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Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi , which translates to less is more, and sabi , which means attentive melancholy, wabi sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence. As much a state of mind—an awareness of the things around us and an acceptance of our surroundings—as it is a design style, wabi sabi begs us to appreciate the simple beauty in life—a chipped vase, a quiet rainy day, the impermanence of all things. Presenting itself as an alternative to today's fast-paced, mass-produced, neon-lighted world, wabi sabi reminds us to slow down and take comfort in the simple, natural beauty around us.In addition to presenting the philosophy of wabi-sabi, this book includes how-to design advice—so that a transformation of body, mind, and home can emerge.Chapters include:History: The Development of Wabi SabiCulture: Wabi Sabi and the Japanese CharacterArt: Defining AestheticsDesign: Creating Expressions with Wabi Sabi MaterialsSpirit: The Universal Spirit of Wabi Sabi
In Full Velvet
Writer to watch: While In Full Velvet is Johnson's debut collection, she's already highly decorated as the recipient of major awards and fellowships including the 2015 Whiting Award and the 2016-2017 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2012, Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, and elsewhere.Special Interest: LGBTQ and feminist audiences : The poems grapple with desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the “natural” world, loss, feminism, and LGBTQ lineage and community. Whiting Foundation: The Whiting Foundation has considerable resources and is eager to promote its awardees, both financially and through its own impressive publicity team. Well-connected author: As an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, an upcoming Hodder Fellow at Princeton, and a darling of the young national poetry community, Johnson has numerous personal and professional connections within academia, the literary media, and LGBTQ communities.
Settling The Score
Born on his grandfather’s farm in Virginia, seventeen-year-old Jeff Nelson and his father are compelled to fight for their civil rights. They join the Army at the onset of the Civil War. His father soon falls in battle, but Jeff, by his wits, survives. After the war, Jeff Nelson, still young in years and tempered by war, returns to his beloved farm in Virginia, planning on continuing his life as a farmer but finds his land, that has belonged to the Nelsons for three generations, has been sold for past taxes. Now homeless, Jeff leaves Virginia and heads west, out into the wild, untamed land of southwestern Texas and builds his JN Brand cattle ranch.
When the county sheriff’s badge becomes available, Jeff Nelson campaigns for it and is elected. He’s now the law. With Ed White, his hired hand for life, now his chief deputy, Jeff pledges to protect the good folks of Casper County, Texas.
Called out of retirement in the summer of 1895, Jeff Nelson, wealthy cattle baron and legendary former Texas peace office, is appointed a United States deputy marshal for the Southern District of Texas with orders to restore law and order.
Marshal Jeff Nelson calls for the help of two old lawmen friends, Edmond Earl White and John Limon Poe. Jeff appoints them as his deputies and together these three old law dogs legally shoot, hang, or jail all the bad men in Southwestern Texas.
Banjo Man
Banjo Man tells the story of Susan Willson Reese, a widow, retired schoolteacher, and accomplished bluegrass and old-time banjo picker. A native of the fictional community of Willson’s Cove in the North Carolina mountains, she has been trying to find one of the many handcrafted fretless banjos her grandpa, Luther Willson, built back in the early 1900s. Her quest has been a twenty-year search of futility. Grandpa had been a well-known luthier and musician in the mountains of North Carolina, building fiddles, lap dulcimers, and fretless banjos from the early part of the twentieth century until he died in the 1950s. Before World War I, he began taking them by train to St. Petersburg, Florida, and selling them, leaving his wife and several children for weeks and even months at a time. When Susan meets Dr. John “Mac” McBride, a romance follows, and she becomes Mrs. McBride. While on their honeymoon, she finally stumbles on one of Grandpa’s banjos along with the banjo’s owner, the accomplished banjo picker and singer Harry Harvey. This discovery opens a whole new can of worms: scandals, identity issues, secrets unveiled, and more. Susan learns that life, as she has known it, has been built on deception. Suspicions, denials, searches in dusty attics, and secret stashes bring the large Willson clan to a new understanding about their history. Not only is Susan’s entire life challenged, but she comes face-to-face with her own need for the faith she has set aside over the last several decades. Are her questions about her identity ever resolved? Will these events destroy a close-knit mountain clan? Banjo Man introduces a full cast of mostly senior citizens, including nursing home residents, Susan’s Aunt Carrie and others, who are intricately involved in Susan’s drama.
