Pettigill was, you might say, in tune with the world. It wouldn't even have been an exaggeration to say the world was in tune with Pettigill. "Well, Bartle, as you know, the Center -- the Melopsych Center, a thoroughly inadequate name for the installation I might say -- is the point of broadcast for these many taped musical selections contrived by Mass Psych as a therapeutic treatment for the various Echelon levels. It is the Great Psychiatrist -- the Father Confessor. For where can one bare one's soul, or soothe one's nerves and disposition frayed by a day's endeavor, better than in the tender yet firm embrace of music?" Then somebody struck a sour note. . . .
Sam Evinston, 47, real estate broker and Vietnam veteran, apparently makes a successful recovery from lung cancer surgery. However, knowing that the cancer could possibly return, gives him a feeling that time may be running out, a feeling he had experienced often during his combat tour in Vietnam many years before. As a result he makes an extremely difficult decision to divorce his wife, Jean, to whom he has been married for more than 24 years, to free him to find Sharron Casey, a beautiful Australian girl he had met and fallen in love with during two brief weeks in Sydney, Australia, while on leave from the war in Vietnam. They had planned to marry when his tour was finished, but after returning to Vietnam he had never heard from her again though he continued to write to her. Upon leaving the army, he returned to his hometown in Iowa. After several unsuccessful attempts to contact her by phone he considered flying to Sydney to try to locate her. However, he finally decided that perhaps it was best if he tried to put it behind him and go on with his life without her. It might have been different if he had not met Jean, an attractive brunet home from the state univesrsity for the summer. After spending the summer with her and believing that his feelings for Sharron were over, he married Jean and they moved to Florida where their son, Mark, was born. But over the years, despite a reasonably good, though sometimes uninteresting marriage, Sam had never forgotten the beautiful Australian girl he had loved so passionately nearly 25 years before. During his recovery from the cancer operation, the desire to see Sharron again grew ever stronger. Even though he realizes that if she was alive she would probably have a husband and family and that there could be nothing for them at this point in their lives, he is determined to find out what happened to her and why he had never heard from her after he left Sydney. After filing divorce papers, since he felt it unfair to Jean to search for Sharron while still married to her, and turning over most of his real estate business to his son, Sam flies to Sydney to be begin a search that will eventually take him to Turkey and Portugal as well as locations in the states as he gradually narrows the 25-year gap. As Sam continues to search for her, Sharron's life throughout the years is gradually revealed. She had never heard from him either and when she unexpectedly discovers the reason why, it is too late. She does not even know where he is, and since she has married she feels she has no choice but to go on with her life without him. But she has never forgotten the young soldier, the only man she ever really loved, and she never stops looking for him.
A disputed news story and a mass stranding of deepwater dolphins on Florida's central gulf coast bring together Dave Bradlee, Public Information Director for the Dolphinarium, and Kate Hammond, an environmental writer. She is critical of keeping dolphins and other animals in captivity, telling him we are all stewards, or should be, and have a duty to protect them. Despite their disagreement and the fact that he is married, they have an affair. Not wanting to lose her, Dave tries to show her that he is a good steward, both to the captive and wild dolphins. But he becomes so intent on keeping Kate in his life, that he neglects the stewardship of his own family and suffers severe consequences.
Unlock your full potential with this revision guide that will guide you through the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the Building Services Engineering T Level core exams. - Plan your own revision and focus on the areas you need to revise with key content summaries and revision activities for every topic - Understand key terms you will need for the exam with user-friendly definitions and a glossary - Breakdown and apply scientific and mathematic principles with clear worked examples - Use the exam tips to clarify key points and avoid making typical mistakes - Test yourself with end-of-topic questions and answers and tick off each topic as you complete it - Get ready for the exam with tips on approaching the paper, and sample exam questions
Unlock your full potential with this revision guide that will guide you through the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the Onsite Construction T Level core exams. - Plan your own revision and focus on the areas you need to revise with key content summaries and revision activities for every topic - Understand key terms you will need for the exam with user-friendly definitions and a glossary - Breakdown and apply scientific and mathematic principles with clear worked examples - Use the exam tips to clarify key points and avoid making typical mistakes - Test yourself with end-of-topic questions and answers and tick off each topic as you complete it - Get ready for the exam with tips on approaching the paper, and sample exam questions
These stories give a sharp and sensitive picture of the taim bipo - the time before self government, let alone independence, had been dreamed of ..." - back cover.
This is Volume 5 in the seven-volume set, Classic Martian Stories. Classic science fiction stories included in this volume are:1. Duel on SYRTIS, by Poul Anderson2. Stand By For Mars!,by Carey Rockwell3. The Beast-Jewel of Mars, by Leigh Brackett4. The World of the War God, by George Griffith5. A Fishing Trip on the Planet Mars, by P. H. Sidney6. My Trip to Mars, by William Ferguson7. One Martian Afternoon, by Tom Leahy8. The Man the Martians Made, by Frank Belknap Long9. The World is Born, by Leigh Brackett10. Starman's Quest, by Robert Silverberg
A Classic Father-Daughter Love Story by Colonel Tom Kelly. Selected Childhood chapters from; Dealer’s Choice, Better on A Rising Tide, A Year Outside, The Boat, & A Few Loose Chapters. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale, her infinite variety.” -William Shakespeare
In the summer of 2006, the NFL’s most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited Tom Callahan “inside” the Giants organization to experience a season—Accorsi’s last—from the front office, the locker room, the sidelines, and the tunnel. Tom made no promises, except that he’d bring to the project the same fairness and thoroughness that characterized his acclaimed Unitas biography, Johnny U. The result is a remarkable book that is at once a chronicle of a tumultuous season and the story of the NFL over the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of a man who has dedicated his life to football. The Giants started the season with high expectations, hoping to ride the talent of players like Eli Manning, Jeremy Shockey, and Tiki Barber to the Super Bowl, but the team quickly fell apart due to injuries. The GM goes far beyond the specifics of a single season, though. In a marriage of two great raconteurs, one lobbing stories and the other neatly catching them, Callahan and Accorsi—writer and subject—show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, and the peculiar role of today’s general manager, who must be part seer, part accountant, balancing psyches and salary caps. At its essence, The GM is the story of the job—of what it means to be the guy who makes the decisions . . . who’s second-guessed by fans and the media . . . who must deal with endless—and sometimes impossible—expectations. Filled with the vivid anecdotes and storytelling that made Johnny U a surprise bestseller, The GM doesn’t just illuminate. It inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.
