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 Jeff Sullivan, "They Call Me Pudge: My Life Playing the Game I Love" English | ISBN: 162937394X | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 37 MB With 14 All-Star appearances, 13 Gold Gloves, a Most Valuable Player Award, and, of course, a World Series ring, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez has more than earned his spot in Cooperstown as one of the best Major League catchers of all time. In They Call Me Pudge, Rodriguez tells the story of his unforgettable baseball journey, from signing his first professional contract as a 16 year-old in Puerto Rico, to his years in Texas, Detroit, and beyond, to the World Series stage in Miami, and behind the doors of the Texas Rangers front office. Rodriguez's accomplishments, his teammates, and his biggest challenges all receive time in the spotlight in this refreshing memoir of a life and Hall-of-Fame career. ![The girl who left From Croatia to the canefields [large print edition]](https://i121.fastpic.org/big/2023/0116/fc/00245f50df0232a5c4d486f28fd12bfc.jpeg) Debra Gavranich, "The girl who left: From Croatia to the canefields [large print edition]" English | ISBN: 0369378725 | 2022 | 388 pages | EPUB | 10 MB Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korcula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920s. The couple do not know each other, having only exchanged photographs and a handful of letters, but this marriage is Marija's escape from a traumatised post-war Europe. Her childhood is scarred by constant fear, with death and brutality stalking the island after it is occupied, first by the Italian army and later by the Nazis. Marija's older sister joins the Partisan rebels as a codebreaker for General Tito, while Marija and her younger sister and father secretly help the Partisans hiding in the hills, with intelligence on the enemy. At one stage, her beloved father is taken by the Nazis, only to return at the end of the war grateful to be alive. Bitter ethnic battles accompany this war and many from her village are tortured and killed. A life in Australia with a husband she does not know is a risk worth taking. She travels by ship to Australia along with hundreds of other young men and women seeking escape from poverty and despair in the old world to the promise of adventure, love and a better life. Finding herself sharing a farmhouse with a hostile father-in-law far removed from neighbours, in the midst of cane fields in tropical Queensland, was only bearable as she fell in love with her devoted husband, created her own family and with it, a future for the next generations in the new country. At 62, Marija is diagnosed with cancer so returns one last time to Korcula to farewell her family. However, Yugoslavia is imploding, and she finds herself once again fleeing tanks in the midst of a war. Shortly after returning from her trip, she passes away, surrounded by her Australian family in the country she has come to feel is truly her home. This is the migrant story of Australia, of courageous individuals taking the biggest risk of their lives often with little or no English. Their determination and hard work enable them to live with their sacrifices and overcome the profound loneliness of homesickness. The result is the rich diversity of our modern multicultural nation.  Terah Kathryn Collins, "The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Room by Room" English | ISBN: 1561705683 | | 224 pages | EPUB | 12 MB Filled with photographs, stories, and many practical Feng Shui "tricks of the trade," this book is packed with ideas and tools that you can easily apply to your life to increase your prosperity and improve your health, creativity, and overall happiness. Terah covers every room in great detail-including your living room, dining room, bedrooms and bathrooms, home office, kitchen, family room, and storage areas. She also explores the attitudinal and spiritual work-the inner Feng Shui-that complements and strengthens your outer Feng Shui enhancements. Includes a 16-page insert of color photos to emphasize the author's points.  The War in the Desert (World War II) By Richard Collier 2000 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0783557213 | PDF | 29 MB Book 7 of the Time-Life World War II series.  The Unofficial Guide to Making Art in Minecraft English | 2020 | ISBN: 1725310546 | 39 Pages | EPUB | 24 MB As long as people have lived on Earth, they've created art, and as long as people have played Minecraft, they've created art in the game! Both in real life and in Minecraft, art can include many different aspects: textiles, stained glass, music, paintings, writing, and far more. Students will investigate how they can use Minecraft to try out many forms of art for themselves. They'll also learn about how forms of art have changed throughout history and how art has influenced history and how society and history has influenced art.  The Ultimate Google Ads Course: Boost Your Business in 2023 with Effective Ad Strategies (Online marketing and advertising) by Aurimas Butvilauskas English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BRD75LGK | EPUB | 1.01 Mb Google Ads is a powerful advertising platform that allows businesses to reach a wide and targeted audience by placing ads on Google's search results pages and other websites. With Google Ads, businesses can create campaigns that are tailored to their specific goals and target audience, and track the performance of their ads in real-time.  The Tsar's Abolitionists: The Slave Trade in the Caucasus and Its Suppression By Liubov Kurtynova-D'Herlugnan 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 9004183442 | PDF | 5 MB Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, this book offers the first academic study of the Caucasian slavery, slave trade and its abolition by the Russian authorities in the 19th century. This is a valuable and timely contribution to the field of slavery studies, as well as to the Russian history, comparative studies and Middle Eastern history.  Peter Matthiessen, Jane Goodall, "The Tree Where Man Was Born" English | 2010 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0143106244 | EPUB | 0,6 mb A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise  The Total Outdoorsman Skills & Tools Manual (Field & Stream): 324 Essential Tips & Tricks by T. Edward Nickens English | October 14, 2014 | ISBN: 9781616288075 | PDF (Converted) | 15 Mb What makes someone a total outdoorsman? It's a mix of know-how, enthusiasm, experience and having the right tools. In this follow-up to the top-selling Total Outdoorsman Manual author T. Edward Nickens returns with another 300+ hints on how to get the most from your hunting, fishing, and camping trips . . . and how to survive if something goes wrong.  The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism By John Ryder 2013 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0823244687 | PDF | 3 MB The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-20th century, specifically the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is called Columbia Naturalism: John Dewey, John Herman Randall Jr., and Justus Buchler. The book argues for the philosophical value and usefulness of this underappreciated tradition for a number of contemporary theoretical and practical issues, such as the modernist/postmodernist divide and debates over philosophical constructivism.Pragmatic naturalism offers a distinctive ontology of constitutive relations. Relying on Buchler's ordinal ontology and on the relationality implicit in Dewey's instrumentalism, the book gives a detailed account of this approach in chapters that deal with issues in systematic ontology, epistemology, constructivism and objectivity, philosophical theology, art, democratic theory, foreign policy, education, humanism, and cosmopolitanism. |
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