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Strike Fear in the Land

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166789
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Strike Fear in the Land written by W. George Lovell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events and circumstances in the light of not only new evidence but also keener awareness of indigenous roles in the drama. While acknowledging the prominent role played by Pedro de Alvarado (1485–1541), Strike Fear in the Land reexamines the conquest to give us a greater appreciation of indigenous involvement in it, and sustained opposition to it. Authors W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, and Wendy Kramer develop a fresh perspective on Alvarado as well as the alliances forged with native groups that facilitated Spanish objectives. The book reveals, for instance, that during the years most crucial to the conquest, Alvarado was absent from Guatemala more often than he was present; he relied on his brother, Jorge de Alvarado, to act in his stead. A pact with the Kaqchikel Maya was also not nearly as solid or long-lived as previously thought, as Alvarado’s erstwhile allies soon turned against the Spaniards, fomenting a prolonged rebellion. Even the story of the K’iche’ leader Tecún Umán, hailed in Guatemala as a national hero who fronted native resistance, undergoes significant revision. Strike Fear in the Land is an arresting saga of personalities and controversies, conveying as never before the turmoil of this pivotal period in Mesoamerican history.

Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and the Vietnam War

Author : David Todeschini
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411624521
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Land of Childhood's Fears - Faith, Friendship, and the Vietnam War written by David Todeschini and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's experience with the Medical Civic Action Program, and the corruption and evil aspects of the war. Operation Phoenix, drugs, My Lai, and a new theory on the assassination of John F Kennedy - Transcripts of Vet's Rap Sessions, heart-breaking and heart-warming poetry, PTSD, and the decline of morality in American society since that war.

Fear Stalks the Land!

Author : Thom Yorke
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838857753
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Fear Stalks the Land! written by Thom Yorke and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium.

Beautiful Country

Author : Qian Julie Wang
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593313003
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Country written by Qian Julie Wang and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center—confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.

From the Land of Fear

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497604680
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book From the Land of Fear written by Harlan Ellison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven side trips to the dark edge of imagination by master storyteller Harlan Ellison, From the Land of Fear presents some of the author’s early work from his start in the late fifties. Here you can see a vibrant, imaginative young writer honing his craft and sowing the seeds of what would become his brilliant career, including the standout piece “Soldier,” a clever antiwar tale included both in short‐story form and as a screenplay for TV’s The Outer Limits. True Ellison fans will enjoy this collection as a chance to see the writer’s growth over time. As Roger Zelanzy says in his wonderful Introduction, “He is what he is because of everything he’s been up until the Now.”

The Land of Hope and Fear

Author : Isabel Kershner
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101946776
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Hope and Fear written by Isabel Kershner and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country’s history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel “A wondrous tale told through the agonizing and uplifting stories of Israel’s many tribes — Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, new immigrants and veterans, soldiers and settlers.”—Martin Indyk, author of Master of the Game, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the country is more divided than ever. The old guard—socialist secular elites and idealists—are a dying breed, and the state’s democratic foundations are being challenged. A dynamic and exuberant country of nine million, Israel is now largely comprised of native-born Hebrew speakers, and yet any permanent sense of security and normalcy is elusive. In The Land of Hope and Fear, we meet Israelis: Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Eastern and Western, liberals and zealots—plagued by perennial conflict and existential threats, citizens who remain deeply polarized politically, socially, and ideologically, even as they undergo generational change and redefine what it is to be an Israeli. Who are these people and to what do they aspire? In moving narratives and with on-the-ground reporting, Isabel Kershner reveals the core of what holds Israel together and the forces that threaten its future through the lens of real people: a son of Zionist pioneers, cynical about what is to come and his people’s status in it; a woman in her nineties whose life in a kibbutz has disintegrated; a brilliant poet caught up in the political maelstrom; an Arab gallery owner archiving a lost Palestinian landscape; and a descendant of the Russian aliyah; representing millions of culturally and religiously different Jews, laying bare the question Who is an Israeli? The Land of Hope and Fear decodes Israel today at its seventy-fifth anniversary, examining the ways in which the country has both exceeded and failed the ideals and expectations of its founders.

Without You, There Is No Us

Author : Suki Kim
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720667
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Without You, There Is No Us written by Suki Kim and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields—except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has gone undercover as a missionary and a teacher. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them English, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues—evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves—their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own—at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."

The Interpreter

Author : Suki Kim
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429923784
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Interpreter written by Suki Kim and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking first novel about the dark side of the American Dream Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family's history. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered in an apparent robbery of their fruit and vegetable stand. Or so Suzy believed. But the glint of a new lead entices Suzy into the dangerous Korean underworld, and ultimately reveals the mystery of her parents' homicide. An auspicious debut about the myth of the model Asian citizen, The Interpreter traverses the distance between old worlds and new, poverty and privilege, language and understanding.

