Atchison Blue

Atchison Blue

Author: Judith Valente

Publisher: Ave Maria Press

Published: 2013-09-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1933495596

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In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life--and promises to do the same for her readers. The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process. With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing--a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.


Optics of the Human Eye

Optics of the Human Eye

Author: David A. Atchison

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9780750637756

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This text describes the optical structures and optical properties of the human eye. It is divided into five sections, covering topics such as basic optical structure of the human eye and image formation and refraction of the eye.


Mellow Submarine

Mellow Submarine

Author: Michael Atchison

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781534966727

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When his heiress fiancee Jenna vanishes, Mike McAfee falls under suspicion. When a tabloid trumpets his one-night stand with a co-worker, his world crumbles. His boss - Jenna's father - fires him. The police grill him. The media devour him. To escape the pressure, Mike retreats to his childhood home. When a news crew shows up on the doorstep, Mike assumes the worst. But when he learns that Jenna has been living a secret life with an old boyfriend, Mike's reality changes instantly. With help from some old friends who have secrets of their own, Mike works to plot a new future even as he dodges a ruthless cable TV host and persistent reality television producers, all while feeding coins to the vintage jukebox at a sandwich shop called Mellow Submarine. A funny and moving book, Mellow Submarine should appeal to fans of Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta."


Architecting for Scale

Architecting for Scale

Author: Lee Atchison

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1491943424

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Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicated and brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. This practical guide shows IT, devops, and system reliability managers how to prevent an application from becoming slow, inconsistent, or downright unavailable as it grows. Scaling isn’t just about handling more users; it’s also about managing risk and ensuring availability. Author Lee Atchison provides basic techniques for building applications that can handle huge quantities of traffic, data, and demand without affecting the quality your customers expect. In five parts, this book explores: Availability: learn techniques for building highly available applications, and for tracking and improving availability going forward Risk management: identify, mitigate, and manage risks in your application, test your recovery/disaster plans, and build out systems that contain fewer risks Services and microservices: understand the value of services for building complicated applications that need to operate at higher scale Scaling applications: assign services to specific teams, label the criticalness of each service, and devise failure scenarios and recovery plans Cloud services: understand the structure of cloud-based services, resource allocation, and service distribution


History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Author: Keith L. Bryant|Frailey Jr. (Fred W.)

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1496222733

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"Keith L. Bryant Jr. and Fred W. Frailey present a comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway"--


In Search of Jeremy

In Search of Jeremy

Author: Melodye Faith Hathaway

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781492199359

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The true story of the author's four-year-old deaf son, Jeremy, who wandered away from his babysitter's home south of Atchison, Kansas, near the Missouri River, on February 18, 1977 and disappeared. The author details the five-day search for her son, which officially ended with the findings of an air scent dog team. The author describes the aftermath of her son's disappearance and presumed death and describes the grieving process as well as the peace and hope she has found.


A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri

A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016274531

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Discovering Moons

Discovering Moons

Author: Judith Valente

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780979882586

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Judith Valente¿s poems are deeply rooted in the everyday world, and yet transport us to a place in the soul, a place that C.S. Lewis once described as ¿the real, real world.¿ She is a poet concerned with those moments that telescope the sacred in the ordinary, offer a clarifying vision of what it means to be human, and remind us we are part of something larger than ourselves. These are love poems to life, whether she is writing about a lunar eclipse, the origin of the alphabet, the art of finding beauty in flaws, or an imagined stroll with William Carlos Williams. The poems contain a keen sense of place. They transport us to a summer parade in rural Illinois, a beach under stars on the island of Maui, a sacred festival in Chiang Mai, a classroom in a Catholic girls school in northern New Jersey. In language that is at once accessible and inventive, these open-handed poems remind us it is a miracle simply to be alive.


The Art of Pausing

The Art of Pausing

Author: Judith Valente

Publisher: Saint Mary's Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780879465094

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"The poems and reflections in The Art of Pausing: Meditations for the Overworked and Overwhelmed are the work of three writers who inhabit very different worlds. But for each, the reading and writing of haiku is an essential spiritual practice. The Art of Pausing is built upon haiku by one of the three authors, all Christians, inspired by the ninety-nine names of God found in the Koran. Each haiku is accompanied by a reflections by the same author or an abstract photo of nature by Brother Paul. This book is for anyone who loves beauty, has a penchant for reflection, yet feels overworked and overwhelmed."--Amazon.com.