke • Emma Bolden • Dustin Brookshire • Phillip Watts Brown • Marina Carreira • Denise Duhamel • teri elam •Rupert Fike • Diamond Forde • Chad Frame • Makayla Gay • Tyler Gillespie • Kari Gunter-Seymour • Robert Gwaltney • Beth Gylys • Karen Head • Raye Hendrix • Collin Kelley • Dorianne Laux • Chin•Sun Lee • Arden Levine • Katie Manning • Kelly McQuain • Lynn Melnick • Jenny Molberg • Rachel Morgan • Caridad Moro-Gronlier • Carolyn Oliver • Dion O’Reilly • Jeffrey Perkins • Stephen Roger Powers • Steven Reigns • Linda Neal Reising • Benjamin Anthony Rhodes • Micah Ruelle • Anna Sandy-Elrod • Roberta Schultz • Maureen Seaton • Gregg Shapiro • L.J. Sysko • Nicole Tallman • Kerry Trautman • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer • Dan Vera • Isaiah Vianese • Donna Vorreyer • Julie Marie Wade • Jennifer Wheelock • Yvonne Zipter

Download or read book Courageous Conversations About Race written by Glenn E. Singleton and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This revision of this classic text could not be more timely. We are at a moment of reckoning with respect to race in America. The COVID 19 pandemic, coupled with the centuries-old pandemic of racial injustice, have brought new attention to the presence of systemic racism in our schools and other institutions. Glenn Singleton's Courageous Conversations protocol has had a lasting impact on hundreds of thousands of educators both in the U.S. and abroad. Singleton was prescient in setting forth the premise that before we can "solve" race in this country we need to learn to talk about it. This edition retains the hallmark features previous editions, including the four agreements, the protocol, activities, reflective prompts and a series of powerful Racial Autobiographies. However, it has been updated to reflect our current sociopolitical environment -- especially the current spotlight on racial injustice juxtaposed against a white nationalist backlash. This book has helped equity leaders in K-12 schools as well as other institutions develop their racial consciousness, and guide others to greater understanding and action"--

Download or read book Fathers True written by Chuck Mansfield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author’s son John suggested he write a book about fatherhood, he thought, with all the books on fatherhood, who needs another? He concluded, “Perhaps I do.” While the book is indeed about fatherhood and fathers, it also tells of other fitting paternal exemplars – father figures – who may not have had children of their own but nonetheless have or had the right stuff as men and mentors. A central tenet herein is that good strong fathers are essential to the character building and moral fiber of our young and the very fabric and future of our currently downward-spiraling society. One reviewer writes, “...the testimonials describing the influence for good one person can have over another, be he parent, son, friend, teacher, comrade, barber, sports coach, or even our children are remarkable. The vignettes sometimes evoke amusement, sometimes tears, but lift the spirit and stay in the memory.”

Download or read book Sociological Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Aging written by Malcolm de Roubaix and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically investigates successful aging, defined as the ability to actively participate in societal activity. Proceeding from historical insights and a wide frame of reference, it explores the development of contemporary conceptions of aging; the sociological, psychological, and physiological process of aging; age-related discrimination; financial aspects of aging; the apparent contradiction that there are both affluence and increasing poverty in the aging population; inappropriate sexual expression in the aged; the notion of the Third Age; and the quest to extend human lifespan. A thorough literature review, the author’s personal experience as an older person and as a medical doctor spanning five decades, and the author’s knowledge of ethics have contributed to this informative text aimed at a wide audience: healthcare professionals, caregivers, therapists, ethicists, and every person attending to older persons, professionally and privately.

Download or read book To Be of Use written by Edward Arenson MD CWSP and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1971. Childhood leukemia, the most feared disease in the era of antibiotics, is the most common cancer of childhood and 100% fatal. These are trying times for those like me who, unaccountably, have chosen the field of pediatric oncology. In the absence of effective treatment, we have little to offer but our good intentions. On the other hand, things couldn’t get much worse, so we are certain that they must get better. Little do we know, however, that we are on the cusp of a breakthrough. It has been observed that remissions achieved with combinations of chemotherapy drugs often end with the appearance of leukemic cells in the nervous system. Perhaps the nervous system is a “sanctuary site” where drugs cannot reach leukemic cells. To address this problem, radiation is given to the brain. Within a few years we notice that many children are still in remission longer than expected. Ultimately, we are willing to call them “cured”. This book relates this and numerous other major developments In cancer treatment as experienced by the author who provides his personal perspective on those people and events which moved the field forward and others that didn’t. The current status is critically and sometimes humorously reviewed.

