Bobby was born in the middle of the Cold War in the shadow of the big A-bomb factory which employed his father, a poor farm boy made good, This was the factory that made the Nagasaki bomb. Stumbling through childhood, Bobby is unaware that the area where he is growing up was once the home of the proud Plateau Indian culture, sharing with the bomb factory a deep dependence on the mighty Columbia River coursing through eastern Washington. In this memoir, at times touching, at times troubling, at times exhilarating, a grown-up Bob traces his father's family back to the great-grandparents who eked out a destitute existence on the South Dakota prairie, and retells his father's astonishing leap from crippled farm boy to Ph.D. physicist working on the nation's most advanced weapons programs. Bob presents a deeply personal account of how his father tried, with mixed success, to balance his roles as scientist, husband, father, and church member. He pulls together the threads connecting him to the Indians whose unseen culture surrounded him as a child, their great spiritual and political leaders Smohalla and Chief Joseph, and the missionaries who came west in the 1800s to bring them the white man's religion. "Bobby " goes on to recount disturbing stories of the corners cut to get the A-bomb ready to drop on Japan, pauses to ponder the nature of human disease, and paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in mid-century America.
Adolescence is the final stage of childhood, the springboard to adult life and a time where values are being blended into a mixture that adults can still greatly influence. Raising Responsible Teenagers is a survival guide and more for all those who interact with children on a daily basis. It shows clearly and comprehensively why children behave as they do at different ages, and how they can be brought up to be responsible adults without curtailing their natural instincts or indulging them. Bob Myers uses his years of experience of working with children and adolescents to show how they can be encouraged to develop themselves. Each chapter contains detailed examples and checklists for further thought, as well as a fund of helpful advice. This book provides an extremely useful guide for all who wish to interact with young people in a relaxed and mutually-respectful manner, and who wish to see them develop into considerate, achieving and responsible adults.
Everyone experiences conflict with other people, some on a daily basis. Everyone seeks peace of mind and happiness. Travelling the road of peace and happiness combines both concepts and shows how we can discover peace and happiness by transforming conflict into creative conflict. We all gained a sense of right and wrong, and learned how to resolve conflict, through early childhood experiences in whatever was ‘home’ for us, and carried it into adult life. Therefore, this book uses simple family scenarios to expose the effects competition and domination have on relationships, while exploring the healing power of nonviolence.
Finally, soccer camp had arrived and Trinity was so excited! She had waited for this day since the last day of school. Besides learning a lot about soccer during the camp, Trinity also had her first encounter with someone who did not understand the need for Jesus in their life. Trinity Goes to Soccer Camp allows families to explore this topic in the safety of their home and formulate an effective plan to prepare for this inevitable meeting. This book allows parents to work with their children in a biblical format to make the correct decision for their family.
You may be asking yourselves why buy this book. All other cook books have many recipes for all occasions. Our book has but one recipe for just one occasion. The event is commonly known as the pig roast. We wrote this book because we feel there was so much more to the story than just cooking a hog. We take you on a ride through the many adventures we encountered as cateres of the pig roast chronicles. Our intent is to make you laugh, recall the past, wonder in disbelief, and to aquire the know-how so you too can build your own roaster, roast your own hog, and maintain proper social etiquette at any event. If you have ever thought about attending, hiring, or performing a pig roast this is a must read book.
You may be asking yourselves why buy this book. All other cook books have many recipes for all occasions. Our book has but one recipe for just one occasion. The event is commonly known as the pig roast. We wrote this book because we feel there was so much more to the story than just cooking a hog. We take you on a ride through the many adventures we encountered as cateres of the pig roast chronicles. Our intent is to make you laugh, recall the past, wonder in disbelief, and to aquire the know-how so you too can build your own roaster, roast your own hog, and maintain proper social etiquette at any event. If you have ever thought about attending, hiring, or performing a pig roast this is a must read book.
History of Bridgeburg and Its People is a candid chronology of this small hamlet and the people who resided there through the years. It gives a personal glimpse of the way of life that was so much a part of the 1940s and 1950s as I remember them. Events and people of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are included. It goes through most of the families who resided there and their contributions to this small community, how the railroads helped to shape Bridgeburg, and eventually, the building of the railroad bridge that gave the town its name. Thinking back, it is truly amazing how their way of life was so much a part of this thriving community. On occasion, I think back to those years and the friends and families who dwelled there. This was so much a different world from the one in which we live today. Those memories still hold deep within my heart and cannot be forgotten.
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