Whether you're rambling around the world or just your own neighborhood, you'll enjoy the adventures of the ultimate ramblers, David Scherer and his wife, Martha. Join them as they travel from Africa to Australia, Rio to Rhodes, and interact with everything from gay penguins to stoned koalas. At once entertaining and inspirational, this is a memoir full of wit, wisdom, and our wondrous world. No doubt, it'll elbow you into doing a little rambling of your own. They've visited one hundred and forty-eight countries, which is more than the Queen herself (not the Cunard vessels, which they've sailed as well, just to keep the record straight). Their maritime rambles include a crash in a hot-air balloon, confrontations with lions and kidnappers, and unwitting incursions into seagoing nudist colonies. They have made nine circuits of the world and one hundred and twenty individual voyages on Crystal Cruises. Given the number of catastrophic blunders they've made en route, it's a wonder they've returned at all, let alone with panache.
The Grand Canyon is a place of 'medicine.' In a 1982 hike into its depths--I felt that spiritual presence. What was it like to live on the canyon rim centuries ago? How would it have molded my being? It was a freeing experience to become insignificant and be swallowed up in its greatness as I descended the fourteen miles. With every step, my city life shrunk in the presence to a shriveled husk. Material things did not matter here; they ceased to define my being. What mattered most in the canyon was my inner man. The real question was did he have any likeness to Him who created this wonder?It was October in the fall of 1982, one month after I had hiked the Grand Canyon. I was on a stand hunting deer in the piney woods of Ratcliff, Texas. My mind was wandering when the story came to me in a rush of fifteen minutes. I hurried back to camp and began writing, having never even considered writing a book before that moment. There I was, scribbling the plot in a notebook, when two U.S. Forest Service staff came by and interrupted my inspiration. "What are you doing?" they asked curiously.As I look back, my bold confession was the first step in the long journey to be an author. Without hesitation, I declared I was writing a book. I had been a writer about thirty minutes at that point.The next question was obvious, "What are you writing about?""The Grand Canyon." was my instant reply, certain of my subject.One answered he had worked at the Grand Canyon and had a good friend who was publications director. He could put me in touch. The stars were coming into alignment on my behalfthis was destiny. It was enough for me to complete the cocky first edition of thirty-four pages. The book in your hand has matured since then. Perseverance and passion are what make writers. -Is their truth in the prophecy of the Medicine Man Nighthawk? Will it teach the people to stand? -How can one born lame, fulfill the prophecy? Can he overcome the rejection of his father?-Will the power of the "Robe' lead Limping Bear to his 'medicine' brother? Will he discover the secret of strength?-Can his 'medicine' name, Standing Bear, make him strong and stand against the enemy?-Will you discover the secret of strength hidden within the pages of this book?
Golf innovator Jud Slade is found murdered in Ireland, and Danny Swift Jr. is on the next plane from America. Jud was his father's friend and lifelong personal caddy, and Dan Swift Sr. needs his son for support and as a stand-in for Jud in an upcoming tournament, the recently relocated British Open. Once arrived, Danny meets Siobhan Delaney, the vivacious owner of a local inn. Despite the unfortunate circumstances, Danny grows fond of Siobhan. However, she has enough on her mind. Not only is she running a successful business, but she has a childhood companion involved in political violence, an alcoholic mother, and now, a mysterious murder in her hometown. Danny is unexpected, but the feelings they share are impossible to ignore. As Danny becomes more and more infatuated with this lovely colleen, he delves deeper into the untimely death of Jud and finds himself lost in Irish folklore. Following deaths that appear to be additional murders, Danny and Siobhan enlist the help of the eminent journalist Carlton Claridge. His extensive knowledge of Irish culture and golf history may help them catch a killer whose riddles keep Danny in the dark. Professional golfers are in danger, but so are those outside the game, as age-old Irish violence threatens to run rampant through the quiet streets near the Gap of Dunloe.
