Knock Wood
| Author | : Candice Bergen |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2014-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1476770131 |
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Originally published by Linden Press in 1984.
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Knock on Wood
| Author | : W. Scott Prudham |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136072349 |
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Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.
Knock on Wood
| Author | : Jeffrey S. Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1443453099 |
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Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, author of the bestseller Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was born on Friday the thirteenth, a fact that he discovered long after he had become one of the world’s pre-eminent statisticians. Had he been living ignorantly and innocently under an unlucky cloud for all those years? Or is thirteen just another number? As a scientist and a man of reason, Rosenthal has long considered the value of luck, good and bad, seeking to measure chance and hope in formulas scratched out on chalkboards. In Knock on Wood, with great humour and irreverence, Rosenthal divines the world of luck, fate and chance, putting his considerable scientific acumen to the test in deducing whether luck is real or the mere stuff of superstition.
Knock on Wood
| Author | : Janet S. Wong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2003-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
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A collection of seventeen original poems about superstitions, including walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and knocking on wood.
Doug Knockwood, Mi’kmaw Elder
| Author | : Doug Knockwood |
| Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1552669505 |
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Freeman Douglas Knockwood is a highly respected Elder in Mi’kmaw Territory and one of Canada’s premier addictions recovery counsellors. The story of his life is one of unimaginable colonial trauma, recovery and hope. At age 6, Knockwood was placed in the Shubenacadie Residential School, where he remained for a year and a half. Like hundreds of other Mi’kmaw and Maliseet children, he suffered horrible abuse. By the time he reached his twenties, he was an alcoholic. He contracted tuberculosis in the 1940s, had one lung and several ribs removed. Having hit rock bottom, Knockwood gained sobriety in his thirties through Alcoholics Anonymous. He went on to become a much sought after drug and alcohol rehabilitation counsellor in Canada. Many of Doug’s initiatives have been implemented across Canada and used by thousands of people, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Looking back now, says Doug, “I realize I wasn’t only helping them. They were helping me to gather strength in my presentations, in feeding them the knowledge I received, the same as it was fed to me. That helped me to gain confidence in myself; doing all these things that I didn’t know I could yet do”. This book is an in-depth look at Doug Knockwood’s life that also casts a wide and critical glance at the forces that worked to undermine his existence and the indomitable spirit of a man who recovered from, yet still struggles to overcome, those forces.
A Fine Romance
| Author | : Candice Bergen |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2016-04-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1476746095 |
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In a follow-up to Knock Wood, the Emmy Award-winning actress traces the milestone events of her life, including her first marriage, the birth of her daughter, her work on Murphy Brown and her struggles with widowhood.
Out of the Depths
| Author | : Isabelle Knockwood |
| Publisher | : Lockeport, N.S. : Roseway |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
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The Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was established by the Canadian government in 1929 to provide residential education to orphan, destitute, neglected, and other Mi'kmaw Indian children aged 7-16. Since many Indian parents were poor and unable to provide for their children, they felt the school was a chance for their children to have adequate clothing and food as well as an education. The parents did not understand that when they signed school registration papers, they were transferring guardianship of their children to the school principal. The school's staff of 10 nuns and a priest (principal) provided room and board and education to an annual population of about 200 until the school closed in 1967. The 5-year-old author and her brother and sister were sent to the school in 1936. She was a resident at the school for 11 years. This book relates her memories, and other students' memories, of their life at the school: physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by the nuns and priest; inadequate food and clothing; lack of care when ill or injured; enforced labor in the kitchen, laundry, barn, and fields; and beatings for speaking their native language. Even though some children were allowed to go home for summer vacation and parents were allowed to visit on Sunday, no student was allowed to permanently leave the school. The school's suppression of the children's Indian language, culture, and heritage caused severe social and personal adjustment problems, which are related through quotations from former students. Rumored to have been built on an old Indian burial ground, and haunted, the remnants of the school mysteriously burned down in 1986. Government officials and the Catholic church apologized to Native people for treatment at the school in 1991. Chapters are: "Origins" (nonformal Native education and child rearing); "Everyday Life at the School"; "Work and Play"; "Rewards and Punishments"; "Ghosts and Hauntings"; "Resistance"; "The End of the School"; "The Official Story"; and "Out of the Depths." Includes photographs. (SAS) -- from ERIC dbase.
A Knock at the Door
| Author | : Tom Wood |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2020-05-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0751575925 |
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'Riveting, twisty as all hell, and very, very clever, A Knock at the Door is a rollercoaster ride of brilliance. Tom Wood is a superb thriller writer' --- SARAH PINBOROUGH They ask for your husband. They just want to talk. THEY'RE LYING. Your husband isn't who he says he is, say the people at your door. Come with us. Don't trust them, says a voice on the phone. Run. Who would you believe? In this terrifying first psychological thriller by bestselling author Tom Wood (previously published under T.W. Ellis), one woman goes on the run and is forced to question everything she held dear . . . 'A Knock at the Door is a riveting, twisty thriller that grips and intrigues from the very beginning. Tom Wood is the real deal' --- ALEX NORTH 'Highly original and very twisty . . . this is his first psychological thriller and it's a cracker' --- DAILY MAIL 'A thrilling fast-paced story, full of twists and turns' --- CLAIRE MCGOWAN 'Only one thing is certain with this heart-pounding thrill-ride of a novel, and that is nothing is what it seems' --- HEAT
Knock on Wood
| Author | : Leslie Tall Manning |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2019-08-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780960017737 |
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1978: Fourteen-year-old Billy Baker is the first into the pond that early summer day. Ten minutes later, his lifeless body is pulled from the chilly water, his lips like two slivers of blue ice. Billy Baker dies...but only for a little while. Thirty-nine days later, he emerges from a coma. But he is not alone.Sixteen years later: Billy Baker (aka William) is turning thirty. He forgets some letters in the alphabet. He can't set a table properly. He still believes it's the disco era. And he can't remember that day at the pond.But the young boy William used to be has never left his side.A brain-damaged hero. A love for a girl he cannot have. A lottery windfall. A jealous brother. A mysterious equine disease. A memory hidden just below the surface. Sharp contrasts of disco favorites and life's dark periphery are delicately mingled in Knock on Wood, putting a new twist on the age-old question: Is it possible to find the way home again when one's memory of the past is nothing more than a blank slate?
Struck by Lightning
| Author | : Jeffrey S. Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2006-04-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780309097345 |
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From terrorist attacks to big money jackpots, Struck by Lightning deconstructs the odds and oddities of chance, examining both the relevant and irreverent role of randomness in our everyday lives. Human beings have long been both fascinated and appalled by randomness. On the one hand, we love the thrill of a surprise party, the unpredictability of a budding romance, or the freedom of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. We are inexplicably delighted by strange coincidences and striking similarities. But we also hate uncertainty's dark side. From cancer to SARS, diseases strike with no apparent pattern. Terrorists attack, airplanes crash, bridges collapse, and we never know if we'll be that one in a million statistic. We are all constantly faced with situations and choices that involve randomness and uncertainty. A basic understanding of the rules of probability theory, applied to real-life circumstances, can help us to make sense of these situations, to avoid unnecessary fear, to seize the opportunities that randomness presents to us, and to actually enjoy the uncertainties we face. The reality is that when it comes to randomness, you can run, but you can't hide. So many aspects of our lives are governed by events that are simply not in our control. In this entertaining yet sophisticated look at the world of probabilities, author Jeffrey Rosenthal-an improbably talented math professor-explains the mechanics of randomness and teaches us how to develop an informed perspective on probability.