A father (Tom) hears his son Richard say, “School is OK except I don’t like learning numbers or arithmetic.” After dinner, Tom sits with Richard and tells him a story of a kingdom long ago where the use of numbers is forbidden by King Kcaj and of the chaos that ensues because of it. As Tom’s story unfolds, he hopes to instill in Richard a sense of the importance of learning numbers, counting, and arithmetic along with other life lessons.
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism. Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban politics from Tom Hayden's unique position as an observer of Cuba and as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts to mobilize political change in the US mirrored the radical transformation simultaneously going on in Cuba. Chapters are devoted to the writings of Che Guevara, Régis Debray, and C. Wright Mills; the Cuban missile crisis; the Weather Underground; the assassination of JFK; the strong historical links between Cuba and Africa; the Carter era; the Clinton era; the Cuban Five; Elián González; and the December 17, 2014 declaration of normalization by presidents Obama and Castro. Hayden puts the present moment into historical context, and shows how we're finally finding common ground to the advantage of Cubans and Americans alike.
This volume uncovers Barth's and Bonhoeffer's influences on one another and reads them side-by-side, revealing the insights both theologians bring to today's secular and religious context. Greggs addresses the meaning and the extent of salvation, God's relation to time and eternity, sin and confession, and inter-faith dialogue for a church that critiques its own practice of religion. This is a lively exploration of the implications of two great theologians' work for a completely secular and religious world.
Tom Stanton's The Final Season offers a powerful memoir of fathers, sons, and the end of a baseball era. Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances are good that if you're a baseball fan, your dad had something to do with it--and your thoughts of the sport evoke thoughts of him. If so, you will treasure The Final Season, a poignant true story about baseball and heroes, family and forgiveness, doubts and dreams, and a place that brings them all together. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, Tom Stanton lived for his Detroit Tigers. When Tiger Stadium began its 88th and final season, he vowed to attend all 81 home games in order to explore his attachment to the place where four generations of his family have shared baseball. Join him as he encounters idols, conjures decades past, and discovers the mysteries of a park where Cobb and Ruth played. Come along and sit beside Al Kaline on the dugout bench, eat popcorn with Elmore Leonard, hear Alice Cooper's confessions, soak up the warmth of Ernie Harwell, see McGwire and Ripken up close, and meet Chicken Legs Rau, Bleacher Pete, Al the Usher, and a parade of fans who are anything but ordinary. By the autumn of his odyssey, Stanton comes to realize that his anguish isn't just about the loss of a beloved ballpark but about his dad's mortality, for at the heart of this story is the love between fathers and sons--a theme that resonates with baseball fans of all ages.
Situates Australian cinema in its historical and cultural perspective, offering detailed critiques of key films from 1970 onwards, and using them to illustrate the recent theories on the cinema industries.
A 'sensational affair.. carried out with great audacity' - New York Times. An astonishing act of piracy, the capture of the British war ship, the Upnor changed the course of Ireland's Civil War. Flawless in its planning and execution, while Winston Churchill remarked on Irish 'genius for conspiracy', a furious Michael Collins accused the British of deliberately arming his enemies. Indeed, it's highly likely that the bullet that killed him originated in the Upnor. The Ballycotton Job brings this riveting story to life, its cast of disparate characters and strands of adventure beautifully woven together. This book sees events leading up to the capture as well as the consequences of the Upnor seizure discussed in detail. Based on years of archival research, it tells a unique story of both sides, Irish and British. The book's fast-paced narrative is enlivened by dialogue and details obtained from interviews with participants. Ireland teetered on the verge of civil war, the IRA splitting into anti-Treaty and pro-Treaty stance, Michael Collins and the Provisional Government on the pro-Treaty side. Cork's Sean O'Hegarty, the local anti-Treaty IRA leader, prevented Collins' National Army from entering the city. As the British evacuated soldiers and equipment back to England, O'Hegarty came up with a brilliant plan to capture the munitions en route. Commandeering a tugboat from the Royal Navy base at Queenstown/Cobh, they sped out of the fortified harbour on a mission. Simultaneously, over eighty trucks and lorries were hijacked all across Cork, leaving citizens mystified as to what was going on. In a clever ruse, the IRA squad captured arms ship Upnor, bringing it into the small port of Ballycotton. The village, now under the control of IRA fighters, witnessed the unloading of weaponry onto waiting lorries then driven off to secret arms dumps throughout Cork. O'Hegarty's men seized eighty tons of arms, subsequently distributed to southern IRA divisions during the Civil War. This audacious act of piracy caused a sensation. A field day for the newspapers, The Irish Independent called it 'an amazing exploit'; The Times 'a clever and daring coup'.
No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, ‘On Ops’ examines the massive transformation that has taken place since troops were deployed to East Timor 1999. After decades of inactivity and the ‘long peace’ of the 1970s and 1980s the Army was stretched to the limit. Contributors include John Howard and Peter Leahy as well as Craig Stockings, David Horner and an impressive array of military historians, academics, intelligence experts and ex and current Army.
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