The true story of my life as an amateur astronomer. I tell of all the start and stops in the hobby as I past through different stages of my life, always returning to astronomy. The love of the night sky has remained with me ever since I discovered the stars at the age of five.
COSPLAY - Its a word that invokes a multitude of reactions and explanations. From comic conventions, to charity events, to movie premieres and parades, there are people donning the costumes and personas of every character from comics, video games, pop culture, and even internet memes. And behind the masks and tights of this costumed community are everyday people - doctors, lawyers, police officers, firefighters, soldiers, and a lot of computer professionals of all ages, genders and races. Author James Hannon introduces you to a cross-section of costumers, and takes you behind-the-scenes of cosplay life over the last decade. From the small niche of early Star Trek and Star Wars costumers to the modern cosplayer community, meet the people who have been there along the way. ANATOMY OF A COSPLAYER has everything you ever wanted to know about cosplaying, but didnt know (or were too afraid) to ask. Learn about the costumers - the how and why they got into this hobby. Read about some of the larger costumed organizations, and their impact on the community and fandoms worldwide. Join others on their individual cosplay adventures and learn how they deal with the changing environment, costuming skill development, and what it really takes to survive a convention. Hear from over 70 cosplayers as they honestly tell of their experiences, good and bad, within this silly, yet rewarding thing we call COSPLAY
THE BLACK NAPOLEON relates, in fast-paced storytelling, racial conflicts caused by unbending political and social attitudes meeting head-on with strong and determined black efforts to establish a free society. Color lines are crossed and re-crossed as the passions of the many-tiered society explode. The coals of the revolution of 1795-1803 that overturned the Bourbon dynasty of the French royal house ignited a fire on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean more than two thousand miles west of France and light years distant in human affairs. French Colonists had established paradise for themselves and a living hell for five hundred thousand black slaves. A parade of memorable giants live within these pages: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Napoleon, Christophe, Leclerc, Dessalines, Rochambeau, Hardy, Rigaud, Jeannot, planter Henri Julian, Neville, Rubidoux, Susan L'Ouverture, Count de Noe, Minister Talleyrand and Pauline Leclerc, Napoleon's sibling who brought an unprecedented level of social behavior to that licentious society. Fifty years a slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture, liberator of Haiti, was a legend in his time. His passionate belief that the enslavement of his people must end carried through the terror and bloodshed that destroyed Napoleon's legions and dispossessed the French colonists. Four words tell the story, 'war of the skin,' as the parade of monumental historical characters intrigue and deceive in that garden spot of the Caribbean.
THE SAVAGE AMERICAN tells the story of Victorio, an Apache Indian, a Vietnam decorated war veteran and the last living member of a Willow Creek Reservation family. His anger builds as he observes the continuous erosion of their Treaty rights and suffers the abuse of Dumbroff, a San Vicente County Deputy Sheriff. Tribal efforts to build an earth fill dam to serve their cattle, all within reservation boundaries, is dynamited with the loss of many Indian lives as well as loss of agriculture property bordering Willow Creek. Elected Chairman of the Tribal Council, Victorio calls a Tribal Meeting and delivers a passionate plea to close the reservation to all non-residents until their rights are recognized by law enforcement and governmental authorities, Treaty rights established for more than a hundred years. He creates barriers on highway entrances to Willow Creek, pulls up railroad tracks and closes the Federal dam that services off-reservation ranchers. The reaction explodes in a series of brutal killings. When the National Guard occupies the reservation Victorio leads his squads in a series of counter moves that receive international attention. THE SAVAGE AMERICAN, with an appealing hero, plenty of villains and non-stop dramatic action is a gripping and shocking story of a wonderfully authentic Native American drama. Interwoven in the crisp, tight action is a poignant love story.
This book, written in a quick, easy-to-read, e-mail style, is a true account of a spiritual journey taken by the authors to find a cure for cancer signals not responding to standard or alternative medical treatments. They had no maps for their journey to show which roads to travel or even what the terrain looked like ahead. They had only their intuition. With that, they forged ahead without looking back, taking many, many roads, and in the end, there was success. This unique book can be viewed as a roadmap with pointers that can be used to create spiritual journeys for others with similar disease problems.
