KAMALA HARRIS

Kamala Harris' life encapsulates a fascinating journey, one that represents the country's growing diversity and multiculturalism, which began in earnest during the 1960s. She was born to a family for whom social justice and engagement with political causes were never seen as fringe issues but rather informed their daily life.

With this upbringing, it's no surprise that Kamala Harris would one day enter politics. While her career is far from over, she has already achieved a great deal, including becoming the first woman to reach the position of Vice President of the United States.

This book covers Kamala's life and career to-date, detailing her childhood, education, career, and political views, as well as discussing what may be in store for her next!

KAMALA HARRIS

Kamala Harris' life encapsulates a fascinating journey, one that represents the country's growing diversity and multiculturalism, which began in earnest during the 1960s. She was born to a family for whom social justice and engagement with political causes were never seen as fringe issues but rather informed their daily life.

With this upbringing, it's no surprise that Kamala Harris would one day enter politics. While her career is far from over, she has already achieved a great deal, including becoming the first woman to reach the position of Vice President of the United States.

This book covers Kamala's life and career to-date, detailing her childhood, education, career, and political views, as well as discussing what may be in store for her next!

BARACK OBAMA

Barack Hussein Obama, who served as the President of the United States during its 44th term, became the first African American to serve in the highest office in the country when he was first inaugurated in 2008.

The son of a black father raised in a small village in Kenya and a white American mother raised in Hawaii, Obama brought a unique set of experiences to the office.

Inside this biography, you will learn all about the life and career of Barack Obama, including his childhood, family life, education, early career, and of course his time in office. In doing so, you will gain a far deeper understanding of Barack Obama, what his experience has been, what he has achieved, where his legacy stands, and what might be next for this iconic figure.

BARACK OBAMA

Barack Hussein Obama, who served as the President of the United States during its 44th term, became the first African American to serve in the highest office in the country when he was first inaugurated in 2008.

The son of a black father raised in a small village in Kenya and a white American mother raised in Hawaii, Obama brought a unique set of experiences to the office.

Inside this biography, you will learn all about the life and career of Barack Obama, including his childhood, family life, education, early career, and of course his time in office. In doing so, you will gain a far deeper understanding of Barack Obama, what his experience has been, what he has achieved, where his legacy stands, and what might be next for this iconic figure.

Like the Cimarron River itself, Jerry Wilson's novel teems with life and beauty and movement. Across the Cimarron bears you along on the currents of Time and Memory, and begs you to ponder one of the most fundamental questions of human existence: How deep is your claim to the earth? --Brad McLelland, author of Bruisers Across the Cimarron is a fine, fine novel, that deserves a broad readership-of those interested in the history of the American West-and of lovers of powerfully engaging fiction. The narrative voice is generally spare and direct, with moments of great passion and deep feeling. The story is mainly one of hardship and struggle, interspersed with scenes of neighborliness and developing community. What brings the story to life is the beautiful, effective use of historical and geographical detail-and language. Wilson's deep knowledge of the story he is telling is evident on every page, as when he describes the homesteaders who failed as having been starved out. Like the great novels in the realist tradition whose ranks it deserves to join, Across the Cimarron displays a strong social conscience, especially with regard to the Cheyenne and Arapaho people on whose ancestral land the Land Run settlers made they lives-and the Black settlers, who almost immediately experienced discrimination and segregation that barred their children from the little log-framed school they had helped build. This is a gripping, compelling work of historical fiction. I loved it, and was sorry to see it end. --David Gross, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oklahoma

In Seasons of the Coyote, Jerry Wilson continues the saga begun in Waiting for Coyote's Call. He recounts the struggles and joys involved in returning his land to native prairie. While detailing the difficulties inherent in dealing with energy companies, politicians, and land developers, he finds time to celebrate interactions with plants and animals which call his land home. Combining the genre's of personal journal, naturalist investigation, and political zeal, Wilson's account stands as a primer for local attempts to restore our planet

While bands such as Switchfoot and Jars of Clay are household names, the artists who paved the way for their success by first introducing modern rock to Christian music are all but forgotten by the very industry they created. Now, they are telling their story from the beginning to the present day, with additional updates bringing the content into 2019 from its original 2009 release. This book isn't about where are they now, but who are they now as with frank and sometimes shocking openness the ones who went before talk about their lives and times... a time that is not yet past.

