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Ships, Trips and Rites of Passage

Author : Graham Stuart Tuckley
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398464597
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Ships, Trips and Rites of Passage written by Graham Stuart Tuckley and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true-life story of a young man’s life in the Royal Navy during the early 1970s. The book provides insight into what life was like for young men joining Her Majesty’s Forces at that time and of the journeys that followed during a five-year period. The book takes the reader through basic naval training and to far-flung places visited aboard HMS Albion (RO7) “The Old Grey Ghost”, a 22,000-ton Centaur-class Light Fleet Carrier, until its decommission. The story relays the difficulties and struggles of one young man and his decision to leave a career after moving to shore bases. The book offers a historical perspective of the Royal Navy from the eyes of a rating and a world much different from today.

The Pink War

Author : Graham Stuart Tuckley
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035814927
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Pink War written by Graham Stuart Tuckley and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pink War boldly explores the compelling intersection of love, loyalty, and courage amid the brutal backdrop of World War II. Follow two working-class men as they answer their nation’s call, battling against the forces of Nazism and Fascism across North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe. As soldiers, they earn their stripes and prove their mettle. Yet, beyond the battlefield, they face an equally formidable challenge: concealing their illicit love for each other in a time when same-sex relationships are condemned. This gripping tale uncovers the complexities of love in a world at war, offering a poignant tribute to devotion and friendship under the most trying of circumstances.

Rites and Passages

Author : Margaret S. Creighton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484480
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Rites and Passages written by Margaret S. Creighton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of nearly two hundred ship logs and sailors' diaries, Rites and Passages examines American whalemen at the height of the whaling industry in the 1800s and argues that whaling life and culture was shaped by both the American mainland and by the exigencies of ocean life. Unlike other published accounts of seafaring, this work brings gender into the maritime equation, not only with a discussion of the ways that women figured in this male world, but also with an examination of the ways that seafaring served as a rite of passage into manhood.

The Melody

Author : Jim Crace
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385543727
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Melody written by Jim Crace and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal. Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished to fan the flames of old rumor—of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest. It is also used to spark new controversy, inspiring claims that something must finally be done about the town’s poor, whose numbers have been growing. In trademark crystalline prose, Jim Crace portrays a man taking stock of his life and looking into an uncertain future, while bearing witness to a community in the throes of great change.

The Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles

Author : Chad Lehrmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781671876880
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles written by Chad Lehrmann and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient evil, a teenager on the run from a tragic past, and a collision course with destiny, fate, or maybe something else entirely. Sage City Colorado is a beautiful but struggling town. It's mining history has dried up, leaving it only with a dark local legend that may just be more history than myth. But an East Coast developer named Lucius Furr and his team, including Lennox Dupree and Elena Cordova, might just bring salvation- or awaken a long dormant evil. Sawyer Shepherd, an eighteen year old orphan on a road trip of self discovery- and running from a tragic past- finds himself caught up not only in Furr's plans for the small town, but also an ancient and epic battle between good and evil. Guided by locals Eli Romer and Mandy Jane, Sawyer will seek to overcome the demons of his past while also trying to survive a real life demon that seems to seek only to consume. Or is it also trying to open the door for an even greater and more powerful evil? The first book in the Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles (and first novel by author Chad Lehrmann) introduces you to a world where demons take the form of monsters and a small number of people act as "shepherds" for the rest of us by offering protection from the supernatural "wolves" that are hunting us. Equal parts humor, horror, and heart, you will find heroes to cheer, villains to fear, and mysteries to unravel as you explore a world where destiny may not be all that it seems. Author Chad Lehrmann introduces us to a world not terribly different than our own, but with supernatural forces lurking in the depths of the earth-- and perhaps even walking amongst us. Fans of the television show Supernatural or young adult novels such as the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson series will find relatable characters thrust into far from ordinary experiences. Sawyer Shepherd, Mandy Jane, and Eli Romer provide readers of a variety of ages a person to connect with as they journey with the heroes to survive a terrifying ordeal, save a city...and maybe even the world.

Close Quarters

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267432
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Close Quarters written by William Golding and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world. A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fête-like atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium, both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at the seams . . . 'Fantastic ... Gems tumble off the pages ... A strong sense of drama ... Much of the pleasure of reading his work is his original imagery.' Annie Proulx 'No living writer has represented the fragility of man's experience so marvellously as Golding.' AS Byatt 'It is in Golding's magnificent, therapeutic, terrifying descriptions of seascapes that the deepest meanings can be found.' Kate Mosse 'Stunning . . . As exciting as any thriller.' Sunday Times 'A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.' Daily Mail 'Tells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and subtlety.' Financial Times To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book Two

Raising Boys by Design

Author : Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307731693
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Raising Boys by Design written by Dr. Gregory L. Jantz and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your son grow into the strong, loving man God created him to be with Raising Boys by Design. Packed with doable strategies and eye-opening examples of what’s really going on inside a boy’s brain, Raising Boys by Design offers a practical blueprint to help you build a HERO—one who values Honor, Enterprise, Responsibility, and Originality. Among other things, you’ll learn how to help your son: • strengthen his character, resilience, and self-discipline • nurture genuine compassion and empathy • process words and emotions in ways that fit his brain chemistry • succeed in school and hone crucial life skills • develop a healthy perspective of sexuality • avoid the pitfalls of media and technology • embark on a lifelong adventure of faith This unique resource combines the latest research in brain science with timeless truths from the Bible to reveal the deepest needs shared by every boy of faith while also leading you to fresh insights for honoring the unique personality, talents, and God-given design of your son in particular. You can help your son thrive today as the hero he is meant to be when you learn the secrets of Raising Boys by Design.