Download or read book Gold Coins of the World 10th edition written by Arthur & Ira Friedberg and published by Coin & Currency Institute. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth edition of Gold Coins of the World expands on its predecessor, digging more deeply into new areas of collector interest, and expanding many sections. From the coins of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, and from Afghanistan through Zanzibar, it includes the addition of many new discoveries for dozens of countries. From the 384 pages of the 1958 edition, the work has expanded to 852 pages, which have been completely revised and updated. The authors have listed more than 22,000 coin types, which are illustrated with more than 8,500 photos—now, for the first time, each one of them in color. Each country’s section includes tables of weight and fineness. The market valuations are extensively revised to reflect both the higher price of gold as well as the skyrocketing demand for numismatic rarities. Valuations are now provided, for the first time, in up to three states of preservation. Many of the prices, especially for great rarities and coins in higher grades, have at least doubled. In fact, as collectors recognize the scarcity of coins in the highest states of preservation, the premium for such coins relative to lower-graded ones is escalating beyond traditional proportions. The coinage of India and the Islamic world, long dismissed by western collectors as difficult to decipher, unimportant, and lacking in value, is now the subject of intense interest, and has shown some of the most dramatic increases of all. The reader will also find a useful directory of the world’s leading gold-coin dealers and auction houses. For the numismatist, banker, economist, historian, or institution of higher learning, the tenth edition of Gold Coins of the World is a book for every library, public and private.

Download or read book The Queer Art of History written by Jennifer V. Evans and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on Black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that although many rights for LGBTQI people have been gained in Germany, those rights have not been enjoyed equally. There remain fundamental struggles around whose bodies, behaviors, and communities belong. Evans uses kinship as an analytic category to identify the fraught and productive ways that Germans have confronted race, gender nonconformity, and sexuality in social movements, art, and everyday life. Evans shows how kinship illuminates the work of solidarity and intersectional organizing across difference and offers an openness to forms of contemporary and historical queerness that may escape the archive’s confines. Through forms of kinship, queer and trans people test out new possibilities for citizenship, love, and public and family life in postwar Germany in ways that question claims about liberal democracy, the social contract, and the place of identity in rights-based discourses.

Download or read book Points of Departure written by Sudarsanam Padam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this grass-roots memoir, renowned public policy expert and public transport professional Sudarsanam Padam sketches his life from a small village on the banks of Godavari to an exciting life beyond. He studied while working to graduate from the Nizam College, Hyderabad. His first job was at the age of sixteen in the Census of the Taluk Office (1960). From seventeen onwards, he worked in the Bar Council, Telephone Department and Small Industry Training Institute. With constant encouragement from his lawyer-father, he graduated in 1969. He almost made it to the central civil services. He had a very rewarding career as a manager in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). He describes his life as a young manager in APSRTC, controlling one thousand workers and operating more than a hundred buses—the­ only means of travel in a big district. He saw blood on the road and the death of hapless poor in accidents, combined with an essential public service. The broadening of human understanding and matching it with moving people across often impassable roads was an education no college could give. In all, Dr. Padam’s Points of Departure are live examples of what young professionals can do in their own quest for excellence and for sustained institution-building for generations of students and professionals who follow.

Download or read book Reflections of Life and Love as Experienced written by June Bedford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fun story about two brothers who take a summer trip to Washington, D.C. They want Grandpa to answer a burning question about lasers. Grandpa engages Maxwell and Taylor into learning about an important event in his life as well as learning about ??lasers? that proves to be exciting to the grandsons. Grandpa and Nana plan a fun and educational time for Maxwell and Taylor as they learn how lasers have made a tremendous impact on their lives as well as on the lives of everyone else.

