Chris Jeffery tells his remarkable life story, born a farmer's son who became a pig farm manager, milkman, insurance adviser, meat humper, animal nutrition representative to farm supply shop owner, before a career in television beckoned at 60.
A collection of the award-winning architect's travel sketches, showing inspirational buildings across the globe. Includes Sydney Opera House, St Paul's Cathedral and the Tokyo skyline. Chris Wilkinson, the founder of the architectural practice WilkinsonEyre, is responsible for beautiful buildings and structures in London and beyond, including the Gasholders at King's Cross, the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. In this appealing publication, Wilkinson presents the sketches he makes while travelling for business and leisure, usually focusing on inspirational buildings or urban cityscapes. His travels have taken him as far afield as the West Indies, Russia, Egypt, Australia and Japan. Wherever he goes, he finds an hour or two to sit and sketch - whether in a hotel room with a view or on a cafe terrace with a cappuccino. From the medieval Tuscan town of Lucca to ancient Egyptian architecture, the Sydney Opera House and the skylines of London, Tokyo and New York, Wilkinson introduces each sketch and ruminates on his work, his travels, and the cities and buildings that have most inspired him.
Chris Orr, the well known British painter and printmaker, takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world over the last twelve years.
Did you know that Koalas poo more than 200 times per day? – that’s more than once every 10 minutes! This is just one of the hundreds of fascinating animal facts that are packed into this brilliant new book by TV zoologist Chris Humfrey. 'Chris Humfrey’s Awesome Australian Animals' covers 15 amazing Australian animals, from koalas and kookaburras to pythons and dragons. Each species gets two spreads in the book which are peppered with incredible facts and stunning photos. The book has QR codes which link to bonus content such as short videos.
Chris Von der Ahe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1867 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Starting out as a clerk in a grocery store, he soon suceeded in buying the grocery store and establishing a saloon in the back. Although Von der Ahe had no special interest in sports, he did notice that fans like to drop by after a ball game and have a beer. Seeing a natural link between baseball and his saloon, Von der Ahe sponsored an American Association baseball team called the St. Louis Browns, head of a lineage that includes the present-day St. Louis Cardinals. Although the American Association lasted for only ten years, Von der Ahe's Browns captured the pennant four years in a row.Possessing an iron-willed persona similar to contemporary baseball owners like Marge Schott and George Steinbrenner, Von der Ahe was embroiled in legal battles and baseball disputes throughout the 1880s and 1890s. These struggles culminated in Von der Ahe's kidnapping and his stadium being burned to the ground. Such financial disasters are only some of the many bizarre events discussed in this insightful and evocative biography of one of America's early baseball owners. This roller-coaster ride through early American baseball makes for a story of luck, pluck, and bravado.
In 2017, Chris Ofili photographed chain-link fences throughout the island of Trinidad in order to explore notions of beauty, community, liberation and constraint. This series of arresting images--"pocket photography," as described by the artist--is the first body of photography ever published by Ofili. Through these entrancing black-and-white photographs, the artist engages with the diverse sources that inspired his critically acclaimed Paradise Lost exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in fall 2017. Since moving to Trinidad in 2005, Ofili has continued to engage with its natural setting. In these photographs, Ofili's lens captures a wide cross section of Trinidad--the encounter between the natural and urban settings on the island, and the aesthetic possibilities each brings out in the other. In a new essay, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the critically acclaimed author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World, charts the history of chain-link fences, and explores what this imagery tells us about Trinidad in particular and the Caribbean as a whole.
Finalist in Religious Non-Fiction and Spirituality for 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Struggling with lifelong disordered eating and adolescent addiction, Chris Cole had his first psychotic episode at the age of eighteen, suddenly believing he was the Second Coming of Christ. He lost his identity and tried to perform miracles and was ultimately arrested in the lobby of his college dormitory—all while convinced he was being taken to his crucifixion. Even when sanity returned, he could not help but contemplate God's involvement. For years, Chris danced with delusion, but he eventually surrendered to his humanity and learned to embrace reality. The Body of Chris explores mental illness—from bipolar disorder to substance use to binge eating—in one man’s search for salvation. From his oldest wounds to his renewed spirituality, author Chris Cole tells his story with unflinching honesty in hopes of reaching people who suffer from mental illness and those who love them.
Chris and his family are traveling to Rocket World Amusement Park, and Chris is experiencing many new things: it's his first time in an airport, his first flight on an airplane, his first trip to Florida, and his first time at Rocket World. He could not be more excited than he is now, because his adventure began as soon as he arrives at the airport.
In Contrasts, artist Chris Austin takes readers on a deeply personal and imaginative journey through his surreal, wildlife-inspired art. Known for placing animals from different ecosystems--like sharks floating over mossy forest floors--Austin challenges the boundaries of nature, creating absurd yet thought-provoking scenes that explore themes of adaptability, interconnectedness, and survival. These juxtapositions not only surprise but spark deeper conversations about harmony and tension within unlikely environments. Austin's artwork is more than just visual spectacle; it's a reflection of his personal evolution, shaped by the conflicting influences of his youth. His use of contrasting wildlife serves as a metaphor for the dualities he experienced growing up, from moments of chaos to finding clarity and peace. Central to his work is marine life, a recurring symbol of higher consciousness and inner calm, representing the moments of serenity that helped him navigate life's challenges. Self-taught and driven by a love for pop culture, skateboarding, and nature, Austin blends vibrant energy with introspection, using his art to reconcile the turbulent path of his upbringing. Through Contrasts, he invites readers to reflect on their own journeys--embracing the contradictions, confronting fears, and finding unexpected connections in a world where nature grapples with the unnatural. Dedicated to those who guided him, particularly his dear friend and mentor Samara Lovell, this book is both an artistic exploration and a tribute to the power of friendship, resilience, and self-discovery.
Children may struggle with their emotions when parents divorce. Chris is a young boy who overhears his parents discussing their plans to divorce. Chris is deeply saddened by this news and his feelings impact his behavior. He begins to struggle with his appetite, social relationships, academics and even connecting with his pet dog, Duke. With a spiritual upbringing, Chris even considers prayer, but feels that God is not listening anyway. The story follows Chris' journey to acceptance, demonstrates how parents and others in a child's life can best help through divorce, and gives a view into the mind of child to better understand and support them.
This refreshing new book is a practical guide, featuring Chris McIntosh and several other authors. Through his incredible storytelling, McIntosh explains how people can improve their lives by learning to see fear as the acronym for Face Everything and Rise. Readers will be inspired to make the most of their talents to lead a happy and financially successful life. The author encourages the reader to stop living life by default and start living by design.About the AuthorChris McIntosh has been an entrepreneur for over fifteen years. He has coached, mentored, and inspired hundreds of entrepreneurs and real estate investors over the last decade. He founded and is currently the president of the longest-running real estate investing club in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. He manages a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio and helps others get into the game of business ownership and real estate investment. His mission is to inspire others and empower them with universal truths to lead a life of design. He is the proud father of Makayla, Austin, Noah, Caleb, and Jessica.
Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel. It is also widely regarded as the first novel to use the device of a narrator who is both unreliable and an observer of, rather than a player in, the actions he chronicles. Kirkpatrick suggests that it "both borrows from and originates a variety of literary genres and subgenres without neatly fitting into any one of them". William Butler Yeats pronounced Castle Rackrent "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English"............... The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. His mother wishes him to marry an heiress, Miss Broadhurst, who is a friend of Grace Nugent. However, Colambre has already fallen in love with his cousin, Grace Nugent, who lives with the family as a companion to Lady Clonbrony. Worried that his mother will pressure him into a marriage with someone he does not love, Colambre decides to leave the London social scene and visit his ancestral home in County Wicklow in Ireland.................... Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. Early life: Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (who eventually fathered 22 children by four wives) and Anna Maria Edgeworth; Maria was thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. She spent her early years with her mother's family in England, until her mother's death when Maria was five. When her father married his second wife Honora Sneyd in 1773, she went with him to his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford, Ireland........... 'Chris' Hammond (1860-1900) was one of the most productive illustrators of the 1890s. Best known as an interpreter of classic fiction, she embellished texts by Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, W. M. Thackeray, George Eliot and a number of others, as well as contributing to Cassell's Magazine, The Quiver, and St Pauls..... Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, n e Thackeray (9 June 1837 - 26 February 1919), was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. She was the author of several novels which were highly regarded in their time, and a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. She is perhaps best remembered today as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for her short fiction placing traditional fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond contains the earliest English-language use of the well-known proverb "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life".............
In April, 2016, Chris James was encouraged to start a podcast concerning the paranormal. Things like U.F.O.s and Bigfoot. Over the course of the first season topics such as Ghost Hunting and Sea Monsters were discussed. Bizarre items such as The Moon and The Dyatlov Pass Mystery. He also had several interviews with gusts such as Nick Redfern, the writer and investigator from England. Rocky Elmore, the retired Border Patrol Agent who talked about encounters with ghosts and creatures while working in California. Here you'll find all of the first season shows from 2016. Come take a journey through the first season of the podcast Strange Things with Chris James.
Chris Gets the Hiccups is a hilariously true story of Chris, an Australian boy who gets the hiccups while eating ice cream. This short, rhyming picture book is followed by a few crazy, fun and very true hiccup facts. This book is both entertaining and educational. This is the debut children's book of American Author, Al Argo, who teamed with veteran Brazilian children's book illustrator, Andressa Meissner.Chris Gets the Hiccups is sure to become a favorite for both you and your child. Ages 3-6.
