Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man

Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man
Author: George Robbins
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491729295

Prepare to enter the mind of one man and share some of his experiences in Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man. In this collection of essays, author George Robbins touches on a variety of subjects that affect many of our lives?driving, sports, politics, family, and even his fight with depression. The events are depicted as he remembers them, though he has done his best not to embarrass friends and family. With straightforward honesty, he shares some of his deepest thoughts and beliefs on a wide rage of topics. For example, he explores how he and his wife handled their children with humor. Although his recollections aren't always fun, he does try to find a humorous side whenever possible?even when it's at his own expense. He refers to himself as ?a piece of work? and ?a work in progress? throughout the book, explaining his reasoning for this view of himself. From road rage to raising children, Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man offers one man's honest thoughts?possibly a bit more honest than most. Robbins recalls his sixty years, including the good, the bad, and the unbelievable.

Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man

Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man
Author: George Robbins
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491729309

Prepare to enter the mind of one man and share some of his experiences in Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man. In this collection of essays, author George Robbins touches on a variety of subjects that affect many of our livesdriving, sports, politics, family, and even his fight with depression. The events are depicted as he remembers them, though he has done his best not to embarrass friends and family. With straightforward honesty, he shares some of his deepest thoughts and beliefs on a wide rage of topics. For example, he explores how he and his wife handled their children with humor. Although his recollections arent always fun, he does try to find a humorous side whenever possibleeven when its at his own expense. He refers to himself as a piece of work and a work in progress throughout the book, explaining his reasoning for this view of himself. From road rage to raising children, Ramblings, Rants, and Ravings of a Man offers one mans honest thoughtspossibly a bit more honest than most. Robbins recalls his sixty years, including the good, the bad, and the unbelievable.

Talk Gertie to Me

Talk Gertie to Me
Author: Lois Winston
Publisher: Lois Winston
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940795265

Two years ago Nori Stedworth fled the conservative mentality of both her parents and Ten Commandments, Iowa for Manhattan. She loves her new life—until one devastating afternoon that culminates with the arrival of her mother—complete with luggage, craft supplies, and a crisis of her own. Mom is suffering from middle-age meltdown. Her only identity is as a wife and mother, but her husband is a workaholic, and her daughter is halfway across the country. Grandchildren would give her life new purpose. Nori copes by resurrecting Gertie, her childhood imaginary friend, whose acerbic wit pushes Nori out of her comfort zone and into the arms of a way too good-looking radio station manager—much to mom’s dismay. She has other plans for her daughter. But when mom’s quirky crafts land her on TV, life for both Stedworth women takes an unexpected turn, and they learn it’s never too late to listen to your inner voice.

Martial masculinities

Martial masculinities
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526135647

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. This collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.

Stories at the Edge of Time

Stories at the Edge of Time
Author: Alan Robbins
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595471072

A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. In one of those stories, a man dies of radio while another finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on trial for a murder may be the victim of a faulty linguistic circuit. A retired astronaut who cannot get his footing, the last librarian on earth, tales of a future ghetto where surprise is still a possibility, and a mathematician whose brilliant insight continually slips his mind. These are few of the themes to be found in this collection of mystery science fiction tales in the speculative tradition of the satires of Kurt Vonnegut and the ironies of Jorge Luis Borges from the author of A Small Box of Chaos and the award-winning An Interlude in Dreamland.

Longman Synonym Dictionary

Longman Synonym Dictionary
Author: Longman (Firm)
Publisher: Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England : Longman
Total Pages: 1370
Release: 1986
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780582893221

English language dictionary of synonyms.

Roget's International Thesaurus

Roget's International Thesaurus
Author: Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1294
Release: 1962
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

Completely revised and brought up to date 240,000 words and phrases grouped by ideas.

Dictionary of English Usage

Dictionary of English Usage
Author: Robert J. Fitzhenry
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1994-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853263354

Oxford Thesaurus of English

Oxford Thesaurus of English
Author: Maurice Waite
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2009-08-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199560811

"The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.