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The Fortress

Author : S. A. Jones
Publisher : Erewhon Books
ISBN 13 : 1645660044
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress written by S. A. Jones and published by Erewhon Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jones’s radical, detailed vision of what extremes it might take to unlearn misogyny is rendered with insight, immediacy, and painful honesty. This gut-punch of a story is sure to start conversations.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review A searing examination of the dark heart of masculinity confronted by a women-led society. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Herland at a party thrown by Anaïs Nin. Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier software firm, tailored suits, and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia; a child on the way; and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He’s a man who’s going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants—the Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by women—live in isolation. When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she agrees to continue their fractured marriage only on the condition that Jonathan voluntarily offers himself to The Fortress as a supplicant and stay there for a year. Jonathon’s arrival at The Fortress begins with a recitation of the conditions of his stay: He is forbidden to ask questions, to raise his hand in anger, and to refuse sex. Jonathon is utterly unprepared for what will happen to him over the course of the year—not only to his body, but to his mind and his heart. This absorbing, confronting, and moving novel asks questions about consent, power, love, and fulfillment. It asks what it takes for a man to change, and whether change is possible without a radical reversal of the conditions that seem normal.

Fortress of the Soul

Author : Neil Kamil
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429357
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Fortress of the Soul written by Neil Kamil and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details. More than just decorative flourishes, however, the visual language employed by Huguenot artisans reflected a distinct belief system shaped during the religious wars of sixteenth-century France. In Fortress of the Soul, historian Neil Kamil traces the Huguenots' journey to New York from the Aunis-Saintonge region of southwestern France. There, in the sixteenth century, artisans had created a subterranean culture of clandestine workshops and meeting places inspired by the teachings of Bernard Palissy, a potter, alchemist, and philosopher who rejected the communal, militaristic ideology of the Huguenot majority which was centered in the walled city of La Rochelle. Palissy and his followers instead embraced a more fluid, portable, and discrete religious identity that encouraged members to practice their beliefs in secret while living safely—even prospering—as artisans in hostile communities. And when these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of artisanal security. Drawing on significant archival research and fresh interpretations of Huguenot material culture, Kamil offers an exhaustive and sophisticated study of the complex worldview of the Huguenot community. From the function of sacred violence and alchemy in the visual language of Huguenot artisans, to the impact among Protestants everywhere of the destruction of La Rochelle in 1628, to the ways in which New York's Huguenots interacted with each other and with other communities of religious dissenters and refugees, Fortress of the Soul brilliantly places American colonial history and material life firmly within the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world.

America's Fortress

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813030197
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book America's Fortress written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Thomas Reid chronicles the threats and challenges Fort Jefferson's troops faced, which were unlike any faced by soldiers serving elsewhere during the Civil War. Tales of epidemic disease, hurricanes, shipwrecks, prisoner escapes, and Confederate attack stand in stark contrast to "the beauty of the sunsets and the surrounding panorama of nature." Reid offers keen insight into white northerners' perceptions of slaves, slavery, and the emerging free black soldiers of the latter years of the war. He also draws on the writings of Emily Holder, wife of Fort Jefferson's resident surgeon, to offer the first female perspective on life at the fort."--BOOK JACKET.

Fort Mose

Author : Kathleen A. Deagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813013527
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Fort Mose written by Kathleen A. Deagan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black experience as simply that of slavery, offering instead a rich and balanced view of the African-American experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.

Fortifications in Wessex c. 800–1066

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200551X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Fortifications in Wessex c. 800–1066 written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history. While the guerrilla warfare in the Somerset marshes and the battle of Edington are characteristic of Alfred's military abilities, his definitive physical achievement was a series of some 30 well-structured fortifications (known as burhs) across the kingdom. Many of these fortifications survive to this day and some were even reinforced to stand up to German tanks in the expected invasion of 1940. This title describes their beginnings in the turbulent early years of Alfred's reign as well as their subsequent development and use.

Siegecraft - No Fortress Impregnable

Author : Harold A. Skaarup
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462047505
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Siegecraft - No Fortress Impregnable written by Harold A. Skaarup and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the taking of a fortress depends primarily on the making of a good plan to take it, and the proper implementation and application of the resources to make the plan work. Long before a fortress has been besieged and conquered, it has to have been outthought before it can be outfought. This book outlines some of the more successfully thought out sieges, and demonstrates why it is that no fortress is impregnable. A siege can be described as an assault on an opposing force attempting to defend itself from behind a position of some strength. Whenever the pendulum of technology swings against the "status quo," the defenders of a fortification have usually been compelled to surrender. We must stay ahead of the pendulum, and not be out-thought long before we are out-fought, for, as it will be shown in this book, "no fortress is impregnable."

Bulletin - South Dakota Geological and Natural History Survey

Author : South Dakota. Geological and Natural History Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin - South Dakota Geological and Natural History Survey written by South Dakota. Geological and Natural History Survey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Author : Derbyshire Archaeological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society written by Derbyshire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

The Forts of Celtic Britain

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472853326
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Forts of Celtic Britain written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a millennium before the Romans first arrived in Britain, an even more ferocious people, the Celts, arrived in what is now south-eastern England. The Celts remained in Britain long after the Romans departed, and although driven into the remoter corners of the island by English invaders the people who remained clung onto their Celtic heritage, and defended their remaining lands against all-comers. In order to defend their lands from other tribes or outside invaders these people established powerful fortified sites that served as places of refuge in wartime and as administrative and trading centres in times of peace. This book examines these fascinating forts, which varied considerably from the mysterious brochs and duns found in northern Britain, to the hill-top forts ranging in size, to the promontory forts that formed powerful coastal strongholds all around the island's shores.

The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Author : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society written by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus

Author : Joseph Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus written by Joseph Wells and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Forts of Ireland

Author : T.J. Westropp
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5878572923
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Forts of Ireland written by T.J. Westropp and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1902 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortress Europe

Author : J.E. Kaufmann
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399002759
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Europe written by J.E. Kaufmann and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, during a period of insecurity and aggression. That is why this new, highly illustrated study, which covers the entire continent, is so valuable. The authors examine the major fortified positions and describe their strategic purpose, their design and construction, and the role they played in military planning and operations. The outstanding contribution of the major military architects of the time is a key theme. The work of Séré de Rivières, Brialmont and others had a major influence on the course of the First World War and on the fortifications built before and during the Second World War. Their approach is visible in the designs for the Maginot Line, the East and West walls of Germany, the Vallo Alpino in Italy, the Soviet Stalin and Molotov lines, the Mannerheim and Salpa lines of Finland, the Greek Metaxas Line, the Beneš Line of Czechoslovakia as well as the defenses built by the Dutch and Scandinavians. The breadth of the coverage, the degree of detail and the numerous illustrations make the book essential reading and reference for anyone who has a special interest in the world wars and the history of fortifications.

The Fortnightly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortnightly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1642 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: