Back-n-forth

Back-n-forth
Author: Leonard Belisle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0615207588

In a classic, personal story of faith and fortitude, find out what it was like to get up at 3:00 o'clock in the morning after three hours of sleep and then go out to fly an open cockpit biplane just inches off the ground at 100 MPH! From the view through a bug-splattered windshield (and over 200 COLOR photos) go BACK in time to see how seemingly unconnected events prepared a boy, and then a young man, to join this very exclusive club. Then go FORTH to experience the thrills of soloing a Grumman AgCat for the first time and later the chills of crashing through your first set of power lines! After that, keep on crop dusting Back-and-Forth for over two decades of hair-raising flying on the razor's-edge until your mind and body are finally spent and then...find out why it was all worthwhile. So let's cinch up our crash helmet, strap on our safety harness, light the fires, and go...BACK-N-FORTH!

Koasati Dictionary

Koasati Dictionary
Author: Geoffrey D. Kimball
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780803227262

Koasati Dictionary is one of the first modern dictionaries ever published of a language of the Muskogean language family, whose speakers formerly occupied mostøof the southeastern United States. When first met by Europeans in the sixteenth century, the Koasati people were living in Eastern Tennessee. In the early eighteenth century they moved to south-central Alabama and eventually migrated to present-day Louisiana, Texas, or Oklahoma. Today their language survives in southwestern Louisiana, where it is still spoken by the majority of tribal members living there. Published three years after Kimball?s richly detailed Koasati Grammar, this dictionary is the second of three monographs to result from his fifteen-year study of the language. In this work, Kimball provides the user with a substantial introduction outlining Koasati grammar and then organizes dictionary entries into two parts, the first arranged from Koasati to English and the second from English to Koasati. In addition to the English translations, entries in the Koasati-English section include sample sentences that illustrated word usage as well as illuminate traditional Koasati culture. Most of these sentences are taken from narrative texts. The dictionary, like Kimball?s grammar of Koasati, is an indispensable reference work for linguists, anthropologists, and historians?indeed, for anyone interested in the native culture history of the southeastern United States.

Carter & Lovecraft

Carter & Lovecraft
Author: Jonathan L. Howard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466866659

From author Jonathan L. Howard comes the start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV. Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case -- the hunt for a serial killer -- went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, but he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As he reluctantly investigates, he discovers that Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted inheritance.

The Sixth History of Man

The Sixth History of Man
Author: John Bershof, MD
Publisher: skynetMD, LLC
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2024-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN:

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series uses medicine as a jumping off point to explore precisely that, all history, all science, all human activity since the beginning of time. The jumping off style of writing takes the reader, the listener into worlds unknown, always returning to base, only to jump off again. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. The Sixth History of Man is the last narrative in the History of Man Series that uses infection as the underlying foundation. The series will continue but use other disease platforms for jumping off. From a human infection perspective, this sixth book will visit with the King of Pop Michael Jackson, vitiligo and propofol, the famous and infamous sexually transmitted diseases—herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomonas, HIV and the granddaddy of colorful stories, syphilis—with their very entertaining tales, a world of romance, suspense, and thrillers. We’ll hop from science to art to music, going back in time to the astronomy of the Persians, Syrians, the Greek Aristotle and on to Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler. Our travels will take us to the Renaissance of art and music, stopping along a few stations, such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Monet. A discussion of why and how humans went from spoken language to written language is on our menu. We will pay homage with another visit with the First Viennese School, parse senility, delirium, and dementia and most assuredly discuss the women who helped build Johns Hopkins Hospital. OK Boomers! and the sociology of cohort generations will help complete this narrative.

Binder Twine 'n Bandaids

Binder Twine 'n Bandaids
Author: D. D. Dunn
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780976308409

Comedienne D.D. Dunn's hilarious tales of growing up in 1960s Illinois on Dunn Movin' Farms. These entertaining stories include tales of slathering her brother's head with lard to free it from the tractor steering wheel and of almost hanging herself with binder twine in the ramshackle barn.

Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic
Author:
Publisher: Fuzzy The Cat
Total Pages: 66
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0967835267

Shorties

Shorties
Author: Louis S. Rupnick
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this reflective, light-hearted memoir, author Louis S. Rupnick chronicles his life’s journey, beginning with his childhood on Long Island and ending with the discovery of his life’s purpose, teaching. Long before his teaching career, however, a recently graduated, eighteen-year-old Lou takes off on a cross-country, Jack Kerouac-style road trip, with his trusty canine pal, DOG, and his ’56 Chevy, affectionately named Raunchy. As young Lou puts on more miles, he gathers more memories, wacky stories, and life lessons than he would ever imagine. Now almost sixty years later, Lou takes stock of his most significant experiences, from the humorous to the poignant to the downright extraordinary. About the Author Louis S. Rupnick was born and raised in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York. Rupnick was an auto mechanic and Child Protective Services investigator and case worker for many years before entering academia. He served on a minesweeper in the USN from 1964 to 1968. He served as Professor of Psychology and Sociology at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York. Now retired, Rupnick resides in Amelia Courthouse, Virginia.