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If you love fantastic stories, and don't mind a bit of squirming, Melanie Marshall has them for you right here. Find out what it was like to fly in the Himalayas and have a bee as a pet. When was the last time you hunted termites or came face-to-face with mad dogs? Ever get caught with your hand in the till and have to take some bitter medicine? (Don't do it.) Read about it instead. Meet a mouse that negotiates a truce between enemies!These are just a few of the stories that will steamroller you into disbelief. Pick any story. Be glad it never happened to you. Or, wish it had. Laugh and cringe in the same sentence. Go ahead, don't believe a single one. So what if they are true?Journey from Kathmandu, Nepal to Kensington, Maryland; Bobo Dioulasso Burkina Faso to the Swiss Alps and then to the ancient town of Carthage in Tunisia. Ladybug's perspective may be different, but the sentiment, faith and lessons from the school of hard knocks are not only touching, they are hard earned and remembered. And, best of all, hilarious.

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Fishing Industry Quotes"Gregg is the real deal. I've never met anyone who consistently puts record-sized fish in the boat like he does."KIP POLLAY; V.P. of Operations-Arizona Outdoorsman Magazine and www.azod.com"I've studied the feeding response in fish for over 22 years now. Gregg's ability to understand the habits of trophy fish is uncanny. Not since Doug Hannon; has there been such consistent trophy harvesting as Gregg's." TJ STALLINGS, New Product Manager-TTI Companies (Xpoint, Daiichi, and Tru-Turn Hooks)"Gregg has been at the top of the multi-species trophy fishing game for many years. The national spotlight has been shining on Gregg since his state record catch in 2002. He currently holds three Arizona state records to date."GREGG WEITZEL, Maurice Team Lead and Sales-SPROAS Field Staff"I've interviewed a lot of anglers and have determined that there certainly is a difference between being lucky and good. Gregg continually demonstrates his abilities as one of the most learned anglers carving a place in the GOOD category. I expect Gregg to keep his name in the record books." DON MCDOWELL, "Shake, Rattle and Troll" Radio ESPN Radio 860

The author was born by parents with divergent backgrounds the father from poor protestant and Irish Catholic parents and the mother with a genteel Southern Plantation heritage. He enters life in the Roaring 20's when the times were good and grows up in the depression of the 1930's recounting life in a big city - the good, the bad, the humorous and the sad that many families endeared. However, his independent and devilish nature will show that the Huckleberry Finn and Dennis the Menace types are alive and well and don't just exist in fiction form.

The Sac River flowed gently through the valley, circling Aldrich on the west. The author accompanied by his father, came from the city to make his home with Sara Dickerson. Charles, being ten-years old upon his arrival in Aldrich, would live with his grandmother until 1939, when he graduated from high school. The last frontier had passed in 1890. The population was about 120 million people. The stock market had crashed in 1929, and the U.S. was facing a major depression. The Aldrich Saga is set in a Bible-belt village of varied people; religious zealots, political pundits, town drunks, and all of the other kind that inhabit, including the church-going folk. It wsa the author's eight years with Sara that he was privy to so many pleasant stories, events and happenings. Halloween was celebrated with gusto in Aldrich, and the different personalities made news. There were the visiting Gypsies, the politikin of the town loafers, and the certain pseudo-intellaectuals who would trash Franklin Roosevelt, and make dire predicitons about Hitler being the Anti-Christ. Two misers in Polk County engendered much conversation. Medicine shows, drumming their wares in bottles that were suspect, brought laughs. There were the old gentlemen telling of their exploits in the Civil War, followed by WWI veterans who also got out their message. Clarence Alden was a superb ventriloquist that nearly scared a man to death by throwing his voice into a coffin that was being unloaded by men at the Springfield Frisco Station. The words of Solomon are interesting for people unfamiliar with him. The author being an ex-teacher presents his views on politics. Then, there is the snow bound train in 1918 that foundered on the way to Kansas City, as told by Ralph Dickerson. The story of the Aldrich Bank being robbed is told by the infamous Henry Star in 1908. The author remembers Granny's copper wire, the only dishonesty I can remember her committing, to keep the light bill to the one dollar minimum. Ralph Dickerson caught the Spanish Flu, which killed twenty three million people. Sara, with her mysterious medicines, cured him. There is also the story of Bill Akard, a world champion shooter, who had put on shooting exhibitions for the King of England and the Russian Czar, and who persuaded Henry Starr not to rob the bank. For many years the Aldrich village has been gone with the winds.

