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Author : Nicolas Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995519213
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (192 download)
Download or read book At First, All Went Well ... written by Nicolas Barker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected obituaries chiefly reprinted from the Independent newspaper and the Book Collector.
Author : Terrell Harris Dougan
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401395783
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book That Went Well written by Terrell Harris Dougan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Terrell Dougan's sister, Irene: a woman in her sixties who still believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny--but who also enjoys playing those characters for the children at the local hospital; whose favorite outfit, which she'll sneak into whenever Terrell's back is turned, consists of Mickey Mouse kneesocks and shorts; who wins over the neighborhood kids by hosting two fire trucks at her lemonade stand; whose fridge bears a magnet: NORMAL PEOPLE WORRY ME. When Irene was born, her parents were advised to institutionalize her. They refused and instead became trailblazers in advocating for the rights of people with mental disabilities. The entire family benefited, with a life rich in stress, sorrows, hilarity, joy, and overwhelming kindness from strangers. Terrell has found that the only way to get through the difficult moments is to laugh--even in the most trying of times. In her moving, funny, and unforgettable memoir about life with Irene, Terrell Dougan shows that love, humor, and compassion are enough to heal us, every single day.
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110166164X
Total Pages : 1525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Mystery Train written by Greil Marcus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 1525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Available as an eBook Catch a train to the heart of rock ‘n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ‘n’ roll and its unique place in American culture. This sixth edition of Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.
Author : Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9781564765895
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (658 download)
Download or read book The Victors written by Jack Cavanaugh and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh book in the popular adult fiction series, "An American Family Portrait, The Victors" follows the path of a new generation of the Morgan family. Four siblings are caught up in the events of World War II, and each will handle the challenge differently. Nat, Walt, Alex, and Lily must face life's worst before they find out what it really means to be "the victors".
Author : Tony Le Tissier
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495348
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Slaughter at Halbe written by Tony Le Tissier and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April, 1945, by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German Ninth Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction and his subordinates, eager to win the race to the Reichstag, pushed General Busse's 9th Army into a tiny area east of the village of Halbe. To escape the Spreewald pocket, the remnants of 9th Army had to pass through Halbe, where barricades constructed by both sides formed formidable obstacles and the converging Soviet forces subjected the area to heavy artillery fire. By the time 9th Army eventually escaped the Soviet pincers, it had suffered 40,000 killed and 60,000 taken prisoner. Teenaged refugees recount their experiences alongside Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans attempting to maintain military discipline amid the chaos and carnage of headlong retreat. While army commanders strive to extricate their decimated units, demoralised soldiers change into civilian clothing and take to the woods. Relating the story day by day, Tony Le Tissier shows the impact of total war upon soldier and civilian alike, illuminating the unfolding of great and terrible events with the recollections of participants.
Author : Roberta Laurie
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772121150
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Weaving a Malawi Sunrise written by Roberta Laurie and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” —Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Weaving a Malawi Sunrise tells the story of Memory Chazeza’s quest to get an education and to build a school for young women. Roberta Laurie was one of many who helped Memory realize her vision of seeing young girls become strong and independent women who could care for themselves and their future families. During her time in Malawi, Laurie met several other women, each of whom had a story of her own. Laurie combines these personal accounts with detailed information about the country’s underlying social and political context. Readers interested in Africa, global affairs, women’s studies, development, and international education will give high marks to Weaving a Malawi Sunrise.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144056X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Longest Voyage written by Robert Silverberg and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the intense and brooding Magellan and the glamorous and dashing Sir Francis Drake; to Thomas Cavendish, who set off to plunder Spain’s American gold and the Dutch circumnavigators, whose numbers included pirates as well as explorers and merchants, Robert Silverberg captures the adventures and seafaring exploits of a bygone era. Over the course of a century, European circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific Ocean. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery captures the drama, danger, and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. These accounts begin with Magellan’s unprecedented 1519–22 circumnavigation, providing an immediate, exciting, and intimate glimpse into that historic venture. The story includes frequent threats of mutiny; the nearly unendurable extremes of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, and fatigue; the fear, tedium, and moments of despair; the discoveries of exotic new peoples and strange new lands; and, finally, Magellan’s own dramatic death during a fanatical attempt to convert native Philippine islanders to Christianity. Capturing the total context of political climate and historical change that made the Age of Discovery one of excitement and drama, Silverberg brings a motley crew of early ocean explorers vividly to life.
Author : Edward Tyas Cook
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734037972
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Life of Florence Nightingale written by Edward Tyas Cook and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life of Florence Nightingale by Edward Tyas Cook
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Crime of the Opera House written by Fortuné Du Boisgobey and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135223386
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Organization written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the twentieth century’s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell’s major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period of one hundred years, which he argues were predominantly influenced by three major elements – economic technique, political theory and certain significant individuals. In the witty, approachable style that has made Bertrand Russell’s works so revered, he explores in detail the major forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century.
Author : Gerhard von der Lippe Gran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jean Jacques Rousseau written by Gerhard von der Lippe Gran and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Haigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317874633
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth written by Christopher Haigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history, the so-called 'Golden Age'. This celebrated and influential study of Elizabeth reconsiders how she achieved this and the ways in which she exercised her power.
Author : Charles Turley
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Voyages of Captain Scott written by Charles Turley and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voyages of Captain Scott retells the stories of the Discovery Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. "The Voyage of the Discovery" is an account of Scott's First Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, also known as the Discovery Expedition. This expedition carried out scientific research and geographical exploration in what was then largely an untouched continent. It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. "Scott's Last Expedition" is an account of the British Antarctic Expedition which took place between 1910 and 1913, also known as the Terra Nova Expedition. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that the Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later.
Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138452
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Allstons of Chicora Wood written by William Kauffman Scarborough and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough. Scarborough shows how Allston, in the four decades before the Civil War, converted a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire of seven rice plantations, all the while earning an international reputation for the quality of his rice and his expertise. Scarborough also examines Allston's twenty-eight-year career in the state legislature and as governor from 1856 to 1858. Upon his death in 1864, Robert Allston's wife of thirty-two years, Adele, found herself at the head of the family. Scarborough traces how she successfully kept the family plantations afloat in the postwar years through a series of decisions that exhibited her astute business judgment and remarkable strength of character. In the next generation, one of the Allstons' five children followed a similar path. Elizabeth "Bessie" Allston took over management of the remaining family plantations upon the death of her husband and, in order to pay off the plantation mortgages, embarked on a highly successful literary career. Bessie authored two books, the first treating her experiences as a woman rice planter and the second describing her childhood before the war. A major contribution to southern history, The Allstons of Chicora Wood provides a fascinating look at a prominent southern family that survived the traumas of war and challenges of Reconstruction.
Author : Walter Roch
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mr. Lloyd George and the War written by Walter Roch and published by London : Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1920 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349248304
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The British Empire and Commonwealth written by Martin Kitchen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-08-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
Author : Janet Sayers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429910983
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Art, Psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes written by Janet Sayers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with Barbara Hepworth's abstract stone carving, with other works of art, and with fascinating vignettes from Adrian Stokes's writing, this biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes. In also detailing Stokes's role as catalyst of the transformation of St Ives in Cornwall into an internationally-acclaimed centre of modern art, and his falling in love again in his early forties, this biography shows how Stokes used all these experiences, together with his many years of psychoanalytic treatment by Melanie Klein, in forging insights about ways the outer world gives form to the inner world of fantasy and imagination.
