A toe curling, laugh out loud collection of worst day disasters.*I’d always rolled my eyes when people describe things as 'happening in slow motion'. Surely everything happens in regular time and it's only when you replay it in your head that it seems to slow down?*But as the car lurched forward and I found myself sailing through the back of the garage, I finally understood what they meant.When a trip to meet his new girlfriend’s grandparents ends ...

A toe curling, laugh out loud collection of worst day disasters.*I’d always rolled my eyes when people describe things as 'happening in slow motion'. Surely everything happens in regular time and it's only when you replay it in your head that it seems to slow down?*But as the car lurched forward and I found myself sailing through the back of the garage, I finally understood what they meant.When a trip to meet his new girlfriend’s grandparents ends ...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTS (abridged list)CHAPTER I. GENERAL MAPCHAPTER II. MAP OF THE RIVERS BOGAN AND MACQUARIECHAPTER III. MAP OF THE RIVERS NARRAN, CULGOA, AND BALONNE TO ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, — SHOWING ALSO THE ROUTE HOMEWARD, AS DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER X....CHAPTER VIII. Fossils and plants. — A new genus. — LINSCHOTENIA DISCOLOR. — Ascend Mount Faraday. — Valley of the Warregò. — Meet ...

Just before the First World War destroyed a generation and divided Europe for almost a century, a farmer in a remote part of Aberdeenshire sat down at the age forty-three to write his thoughts on how to live a good life. Mitchell had a clear, fresh and effective prose style in Standard English, and was well placed to record the values of his time and his individual take on them. His is now a voice from the past that demands our attention, not necessarily to emulate it but to encourage us t...

This is a dispassionate examination of the viability of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the politics of Israel, Palestine and the United States. It includes instructive case studies from South Africa in Namibia and the Irish claim to Northern Ireland. The results of Israeli elections from 2001 to 2013 are analyzed (with the conclusion that the Likud will be in any government coalition for at least the midterm future, giving it a veto over policy). A chapt...

As an African American retired Police Lieutenant, I am speaking from my personal experiences and bringing a practical, humorous, and insightful twist into the life of a law enforcement officer. This book will help all generations in every walk of life deal with any interaction you may encounter with law enforcement officials, and it will give you the tools to better understand the police role and your role within that encounter no matter what, where, why, who, when and how. This book provi...

The following Journals were written at the close of many a laborious day, when the energies both of mind and body were almost exhausted by long-continued toil. The author trusts that this circumstance will account for, and palliate, some of the defects which may be discovered in his volumes. Conscious as he is of the deficiencies of his work, he nevertheless hopes that the reader will not pronounce it to be wholly devoid of interest. Though Australia calls up no historical recollections, n...

From 1949 to 2000, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak conducted Israel's successful (and unsuccessful) talks with its Arab neighbors, from the armistice negotiations to Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, to Camp David I and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and finally to the Oslo peace process. The four successful generals who became politicians are covered in four separate biographies, which discuss the early life and military career of each subject and his subsequent ...

Interest in family history was sparked during events on my 65th birthday in 2003. Throughout life I spent thoughts and energy living the moment or planning the future, proud of never looking back. This mindset changed when Danny, my oldest grandson interviewed me for a 6th grade project. His assignment was to survey the teen history of an older family member. Danny presented his report to his class and later at my birthday party in Greenwich, Connecticut. His recitation and its reception e...

Soul Tracks III is a collection of nearly 90 poems penned over lifetime of living and loving. Amusing, insightful, heart-wrenching, and brilliant, these reflections will surprise you with their depth of thought and feeling, and a few will leave you sighing and smiling. The author embraces a remarkable range of subjects from being a chocoholic to observing man’s litter to appearing yet again in traffic school to ruminating on the difficulty of listening and to mourning the death of a friend...

The first time I tried to imagine going back, I did not picture a machine. I pictured a door. A simple door in a simple house. A door I had passed a thousand times as a child. A door I had never fully understood until I became a man.I wanted to walk through it again. Not to change anything. Not to rewrite history. Just to see the beginning of my own story with my own eyes. I grew up believing strength was a choice. That grit was something you earned. That determination was a moral ...

I did not set out to write a book. I set out to serve. To lead with integrity. To protect those under my care. To honor the mentors and matriarchs who shaped me. And to leave behind something more than a résumé, a legacy.This is not a story of perfection. It is a story of presence. Of showing up when trust was withheld. Of standing firm when integrity was tested. Of mentoring through grief, crisis, and quiet victories. I have been underestimated. I have been challenged. I have been...