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Book Synopsis Midnight Train to Moscow by : B. Douglas Moyer
Download or read book Midnight Train to Moscow written by B. Douglas Moyer and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Daniel Moss has been fascinated with Russia. Now, he's finally taking his dream vacation to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Just when he thinks his interesting but uneventful tourist trip has come to a safe end, Daniel's greatest fears about traveling to such a strange and exotic country on the other side of the world start to materialize. Dan and his Russian tour guide, Sasha, find themselves in the middle of a perilous journey as they are taken hostage by Separatist militants of Chechnya, the tiny country still bitterly struggling for independence from Russia. Along the way, Dan and Sasha become acquainted with smugglers and bandits, learn about a side of Russian history they never knew about, and fall in love. They soon discover the truth about the War on Terror and how it relates to the conflict between Chechnya and Russia-and the dark secret about the most dangerous and sought-after terrorist leaders in the world is revealed. Miraculously, Dan and Sasha get one chance to earn their freedom, but if they fail, they will die. If they succeed, they will accomplish one of the greatest missions of all time-and earn the ultimate victory in the War on Terror.
Book Synopsis On the Midnight Train Moscow to Leningrad by : Skip Robinson
Download or read book On the Midnight Train Moscow to Leningrad written by Skip Robinson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief overview On the Midnight Train: Moscow to Leningrad begins with two chapters of international memoirs, written over time about our American team's conflict resolution teaching and learning overseas during crucial earlier change points in the U.S. relationship with Russia and Cuba. At those times, 26 years ago for Russia, leaders of both countries believed that the Cold War was apparently coming to an end. National leaders and media agreed. Regarding the Soviet Union and Russia, here was a time of fast-improving communication between our two countries and, on all sides, a growing feeling of hope for the future. Our conflict resolution team, from Tacoma's National Center Associates, Inc., and the Conflict Resolution, Research, and Resource Institute, Inc., led by Bill Lincoln, had been invited to come to Leningrad (historically the capital city, St. Petersburg) to work hand-in-hand with a Soviet team to create a first week-long full-time seminar on democratic ecological conflict resolution. This first course of its kind there was to be for Russian professionals working in a number of disciplines, all concerned for how to work together to negotiate solutions for crucial ecological dangers. Our Russian counterparts, with whom we would work to build this cooperative seminar, worked in Leningrad at the country's largest Planning Institute, which was responsible for the civic planning of about 500 cities. Ecological dangers were fast emerging there in ferocious and highly confusing dimensions. Our work there lasted several years and, in spite of the odds, led to creation of conflict resolution academic programs at quite a number of Russian universities. In 1995, our conflict resolution firm went to Cuba to co-develop in partnership with Cuba's Diplomatic Corps a full-time seminar week with Cuban diplomats to cooperative in interest-based democratic conflict resolution for use in their negotiations with other countries. The seminar was to be held with nine American conflict resolution experts and about 30 members of the Republic of Cuba's Diplomatic Corps, related Ministries, and diplomacy academics, as the Cuban Foreign Ministry prepared itself for deepening international change. In the midst of these memoirs, I have included five illustrative poems written on site during our work in Moscow, Leningrad, and Havana. --- On the Midnight Train begins with a poem written for the award-winning book, An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11. Then the first two chapters lay out the territory through memoir of our American negotiation training team's experience with our counterparts first in Russia and then Cuba as we searched together for clues about how to lessen and eliminate conflicts together. After building perspective by reading through the Russian and Cuban memoirs, the Midnight Train then provides three reflective chapters on many ways to develop a more systematic and skillful approach to resolving conflict with deeper dialogue through wider skills. Thoughts in these essay chapters point to more skill building in a systematic and interest-based approach to healing of conflict and suffering. In psychology, it explores how knowledge in contemporary humanistic, transpersonal, and democratic methods can contribute to a durable resolution. These chapters also compare critical differences between methods of traditional adversarial negotiations and newer cooperative skills-building and perspective-building approaches to healing negotiation. In this newer and more hopeful mix, a number of leading scholars and practitioners in conflict work and in psychology briefly share their helpful understandings. - Finally, we can remember that the yearning for peace lies so deep in all of us, and this yearning can guide our way home.
Book Synopsis Lenin on the Train by : Catherine Merridale
Download or read book Lenin on the Train written by Catherine Merridale and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and lead the revolt. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries. Germany saw an opportunity to further destabilize Russia by allowing Lenin and his small group of revolutionaries to return. Now, drawing on a dazzling array of sources and never-before-seen archival material, renowned historian Catherine Merridale provides a riveting, nuanced account of this enormously consequential journey--the train ride that changed the world--as well as the underground conspiracy and subterfuge that went into making it happen. Writing with the same insight and formidable intelligence that distinguished her earlier works, she brings to life a world of counter-espionage and intrigue, wartime desperation, illicit finance, and misguided utopianism. This was the moment when the Russian Revolution became Soviet, the genesis of a system of tyranny and faith that changed the course of Russia's history forever and transformed the international political climate"--
Book Synopsis Adventures of an Ordinary Man by : William Goff
Download or read book Adventures of an Ordinary Man written by William Goff and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marlene Dietrich written by Steven Bach and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including conversations with Dietrich—this is the life story of one of the century’s greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.
