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2020: the Lost Year Under King Trump

Author : Steve Gismondi
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663215111
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book 2020: the Lost Year Under King Trump written by Steve Gismondi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a daily account of everything that happened in the United States of America in 2020 as taken from the pages of the Orlando Sentinel. Steve Gismondi, a proud Navy veteran, throws in his opinions for good measure, with some of them being funny and others serious. He covers subjects from Donald J. Trump and the Republicans to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats to world events and famous athletes. Headlines he sounds off on include: • Dems Unveil Impeachment Articles; • $15 Wage Bump Will Appear on 2020 Ballot; • State Supreme Court Rules on ‘Stand Your Ground’ Charge; • Trump Says Kim Jon Un May Be Planning a Nice Present for Him. The author also shares his opinion that to get the country back on track, there needs to be a widespread vaccination to fight COVID-19—and politicians need to realize that people (not their wallets) come first. Seventy-five percent of the profits from this book will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help fight cancer.

Americanaland

Author : John Milward
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052811
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Americanaland written by John Milward and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical genre forever outside the lines With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward’s Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hybrid of rock and country, Americana is also infused with folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and other types of roots music. Performers like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and Gram Parsons used these ingredients to create influential music that took well-established genres down exciting new roads. The name Americana was coined in the 1990s to describe similarly inclined artists like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Wilco. Today, Brandi Carlile and I’m With Her are among the musicians carrying the genre into the twenty-first century. Essential and engaging, Americanaland chronicles the evolution and resonance of this ever-changing amalgam of American music. Margie Greve’s hand-embroidered color portraits offer a portfolio of the pioneers and contemporary practitioners of Americana.

A Splendid Gift

Author : Barbara Elle Prisceaux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1954676549
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book A Splendid Gift written by Barbara Elle Prisceaux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A forthright, poignant, and heartwarming account of a storied and beloved career in nursing.” – Kirkus Reviews A Splendid Gift: Celebrating 60 Years in Nursing tells the story of Barbara Elle Prisceaux, who turned a childhood dream into an extraordinary career. As a young girl in Yonkers, New York, Barbara was drawn to the nurses walking from their residence at the end of her block to the hospital several streets away. She decided then and there that she would become a nurse too by age fifteen, when her family was living in West Lawn Pennsylvania, she accepted a part-time nurse’s aide position at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Reading, and she bused twenty miles each way after school, and sometimes, on weekends. At eighteen, she was accepted into the School of Nursing at Bellevue Hospital, Class of 1962. Including two enlistments in the Army Nurse Corps Reserves, Barbara spent most of her career on the West Coast. In 2003, she moved from California to Central Florida and changed her patient care focus from Emergency and Critical Care to Oncology Nursing. Combining her nursing career with her love of writing, Barbara developed and coordinated educational programs in Critical Care; designed legal defense protocols for Renal Transplant litigations; cofounded Paper Chasers Medical-Legal Consultations; edited documents for Northern California District Attorneys Association, and as an Oncology Certified Nurse in Florida, specialized in clinical research and advocacy for oncology patients and their families. Throughout her six-decade career, Barbara met challenge after challenge head-on, from ever-changing technology to hospital politics. When she retired at the age of seventy-seven, she was working two 12-hour shifts each week, providing hands-on care to patients in a medical center eighty miles from her home.

