Bøger af Mark Zimmerman

Encounter Christ In Everyday Moments. Every day is filled with moments when we encounter Christ in interesting and unusual ways or in circumstances we might not expect. Keeping your eyes open to the presence of Christ in your everyday walk of faith is what these 150 devotions explore. Practical and Scripture-based, these thoughtful and uplifting words of wisdom draw you closer to understanding the central role Christ plays in your daily living. Author Mark Zimmermann serves as the Senior Product Developer and Blogger at Creative Communications for the Parish, where he has worked since 1994. In this role, he acquires authors, procures permissions from other publishers, and molds and shapes submissions to meet the changing needs of today's pastors and parishes. Follow Mark in his weekly blog, Creative Christian Perspectives.

The Zone: True Tales From The Heartland (2021), the fascinating new non-fiction paperback from author/historian Mark Zimmerman, takes you on a journey back through space and time as a Boomer recollects his childhood and surviving the Sixties and the Cold War. This 300-page collection of 50 odd illustrated chapters of American history focuses on Middle America, specifically the Midwest and Mid-South, with reports on pastimes such as football, iceboating, setting weird endurance records, sock monkeys and skydiving Santas, the study of corpses, nuclear-powered aircraft and the Flying Crowbar, the blues guitar duel that Jimmy Hendrix lost, Las Vegas by the numbers, Nazi saboteurs, invasion by Patton''s tanks and war maneuvers, glass jar tycoons, building the atomic bomb, constructing the world''s largest gunpowder plant, the mighty cornfield shipyard, the most powerful machine on or off Earth, Florida''s only battlefield, stuntmen buried alive or suspended in space, abandoned space debris, the crypt of civilization, a frugal Congressman and other oddities, the nastiest curmudgeons, feuds and gunfights, downtown assassination, deadly duels, frontier massacres, bushwhackers, gunboats versus cavalry, pioneer ironworks plantations, the history of executions, genius general of the gridiron, murders during wartime, range wars, miners versus militia, possum hunters versus hillbillies, utopian dreamers versus reality, the life of a sitcom psychologist, the legacy of Chief Oshkosh, the history of rock ''n roll, and last but not least, a concise history of the Sixties as illuminated by the Beatles, the astronauts, the Vietnam War, and the Green Bay Packers. Be forewarned, once you''ve started reading, you have entered The Zone.

Popular motorcycle journalist and author Mark Zimmerman brings a comfortable, conversational tone to his easy-to-understand explanations of how motorcycles work and how to maintain them and fix them when they don''t. This practical tutorial covers all brands and styles of bikes, making it a perfect companion to the owner''s service manual whether you need to use the step-by-step instructions for basic maintenance techniques to wrench on your bike yourself or just want to learn enough to become an informed customer at your local motorcycle service department. This book includes more than 500 color photos and a thorough index to make it an especially user-friendly reference for home motorcycle mechanics of all skill levels.

Guide to Civil War Nashville (2nd Edition) takes you on a 50-mile tour of 25 historical sites defining the Battle of Nashville and the Union occupation of Tennessee’s capital. Illustrated with modern and wartime photographs, touring and battle maps, and diagrams, the guide also explores the plight of citizens living under the gun and the wartime role of Nashville. Also included are the tour map, precise driving directions with GPS coordinates, historical-marker text and locations, illustrated orders of battle, Medal of Honor recipients, and information about other Middle Tennessee sites. All of the sites on the tour include original photographs.In addition to a timeline and map of military operations, the book covers the fall of the river forts and the capture of Nashville by Union forces in February 1862, prompting the Great Panic. The role of the river transports and the military railroad system is thoroughly explored, along with the controversies of Federal occupation. A map of Nashville in 1864 shows the city’s infrastructure. The pride of the Federal engineers is Fort Negley, a tourism site which interprets the ruins of the largest stone fortification built during the war.Three historic cemeteries are explored, complete with maps of burial sites. Three antebellum plantation mansions (Belmont, Travellers Rest, and Belle Meade) are now renovated and open to the public in all their splendor. Also examined at the Tennessee State Capitol complex (built right before the war) and the magnificent newly built Tennessee State Museum. Many of the city’s structures, including four extant churches on the tour, were used as military hospitals during the fighting.A lengthy article explores the decisive 1864 Battle of Nashville, the last major military activity in the Western Theater. Another article explores the skirmish on the Cumberland River prior to the main battle, between Federal gunboats and the Confederate cavalry. Four detailed maps, designed in coordination with Battle of Nashville Preservation Society Historian Ross Massey, illustrate the troop movements both days of the battle. There is no preserved battlefield today, urban development has obliverated most of it. However, the tour includes a dozen battle sites, including the famous Shy’s Hill (known as Compton’s Hill at the time).This fact-packed guidebook also includes pages on Fortress Rosecrans and Fort Granger, a listing of other Civil War sites in Middle Tennessee, and a bibliography.The first edition of Guide to Civil War Nashville was published in 2004 under the auspices of the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society.

Gone Under is an illustrated guide to the gravesites of the famous personages in Nashville history: U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, city founder James Robertson, pioneer/hunter Kasper Mansker, Civil War generals, governors and mayors, and captains of industry at historic cemeteries such as City Cemetery, Mount Olivet, and National Cemetery. Fully illustrated with 128 photographs and 11 cemetery maps, this book features more than 250 personages, including country music stars such as Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, George Jones, Marty Robbins, Charlie Louvin, Ernest Tubb, Porter Wagoner, and Tammy Wynette, plus dozens of stars of the Grand Ole Opry. Also included is the 2009 funeral of the unknown Civil War soldier, photographs of magnificent monuments, crypts, vaults, and tombs. Featured are the final resting places of U.S. Colored Troops, prominent African-American citizens, Jewish residents, and much more. Maps are marked so that burial sites can be easily located.

Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, offers a treasure trove of fascinating historic sites to explore. In the process you will learn the stories of our ancestors, the journeys they undertook, and the trials and tribulations they encountered. Along the way you will explore museums of all types, historic buildings and significant architecture, antebellum mansions, monuments and memorials, sculptures and public art, battlefields, artifacts, and markers.God, Guns, Guitars & Whiskey (which features 265 photographs and 17 maps) begins with a walking tour of historic downtown Nashville that spotlights more than 70 sites. The tour will take you from the historic riverfront to the centers of municipal and state government, along Church Street with its eclectic architecture, down the Victorian-era warehouse row, and then up Broadway, home to many of Nashville’s music venues—from symphony halls to honky tonks. This section also includes feature articles on the Tennessee State Capitol and Ryman Auditorium and a listing of Native-American historic sites.The next section covers nearly 100 historic sites of Nashville-Davidson County outside the downtown area and includes a feature article on the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and a listing of African-American historic sites. Descriptions and articles include Centennial Park, Music Row, Vanderbilt University and other West End attractions; the North Nashville and Germantown historic districts; the College Hill and South Nashville districts; several Civil War sites; and historic Edgefield and East Nashville.The final section contains the text and locations of 240 historical markers in Nashville-Davidson County.