Patrick: 6740 books

121  poemes divers  Mon coeur est un trop sage enfant, Pour une image il est content. L’enfant rêveur prend son pastel Et peint d’abord le bleu du ciel. Il prend du vert pour les forêts Et croit sentir l’arôme frais.

Nous vivions, Barrabas et moi, heureux autant qu’on peut l’être, sur notre roche. Barrabas allait, venait, me suivait partout, m’édifiant de sa candeur et me réjouissant de ses gaietés enfantines ; moi, je faisais ce que fait tout bon ermite : je priais, je sonnais ma cloche aux heures voulues,...

"In early 2010, Patrick McGlade ran from Huntington Beach, California to Tybee Island, Georgia. He ran across the United States in order to raise money and awareness for juvenile arthritis. The journey was a total of 2,553 miles and he averaged 30 miles per day. Though the run was challenging,...

In this fascinating interview, a former Marine and aikido master discusses the inner qualities of the traditional warrior, and how he has tried to introduce them to select members of the modern military including the Green Berets and Navy Seals.

So youve just come up with a new ad campaign. Love the spots! Too bad no one will ever see themeven worsetoo bad no one cares! Why is it that so much of that stuff we immediately recognize as advertising is so bad? Its not just badwellit sucks. The reason: even though its 2010, most ad agencies and...

In a sea of capital, why are our small business owners starving for the funds to fuel their growth? What would happen if entrepreneurs understood the REAL reasons investors plunk down their investment cash? Author and fundraising expert Patrick Donohue, CFA shares his inside knowledge of how the rules...

Trenchard Brat. Flying Spanner. Left Hand Seat. Nicknames abound in aviation. But not many get to be called them all, especially when they’ve started life with an aversion to school and a stammer thrown in. Mick Patrick started his aviation career as an RAF Apprentice and finished it as an Air Ambulance...

Get inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon ‘Zidane is the master’ Pele One of modern football’s most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane’s football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he...

My name is Alex, Patrick, or Alex. Alexander is acceptable too. I am an old soul with a promise. Im a problem with a solution. This is about our friend. The end. I hear footsteps at night and whispers down below. It leads me to believe we, too, will perish. Its inevitable. Tall buildings and low skies and false hope and white lies are all crumbs of our nature.

There was once a time, not so long ago, where our sporting heroes were treated with veneration. Players were players and their watchers were passive. Heroes lived on pedestals - they weren't public property. This book explores the many ways this dynamic has changed over the years. From the...

Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish...

The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII....

Sharing secrets and stories, tales from the track, and insights into her personal life, Danica reflects on her extraordinary rise from a ten-year-old go-kart champion to the most successful woman in the history of American racing. Danica Patrick's life moves at 220 mph. She drives every race...

A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis,...