Two Foot Fred

Two Foot Fred
Author: Fred Gill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145163627X

Country music celebrity Two Foot Fred shares his story of living with dwarfism, overcoming odds, and finding peace and success with a positive attitude. Despite his physical limitations from birth—a form of dwarfism known as diastrophic dysplasia, a cleft palate, clubfeet, and scoliosis—Fred Gill rose above his circumstances to graduate college and open his first restaurant by the young age of twenty-two. In 1998, Fred took what proved to be a life-changing trip to Nashville during the city’s annual country music celebration, where he met John Rich. That fateful meeting led to a regular job as Ambassador of Attractions for the band Big & Rich, as well as to numerous country music award shows and other television programs. But while his successes are many, Fred has had more than his share of challenges, including “a quarter-life crisis” and troubles with depression, alcohol, and gambling. Like many other celebrities, Fred worked to find peace, turning to his small-town upbringing for solace and affirmation. Two Foot Fred shows that nothing can defeat you unless you allow it to, and that our lives are simply what we make of them.

Two Foot Fred

Two Foot Fred
Author: Fred Gill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451636210

Two Foot Fred, country music celebrity, shares the story of his life, overcoming dwarfism to achieve success.

Rednecks & Bluenecks

Rednecks & Bluenecks
Author: Chris Willman
Publisher: Rednecks & Bluenecks
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781595580177

Willman looks at the way country music's increasing popularity and conservative drift parallel the transformation of the Democratic South into the heart of the Republican mainstream.

Soil and Sacrament

Soil and Sacrament
Author: Fred Bahnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451663307

Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers reconnect with the land and divine faith.

Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics

Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics
Author: Samuel C Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135086664

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions about logical form and formulates questions in ways that make the possibility of correct value judgments mysterious. In this book, Wheeler argues that given a Davidsonian understanding of truth, predication, and interpretation, and given a relativised version of Aristotelian essentialism compatible with Davidson’s basic thinking, many metaphysical problems are not very deep. Likewise, many philosophers' claims that common sense needs to be modified are unfounded. He argues further that a proper consideration of questions of logical form clarifies and illuminates meta-ethical questions. Although the analyses and arguments he gives are often at odds with those at which Davidson arrived, they apply the central Davidsonian insights about semantics, understanding, and interpretation.