A Poet Gone Mad is a book of poems that addresses a lot of issues on the environmental, social and economical problems in the world today. Poems that express great concern about homelessness, prostitution, injustice related to the poor, crime, violence, gender and race.Some of these poems speak true to power to the total destruction of life if the continuation of ozone depletion, the dumping of industrial waste in the rivers, streams, ocean and deforestation. All of this is caused by government officials in the pocket of the corporations. The corruption and the hypocrisy of government. A Poet Gone Mad leaves no stone unturned. Poems advocating for animals' liberation in a way it have never been done before, exposing the cruelty and injustice done to animals that is seen as love. The constant murdering and butchering that is carried out daily because of human addiction to the flesh of these defenseless beings with such rhetoric "it gives us protein for our survival."The spice of love and romance is what favor A Poet Gone Mad. These poems of love was brew to help you grow, "I love you", must not just be words it must resignate feeling and emotion, caring and devotionA Poet Gone Mad also have sketches that depict some of its poems, almost every aspect of life has been touched by this marvelous book.

This book is excerpts from journal writing by a scholarly teenager moving into her twenties when deep-seated depression begins to override all other ambitions.Memories of sexual abuse as a young child, extensive therapy, difficulties in receiving mental health care, many suicide attempts, extended (and one traumatic) stays in psychiatric wards - all are chronicled in her journals.At the same time, she earned an Honours degree in biochemistry and then was refused entry to medical colleges across Canada, all of which increased the terrible vortex into a completed suicide.

Mocha Goes To Port Aransas is a child's book teaching safety when riding in a boat.The story takes place at Port Aransas, Texas, a cozy island and the main character is a gorgeous, Chihuahua dog named Mocha. Mocha and Tama, her owner, go on a boat ride early one morning and Mocha's new, colorful beach ball flies off the boat and she jumped out of the boat to retrieve it right in the middle of the ocean!Mocha goes deep in the ocean and some wonderful dolphins appear and actually save Mocha's life. Mocha is lifted up in the air and deposited right into her boat where Tama looks on with awe.Later Mocha returns to her home and tells all her friends about the wonderful dolphins that saved her life.

This is a wartime love story of two young people, brought together by terror and destruction in Croatia. Their journey starts in 1991, as the war begins to spread across the land. From the nightmare and blood being spilt, a deep love was born. For a love so right, yet so wrong, the quest for survival begins. Can they survive against all odds?That year, the war was spreading across the expanse of the former Yugoslavia. It lasted onlyfor a short period in Slovenia, but it blazed up in its full force in Croatia. The agitators brought back from Serbia, manipulated with the local Serbian population and together with the Yugoslav National Army, triggered the beginning of destruction, devastation and murder of civil Croatian society.Croatia becomes productive territory for hundreds of newsreporters from all around the world, and from there they inform their homeland stations of the terror appearing before their eyes. One of them is an Australian reporter Suzane Goudin, from her mother's side Croatian. She comes to Split, a town situated along the Adriatic Coast, where, right at the beginning of her journey meets a local newsreporter Mario Matovina. Up until then, Mario also wrote for an Australian newspaper whose owner was Suzane's father.Although Mario was happily married father of three children and Suzane Goudin, a young widow with one child, between them, from the very first start, a chemistry and a strong sense of attraction existed.Mario's father is the former general of Yugoslav's National Army, and in the previous days of aggression within Croatia, he feels shame for all the things that same army is doing to Croatia. He puts his personal experience and places it to his country`s disposal whom he had loved so greatly and would sacrafice himself for.He has a stroke and becomes chained to his hospital bed. In those dramatic moments between life and death, Mario awaits in his fathers presence for the worst.Although he loves his wife, Mario has a hard time denying and resisting the feelings he feels towards Suzane. At the beginning, it was all sexual attraction, which has with time developed into something much more deeper. The terror and nightmare of the war had made them closer. A love was born. Is it possible to love two women at the same time?The southern sky of Dubrovnik was not covered in starts any longer, but by granades and mines. Death spread across the old Dubrovnik's walls.During the artillery attack on Dubrovnik, Mario uses all his power, his body, his mind, his soul to protect Suzane. They go through hell, he is wounded, looses a part of his arm during the ongoing battle while Suzane looses her baby to him at Split's hospital. Although she was pregnant, he didn't know.Suzane departs for Australia, while wounded Mario goes back to his family. All over again, he starts experiencing love with his wife. In the year 1995, Suzane dies inFrankfurt form leukemia. She wished to die in Croatia, but death was quicker and beat her to it. She was buried in her native soil along the Adriatic Coast where her mother was from.Mario did not attend the funeral. He went the next day, when he could stay peacefully goodbye to his wartime love.The war in Croatia ended, right when this deeply moving love story did. The war had brought them together, but it also ripped them apart.

