(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best catalogs & directories

In my opinion, the best resource for a first time author is this book

As an aside, I applaud your decision to go the agent/traditional publishing route. Best of luck. Hang in there.

I thoroughly recommend getting Scotland the Best if you're after good food and drink - the best guidebook I've ever seen.

Yes. J.P. Moreland published a book called Consciousness and the Existence of God where he makes this claim. Also, I read a paper by Robert Adams called Flavors, Colors, and God (reprinted here) a while back that made this claim.

However, outside of philosophy of religion, most people generally regard invoking God as a solution to a difficult philosophical problem as giving up on it rather than solving it.

Might be of interest to you as well:

http://www.amazon.com/Seth-Thomas-Clocks-Movements-Identification/dp/093016394X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421798223&sr=8-1&keywords=Seth+Thomas+Clocks+and+Movements&pebp=1421798238956&peasin=093016394X

You can typically find these specialty books on ebay as well (for cheaper).

Hi xbrightcursivex! I'm a native Spanish speaker.

The grammar that I usually use is http://www.amazon.com/Larousse-Gramatica-Lengua-Espanola-Ejercicios/dp/970220058X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427218026&sr=8-1&keywords=Gram%C3%A1tica+lengua+espa%C3%B1ola%2C+Larousse%2C+Irma+Mungu%C3%ADa+Zatarain.

If you just want "pure" vocabulary, use http://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Spanish-Vocabulary-Dictionaries/dp/0415334292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427218069&sr=8-1&keywords=routledge+vocabulary+spanish

But my recommendation is that if you already have a good knowledge, start reading outloud. Check http://www.epublibre.org/ for a huge collection of ebooks in Spanish.

For contemporary readings, check: https://www.goodreads.com/genres/spanish-literature

For classics, check http://lecturasindispensables.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/mejores-novelas-literatura-hispanoamericana.html

Astromule.

It is the Linux Core Kernel Commentary.

Found it on the shelf in my schools lab and decided to give it some attention. Pretty interesting so far.

This series worked for me, but alas I already had some Spanish under my belt.

Living Language books and CDs

Once you get your feet wet, I recommend checking out how Brazilians learn English. There a a lot of very good channels.

Gavin teaches English to Brazilians

Bõa sorte.

Freelance Illustration takes a couple years to break into, but if she has the time to invest, it's totally possible to build a thriving career :D The same thing is true with freelance Design work.

I can recommend Flavell and Flavell: Dictionary of Idioms and their origins, as well as /r/linguistics.

I'll look up your examples in the book tomorrow morning if I find the time.

However, I can already tell that the explanation given for "raining cats and dogs" is that, after heavy rains, the sewage systems would fail and overflow, leaving dead animals (mostly rats, but also feral cats and dogs) in the streets, making it look like they came with the rain from the heavens.

This, with the idea of "yearly baths" makes me think the whole of the list is made-up internet drivel. Will confirm after checking each idiom in my reference book.

Have you checked out what NARA itself has to say about genealogical sources there? Also take a look at Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, which you should find in most libraries of any size.

I even trained as an archivist, I've made probably a dozen visits to NARA over the last 40 years, and I'm still finding new relevant collections to explore. There are an amazing number of record types and materials there that you've never even heard of before, so don't assume you can it all in one visit.

I spent four years as a field service supervisor, assembling antennas all over the US, my crew and I camped damn near everywhere and depended on this guide To answer the question of "Where are we going to sleep tonight"? Between the Guide and Staying on the work site, we slept well, all over the USA.

http://www.amazon.com/Woodalls-American-Campground-Directory-Travel/dp/076277813X

Modern App version.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/woodalls-rv-camping-copilot/id445868562?mt=8


Enjoy your trip!

700-page Turkmen - English dictionary (press get twice). This is a djvu file, but you can easily convert to pdf: http://libgen.io/_ads/E4A3CA1EF3095635CCE8D020DD5EF2CF

https://www.amazon.com/Turkmen-English-Dictionary-English-Turkmen-Allen/dp/1881265293https://www.amazon.com/Turkmen-English-Dictionary-English-Turkmen-Allen/dp/1881265293

Here are some from Jess Nevins's Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana web site. See also his Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

• James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) seems to have dinosaur-like creatures on an island near the south pole.
  
  
• In Mór Jókai's 20,000 Lieues Sous Les Glaces (1876) polar bears live off of bunch of frozen dinosaurs in a cave.
  
  
• Wardon Allen Curtis's "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie," in Pearson's Magazine (August, 1899), features an elasmosaurus.
  
  
• Apparently, a couple of Nelson Lee stories by John Staniforth featured dinosaurs in South America (1890s).
  
  If dinosaur-like creatures on nearby planets count ...
  
  
• Anonymous, Captain Mors #42: In the Deadly Crater of the New Planet (ca. 1908-1911)
  
  
• Gustavus W. Pope, Romances of the Planets, No. 2: Journey to Venus (1895)

Buy one of these, start doing your research, keep at it, and settle in for the long game. Continue to write and improve. Repeat as long as possible.

I didn't have the ISBN's handy for all of these it was easier to find Amazon links and a link to Rick Snow's site for the Indian books. These are the books on my bookshelf which aren't the common ones: (Some are hard to find.)

• Photograde: Official Photographic Grading Guide for United States Coins, 19th Edition
  
• United States Early Half Dollar Die Varieties 1794-1836, 4th Edition
  
• The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection, 2nd Edition
  
• The Complete Guide to Barber Dimes
  
• The Complete Guide to Barber Quarters
  
• The Complete Guide to Barber Halves
  
• The Flying Eagle & Indian Cent Attribution Guide (Volumes 1-6)

I've self published a number of books, I work with people who have, and I have family members that have, and I'll respectfully disagree but so be it. If you want to get it published you should check out this book

Reminds me of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Nomadic-Furniture-Victor-Papanek/dp/039470228X

https://www.amazon.com/Nomadic-Furniture-2-James-Hennessey/dp/0394706382/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TCZCN64RTRB6WHS5G419

You can go with this writing bible. A lot of professional writers use this as their main stop for finding work.