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David's Goliath: If you found a book that told the story of your life, would you read on?
Steven Thompson
Independently Published
2017
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If you found a book that told the story of your life, would you read on? Would you?David Davidson went on holiday to relax and forget about it all for a while. But what he discovered while he was away changed the way he looked at his life. He found something that took over his every move, occupied his every thought and made him think deeply about his existence.It is something that is in all of us. This book explores who we are, how we see ourselves and how this matches with the view the world has about us. What is your Goliath?Written in a style reminiscent of Philip Roth, David's Goliath mixes humour with rage. It takes the reader on a ride through one man's discovery and how it affects him. What will be the outcome? Where will the voyage take David?
From Simple Minds to Stargaze, from Marilyn Manson to Morrissey, from Peter Gabriel to the Polecats, The Freakiest Show is a guide to ever known cover of a David Bowie composition recorded or performed since 1964, and updated to include the 2018 Howard Stern tribute, the 2019 Bowie Alumni tour and much more.Every officially released Bowie album, single and out-take is recreated through the music of his fans, friends and admirers, fro Kenny Miller in 1965 to a cast of thousands in 2018-2019, and documented with 300+ exclusive reviews and both new and archive interviews.Newly (2019) revised this fully illustrated edition also includes a listing of every known cover, anonymous soundalikes, and a guide to every cover Bowie himself recorded or performed.
Beloved Scientist: Elihu Thompson, a Guiding Spirit of the Electrical Age
David O. Woodbury; Owen D. Young
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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The Book of Thompson: A Mormon Tragedy (full version)
David J. Larkin Jr
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Alistair Dodley, an English emigrant, dies in a mining disaster outside Kellogg, Idaho, in 1924, leaving his wife with four mouths to feed, including their twin boys and four-year-old daughter, Doreen. Doreen, who endures the withering criticism of her mother, grows up shy but intelligent in what is essentially a non-religious home. A classmate at school even accuses her of being a "Christ hater." She longs to escape to a better world with expanded opportunities. Her aunt, a practicing Mormon, helps her. Ruth Conrad, a Mormon girl, loses her high school sweetheart first to a Church mission in Australia and then, in 1944, to World War II, where he disappears during battle, his body never to be found. Ruth is so shaken by her loss that at first she withdraws from the world but is finally brought back to life by Gus Hadley, a charmer and a Baptist. He proposes, and she accepts, on one condition-that he join the Mormon Church. Bobby is the second son of Doreen (n e Dodley) and Jessie Thompson-or at least he thinks he is. His great-great-grandfather, Isaac Thompson, joined the Mormon Church in England, sailed to the United States, and crossed the plains by ox cart to Salt Lake City in 1863. It is now 1954, and Bobby, a six-year-old fifth-generation Mormon, is proud to be a member of the only true church on earth-so proud that he takes on a singular task: to convert Queen Elizabeth II to the gospel. There's only one problem. He's confused. Why, if his parents have been sealed in the Mormon temple "for time and all eternity" and will live together even after death, do they always fight on earth? Discover what happens as Jessie gets the call to bring Gus Hadley, a so-called "Jack Mormon," back into the fold, and Bobby tries to unravel the truth of what's going on between his family and the Hadleys. There is, Bobby finds, a surprise behind every hedge. This full version of THE BOOK OF THOMPSON provides more detail on Bobby's magical thinking and on Jessie's view of his past life. The shorter version, also available on Amazon, focuses on the straightforward family drama.
The Book of Thompson: A Mormon Tragedy (short version)
David J. Larkin Jr
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Alistair Dodley, an English emigrant, dies in a mining disaster outside Kellogg, Idaho, in 1924, leaving his wife with four mouths to feed, including their twin boys and four-year-old daughter, Doreen. Doreen, who endures the withering criticism of her mother, grows up shy but intelligent in what is essentially a non-religious home. A classmate at school even accuses her of being a "Christ hater." She longs to escape to a better world with expanded opportunities. Her aunt, a practicing Mormon, helps her. Ruth Conrad, a Mormon girl, loses her high school sweetheart first to a Church mission in Australia and then, in 1944, to World War II, where he disappears during battle, his body never to be found. Ruth is so shaken by her loss that at first she withdraws from the world but is finally brought back to life by Gus Hadley, a charmer and a Baptist. He proposes, and she accepts, on one condition-that he join the Mormon Church. Bobby is the second son of Doreen (n e Dodley) and Jessie Thompson-or at least he thinks he is. His great-great-grandfather, Isaac Thompson, joined the Mormon Church in England, sailed to the United States, and crossed the plains by ox cart to Salt Lake City in 1863. It is now 1954, and Bobby, a six-year-old fifth-generation Mormon, is proud to be a member of the only true church on earth-so proud that he takes on a singular task: to convert Queen Elizabeth II to the gospel. There's only one problem. He's confused. Why, if his parents have been sealed in the Mormon temple "for time and all eternity" and will live together even after death, do they always fight on earth? Discover what happens as Jessie gets the call to bring Gus Hadley, a so-called "Jack Mormon," back into the fold, and Bobby tries to unravel the truth of what's going on between his family and the Hadleys. There is, Bobby finds, a surprise behind every hedge. This shorter version of THE BOOK OF THOMPSON focuses on the straightforward family drama. The full version, also available on Amazon, provides more detail on Bobby's magical thinking and on Jessie's view of his past life.
