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Author: L. E. Blair
Publisher: Golden Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780307220370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Randy thinks it's great when Mr. Hansen, the principal at Bradley Junior High, agrees to let her start a radio station at school. Now everyone will be able to listen to some goos music for a change. But even in her wildest dreams Randy has never imagined just what she is in for!" -- Back cover.
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780340978504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Steven Elwood
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781710606799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Randy McCheese. He isn't your typical mouse. He may be small but he has dreams, big dreams and he's willing to chase them with help from his big sister Brandy who's always close by. Follow Randy on a journey where no obstacles big or small will be enough to stop him from capturing his dreams.
Author: Steve Viscelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0520962710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Author: Kelly Bulkeley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0199351538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBig Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience.
Author: L. E. Blair
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780307220448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It's time for the biggest horse show of the year and Randy doesn't know what to do. Secretly she wants to compete; she owes it to herself and to her horse, Thunder. But what if she ends up looking like a total fool in front of all those people just like the top rider, April Goodman, says she will."--Page [4] of cover.
Author: Jai Pausch
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1444728121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'I asked Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis,' Randy Pausch wrote about his wife in THE LAST LECTURE. 'Turns out, she could write a book titled Forget the Last Lecture; Here's the Real Story.' DREAM ON traces Jai's experiences since Randy's diagnosis, from the constant struggle she faced as a mother of three small children, to the burdens and dilemmas that accompany the role of caregiver: navigating the steep medical learning curve; managing finances; often neglecting one's one's needs; making gut-wrenching decisions; and dealing with emotions ranging from guilt and resentment, to our greatest human qualities of compassion and love. With concrete advice woven artfully into a personal narrative, DREAM ON will resonate and appeal not only to the legions of readers who made THE LAST LECTURE a phenomenal bestseller, but also to all those who have lost -- or are in the process of losing -- a loved one.
Author: J. M. Thompson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0062947087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. “Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that death was his only exit route from the torture of his mind. After a suicide attempt, he spent weeks confined on the psych ward, feeling scared, alone, and trapped. One afternoon during an exercise break he experienced a sudden urge. “Run, I thought. Run before it’s too late and you’re stuck down there. Right now. Run. ” The impulse that starts with sprints across a hospital rooftop turns into all night runs in the mountains. Through motion and immersion in the beauty of nature, Thompson finds a way out of the hell of depression and drug addiction. Step by step, mile by mile, his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to recover from our deepest wounds.
Author: Randy Rainbow
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1250276268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstant New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! An intimate and light-hearted memoir by viral sensation and three-time Emmy-nominated musical comedian Randy Rainbow that takes readers through his life—the highs, the lows, the lipstick, the pink glasses, and the show tunes. Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the Internet with a stylish pair of pink glasses, an inexhaustible knowledge of Broadway musicals, and the most gimlet-eyed view of American politics this side of Mark Twain finally tells all in Playing with Myself, a memoir sure to cause more than a few readers to begin singing one of his greatest hits like “A Spoonful of Clorox” or “Cover Your Freakin’ Face.” As Randy has said, “There’s so much fake news out there about me. I can’t wait to set the record straight and finally give people a peek behind the green screen.” And set the record straight he does. Playing with Myself is a first-hand account of the journey that led Randy Rainbow from his childhood as the over-imaginative, often misunderstood little boy who carried a purse in the second grade to his first job on Broadway as the host at Hooters and on to the creation of his trademark comedy character. In chapters titled “Pajama Bottoms” (a look back at the days when he wore pajama bottoms on his head to pretend he was Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz), “Yes, It’s My Real Name, Shut Up!” (no explanation necessary...) and “Pink Glasses” (a rose-colored homage to his favorite accessory), Playing with Myself is a memoir that answers the question “Can an introverted musical theatre nerd with a MacBook and a dream save the world, one show tune at a time?”
Author: H.L. Humes
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0307488144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing a military mutiny on a Caribbean island that takes the life of his commander, young Lieutenant Sulgrave returns to the United States and becomes embroiled in a turbulent love affair with the man's widow.