Every family has its secrets, its stories. I discovered ours one beautiful July weekend when my family gathered at a hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda, ostensibly to celebrate my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.When the sun went down that first evening, my parents surprised us all as they began to tell us for the first time what had happened to them 50 years ago. Amazed and astonished, we listened to them recount the details of their escape from Europe during World War II. Listening to these adventures, I was like a child entranced by a bedtime story. The heroes became more than my parents. They were Alfred (who was Jewish) and Laurette (who was Catholic), a young couple in love, whose world was suddenly blown apart the day the Germans invaded Belgium. Alfred was forced into a crowded cattle car and hauled off to an internment camp while Laurette remained behind in occupied Brussels with no idea of the whereabouts of her husband. The story of how the couple survived-- how Alfred escaped from the camp and Laurette left her family and everything she owned to join him in France, how they hid in a brothel in Lyon, escaped across the Mediterranean by freighter only to be detained in Morocco--- all this was beyond my imagination.My father had chosen Hamilton, Bermuda as the place to reveal their tale because it was the first harbor in the "New World" where he and Mom had landed after their long ordeal of running from the Nazis. As we were to discover, however, the landing in Bermuda was by no means a safe ending to their journey...

Hospital ships. Where did the concept of medical facilities afloat come from? Well, the idea is not exactly new. As early as 400 B.C. the city-state of Athens used them with their sizeable sea-going armada as Greece expanded its territory throughout the Mediterranean. Caesar's conquering armies used them as the Roman Empire extended its colonies and acquisitions in all directions. They were found among the fleets of the Crusaders and the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Both the British and French navies had hospital ships during the naval wars of the eighteenth century. Of course, the methods, equipment, and facilities in use then were quite primitive, but the idea of shipboard medicine was born and would grow and improve in the future.Centuries later in our own country a small 60-foot sailboat, the Intrepid was converted into a hospital ship in 1804 to serve in that capacity for the small American Navy. During the Civil War when the Union forces captured a Confederate passenger steamer it was converted into a well equipped hospital ship and served commendably throughout the war. It also had the distinction of being the first hospital ship to carry female nurses as part of the ship's crew.The Navy operated four hospital ships during the First World War and into the 1920's, during which time they began using the new designator AH (auxiliary, hospital) to indicate their function. The Relief was AH-1 followed by Solace, Mercy and Comfort. In the 1930's due to the Depression and budget cuts, Solace, Mercy and Comfort were decommissioned. However, a new Solace was added to replace the old one. Thus when World War II broke out the Relief (AH-1) and Solace (AH-5) were the only hospital ships on active duty in the United States Navy.The Solace was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, and did a commendable job in helping to care for the casualties of the sneak attack, good enough to be awarded the Navy Commendation Award by the Secretary of the Navy.When America entered World War II, providing medical attention that its fighting forces would require was high on the priority list. Shipyards began turning out hospital ships and eventually 13 of them (Benevolence, Bountiful, Comfort, Consolation, Haven, Hope, Mercy, Relief, Rescue, Samaritan, Sanctuary, Solace, and Tranquility) would end up serving in the combat zones of the Pacific.This book is respectfully dedicated to the Navy crew members, the Army 205th Hospital Ship Complement, and the American Red Cross hospital staff aides of the USS Comfort (AH-6), who bravely sailed into harms way to bring medical treatment to the casualties resulting from our war against Japan.

Tte--Tte. Hand to hand with destiny consists of five various parts. It is art prose, publics, memoirs of second WW, criticism and travel. All of these parts are the main theme on life of Russian immigrants in Canada. A beam severe, but kind soul I have found out Russian-speaking Montreal invisible up to me. I got the worthy and deserved people about whom it was necessary to write as heroes and as about prototypes of heroes for my prose.It is my second Russian book published by the Canadian publishing house Trafford. The first - an immigrant detective The Hunt for Money (2007 y.) told about a life of the post soviet immigrants on foreign land. As the bear-rod, alone, I have made it several years ago. The new book expands and deepens the maintenance and subjects of the first. This is all of that I lived all my last years. And much from this is easily recognized. Russian ÇTte--Tte. È . , , , . Ð . , . , , , Trafford. Ð Ç È, - 2007 , . -, , . . - ,

As a squad leader for the First Infantry Division (The Big Red One), Sergeant Meyer was involved in several major battles at Du Dop, An My, the Tet Offensive and Thu Due. This book describes the combat action as well as the daily routine of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. It neither glorifies nor condemns the war but highllights the sacrifices made by ordinary men.

Putter's Purple Power Toe is a humorous, fictional, 60-page chapter book for children ages 6 to 12 years (and older). It is written by Sue Olson Gee and illustrated by her nephew Nate Josephs. On his parent' s farm in 1958, a 10 year old boy named Putter stubs his toe on a mysterious purple rock in the woods while playing hide-and-seek. He is unaware that he now has magic powers in his purple toe, until his pet gerbil starts talking and his brother stops. Go along with Putter to his little two-room country school in Big Bend City, and relive some of the author's memories in that special haven in Minnesota. Follow Putter's exciting adventures through a year of carefully making twelve wishes and discovering that "good" wishes are the most rewarding.

Brian Rodgers dreamed of becoming a police officer from the time he was a child. Struggling to earn a college degree, financial pressures forced him from school and into a job as a dispatcher. Contending with supervisors that are prejudiced against him because of his race, Brian suffers a series of career setbacks that frustrate and disillusion him. A long period of unemployment and near despair conclude as Brian finds employment as a uniformed officer in a town where racial discrimination is not a factor and his path to success is secured.

A new collection of pipe music from a long-established pipe band based in the heart of Scotland's central belt, this first volume of tunes contains over one hundred previously unpublished compositions alongside a few previously published 'classics'. The vast majority of these tunes have been composed either by past or present members of Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band Association or in some cases by composers associated with the current members of the Association.Tunes by long-established composers such as Roy Smith (Denny and Dunipace) and Charlie Glendinning (City of Washington Pipe Band) are included together with new compositions by Mark Sutherland, Colin Shearer, Fraser MacIntosh (Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia), John Cameron, Lorne Brown (Kilsyth Thistle Pipe Band), Gregor Colville, Hollis Easter and Sandy Johnston.The Collection contains twenty-five jigs, eleven hornpipes, ten reels, nine strathspeys, nine slow airs and forty-four marches in assorted time signatures. That is, one hundred and eight tunes in total! Together with a brief history of the Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band Association and notes explaining the names behind the compositions this book will make an excellent addition to the music library of any piping enthusiast. All profits from the sale of this book will go to the work of Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band Association, Scottish charity number SC002801.

The Student Workbook provides exercises and a special Dictionary to teach how syllables are compounded in multi-syllable words, as well as the spelling patterns used in a variety of prefixes and suffixes.Over 3,000 multi-syllable words are included in the lessons.Lessons proceed in the following order: This is an ordered list.The nature of compounding using whole words: 'sunset' 'firefly'.Root word transformations for adding ing, and ed.Turning verbs into persons by adding er.Changing common root words (nouns or verbs) to other parts of speech: 'bright' - brighten, brighter, brightest, brightly.Reading and spelling words with adjacent vowel sounds: 'po/et' 'ra/di/o' - 'o/a/sis, vi/o/lent.Common prefixes and their meaning: de, re, pre, pro, be, e, im, in, em, en.Suffixes spelled alike but pronounced differently, such as: machine, refine, famine.The spelling of the 'schwa'* vowel at the beginning and ends of words: a/bout, a/gend/aThe spellings for 'schwa' vowels in the middle of words: redundant, benefit, hesitate, collect, industry.A Dictionary of 2,000 words with spelling alternatives for Old French, Latin, and Greek-based suffixes.Latin root words and definitions. Latin and Greek-based prefixes and definitionsWords of Greek origin with special spellings: myth, pneumonia, rhapsody, xylophone. *A "schwa" is the weakest, briefest vowel in a multi-syllable word. It is the result of 'sloppy' pronunciation and always sounds "uh". It has 5 main spellings.