Firearm Anatomy - Book I The Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun
David S Findlay
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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This book was written to interest the reader in gun design.The gun industry needs and is due for the next big breakthrough. Every 100 years seems to bring the next big development in firearms technology. In the 1600's the wheel lock was developed and heralded the first use of firearms. In the 1700's came the flintlock musket. In the 1800's came the percussion cap and later in the century the thin brass shell to carry the powder, ball ammunition, and primer was perfected. While the 20th century has seen the invention of liquid propellant, caseless ammunition, and the gyrojet, the thin brass shell has been hard to beat and is still the dominant way to feed ammunition to the firearms of today. We are due for the next big advance, but from where will it come?This book was written to interest the reader on the simplicity and the hidden complexity that good gun designs exhibit and prompt the imagination of the reader to investigate the field of firearms design further. Reading this book will give the reader: -Three ways to calculate the round per minute level of a .45 caliber submachine gun using the M1A1 Thompson Submachine gun as an example and gives sample excel spreadsheets to allow the reader to experiment with different design conditions.-The full technical data package of a reverse engineered M1A1 Thompson Submachine gun. The drawings are shown as individual operation process sheets showing the dimensions for each separate cut on an individual drawing.-The cycle of operations of the M1A1 with illustrations.-The analysis and sample calculations to design an oval magazine spring. This book is unique as it is not a picture book of firearms, a combat guide on how to use them, nor discusses their maintenance or care. It does expose the engineering that can go behind a gun design project. This book not only gives the reader the drawings for a gun but also explains the engineering and dynamics behind it.
David was sitting up in bed, holding a revolver. He had a glassy stare. I wasn't sure if he realized that it was me. I was frightened. My heart was pounding, and my arms were tingling and felt weak. But at no time did I fear for my safety. Somehow, I knew he would not hurt me.This moment encapsulates the harrowing journey of a Vietnam Veteran and his devoted wife of 52 years. "Losing David, The Long Goodbye" is a poignant memoir by Thompson, offering an unflinching look into the life of a caregiver living with a loved one battling Dementia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The unpredictability of violent episodes turned their home into a battlefield, where love and fear coexisted.Thompson's narrative is a beacon of hope for those navigating similar challenges, providing solace and understanding through shared experience."When an author can wring emotions from a reader, or provide a life lesson, that can be very special." - Mark H. Newhouse, Award-Winning Author, The Devil's Bookkeepers series
David Hunzinger, M.D. (Medical Doctor or Master Detective)
Robert M. Thompson
Rosedog Books
2018
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By Any Means Necessary: Judge David S. Terry and Justice Stephen J. Field
James Emmett Thompson
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Broderick: The Life and Death of David C. Broderick
James Emmett Thompson
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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More than any other man, United States Senator David Broderick was the man responsible for keeping California from seceding at the outbreak of the Civil War. Broderick was a political enigma, a contradiction. In New York in the 1840s, he was, in turn, an apprentice stonemason, a volunteer fireman, and the keeper of a saloon that was a meeting place for political radicals. Following the gold rush to San Francisco in 1849, Broderick became the first leader of the California state senate. He stood up for the rights of the common people, the city's Irish and German immigrants. With their support, he built a political machine powerful enough to topple William McKendree Gwin, the leader of the Chivalry, the aristocratic transplanted Southern gentlemen who dominated California politics in the years before the Civil War. As a politician, Broderick was thoroughly corrupt. He sold political offices, demanded kickbacks from aspiring candidates, and employed a gang of toughs to battle his opponents, enforce party discipline, and stuff ballot boxes. San Francisco's Committee of Vigilance of 1856 exiled his goons. However, in 1857, the resilient Broderick still had enough clout to convince the state legislature to elect him to the Senate of the United States. But David Broderick was much more than just another corrupt politician. He was also a man of courage and principle. Broderick was on the right side of the defining social issue of his day, human slavery, which he saw as an immoral, cruel anachronism. Things came to a head over the admission of Kansas in the late 1850s, when the President, James Buchanan, and his powerful supporters, tried to use the Lecompton constitution to force slavery down the throats of the unwilling settlers of Kansas Territory. Broderick was so outspoken in his opposition that by 1859, he found himself in the cross hairs of fire eaters, men like California's Chief Justice, David S. Terry, who were willing to gun down anybody who spoke out against the extension of slavery. These men came to believe that David Broderick had to be silenced if California were to follow their dream and secede from the Union.
