Books with author John Taylor Allen

This book represents an introduction to the human senses for kids. It might be your child’s first “read about your own problems” guide. It explains what can go wrong when the brain inappropriately magnifies the messages sense organs send to it. Making inappropriate responses to sensory input from various senses is commonly referred to as sensory processing disorder, or SPD. The child avoids, resists, or becomes emotionally upset about experiencing sensory awareness, to a level that significantly interferes with a child’s ability to perform the necessary major functions of daily living. This book is a therapy guide for any child with sensory issues.

"I have a record of every incident happening through my life of thirty-four years in the Rocky Mountains." - John Allen, Mountain ManBorn in 1843, after serving in the Civil War, John Allen left on a trapping expedition for the Rockies in the Fall of 1865. From the day he threw his things into Mr. Wagner’s wagon, he kept a record of every incident happening in his life of 34 years in the Rocky Mountains that he considered worthy of note. In his 1917, 55-page narrative, "Uncle John Allen’s Rambles in the Rockies," Allen covers his life in the Rocky Mountains including attacks by hostile tribes, fur trapping expeditions into Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming, bear hunting, archaeological ruins, and prospecting in California.In describing one coordinated attack by bear and hostile tribe, Allen writes:"Now in the hottest part of our engagement with the bears, all at once we heard the 'Indian war whoop,' and looking behind us we saw the Indians coming in our rear, yelling savagely. While all attention was immediately drawn to the Indians coming, a bear sneaked up and jumped on one of our boys while his back was turned to the bear..."In describing how one wounded mountain man would attempt to stand off 125 warriors from a mountaintop fortress, Allen relates:"One of our boys, known as Big Jim, a powerful and brave man, said: 'Boys, it will not do for us all to stop on this mountain. They will surround and starve us out. Give me all your shells and grub and I will stand them off as long as it lasts, and you ride on around the mountain and pull on for headquarters and return as soon as possible with, all the men they can spare. You know my condition; lose no time. When they come I will make them think we are all here....'"In describing another harrowing encounter with a California bear, Allen writes: "One evening coming in from work ... I noticed a large black bear was sitting in the trail about 150 yards from me, looking at me. I walked on up the hill until within about 60 yards of him. He made no effort whatever to give me the trail. ... The next evening as I came in about the same hour there he sat again at the same place. I walked on up as before. Yet there he sat. After looking at each other for some time he seemed to want to give me a more thorough and closer inspection..."Uncle John Allen’s Rambles in the Rockies, although a short read, is an intensely interesting narrative of his harrowing 34 years in the Rocky Mountains, similar to books such as "Wild Life in the Far West," "Four Years in the Rockies," "Rising Wolf," and "Life in the Rockies."

In Fine Shotguns, expert John M. Taylor offers a global view of shotguns using photographs and descriptions of guns from the United States, Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, and Italy. Here are all types of shotguns: single barrel, double barrel, combination guns, hammer shotguns, paired shotguns, special-use guns, small-bore shotguns, shotgun stocks or shotguns with metal finishes, and bespoke shotguns. This all encompassing guide includes sections on how to care for and storage your weapon, what accessories are available for your model, and how to choose the perfect traveling case.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

"Analytics is the process of finding patterns in data to aid in making better decisions. Baseball is well suited to analytics because it produces lots of data for each game--as in mountains of data, about hits, runs, pitches, catches, swings, misses, and every other action that takes place inside the ballpark. Front offices in baseball swear by the new data-driven approach, making it key to their hiring practices. Often the science of analytics dovetails perfectly with great athletic skill. The new tools provide a clearer picture of what skills and strategies are most effective in winning baseball games"--

Acacia, or Ace, is a young girl with a missing memory. She wakes up in a room trying to remember who she is, but, after some very unnerving dreams, she gets the feeling that the Planners are suppressing some important memories. As she divulges her fears about her false reality to her supposed husband, Harvey, he confirms her suspicions and leaves her with even more questions than she had to begin with. When Harvey begins to tell her about the curse of his tribe Acacia learns about a people called the Hollow. As she tries to piece all the clues together, remember her lost life, and find out why the Planners don’t want her to remember it, she finds herself in the middle of uncovering the mystery that no one, not even Harvey, will talk about.

