The Crippled Pelican is a story of a fishing trawler that mysteriously burns and sinks sixty miles off the Florida east coast with women and children aboard. The Coast Guard was to pick up only one survivor from the vessel, claiming that he was the one that burned the boat and was hopelessly insane, isolating him in a state mental institution for ten years, until an inquisitive newspaper reporter began checking into the government's story after a visit from a widow of one of the crew who was aboard the Coast Guard boat that picked up the lone survivor of The Crippled Pelican. She told the reporter that her husband said that the man they pulled from the sea that day wasn't insane and the government wanted him put away so the real story of the sinking would never be told. So begins one of the most bizarre tales ever told.

Crippled Pelican

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Strickland, Michael

Mystery

Publishamerica Inc

The Red Cotton Fields is story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. The reader will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave) as they rise to become two of the richest men in the world. Also, The Red Cotton Fields is a classic love story between the plantation's owner's daughter, Holly Ballaster, and the overseer's son, Bart Royal, The Red Cotton Fields is destined to become a classic. Read it and you will understand why. Book 2 in the planned series 'Fields of Gold and Sorrow' has been released.

The Red Cotton Fields (The Red Cotton Fields series book one)

Literature & Fiction

Strickland, Michael David

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A story of intrigue and disbelief that something like this could happen so close to our coast line and how horrific it might have been if all the pieces hadn't fallen into place as they did. Truely a page turner if there ever was one. You will never forget the name, Crippled Pelican after reading this story.

The Crippled Pelican

Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. Their analysis uncovers how the discourses are constructed; what issues each discourse seeks to treat; how the argumentation, arrangement, and style of each discourse contributes to its overall purpose; and how the discourse fits into the overall narrative context of the Gospel. The authors demonstrate that, contrary to what some historical critics have suggested, first-century audiences of Mark would have found the discourses of Jesus unified, well-integrated, and persuasive. They also show how these speeches of the Markan Jesus contribute to Mark's overall narrative accomplishments.

The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark

Young, David M.

Religion & Spirituality

Fortress Press

"Fields of Gold and Sorrows" begins in the allied trenches in France during the peak of World War One. One of the American wounded lying in this particular trench is Mark Royal, an heir to one of the wealthiest families in the entire world. Why would such a wealthy individual be here in the first place? Only Mark Royal knew the answer to that question and might never reveal the answer as he lie critically wounded in a muddy ditch with little chance he would make it out alive. On a sprawling piece of Georgia land known as the "Royal Farm" Mark's only sister who had just buried their father, was about to get word of another tragedy, with the news of her severely wounded brother someplace in France. "I have to travel to France and bring Mark home," Catherine said to her father's grave. "But first, I have to go find Billy. I know he's down in Florida someplace and I'll find him. I'll bring him back here where he belongs. He can oversee the farm while I'm gone to France so I can bring our brother home. Dead or alive, he will be buried on this farm like the rest of our family. I swear to you Mama and Daddy," Catherine said to the two stone markers before her, "I will bring Mark home!" Catherine wiped the tears from her eyes and walked slowly to the awaiting car. And so begins the second book in 'THE RED COTTON FIELDS' trilogy, an epic tale surrounding three of the wealthiest families in the entire world carrying the reader through the dark days of WWI into the happier days of the roaring twenties followed by the traumatic times of the great depression ending on the eve of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the beginning of WWII. It is a story of love, war, tragedy, and the human will to survive. The saga continues in 'Fields of Gold and Sorrow'. Hope you enjoy.

Fields Of Gold And Sorrow (The Red Cotton Fields series book one)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1: Canonical Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Volume 1 of this three-part series introduces the fundamental concepts of quantum field theory using the formalism of canonical quantization. 
This volume is intended for use as a text for an introductory quantum field theory course that can include both particle and condensed matter physics students. Dr. Strickland starts with a brief review of classical field theory and uses this as a jumping off point for the quantization of classical field, thereby promoting them to proper quantum fields. He then presents the formalism for real and complex scalar field theories, fermion field quantization, gauge field quantization, toy models of the nuclear interaction, and finally the full Lagrangian for QED and its renormalization. Part of IOP Series in Nuclear Medicine.

Science & Math

Physics

IOP Concise Physics

Volume 1 of this three-part series introduces the fundamental concepts of quantum field theory using the formalism of canonical quantization. This volume is intended for use as a text for an introductory quantum field theory course that can include both particle and condensed matter physics students. Dr. Strickland starts with a brief review of classical field theory and uses this as a jumping off point for the quantization of classical field, thereby promoting them to proper quantum fields. He then presents the formalism for real and complex scalar field theories, fermion field quantization, gauge field quantization, toy models of the nuclear interaction, and finally the full Lagrangian for QED and its renormalization. Part of IOP Series in Nuclear Medicine.

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 2: Path Integral Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Volume 2 of this three-part series presents the quantization of classical field theory using the path integral formalism. For this volume the target audience is students who wish to learn about relativistic quantum field theory applied to particle physics, however, it is still very accessible and useful for students of condensed matter. This volume begins with the introduction of the path integral formalism for non-relativistic quantum mechanics and then, using this as a basis, extends the formalism to quantum fields with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. Dr. Strickland then discusses how to quantize gauge fields using the Fadeev-Popov method and fermionic fields using Grassman algebra. He then presents the path integral formulation of quantum chromodynamics and its renormalization. Finally, he discusses the role played by topological solutions in non-abelian gauge theories.

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 3: Applications of Quantum Field Theory (Iop Concise Physics)

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Crippled Pelican

The Red Cotton Fields (The Red Cotton Fields series book one)

The Crippled Pelican

The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark

Fields Of Gold And Sorrow (The Red Cotton Fields series book one)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1: Canonical Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1: Canonical Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 2: Path Integral Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 2: Path Integral Formalism (Iop Concise Physics)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 3: Applications of Quantum Field Theory (Iop Concise Physics)