Sun pictures--the Hill-Adamson calotypes

247p 30cm card cover, 130 plates, introduction, index, very slight smoke damage on top edge

Arts & Photography

Bruce, David

Photography & Video

Studio Vista

True story of one man's training of a Berkut Golden Eagle, the imperial bird of prey.

Bird of Jove

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Ballantine Books

Print edition. This volume is a short biography of Nadia Comaneci, winner of five gold medals at the Olympics. Chapter 1: Perfect 10 At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, Nadia Comaneci (pronounced NAD-ya koh-muh-NECH) was absolutely spectacular as she won five medals. On July 18, competing on the uneven bars, she became the first gymnast ever to score a perfect 10. In fact, the equipment that was set up to display the scores was not programmed to display a score that high. Therefore, the apparatus dis-played a score of 1.00, which is a very low score. Nadia's coach, Bela Karolyi, was shocked by the low score, and he asked for an explanation. A Swedish judge held up 10 fingers to indicate a perfect score. Meanwhile, one of Nadia's teammates told her, "I think it's a 10, but they don't know how to make a 10." Nadia asked Bela, "Sir, is that really a 10?" He replied, "You bet it is, Nadia."

Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10

Sports & Outdoors

Lulu Press, Inc.

Print edition. This is a retelling of Homer's ""Odyssey"" in novel form. This is an easy-to-read version. Chapter 1: Athena and Telemachus Muse, goddess of inspiration, please help me. I have an important story to tell, and I need help to tell it. Please use me to tell the story. Help me to tell the story of a man of twists and turns. His mind twists and turns to seek solutions to problems. His journey twists and turns in the Mediterranean-and beyond. His strategy conquered Troy. He is a man who tried mightily-but failed-to bring his companions home, fools though they sometimes were. Help me to tell the story of Odysseus, the great individualist and mastermind and man who feels pain deeply. All other heroes of the Trojan War were home by now-or dead. Only Odysseus remained away from his home. Odysseus was kept captive by Calypso the sea-goddess.

Homer's "Odyssey": A Retelling in Prose

Literature & Fiction

lulu.com

Bride of The Funniest People in Religion and Families contains such anecdotes as these:    When Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades married Lisa Lebenzon, an Anglo (a white American not of Spanish descent) non-Spanish speaker, he asked her to learn Spanish so he could speak his native language at home. She finished in only seven months a Spanish course that normally took three years.    Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, kept a strictly kosher diet. While in Paris, he and a group of rabbis ate only in kosher restaurants. On leaving Paris, Dr. Finkelstein joked, “I can’t understand all this fuss people make about French cooking. We have the same things at home.”    A Sufi teacher spoke about the virtue of patience. As he spoke, a scorpion stung his foot repeatedly. His followers eventually noticed the scorpion and asked the teacher why he had not moved his foot away from it. The teacher replied, “I was discussing the virtue of patience. I could hardly have spoken about patience without also setting an example of patience. I would have been ashamed before God.”

Bride of The Funniest People in Religion and Families

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

iUniverse, Inc.

The social conscience of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, nineteenth-century London’s poorest parish. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a parliamentary career that lasted nearly two decades. Buxton’s association with noted activist William Wilberforce led to his own involvement in the anti-slavery movement, a cause he fiercely championed, resulting in Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1834. Buxton’s involvement in the disastrous 1841 Niger expedition effectively ended his public career and paved the way to British imperialism in Africa. A man of many interests, Buxton also supported Catholic emancipation and ending the Hindu suttee. Few nineteenth-century social reformers have had as much of an impact or have cast as long a shadow as Buxton. At the time of his death, many saw him as the epitome of Christian activism, yet today Buxton remains largely ignored and forgotten.David Bruce examines the life of one of Great Britain’s most prominent social activists. Using his personal papers, and the papers and books of his friends, associates, and contemporaries, The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton paints a portrait of a unique individual driven to improve his world.

The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton: Extraordinary Perseverance

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lexington Books

Sun pictures;: The Hill-Adamson calotypes

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Modern Electronics: Basics, Devices, Applications

Technology

Reston, Pub. Co

Bird of Jove (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series)

Texas A & M Univ Pr

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