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Book Synopsis Defiance: Vital Ground by : Demian Rose
Download or read book Defiance: Vital Ground written by Demian Rose and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Defiance(tm) Universal Skirmish System(tm), the game of near future and science fiction tactical combat that lets you modify or even create the strategic setting in which your battles will take place. With force sizes varying from one unit to several platoons, each trooper matters, and the correct combination of mobility, firepower, command and control is crucial to your success.The U.S.S. Army Customizer is a comprehensive and statistically based force construction tool that literally allows you to design any weapon, any trooper and any army that you can imagine, all the while being assured that your creation will be balanced for play against any other U.S.S. force list. A lot of work and testing went into the Customizer, and we feel that you will not find a more versatile or more balanced universal force construction tool on the market today.
Book Synopsis The Genealogy of Violence by : Charles K. Bellinger
Download or read book The Genealogy of Violence written by Charles K. Bellinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bellinger draws on the thought of Søoren Kierkegaard and René Girard in search of a Christian understanding of the roots of violence. After analysing approaches to understanding violence he goes on to consider Kierkegaard as a theorist of violence.
Book Synopsis Hope in the Dark by : Rebecca Solnit
Download or read book Hope in the Dark written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Book Synopsis Grounds for the World by : Barrett Williams
Download or read book Grounds for the World written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the enthralling journey of the world's beloved brew with "Grounds for the World" – an eBook that is as rich and diverse as the drink it celebrates. Dive into a mesmerizing exploration that is not just about coffee but about civilization itself, apt for enthusiasts and curious minds alike. Embark on an odyssey from the birthplace of coffee to the iridescent cafes dotting metropolitan landscapes. Detailing coffee's remarkable voyage, this book will guide you through the alleys of history, unfolding the story of revolution, innovation, and evolution one cup at a time. Chapter 1 unveils the fabled origins, taking you from the Ethiopian highlands to the very fabric of European culture. Discover how a simple bean brewed nations together and became the muse of poets and thinkers. Chapter 2 pours you into the tumultuous times of colonial growth. Feel the bitterness not just in the drink but in the tales of plantations where the grounds of the coffee world were steeped in the quest for freedom. In Chapter 3, set sail with merchants as you learn of the trade networks that spun the globe into a web of commerce and camaraderie, seeding the ideas of fair trade and ethical sourcing. Chapter 4 offers a microscope to the alchemy and miracle of the unassuming bean - from roasting chemistry to the secrets behind its invigorating power. Migrate to the coffeehouses in Chapter 6, where ideas blossomed and revolutions were plotted amidst the heady aroma of freshly brewed tales – shaping societies and cultures. Chapter 7 paints a vivid picture of coffee's influence on creativity, from delicate Ethiopian ceremonies to the strong pulls of Italian espressos that energize the canvases of life. Delve deeper in Chapter 9, as every bean tells a story of the earth from the lenses of ecologists, unraveling the environmental saga wrought by our collective craving. Chapter 10 grinds you through the intricacies of coffee economics, revealing the fascinating ebb and flow of a market as rich as its product. Chapter 11 is the cup of rebellion and reform, showing how coffee fueled revolutions and carved pathways in wartime strategy and global diplomacy. Finally, Chapter 12 will bring you to the present, buzzing with innovation, as we stand on the cusp of futuristic brews, sipping on the potential of genetic marvels and ethical transformations. "Grounds for the World" is not just a book; it's an experience that decants knowledge with the subtle flavors of intrigue and inspiration. Fill your cup with stories told through the prism of coffee, where every sip is a connection to a past steeped in mystery, a present brewed with craftsmanship, and a future roasting with possibilities. Pour yourself into this compelling narration, and discover how a beverage became the cornerstone of our existence. Your next cup of coffee will never be the same.
Book Synopsis The European Invasion of North America by : Michael G. Laramie
Download or read book The European Invasion of North America written by Michael G. Laramie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource follows the pivotal and often overlooked efforts of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Dutch, the French, and the English colonies to control the strategic waterways of the Hudson-Champlain corridor from their discovery to the fall of New France. From Champlain and Hudson's initial voyages some 400 years ago, to the surrender of Montreal in 1760, The European Invasion of North America: Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson - Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760 offers unprecedented coverage of the 150-year struggle between New World rivals along this natural invasion route—a struggle which would ultimately determine the destiny of North America. Unlike other volumes on this period, The European Invasion of North America includes extensive coverage from the French and Dutch as well as British perspectives, examining events in the context of larger colonial confrontations. Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts, it recaps political maneuvers and blunders, military successes and failures, and the remarkable people behind them all: cabinet ministers in Paris, Amsterdam, and London; colonial leaders such as Stuyvesant, Frontenac, and Montcalm; shrewd diplomats of the Iroquois Confederacy; and soldiers and families on all sides of the conflict. It also highlights the growing friction between Britain and her American colonies, which would soon lead to a different war.
Book Synopsis Born of Defiance by : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Download or read book Born of Defiance written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be. But when his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government that his mother has beaten into him and his own beliefs of justice and right. Now, he must decide for himself to remain a pawn of their government or to defy everything and everyone he's ever known to stand up to tyranny. It's a gamble that will either save his life or end it. And when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail, in Born of Defiance, the next League novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Download or read book Indelible City written by Louisa Lim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
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Book Synopsis Shifting Ground by : Mahesh Rangarajan
Download or read book Shifting Ground written by Mahesh Rangarajan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial) and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is a critical engagement with the region's contested environmental past. Shifting Ground brings together an array of essays that pose critical questions regarding India's environmental past and the way it has been approached by scholars. From debunking the idea of a primeval, pristine forest cover, to analysing the dynamics that shape human-animal relations, to examining the conflicts created by post-Independence projects of rural development and conservation - this volume touches upon the various aspects of environmental studies and juxtaposes them with social history, history of science and technology and history of trade and culture. Drawing on original case studies the book not only explores the past, but also portrays how its traditions are often invoked to be deployed in contemporary conflicts - those that are often aggravated by the pressures on natural assets created by the recent prosperity and the vaulting aspirations of a rapidly expanding Indian middle class.
Download or read book Marxism Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Play Therapy by : Virginia M. Axline
Download or read book Play Therapy written by Virginia M. Axline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1981-12-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published." NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Here is an intensely practical book that gives specific illustrations of how therapy can be implemented in play contacts, and tells how the toys of the playroom can be vivid performers and aids in growth. As she did with DIBS IN SEARCH OF SELF, Dr. Axline has taken true case histories from the rich mine of verbatim case material of children referred for play therapy, choosing children ranging in age, problem, and personality. It's all here in an important and rewarding book for parents, teachers, and anyone who comes in contact with children.
Download or read book Middle Grounds written by Alan Wilde and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1987-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Wilde identifies and defends what he calls "midfiction," which rejects both the extremes of realism and experimental, self-reflexive fiction. He offers as examples the best works of Apple, Berger, Barthelme, Pynchon, and Paley.
Download or read book Vital Signs written by Gregg Levoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Vital Signs will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.
Book Synopsis The Splendid and the Vile by : Erik Larson
Download or read book The Splendid and the Vile written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.
Book Synopsis The Embarrassing Australian by : Harry Gordon
Download or read book The Embarrassing Australian written by Harry Gordon and published by Melbourne : Chesire. This book was released on 1962 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to Lieut. Reginald Saunders, an Australian aboriginal who served in 1939-45 War and Korean War 1950-53.
Book Synopsis Letter from Birmingham Jail by : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Download or read book Defiant Peaks written by Juliet McKenna and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archmage Planir and the wizards of Hadrumal have demonstrated their devastating powers and the corsair threat is no more. The mainland rulers' relief is overshadowed with fear of one day facing such a threat to their own dominion. Will Tormalin's Emperor make an alliance with Solura's wizards, who so openly covet Hadrumals secrets? Will he seek out that other mysterious magic, Artifice, to counter Planir's magecraft? How will the aloof Aetheric adepts of the mountains answer such an appeal? With many of the Wizard Council disputing Planir's chosen course, he must look beyond the island city for allies. To Suthyfer, the controversial haven for mageborn far away in the Eastern Ocean. To Caladhria, where Corrain, Baron Halferan and Lady Zurenne believe they have finally won respite from all their trials. But absence of strife is hardly peace. The lull before winter's storms descend from the distant northern peaks will be a short one.
