Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course, Walter “Chipper” Blair, enjoys the simple joys of golf but suspicious neighbors, claiming to be LIV golf tour executives, move into the estate next door. Trouble ensues. Irene McVay disappears checking out the new neighbors. Chipper is shuffled off to Spanish Bay Golf Course by the Pebble Beach Corporation to keep him from being around during the ATT Pebble Beach PGA Signature golf event. His wife, teaching pro Jenny Nelson, ...

Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course, Walter “Chipper” Blair enjoys the simple joys of golf but vindictive Dorothy Golberry has become the President of Hastings Lumber. Golberry wants to cut down all the trees at all the golf courses in the Del Monte Forest, home of Spyglass Hill golf course. His wife, teaching pro Jenny Nelson, takes on a protégé and gives golf lessons to cute Cindy Springer. Pebble Beach General Counsel, Richard Stein, makes Cindy and Jenny soc...

This fun, suspense novel follows the characters from Paradox at Pebble Beach as they cope with newfound wealth and attempt to become members at exclusive Cypress Point golf club. Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course Walter “Chipper” Blair continues his romance with beautiful teaching pro Jenny Nelson. A trip to Scotland reveals that reclusive very wealthy Scotsman Ben Morris was not who they thought he was and Chipper’s fortune is in jeopardy. Events spiral out o...

Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course Walter “Chipper” Blair enjoys the simple joys of golf but his life is complicated by meeting the beautiful teaching pro Jenny Nelson and the reclusive very wealthy Scotsman Ben Morris who has an estate off the fourteenth fairway. Chipper has a strange relationship with a rich widow who gets him involved with the society crowd living in the Del Monte Forest near the golf course. Events spiral out of control for Chipper as he en...

Writers like Donald and Mike work at the grassroots level to promote and support our sport. Their love of running shines through every page of what they write. They have a unique perspective on The Running Life and make us smile and gain insight at the same time. Whether you are an experienced runner, a novice, or even a non-runner this compilation of articles will inspire. --Amby Burfoot, Editor at Large, Runners World Magazine and 1968 Boston Marathon winnerAs a resident...

In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands...

«Un libro affascinante. Un compendio delle più famose conquiste archeologiche e al contempo un'analisi sottile di come la “scoperta” si sia evoluta.»Greg Jenner, storica e autrice del podcast You’re Dead to Me«Michael Scott ci racconta la storia dell'archeologia stessa. Un'indagine appassionante sull’ossessione dell’umanità per i resti fisici del proprio passato.»Suzannah Lipscomb, storica e conduttrice televisiva britannica

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the rise of ever narrower scientific disciplinesFor millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has promoted a dichotomy between nature and culture on the one hand and between scientific and folk knowledge on the other. Drawing ...

A seminal anthropological work on the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environmentThis book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably?To address these questions, Michael ...

The Dove Bride of Christ is a call and invitation from the Bridegroom King Jesus to the betrothed soul to return to the Garden of Intimacy. This is where she would be affectionately prepared and nurtured by the Holy Spirit to become the long-awaited Dove Bride of Christ. This Dove Bride is the reward for the suffering of the Lamb of God; she is what He gets for all His travail in His redemptive work for Man.What will you do: reject the Bridegroom King's call and invitation like Que...

Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical world and human societies are always inextricably linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of kn...

The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the US, where it now regularly appears as innumerab...