Excerpt from Early Pioneer Days in TexasFriends, early pioneers and settlers and a few remaining schoolmates of our log cabin school days: I write these lines in commemoration of the days of long ago; the days that were spent in preparation for the glorious results which have come to Texas and her people. The younger gen eration cannot know nor understand the dangers, nor the inconveniences, that beset us in the early days; neither can they comprehend how tedious was the slow and labored journeys we had to make to go from place to place. N ow it is an easy task to travel two or three hundred miles a day, and at little cost, but in those days when we had to pick our way through vast country expanses and find our road the best we could as we went along, it was a tedious and expensive journey, both because of expenditure of energy and of means as well.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.

Acacia has found Luka, the man they told her not only never died, but never existed. Now she knows indefinitely that the Planners are wrong, but his existence only leads to more questions. She knows that she must find out the truth, and something inside of her knows she must find the Tribe to do that. As if things weren’t complicated enough, now Acacia is developing keener senses. She already knows that she isn’t a Blood Member, but, from what she knows, that could only mean that she must be a Hollow. With the taunting fear of being one of the cursed looming overhead Acacia must find the answers she needs and prepare herself for what those answers could lead her to do.

Everybody’s whispering and secretive glances have finally been revealed. Acacia isn’t a Hollow; she is something far more powerful. Many members of the Tribe including Harvey’s father believe Acacia is the Light Haired Warrior -- the estranged Blood Member of the Tribe’s oldest legends. She knows that she must destroy the Hollow, but doing so will come at a great cost. Acacia must fight to fulfill the prophecies, sacrifice the man she loves, avenge the deaths of all who deserve it, and reestablish a nation capable of thriving in this new age. Her failure would mean a world run by the Decider.

The life story of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time. Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight glass-and-steel-framed setting, Biosphere 2 covered three acres of Arizona desert and included models of seven biomes: an ocean with coral reef, marsh, rainforest, savannah, desert, farm and a micro-city. Eight people lived inside this structure for two years (1991-1993) and set world records in human life support while monitoring their impact on the environment and providing crucial data for future manned missions into outer space. Humorous and reminiscent of Whitman, Me and the Biospheres is a tribute to the ingenuity and dauntlessness of the human mind and a passionate call to reawaken to the beauty of our peerless home, Biosphere 1, the Earth.

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Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. It is also an endless scientific panorama. Every movement by the players and each interaction with the ball involves physics, fluid mechanics, biology, and physiology, to name just a few of the scientific disciplines. In a book that targets middle and high school players, Taylor begins with a history of soccer and its physical and mathematical aspects. He then addresses important questions such as how and why a ball bounces, how the ball spins, and what these dynamics mean for the game. He introduces readers to the science of kicking, heading, and trapping and looks at the sources of the energy required to run, jump, and kick for an entire game. Taylor then puts it all together by following a sequence of plays and describing the science behind tactical maneuvers. Sidebars and appendices allow those with a more mathematical bent to follow the physics and perform experiments to see the effects of phenomena like drag, bounce, and spin. In addition, key terminology is highlighted, explained in the text, and summarized in the glossary.ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSJohn Taylor is a former soccer referee, an engineer, a science writer, and a historian who is the author of four books on New Mexican history.

Acacia has found Luka, the man they told her not only never died, but never existed. Now she knows indefinitely that the Planners are wrong, but his existence only leads to more questions. She knows that she must find out the truth, and something inside of her knows she must find the Tribe to do that. As if things weren’t complicated enough, now Acacia is developing keener senses. She already knows that she isn’t a Blood Member, but, from what she knows, that could only mean that she must be a Hollow. With the taunting fear of being one of the cursed looming overhead Acacia must find the answers she needs and prepare herself for what those answers could lead her to do.