The View from Cracker Hill
Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456877976
Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456877976
Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425784379
The View From Cracker Hill describes life in Waterbury, Connecticut, Brass Capitol of the World, in the 1950s. it's a story told from the perspective of a young girl living in the inner city five blocks north of downtown in a section known as Cracker Hill. It's not a comprehensive history of place and time, but it's a lot of fun to read. The author's impression of city happenings, family events and Catholic school are told with humor and a growing awareness of the chances brought to her own town by the post war economy. But whether she's describing an air raid drill or a trip to Woolworth's her love for her subject is obvious. She says, "People sometimes ask, What do you see in Waterbury?' For me, it's not simply about memories, the way it was in my beloved past. It's also about Waterbury's potential, what it could be one day yet to come."
Author : Janisse Ray
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2023-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571317953
From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a “heartfelt and refreshing” (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a wider audience desperately searching for stories of empowerment and hope. Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development. A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.
Author : Peter Eichstaedt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1569767742
In 2009, the United States was hit broadside by Somali pirates who attempted to capture the U.S. flag ship Maersk Alabama. Suddenly, the pirates were no longer a distant menace. They had thrust themselves onto the American stage. Are the Somali pirates a legion of desperate fisherman attacking cargo ships and ocean cruisers to reclaim their waters? Or is piracy connected to crime networks and the madness that grips Somalia? What threats do pirates pose to international security? To answer these questions, Peter Eichstaedt crisscrosses East Africa, meeting with pirates both in and out of prisons, talking with them about their lives, tactics, and motives. Ultimately, he comes face-to-face with a former fighter with Somalia's brutal Islamic al-Shabaab militia. He discovers that piracy is a symptom of a much deeper problem: Somalia itself. Pirate State explores the links between the pirates, global financiers, and extremists who control southern Somalia and whose influence extends across the Gulf of Aden into Yemen and connects to extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Somali pirates are desperate and dangerous men who will do just about anything for money, and Pirate State argues that turning a blind eye to piracy and the problems of Somalia is inviting a disaster of horrific proportions.
Author : Karthik. G
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
Infinite happiness and boundless dreams – welcome to the world of Kaveri, Chellam, and Rangu. Growing up together and experiencing the joy of childhood, their friendship is of unconditional love and innocence. The vast and beautiful Western Ghats, lush green farms, cold and untamed rivers from the mountains, and the big banyan tree set the perfect backdrop for their fun and adventures.
Author : American Guernsey Cattle Club
Publisher :
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Cattle
ISBN :
Author : Sharon L. Lechter CPA
Publisher : Sound Wisdom
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1640950729
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step BEYOND their greatest failure.” -Napoleon Hill This remarkable business allegory tells a fascinating story in presenting the key principles of Napoleon Hill’s revolutionary bestseller Think and Grow Rich. While you follow a struggling young entrepreneur through a life-changing series of encounters with some of today’s foremost business leaders and inspirational figures, you’ll find encouragement and motivation to believe in yourself, discover your own Personal Success Equation™, and to never give up. You are just three feet from gold! A century ago Napoleon Hill began the research that ultimately resulted in his extraordinary bestseller Think and Grow Rich. Since its publication in 1937, with more than 100 million copies sold worldwide, the book has inspired generations of men and women to turn their dreams into reality with its wise and effective principles of self-motivation, leadership, service, and achievement culled from Hill’s interviews with visionaries of his day. Now, a hundred years later, in Three Feet from Gold, a young entrepreneur whose life is falling apart finds himself retracing Hill’s steps after a serendipitous encounter with a powerful businessman who sees the young man’s potential and sets him on a challenging journey of personal, spiritual, and financial growth. Sharon L. Lechter—co-author of the #1 New York Times best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad—and Greg S. Reid— a successful author, and in-demand motivational speaker—have given us more than the story of one man’s dogged pursuit of success. They deliver an effective equation for accomplishing goals that calls for combining passion and talent, taking action with the right association, and above all else, having faith that you are on the right path.
Author : Jessica D. Klanderud
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469673738
Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality. In chapters that move from one community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.
Author : Sportsman's Connection
Publisher : Sportsman's Connection
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1885010753
Sportsman's Connection's Western Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide contains maps created at twice the scale of other road atlases, which means double the detail. And while the maps are sure to be the finest quality you have ever used, the thing that makes this book unique is all the additional information. Your favorite outdoor activities including fishing lakes and streams, hunting, camping, hiking and biking,snowmobiling and off-roading, paddeling, skiing, golfing and wildlife viewing are covered in great depth with helpful editorial and extensive tables, which are all cross-referenced and indexed to the map pages in a way that's fun and easy to use.
Author : Paul Cox
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1848760760
This book is a varied collection of short stories which deal with various themes and draw upon the author's real-life experiences.