The Earth is only a tiny cell within the body of the universe. There are billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars; we call our star - the Sun. One can only wonder what other names were given to the billions of suns out there. One wonders how many billions of planets support life, as we know it, or lives beyond our imagination. "Where the suns shine there is life" - reads the inscription on a circular bronze object dated 1122 - 1236 BCE (Chou Dynasty). Even though time is the greatest enemy of history, from which a huge chunk is missing, still there is enough information to put the jigsaw puzzle together. The ancient scriptures of many cultures, the artifacts, the paintings, and prehistoric cave art provide an abundance of proof. What about the stories passed on from generation to generation of the ancient tribes? How on Earth did so called primitive people from the Dogon tribe know and worship for thousands of years the visitors from the distant star that was only "discovered" decades ago. All of the above and more open the pages of a book filled with overwhelming evidence, that the planet Earth was visited by super intelligent extraterrestrial races since the beginning of times. The ancients knew it, saw it, and some could even explain it, all those magical encounters, unbelievable technology, amazing and unfamiliar appearances of the visitors, beguiling those who witnessed, they saw a glorious mighty power and worshipped it. The god has arrived! The stories multiplied and changed with the speed of light. Some ancients worshipped the Sun - the life giver, it literally is. I wonder where from they got that accurate information?! Hmm.... It is a fact that the star started it all and sustained it for billions of years. We are all so different; the human people, the alien people, all of the animal and plant kingdom, the planets, the stars, the objects around us, all so different in appearance, yet, all made practically of the same. We are and everything else visible and invisible truly the stardust. We are one. With all the information that is available, how ignorant it would be to think that the Earth is the only planet in the infinite universe that contains life. If it could happen here, it could and did happen on countless other planets, we just didn't find them yet. They found us instead. Not so long ago the belief was that Earth is the center of the universe, flat as a pancake supported by giant turtles. It is laughable now, but then, if anyone would try to question that ludicrous theory, one would die by the sadistic and brutal hand of the church. Millions forced to die in agony, in the fire of hate, ignorance and lie. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), one of the most brilliant and progressive minds of his time, was one of the many to die for the truth. If only a few like Giordano were given a chance to live, think and speak out then... our world would most probably be a better place now. The humans should learn from history, so not to repeat the same shameful mistakes, but do they?! Instead of creating wonders, the human mind is capable of, they savagely kill each other for money, oil, power, or land, which gets destroyed day by day, polluting the air, flattening the rain forests, contaminating the water etc... And after all this, they call themselves civilized. The human species have yet far to go to earn this title, and then maybe they will be ready for acceptance by an intergalactic community. Yes, the humans are still a primitive species, but one can't be too hard on them, as they are only in their infancy; some only a few hours in life, some weeks or months, in a cosmic scale. The advanced ones don't get burned at the stake anymore, but they suffer for the truth, by being ridiculed and sometimes even silenced. Who knows how long it will take for the human species to face the truth, decades, centuries, millennia, that is, if they don't destroy one other in the mean tim...

This book is just a collection of my thoughts and emotions through poetry. It is what I feel and what I think. I hope my words are not unheard, because I feel everyone has been saddened by loved ones and has lost loved ones. This book is for the understanding of life and the sadness we feel.

Danny wasn't about to step on that crazy rickshaw without his big brother, Gary. The last trip that Chiang had sent him on was to 1946 Montreal. While it had been the adventure of a lifetime, Danny felt very anxious about repeating the process. This time Chiang was talking about the Chinese railway workers in 1880's British Columbia. It sounded exciting but it really sounded dangerous. Within minutes, Danny would travel back 122 years. He and his brother, along with their new-found friends would battle the railway bosses in seeking justice for the Chinese workers. And the secret of Chiang and those mismatched eyes would finally be revealed.

At a time when the values of a money-oriented economy conflict with attempts to bring the values of well-being and quality of life to prominence, knowledge of trends in the development of values will help smooth the transition.The presented theory of changes in values connects perception of each value with one of seven "dimensions": from the value of distance, area and height, through the importance of time (time/money), into quality of life, community/togetherness, and finally creative thinking.While these predictions can be applied to all groupings of mankind, they are used here to describe the progress in multilingual Western European and North American society.History helps to explain the multidimensionality of our value judgments. For example, the importance of the value of DISTANCE was replaced by AREA (for crop growing) where hunting was superseded by seeding and harvesting. With the development of urbia, HEIGHT became a more dominant value.In the present we experience the supressingly dominant TIME-related value of money. More harmony will soon be achieved in the near future by the increasing acceptance of the importance of LIFE-related values which will bring improved health to all of mankind. Complementing these values will be an increasing emphasis on COMMUNITY and TOGETHERNESS, with meritocratic government, education in philosophical thought for the betterment of society, improved urban development, as well as environmental considerations.In the far future, the rising impact of CREATIVE THINKING will favor intellectual over physical objectives, leading to a merging of scientific and spiritual thought.

