Spectacular scenery. Intriguing history. Home to renowned artists, musicians, film makers, actors and authors. Bucks County beckons. Carl LaVO, award-winning journalist, takes the reader on another journey through some of the most interesting, scenic and historic spots in his second volume of Bucks County Adventures.From the famous like the Marquis de Lafayette's emotional farewell tour of Bucks to the place where Ben Franklin flew his famous kite in Bensalem. Along the way you'll visit interesting, obscure and rather odd sites, each with its own history to tell. Like the grandest estate ever built in the county, and the Upper Bucks village where the sun seldom shines.If you are looking for a guide to the county's wonders, want to read about its historic places and people, or just enjoy beautiful photography, you'll find Vol. 2 of Bucks County Adventures the book for you.
CANINE COURAGE CHAMPS speaks to the enormous challenges of being a kid in an uncertain world. Ten chapters reveal ways to nurture one of the most critical life skills of all: RESILIENCE. Stanley & Walker, along with their crew of family, friends, and classmate pups, learn ways to cultivate courage and cope with illness, family crisis, financial instability, lifestyle disruption, academic struggles, personal insecurity, social issues, bereavement, unanticipated change and overcoming failure. Young readers learn that they, too, can be CANINE COURAGE CHAMPS.
In CANINE KINDNESS CHAMPS - part of the Stanley and Walker action/empowerment series-this lovable crew of pups discover strategies for combatting bullying in everyday situations. Ten chapters featuring the antics of Stanley & Walker teach kids to be supportive allies, foster emotional and physical safety, avoid gossip, be aware of warning signs and speak up against cyberbullying. Young readers learn that empathy, kindness and compassion are the cornerstones of advocacy. That's what makes them CANINE KINDNESS CHAMPS.
SURVIVORS OF THE DUMPING GROUNDSAfter abject suffering, the loss of their family, and the misery of the workhouse, during the Great Hunger, Irish orphans Maeve and Emer Dannaher are sentenced to indentured service to a strange continent on the other side of the world. They live in servitude, as do the continent's original inhabitants, and survive, despite hardships that would have crushed others. Follow the lives of the brave Dannaher sisters, who find adventure in the colonies of 1850's Australia; encounters with "The Wild Colonial Boys": the First Nation Clans of Aboriginal people; the hardy diggers of the gold fields; the unique flora and fauna of the rugged outback, and even love.
In The Power of Change, Patrick Middleton shows with clear and convincing evidence that the antidote to self destructive behavior is discovering and cultivating self awareness, which leads to self understanding, ego control and the gradual end to impulsive decision-making. To help readers better understand the concept of self awareness, he provides simple, but profound insight into the workings of the "unaware" mind, drawing on personal experiences and vignettes collected over his 49 years of incarceration. A refreshing aspect of The Power of Change is Middleton's ability to empower and inspire the reader without placating, sugar coating or using psychological jargon that only a therapist would understand. With both humility and optimism, he readily acknowledges that life ¿ especially life in prison ¿ is difficult, demanding and often an uphill challenge. And he does so neither in a condescending nor self aggrandizing manner. Nor does he claim the suggestions in his book will make all problems go away, but, he writes, "once you become aware that you are aware, you will have the confidence to know that the power of change is in your hands."Each of the book's 28 chapters presents a different life situation that is designed to connect readers to practical ways to discover and cultivate self awareness, and to learn to Be in the present. Chapter titles reflect the wealth of wisdom and practicality of this well-written book; for example, "Be Honest with Yourself," "Become Aware of What You're Thinking," "Resolve Your Bitterness," "Here's What You Have to Feel if You're Truly Sorry," "Discover the Present and Be in It," "Raise Your Self Standards," "Practice Empathy," "Develop a Support Team," "Acknowledge Your Success," "Live Every Day With a Purpose." Included in each chapter are carefully crafted exercises for incorporating the chapter lessons into one's everyday life.The Power of Change is a must-read for every prisoner who desires the mental tools and knowledge to bring about responsible, lasting change in their lives. An inspiration, this book is a gift to humankind, easily read and one that will be dog-eared, underlined, and revisited by readers time and again. Every friend and family member of an incarcerated person will want their loved one to have this book.About the Author: Patrick Middleton has been incarcerated in Pennsylvania since 1975. From 1978 to 1990, he was a full-time student in the University of Pittsburgh's in-house college program at Western Penitentiary on the North Side of Pittsburgh, achieving scholarship status throughout his 12 year student tenure. In 1990, he earned his Ph.D. in Instruction and Learning, becoming the first and only prisoner in America to earn a Ph.D. in a classroom setting. He has taught undergraduate and graduate students in both the University of Pittsburgh and Villanova University's in-house prison college programs. He is the author of two instructor's manuals in psychology; a memoir, Incorrigible; and a literary novel, Eureka Man.
