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Mister B.

Living With a 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist
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LARGE PRINT edition. Blessed are the engineers who give us some answers to life's little perplexities. This is the #1 Best Selling, Pinnacle Award Recipient. Mister B's jaunty calculating rhythm offers timely subject matter. Mister B proves he could care less about being politically correct. That's not his style. A tender little laugh, a swept floor in reticence, a literary window into the home of a surviving physicist and his caregiver. Can these multi-generational housemates discover why they still matter? Find out now, for a celebration of full life. PRAISE FOR MISTER B: Mister B springs from earthbound corners of immigration and poverty in rope-tied-baggy pants, into a self-made man who learns to defy gravity. Born in 1916, Joseph Byk, the Rhode Island son of Polish immigrants, charms the bejeebers out of the Greatest Generation, World War II, and the Cold War. In 2013, an old man's new companion begins to journal Mister B's bygone era. His family ideals confront the independence of a younger generation as he reveals a lifetime of secrets. "Who is helping whom?" is the million-dollar question. This instructive and comedic memoir of story shorts on aging offers historic photographs. It can be found in the grumpy ol' men's section at your local bookstore. Living with a 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist inspires us to learn from history and science and to give a little more to multi-generational relationships. Like The Life We Bury, Red Mountain, a novel; Where the Crawdads Sing; Sold on a Monday; Little Boot; Before We Were Yours.

Author Biography:

Prior Berean Bookstore manager, Graduate of Denver Paralegal Institute and Colorado Christian University with a B.A. in Contemporary Composition, Contributor to Psalm-Hymns Worship Leader, Books 1, 2, & 3 (2016) Joseph Byk received his PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama. He taught pilots in the air corps with Spartan Company and then worked through WWII and the cold war with Martin Company performing projects for NASA and the Department of Defense. Published books: - Changing the World through Media Education (1998) - Media Alert! 200 Activities to Create Media-savvy Kids (2000) - EYE SPY Program (Early Youth Education Program): An Interactive Coloring Book (2000) - Get Them Thinking! Use Media Literacy to Prepare Students for State Assessments (2005)
Release date Australia
July 9th, 2017
Author
Contributors
  • Edited by Susan Lockwood Summers
  • Interviewee Joseph John Byk
Pages
462
Edition
Large Print ed.
Audience
  • Teenage / Young Adult
Illustrations
50 illustrations
Dimensions
170x244x24
ISBN-13
9780997162509
Product ID
24793081

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