Seventy-Nine Times Across the Atlantic

Author : Suren Rao Ph.D
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Seventy-Nine Times Across the Atlantic written by Suren Rao Ph.D and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years, a considerable amount of invectives have been heaped upon this blessed nation by our own citizens that the USA is a nation with built-in systemic and institutionalized racism. According to the author, nothing could be further from the truth. He came from India, legally, pursued higher education, worked in industry, government and academia and, except for one minor incident in Canada, never encountered any barrier or discrimination based on his ethnicity, religion, country of origin, or the color of his skin in both his professional and his personal life. On the contrary, he was successful beyond his dreams. The book chronicles his leaving India for Canada in the pursuit of higher education and subsequent employment in the various sectors of American enterprise. He met his wife, raised three daughters, and lived the American dream to its fullest as the book describes. It also describes the various technical challenges that he encountered and met in his professional life that lasted over three decades in the US. His financial success enabled him to travel extensively to his native India and keep in touch with the family he left behind and see various countries in Europe. Hence, the many crossing of the Atlantic Ocean as the title of the book implies. It also enabled him to satisfy his love for the mountains, both within the American continent and the mighty Himalayas in the countries of Nepal and Tibet. Those adventures are also chronicled in the book. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel as the requisite formalities become more difficult is also alluded to. Now retired, he lives most of the year in a retirement community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where assistance is provided as one ages and spends his winters in a condo in Florida. After his residence in the US, he also helped many of his close relatives to come here. The fact that every one of them is very successful is a further testament to the fairness and nondiscriminatory nature of this great nation. If this book convinces even one individual that this great nation is not a racist one, it would have accomplished its purpose.

Walter Hagen's Caddie

Author : John van Weenen
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800313195
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Walter Hagen's Caddie written by John van Weenen and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter HagenHenry CottonDai ReesBobby JonesBen HoganBobby LockePeter ThomsonPercy AllissGeorge DuncanAbe MitchellJoyce WetheredBabe DidriksonCharles WhitcombeErnest WhitcombeReg WhitcombeJoe KirkwoodJoe EzarThe Prince of WalesThe Aga KhanPrince Aly KhanBob HopeBing CrosbyPlus thirteen amazing fictional stories published for the first time - all with a golfing connection."e;How very pleasant to read of the golfing experiences of such a remarkable man as Leo van Weenen, who caddied for my father back in the 1920s. I enjoyed the book immensely and would thoroughly recommend it to others interested in the exploits of the past masters of the game."e; Peter Alliss, Golf World Ltd

On Time

Author : T. G. Colbert
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039170994
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book On Time written by T. G. Colbert and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Okay, so according to your questionnaire,” she said, touching it as if reading, “you got together over forty-two years ago. In 1977.” “September 21, 1977,” I specified. “It was a Thursday.” “And how did this come about? How did you meet?” “Actually, we’d met the previous Monday, but it was Thursday the first time we made love. Or tried to. That’s what we’ve always celebrated as our anniversary.” So begins the love story of Gregor Carlyle and Tim Sellers, as told to reporter Joanne Arnold over martinis at Twin Peaks Tavern in San Francisco’s famed Castro District. Based on the author’s own relationship with his long-time partner, this novella chronicles the couple’s journey, beginning with their meeting at seminary in 1977. Forsaking ordination for love, the two remain inseparable, from Illinois to Kansas to California, from the AIDS years to COVID 19. Their story, however, is not one of earth-shattering pandemics and sweeping political movements; it is a story of particulars, of the sweet, intimate details that make up a life. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, On Time is a remarkable achievement, and a loving tribute to a truly time-tested partnership.

The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson

Author : Jared E. Alcántara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197598811
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson written by Jared E. Alcántara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson remains one of the most important but least known figures of twentieth-century African American Christian history. In this book, Jared E. Alcántara sets out a definitive academic biography of this complex figure.

Challenging the Misconceptions of the United Nations

Author : Michael C. Curtin, M.A.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1649137575
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Misconceptions of the United Nations written by Michael C. Curtin, M.A. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the Misconceptions of the United Nations: Promoting a Greater Understanding One Blog at a Time By: Michael C. Curtin, M.A., A compilation of Michael C. Curtin's, M.A., blog posts over a ten-year period, Challenging the Misconceptions of the United Nations seeks to alter the negative narrative surrounding the United Nations. Not only does Curtin address present-day issues, but he paints a picture of the post-World War II time period when delegates at a San Francisco conference came together to form what we now call the United Nations. While looking into the past progress the UN has made, Curtin examines the current stigma against it and how its dismantlement, as some in the current US political climate would like to see, could dramatically affect the welfare of millions worldwide. Curtin's message is powerful and addresses the importance of the world the UN assists, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and to many vulnerable populations across the globe. While some would have us believe the UN is an outdated institution, with a global pandemic, climate change, global economic inequalities taking place in our current era, and refugees fleeing the violence of war, the United Nations holds an even greater necessity now to the millions around the world who depend on their aid.

