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| Author | : Roger Olson |
| Publisher | : Seaworthy Publications Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781948494427 |
For most of his life, Roger Olson tried to fit into the "so-called" American Dream. He got a master's degree in Education and taught high school for 15 years. He got married and tried to have children, then an unexpected divorce shattered his world and made him take stock of the life he was living.He saw himself as not so much working for a living as living for a working. He needed a home to live in that was close enough to his work, so he was saddled with a mortgage. He needed a car to get to and from work, and of course, these things lead to needing other things, like fuel, maintenance costs, insurance, electricity, and much more.Instead, Roger Olson went a different way. He managed to buy a seaworthy sailing vessel, eventually quit his job and spent several decades sailing all over the world, principally in the South Pacific island archipelagos, Australia, and New Zealand. Roger is also the producer of the short film about his voyage entitled "Melanesian Adventure," now available on youtube.com.
| Author | : Sam Lucky |
| Publisher | : Ann Charles |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2022-10-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1940364868 |
This here place? Worse than the backside of Hades.” ~ Hank Varney First let me say, this here trip to Slagton weren’t my idea. This place is chock full of bad company done helped itself to a double dose of bad medicine. Slagton needs cleanin’, accordin’ to Miss Clem, and I know the crew to do it. I’m one of ’em. Hank Varney’s the name. Miss Clem and me, along with the two Sidewinders from Santa Fe—we’ll get the sharp-toothed vermin cleared out. Now, some people say I’m lucky, but I don’t know if’n it’ll do me any good, what with the army of trouble me an’ the crew are facin’. If’n we don’t live through it, well, there goes Deadwood. Maybe even the whole of the Black Hills. We’ll all be down the privy hole then, lookin’ up at the Backside of Hades.
| Author | : Peter Keating |
| Publisher | : Book Reality Experience |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2021-06-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780645153231 |
At the age of 57, Australian Peter Keating set out to sail, single-handed, across the Atlantic. This is his account, yet it is also the journey of each one of us, should we decide to peer over the horizon and strike out from safe harbours.
| Author | : Dr. J. Ellsworth Kalas |
| Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2011-10-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1426744560 |
In his popular series of books "From the Back Side," J. Ellsworth Kalas looks at Christian topics through a new lens, takes unique starting points on those subjects, and uses creative re-telling from different points of view. In Faith from the Back Side, Kalas explores something that is central in a Christian life but often difficult to understand. "We exercise faith every day, in hundreds of secular moments, then struggle to find it in its purest form when we need God’s help the most. The back side, indeed! Sometimes it’s the only side of faith we can seem to approach. Yet faith is nearer than our hands or feet, and more real than the air we breathe. It’s time we learned more about it." (J. Ellsworth Kalas, adapted from the foreword) A discussion guide is included for small-group use.
| Author | : Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2023-01-31 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1108900437 |
This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be affected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying or practicing in mental health professions will find a wealth of humanizing first-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will find a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving towards intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.
| Author | : Annette Monckton |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2013-02-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0987478702 |
Keeping sane, inside and out, outside and in, with a positive mindset!
| Author | : Tom Symington |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2024-05-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1039184650 |
Growing up in post-World War II Alberta in a stable, loving home, Tom Symington didn’t feel that he was “different.” Evading early pressures of romance and sexual exploration, repressing instances of name-calling (“femmy”), and hostility from schoolmates, Tom was almost able to believe in a world that valued the rights and freedoms of all citizens. From Calgary to Sierra Leone to France, this candid, heartbreaking memoir braids the evolution of gay rights in Canada with the life journey of one individual. Following high school, as Tom entered university and became a teacher, he was forced to reconcile his sexual orientation with the prevailing social and legal environment in Alberta, Canada, and the world beyond. As decades passed, “femmy” merged with “gay,” “queer,” and “LGBTQ+ community” in a rallying movement and an enduring struggle towards pride and self-acceptance against the current of societal expectations and discriminatory legislation. Not So Normal is as much a coming-of-age odyssey and a celebration of selfhood as it is a grave reminder that there is still much work to be done in the realm of human rights, and an urgent call to action to recentre love in our increasingly diverse and divisive world.
| Author | : Andreas Goedecke |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2014-07-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 370911506X |
Transient friction effects determine the behavior of a wide class of mechatronic systems. Classic examples are squealing brakes, stiction in robotic arms, or stick-slip in linear drives. To properly design and understand mechatronic systems of this type, good quantitative models of transient friction effects are of primary interest. The theory developed in this book approaches this problem bottom-up, by deriving the behavior of macroscopic friction surfaces from the microscopic surface physics. The model is based on two assumptions: First, rough surfaces are inherently fractal, exhibiting roughness on a wide range of scales. Second, transient friction effects are caused by creep enlargement of the real area of contact between two bodies. This work demonstrates the results of extensive Finite Element analyses of the creep behavior of surface asperities, and proposes a generalized multi-scale area iteration for calculating the time-dependent real contact between two bodies. The toolset is then demonstrated both for the reproduction of a variety of experimental results on transient friction as well as for system simulations of two example systems.
| Author | : Will Kostakis |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2017-10-31 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1488027838 |
Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people—the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they’ve ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ryan, Harley and Miles discover things about one another they never saw before, and realize there may be more tying them together than just Isaac. In this intricately woven story told in three parts, award-winning Australian author Will Kostakis makes his American debut with a heartwarming, masterfully written novel about grief, self-discovery and the connections that tie us all together.
| Author | : Brian Katcher |
| Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2010-11-09 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385736657 |
This winner of the first Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature will make you marvel at the beauty of human connection and the irrepressible nature of love. Everyone has that one line they swear they’ll never cross, the one thing they say they’ll never do. We draw the line. Maybe we even believe it. Sage Hendricks was my line. Logan Witherspoon befriends Sage Hendricks at a time when he no longer trusts or believes in people. He's drawn to Sage, with her constant smile and sexy voice, and his feelings for her grow so strong that he can’t resist kissing her. Sage finally discloses a big secret: she was born a boy. Enraged, frightened, and feeling betrayed, Logan lashes out at her–a reaction he soon desperately wishes he could take back. Once his anger cools, Logan is filled with incredible regret, and all he wants is to repair his friendship with Sage. But it’s hard to replace something that’s been broken—and it’s even harder to find your way back to friendship when you began with love. *** “Tackles issues of homophobia, hate crimes and stereotyping with humor and grace in an accessible tone that will resonate with teens.” –Kirkus Reviews “It is Sage's story that is truly important.” –SLJ “Teens—both those familiar with transgender issues and those who are not—will welcome the honest take on a rarely explored subject.” –Booklist “A sensitive examination of the seldom treated subject of transgender teens.” –VOYA
