In a portrait of Eastern Europe, the journalist describes how the land, economy, culture, and people have been changed by the political upheaval of the last two decades
This is a book of selected poetry. If you're from Zimbabwe and/or Jewish and/or grew up in the second half of the 20th century and/or never grew up, you'll hopefully find something that resonates!
One of the most famous images in western history is a photograph of the Wild Bunch outlaw gang, also known as “The Fort Worth Five,” featuring Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, and three other members of the gang dressed to the nines and posing in front of a studio backdrop. This picture, taken by John Swartz in his Fort Worth studio in November 1900, helped bring the gang down when distributed around the country by the Pinkerton Agency. It may be seen today as a prominent marketing image for the Sundance Square development in downtown Fort Worth. John, David, and Charles Swartz, three brothers who moved from Virginia to Fort Worth in the late nineteenth century, captured not only the famous “Wild Bunch” image, but also a visual record of the people, places, and events that chronicles Fort Worth’s fin-de-siécle transformation from a frontier outpost to a bustling metropolis—the ingénue, the dashing young gentleman, the stern husband, the loving wife, the nuclear family, the solid businessman, and so on. Only occasionally does a hint of something different show up: an independent-looking woman, a spoiled child, a roguish male. In Photographing Texas: The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918, historian and scholar Richard Selcer gathers a collection of some of the Swartz brothers’ most important images from Fort Worth and elsewhere, few of which have ever been assembled in a single repository. He also offers the fruits of exhaustive research into the photographers’ backgrounds, careers, techniques, and place in Fort Worth society. The result is an illuminating and entertaining perspective on frontier photography, western history, and life in Fort Worth at the turn of the nineteenth-to-twentieth centuries.
It was certainly not one of the authors primary goals in life to become an alcoholic, but it happened. This book takes you inside the authors head to show the reader how it happened. Alcohol is cunning, baffling, and powerful. This book takes you aboard the authors journey into alcoholism, as the author openly and honestly describes how for many, many years alcohol was the cure to all that ailed him (and there was a lot). But in the end, alcohol became the ailment itself. The author hopes that this book will help fellow sufferers understand what happened to themthe why and the how. The author also hopes it will provide friends and family of fellow sufferers with some insight as to why their loved ones cant really see whats happening and why they continue down their destructive path. It was a journey for the author that lasted longer than it should have but does have a happy ending. It is the authors hope that others can achieve a similar happy ending.
A wild and quixotic novel about real estate, marriage, and obsession. A House in Istriais a crazily comic novel about a man, his long-suffering wife, and his fixation with buying the abandoned house next door. But, in this Croatian region of Istria, the neighbors frown upon the husband as a Westerner who knows nothing about Balkan history or the area's deep blood feuds. "Forget that house," they tell him: "It's not for sale.
Since its settlement in 1769, Bangor's greatest resource has been its people. Long before 1834, when the town on the Penobscot became a city, future legends were born who transformed it into a world-class community. Hannibal Hamlin served as Abraham Lincoln's first vice president. Timber tycoon Sam Hersey financed urban development while less affluent folk such as Molly Molasses also made their mark. When philanthropists Stephen and Tabitha King are not writing best-selling novels, they are spreading their wealth throughout the community. Bangor's melting pot includes the Italian Baldacci family and the Jewish baker Reuben Cohen, who, with his wife Clara, raised their son Bill, a US senator and defense secretary. More infamous but equally legendary is brothel keeper Fanny Jones. Paul Bunyan earned a statue on Main Street. Airport troop greeters Kay Lebowitz and Bill Knight round out the list of notables. They are all jewels in Bangor's crown, and each in their own way is a bona fide legend.
As a society, we are far from thinking from an energy perspective. Stuck in this state, we are a full century behind and need to modernize our thought. Most of us have not ever been taught of quantum physics, and those who have were introduced into applied quantum physics instead of conceptual. The result being, people working on equations that have no personal relevance, but may be technologically useful some day later on. The implications of what we know of sub-atomic reality reshape how we interact with each other, increase our health consciousness, decrease our carelessness of what we think, increasing our awareness of our place within and interconnectedness with the environment. These essays, articles, and poems are a personal-spiritual synthesis, which may sound revolutionary, but its really nothing new. We've had for quite some time enough knowledge to create the paradigm shift we've needed to renaissance. This is one more voice towards critical mass.
Have you ever had a duck pointed at you? Do the living have to initiate necrophillia? Would you rather be a dreamer or a liver? How would you like to die? Asexual reproduction? How can you tell if a psychic is real? Did you know that if you ask for an application when being kicked out of a business they are required to give it to you? How can you win Roulette? What can be determined by a person's tone of voice? All these questions and more get addressed in some way in this book. A Miscellany/Anthology of random essays, sketches, poems and ruminations written primarily to amuse. Also Introduces Evil Corporate Labs.
Traces the history of the United States during the 1950s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
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