The Fear

Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316123315
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Fear written by Peter Godwin and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own citizens. With foreign correspondents banned, and he himself there illegally, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear witness to this period the locals call The Fear. He saw torture bases and the burning villages but was most awed as an observer of not only simple acts of kindness but also churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to try to stop the carnage. The Fear is a book about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people, armed with nothing but a desire to be free, who challenged a violent dictatorship. It is also the deeply personal and ultimately uplifting story of a man trying to make sense of the country he can't recognize as home.

Labors of Fear

Author : Aviva Briefel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327215
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Labors of Fear written by Aviva Briefel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.

"Fear God and Walk Humbly"

Author : James Mallory
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357572
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book "Fear God and Walk Humbly" written by James Mallory and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed journal of local, national, and foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and family events, from an uncommon Southerner Most inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities—drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing—than did James Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and manures, as well as the latest farming equipment and techniques. A Whig and a Unionist, a temperance man and a peace lover, ambitious yet caring, business-minded and progressive, he supported railroad construction as well as formal education, even for girls. His cotton production—four bales per field hand in 1850, nearly twice the average for the best cotton lands in southern Alabama and Georgia--tells more about Mallory's steady work habits than about his class status. But his most obvious eccentricity—what gave him reason to be remembered—was that nearly every day from 1843 until his death in 1877, Mallory kept a detailed journal of local, national, and often foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and especially events involving his family, relatives, slaves, and neighbors in Talladega County, Alabama. Mallory's journal spans three major periods of the South's history--the boom years before the Civil War, the rise and collapse of the Confederacy, and the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. He owned slaves and raised cotton, but Mallory was never more than a hardworking farmer, who described agriculture in poetical language as “the greatest [interest] of all.”

Timid Lucy

Author : Sarah S. Baker
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Timid Lucy written by Sarah S. Baker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Timid Lucy" by Sarah S. Baker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Country Life Illustrated

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You Can Master Your Fear

Author : Magdalena Scopelitis
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452551847
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book You Can Master Your Fear written by Magdalena Scopelitis and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the master of your fear and you can rule over your life. Fear is the only obstacle between you and your dreams, between you and what you most love. So says Archangel Raphael, who, in this series of channelings, unravels the mysteries of fear and, through its darkest paths, guides you step by step up to the glade of love. He helps you tear away fears masks one by one till you come to know its real face; only then does he teach you the ways to transmute it into love, thus eliminating its disastrous implications. According to Archangel Raphael, fear shows that somewhere in the deepest part of your being, you have chosen hatred versus love, and your life cannot have real meaning. Only when your fear is transformed can real life happen to you. The end of your fear will signal the beginning of your life. Until that day comes, you will have just lived in a lie, in an illusion. I am only asking you to give me your fear, Archangel Raphael adds, and I will give back to you your love, the most precious gift you ever had.

The American sacred Songster. A selection of music ... [compiled] by P. Phillips, etc

Author : Philip Phillips (Mus. Doc.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The American sacred Songster. A selection of music ... [compiled] by P. Phillips, etc written by Philip Phillips (Mus. Doc.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cold White Fear

Author : R.J. Harlick
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459732006
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book A Cold White Fear written by R.J. Harlick and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major blizzard has cut off road access to Meg Harris’s isolated cabin, where she and her young Adjidamo are getting ready for Christmas. The unexpected arrival of two strange men, one of them wounded, sparks a terrifying chain of events that has Meg fighting to get herself and Adjidamo out alive.

The Fear App Study Guide

Author : Bill Hanson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512723606
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Fear App Study Guide written by Bill Hanson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could discover a way to live your life without fear? What if a new vegetable that was just discovered could keep you from getting a deadly disease? Would you eat it? What if a new exercise developed would extend your life by twenty years? Would you try it? What if the information in The Fear App Study Guide would help you to remove those needless fears that run through our minds and keep us from following Gods will in our lives? Would you read it? The apps we have on our phones were developed to make a function or activity much easier or to assist us in some specific way. The Fear App Study Guide and available The Fear App book are similar dynamic tools. This Study Guide will help you identify the fears you may not even be aware of. The Lord has prepared ministry service for all of us to be involved in (Ephesians 2:10). If you allow fear to control service decisions, youll miss Gods best for your life and the blessings that come with following His will. This study guide is an easy read, a very practical approach, and not too in-depth or over-the-top, getting right to the point of the fears we all experience in our lives.