A Lumpy Bed and Other Places to Not Sleep

A Lumpy Bed and Other Places to Not Sleep
Author: Howard Hull
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1524620300

The 77 essays in this book have been written by a man who has lived 84 years and an old cat that has shared his painting studio for a long time. There are no earth shaking events in them. Also, there are no murders, abusive husbands or wives, drunken drivers, blood spatters, cutup body parts, galloping horses, town tamers, or crooked sheriffs. Rather, they are descriptions of small segments of daily happenings. They are about living and loving and good relationships with all kinds of people. And about buying groceries, riding buses, walking in deep snow, military service, teaching students, sports, walking the road, making paintings, and the joy of putting words together to form thoughts. Above all, it is a book for a quiet evening of thoughtful reading.

The Home

The Home
Author: Frank R. Stockton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1873
Genre: Home economics
ISBN:

While Born During Wwii

While Born During Wwii
Author: Brunhilde Maurer Barron
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1456715224

You were born in a hospital? Hilde says as she lays down her black bread and cheese sandwich. She sits opposite me at my kitchen table. Looking up from my salad, I nod. Yes, I thought everyone by the 1940s was born in a hospital. Hell no. Hilde stares at me. In Germany I was born at home, on the couch, delivered by a midwife. Thus began the noontime conversations of an American housewife and a German cleaning lady about their contrasting lives during and after WWII. My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. While one thing is happening, so is another. While I wash dishes, Peggy, you dry. While we are in nighttime, someone is in daylight. While one person dies, another is born. While WWII began, two little girls were born and grew up in opposing countries and living in its aftermath. With this word while, we started this book of extreme contrasts, startling discoveries and sometimes striking similarities.

Cogina

Cogina
Author: A.B Syahid
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2014-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468943162

In this surreal vision of fleeting youth and sexual ambiguity, a 20-something convenience store employee circles around the abjection of life, wondering if he'd ever be normal again. The rare Cogina curse straps him on a roller coaster ride which only ascends towards uncertainty, a place where he can lose and find himself in a blink of an eye.

The Home

The Home
Author: Frank R.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 3368192345

Denise's Daily Dozen

Denise's Daily Dozen
Author: Denise Austin
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1599952610

From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can't seem to find the time. Much more than just another exercise book, Denise's Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12's. At it's core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it's own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday's "recharge and rejuvenate." Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they're all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time. Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
Author: Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674025677

All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner, has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why.