Before I Go is unique in the memoir genre. Not only is it a book about growing up in Ohio in the 1950s and "coming of age" in the 1960s, it recounts the authors decade-long struggle against Creationists as a public school science teacher. Before I Go also presents jim walkers astonishing theological perspective which melds the worlds religious traditions with late 20th-century physics and it briefly outlines his radical ideas about educational reform. Quite simply, Before I Go is a book that will be talked about for years and, in many respects, marks a "quantum leap" in the realm of autobiography.
Jim Walker was born in the little college town of Olivet, Illinois in 1929, to Earl and Mittie Walker. He was the last of seven children....one of five boys and two girls.In 1946 his father died, and just 16 months later his mother died, leaving him, at 18, to find a home with his oldest brother, Myron's, family. He worked in a shoe store and finished his first year of college at the University of Illinois Extension. During the summer of 1948 he worked on a hay baler to earn money for his second year of college. While his brother's family was visiting relatives in New York that summer, Jim hitch-hiked to Pasadena, California, to attend a church school and pursue his calling to be a minister.He worked in a machine shop on second shift in Pasadena, and took a full course of college during the daytime. This forced him to pay attention in class, because there was no time to study.His studies were interrupted by the Korean War in 1950. He became an Aviation Electrician in the Navy, and served on the USS Oriskany in the same squadron with Alan Shepherd, later to become one of the first astronauts.After the war, Jim worked for General Electric for 33 years, having completed the company's 3-year post-graduate course, "Manufacturing Training Program." Upon retirement, he finally was able to begin his ministerial career with Vermilion Grove Friends, the oldest continuously operating church in Vermilion County, Illinois. He has a wonderful wife, Norma, and three children, seven grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Book 2 in The Wells Fargo Trail. Zac Cobb is sent by Wells Fargo to the California gold field to investigate a series of stolen gold shipments. What price will he pay to bring the conspirators to justice?
Leadership and teamwork are the critical components in today's project-driven world. Drawing on materials from ancient history and modern day heroes, this collection of quotes provides a provocative and refreshing view of what it takes to forge and lead a winning team. Ready, Aim, Inspire! Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. – Herodotus
Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban.
This book contains 39 chapters. Each chapter begins with a poem, and the poem is followed by a discussion of the subject of the poem. Subjects range from "Rolling Through Life," "Death of a Saint," "You Live in a Rental House," "Straddlin' the Fence," to "He Was A Good Man".....and many others you will find enjoyable to read and contemplate. Inside this book you will find how God can help you through life's difficulties, some of which seemingly have no good solutions. There are examples of how a positive outlook and dedication to finding and following the right path will lead to good outcomes. Every thought is backed up by quotations from the Bible. You can learn much about happy living in this book.
Four orphaned sisters drive their herd of cattle from Texas to market in Kansas to save the family ranch in the face of the opposition of the evil Rawhiders.
Need to get moving, get motivated, or just get out of bed? This collection of classic quotes and modern zingers is sure to put a whole lot of Spin and Zip in your step. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Never confuse motion with action. - Benjamin Franklin Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. - Moorish Proverb Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do... where's there's love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald
This is the history of Donald Keene's family down through the ages. It is a varied and fascinating history. This Keene lineage can trace its ancestry through at least two lines that came to this continent on the Mayflower. Some were very involved in the Revolution, and the Civil War, as well as served honorably in World War II, and Don served during the VietNam conflict. I have spent several years researching this line, and it is the stories and origins that make it so interesting. As in all family histories, it is not just the names and dates that make up who we are, but where we have been and where we came from.
Book 3 in The Wells Fargo Trail. Zac Cobb must protect the Denver Rio Grande Railroad baron's family from gunmen. He foils a kidnap attempt on the railroad heiress who falls in love with him.
In this unforgettable memoir, the Navy SEALs’ most trusted translator—a man who is credited with saving countless American lives and became a legend in the special-ops community—tells his inspiring story for the first time. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the local neighborhoods and unable to speak the local languages, they came to rely on one man to guide them and watch their backs. He was a "terp"—an interpreter—with a job so dangerous they couldn't even use his real name. They named him Johnny Walker. They soon called him brother. Over the course of eight years, the Iraqi native traveled around the country with nearly every SEAL and special operations unit deployed there. He went on thousands of missions, saved dozens of SEAL and other American lives, and risked his own daily. Helped to the U.S. by the SEALs he protected, Johnny Walker's life is so remarkable that his tale reads like fiction. But every word of it is true. For the first time ever, a "terp" tells what it was like in Iraq during the American invasion and the brutal insurgency that followed. With inside details on SEAL operations and a humane understanding of the tragic price paid by ordinary Iraqis, Code Name: Johnny Walker reveals a side of the war that has never been told before.
Book 8 in The Wells Fargo Trail series. Zac Cobb and Jenny Hays travel to the old Russian capital in Sitka, Alaska, hoping to help Jenny's sister and uncle. But when the uncle turns up dead, they find themselves in a battle for their own lives.
Book 1 in The Wells Fargo Trail. A series of payroll holdups puts Zac Cobb on a dangerous trail that leads to a confrontation with powerful underworld figures.
Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. "Yellow Cars" describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. The canary-colored local streetcars formed the inner-neighborhood lines between a vast rail network of main lines known as the "interurban" system, primarily the Pacific Electric Railway "Red Cars," which spiderwebbed throughout Los Angeles County and into Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. Rail tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington consolidated several independent lines into this great interurban empire. He sold it in 1910 to the Southern Pacific Railroad, keeping the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars. These evocative photographs illustrate travel during decades of change, progress, economic setbacks, war, and postwar retrenchment, when streetcar service was taken over by bus lines.