This accessible text--now revised and updated--has given thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to inform their work in schools. The expert authors review major theories of development and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning intersect with specific domains of child and adolescent development--language, intelligence and intellectual diversity, motivation, family and peer relationships, gender roles, and mental health. Pedagogical features include chapter summaries, definitions of key terms, and boxes addressing topics of special interest to educators. Instructors requesting a desk copy receive a supplemental test bank with objective test items and essay questions for each chapter. (First edition authors: Michael Pressley and Christine B. McCormick.) Key Words/Subject Areas: teachers, education, developmental psychology, child development, childhood development, adolescent development, schoolchildren, adolescents, students, educational psychology, developmental theories, teaching methods, learning, biological development, cognitive development, social development, emotional development, language development, intelligence, academic motivation, family relationships, peer relationships, mental health problems, gender roles, social-emotional learning, texts, textbooks Audience: Instructors and graduate students in education, child and family studies, and school psychology"--
The House of Black and White: My Life with and Search for Louise Johnson Morris is the memoir of a white boy who was so strongly influenced by a black woman - the family maid - that he begins searching for her three decades after she went missing. This compelling book begins in 1959 in suburban Washington, D.C., and ends in 2012. Author David Sherer was barely two years old when Louise Johnson Morris became the family maid in 1959. She grew close to the children, particularly David, and taught him many life lessons. During medical school in Boston, he discovered in 1981 that Louise had left the family. After unsuccessfully trying to learn why, he continued his life and career until late 2011, when during a mid-life crisis of sorts, he went looking for her. He eventually discovered that she was living back in her hometown of Macon, Georgia, and after a separation of thirty-one years, traveled to Macon to reunite with his childhood friend. She died a mere three months later, at the age of ninety. David was an honored guest at her funeral. This is the story of their lives together and his quest to find her. It is both a memoir and an homage, set in a highly charged time of our country's history. "The House of Black and White is an honest, evocative, and moving account of one man's search for connection amid the 20th-century minefield of race, class, and privilege." - Gary Krist, author of City of Scoundrels About the Author David Sherer majored in music at Emory University, with a concentration in piano. He is a practicing anesthesiologist and wrote the highly acclaimed book Dr. David Sherer's Hospital Survival Guide. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/DavidSherer Author's websites: http: //drdavidsherer.com and http: //thehouseofblackandwhitebook.com Cover design by Kim Abraham at http: //kimabraham.com
Mica, Kai, and Matthias find themselves at the epicenter of miracles, strange majick, and disaster. Everything they know and all they've come to love is destroyed as they fight to save the lives of their masters and friends. When the dark majick their enemies wield interferes with the spell designed to take them to safety, the trio are taken to another time. Can they save a reality they will never again know?
When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established a costly public financing precedent that people across North America should watch closely, as many cities consider building sports facilities for professional teams or international competitions. Their analysis brings clarity and nuance to a case shrouded in secrecy and understood by few besides political and business insiders. Power Play tells a dramatic story about clashing priorities where sports, money, and municipal power meet.
American travelers Simon & Barklee visit Germany, where their adventures and travels introduce them to the history, culture and traditions of a facinating country."--Title page verso
I was expatriated by a man with an axe. The man and the axe were alike visionary and unreal, though it needed a very considerable effort of the will to hold them at mental arm's length. I had work on hand which imperatively demanded to be finished, and I was so broken down by a long course of labour that it was a matter of actual difficulty with me when I sat down at my desk of a morning to lay hold of the thread of last night's work, and to recall the personages who had moved through my manuscript pages for the past three or four months. The day's work always began with a fog, which at first looked impenetrable, but would brighten little by little until I could see my ideal friends moving in it, and could recognise their familiar lineaments. Then the fog would disperse altogether, and a certain indescribable, exultant, feverish brightness would succeed it, and in this feverish brightness my ideal friends would move and talk as it were of their own volition.
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