Bobby Bray lives to play golf with his friends at the Stoney Creek Golf Club. The talented teenager dreams of a golf scholarship. But how do you beat the reigning club champion who hits it 300 yards and has a mean streak just as long? Bobby needs help getting off the Bogey Train. Sometimes help comes from where you least expect it, and a girl named Natalie. This thrilling story of golf and growing up, will appeal to boys and girls of all ages, their parents, and anyone who ever stood over a three foot putt.
"One Divot at a Time..." chronicles the life and times of popular golf blogger Jim Colton and his struggles as a typical guy in his early 30's trying to manage family, career, friendships and finances in the face of an unhealthy addiction to the game of golf. Volume 1 contains blog excerpts and additional stories from golfing adventures over the course of four years, including rounds at some of the most revered golf courses in the world. More than just a review of courses and a recollection of birdies and bogeys, the book strikes a chord with issues that all golfers face: the love/hate relationship with this maddening game, the endless pursuit of improvement, the ups and downs of the marriage-like relationship between golfers and their closest golf buddies and the memorable characters you meet along the way.
For most residents of India?s bustling metros and big towns, nationality and citizenship are privileges that are often taken for granted. The country?s periphery, however, is dotted with sleepy towns and desolate villages whose people, simply by having more in common with citizens of neighbouring nations than with their own, have to prove their Indian identity every day. It is these specks on the country?s map that Pradeep Damodaran rediscovers as he travels across India?s borders for a little more than a year, experiencing life in far-flung areas that rarely feature in mainstream conversations. In Borderlands, he recounts his encounters with the war-weary fishermen of Dhanushkodi at the southernmost tip of Tamil Nadu, who live in fear both of the Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lankan navy; farmers in Hussainiwala, a village on Punjab?s border with Pakistan, who are unwilling to build concrete houses for fear of them being destroyed in the ever looming war; Tamil traders of Moreh, a town straddling the Manipur?Myanmar border, who pay bribes to at least ten different militant organizations so they can safely conduct their business; and ex-servicemen in Campbell Bay who were resettled there three generations ago and have long been forgotten by the mainland. From Minicoy in Lakshadweep to Taki in West Bengal, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh to Raxaul in Bihar, Damodaran?s compelling narrative reinforces the idea that, in India, a land of contrasts and contradictions, beauty and diversity, conflict comes in many forms.
Life-Cycle Civil Engineering: Innovation, Theory and Practice contains the lectures and papers presented at IALCCE2020, the Seventh International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, held in Shanghai, China, October 27-30, 2020. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a multimedia device containing the full papers of 230 contributions, including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, eight keynote lectures, and 221 technical papers from all over the world. All major aspects of life-cycle engineering are addressed, with special emphasis on life-cycle design, assessment, maintenance and management of structures and infrastructure systems under various deterioration mechanisms due to various environmental hazards. It is expected that the proceedings of IALCCE2020 will serve as a valuable reference to anyone interested in life-cycle of civil infrastructure systems, including students, researchers, engineers and practitioners from all areas of engineering and industry.
If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immediate assistance. But Mr. Holmes was in Switzerland engaged in a deadly duel of wits with his most feared opponent, the evil Professor Moriarty; and so the Baker Street Irregulars, the gang of ragamuffins who sometimes assisted Mr. Holmes in his investigations, had to rely on their own wits. It all began—and ended—in Trump’s Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda.... Two marvelous tales of Holmesiana!
Will's new teacher, Mrs Dumpy, is really, really mean! And his monster friend, Urk, thinks she's hiding a MONSTROUS secret. Can a trip to the Horror Hills uncover the terror teacher's putrid plan? Join Will and Urk for another laugh-out-loud adventure!
