Most Popular Books by Chris Tomlinson

"Foreign correspondent Chris Tomlinson returns to Texas to discover the truth about his family''s slave owning history. Tomlinson Hill tells the story of two families, one black and one white, who trace their ancestry to the same Central Texas slave plantation. Tomlinson discovers that his counterpart in the African American family is LaDainian Tomlinson, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League. LaDainian''s father was the last Tomlinson living on the Hill when he died in 2007. LaDainian''s earliest memories are from the idyllic community built by former slaves on the former plantation grounds. Chris learns that many of the stories surrounding the Civil War and the South that he learned as a child are simply untrue. He finds family letters that detail the mix of brutality and meager kindness that his relatives used to maintain order. He then compares and contrasts what the two families experienced at Emancipation, during Reconstruction, through the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Civil Rights era, and ending the day LaDainian''s father died. Tomlinson Hill is more than a history of two families; it tells the story of America and how slavery still shapes our society. And it ends with the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.''s dream that one day the sons of slaves and the sons of slaveholders would meet in brotherhood"--

People yearn for many things, but only Jesus Christ can satisfy the deepest cravings of the human heart. Many individuals, however, have settled for a cultural Christianity and lost their vibrant, day-by-day relationship with Him. This collection of short, real-life stories from an exciting young author reveals that life with God can be a surprising, challenging, and richly satisfying journey. Readers of Donald Miller and Anne Lamott will love these vignettes of people who... talk to strangers about God—and find out why sharing their faith can actually be enjoyable answer their calls—and delight in godly obedience floss every day—and discover the rewards of daily prayer Sometimes humorous, occasionally tender, and always thought-provoking, these slices of life connect with 20- and 30-somethings who crave a deeper level of intimacy with God.

A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it''s no surprise that its myths bite deep. There''s no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico''s push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas''s struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn''t alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo''s meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas''s future begins to look more and more different from its past. It''s the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that''s gotten awfully dark.

This second Skiing with Demons book traces the post-midlife crisis of our ageing ski-bum from garage-dwelling chalet-host to existential philosopher, ski psychologist, failed domestic goddess and writer. There''s wisdom here but unusually packaged, wisdom that will be useful to all who aspire to live their dreams - no matter how old. Enter the dangerous and yet alluring world of BASI Ballerinas, Saga Louts, Angry Pirates, Cougars and Soggy Bottom Boys - collectively called the ''Agents of Entropy'' by Chris, because they often bring disorder, if not chaos, to his life. No one who stays in his chalet is above suspicion, from the yummy mummy with her teenage boarding brats, to the French skiing gods of the ESF - however, he discovers that the most powerful Agent is the evil black chalet cat. Chris shares his life as an act of generosity and he casts his eye wide both in Morzine, and the lesser known resorts of Laax, South Cave and Sutton Coldfield. If you survive this account without either dying of laughter or depression, you may with luck enter those broad philosophical uplands now attained by the author, where the snow is always powder and the wine is always hot. It might even improve your skiing - although Chris suspects it might not.

Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory ailment that can boom at the same time as strep throat or scarlet fever isn''t always properly treated. Strep throat and scarlet fever are because of an contamination with streptococcus (strep-toe-KOK-us) micro organism. Rheumatic fever most often affects children a while 5 to fifteen. However it can expand in greater younger children and adults. Regardless of the truth that strep throat is not unusual, rheumatic fever is rare in the u.S. And specific advanced international locations. Rheumatic fever can motive everlasting damage to the coronary coronary coronary heart, consisting of damaged coronary coronary coronary heart valves and coronary coronary heart failure. Treatment can ease ache, reduce damage from infection and prevent a recurrence of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a disease that might upward thrust up following an infection due to the employer A streptococcus bacterium. If untreated, an contamination including ''strep throat'' might also additionally cause a behind schedule trouble supplying sizable contamination in other factors of the body, specially the joints, coronary coronary heart, pores and skin and mind. Rheumatic fever is classed as an autoimmune illness because of the reality the infection is probably attributable to the immune gadget''s reaction to the micro organism. On the same time as rheumatic fever can boom at any age, youngsters among 5 and 14 years are at expanded risk. Without remedy, the ailment can purpose critical complications at the side of rheumatic coronary heart illness.

Abstract: "Two important aspects of object-oriented languages are the means by which objects share information, and whether objects are explicitly organized into classes. These issues are to a large degree independent, and by considering them separately we can identify new language design opportunities, and clarify their applicability. In particular, we examine inheritance and delegation as alternative sharing protocols independent of class organization, comparing their time and space characteristics. We also examine the advantages and disadvantages of class-based and prototype-based systems for different sharing requirements."

Abstract: "The Concurrent Object Design Environment (CODE) project of the Object-Oriented and Distributed Systems group within ACA is investigating the incorporation of concurrency semantics in the object-oriented paradigm. In this report we focus on concurrency in the context of object-oriented languages. Concurrency refers to multiple independent activities within a system, including control and communication in both parallel and distributed forms. This report is intended to be an introduction to current literature and issues in this area, but it is not intended to serve as an exhaustive survey. We will dwell mainly on language features and their implications while ignoring, for the most part, the implementation techniques involved.