Steinbeck could have learned a lot from this book. Its stories bring us American history in living color (real people, in white, black, and red), from Oklahoma land runs of 1889-92 down through the Dust Bowl, World War Two, Viet Nam, and the invasion of Iraq. We meet homesteaders, bootleggers, revival preachers, rich oil men and failing farmers, children of slaves working for freedom, a WW2 veteran who trades his phantom arm for a farm, a dying WWII vet whose son peddles smart bombs that are killing Iraqi children. In the first story, we are there for the much-mourned death of a grandmother who homesteaded; in the last story, which brings us full circle, a man and woman make a new beginning, leaving behind her redneck husband to (as Huck Finn put it), set out for The Territory. -Carter Revard, author of How the Songs Came Down, Winning the Dust Bowl, & Cowboys and Indians Christmas Shopping

This market-leading manual for the first-year physics laboratory course offers a wide range of class-tested experiments designed specifically for use in small to mid-size lab programs. A series of integrated experiments emphasizes the use of computerized instrumentation and includes a set of computer-assisted experiments that allow you to gain experience with modern equipment. By analyzing data through two different methods, learners gain a greater understanding of the concepts behind the experiments. The Eighth Edition is updated with four new economical labs and thirty new Pre-Lab Demonstrations, designed to capture interest prior to the lab and requiring only widely available materials and items.

Dick Swiveller, the wittily named park ranger who is by turns both ill-tempered and kind, Winston 'Franzia' Weatherby, the only wino Swiveller knows who really drinks wine, One-eyed Rita. . . Fern. . . One-Beer Bob. . . these are just some of the memorable characters who inhabit Jerry Wilson's stories. Drawing heavily on personal experience and with keen eyed observation of the human condition, Wilson writes about broken lives, the dispossessed, those who are unwanted, who go unnoticed, and yet somehow manage to survive. This is an America that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has seen the photographs of Dorothea Lange or read Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck and other chroniclers of the underbelly of America-only the years have moved on. There is anger in these tales. . . humanity, love, humor and compassion too; but what makes them really special is the maturity in Jerry Wilson's writing that marks him as a new and necessary voice in American fiction.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE YOU DON'T LIVE HERE, THIS NEW EDITION INCLUDES THREE ADDITIONAL STORIES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

Jerry Wilson was born in 1961 in Boise, Idaho. He dropped out of high school at age 17 and joined the Air Force. He was discharged a sergeant four years later. Wilson has a B.A. degree in Psychology and has worked as a dishwasher, cook, concrete finisher, jackhammer operator, orderly in a psychiatric hospital, scrud in a wastewater treatment plant, janitor, truck driver, grocery checker, day laborer, fine jewelry salesman, casual postal carrier and as a park ranger for the Boise parks department. He has two daughters, Amanda and Declynn, and a grandson Max.

Autobiography of Jerry Wilson, founder and CEO of Soloflex, Inc.

This book reveals a proven seven-step process for personal brand building that can help anyone achieve greater professional success.

Nationally respected brand experts Jerry Wilson and Ira Blumenthal have helped some of the most exceptional companies and individuals in the world perfect their images. In this helpful guide, they provide the same advice, tips, and tools to help you do the same.

Using illuminating examples from successful corporations like Coca-Cola and Starbucks as well as high-profile celebrities like Bono and Oprah, Managing Brand You offers you a start-to-finish guide in which you will learn how to:

• conduct a self-analysis,
• create a unique identity,
• define their objectives,
• discover their passions,
• create a plan,
• put that plan into action,
• and monitor their progress.

We all have qualities that shape and influence how the people in our lives see us and how we see ourselves. Wise and insightful, Managing Brand You will help you identify what it is that makes you unique and communicate it in a way that helps you reach your career goals.

Dick Swiveller, the wittily named park ranger who is by turns both ill-tempered and kind, Winston 'Franzia' Weatherby, the only wino Swiveller knows who really drinks wine, One-eyed Rita. . . Fern. . . One-Beer Bob. . . these are just some of the memorable characters who inhabit Jerry Wilson's stories. Drawing heavily on personal experience and with keen eyed observation of the human condition, Wilson writes about broken lives, the dispossessed, those who are unwanted, who go unnoticed, and yet somehow manage to survive. This is an America that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has seen the photographs of Dorothea Lange or read Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck and other chroniclers of the underbelly of America-only the years have moved on. There is anger in these tales. . . humanity, love, humor and compassion too; but what makes them really special is the maturity in Jerry Wilson's writing that marks him as a new and necessary voice in American fiction.

Jerry Wilson was born in 1961 in Boise, Idaho. He dropped out of high school at age 17 and joined the Air Force. He was discharged a sergeant four years later. Wilson has a B.A. degree in Psychology and has worked as a dishwasher, cook, concrete finisher, jackhammer operator, orderly in a psychiatric hospital, scrud in a wastewater treatment plant, janitor, truck driver, grocery checker, day laborer, fine jewelry salesman, and casual postal carrier. He currently works for the Boise parks department. He has two daughters, Amanda and Declynn, and a grandson Max.

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