The making of a string instrument called a Bandura, played a significant role in the documentation of my grandmother's immigration (at the tender age of 14) and her settlement in Canada. From my memories as well as those shared with by my uncle, her son, the story begins, taking you the reader on that same journey across the ocean, weaving through past and present life events of my grandmother and me the writer. Hopefully, after reading this story, you too will be inspired to document your ancestral stories as well, to leave as a legacy for future generations. For, we must always remember the gifts our multicultural ancestor's left us, in their assimilation to the new world.ReviewsBook Review Iryna Konstantiuk"Excellent work, an unforgettable story! The story as told, is a refreshing presentation of a pioneer immigrantÕs adaptation and survival in Canada. This historical account of events,reminds one of where we've come from, and what it means to belong to this nation. It is a must read for every Canadian, particularly each successive generation of youth. I would recommend that this book be part of mandatory reading within our Canadian school curriculum!" Iryna Konstantiuk, M.A. Instructor, Department of German & Slavic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba

Finally. A Good Book On Building a Dulcimer.How does $29.95 sound versus $900.00 or $1,500.00? If cost is a consideration and you enjoy a good project, this book is for you! Full of photographs, illustrations, patterns, clear instructions and helpful advice, this book guides you step-by-step through the crafting of a professional model 15/14 hammered dulcimer with a floating soundboard. Randy "Ardie" Davis takes you through the secrets of building a hammered dulcimer that will look beautiful and sound even better. Materials, tools, suppliers, resources - all are covered in this thorough and easy-to-follow book.Over 185 pages of clear, proven instructions, incorporating Ardie's unique "Maker's Notes," "Maker's Hints," and "Maker's Cautions" that provide the reader with Ardie's years of woodworking experience. Ardie covers all of the tools used to make the dulcimer, and points out which are "nice to have" and which are essential. He provides a brief description of why and how each tool is used.Ardie's illustrations are comprehensive and easy to understand. He leaves nothing to chance or guesswork when it comes to explaining each step. From cutting the first board to stringing and tuning - he covers it all!An essential part of building a hammered dulcimer is the use of accurate patterns. Included in the book are pre-printed patterns for Pin Blocks, Treble Bridge, Bass Bridge, the Side Bridges, and a beautiful design for the sound hole. Simply tear them out, cut and tape together, and go to work!How This Book Is DifferentOther books exist on the craft of making Hammered Dulcimers, but they either give the subject short shrift, or are too complicated for non-engineers. Here are some good reasons to buy this book!In addition to his woodworking skills, Ardie has a Masters degree in English. This book is well-written and easy to understand. The text is clear and concise.The drawings and illustrations are designed for the amateur woodworker, not for engineers. They are helpful and easy to follow.The plan for this dulcimer is complete but not overly complicated. Ardie breaks the plan down into manageable tasks.The book is up-to-date with the latest information on hammered dulcimer suppliers, resources and publishers - including Web sites, emails, and other contact information.The book contains a complete list of tools used to build the dulcimer - with explanations of how and why they are used - and helpful descriptions of all materials required.This book is available in a special CD-ROM version that has 'QuickLink' hyperlinks to quickly take you to all Chapters and Headings, and to 50+ Dulcimer Resource and Supplier Web sites and Emails on the World Wide Web. All pages can be printed as needed for use in your shop!All registered book owners will receive access to a special Web page containing on-line resources and suppliers, helpful information, additions, corrections, FAQs, photographs and more!A special Foreword by master builder and performer, Mr. Dana Hamilton!

Straddling the Barbed Wire, and then one day during a really heavy racial tension project decided it was more like straddling electrified razor wire to be multi racial.........multi-cultural, multi-modality educated, seeing men AND women, NOT fights, seeing FAMILIES, not generational disputes. Seeing starvation, war, genocide, rather than what we, as humans could do on this earth each day, to help others, to maintain and restore nature, to create a better world for the next seven generations and pass that duty on.

Set in the artistic and literary Bohemian hey-day of Dublin in the 1930s and 1940s, Love in the Fast Lane is the passionate memoir of a young, aristocratic Irish woman's rebellion against convention and her awakening to love and her own sexuality. Former Christian Science Monitor columnist, writer, and noted Tarot card reader, Countess Joan de Frenay paints a vivid portrait of a hidden era in Irish history (long before the 1960s) when Dublin served as a refuge for a bohemian pot-pourri of draft dodgers, artists, film-makers, writers, out-of-the-closet homosexuals, drag queens, occultists, and proponents of utopian free love. Penniless but ever ingenious, the intrepid author and her beloved Pekinese named Wang, survive evictions, near-starvation, pre-Pill birth control in a staunchly Catholic country, pneumonia, gas meter readers, and Brendan Behan drunkenly gate-crashing her parties, as she searches relentlessly and uncompromisingly for truly requited love.

This story starts with a Dedication,an account of the Present Moment, a Prologue, followed by a detailed account of my Heritage which includes the O'Brien, Wilson and Mccaffrey families, 87 pages about my Mom & Dad and our life together, my early years, grade school and high school memories.

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In the anarchy and devastation in Germany of the immediate post World War II period, millions of non-German refugees poured out of German factories and off German farms and out of concentration camp system. They needed food, shelter, and medical care. Caring for these refugees was the daunting task of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Hundreds of quickly recruited UNRRA workers streamed into Germany in the months after the shooting stopped, driven to help the millions in need, and fired by zeal to rebuild the continent and the world. Susan Pettiss was one of the first American women to enter Munich, scant days after the city fell. Hers is the story of UNRRA and the displaced persons she worked with for three years.

A fun read for anyone fascinated with what's revealed in handwriting; analyzing the dominate writing strokes' trait meanings, and the attendant life situations. Requests for this kind of book emanated from a series of entertaining and informative lectures onboard three major cruise lines over the past four years and from many business, civic, and church groups of the past twenty years. Bold facing the named traits in the subjects' analyses and identifying the corresponding writing strokes of each subject, plus appendix aids to "Quick" analysis makes this an ideal book for the beginning student.The Author's Quick Analysis Offer, Josh Batchelder will provide a "quick analysis" of your writing. Preferred sample is done with ballpoint pen on a plain(unlined) 8 1/2" x 11" paper , on a pad, in cursive writing strokes (any subject, about 3 paragraphs), plus customary signature. The analysis will be the subject's dominate personality traits. For your "quick analysis" send $5.00(US) and proof of                       purchase in a postage paid return envelope to:                       Josh Batchelder                       PO Box 450525                       Atlanta, Georgia                       U.S.A 31145-0525 Comments About the BookThis is an ideal book for the novice in handwriting analysis. The chapter titles are clever and grab attention. The traits in bold type make it easy to identify the meaning of writing strokes. The book is fun to read and easy to follow. Most importantly, it is accurate.Elois S. Barrett, C.G.A. Certified Graphoanalyst (1973)Columbia, South CarolinaColorful characters and the author's benevolent interest in their failures, foibles, and successes are among the special qualities of this book.Nancy Elizabeth Sephton, Editor and AuthorBerkeley, CaliforniaI found Mr. Batchelder's presentation through example to be both instructional and entertaining. As a student of handwriting analysis I found that I absorbed the principles without even trying.Mike Goodman, Bike Shop OwnerAtlanta, GeorgiaThis unique collection of handwriting specimens and their accompanying analyses will provide, for those new this art, a fascinating inside look at the theory and complexity of the art of handwriting analysis. The author, Joshua Batchelder...ever a gregarious, optimistic, and enthusiastic student of human behavior, gathers a book full of interesting people and makes them even more interesting by his careful attention to their unique personalities as revealed through their handwriting.Amazon five star reviewReviewer: Harold Buehl from Norcross, GA USAEver wonder if your business partner is on the up and up? Is that fellow you're dating for real or does he possess other traits that might not be so pleasing? Josh Batchelder's book delves into the mysteries of graphology, the unique science of handwriting analysis.The book is made richer by the use of real life examples. The author guides you through each handwriting sample and teaches you how perform a mini-analysis based on certain common traits. The handwriting samples range from the humorous to t