Professional wrestler Al Snow delivers highlights from his onscreen antics and never-before-heard tales from the road in this high-flying memoir spanning 30 years in the ring In the late 90s, wrestling journeyman Al Snow looked in the mirror and saw a man who needed help. A man whose reputation within the wrestling industry was excellent but whose career was going nowhere. Channeling his frustration into the gimmick for which he would become best known, Al began talking to (and through) a mannequin head. With Extreme Championship Wrestling, Al reinvented himself as an unhinged neurotic and became one of the hottest acts in the most cutting-edge promotion in America when wrestlingÕs popularity was at its peak. This led to a journey back to the industryÕs main stage, World Wrestling Entertainment, during the wildly popular Attitude Era, and in the central role as a trainer and father figure on the MTV reality show, Tough Enough. Now, after 35 years in the industry, Al Snow tells the stories of the unbelievable yet true events that formed his career, from his in-ring recollections to out-of-ring escapades, including drunken midnight journeys with a vanfull of little people, overuse of Tasers at autograph signings, and continual attempts on his life by assorted members of the animal kingdom. Self Help is Al Snow at his best, delivering what everybody wants and needs.
Snow argues that the desired results of liberal actions often backfire and contends that people must realize how liberalism taps into people's hearts and minds, mysteriously taking over rational thinking.
In the seventh installment of the Journeys of the Stranger series, legendary hero John Stranger is called in to track the "ghost" of a murder he captured three years earlier, in Butte, Montana -- a man who had vowed to come back from the grave to kill the judge, the jury, Sheriff Johnson ... and John Stranger. Now, the jury members are turning up dead, and the people of Butte fear that Payton has come back to have his vengeance. Crow Indian legend indicates that the killer has come back as a snow ghost -- a human-shaped shadow that can be seen moving amid the falling snow. Certain that the killer is no phantom, the Stranger sets out to find the true murderer and bring him to justice in Snow Ghost.
ADVENTURES from INNOCENCE-Snow to Swamp is the first, in the AFI adventure series, written for the enjoyment of adventure enthusiasts of all ages. It's about the experiences, of a youth, growing up in rural central Florida, during the middle of the last century. Joey Thames is uprooted from his childhood home, on a small family farm in western New England. His family abruptly moves to the unsettled wilds of central Florida, where they buy a fruit grove in rural Lake Hanna. Here, he finds himself adrift, in a very different place. Without friends, or the comforts of, the close extended family, he had enjoyed since birth. In the sparsely settled, rural Florida, Joey finds almost anything goes. During his first week, has to fight two Seminole Indian boys, to prove his worth, and gain their friendship. He and his new friends, develop an immediate bonding, through their mutual love of the out-of-doors and of hunting and fishing. This community, of fruit growers, sugarcane farmers, lumbermen, moonshiners and Seminole Indians, offered many new challenges, for Joey to deal with. Through his innocence, Joey is drawn into many adventures, where he must rely primarily on the strength of his innate moral character, to bring each, to a satisfactory conclusion. The challenges and adventures experienced by Joey play out, within the pages of this book. These are unlike any told before, in a series like ADVENTURES from INNOCENCE. The book also provides the reader, a window into life, as it was in the rural south, during the middle of the last century. The reader will find it a treat to share in Joey's adventures and sometimes-hazardous experiences, while learning how he deals with each, in a manner far advanced for a person his age.
Young Russian Vladimir Petrovna is always minutes away from disaster. He is a Christian in a pagan country that exacts extreme penalties from believers. His farm is nearly destroyed by blight and he cannot pay the taxes he owes. And he is a husband and father of three whose daughter is secretly in love with a Cossack-one of the very soldiers who persecute families like Vladimir's. Though he may lose everything he loves, Vladimir must trust God as he navigates his river of trouble. When he finally arrives in the "land of the free and the home of the brave," his destiny-and faith-is changed forever.
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth century. The correspondence between al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, trivial and profound, al-Tawḥīdī’s questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. An English-only edition.
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