Rev. Clint Abbott has published a family history of the Abbotts who traveled from New England to Canada and beyond. This work is one of the most complete works on the Abbott family in North America... More > since a work was published by Rev. Abel Abbott, circa 1850. There is no known documented connection between the two works; other than in 1850 Rev. Abel Abbott mentioned a family of Abbotts migrating from Canada to Michigan. This, Rev. Clint Abbott believes to be his family of Abbotts and so he shares their story and linage.Included in the book in text and with pictures, is a Canada reunion of this Abbott family, the first since circa 1860.< Less
Rev. Clint Abbott has published a family history of the Abbotts who traveled from New England to Canada and beyond. This work is one of the most complete works on the Abbott family in North America... More > since a work was published by Rev. Abel Abbott, circa 1850. There is no known documented connection between the two works; other than in 1850 Rev. Abel Abbott mentioned a family of Abbotts migrating from Canada to Michigan. This, Rev. Clint Abbott believes to be his family of Abbotts and so he shares their story and linage.Included in the book in text and with pictures, is a Canada reunion of this Abbott family, the first since circa 1860.< Less
The Judy Abbott Story is an amply edited revival of Jean Webster’s 1912 novel ”Daddy-Long-Legs”. Set in a period when women couldn’t vote and were expected to be delicate and... More > passive; Jerusha (Judy) Abbott, an orphan faces an unfamiliar world of affluence. Her story, told through her charming and humorous letters, chronicles her coming of age as a talented young woman.< Less
The Judy Abbott Story is an amply edited revival of Jean Webster’s 1912 novel ”Daddy-Long-Legs”. Set in a period when women couldn’t vote and were expected to be delicate and... More > passive; Jerusha (Judy) Abbott, an orphan faces an unfamiliar world of affluence. Her story, told through her charming and humorous letters, chronicles her coming of age as a talented young woman.< Less
Returning back home to Seattle, in a night-flight at thirty seven thousand feet, two gun shots are heard from the inside of the sealed cockpit! The pilots have two bullets in their heads and the... More > autopilot continues its trajectory south. Realizing that no one else is able to land the plane, Abbott takes the commands. Mysteriously, the evidence of the assassination disappeared... there is no weapon, no bullet shells, and no signs of gun discharge on their hands.
A couple of weeks later he realizes that something supernatural happened, a split in his life existence, like a sort of dualism between two worlds.
He meets himself, thirty years younger, seeing his own life from his parallel world until the day of his flight back home... again... and now realizes that his younger self has a lot to do with the murders and the threat hidden inside the airplane.< Less
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a classic 19th century novel, which is more than useful reading for people studying multi-dimensional spaces in modern mathematics and physics.... More > As a piece of literature, "Flatland" is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society.
The story posits a two-dimensional world (Flatland). The narrator, a humble square (named A. Square), guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. A. Square dreams of a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland), and attempts to convince the realm's ignorant monarch of a second dimension. A masterpiece which blends Lewis Carroll's mathematical fantasy with Thomas Morus' political utopia, thus prefiguring Eugen Ionesco's literature of the absurd.< Less
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a classic 19th century novel, which is more than useful reading for people studying multi-dimensional spaces in modern mathematics and physics.... More > As a piece of literature, "Flatland" is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society.
The story posits a two-dimensional world (Flatland). The narrator, a humble square (named A. Square), guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. A. Square dreams of a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland), and attempts to convince the realm's ignorant monarch of a second dimension. A masterpiece which blends Lewis Carroll's mathematical fantasy with Thomas Morus' political utopia, thus prefiguring Eugen Ionesco's literature of the absurd.< Less