Only Fifty Years Ago
Title | Only Fifty Years Ago PDF eBook |
Author | Gladys Hasty Carroll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Country life |
ISBN |
A nostalgic memoir of the Hasty family during the year 1909 with one chapter devoted to each month of the period.
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
Title | In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Carolla |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2011-05-17 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0307717380 |
A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID." Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.
James Dean
Title | James Dean PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Stock |
Publisher | Harry N. Abrams |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-04-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780810959033 |
Published on the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive photographic portrait of James Dean in both his professional and his private worlds, the real man behind the lingering legend.
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years
Title | What is Life? The Next Fifty Years PDF eBook |
Author | Michael P. Murphy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1997-03-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521599399 |
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much of the appeal of Schrödinger's book lay in its approach to the central problems in biology - heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order - from a physicist's perspective. At Trinity College, Dublin a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of What is Life? and following Schrödinger's example fifty years previously, presented their views on the current central problems in biology. The contributors to this volume include Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Penrose, Jared Diamond, Manfred Eigen, John Maynard Smith, Christien de Duve and Lewis Wolpert. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
Tomorrow Now
Title | Tomorrow Now PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Sterling |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0812969766 |
Predicting that the next generation will be living in a substantially different world, a forecast for the next fifty years discusses such topics as technology, health, law enforcement, and politics, and has been updated to include an all-new afterword. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Shelby Cobra Fifty Years
Title | Shelby Cobra Fifty Years PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Comer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1610598059 |
50 Years on
Title | 50 Years on PDF eBook |
Author | David Schultenover |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2015-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814683010 |
Pope John XXIII prayed that the Second Vatican Council would prove to be a new Pentecost. The articles gathered here appeared originally in a series solicited by and published in Theological Studies (September 2012 to March 2014). The purpose of the series was and remains threefold: - To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council - To help readers more fully appreciate its significance not only for the Catholic Church itself but also for the entire world whom the Church encounters in proclamation and reception of ongoing revelation - In their present form, to help readers worldwide engage both the conciliar documents themselves and scholarly reflections on them, all with a view to appropriating the reform envisioned by Pope John XXIII. Contributors: Stephen B. Bevans, SVD; Mary C. Boys, SNJM; Maryanne Confoy, RSC; Massimo Faggioli; Anne Hunt; Natalia Imperatori-Lee; Edward Kessler; Gerald O'Collins, SJ; John W. O'Malley, SJ; Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ; Ladislas Orsy, SJ; Peter C. Phan; Gilles Routhier; Ormond Rush; Stephen Schloesser, SJ; Francis A. Sullivan, SJ; O. Ernesto Valiente; Jared Wicks, SJ