Books with author Frederic Burr

The RingTwo Damaged Men and the Woman Who Needs ThemThe Ring is the fictional story of two men who suffer traumatic amputations; one in a workplace setting, the other in combat, and the woman who helps them confront their physical and emotional challenges.Gary Dwornick, a high-school dropout, lives with his mother in an adversarial relationship, and works in a factory that makes large industrial blades. One day, while standing in for a co-worker in an unfamiliar location, he loses his right hand in a terrible accident. Seemingly against all odds, after his injury he hopes for something to transform his life for the better.Frank Gordon, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, loses his left leg to an improvised explosive device while on his third tour in Iraq. Medically retired, he sinks into depression. His wife abandons him and their daughter Anne, shortly after he returns home. Resisting treatment and therapy, despite his daughter’s best efforts he has come to feel his life, once seemingly blessed with success, is not worth living.Anne Gordon, Frank’s daughter, is struggling to help her father overcome his depression and re-engage with life, while failing to focus on her own life goals. She feels doomed to failure, and wonders where the strength will come from to help her father, much less, herself. How these stories intertwine will capture the reader’s attention. Can these three once again embrace life and face the future with confidence?Author’s Note: This story is dedicated to the Amputee Coalition of America, to which a share of all net profits is dedicated.

The RingTwo Damaged Men and the Woman Who Needs ThemThe Ring is the fictional story of two men who suffer traumatic amputations; one in a workplace setting, the other in combat, and the woman who helps them confront their physical and emotional challenges.Gary Dwornick, a high-school dropout, lives with his mother in an adversarial relationship, and works in a factory that makes large industrial blades. One day, while standing in for a co-worker in an unfamiliar location, he loses his right hand in a terrible accident. Seemingly against all odds, after his injury he hopes for something to transform his life for the better.Frank Gordon, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, loses his left leg to an improvised explosive device while on his third tour in Iraq. Medically retired, he sinks into depression. His wife abandons him and their daughter Anne, shortly after he returns home. Resisting treatment and therapy, despite his daughter’s best efforts he has come to feel his life, once seemingly blessed with success, is not worth living.Anne Gordon, Frank’s daughter, is struggling to help her father overcome his depression and re-engage with life, while failing to focus on her own life goals. She feels doomed to failure, and wonders where the strength will come from to help her father, much less, herself. How these stories intertwine will capture the reader’s attention. Can these three once again embrace life and face the future with confidence?Author’s Note: This story is dedicated to the Amputee Coalition of America, to which a share of all net profits is dedicated.

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Excerpt from A Study of the Kindergarten Problem: In the Public Kindergartens of Santa Barbara, California, 1898-1899This study is a report upon one year's work in a kinder. Garten system in which we' have felt free to break somewhat from tradition. It is in no sense offered as a finished product, nor are its suggestions anything more than tentative. It is con fessedly crude. The conditions have been favorable, but by no means ideal. We have sought to apply to the kindergarten, in a practical way, some of the products of common sense experience and some-of the suggestions of child psychology. In a few subjects a limited bibliography has been inserted, but the field is here so wide that it would be impossible to attempt completion. Readers who are interested are earnestly advised to consult, in the matter of child-study literature, the Biblio graphy of child-study, by Mr. Louis N. Wilson, Librarian of Clark University, 1898. (address Louis N. Wilson, Clark University Library, Worcester, Mass.) The child-study book references in Will S. Monroe's Bibliography of Education (international Education Series) will be found also valuable. More direct, but less accessible, are the topical reference syl labi. Issued by Professor Monroe for his classes in the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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