Boy That Air Feels Good

Author : Rod Barclay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481194068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy! That Air Feels Good! written by Rod Barclay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of automobile air conditioning; how a group of Texas pioneer companies, such as: A.R.A., Mark IV and Frigikar, gave sweaty, southern drivers what they could not get from Detroit - a cool, comfortable ride. It took eight years after the close of World War II for Detroit to come out with factory air. It took only two years for these three Texas companies to enter the market, and by 1953 has installed over 10,000 after-market (add-on) units. These three gave birth to an industrial cluster, in and around Dallas and Fort Worth, that at one time included over 30 manufacturers, service companies and suppliers. The activity of this cluster continued for five decades, against Detroit's promise to bury them in five years, peaked around 1995 with shipments of over1.3 million units, and is still active. Dallas and Fort Worth is home for world-class companies in the auto air conditioning field such as Sanden, A.R.A, 4-Seasons and Victory Climate Systems; all of whom can trace their lineage back to the original three. This book is not a 'How to Do It' book. It is an entertaining story about dedicated pioneering 'Davids' battling the Detroit 'Goliath' with a strange mix of collaboration, camaraderie and competition. 166 pages, 129 photos and illustrations.

Author : Phuc Tran
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250194725
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sigh, Gone written by Phuc Tran and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.

Author : Adam Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933849242
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Arrow Boy written by Adam Moore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Moore describes how he suffered a serious brain injury and recovered with medical help and family support.

Author : Nina Riggs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169351
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bright Hour written by Nina Riggs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis written by National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sudhanshu Shekhar
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 9356100098
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magical Flying Bird written by Sudhanshu Shekhar and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: There was a heaven and hell. In the heaven it lives an angels and he/she runs a magical school. In the hell there was a hell king who lives with the predator and he was a madcap king. As his life was inside a magical lamp. Which was kept at heaven. Thus he did not attack on heaven. One day one boy name Heavenlu has stolen the magical lamp and gave to hell king. So There was a Workish bird to whom black mail hell king wants to win the fight but at last he loses the fight. The above synopsis is right and funny.

Author : KD Groethe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781477291634
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Would Walk on Air written by KD Groethe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommo dreamed; Tommo wished, and Tommo believed he could Walk On Air. One day, Takli, Tommos best friend, made it happen! And for both! She had the power. Taklis Chinese grandfather had left her with the ability to perform wondrous things. Nica, Taklis other best friend, a Chinese whistling duck, taught himself to whistle speak by watching Harpo Marx, of The Marx Brothers. Harpo spoke to his TV brothers in this manner. Tommo and Takli eventually understood every word Nica whistled. When it happened! When the fog surrounded them, Tommo and Takli were walking above a forest of Maples while Nica flew. They felt lost until they saw the golden escalator. Stepping on, they rode it to The Land of Sweet Illusions. This land, made from candy and ice cream, was ruled by King Hagen Das and Queen Bunny Blue. There, the trio met characters from fairy tales and plays: UntilThe Sultan of Sour from The Land of Sour tried to overthrow King Hagen. Nica became everyones hero, wreaking the Sultans plans and driving him away while all others sat hypnotized. After saving King Hagens kingdom, Tommo, Takli and Nica left to find the golden escalator that would take them home. Success! But it stopped, OMG in the Land of Sour where everyone and everything was pickley green and mean. There they met two witches, happy Abra and miserable Kadabra. They were then taken by the Cheesed Off Police to the Sultan of Sour. They couldnt leave until they had made all greenies smile and giggle and laughan impossibility. Butwith h the help of Abra and Kadabra and a plan, Tommo, Takli and Nica made em laugh and were allowed to go home. Was it an illusion? Was it real? Only Tommo and Takli knew for sure.

Author : Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril written by Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an adventure with the Boy Scouts at Cape Peril. This 1920s novel captures the essence of children's literature, blending culture and adventure. A testament to camaraderie and youthful spirit, it's a tale that resonates across ages. Dive into a world where friendship and adventure intertwine.

Author : Sherman Colver Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Air Crusaders; the Individuality of the Child Versus the System written by Sherman Colver Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: