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Author: Bill Thomas
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-09-20
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0578130807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I was a "depression" baby (born 1931) and grew up poor in a small town in West Kentucky - Dawson Springs. This story of my childhood and growing up is written for my granddaughters so they will know something about their ancestors - especially "Papa Bear".
Author: Bill Thomas
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0578131382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is part 2 of my autobiography. Part 1 titled "A Wild Shot in the Dark" covers my life from birth through college and my entrance into the U.S. Air Force. My years in the Air Force are covered in another book titled "I smell Smoke". This book covers my professional career as an accountant starting with my discharge from the Air Force. This is the story of a naive country boy from Kentucky who spent his career in public accounting. This career spanned about 55 years - from 1957 to 2011. It offers some insights into what happened to an accountant climbing the ladder to the partner's ranks in a large firm in the accounting profession.
Author: Ross Dean
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1479720755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We have all been there, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching television. There was a murder today at, wherever? Some criminal was blasted to death in a blaze of gunfire. A man was shot in his driveway this evening. Some person has gone missing. Another kid dies of a drug overdose. The police are again investigating pedophilia on the internet. This is the today's news. We look. We listen. We see. But do we care? In some cases people will exhibit apprehension. Or in the case of the criminal, mumble good riddance, and as long as it's not our kid using, we turn to the next page. Listen to the next item if its radio or, change channels on the TV. Whatever! That is generally all we think, until you find yourself staring at the results of a gangland hit spread all over a kitchen bench and the victim is an acquaintance. Then you find out, things about him you could never imagine. You begin to discover, what horrific things happen to ordinary people, in the place you call home. It's then you have to make a decision. Do you continue to ignore these issues or, do you try to make a difference? Well, do you?
Author: Martin Hawkins
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a "Soundtrack" CD! Before Elvis hit town, back before country music was synonymous with Nashville, a small group of intrepid entrepreneurs--local businessmen looking to make a buck and have some fun--were recording and selling all the local music they could find. From dance bands to gospel, from rhythm & blues to, yes, country music, these men inadvertently documented a wealth of local music as they struggled to run successful recording studios. Hawkins goes beyond the music to tell the stories of the behind-the-scenes folks responsible for turning Nashville into Music City U.S.A. From Jim Bulleit, who was there at the very beginnings of the music industry, to Bill Beasley, who took on the emerging Music Row 'establishment' and lost, Hawkins guides us through the careers of the folks who defined Nashville's music scene for an exciting, unpredictable decade and traces the rise and fall of local music labels like Bullet, World, Tennessee, Republic and Speed. Though the focus of the book is on the recording companies, studios, DJs and other music promoters, it also underlines the importance of some of the giants of Nashville music--like Francis Craig, who recorded an international hit by accident, Owen Bradley, who had a hand in many early labels, Del Wood, the surprise star of honky tonk piano, the fabulous blues singer Christine Kittrell, the underrated R&B bandleader Louis Brooks, the ubiquitous gospel promoter, Wally Fowler, the long-established Fairfield Four, and the king of the rude country song, Randy Hughes. This book builds off of and develops more fully the research Hawkins did for the critically acclaimed Bear Family Records box collections of Nashville recordings during this same time. Full of lush photographs, many being published here for the first time, and accompanied by a twenty-song CD highlighting the wide range of music being made in Nashville at the time, the book immerses readers in the sights, sounds, and stories of this vibrant and influential decade in Nashville music making. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0786459956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
Author: Barry Reeves
Publisher:
Published: 2013-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781935752370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following author Barry Reeves' move from his native Ireland to New York City, A Shot in the Dark chronicles his bartending experiences in Hell's Kitchen from 1999 all the way through 2012. From hookers, pimps, gangsters, and transvestites, to policemen, firemen, celebrities, and priests--oh, and don't forget the drunken' wankers--Reeves provides his inside take on NYC and packs an arsenal of witty and highly entertaining stories on his interactions with all walks of life. One-night stands, fights, swingers, and joy rides in cop cars run rampant in this explosive and side-splitting memoir. The funniest book written since The Bible.
Author: T.A. Donnelly
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1445726327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD! An apocalyptic zombie thriller with heart and brains as well as guts (lots of guts). The action unfolds at a frantic pace as London is the epicentre of a global plague of death that brings a sudden end to the world as we know it. In a culture where guns are rare, and the dead are almost unstoppable, the chances of survival are slim. When your life expectancy is measured in hours you make every minute count. How long would you last? Book 1: DESCENT: Down Street: a disused London Underground station - ground zero. A secret research facility is using nanotechnology to develop a way to repair brain tissue damaged by Alzheimer's Disease. The nanotechnology has an 'unfortunate' side-effect only revealed after a disastrous containment breach. This is the end of the world.
Author: Douglas C. Kurjian
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reference tool based on the classical reasoning of Aristotle and other rhetoricians i.e. the importance of metaphor in persuasive communication.
