Birthright

Birthright

Author: A. Roger Ekirch

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0393066150

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For the first time, the remarkable story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped." Award-winning author Ekrich recounts an extraordinary family drama of betrayal and loss--but also of resilience, survival, and redemption.


Applied Psychology

Applied Psychology

Author: E. Scott Geller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 707

ISBN-13: 1107071666

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Integrating humanism and behaviorism, this volume presents evidence-based techniques for improving health, safety, and well-being in all walks of life.


Birding on Borrowed Time

Birding on Borrowed Time

Author: Phoebe Snetsinger

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781878788412

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Birding on Borrowed Time tells, in her own words, the remarkable story of Phoebe Snetsigner, the woman who saw more birds in her life than any other human being in the history of the world. Phoebe's quest to see as many birds as possible only began at the age of 34, when she first laid eyes on a resplendent Blackburnian Warbler. Both a lively chronicle of birding adventures and a profoundly moving human document, Birding on Borrowed Time is the memoir of a truly extraordinary woman. The book includes 45 illustrations by renowned avian artist H. Douglas Pratt (including 16 full-color plates), appendices, indices, and a map showing Phoebe's travel destinations.


Max the Mighty

Max the Mighty

Author: Rodman Philbrick

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0545628229

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A companion to Newbery Honor winning author Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. This is the dramatic, heart-wrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Meet Maxwell Kane, the brooding giant-of-a-boy who escaped from his basement hiding place and faced the real world in FREAK THE MIGHTY.Still grieving over the loss of his best friend, Kevin, Max finds himself defending a young, solitary girl cruelly nicknamed "Worm" because she loves to read so much.When Max gets blamed for a horrific crime, he and Worm are forced to run for their lives. They flee across America -- hunted by the police, and pursued by the mysterious man known as the Undertaker. The only way they can survive is to confront Worm's darkest and most revealing secret. And that means facing something more frightening than death itself.


Bird Hazards to Aircraft

Bird Hazards to Aircraft

Author: H. Blokpoel

Publisher: Clarke Irwin ; [Ottawa] : Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada : Pub. Centre, Supply and Services Canada

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Pentagon 9/11

Pentagon 9/11

Author: Alfred Goldberg

Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.


This Is Where You Belong

This Is Where You Belong

Author: Melody Warnick

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 014312966X

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In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family’s perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in love with it—no matter what. How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment—the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being—then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community—and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now . . . is home.


The State She's in

The State She's in

Author: Lesley Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781943981175

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Poetry. "The tinder of Lesley Wheeler's latest collection of poems ignites a tremendous bonfire with the glow of both history and the future illuminated in the present dark. In poem after exquisite poem she writes of both the spark and the ember, where 'Scent resonates / even though the blooms are closed.' Here in her breathtaking work the landscapes of the past are indelibly linked with our hardwired present."--Oliver De La Paz