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Mischling

Author : Affinity Konar
Publisher : Lee Boudreaux Books
ISBN 13 : 0316308080
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Mischling written by Affinity Konar and published by Lee Boudreaux Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks -- a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin -- travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope. "One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year"-Anthony Doerr about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II.

Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa

Author : Mire Koikari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079500
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa written by Mire Koikari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines roles of gender, race and nation in the geopolitics of Cold War East Asia on the Island of Okinawa.

The Psychology of War

Author : Lawrence Leshan
Publisher : Allworth Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781581152388
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of War written by Lawrence Leshan and published by Allworth Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our wars have become more lethal, yet the affinity for war hasn't changed. Why? As the entire world anticipates a lengthy war against terrorism, this intriguing study provides a new understanding of why people fight wars so frequently and ferociously. Former military psychologist Lawrence LeShan's piercing analysis reveals why war is often chosen over more peaceful solutions, and why it is so easy to get into a war and so hard to get out. Can peace be planned? How can we devise an "early warning system" for war? Are some government structures more prone to war than others?

War of the Rats

Author : David L. Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307575373
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book War of the Rats written by David L. Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. And with it, the world.... German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men—one Russian, one German—each the top sniper in his respective army. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Each man has his own mission: to find his counterpart—and kill him. But an American woman trapped in Russia complicates this extraordinary duel. Joining the Russian sniper's cadre, she soon becomes one of his most talented assassins—and perhaps his greatest weakness. Based on a true story, this is the harrowing tale of two adversaries enmeshed in their own private war—and whose fortunes will help decide the fate of the world.

Enlightened War

Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134956
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Enlightened War written by Elisabeth Krimmer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present. Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in this volume explore the palpable influence of war on eighteenth-century thought and argue for an ideological affinity among war, Enlightenment thought, and its legacy. The essays are interdisciplinary, engaging with history, art history, philosophy, military theory, gender studies, and literature and with historical events and cultural contexts from the early Enlightenment through German Classicism and Romanticism. The volume enriches our understanding of warfare in the eighteenth century and shows how theories and practices of war impacted concepts of subjectivity, national identity, gender, and art. It also sheds light on the contemporary discussion of the legitimacy of violence by juxtaposing theories of war, concepts of revolution, and human rights discourses. Contributors: Johannes Birgfeld, David Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis, and Patricia Anne Simpson is Associate Professor of German Studies at Montana State University.

Affinity Designer Workbook

Author : Affinity Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909581036
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Affinity Designer Workbook written by Affinity Team and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghosts of War

Author : George Mann
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616143681
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of War written by George Mann and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors – strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night. The Ghost has been tracking these bizarre machines, and is close to finding their origin: a deranged military scientist who is slowly rebuilding himself as a machine. However, this scientist is not working alone, and his scheme involves more than a handful of abductions. He is part of a plot to escalate the cold war with Britain into a full-blown conflict, and he is building a weapon – a weapon that will fracture dimensional space and allow the monstrous creatures that live on the other side to spill through. He and his co-conspirators – a cabal of senators and businessmen who seek to benefit from the war – intend to harness these creatures and use them as a means to crush the British. But the Ghost knows only too well how dangerous these creatures can be, and the threat they represent not just to Britain, but the world. The Ghost’s efforts to put an end to the conspiracy bring him into an uneasy alliance with a male British spy, who is loose in Manhattan, protecting the interests of his country. He also has the unlikely assistance of Ginny, a drunken ex-lover and sharpshooter, who walks back into his life, having disappeared six years earlier in mysterious circumstances. Suffering from increasingly lucid flashbacks to WWI and subjected to rooftop chases, a battle with a mechanized madman, and the constant threat of airborne predators, and with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, can the Ghost derail the conspiracy and prevent the war with the British from escalating beyond control? From the Trade Paperback edition.

In a Time of War

Author : Bill Murphy
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429985127
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book In a Time of War written by Bill Murphy and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of West Point's class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by September 11. The following June, when President George W. Bush spoke at their commencement and declared that America would "take the battle to the enemy," the men and women in the class of 2002 understood that they would be fighting on the front lines. In this stirring account of the five years following their graduation from West Point, the class experiences firsthand both the rewards and the costs of leading soldiers in the war on terror. In a Time of War focuses on two members of the class of 2002 in particular: Todd Bryant, an amiable, funny Californian for whom military service was a family tradition; and Drew Sloan, the hardworking son of liberal parents from Arkansas who is determined to serve his country. On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Todd, Drew, and their classmates—the army's newest and youngest officers—lead their troops into harm's way again and again. Meticulously reported, sweeping in scope, Bill Murphy Jr.'s powerful book follows these brave and idealistic officers—and their families—as they experience the harrowing reality of the modern battlefield. In a Time of War tells a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking story about courage, honor, and what war really means to the soldiers whose lives it defines.

A Drink Before the War

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156029025
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Drink Before the War written by Dennis Lehane and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bost, PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro investigate the death of an African-American cleaning lady, gunned down in a burst of Uzi fire. A tale of street gang violence and of the racial divide between black and irish.

Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

Author : Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446392518
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Visions of War, Dreams of Peace written by Lynda Van Devanter and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs.

War in the Neighborhood

Author : Seth Tobocman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994050724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book War in the Neighborhood written by Seth Tobocman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Lower East Side was a well-known landing strip for recent arrivals in the United States. For more than a century it was home to thriving communities of artists, radicals and working class families. In a gripping series of fictionalized accounts, political artist Seth Tobocman illustrates the L.E.S. of the late 80s an era of homelessness and gentrification, ACT UP and the AIDS epidemic, tent cities and squatted apartment buildings, street brawls between punks and skinheads and, above all, an emerging gulf between rich and poor. "

The Affinity Bridge

Author : George Mann
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429960094
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Affinity Bridge written by George Mann and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you've ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget, in The Affinity Bridge. Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

God and War

Author : Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553180
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book God and War written by Raymond Haberski, Jr. and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition like war. Raymond Haberski argues that since 1945 the common moral assumptions expressed in an American civil religion have become increasingly defined by the nation's experience with war. God and War traces how three great postwar “trials”—the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror—have revealed the promise and perils of an American civil religion. Throughout the Cold War, Americans combined faith in God and faith in the nation to struggle against not only communism but their own internal demons. The Vietnam War tested whether America remained a nation "under God," inspiring, somewhat ironically, an awakening among a group of religious, intellectual and political leaders to save the nation's soul. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 behind us and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, Americans might now explore whether civil religion can exist apart from the power of war to affirm the value of the nation to its people and the world.

The Legacy of Heroes

Author : Vincent Venturella
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257986031
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Heroes written by Vincent Venturella and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Heroes is a Fantasy Role Playing Game with a singular focus: imagination. The Legacy of Heroes Player's Guide offers everything you need to bring the myriad characters from movies, literature, mythology and anything else you can imagine to life on the page before you. This book contains 11 races, 11 classes, 40 heroic arcs and all the spells, styles, equipment, magic items and more you need for your own brave heroes to move from character to legend. The Legacy of Heroes exciting Heroic Talent and Heroic Moment systems empower the players to create truly memorable role-playing experiences like never before. This book facilitates that collaboration by giving you, the player, the tools you need for the stories you imagine in an efficient, simple, and familiar system based on the OGL license. The only question is, are you ready for your own legacy? Visit www.thelegacyofheroes.com for support, downloads and more!

Affinity

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748129316
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Affinity written by Sarah Waters and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception 'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.' From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you'll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic. 'Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism' Independent on Sunday 'Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written' Val Hennessy 'Beautifully, atmospherically written, this is a tale to thrill your very soul' Metro 'Sexy, spooky, stylish... a wonderful book' Guardian

Peace, War, and Computers

Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415928861
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Peace, War, and Computers written by Chris Hables Gray and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers are at the heart of war today, but even the best missile defense system envisioned by the military would have been useless against box-cutters on September 11. Creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook and author of Cyborg Citizen, hailed by Wired magazine as "a ripping good yarn," Chris Hables Gray argues that rapid technological development is the order of the day, and our future will be determined by who uses it and for what-terror or peace. A visionary and disarming overview of cyberwar in the twenty-first century, Peace, War, and Computers looks beyond the gadgets of techno-warfare and the early predictions of a purely "cyberspace" war to reveal how electronic culture has changed the way we wage war and strive for peace. Unmanned aircraft-soon to be followed by remote-control naval fleets-may appear to make warfare more sterile, less bloody. But as the fighting in Iraq has shown, superior technology does not guarantee quick or bloodless victories. Essential reading for anyone interested in computers, politics, and the cutting edge of military strategy and theory, Peace, War, and Computers unlocks the power and pitfalls of computers for war-and peace-in a world where total war is as unthinkable as apocalyptic war is possible. Book jacket.

Mind vs Intellect

Author : Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : Chandan Sukumar Sengupta
ISBN 13 : 9334044098
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Mind vs Intellect written by Chandan Sengupta and published by Chandan Sukumar Sengupta. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme of this book is derived from the holy book titled Bhagvadgita for elaborating different aspects of knowledge and wisdom needed for ensuring Knowing The Self . It has some other sources like Vedas, Upanishads, Old Scriptures, Epics and some other writings of philosophers and thinkers of olden times. We often rely upon some of the prominent sources of philosophy for making aspirants enriched in terms of knowledge and wisdom; as such kind of mental stability will facilitate the fellow aspirant to experience the Divine Omnipresence. We even come across different epics and scriptures and try to imbibe different examples in our daily life. If we talk about the divine then it will definitely become prominent that the realm of such a supreme power is united and widely distributed. We cannot categorise various electro-magnetic waves in terms of their origin and propagation. Similar is the situation regarding origin and development of the Sanatan Philosophy and core of the Spirituality which ensures our integrity to the supreme Divine master. It is beyond the scope of any argument, beyond the accessibility of senses; off the shores of mental awareness.