The Unique Childhood of a Hummer

The Unique Childhood of a Hummer
Author: Lewis N. Rinko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: 9780578104324

HUMMER is a memoir that relives a boy's unique childhood growing up near Center City Philadelphia in America's little known, but extraordinary orphanage for fatherless boys. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain would have recognized much of a Hummer's life: physical punishment without any appeal for justice, some cruel conditions and humorous escapades and adventures roaming about the nation's third largest metropolis and the world's largest city park. A newbie quickly learns that, for the next 8 to 10 years, he can depend on only one person himself. From Fifth Grade on, he loses his first name and responds with his last or a number. No one even asks Did you do your homework? Hummers, from six to seventeen, are totally responsible for their decisions and actions."

Hummer

Hummer
Author: Michael Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1995
Genre: Hummer trucks
ISBN: 9781610590426

Hummer

Hummer
Author: Linda Gruenberg
Publisher: Kenda Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1990-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9789198631708

They call her Hummer because she does: all the time. At least whenever she's thinking of horses, which is pretty close to saying all the time. However, there is something Hummer avoids thinking of at all costs: why her father doesn't go in the house anymore, but sleeps in the barn, and why her mother neither bathes nor cleans house, or ever goes outside. Every time Hummer goes in, she holds her breath to avoid the smell of garbage. Twelve-year old Hummer is shy, quiet, and thin. But on horseback, she's fantastic. Her old pony Mike has gotten stiff and asthmatic. But one night Hummer catches an Arabian mare that has escaped. When the old-man owner turns up, he lets Hummer borrow the horse-call it a loan-and it is about to change Hummer's life.

Nekomah Creek

Nekomah Creek
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307538869

Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess of watch a filmstrip. But his teacher thinks he reads too much and sends him to Mrs. Van Gent, the schol counselor. Sheesh! Since when is liking books a problem? Meanwhile, some kids at school think it's weired that Robby's father stays home to take care of the twins while his mother works. Robby worries that, if his family is not like everybody else's, the authorities could take him away from them. When he learns that Mrs. Van Gent is coming to dinner, he knows she plans to spy. He's got to turn the Hummers into a normal family-now!

The Hummer

The Hummer
Author: Elaine Cardenas
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739114773

"[This book] is a study of America's most controversial personal automobile. Featuring more than fifteen essays, this collection analyzes the Hummer through a wide array of disciplines. The editors, Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman, have divided the essays into four groups: myth and space, myth and body, myth and discourse, and myth as vehicle. An introduction by the editors places the study of the Hummer in a cultural context." -- from cover, page 4.

Girl Unmoored

Girl Unmoored
Author: Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Publisher: Sparkpress
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940716077

Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she's about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus-the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who's suddenly everywhere, until she's stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens-Apron's broken teenage heart blinks on for the first time since she's been adrift. Mike and his boyfriend, Chad, offer her a summer job in their flower store, and Apron's world seems to calm. But when she uncovers Chad's secret, stormy seas return. Apron starts to see things the adults around her fail to-like what love really means, and who is paying too much for it. Apron has come unmoored, but now she'll need to take the helm if she's to get herself and those she loves to safe harbor.

Population Health in America

Population Health in America
Author: Robert A. Hummer
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0520291565

In this engaging and accessibly written book, Population Health in America weaves demographic data with social theory and research to help students understand health patterns and trends in the U.S. population. While life expectancy was estimated to be just 37 years in the United States in 1870, today it is more than twice as long, at over 78 years. Yet today, life expectancy in the U.S. lags behind almost all other wealthy countries. Within the U.S., there are substantial social inequalities in health and mortality: women live longer but less healthier lives than men; African Americans and Native Americans live far shorter lives than Asian Americans and White Americans; and socioeconomic inequalities in health have been widening over the past 20 years. What accounts for these population health patterns and trends? Inviting students to delve into population health trends and disparities, demographers Robert Hummer and Erin Hamilton provide an easily understandable historical and contemporary portrait of U.S. population health. Perfect for courses such as population health, medical or health sociology, social epidemiology, health disparities, demography, and others, as well as for academic researchers and lay persons interested in better understanding the overall health of the country, Population Health in America also challenges students, academics, and the public to understand current health policy priorities and to ask whether considerably different directions are needed.

This Is Water

This Is Water
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0316071005

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

Loving David

Loving David
Author: Gina Hummer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2011-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781466343306

What would you do if someone likeRyan Reynolds or Robert Pattinsonjumped into your car?That's what happens to Charlotte when out ofnowhere, gorgeous actor David King becomes her surprise passenger. Not recognizing him at first, the startled Charlotte's initial impulse is to mace him. But once she realizes who he is and that he's making an escape from a crowd of zealous fans, she puts away her pepper spray and thinks what a great story she'll have to tell her girlfriends! From there, the impossible happens: the two take tentative steps toward romance, and a relationship blooms. But Charlotte is a behind-the-scenes romance writer, and David is an in-the-spotlight and in-the-tabloids celebrity. Could it ever work?Charlotte's defenses drop one by one. Their agedifference doesn't really matter, and though theirrealities are worlds apart, they begin to becomeone. Just when everything seems to be leading toa storybook ending, David's past intrudes, andCharlotte has to wonder if his romance with fellowstar Olivia Hudson really is over.

The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2002
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.