Gordon Young: 13 books
by Gordon Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
From published author Gordon Young comes another tour de force with the release of The Wind Will Yet Sing. This time, he brings fascination to readers as he takes them to the captivating world of a Lahu village in Northern Thailand. The Wind Will Yet Sing tells a fictional story based on the true...
Teardown
Memoir of a Vanishing City
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one...
by Gordon Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
For fifty-two years, Chanu, a Lahu-Lisu tribal man from northern Thailand, lived an adventurous life packed with danger as well as joy. Slave, farmer, prisoner, hunter, bandit, smuggler, soldier-guerilla, lover, winner, and loser-- Chanu wore many faces. His story spans a fascinating, tumultuous historical...
Journey from Banna
My Life, Times, and Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Journey from Banna is the incredible true narrative of Gordon Youngs three life journeys: his journey through the world, from China to many parts of Asia, and to the United States, where he lives today in California; his journey through time, from childhood near the Golden Triangle to his teen years...
by Gordon Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The black casket, it did not belong to me. But I had as good right to it as the man I took it from… and now someone was trying to steal it…
by Gordon Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Bill Haynes was broke, down and out, flat on his uppers, and a stranger to San Francisco. It was drizzling and cold. When is offered a job…
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
Beacon Technologies
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Beacosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs.
Proximity...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism?
Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Nine Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...
by Frances S. Adeney, Brian K. Blount, F E. Bonkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with...
Railway Security
Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks.
Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation...
Reality Television
Oddities of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because...