Hunter S. Thompson : den sista intervjun och andra konversationer
David Streitfeld
Sjösala förlag AB
2018
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“Jag är på humör för att skriva en lång, besynnerlig historia— en berättelse så märklig och fruktansvärd att den kommer att förändra den normale läsarens hjärna för evigt.” —HUNTER S THOMPSON Hunter S Thompson gick så långt utanför ramarna att ett nytt ord fick uppfinnas bara för att definiera honom: gonzo. Han var en journalist som hånskrattade åt alla regler, en benhårt beslutsam figur som älskade att trampa den egna gaspedalen i botten, författaren som alla andra författare försökte efterlikna. I dessa brutalt frispråkiga och ytterst roliga intervjuer som spänner över hela hans sägenomspunna karriär, avslöjar Thompson sig som galen i politik, vilket han ansåg vara såväl ursprunget till nationens problem som, eventuellt, lösningen på dem. I ett läge då politik än en gång är en nagel i USA:s öga behöver vi Thompsons mod och hejdlösa visdom mer än någonsin “Det finns bara två adjektiv som en författare bryr sig om . . . ‘briljant’ och ‘skandalös.’ Hunter Thompson har annekterat dem båda.” —TOM WOLFE “Utan tvekan en av det tjugonde århundradets viktigaste författare.” —JOHNNY DEPP “Det gick en underström av vansinne genom hans verk . . . Hans styrka var hans illusionslöshet inför i stort sett allting framför honom.” —GAY TALESE “Thompsons sanna röst avslöjar sig som tillhörande en amerikansk moralist . . . en som ofta förfular sig själv för att avtäcka den fulhet han ser omkring sig.” —HARI KUNZRU
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
This is the first major reference work on this important choral composer. As is usual for volumes in this valuable series, the book is clearly printed and well bound, and it is highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate music collections as well as for public libraries serving communities with active choral societies. ChoiceWhen Randall Thompson died in 1984, America lost one of its most distinguished musicians. At the time of his death, it was already apparent that an assessment of his varied contributions to our musical life in the context of his contemporary generation was sorely needed. Randall Thompson: A Bio-Bibliography is the first comprehensive study of Thompson's oeuvre since his death.The volume is organized into five parts, beginning with a substantial biography written by David Francis Urrows, Thompson's final student and amanuensis. Urrows presents new information on Thompson's youth, his study in Italy and the influence of Malipiero on his work, his educational and compositional philosophy, and his role in the emergence of American music from the influence of European models. Benser's most complete catalog of works compiled to date follows. This vital list includes previously unpublished compositions, particularly those newly made available by Thompson's longtime publisher, E. C. Schirmer, and new recordings made by Bay Cities Music. A sampling of prose writings by Thompson offers a eclectic overview. The complete, extensively annotated bibliography, discography, and two appendixes that list Thompson's compositions chronologically and alphabetically complete this study. Music libraries will want to add this volume to their collections. It will also be an invaluable reference for choral directors, program note annotators, and American music enthusiasts.
The Fabulous David Crockett: His Life and Times in Gibson County
Earnest T. Thompson
Literary Licensing, LLC
2012
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The Fabulous David Crockett: His Life And Times In Gibson County is a book written by Earnest T. Thompson that provides a comprehensive account of the life and times of David Crockett, one of the most legendary figures in American history. The book focuses specifically on Crockett's time in Gibson County, Tennessee, where he lived for several years before his death at the Alamo. Thompson's book delves into Crockett's early life, including his childhood in Tennessee and his experiences as a young man fighting in the Creek War. The author also explores Crockett's political career, which included stints in the Tennessee state legislature and the United States Congress. Throughout the book, Thompson paints a vivid picture of life in early 19th-century Tennessee, describing everything from the landscape and climate to the social and economic conditions of the time. He also provides detailed accounts of Crockett's various adventures, including his hunting expeditions, his travels to Washington D.C., and his final days at the Alamo. Overall, The Fabulous David Crockett: His Life And Times In Gibson County is a fascinating and well-researched biography that sheds new light on one of America's most iconic figures. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American West or the life of David Crockett.Including Tall Tales And Anecdotes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.