Misery Loves Company

Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780762751938
Category : Duck shooting
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
This book takes a fun-filled look at the foibles, follies, pratfalls, and unpredictable world of the duck hunter, from the time his alarm rings at 3:00 a.m. until he stumbles into freezing marsh water two hours later, swamping his waders but not dampening his enthusiasm for the sport. Why do duck hunters do it? Sit in driving rain for hours awaiting ducks that may never come? Shiver in freezing boats and blinds in the most inaccessible, not to mention inhospitable, environs imaginable? Author-photographer Bill Buckley writes about these magic moments with humor and verve, but it is his brilliant color photographs that steal the show. The hapless hunter who watches helplessly as his partner's Suburban backs out of the driveway-and over the gun case that holds his favorite shotgun. Click! The faithful retriever that elegantly lifts its leg and makes a sop of the hunter's blind bag. Click! And the pained expressions on the faces of duck hunters caught in the act of enjoying their favorite sport. Click. Waterfowlers who sometimes question their own sanity can now take heart. It's all right, Buckley writes, if you like standing in swamp muck for hours on end. It's okay if your family thinks you're weird. Who cares if your girlfriend diagnoses you as obsessive-compulsive or sadomasochistic? The important thing is, you're not alone.

Relentless Misery

Author: Davey J Ashfield
Publisher: APS Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The truly cursed are Sunderland AFC supporters whether from blood, birth or sheer bloody-minded inclination... And the sworn enemy? Newcastle United of course. Not that this is a book about just Sunderland and Newcastle's love-hate relationship with football. It's about the lot of football supporters travelling to faraway places- like Brighton, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Bristol - and unfulfilled and disappointed England supporters following their national side to the industrial wastelands of Germany and France. Funny or tragic - you decide!

ASSIST

Author: Steven Mathew Zellers
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665754613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Eight generations of pioneers embark on a 300-year voyage to escape Earth’s demise. Their mission: ensure humanity’s survival on a distant exoplanet. Armed with a DNA database of over a million Earth species, they establish a new world. Yet, what they discover will shatter every preconception. Brace for a jaw-dropping revelation connecting them to beings defying the very essence of the universe.

Our Familiars

Author: Anne Coombs
Publisher: Upswell
ISBN: 1743823665
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
A beautiful meditation on the awe-inspiring responsibility we hold with other living creatures: from their containment and loss of freedom to our intense and mysteriously mutual love. How do animals guard, serve, and care for us? And how and why do we love them so much? Anne Coombs spent her entire life working to understand the profound answers that come from these two deceptively simple questions. Before her death in late 2021 she researched the topic extensively and reflected deeply on her own experiences with animals, both domestic and in the paddocks. The animals in her life were privy to her deepest and darkest emotions: her despair, her tears and her love. In Our Familiars Anne calls for all animal caregivers to use our great creative imaginations to see animals as conducting lives as meaningful as our own, intersecting in our intimate spaces. She has left us with a beautiful meditation on the awe-inspiring responsibility we take on with other living creatures: from their containment and loss of freedom, to our intense and mysteriously mutual love. Opening with the story of Anne's childhood familiar, Elsie the goat, this tender book takes us on an expansive journey that is part personal memoir, part insightful research, and part noble call to action. With her last book, Anne leaves us an invaluable gift. With wit, humour, and insight, she implores us to feel wonder as we watch how our animal companions live.

Bourbon for Breakfast

Author: Jeffrey Albert Tucker
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164911
Category : Austrian school of economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
"A compilation of many ... shorter writings ... of his twin loves, libertarian political philosophy and Austrian economics."--Page 4 of cover.

Blood Oil

Author: Leif Wenar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190262923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 553

Book Description
In this sweeping book, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development-and that puts shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men.

Idiocy

Author: Patrick McDonagh
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846310954
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
In ancient Athens, “idiots” were those selfish citizens who dishonorably declined to participate in the life of the polis, and whose disavowal of the public interest was seen as poor taste and an indication of judgment. Over time, however, the term idiot has shifted from that philosophically uncomplicated definition to an ever-changing sociological signifier, encompassing a wide range of meanings and beliefs for those concerned with intellectual and cognitive disability. Idiocy: A Cultural History offers for the first time a analysis of the concept, drawing on cultural, sociological, scientific, and popular representations ranging from Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge to Down’s “Ethnic classification of idiots.” It tracks how our changing definition of idiocy intersects with demography, political movements, philosophical traditions, economic concerns, and the growth of the medical profession.

The Philosophy of Civilization

Author: Jan Helenus Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description

Poetry by Thomas Oldham

Author: Thomas Oldham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368744887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

The Orchestra Murders

Author: Rena Fruchter
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1782342702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Superstar conductor Sir Gregory Langhorne and his globe-trotting, violin-soloist son Jonathan Langhorne are the best of friends—until a brutal murder shatters their lives and Jonathan becomes the prime suspect. Six years later, Sir Gregory is now the music director of the world famous Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and has finally reconciled with his son Jonathan, just as members of the orchestra are being killed off one by one. The challenge for brilliant young hotshot Philadelphia Detective Cynthia Masters is to solve not only the orchestra murders, but the question of why murder seems to follow the Langhornes. Has Masters finally met her match—a case that cannot be solved? Set in London and Philadelphia, this dramatic story of murder, infidelity, and the abuse of money and power establishes Cynthia Masters as a world-class detective in this thrilling and unusual mystery.