Kings of Texas

Kings of Texas
Author: Don Graham
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118039807

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American

The Fall of Sleep

The Fall of Sleep
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823231194

Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What does it mean to "fall" asleep? Might there exist something like a "reason" of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking "self" that distinguishes "I" from "you" and from the world? What reason might exist in that absence of ego, appearance, and intention, in an abandon thanks to which one is emptied out into a non-place shared by everyone? Sleep attests to something like an equality of all that exists in the rhythm of the world. With sleep, victory is constantly renewed over the fear of night, an a confidence that we will wake with the return of day, in a return to self, to us--though to a self, an us, that is each day different, unforeseen, without any warning given in advance. To seek anew the meaning stirring in the supposed loss of meaning, of consciousness, and of control that occurs in sleep is not to reclaim some meaning already familiar in philosophy, religion, progressivism, or any other -ism. It is instead to open anew a source that is not the source of a meaning but that makes up the nature proper to meaning, its truth: opening, gushing forth, infinity. This beautiful, profound meditation on sleep is a unique work in the history of phenomenology--a lyrical phenomenology of what can have no phenomenology, since sleep shows itself to the waking observer, the subject of phenomenology, only as disappearance and concealment.

Heart's Delight

Heart's Delight
Author: Elizabeth Winslow Allderdice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1879
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis
Author: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393323405

Provides a documented portrait of the well-known author.

1G -6T Part - 1

1G -6T Part - 1
Author: James Phillips
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1445263807

A young guy from a poor projects local authority housing estate is clever, and attends a top school-college and is offerred at 18 years old a job as an air force jet pilot-officer. However due to defence budget cuts he is transferred to an endemic corrupt non performing Police Service and then he has to come to terms with this corruption, which is the opposite to being an air force pilot officer and gentleman.He is in love with his council estate "princess" and their love endures to eternity as part of this book and the trilogy's love story.He gets promoted to sergeant by his clever policing and is offerred a university course in Criminology as an experiment by The Government to cut out endemic corruption in the police to make them more professional. He is awarded a bravery medal for risking his life and thereby scaring his darling fiancee.He meets a millionaire at a BBQ and they become friends.The book ends with him on holiday in Barbados at his villa, given to him by the millionaire.

Strip Naked and Re-dress with Happiness

Strip Naked and Re-dress with Happiness
Author: Maria Hocking
Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-01-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1910056812

Strip Naked & Re-Dress With Happiness is a handbook not only for surviving adversity, but for discovering how to thrive as a result. Maria Hocking’s own inspiring personal story is woven throughout the book, accompanied by ‘changing room tips’ - tools and techniques to help you understand your emotions and behaviours, and move through personal challenge. You’ll discover that ‘getting naked’ – losing what you used to take for granted - is an opportunity to let go of who you thought you were, and find out who you really are. Enter the changing room to change your mind and your life. Maria is walking, talking, pen pushing proof that these tips work, because she used them to change her own life. Within every challenge lies a gift, just waiting to be discovered: this book will open your eyes to help you find it, and discover a higher level of happiness as a result.

Outer Order, Inner Calm

Outer Order, Inner Calm
Author: Gretchen Rubin
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1984822802

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering, the beloved author of The Happiness Project shows us how to take control of our stuff—and, by extension, our lives. Gretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. But for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work. When we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits, we can find inner calm. With a sense of fun, and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people, Rubin suggests dozens of manageable tips and tricks for creating a more serene, orderly environment, including: • Never label anything “miscellaneous.” • Ask yourself, “Do I need more than one?” • Don’t aim for minimalism. • Remember: If you can’t retrieve it, you won’t use it. • Stay current with a child’s interests. • Beware the urge to “procrasticlear.” By getting rid of things we don’t use, don’t need, or don’t love, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value.

Fun

Fun
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1878
Genre:
ISBN:

Believe in Love & Joy: The Collection of the Greatest Christmas Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Believe in Love & Joy: The Collection of the Greatest Christmas Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 6684
Release: 2018-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8026898745

This holiday, e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As Joseph Was A-Walking The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Twelve Days of Christmas The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) The Christmas Angel (A. Brown) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White…

The Keys to Joy-Filled Living

The Keys to Joy-Filled Living
Author: Robert C. Jameson
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1614483973

In a gentle and spiritual approach, Robert C. Jameson, MFT, presents simple and powerful techniques that are intended to be used regularly to achieve joy in everyday life. You will learn how to truly love yourself and have a healthy, functioning, long-term relationship that makes your heart sing through time. He uses his experience of over twenty years as a Marriage, Family Therapist to explain, in simplified language, how to approach your fears head on, how to transform events from the past into stepping stones, how to change your negative self-talk, how to express your "negative" emotions so you don't hurt yourself or others, and much more.