It was a time of honored traditions and tight-knit communities ... an era where neighborhood schools thrived, and children played simple games in the fresh outdoors. Finding Lost Marbles: Remembering the 50s in River City is a whimsical look back at what once was, before technological gadgetry wired our youth, and a reflective consideration of how we can reach back and resurrect some of the values that made the Fifties so fabulous.
"Natasha Tracy has written a book that straddles the chasm between self-help and memoir. Natasha's own experiences with bipolar disorder and depression illustrate what it is truly like to live with serious mental illness and offer real-world ways to live better with it. Natasha pulls no punches, doesn't sugarcoat and yet still offers real hope to the reader. This book will give those with mental illness and their loved ones "ah-hah" moments on every page."--
"There IS life after loss. It's just a different one." A decade of multiple traumatic events left Tonya Cunningham broken. In spite of her training as a grief counselor and doing all the right things, she fell into deep depression. The proverbial "lost her marbles" became reality in her life. But God led Tonya on a trek, a journey of healing. How could she ever rise from the ashes and regain the marbles of her mind? In her debut book, Tonya shares her story in hopes of helping others.
For years, pop-culture cultists have revered and adored a mysterious, brooding thirteen-year-old girl named Emily the Strange. Nobody knows much about the young girl with a porcelain face and huge eyes framed by black bangs, and her ever-present brood of black cats only adds to the intriguebut that hasn't stopped a generation of rabid fans from letting Emily put her spell upon them. Now Emily fans are invited into her odd, mysterious worlda place where kitty friends talk, the ghosts of famous weirdoes come out to play, reality is never quite what it seems, andabove allanyone who's ever been considered a little "strange" herself will be made to feel right at home. Dark Horse Comics and the creative minds behind Cosmic Debris are thrilled to present the second issue of _Emily the Strange_, with all-new stories and art. This issue features forty-eight pages of black, white, and red art (with the occasional outburst of full-color freak-outs!), illustrating a wacky range of Emily stories. Emily the Strange is the star of a best-selling line of merchandise and fashion accessories from the creative brain trust known as Cosmic Debris. Visit EmilyStrange.com.
Marble in Ancient Greece and Rome: Geology, Quarries, Commerce, Artifacts Marble remains the sine qua non raw material of the an cient Greeks and Romans. Beginning in the Bronze Age sculptu re began in marble and throughout classical times the most im portant statues, reliefs, monuments and inscriptions were made of it. Yet, quarry sources changed in time as preferences for different marbles were influenced by local traditions, the pos sibilities of transport, esthetic tastes, and economics. Marble studies and the identification of the provenance of marble can thus reveal much about Greek and Roman history, trade, esthe tics and technology. Persons in many disciplines are studying various aspects of Greek and Roman marble usage. Geologists and geochemists are working on methods to determine the provenance of marble; ar chaeologists are noting changing patterns of import and use in excavation~ and discovering how improving quarrying techniques and prelimihary dressing of the extracted material influenced the final shape of artifacts; ancient historians are now under standing quarry organization and bureaucracies that controlled marble production and trade; art historians are seeing how phy sical characteristics of the stone affected the techniques and style of sculpture; architects and engineers are interested in quarry technologies and usage in building construction. These specialists drawn from many disciplines rarely have an opportu nity to compare notes and see how each can contribute to the research effort of others.
Text intended as a record of the the author's work and his progress, in the hope that others will pursue like investigations. Part I presents a few of the author's experiments and serve to show the scope of his work. Part II presents the author's definition of the word "speech" and the deductions which he has made from his experiments.
