Gateway to Eternity is a mystery/reincarnation-hypnosis thriller novel that includes professional hockey games of the Chicago Black Hawks. The story is based on an actual case of hypnosis featuring Inspector Richard Ronholme of the Chicago Police Department, a serial killerathe Chicago Butcher, deep space exploration and the exciting sport of professional hockey. The crimes of the serial killer depicted are as disturbing as those described in the book Helter Skelter. Explicit sex and violence are part of reality and are dealt with in convincing detail in Gateway to Eternity. Lillian Newman is a wronged wife who seeks retribution from her husband, Adam, a criminal psychiatrist working for the Chicago Police Department who becomes elected aenator but he aspires to be the President of the United States. Mrs. Newman struggles diligently to achieve vindication throughout the twist and turns of the tale when Chief Inspector Ronholme of the Chicago Police Department arrives in time. Lillian Newman does not triumph until the last chapteras final paragraph. Inspector Ronholme is a fascinating personality in this series. He is a man of unique behaviors and enjoys solving puzzles and his specialty is solving weird crimes. Ronholme has many amazing stories like the criminal case titled, aHave you ever tried Suicide,a 10 business executives working for the same company who commit suicide in ten different countries during one week, is a coincidence or a crime? Is there a suicide bug? What will the homicide investigation Ronholme is conducting reveal?
Behaviour and addiction modification through self-hypnosis is the same as being hypnotised by a professional hypnotherapist. Nearly ninety-eight percent of all people can easily place the subconscious (inner brain) into a self-induced hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is the state of the brain everyone experiences shortly when awakening from sleep. This book can train you to improve your life including how you deal with the world's greatest killer -- stress.
Free and Wild is a fast-paced adventure novel written for young adults or anyone who has affection for horses. Part of the story is based in England during 1938 to 1945 during World War II. The turmoil caused by the Nazis includes surviving buzz bombs, bomber attacks, and airplane combat. Winston Churchill is in the story (his dialogue is authentic). The story is loaded with inspiring, exciting activity. The textured plot combines intriguing characters in a compelling tale recreating history blended in with the sport of kingsathoroughbred horse racing. Prepare for horse brawls, gypsy advice, humor, and realistic battle scenes along with the most exciting sword duel you will ever experience. (Did you know that USA President Andrew Jackson survived one hundred sword grudge duels?) To spice up the action we travel to the Sahara Desert. A boiling dusty sand and sagebrush-filled location. In the Sahara Desert, Captain Kirk and Whitey, his horse, battle hostile Arabs and Nazis, a factual World War II occurrence that few remember. During the Desert War both find love in strange places. An understanding of horse behavior, habits and psychology and other animal information is unified with a thrilling story from knowledge gained by the author, a published writer and stable owner who lives near the Fort Erie Racetrack, reputed to be the worldas most beautiful racetrack, home of the premiere $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes race. Thoroughbred racing and horse aficionados will glean horse motivations and gain insights to the racetrack from many pages of electrifying entertainment.
Poetry is a composition of verse with words that are arranged in a variety of shapes and forms. Poetry is that portion of literature which expresses imagination and feelings most intensely.Some poems have a way of being painted memorably into every heart, causing the population to unite, resulting in altering the history of the world. Voltaire, the French satirist and philosopher created: "A fight to survive" type of poetry that ignited the French Revolution. When the Monarch of France finally capitulated in 1799, Voltaire's skeleton was retrieved from the grave and placed on the King's throne. If a reader is moved by a single verse of a poem, then the poet's efforts were never in vain. Some poems are written just for fun and entertainment.
Biographies of peole of consequence who did unusual activities that changed world history or added to human knowledge. This book is ever expanding: Barack Obama, Benazir Bhutto,Elvis Presley, Harriet Tubman, India's Gandhi, Karl Marx,Mikhail Gorvbachev,Muhammad Osma Bin Laden.
Synopsis: Go Beyond Stress - Twelve Self-Hynpotic Stess-Busting SessionsBehavior and addiction modification through self-hypnosis is the same as being hypnotized by a profession hypnotherapist. Nearly 98 percent of all people can easily place the subconscious (Inner brain) into a self-induced hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is the state of brain everyone experiences shortly when awakening. It works!
Gateway to Eternity" introduces Inspector Ronholme who enjoys solving weird, bizzare crimes. His second book "Have You Ever Tried Suicide?" is the Inspector's second book. Lots of romance, gun duels, and of course SUICIDES.
The second Inspector Ronholme book the first is "Gateway To Eternity". Ten executives working for the same conglomerate commit suicide in one week. Is this merely a coincidence or a crime. Inspector Ronholme only works on wierd, bizzare crimes and this one is certainly no exception.
A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.
Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon contemporary jazz events, today's top muscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazz's past. Readers will find extended pieces on Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson, Tony Bennett, and many others. Giddins includes a series of articles on the annual JVC Jazz Festival, which offers a splendid overview of jazz in the 1990s. Other highlights include an astute look at avant-garde music ("Parajazz") and his challenging essay, "How Come Jazz Isn't Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum. A radiant compendium by America's leading music critic, Weather Bird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene.
Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards--including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award--and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of stimulating and original cultural criticism in other fields. With Natural Selection, he brings together the best of these previously uncollected essays, including a few written expressly for this volume. The range of topics is spellbinding. Writing with insight, humor, and a famously deft touch, he offers sharp-edged perspectives on such diverse subjects as Federico Fellini and Jean Renoir, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison, Marlon Brando and Groucho Marx, Duke Ellington and Bob Dylan, horror and noir, the cartoon version of Animal Farm and the comic book series Classics Illustrated. Giddins brings to criticism an uncommon ability, long demonstrated in his music writing, to address in very few words an entire career, so that we get an in-depth portrait of the artist beyond the film, book, or recording under review. For instance, Giddins offers a stunning reappraisal of Doris Day, who he terms "the coolest and sexiest female singer of slow ballads in film history." He argues eloquently for a reconsideration of the forgotten German-language novelist Soma Morgenstern. In a section on comedy, he offers fresh perspectives on the three great silent film stars--Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd--while resurrecting the legendary Jack Benny and reevaluating the controversial Jerry Lewis. There's also a memorable look at Bing Crosby's film career (he calls Crosby's blockbuster Going My Way "a neglected masterpiece") and a close examination of Marcel Carne's beloved Children of Paradise. Of course, Giddins also supplies excellent commentary on jazz: major and underrated figures, and especially the uses of jazz in film. A wonderful gathering of little-known treasures, Natural Selection will broaden the perception of Gary Giddins as one of our most important cultural critics.
A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics. In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, Warning Shadows travels through time and across genres to explore the impact of the industry’s most famous classics and forgotten gems. Essays such as “Houdini Escapes! From the Vaults! Of the Past!,” “Edward G. Robinson, See,” and “Prestige and Pretension (Pride and Prejudice)” capture the wit and magic of classic cinema. Each chapter—ranging from the horror films of Hitchcock to the fantastical frames of Disney—provides readers with engaging analyses of influential films and the directors and actors who made them possible.
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