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Author: Mary Joyce Baxter Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1780885679 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 216
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Life As It Was tells the tale of how an ordinary family lived in the pre-war, wartime and post-war years. It tells how they survived the troubles they encountered and how their lives were altered by the war. “When I was a small child, I little knew how my life would change in a few short years. My family moving was unexpected but brought many changes to all our lives. Somehow we lived through these changes and learned to deal with the problems in our own ways. When I look back over the changes that have happened since the end of World War Two, I realise that we gained an independence which we would probably not have done if the war had not happened,” says Mary. Life As It Was is her family’s story, starting with her mother and father’s renting of their house and the introduction of Mary and her siblings to their family. Mary’s memories start at age three, with the birth of her younger brother David, and she recounts their lives. “I recollect many of the important incidents in my life mainly because something often happened to remind me of the incident. Looking back, these scenes remain almost as vividly in my mind as they were on the days they first occurred,” says Mary. The book will be enjoyed by fans of autobiographies, and those particularly interested in wartime tales.
Author: Mary Joyce Baxter Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1780885679 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Life As It Was tells the tale of how an ordinary family lived in the pre-war, wartime and post-war years. It tells how they survived the troubles they encountered and how their lives were altered by the war. “When I was a small child, I little knew how my life would change in a few short years. My family moving was unexpected but brought many changes to all our lives. Somehow we lived through these changes and learned to deal with the problems in our own ways. When I look back over the changes that have happened since the end of World War Two, I realise that we gained an independence which we would probably not have done if the war had not happened,” says Mary. Life As It Was is her family’s story, starting with her mother and father’s renting of their house and the introduction of Mary and her siblings to their family. Mary’s memories start at age three, with the birth of her younger brother David, and she recounts their lives. “I recollect many of the important incidents in my life mainly because something often happened to remind me of the incident. Looking back, these scenes remain almost as vividly in my mind as they were on the days they first occurred,” says Mary. The book will be enjoyed by fans of autobiographies, and those particularly interested in wartime tales.
Author: Elizabeth Peirce Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467122815 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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Quaben, the Nipmuc Indian word for many waters, was the name originally given to the area of central Massachusetts that is now known as the Quabbin Valley. The abundance of ponds, lakes, and streams in the region made it an obvious target for those seeking new water sources to supply the escalating population of Boston in the late 19th century. However, the little towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott that were established in the area stood in the way. Following an act of the legislature in 1926, these towns were disincorporated, and the 2,500 inhabitants were given modest compensation and ordered to leave. By 1938, the former towns were flooded and stood at the floor of the reservoir, which held the potential of 420 billion gallons of water to be outsourced eastward. Never to be forgotten, the story of the lost towns and their former residents are displayed through artifacts housed at the Swift River Valley Historical Society in North New Salem.
Author: Beth Shapiro Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 1541644158 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It, this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from early dogs to modern bacteria modified to pump out insulin. Indeed, she claims, reshaping nature—resetting the course of evolution, ours and others’—is the essence of what our species does. In exploring our evolutionary and cultural history, Shapiro finds a course for the future. If we have always been changing nature to help us survive and thrive, then we need to avoid naive arguments about how we might destroy it with our meddling, and instead ask how we can meddle better. Brilliant and insightful, Life as We Made It is an essential book for the decades to come.
Author: Will Leitch Publisher: Arriviste Press, Inc. ISBN: 0974627003 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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Every company he works for goes bankrupt. His landlord just kicked him out. His parents think he's a failure. He can barely scrape up enough pennies to take the subway. And he's still dealing with his fiance leaving him on national TV. Welcome to the world of Will Leitch. In this hilarious collection, Leitch takes us on journey from small-town Illinois to the madness of Manhattan and back again.
Author: Bill Burnett Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 110187533X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 274
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
Author: Girolamo Cardano Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 9781590170168 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 322
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A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait—a book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography.
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