The clinician-patient relationship is an unapologetic reminder that clinical practice is an applied science, and that clinical knowledge only becomes useful through human interaction and application. Through dialog, the relationship serves as a powerful conduit for information flow. This text, utilizing stories of successes and failures I have journaled over 44-years practicing medicine, argues that there is hidden knowledge important to patient care beyond technology's reach that can only be gained through mutual trust, rapport and the right questions asked. But there are many external factors that constrain and strain the clinician-patient relationship. Institutional and cultural restrictions foisted upon medical practice are laden with bureaucratic, political, and economic demands which impinge upon time spent with the patient. Correcting the situation is challenging because many of the causative factors are of a societal nature and not within one individual's influence. But nurturing the clinician-patient relationship and harvesting information from patients' stories that may explain conflict, impasse, resistance to plan of care and lifestyle changes is well within our scope and is in fact necessary for good care. As such, it is the clinician's job to develop skills for impasse resolution and interview techniques to explore the personal, family and cultural relational dynamics and nuances of meaning, lying within the illness narrative. While physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others are well-trained to take inventory of the body's biological systems, practitioners often lack the skill set to ask "the right questions" for exploring psychosocial systems, and therein lies the pedagogic vacuum to be filled. It is the purpose of this text to introduce a meaning-based problem-solving approach, The Circle of Change, as a pragmatic map and compass for gathering and processing patients' narratives to uncover meaning and care for
JFK's election in 1960 got America moving again. Time has come today. The Sixties Student Movement and its moral politics of SM, SNCC, and MLK led after JFK's death to LBJ's political and democratic will to pass the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and his Great Society programs. Start the Sixties with JFK and his youthful flare and charisma. In the Middle Passage of the Sixties praise LBJ's political will and MLK's moral charisma to finally reconstruct a Great Society of black and white, of freedom north and south, or greater economic equality amidst prosperity. Praise LBJ's Great Society but blame him for the Rolling Thunder over Vietnam and an unwinnable war from Danang till TET, 1965-1968. The Student Movement ended in Chicago with Days of Rage and the Townhouse bombing when more radical groups like the Weathermen, Progressive Labor, and the Black Panthers took it over, much like Nixon elected ended the liberal movement of the Sixties with law and order. Nixon did nothing to end the Vietnam War as thirty thousand US soldiers died before him and thirty thousand died during his time in office. A cease-fire ended the war in 1974, when Nixon resigned his corrupt presidency with Watergate, after which America would not return to Vietnam. The unwinnable war ended in 1975 with North Vietnam winning. The Movement ended with Nixon's election. There was much protest of US soldiers fighting the Vietnam War from 1965 till its end in 1975, ten years of involvement America regretted over there and here at home. For the Movement people who grew up in SM and SNCC and liberal politics when Nixon won a landslide victory in 1972, it looked like an end of progress forward. With Watergate Nixon was ousted but not brought to justice. America moved on. Students in the Sixties Movement moved on with their lives. They crossed over to career and family. They grew up with the healing process of this time, 1969-1976, and coming back home they chose to make the personal living of a life more political.
This book is meant for the construction of you becoming the absolute best version of yourself. It's not fiction, but it does focus on the positive side of various life circumstances. The central Theme is God's Power, Love, and Mercy through Jesus Christ. When you need some fruitful life advice, then this is the book for you. Every entry in this book should stimulate thought provoking, conversation causing, and people building communication. You will be encouraged, uplifted, and have a greater positive perspective about life and more equipped to handle the tough times.
Let LBJ continue the reform programs of JFK. With passage of Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we have high hopes for the Great Society, for social justice in America, and equality for one and all. Education is high on the list with Headstart, special ed, aid to secondary school, Jobcorps, Upward Bound, Title VII for women, Pell grants for college, Peace Corps, Alliance for progress, and Vista. Help the cities, the aged, and the poor with Model Cities, aid to depressed regions, community action, maximum feasible participation, housing, vehicle safety, crime control, consumer product safety, community action programs, medicare, medicaid, increases in minimum wage and social security, truth in labeling and packaging, pollution control, beautification for Nature's sake, Baker v. Car for one man, one vote, National Foundation for the Arts and PBS, a fair immigration act, conservation, and the space program. The Great Society is FDR's New Deal completed. But like a big city mayor there's something for everyone. Included for the loonies on the right, a War in Vietnam begins with the bombing campaign called Rolling Thunder. Great Society idealism will be lost in the war over there. Protest of the war will expand to majority proportions. Violence will be stirred up as the war comes home. There are ghetto uprisings to protest a Great Society which is not so great. Violence will be evident in Richard Speck's killing of 8 nurses, Charles Whitman's killing spree from the U Texas Tower, and Truman's Capote's In Cold Blood. No Satisfaction, Paint it Black, turn to drugs and psychedelia, revolution's in the streets, and in 1968 it all comes apart with TET and assassinations of MLK and RFK. Nothing to stop the War in Vietnam but Nixon peddles his law and order ideas for here and over there. The middle passage of the Sixties Movement, from 1964-1968, takes us from hope to despair in five years flat.
Most humans think Costa Rica has no army or other armed forces because Costa Rica has no human armed forces. The country has an active security force. I, General Loth, am in charge of the forces. Sloths, birds, animals, frogs, etc. observe the forest. Caimans and crocodiles watch the river entrances. Birds patrol the coasts as well as scanning the skies and the rivers. Since our forces are so numerous, there are always sufficient numbers on alert to be ready for anything. La mayoría de los seres humanos cree que Costa Rica no tiene ningún ejército ni otra fuerza militar porque no tiene fuerzas humanas. El país tiene fuerzas activas de seguridad. Yo, General Loth, estoy encargado de las fuerzas. Los perezosos, las aves, los animales, las ranas, etc. observamos el interior. Los cocodrilos y caimanes observan los ríos. Las aves patrullan las costas además de observar el cielo y los ríos. Como nuestras fuerzas son tan numerosas, siempre hay suficientes para estar listos para cualquier cosa. - General Loth
Life is full of contrast and contradiction. There is nothing so sweet and juicy as a tree-ripened peach, yet the shame of a peach tree switch on bare young legs can be cruel and damaging. In the title poem, "The Peach Tree", Spier shows us how she learned to practice moderation for fear of allergy or addiction. Spier posits one must compromise for the sake of all other human beings. One must curb one's desire for more and more, in order that all survive. She looks to her memories of art, tragedy, and the love of people gone by, for life's lessons in what the Buddhists call the "middle way".
The love sonnets of Shall We Try Again? were inspired by life-coaching sessions with couples about to be married, where it became apparent to the author that a lack of communication skills could torpedo a relationship. This collection of poems is dedicated to relationships-the good, the bad, and the ugly. What happens after we fall in love? What are the pitfalls? Love and attraction do not happen in a vacuum-we all bring our baggage to the altar of the relationship. Shall We Try Again? is the voice of believing we can fix it, that love and togetherness can overcome personal turbulence. This is not a "how to" book for fixing relationships in trouble. It's simply a small prism, a reflection of who we are.
Harper, Alabama, is one of those tiny college towns where nothing bad happens. The population blooms every fall with fresh young faces, the students bright and eager to learn, and settles back into a gentle hum each summer as the year-round residents are left to their gardening and barbeques. Until, one day, that quiet breaks.There is a senseless murder-and then more. And Police Chief Grady Noland is challenged to find what links a teenage friendship, a family's poisoning, a jailbreak, and an abusive ex-spouse. Can he, before someone else dies?Author Mike Thorne, himself a professor in a sleepy college town for years, was inspired to write the crime novel Harper's Bizarre by two horrific murders in his hometown. In real life, they happened decades apart, but in his fiction, Thorne weaves them together to explore new possibilities of plot. Fans of Thorne's previous crime novel, Murder in Memory, will recognize Harper and some of the town's inhabitants.
Co-Contributors: Rosetta Johnson, Evangelist Carolyn Mackey-Perry, Gail McPherson Mizell, Minister Rosiemariea Thomas, and TaNina. SimmonsWomen of Diversity is book about strength, courage, faith, deliverance, and overcomers. It is a compilation of testimonies recommended for women of all ages. However, this book is highly recommended for the "significant others" of women. In this eloquently, well-written book, eight women from different walks of life come together with one common bond which is their love for God and a commitment to empower and encourage all women to recognize that they too, are God's beautiful Queens.Each chapter of this heart-warming and self-revealing book will render the reader speechless and misty-eyed. From the opening chapter to the final word on the last page, the reader will be on the edge of his or her seat with jaws dropped and asking, "How did this person survive all of this?" In her very own unique and courageous way, each author in Women of Diversity braves the tears, hurt, pain, embarrassment, and shame. They all went back in time and revisit a dark and traumatic period of their lives in hopes of being able to help another woman today to heal and get her breakthrough.
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a sailor searches for belonging. Carrying the burden of wreckage from the war, unable to go home to Wisconsin where he is wanted for a crime he committed on graduation night, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery. Over the course of many years, he travels across continents, looking for a safe and welcoming place. But not everything is as it appears, and the key to his quest may be found back in Vietnam, with the woman in whose arms he sought comfort. Beautifully crafted, melancholic, wistful and deeply real, Walker's Shadow is an illuminating exploration of what it means to begin the healing of a shattered life.
How can a family afford to travel out West through 13 states in 13 days with less than $1,500 during tough economic times? By holding on to their adventurous spirit and each other, by bringing along their own homegrown food supply, and by sleeping in a camper, showering at truck stops, and finding creative entertainment and budgeting options along the way. Add in being chased by a bear, getting lost in the wilderness, exploring their Native American ancestry, and engaging a precocious 12-month old, and the stakes and fun keep adding up in this humorous, heartwarming journey.
Retired, widowed, and depressed. Sounds like an uplifting story, right? From those dark places come an amazing story of love lost and love found. Roger and Cybil meet in a place they visit regularly and find they have nothing in common, except the loss they have suffered. And an amazing attraction. Yes, even in their 60's, there is attraction and respect. Some really are rich, while others just have money. Enjoy this tender story!Roy Patton Jr. has been writing stories for years. During his daily walks in the countryside of Upper Michigan, while driving semi-trucks all across the country and while "wintering" in Texas.
Our nation is still reeling from the 346 fatalities suffered on two flights of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes, the first in May 2017 and the second in March 2019. These are just one of the series of costly and deadly consequences of defective products described in this book. Besides the Boeing 737 planes, the examples of bad products include automobiles, electrical energy networks, pipelines, bridges and other large structures, banks, drinkable water, and financial services. While the immediate or proximate causes of the disasters have been bad design or bad production, the root or underlying causes have been bad corporate management and business cultures caused by corporate leaders. The final five chapters provide short essays on product design, production, quality control, management, and culture and what the leaders of our private companies and government agencies might do to reduce the pitfalls that have led to so many defective products and their dire consequences.
A young African American man had a vision to bring forth an education system that he himself had never experienced. The existing education institutional system never addressed his self esteem, nor encouraged his quest for academic excellence. People of color were never looked upon or considered note worthy of recognition in or out of the classroom setting; for that matter, society in large part erased the acknowledgement of people of African origin, along with all others peoples of color. They, along with the majority of people of color, have been fundamentally omitted from historical text, therefore declared invisible in the annals of time and thereby denied their rightful and deserved greatness. What was assigned to them in historical studies has been minuscule in nature and often demeaning.He recalled this disparity having begun to take hold/surface around the third grade in his public school lesson plan. What was often highlighted was Slavery; the Civil War; Emancipation by President Lincoln; Jim Crow and the Civil Right Movement. Africans were deemed never to have any history of any significance nor importance, for that matter, prior to their contact and eventual enslavement by Europeans. That is quite the contrary as Renaldo would subsequently come to realize, as he sort to educate himself on whom were the true African peoples of the world. It was his past educational encounters, which were to later ignite this dream to create a Charter School platform in honor of the African University known as Sankore, located in the town Timbuktu of the Mali Empire. Declared to be the world's first university of higher educational learning.
DO NOT VISIT THE AMAZON, MACHU PICCHU OR THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS (UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THIS BOOK)The Amazon. Machu Picchu. The Galápagos Islands. Considering a vacation to these desired and exotic locations? Perhaps you need to read this book first. Part travelogue, the reader will delight in the itinerary that thousands of tourists follow each year. Part cautionary tale, the reader will discover pitfalls that can befall the savviest and best prepared traveler.Lo Siento is a humorous but informative take on the best that Peru and Ecuador have to offer and is recommended for the undecided traveler. If you have a significant other who is determined to tour lands that offer certain danger, you will go unless you can make the better case for not going. Lo Siento offers many convincing arguments-cleverly disguised as chapters-to come to your senses before it is too late.Hopefully, it won't do that because there are better arguments to go. Visiting the Peruvian Amazon, Machu Picchu and the Galápagos Islands will dispel myths and change the way you think about the world. Lo Siento portrays lands of intense natural beauty populated by people of indomitable character. Lo Siento makes the case to visit them straightaway. To wit: What we call civilization will soon erase many of the ways of the indigenous people in Peru. See them while you can. Dance with them while you can. Hold a baby sloth while you can. Dare to experience unique gastronomic adventures. Maybe pass on eating a smoked monkey, but feast otherwise.
A local basketball hero comes to a sad end. An aging movie legend's power ebbs. A once promising artist reaches out to an old friend with astonishing results. A long-divorced couple meet for the last time. When his brother dies, his only sibling considers their life-long relationship. The author wonders who will remember his long-dead beloved grandfather and muses about his own mortality. These short stories and poems explore the human heart with empathy and insight. Writing that is personal and universal.
Facing the grave dangers of a triple-threat, the CIA is on its heels. CIA Agent Dave McClure and his Special Operations teams face deadly action at a Chinese base hidden in the mist-covered Blue Mountains of Jamaica to German terrorist team attack on a strategic missile base near the western forests of Wyoming, and finally to Berlin, Garmisch, and the German Alps where, to top things off, intelligence sources warn the CIA of a plot by cabinet members in Germany to arrest the Chancellor, overthrow the government, and invade Poland and the Czech Republic. The CIA must act fast and forcibly to avoid the outbreak of World War III. This white-knuckle thriller will keep you glued to its pages.
Go back in time to your youth, reading pulp sci-fi magazines at the five-and-dime and Clark, Asimov, and Bradbury at the library. Remember how those stories transported you into the future-and importantly, away from your present reality. With Colossal Tales of the Future, J.F. Smith speeds readers into a fantastical future, all while evoking memories of the past and commenting on current events. Mad scientists, robots, and AI running amok, space operas bringing the drama, secret agents and evil wannabe overlords scheming, and shaggy-dog time traveling stories poking fun-all this and more are in Colossal Tales of the Future, which includes some of the best short stories from Smith's previous three books plus brand-new tales.Colossal Tales of the Future is a true storyteller's book. Each story to the point and fun to read, they're the product of Smith spinning a yarn aloud and being told, "You should write that down." And everyone who loves thrilling sci-fi should read these.
Men of the Maryland 400, August 27, 1776Courage Determination, Patriotism and Love of CountryYoung men from all walks of life chose to fight and sacrifice for a land they believed was blessed by God and very special. Young men who came together for a cause driven by faith and honor to save and ultimately protect this special, precious land we call the United States of America.These young men were the first to have uniforms, the first to receive training to face the greatest Military force in the known world at the time. The British Elite were the best known Military Force in all of the known world at the time. It is difficult to imagine what the young men were thinking.This book is not so much about the many horrendous battles fought during the years of the American Revolution. It is to thank and commend the young men who fought and the sacrifices of their families. Our heartfelt tradition of honoring all of our brave military people continues today and hopefully long into the future.God bless, honor and remember all
The Music That Makes Me Dance is a collection of poems that will encourage readers to listen to their inner music, the music of the heart. On some days that personal song might be a lilting melody that encourages a slow somber dance. On others perhaps you hear a dirge during which standing and moaning is an appropriate response. The poem, "African Dancing," inspired by the poet's lived experience, will find in you a memory that will make you twirl and spin like a child's old-fashioned spinning top. Whatever you hear or feel, standing still while your heart accompanies you in song will not be an option. The Music That Makes Me Dance will leave you moved and moving.
Cindi Camponotus is a particularly astute carpenter ant who lives in a rotten log with her 200,000 sisters. Her reports range widely from pandemics and treason to White House spies and the WEE-TOO movement. She reports on politics and the conspiracy to end humanity. Cindi's forte is the creation of inter-specific treaties that allow her tribe to escape being eaten. Her characters are true to their scientific names. Any correspondence between her reports and the antics of humans is in the mind of the reader, much like satire.
When Jingle arrived at the house, he was a nervous wreck. The only thing that kept him calm and happy was walking six to eight times a day. In a short time, Jingle had met all the animals in the yard, all the neighbors and became the best dog. He was the most famous dog in East Goshen Township! Come follow his walks and meet Jingle's animal and human friends, including Bacon the Groundhog and Rosie the Cocker Spaniel. And don't forget to stop and rest at his favorite spot, Jingle's Bench.
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