The story evolves from the personal experiences of the writer, from his deep (forty years) research and discoveries of quantum cone vortex. Once into awareness, he reveals the techniques of connecting and triggering the "Act of God" events. He formulates the "mysteries" of self-fate programming. He explains how the government, religion, finance, and science are interconnected, for the first time in history. His research deep dives into the Bible, yoga meditation, wave-particle quantum physics, and into occult, the metaphysics. He is not just theorizing about life events; he is proactively changing the events in biblical proportions. He becomes the miracle creator by thought and by action, the trigger man, who can only relate to the higher dimensions and to cosmic intelligence. The formulas he writes may seem similar to previous theoretical physicists, but they are his own concept, given the examples of his work and e-mail prior to "God's Particle/Boson" announcement by Peter Higgs on July 4, 2012. The quantum cone vortex diagram and its connection to yin and yang with annihilation and creation, related to cosmic spiral sequence of four sixes may seem absurd to earth fourth-dimensional thinkers, but it is backed by facts by the author. His prediction of the next flood is backed by errors in time measured by Mayans and Nostradamus. Once a person is elevated to the vortex in quantum cone, with zero weight/gravity and when time stops in quantum reality, then he or she will able to be awarded with all possibilities to create or destroy. The writer imitates the out-of-the-box thinking of God, but he is not comparing himself to cosmic intelligence. He just uses the quantum energy (in form of dark and light energy, he calls Satan and God for convenience). The examples are powerful and convincing. The reader should not just observe the author's human encounters to get to quick conclusions. It is a manual of how to think without fear. Once the fear is eliminated, the mind is open to deep into subconsciousness and to build the awareness, where all possibilities are unrestricted, and to rise to the sixth cosmic dimension, God.
Volume 1 (Easy) of a dynamic four-book series with CDs offering in-depth study and practice tips for the young flutist. Master Lessons have been created by Jim Walker from popular Belwin library solos. Each solo has been newly edited to reflect proper breathing, ornamentation, phrasing and articulation. Jim Walker performs each piece, and there are play-along accompaniment tracks. Titles are: Minuet (J. S. Bach) * Poeme Petite (James C. Lewallen) * Notturno (James C. Lewallen). This title is available in SmartMusic.
Pastor Jim Walker noticed that people remembered words when they rimed, as in a song, or in a poem. He then began to write a weekly poem for the back side of the church bulletin to note the highlights of his sermon for that day. The purpose was to enable people to remember the major points of the sermon. Many of the poems are about life, such as "Rolling Through Life," and "Hitch-hiking to Heaven." Many of them are about Bible teachings. Some are from the stories Jesus told, like "The Good Samaritan," and "The Prodigal Son." Some are about human nature, such as "Excuses," or "The Case For Common Sense." Some are about our country. You'll find many different important subjects treated poetically in "POEMS from the PIONEER PULPIT." This book is a collection of 165 "sermon poems." It is the hope of the author that some of these poems will strike a spark and light a fire in the heart of those who read them.
Inspiring Greatness in Education examines the Independence School District's adoption of Edward Zigler's School of the 21st Century education model. This is a story of what schools can achieve when administrators, principals, teachers, staff -- and partners such as local nonprofit and faith-based organizations -- unite in commitments to best serve their community, and take bold steps to make it happen.
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organisation? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no-one even noticed. What happened? The whirlwind of activity required to keep things running day to day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. The 4 Disciplines of Execution can change all that forever. The 2nd Edition, with more than 30 percent new content, presents a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing your most important strategic priorities. Used by more than 100,000 teams around the world in business, government, and education, the 4 Disciplines are forever changing how teams and organisations achieve their most important goals. It represents a new way of thinking essential to thriving in today's competitive climate, making this a book that no business leader can afford to miss.
This book looks at what has actually happened when new technology has been deployed in an industrial and commercial environment. It considers the economic impact of new technology on three groups of organisations: firms, governments and trade unions.
When his family accidentally leaves him in a strange town, Kat the dog must look for a new place to belong. As he travels from place to place, he receives gifts from those who have little but are willing to share with a "friend" in need. At the end of his journey, Kat not only finds a loving, new family, he then learns of the ultimate Gift of love--God's Son. Parents and children alike will delight to read this warmly illustrated bilingual book that reinforces the concepts of our love for each other and God's love for us. About sixteen years ago Jim Walker started writing short stories about growing up in a large family. Widely published in local newspapers, these humorous and poignant stories led him to write this first in a series of stories about Kat. Jim, his wife, Marilyn, and his dog, Kat, live in Jonesboro, Louisiana. Wendy Walker Silverman received her bachelor of fine arts (studio art) from Louisiana Tech University. Her murals and decorative paint finishes can be found in homes in Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana. Wendy is working on a series of paintings that she hopes to exhibit in the near future. Her work can be seen at www.fetchingstudio.com. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, son, and two dogs. Kat's Journey is her first picture book.
April Wolff, a young Mennonite schoolteacher, returns home to find her family farm looted and her father dead, and sets out to enlist the help of Genreal Robert E. Lee in finding his killer.
Written by a published poet and a published author for aspiring authors and poets, Poetry Report provides practical advice for every writer who dreams of becoming published. Guaranteed to inspire, Poetry Report is the only guide you'll ever need. You will learn: Alternative forms of poetry so you can choose the right form for you; How to create unique themes for your poetry; How to improve poetry skills through exercises; What publishing alternative is best for you; Why it is important to market the poetry proposal, not the book; How to choose the right publisher; How to protect yourself with publishing contracts; Why book promotion is the poet's best friend.
Two brothers on opposite sides of the law overcome a lifelong feud when an Indian ambush forces them to run a ferryboat down the rapids of the Colorado River
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