Books with author Christopher Lima

Arlo Lightstorm was not his real name. Not to begin with anyway. His real name was Arlo Lester, and Arlo Lester was a pretty normal ten-year-old boy. He liked football. He didn’t have much time for girls. He enjoyed video games. He had some trouble with bullies. But then, one magical summer, Arlo discovered a whole new world, and a whole new side to himself. Follow Arlo Lightstorm as he explores the mysterious labyrinth, learns how to fly, does battle with a monster, and much much more. Drawing on the myths of ancient Greece, this is an exciting, action-packed adventure that all children will enjoy, but especially those who love history.

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Discover the Fastest System to Mastering the Freestanding Handstand…Guaranteed. This book has one purpose - to get you into a 30 second+ freestanding handstand as fast as possible. I struggled with learning the handstand when I first began. Making slow if any progress and suffering from daily frustration. It took me over a year to reach a 30 second handstand. But that doesn't have to be you...That's why I put together the Secrets of the Handstand. "If I had Logan's Secrets of the Handstand I could have made more progress in a couple months than my first 3 years!" -Tyler J. Bramlett This is the first time I put together all the information together in a book form. The drills and exercises you'll discover in this book will shave months off of your learning curve for the handstand. Its up to you whether you want to take the path of trial and error and frustration. Or you can follow a proven system that quickly takes you from the start to the end goal. Look, The Handstand Can Be Frustrating...But It Doesn't HAVE To Be The goal of this book is to get you to hold one for 30 seconds. If you follow the steps you will get there. You'll still have to put in some work, but it won't be nearly as hard as what I had to go through. There are tons to drills and exercises inside. You’ll find insider tips that no one else is teaching. This includes: 5 Main Lead-up Stunts you Must Master First Want to do an Arched or Straight Handstand? Both are Covered here, plus the differences between them. How to Fix or Circumvent Lack of Wrist Flexibility Strengthening Exercises to Build Your Foundation How to Double the Difficulty of Headstands to Gain Balancing Skills Two Variations of Wall Balancing The Ultimate Kick-up Drill What to do next? Find where to go from the 30 Second Handstand. How to Balance with your Hands How to Balance with your Shoulders What to Avoid Balancing with (Don’t make these mistakes) And so much more. Get Secrets of the Handstand today and get started on the fast route to handstand success.

The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy's bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. During the Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s, NASA sent nine missions to the Moon. Six of them landed astronauts safely on the surface, the only times humans have visited another world. July 20, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969 as part of NASA's Apollo 11 lunar mission. The following aspects are included in the book.-The Moon landing: Debunking the conspiracy theories.-History and mission profile of the Apollo 11. -Timeline of the 1969 Moon Landing-9 AWESOME REASONS of THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

Plague, famine, and fear grip the United States as war rages across the globe. A single father with a secret of his own, will do anything to give his daughter a better life, but the sacrifice may be greater than anything he could have ever imagined. Five years after the Chinese Axis detonated an unknown weapon of mass destruction off the southern coast of the United States, Special Ops Sergeant John Crider and the members of Shadow Company have finally captured what they all hope will lead to the end of the war. Unfortunately, the population within the United States is no longer sustainable. In an effort to stabilize the economy, the government enacts the Cryonics Act. One hundred years in suspended animation, all debt forgiven, and a chance at a less crowded future are too good to pass up for John and his young daughter. Except not everything always goes as planned as Sergeant John Crider finds himself pitted against a land of prehistoric monsters genetically resurrected from the fossil record, murderous inhabitants, and a future he never wanted.