Abounding Happiness by M Scott Peck Md

Abounding Happiness by M Scott Peck Md

This lavishly illustrated book explores the vast publicity surrounding eight milestone transcontinental auto trips in the early twentieth century, and how this publicity produced a variety of changes in American life. Earlier coast-to-coast trips (described in the author's Coast-to-Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908 (Stanford, 2000) were also attention-grabbing events, but it was not until Pennsylvania lumberman Jacob Murdock became the first man to drive his family across the continent, that the average American began to see the automobile as a useful, practical means of traveling long distances. Murdock's trip ended the period when automakers (and others) would sponsor a cross-country trip merely to prove that it could be done.
The later trips chronicled in this book reflected the remarkable developments in automobile technology and durability, and demonstrated the automobile's recreational, military, and commercial possibilities as well. The accounts of these exciting trips--carried in newspapers and magazines across the land--captivated Americans. Our familiarity with modern interstate highways only increases our wonder that in the early twentieth century adventurous motorists were resourceful and determined enough to establish cross-country driving records when the few roads connecting cities were snow-clogged in winter, mud-bogged in spring, and pockmarked with deep and dusty ruts the rest of the year. These trips, which vividly illustrated what one observer called the crying need for good roads in the United States, are illustrated by some 125 rare photographs.

Shannon Peck is a love healer and spiritual life coach. She is dedicated to assisting others in finding healing, loving themselves, discovering their highest life purpose, and becoming healers. Spiritual intuition and listening, empathy, reframing, nurturing love, and divine guidance are some of her healing skills. Shannon graduated from Emerson Theological Institute with a bachelor's degree in religious studies. Shannon and her husband, Dr. Scott Peck, are co-authors of several books, including The Love You Deserve: A Spiritual Guide to Real Love, Secrets of a Love Master, and Liberating Your Magnificence. Shannon is also a co-founder of The Love Center, a non-profit educational institution dedicated to raising universal love awareness (www.TheLoveCenter.com).

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ISBN 13	9780740733352
ISBN 10	0740733354
Titel	Abounding Happiness
Autor	M Scott Peck Md
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-05-02
Seitenanzahl	127
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.