The Book of the Činggis Legend

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004683216
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Činggis Legend written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Činggis Legend is a product of the steppe’s oral historiography, referring to events from the 13th−17th centuries, and presents the collective historical consciousness of the nomadic peoples of the Volga region's Turco-Tatar world. The stories offer abundant information on the society, way of thinking and morals of the nomads, one of them can even be regarded as a kind of nomad “mirror of princes”. The other ones incorporate such crucial events in the Volga region as the islamization of nomad clans, epidemic, famine, the appearance of Halley’s Comet, the uprising of the Bashkirs, etc. This book includes the first critical text edition of the source, the first full translation into English along with a glossary, historical comments, a huge apparatus and the three most complete facsimiles of the manuscript.

Mind Games

Author : Alzheimer's Society
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1804942251
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Mind Games written by Alzheimer's Society and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not just good for you. Hugely challenging and hugely enjoyable' - Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 'Give your grey matter a workout with these memory-boosting exercises' The Telegraph Solve over 150 mind-bending puzzles - and boost your brain health at the same time! Challenge your memory, test your logic and sharpen your focus with brilliantly fun pictures, words, numbers puzzles. With regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. Mind Games offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions. Featuring over 150 puzzles of varying difficulty, this book aims to target different areas of the brain and improve cognition. This book includes a 7-day programme, plus practical tips and advice to keep your mind active and engaged. But Mind Games is more than just a collection of puzzles - this book will help you to create new habits to keep your grey matter active and healthy. Here, Dr. Tim Beanland, Head of Knowledge at Alzheimer's Society, provides expert insights into the science of brain health and the benefits of regular mental exercise. Whether you're looking to improve your memory, sharpen your focus, or reduce your risk of dementia, Mind Games will help you achieve your goals. With its comprehensive range of puzzles and expert guidance, this book is the ultimate resource to improve your brain health and enhance mental agility. Part of the proceeds of sale of this publication (estimated to be an amount of no less than £50,000) will be paid to Alzheimer's Trading Limited (a registered charity, charity number 296645). Alzheimer's Trading Limited pays all of its taxable profits through 'gift aid' to Alzheimer's Society.

The Brain Health Puzzle Book

Author : Alzheimer's Society
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1804952087
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Brain Health Puzzle Book written by Alzheimer's Society and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just good for you. Hugely challenging and hugely enjoyable - Jeremy Vine Solve over 150 mind-bending puzzles - and boost your brain health at the same time! Challenge your memory, test your logic and sharpen your focus with brilliantly fun pictures, words, numbers puzzles. With regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. The Brain Health Puzzle Book offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions. Featuring over 150 puzzles of varying difficulty, this book aims to target different areas of the brain and improve cognition. This book includes a 7-day programme, plus practical tips and advice to keep your mind active and engaged. But The Brain Health Puzzle Book is more than just a collection of puzzles - this book will help you to create new habits to keep your grey matter active and healthy. Here, Dr. Tim Beanland, Head of Knowledge at Alzheimer's Society, provides expert insights into the science of brain health and the benefits of regular mental exercise. Whether you're looking to improve your memory, sharpen your focus, or reduce your risk of dementia, The Brain Health Puzzle Book will help you achieve your goals. With its comprehensive range of puzzles and expert guidance, this book is the ultimate resource to improve your brain health and enhance mental agility. Part of the proceeds of sale of this publication (estimated to be an amount of no less than £50,000) will be paid to Alzheimer's Trading Limited (a registered charity, charity number 296645). Alzheimer's Trading Limited pays all of its taxable profits through 'gift aid' to Alzheimer's Society. *Previously titled Mind Games

The Quest for Development Success

Author : Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793642567
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Development Success written by Grzegorz W. Kolodko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity faces epoch-making challenges arising from the convergence of demographic, social, economic, ecological and political megatrends, which are additionally superimposed by the fatal COVID-19 pandemic and the new Cold War. Traditional economic thought is not able to cope with them. In the conditions of irreversible globalization, these challenges are met by the original concept of a new pragmatism – a peculiar interface between economic theory and practical economic policy for sustainable development. Grzegorz W. Kolodko, an outstanding economist with a world-wide reputation, a public intellectual, successful politician and a globetrotter who has explored the world – clearly writes what is happening in the economy and why, on its links with society and politics, environment, security, culture and technology. The work devotes due attention to the rise of China and the consequences of its global expansion. The unique interdisciplinary approach to the issues discussed makes this book a fascinating read for all professionals interested in the future of a rapidly changing world.

