Author: Rick Reilly Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307793893 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
When a group of middle-class buddies obsessed with golf set up a bet to see who can finagle their way onto the nearby private course, their friendship is tested in ways they had never expected in this humorous novel from Rick Reilly, one of America’s most popular sportswriters. Missing Links is the story of four middle class buddies who live outside of Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to these municipal links lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major needle in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's finest and most courageous—Two Down, Dannie, and Stick—set up a bet: $1,000.00 apiece, and the first man to somehow finagle his way on to the Mayflower course takes all. Lying, cheating, and forgery are encouraged, to put it mildly, and with the constant heckling and rare aid of Chunkin' Charlie, Hoover, and Bluto--a few more of Ponky's elite--the games begin. One of the three will eventually play the Mayflower's course, but their friendships--and everything else--will change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left.
Author: Geoffrey S. Simmons Publisher: ISBN: 9780736917469 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The author of "What Darwin Didn't Know" presents his second work which focuses on evidence that millions of structures and systems on the Earth came about all at once with no preceeding, subsequent, or RsidewaysS links.
Author: Jeffery Donaldson Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773582118 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 507
Book Description
We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed in the nature of things. With examples from centuries of poets, critics, philosophers, and scientists, he details how metaphor is a chemistry, an exchange of energies forming and dissolving, and an openness in the spaces between things. He considers the ways in which DNA learns how to liken things that have been, how mutation makes errors and then tries them on, and how evolution is hypothesis - nature's way of "thinking more." The mind is a matrix of relations: neural synapses cascade into ever-changing pathways and patterns. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It is the unbroken thread between matter and spirit. Whether offering analysis of a turn of phrase or chemical reaction, Missing Link presents a vision of literature that is also a vision of the cosmos, and vice versa. It enters the debate between evolution and religion, and challenges scientists, literary theorists, and religious advocates to rethink the relations between their disciplines.
Author: Cindy Wimmer Publisher: Interweave ISBN: 9781596687073 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Explore the most fundamental and versatile--yet overlooked--component of jewelry design--the wire link! Unlike many transient jewelry fads, it is one aspect of jewelry making that is consistent and relevant to nearly every style. Get all the details of essential tools and wire techniques, as well as a collection of 30 custom links and step-by-step illustrated instructions for creating them. Join a variety of contributors that have created 15 jewelry projects, each incorporating one or more of author Cindy Wimmer's links. You'll see how any single link holds limitless design and functional possibilities. In addition to creating different links, Cindy will show you how to create different effects with the same link design by using or combining different colored wire, changing wire gauge, or changing the size of the link itself.
Author: William Stolzenburg Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1608196453 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment.
Author: Ph D Richard Gene Arno Publisher: Richard G Arno ISBN: 9780981489421 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
This book teaches accountability for each individual's actions and helps the reader understand who God created him or her to be. Our primary goal for providing this book is to help you understand the mysteries of God's wonderful creation of the human race. It teaches how His wonderful plan, for us as individuals, works and how it can cause every person to be happy and fulfilled during this life. It will aid you in developing and maintaining relationships with others, especially with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Author: Erica Pensini Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 3739651547 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
Iris’s life is way too perfect to be real. She’s always known, but when she finds a box of old pictures in the attic the curtains open onto a stage she could not have imagined. In a dark crescendo of unexpected turns, Iris seeks her own identity at the boundaries between science fiction and reality.
Author: Abu Abdur Rahman Faruq Post Publisher: Dar ul Ittiba ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 21
Book Description
I named this booklet "The Missing Links" because many of these statements are sometimes overlooked or forgotten. Hopefully these statements of our scholars will fill in the gaps and as the 'links of reconciliation' to bring our brothers from Ahlus Sunnah together once again and extinguish the fire of dissension, conflict, aggression, backbiting, and slandering which has been burning between some of them. One in need of Allah's forgiveness and mercy: Abu Abdur Rahman Faruq Post Dar ul Ittiba Publications
Author: Dewey Robertson Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1550227270 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
Written with candor and the wisdom of experience, this account tells of struggles with substance--and with self--and of strength both in and out of the ring for the wrestler known as The Missing Link.
Author: Rick Reilly
Author: Geoffrey S. Simmons
Author: Jeffery Donaldson
Author: Cindy Wimmer
Author: William Stolzenburg
Author: Ph D Richard Gene Arno
Author: Erica Pensini
Author: Abu Abdur Rahman Faruq Post
Author: Dewey Robertson
Author: John Reader