5 Jobs Mommies Can Work from Home
Mothers! Are you yearning to spend more time with your baby? Are you finding it difficult to juggle, working nine to five, paying for day care, and spending time with your precious little cargo? If you are looking to find another option and think outside the box, then read this book! Mothers worldwide are finding alternative ways to work and support their families and still have precious time with their baby. You can too! There are five creative, innovative jobs that are highlighted in this book. You may want to try one, or maybe all five options, and find out which one is your favorite niche.
If you are not a mother, do you have a wife, cousin, coworker, sister, best friend who could benefit from reading and applying this book in their life? This would make a great gift! It is short, easy to read, motivates, and inspires the readers to work from the comfort of their home as soon as possible. Your baby will thank you for years to come. Enjoy!
Expert Witness
Forget what you’ve seen in all the high-gloss airport movies. Enter the unvarnished world of air traffic control, aircraft accident investigation, and government cover-ups. A world where courtrooms are used to distort facts and oaths to tell the truth have no meaning, where witnesses are manipulated and the stakes of winning and losing are destroyed careers and multimillion-dollar rewards.
Michael Edmunds, an expert witness in air traffic control, takes on the case of his life when a private aircraft and a commuter airliner operating under radar control and assigned different altitudes collide in the rain-soaked night skies over Upstate New York. The normal investigation and legal process is accelerated by a US senator whose wife died in the crash. High-powered government officials attempt to cover up mistakes, recorded transmissions are altered, and evidence is destroyed.
Edmunds discovers that not only does he have to deal with a bureaucracy bent on discrediting him but will also be working with two inexperienced lawyers with different agendas, one of whom turns out to be his ex-fiancée from the distant past. Their breakup had been less than cordial to say the least.
Ed Strong weaves an engaging tapestry of twisting plots in this engrossing thriller.
Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon: Marine One is about military treason and espionage. MI-45 references a secret congressional council, funding deep-cover black operations. This is a story about a secret military project genetically engineering hybrids and putting them into military service as presidential combat assassins. The hybrids uncover a major intelligence leak from the CIA to the Russian KGB and stop the leak. MI-45 congressional council funds this operation. The hybrids were kidnapped by the CIA and turned over to the Navy SEALs. But they originated at a secret Marine hybrid center.
In the Arena
I endured the grueling selection process to become a United States Marine Corps infantry officer. I led long-range reconnaissance teams into the enemy occupied jungles of Vietnam. I served as a Peace Corps volunteer, living and working in a foreign country and in an alien culture. None of that prepared me for what I experienced as an inner city school principal contending with violence, guns, gangs, physical and sexual abuse while implementing court ordered desegregation. If it were a movie, it would be R rated. But it wasn’t a movie. It happened. This is my story. It is an entertaining, sometimes intense, story filled with humor, idealism, adventure, and poignancy. In the words of Teddy Roosevelt, I was a man “in the arena.”
“….The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…..” Theodore Roosevelt.
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Speed
Absolute zero gravity was a joke among scientists for decades. Could absolute gravitational force be a joke that has persisted for more than three hundred years?
It is a very obvious thing that cloud is lighter than air, yet there is no way to prove cloud is lighter than air, since there is no way to weigh the air and obtain a weight value for unit measurement of air. Objects falling in the air are simply because the objects’ unit measurement weight is heavier than unit measurement weight of air.
To gravitational force, only weight counts.
Autonomous Vehicles
Better public policies can make the road smoother for self-driving vehicles and the society that soon will depend on them. Whether you find the idea of autonomous vehicles to be exciting or frightening, the truth is that they will soon become a significant everyday presence on streets and highways—not just a novel experiment attracting attention or giggles and sparking fears of runaway self-driving cars. The emergence of these vehicles represents a watershed moment in the history of transportation. If properly encouraged, this innovation promises not only to vastly improve road travel and generate huge benefits to travelers and businesses, but to also benefit the entire economy by reducing congestion and virtually eliminating vehicle accidents. The impacts of autonomous vehicles on land use, employment, and public finance are likely to be mixed. But widely assumed negative effects are generally overstated because they ignore plausible adjustments by the public and policymakers that could ameliorate them. This book by two transportation experts argues that policy analysts can play an important and constructive role in identifying and analyzing important policy issues and necessary steps to ease the advent of autonomous vehicles. Among the actions that governments must take are creating a framework for vehicle testing, making appropriate investments in the technology of highway networks to facilitate communication involving autonomous vehicles, and reforming pricing and investment policies to enable operation of autonomous vehicles to be safe and efficient. The authors argue that policymakers at all levels of government must address these and other issues sooner rather than later. Prompt and effective actions outlined in this book are necessary to ensure that autonomous vehicles will be safe and efficient when the public begins to adopt them as replacements for current vehicles.