Modern Germany

Author : Wendell G. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Modern Germany written by Wendell G. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the Understanding Modern Nations series seeks to explain contemporary life and traditional culture through thematic encyclopedic entries. Themes in the book cover geography; history; politics and government; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and pop culture. Within each theme, short topical entries cover a wide array of key concepts and ideas, from LGBTQ issues in Germany to linguistic dialects to the ever-famous Oktoberfest. Geared specifically toward high school and undergraduate German students, readers interested in history and travel will find this book accessible and engaging.

BTS

Author : Adrian Besley
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782439706
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book BTS written by Adrian Besley and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling biography of the world's biggest boy band, now fully revised and updated.

The Christians Who Became Jews

Author : Christopher Stroup
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247893
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Christians Who Became Jews written by Christopher Stroup and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at Acts of the Apostles and its depiction of Jewish identity within the larger Roman era When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Stroup's innovative work explores the depiction of Jewish and Christian identity by analyzing ethnicity within a broader material and epigraphic context. Examining Acts through a new lens, he shows that the text presents Jews and Jewish identity in multiple, complex ways, rather than as a simple foil for Christianity. Stroup convincingly argues that when the modern distinctions among ethnic, religious, and civic identities are suspended, the innovative ethnic rhetoric of the author of Acts comes into focus. The author of Acts leverages the power of gods, ancestry, and physical space to legitimate Christian identity as a type of Jewish identity and to present Christian non-Jews as Jewish converts through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Curious about George

Author : Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837355
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Curious about George written by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most celebrated books in children’s literature—Curious George. Since his debut in 1941, the mischievous icon has only grown in popularity. After being captured in Africa by the Man in the Yellow Hat and taken to live in the big city’s zoo, Curious George became a symbol of curiosity, adventure, and exploration. In Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism, author Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre argues that the beloved character also performs within a narrative of racism, colonialism, and heroism. Using theories of colonial and rhetorical studies to explain why cultural icons like Curious George are able to avoid criticism, Schwartz-DuPre investigates the ways these characters operate as capacious figures, embodying and circulating the narratives that construct them, and effectively argues that discourses about George provide a rich training ground for children to learn US citizenship and become innocent supporters of colonial American exceptionalism. By drawing on postcolonial theory, children’s criticisms, science and technology studies, and nostalgia, Schwartz-DuPre’s critical reading explains the dismissal of the monkey’s 1941 abduction from Africa and enslavement in the US, described in the first book, by illuminating two powerful roles he currently holds: essential STEM ambassador at a time when science and technology is central to global competitiveness and as a World War II refugee who offers a “deficient” version of the Holocaust while performing model US immigrant. Curious George’s twin heroic roles highlight racist science and an Americanized Holocaust narrative. By situating George as a representation of enslaved Africans and Holocaust refugees, Curious about George illuminates the danger of contemporary zero-sum identity politics, the colonization of marginalized identities, and racist knowledge production. Importantly, it demonstrates the ways in which popular culture can be harnessed both to promote colonial benevolence and to present possibilities for resistance.

Roctogenarians

Author : Mo Rocca
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668052504
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Roctogenarians written by Mo Rocca and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering--breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records--and in the case of one ninety-year-old tortoise, becoming a first-time father ... In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans--some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some [until recently] still living (the original EGOT, Rita Moreno). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and John Goodenough, who was more than good enough to score a Nobel Prize at ninety-seven for inventing the lithium-ion battery. Then there's Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties but completed it at ninety years old"--