Do I still matter?It's a question that plagues many of us at that awkward in-between age. Too old to be called middle-aged---after all, how many people live to be 110? But definitely too young to be elderly. Your roles, your body, and your life are changing. While that's nothing new, now you're less confident about your goals, your purpose, or your value. You're asking the question and you want an answer: Do I still matter?Kim Taylor Henry has expe...

"Taylor was a hunter and trapper at Painted Woods on the Missouri, has rare ability as well as opportunity for collecting material." -Ward County (N. D.) Reporter"Spent several years with the Indians, engaged in trapping and hunting was a familiar character with all old-time Steamboat men on the Big Muddy." -The Bismarck Tribune (1908)"A pioneer in the settlement of the upper Missouri river country, a hunter and trapper." - Bismarck Weekly Tribun...

In "The Marylebone Penny Readings and Their Critics," Henry Taylor meticulously examines the cultural and social phenomena surrounding the popular Victorian entertainment known as penny readings. This innovative form of public performance sought to democratize literature, offering affordable access to readings by prominent authors in London. Taylor's prose is characterized by its eloquent clarity, blending critical analysis with evocative descriptions, situating these readings within the b...

"Many noted scouts served with General Custer during his Indian campaigns, but his favorite of them all was Charles Reynolds, known as 'Lonesome Charley.'" -Mill Valley Record, December 31, 1921Known by Indians as the "White Hunter That Never Goes Out For Nothing" because of his hunting prowess, "Lonesome" Charley Reynolds (1842–1876) was a scout in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory. H...

The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which they were not, God knows, in the sense commonly taken. Yet perhaps they were such intellectually, or at least spiritually. Their terra—not for them incognita, though full of myste...

The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose love for a living man was thought out as keenly and as tragically felt as any heart-break of imagined lovers, and was impressed with as entire a self-surrender as ever ravished the soul of nun p...

The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose love for a living man was thought out as keenly and as tragically felt as any heart-break of imagined lovers, and was impressed with as entire a self-surrender as ever ravished the soul of nun p...

The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which they were not, God knows, in the sense commonly taken. Yet perhaps they were such intellectually, or at least spiritually. Their terra—not for them incognita, though full of myste...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Motorboat mechanics job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much...

This book brings research on taxonomy and natural kinds from the philosophy of science to bear on the science of perception. It defends a novel version of the property cluster view of natural kinds and uses it to explore many puzzling features of perception and cognition. It makes the case that natural kindhood is important for philosophers of perception, the methodology of psychology, and first-order issues in psychology itself. One of the book's central case studies is working memory. It...

This is book Is based on the life of a rookie policeman. Learning his job. What it entails and what it doesn't. Recently completing his military obligations. Seeking a honest way of making a living. Never realising how this job was more than just a job. Period!

When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and how she got there sets off a thirty-year saga of two diverse families. The little girl, Lourdes, is adopted by Danny and Maria Sanchez, a loving, poor couple, and the child flourishes with her own special talents and assistance by the town patriarch, William Barrett Downs the Third. Over a lifetime in An Honorable Place, we follow Lourdes Sanch...