Worlds to Explore

Author : Mark Jenkins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200441
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Worlds to Explore written by Mark Jenkins and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Polar fleece, titanium, and GPS have forever changed the face of exploration. Today an explorer can make a phone call from the top of Mount Everest and geo-locate himself in the thickest rain forest or the widest desert. Yet despite these advances, few modern adventures get close to the charm and romance of "The Desert Road to Turkestan," "Mysterious Temples of the Jungle," and "Airplanes Come to the Isles of Spice." In those bygone days, the pages of National Geographic were as close as most people could get to high adventure and faraway lands-and here's a chance to recapture them. Alongside noteworthy names like Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, and Teddy Roosevelt, other less famous travelers take us on long-forgotten trips to places few Americans had gone. We follow as "An American Girl Cycles Across Transylvania," trek "A Thousand Miles Along the Great Wall of China," and glide "By Felucca Down the Nile." Introduced by brief essays that provide context and perspective, these engaging, engrossing selections speak for themselves-and trace the National Geographic Society's growth as it explored the unknown and brought it to readers eager for knowledge of "the world and all that is in it"--Publisher's description.

Handbook Global History of Work

Author : Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110424703
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Handbook Global History of Work written by Karin Hofmeester and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

You Are What You Remember

Author : Patrick Estrade
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 1600940420
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book You Are What You Remember written by Patrick Estrade and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important, accessible addition to the psychology shelf that explains how adulthood is affected by our earliest memories-and how to reclaim and interpret them

Archipelagoes

Author : Simone Pinet
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816666717
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Archipelagoes written by Simone Pinet and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.

Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

Author : Carrie Hintz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135373434
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults written by Carrie Hintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.

International Folkloristics

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847695157
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book International Folkloristics written by Alan Dundes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.

Duel in the Deep

Author : David L. Sears
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682475611
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Duel in the Deep written by David L. Sears and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated a seascape where German U-boats once ruled supreme. But then unexpectedly, in eerie, mid-ocean darkness, an elemental hull-to-deck, sailor-to-submariner duel erupted. On Halloween Eve, U.S. Navy destroyer Borie, an outmoded, thin-skinned “tin can” of World War I vintage, set out alone to track down an elusive U-boat. Borie had thus far toiled in the war’s backwaters, her crew of young reservists anxious to prove its mettle. When Borie trapped U-405 on the surface, that chance arrived. As Borie’s deck guns unleashed withering fire and U-405’s skipper angled his submarine to launch torpedoes, Borie’s young skipper—a salesman in civilian life--resorted to the original (and once the only) means of sinking a submarine: ramming, full speed ahead, consequences be damned. Borie’s slashing collision with U-405 ignited a swashbuckling, no-holds-barred brawl of cannons, machine guns, small arms, and even knives and spent shell casings. In the wreckage-strewn aftermath, desperate sailors on both sides fought for survival in a heaving, frigid, unforgiving sea. Duel in the Deep weaves together high-stakes strategy and lethal gamesmanship with poignant human backstories, pounding air/surface/subsurface action, epic heroism, and wrenching sacrifice. A former U.S. Navy officer and “tin can” veteran—now a seasoned, widely published and highly acclaimed military historian—portrays a rousing high-seas showdown reminiscent of fighting in the age of sail.

The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative

Author : Sandra Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317982150
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative written by Sandra Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism – literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson; the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell’s Space Traders; the Star Trek Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction/speculative literature writer’s discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities: An International Journal.

Consuming Youth

Author : John Berard
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310296609
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Youth written by John Berard and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s relentless, consumer culture—dominated by popular media’s emphasis on bigger, better, and more, and catering to teenagers every want and desire—is leaving our youth adrift in a sea of conflicting messages. Messages that every youth worker must be able to decode and redirect away from the material world towards helping young people become who God created them to be: givers instead of receivers, servers instead of consumers. Consuming Youth is for any adult who recognizes that following Jesus means leading young people through the pitfalls of consumer culture, helping them discover vocation—where their great gladness meets a world's great need, and unleashing the kingdom of God on earth.

Pavie in the Borderlands

Author : Betje Black Klier
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125304
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Pavie in the Borderlands written by Betje Black Klier and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pavie in the Borderlands describes the cultural forces that shaped the trans-Mississippi West between 1765 and 1838 by focusing on the extraordinary Pavie family. From their settlement on the Louisiana frontier, three generations of Pavies witnessed the creation of the U.S. and its territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase. Betje Black Klier relates the experiences of the Pavies through the adventures of their kinsman Thèodore, an enterprising eighteen-year-old who left provincial France to visit Louisiana and Texas in 1829 and 1830. Thèodore kept a journal and published his exploits in a volume entitled Souvenirs atlantiques. In the first of its two parts, Pavie in the Borderlands provides the story of the family's early experiences in North America; a biographical study of Thèodore; translations of some of his colorful letters from the borderlands; and an analysis of how his travels transformed him. The second part of the volume presents the first English translation of a substantial portion of Thèodore's journal, including reproductions of his sketches of Louisiana and Texas environs. Klier unveils the young scholar and artist as the most significant nineteenth-century travel writer to journey west of the Mississippi. By intertwining Louisiana and Texas history with French history, Pavie in the Borderlands provides important new insights on the region's environmental, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history.