Book Synopsis For the Love of Dance by : Dame Beryl Grey
Download or read book For the Love of Dance written by Dame Beryl Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Dame Beryl Grey, now in paperback. Dame Beryl's life is defined by her love of dance. Both as a ballerina and an Artistic Director she helped make British ballet the powerhouse it is today. Knowing and working with virtually everyone in ballet, she reveals fascinating insights into the people, characters and institutions that made up world dance in the 20th century. Grey began her dancing career with the Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1943 at the unprecedented early age of 14. Her natural virtuosity saw her quickly promoted, dancing her first Giselle at 17, and Princess Aurora at 19. Dame Beryl was the first English ballerina to dance at the Bolshoi and the Kirov, as well as the Peking Ballet. Asked to become Artistic Director of what is now English National Ballet, her love of dance allowed her to navigate the tricky passage from ballerina to leader of a dance company. Over ten years she transformed that Company with new dancers, new ballets, a new home and new audiences. Based on her letters and diaries, For the Love of Dance is an extraordinary tale of an extraordinary woman and a life given to her first love - dance.
Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nearly 250 letters between Shaw and Astor - as well as between Astor and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, and Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch - illustrates the rewarding friendship the two shared and the numerous issues they debated.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Travel Guide St Petersburg by : DK Travel
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide St Petersburg written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St. Petersburg will lead you straight to the best attractions St. Petersburg has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best entertainment to the top guided walks. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, St. Petersburg quickly became a magnificent city reflecting the majesty of the Russian Empire. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St. Petersburg includes in-depth coverage of the wonderfully preserved heritage of Russia's cultural capital.
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Download or read book Railway International Passenger and Ticket Agents Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life's Voyage written by Maurice D. Atkin and published by Keller Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A parade of luminaries marches through Maury Atkin's fascinating memoir. We meet Israeli president Chaim Weizmann, Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kolleck, and the economist Robert Nathan, not to mention a slew of alligators. But it is Atkin's own story that truly lights up the book, a life devoted to the Zionist dream. Then again, to paraphrase Herzl, if Maury Atkin wills it, it is not a dream. / Franklin Foer"-- Back cover.
Download or read book Abel written by Vin Arthey and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the events depicted in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Bridge of Spies On 10 February 1962, Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace, was released by his captors in exchange for one Colonel Rudolf Abel, aka Vilyam Fisher - one of the most extraordinary characters in the history of the Cold War. Born plain William Fisher at 140 Clara Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, this bona fide British grammar schoolboy was the child of revolutionary parents who had fled tsarist oppression in Russia. Retracing their steps, their son returned to his spiritual homeland, the newly formed Soviet Union, aged just eighteen. Willie became Vilyam and, narrowly escaping Stalin's purges, embarked on a mission to New York, where he ran the network that stole America's atomic secrets. In 1957, Willie's luck ran out and he was arrested and sentenced to thirty years in prison. Five years later, the USSR's regard for his talents was proven when they insisted on swapping him for the stricken Powers. Tracing Willie's tale from the most unlikely of beginnings in Newcastle, to Moscow, the streets of New York and back again, Abelis a singular and absorbing true story of Cold War espionage to rival anything in fiction.
Book Synopsis The Kremlin's Geordie Spy by : Vin Arthey
Download or read book The Kremlin's Geordie Spy written by Vin Arthey and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover an extraordinary, true-life adventure that could have appeared straight from the pages of a John le Carré Cold War novel. In February 1962 Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, was released by his Russian captors in exchange for one of their own, Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher. Colonel Fisher was remarkable, not least because he was born plain Willie Fisher at number 142 Clara Street, Benwell, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Willie's revolutionary parents fled Russia in 1901, settling in the north-east, where Willie was brought up to share the family ideology. Leaving England for the newly formed Soviet Union in 1921, Willie began a career as a spy. Narrowly escaping Stalin's purges, Willie was sent to spy in New York, where he ran the network that included notorious atom spies Julius Rosenberg and Ted Hall. In 1957 he was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Six years later, the USSR's regard for Willie's talents was proven when they insisted on swapping him for the stricken Powers. Tracing Willie's story from the most unlikely of beginnings in Newcastle, to Moscow, New York and back again, The Kremlin's Geordie Spy is a singular and absorbing true story of Cold War espionage to rival anything in fiction.
Book Synopsis Open to God, Open to the World by : Franz Konig
Download or read book Open to God, Open to the World written by Franz Konig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last months of his long life, Cardinal Konig expressed the wish to record what was most important as a way forward for the Church and for Christians generally. At a time when the Austrian Church was rocked by scandal (paedophile priests, pornography in seminaries, the corpse of a dead priest floating down the Danube) this wise and holy man has been and will continue to be seen as a man of quite exceptional importance. The book, all written in the first person, is concerned with openness - that openness advocated by John XXIII when he talked of opening the windows of the Church to the modern world. In this Cardinal Konig was a pioneer and his influence on Vatican II was crucial. In this very personal book, Konig often talks of people he met and corresponded with, and his experiences on extensive travels behind what was then termed The Iron Curtain. There is also a beautiful chapter on personal prayer - the all important personal dialogue with God. He recounts how he learned a great deal from a Parsee family in Bombay and talks of his conversations with God in the last years of his life. At a time when religion is so often a cause of dissent, conflict and even murder, Konig's views on dialogue with other Christians and other religions have a particular pertinence and will be seen to be prophetic.
Download or read book Getting Lost written by Annie Ernaux and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.
Author :Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich Publisher :Cornell University Press ISBN 13 :9780801439797 Total Pages :408 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (397 download)
Book Synopsis Story of a Friendship by : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Download or read book Story of a Friendship written by Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This choice by the composer's close friend Isaak Glikman brought the tormented feelings of the musical genius into public view. Now those feelings resound in the first substantial collection of Shostakovich's letters to appear in English.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St. Petersburg by : Christopher Rice
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St. Petersburg written by Christopher Rice and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With beautifully commissioned photographs, and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides in ebook format have been updated to include: expanded hotel& restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and easier-to-read print! Fully Revised and Updated!
