Author: Mabel Osgood WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Dogtown
Author: Mabel Osgood WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Dogtown after Dark
Author: Dean AtlasPublisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098062817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
It is very well known that Mid-Missouri is filled with an abundance of beautiful forests, rivers, lakes, and historical sites that serve as a reminder of simpler times. To drive through and look out your window, this area is still as quiet and as beautiful as it has ever been. You can see old general stores with people out front drinking coffee early in the morning before heading to work on the farm. Drive down a gravel road and you can see people still riding horses with the courtesy to wave like youaEUR(tm)re an old friend.This is all during the day. Things tend to change after dark. This collection of stories gives the reader a different perspective of a specific area that locals know as Dogtown. In Dogtown, acts of horror both by man and the supernatural occur making those who visit rethink ever visiting again.
The Edge of Everest
Author: Sue CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The author describes the Wyoming Centennial expedition to Mount Everest and describes the unique challenge presented by the world's highest mountain.
The Trail
Author: Oklahoma City Zoo
Author: Amy Dee StephensPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439646821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
What started as a small menagerie in 1902 officially became Oklahoma City Zoo in 1903. Journey through the second half century of its illustrious history in Oklahoma City Zoo: 19602013. Meet the staff and animals and explore the exhibits that propelled it from a third-class animal facility to one of the best zoos in the United States. In the 1960s, its animal population exploded as knowledge of animal care improved. The zoo soon assembled the largest-known collection of hoofed animals. Later, a rare mountain gorilla named MKubwa stole newspaper headlines, a third leopard escaped, and the zoo met its first cheetah babies. The opening of Aquaticus in the 1980s brought the ocean to the prairie in the form of a dolphin and sea lion show. Elephants, however, remain the queen attraction at the Oklahoma City Zoo. In 2011, the birth of the zoos first baby elephant baby, Malee, was a crowning achievement in its 110-year history.
Tony Hawk
Author: Michael BoughnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781894622028
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A biography of a young man who has revolutionized the sport of skateboarding.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book
Author: Anita SilveyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596433957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"What children's book changed the way you see the world?" Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book creators, novelists, illustrators, teachers... The lessons they recall are inspiring, instructive, and illuminating. And the books they remember resonate as influential reading choices for families. EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A CHILDREN'S BOOK--with its full color excerpts of beloved children's books, is a treasury and a guide: a collection of fascinating essays and THE gift book of the year for families.
Shadows Bright as Glass
Author: Amy Ellis NuttPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439150079
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an utterly inexplicable reason, a tiny blood vessel, thin as a thread, deep inside the folds of his gray matter had suddenly shifted ever so slightly, rubbing up against his acoustic nerve. Any noise now caused him excruciating pain. After months of seeking treatment to no avail, in desperation Sarkin resorted to radical deep-brain surgery, which seemed to go well until during recovery his brain began to bleed and he suffered a major stroke. When he awoke, he was a different man. Before the stroke, he was a calm, disciplined chiropractor, a happily married husband and father of a newborn son. Now he was transformed into a volatile and wildly exuberant obsessive, seized by a manic desire to create art, devoting virtually all his waking hours to furiously drawing, painting, and writing poems and letters to himself, strangely detached from his wife and child, and unable to return to his normal working life. His sense of self had been shattered, his intellect intact but his way of being drastically altered. His art became a relentless quest for the right words and pictures to unlock the secrets of how to live this strange new life. And what was even stranger was that he remembered his former self. In a beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Ellis Nutt interweaves Sarkin’s remarkable story with a fascinating tour of the history of and latest findings in neuroscience and evolution that illuminate how the brain produces, from its web of billions of neurons and chaos of liquid electrical pulses, the richness of human experience that makes us who we are. Nutt brings vividly to life pivotal moments of discovery in neuroscience, from the shocking “rebirth” of a young girl hanged in 1650 to the first autopsy of an autistic savant’s brain, and the extraordinary true stories of people whose personalities and cognitive abilities were dramatically altered by brain trauma, often in shocking ways. Probing recent revelations about the workings of creativity in the brain and the role of art in the evolution of human intelligence, she reveals how Jon Sarkin’s obsessive need to create mirrors the earliest function of art in the brain. Introducing major findings about how our sense of self transcends the bounds of our own bodies, she explores how it is that the brain generates an individual “self” and how, if damage to our brains can so alter who we are, we can nonetheless be said to have a soul. For Jon Sarkin, with his personality and sense of self permanently altered, making art became his bridge back to life, a means of reassembling from the shards of his former self a new man who could rejoin his family and fashion a viable life. He is now an acclaimed artist who exhibits at some of the country’s most prestigious venues, as well as a devoted husband to his wife, Kim, and father to their three children. At once wrenching and inspiring, this is a story of the remarkable human capacity to overcome the most daunting obstacles and of the extraordinary workings of the human mind.
The Generation New Poet Series
Author: The Independent and the Weekly Review
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description