Download or read book Tarnished Silver written by Myra H. Wolfson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarnished Silver By: Myra H. Wolfson The Silver family seems like a nice, normal, well-to-do American family on the outside, but within the walls of their beautiful house there are many dark secrets. When Lorraine first met her husband Ian, she considered him the perfect life partner, but as the years go by, the marriage begins to fall apart, and Ian becomes more distant and at times even aggressive. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lorraine fantasizes about the rugged and well-built Tommy Monahan, whom she meets while on vacation in Montauk. She believes her hoped-for affair will never come to fruition until suddenly Ian has a fatal heart attack one night, leaving Lorraine finally free to find true love.

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Download or read book Highland Chances written by Emma Baird and published by Pink Glitter Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “But, but, but what will you do with Highland Tours! No, not Highland Tours. Highland Handsome Tours, remember? Best Outlander experience in Scotland. You, number three on ‘the man my partner would give me a free pass to sleep with’ list and I don’t even mind!” Newly married and blissfully happy, Gaby and Jack are looking forward to another summer of fun in the village of Lochalshie. But there are clouds on the horizon. The Lochside Welcome is at the heart of the community—where the villagers gather to meet, gossip and eat Scotland's finest pizzas. Now, it's under threat. The landlord's ill, business has dropped away and the hotel at the other end of the village keeps muscling in, scooping up tourists, weddings and even locals... Can Gaby and Jack save the day? What with the ever-increasing work demands, rival hotel owners not above dirty tactics and the small matter of a life-changing event our couple are woefully ill-prepared for, it's all hands on deck to try to ensure the Lochside Welcome survives another day... If you love heart-warming, feel good fiction books that come with a side order of laughs, you're in the right place. Highland Chances is the perfect read for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell, and those looking for books like Marian Keyes. Praise for the Highland Books series: ‘It's sweet, funny, bubbly and happy, even when it's dramatic and poignant. You'll fall in love with this place and scan the online maps to try and find it. If you love romance, and who doesn't, you'll fall for this series as much as I have. A feel-good witty romantic novel that ticks all the boxes. I already want the next one.’ ‘Great storytelling with characters I really warmed to.’ ‘The Highland Books Box Set… are a good read. They are also fun to read. The characters are your friends that you care about and want to succeed. You travel with them to Scotland and find more characters you enjoy and feel for. The stories are entertaining. Reading all three books was a lively journey that I recommend.’ ‘This is a great series with warm wonderful characters, the perfect Highland setting, some hilarious events and one very hungry cat. Highly recommended.’ The Highland Books frequently asked questions: Do I need to have read the other books to understand this one? You might want to, or perhaps you already have. But I’ve added in a list of characters and a bit of back story throughout so you can understand the book even if you haven’t read Highland Fling, Highland Heart and Highland Wedding. What makes the books worth reading? Good question! I like to think I provide light-hearted escapism and relatable characters that readers will care about. I throw in a dash of comedy. We all need a bit of laughter at the moment, don’t we? My books are on the storytelling platform, Wattpad. To date, they’ve had almost 200,000 reads and a lot of comments from readers who love them. Is the setting of the story important? My stories are set in a fictional village called Lochalshie, which is loosely based on Arrochar in the west coast of Scotland. Scottish stories often chime with readers craving books with a strong community feel to them. The ‘village’ feels almost like an actual character to me. Why are the cats in your books so spoilt? I’m a huge cat lover and have two of my own. I think other cat lovers will recognise behaviours such as talking to your cat in a silly voice, buying them expensive food, overfeeding them and allowing them to sleep wherever they want. Nowadays, I have two cats my husband and I adopted from the local animal shelter. It’s a bit of a squeeze getting into bed at night… What’s next in the Highland Books series? I couldn’t resist a Christmas story, which I hope to publish in December 2020. Key search terms: · Comedy · Humorous stories · Comedy books for women · Funny stories for women · Feel good fiction books · Escapist fiction · Feel good books · Books like Marian Keyes

Download or read book Look at the Coins Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday written by Helen Wang and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 contributions reflect the vast scope of Joe Cribb’s interests including Asian numismatics, museology, poetry and art. Papers are arranged geographically, then chronologically/thematically including studies on coins, charms and silver currencies in or from China; finds from ancient Central Asia and Afghanistan: coins of South Soghd, and far more.