It is a long and often painful tale. Don't read it if you are leading a normal, happy life in a functional family, unless you want to know about places where you would never choose to go places where you wouldn't want anybody to go. Apart from its most obvious intention, as a message from a father to his estranged teenage daughter, this book is directed toward the millions of men (and their families, friends and relatives) who have journeyed through the terrain the story attempts to depict. It is a landscape of America at the beginning of the 21st century, the heart of the greatest empire the world has ever known, which is inhabited by a population living in a culture of hypocrisy and denial, in a society littered with fatherless children and the corpses of broken families. The book attempts to reach out to all men who have ever been defamed as Deadbeat Dads, as the lowliest of social scum in the popular culture, and to all people who have found their strange childhood origins transformed into troubled adult relationships, and who then have sojourned through various levels of hell, in the world of difficult marriages, divorces, child-custody battles, and paternity suits. The message of the book to all such people is that you are not alone, and that there are ways to resist being destroyed. The story is told as the chronologically straightforward memoir of an anonymous man who thinks he might speak for many other people. The narrative is highly subjective and full of closely detailed experience and psychological analysis. Beneath its surface presentation, the individually unique story seeks to validate the pedagogy of "single case-study analysis." That which is unique attempts to elucidate an entire class (or two) of cases, in description of several developments that have become major features of the American social landscape. These developments include the explosion of divorces initiated by women, the concomitant expansion of non-custodial fathers' ranks, and the untold escalation of paternity suits, all of which have unfolded in relation to wide-scale defamation of men in general and fathers in particular, under the onerous institutions of the American government and court system. Because it is told as an experiential and psychoanalytical memoir, the story attempts to capture the crises and emotions of fathers who lose their children, children who lose their fathers, men entrapped in child-support servitude, and women whose control of family relations is rooted in the heart of militant feminism. There are many stories related between the covers of this book. The reader is challenged to suspend judgment of the author's character until the main story is told out. The author does expect to be judged severely in the end, but the reader's biggest challenge will be to decide if the story should ever have been told at all. The author was trained as an artist and presents this work as a large canvas. Paragraphs can be compared to brush-strokes and stories and themes flow in patterns that cannot be understood in their full dimensions until the book finally ends. Look at the work as a painting, and allow the inter-related stories to unfold in their own way, blending into and out of one another, conforming only to the messiness of life's spiraling path. Don't try to comprehend all the patterns along the way; instead, rest assured that eventually all loose strings will be tied together. Think of the work as a New Age soap opera, and as a father's protest against militant feminism, especially as the second half unfolds. Understand the long letters, when you get to them, as words that changed the world. Finally, don't expect to find no light at all in the dark tones of painful experience, because there eventually is some brightness in the gloom, and that is a big part of the message.
Jarrod, the tall, handsome master teacher on Kanon, watched on the viewing screen the daily life of the less advanced people on the planet Teriana. Their lives were in shambles. Globle war was emanate. Jarrod was determined to help lift the consciousness of these warring, irreverent people. His mission was terminated too soon, but the powerful Jarrod would not be deterred until the victory was won. Unexpected help came from a mysterious, ancient people from a hidden world of wealth, beauty and power. Jarrod's adventures on Teriana centered around the Stout family, who played a major role in the future of this small green world. Within these pages are to be found out - of-this - world adventure, mystery, the miracle of life after death, civil war, government over-throw, love and finally peace.
A Time to Heal Everyone in Buffalo Creek, Texas, knows that Dr. Brooks Leland doesn't date. After his harrowing loss, the widower focuses all his time on helping the sick. But when a mysterious newcomer with a heartbreaking secret becomes his patient, Brooks is drawn to Eva Russell. Suddenly, the blonde spitfire he can't bear to fall for is working in his medical practice, living at Chatam House and challenging everything he knows about love. Now even the town's triplet matchmakers have hope that these two battered hearts are on the way to healing.
The Recruiter's Edge - Comprehensive Recruiter Training is designed to break a new recruiter into the profession and to guide them through all the steps needed to get job orders through making placements. This book provides extensive coverage of all pertinent areas of recruiting, and is masterfully written to help current recruiters achieve the level of success that they desire; yet simple enough to be used by individuals with little or no recruiting experience. The goal of this book is to help anyone in this industry, at whatever stage they currently are, to master the ropes, boost production and ultimately create a powerful recruiting business. The recruiters trained with our system are able to compete effectively with top-performing recruiters. "The Recruiter's Edge Comprehensive Recruiter Training Manual is a great asset for my company, the Start-up strategies were very informative, inspiring, and valuable. In one fast-paced month, you can manage to cover all of the important points about starting up a homebased career in recruiting. It gave me all the motivation that I needed to build my business. The Author C.N. Udeani is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in the subject matter." Rhea Nunez - Elk Grove, CA The Recruiter's Edge training system is an asset to any recruiter. Find out what you have been doing wrong, learn how to boost your bottom-line, exceed your own expections! Also included in this book are samples of Contracts and Agreements, Documents and all Forms needed to run a successful Recruiting Business.
Executive coaching is the most powerful tool available to translate best management practices into action. Through concrete examples of barriers to success, learn the essential ingredients of productive executive coaching. Remove the mysteries of the executive coaching process and read a dozen case studies of real situations.
More than 350 full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight this comprehensive guide to the art of Indian trade blankets, tracing the history of this beautiful Native American craft, offering helpful tips on caring for vintage blankets, and providing a helpful catalog of the various makers of trade blankets. 20,000 first printing.
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