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Author : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816643660
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Tootin' Louie written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of one of the Midwest's most remarkable railroads.
Author : R Murray Thomas
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761920168
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Human Development Theories written by R Murray Thomas and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Development Theories reveals how different theories of development contribute to an understanding of cultural influences on the lives of children and youth. R Murray Thomas argues that, in order to comprehend a culture in all its complexities, that culture must be viewed from a succession of vantage points.
Author : Rehan Alavi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 150350400X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Dreams written by Rehan Alavi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamad and Shad were two brothers who fled the war-torn region of North Waziristan near Pak-Afghan border. The elder brother took a dangerous sea journey that ended in the Christmas Island detention centre in Australia. The younger brother with his extreme views reached a moderate business family living in the southern city of Karachi. The family member Rub and his business partner Fazal were close friends, but a dramatic scene emerged when they were trapped in a scam knitted by their business rival. Hamad explored a treasure of books in the house that brought him into direct conflict with his extreme views and led to a heinous plot. The grandfather of Rub was Hamads mentor, but the revelation of a secret in the grandfathers life opened a Pandoras box of love and hate with a high risk of identity theft and fraud. Hamads brother Shad met Badar in Australia. He listened to his story. Badar grew up in a lavish Indian mansion but was curious about his hated Pakistani father who disappeared after a few years of marriage with his mother in Sydney. Many other characters sneak in that stretched the story from Mansehra to Java, Sydney, America, Bangkok, Karachi, Lucknow and Jhansi. Each character appears with dreams. The combination of all set the landscape for an unfolding of social and political drama titled as Beyond the Dreams.
Author : Edwin Black
Publisher : Dialog Press
ISBN 13 : 0914153234
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Internal Combustion written by Edwin Black and published by Dialog Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, eye-opening expose of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life. Winner of four awards for editorial excellence: American Society of Journalists and Authors Best Book, Thomas Edison Award, Green Globes, and an AJPA Rockower Award.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne G. Broehl
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874515725
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Cargill written by Wayne G. Broehl and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is difficult to imagine how the evolution of an industry, through the perspective of one of its giants, could be better told". -- Tarrant Business
Author : Laura-Zoë Humphreys
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007141
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Fidel between the Lines written by Laura-Zoë Humphreys and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fidel between the Lines Laura-Zoë Humphreys traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in late socialist Cuba through a focus on cinema. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cuban state strategically relaxed censorship, attempting to contain dissent by giving it an outlet in the arts. Along with this shift, foreign funding and digital technologies gave filmmakers more freedom to criticize the state than ever before, yet these openings also exacerbated the political paranoia that has long shaped the Cuban public sphere. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and archival research, Humphreys shows how Cuban filmmakers have historically turned to allegory to communicate an ambivalent relationship to the Revolution, and how such efforts came up against new forms of suspicion in the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Offering insights that extend beyond Cuba, Humphreys reveals what happens to public debate when freedom of expression can no longer be distinguished from complicity while demonstrating the ways in which combining anthropology with film studies can shed light on cinema's broader social and political import.
Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher : Visionary Living, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1942157142
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Dream Messages from the Afterlife written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and published by Visionary Living, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead reunite with us in our dreams. Throughout history, genuine contact with the dead has come through intense and vivid dreams. Dream expert Rosemary Ellen Guiley presents a ground-breaking validation of powerful, life-changing dream reunions with the dead that bring comfort, guidance, closure, and the healing of grief: In these pages, you will find: True and inspiring accounts of dream visits from deceased loved ones, including pets Descriptions of the unique characteristics and types of dream visits How to benefit from dream visits from the dead Related deathbed visions and dream previews of the afterlife Premonitory dreams of death, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences Instructions for ways to invite dream visits from the dead “Rosemary Ellen Guiley’s wisdom is unrivaled. This fascinating book will take you on an amazing journey and show you how our dreams are a direct connection to both the spiritual realms and the divine. A must read that will change your view of what it means to dream.” —Josie Varga, author, Visits from Heaven and A Call from Heaven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroad History written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitman T. Browne PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475918704
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later—Looking Backward, Looking Forward written by Whitman T. Browne PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny afternoon in August of 1970, the Eastern Caribbean was, without warning, confronted with a terrible and tragic event. The Christena, a well-used ferry that regularly crossed the eleven-mile expanse between the twin islands if St. Kitts and Nevis sank. The two British colonial societies were suddenly thrown into turmoil, finding themselves unprepared to deal with such sudden tragedy. The ferry was registered to carry 155 passengers, but it was severely overloaded. While ninety-nine people survived that afternoon, nearly 250 other passengers perished disaster. As if their struggle to heal after the tragedy was not taxing enough, the islands had yet more adversity to conquer. However, both societies were determined to overcome that terrible event, even as they fought to achieve greater political independence. Told from the perspective of Whitman T. Browne, PhD, a native if Nevis, who lived on the island at the time of the tragedy. The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later is a moving, firsthand account of how these sister communities banded together, not only to win their political autonomy, but also to overcome their emotional suffering as a result of greater tragedy.
Author : Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375716
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium written by Bronwen Neil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780880488747
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (887 download)
Download or read book The Broken Connection written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable connections between death and life, the psychiatric disorders that arise from these connections, and the advent of the nuclear age which has jeopardized any attempts to ensure the perpetuation of the self beyond death.
Author : Tony Allan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780283407
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Prophecies written by Tony Allan and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how accurate past visions of the future have turned out to be and explore the continuity of the prophetic tradition. This is a fascinating anthology of amazing and curious stories - such as clairvoyant dreams about the sinking of the Titanic and the Reichstaag Fire in Berlin. It includes features on ancient shamans and soothsayers, Egyptian dream analysis, Greek oracles and Roman auguries, the ancient roots of astrology, messianic visionaries, medieval seers, African systems of divination, Aztec prophecies of cataclysms, the mysteries of Pachacamac, Nostradamus and his "Centuries" and the futurism of H. G. Wells.
Author : Jennifer Eyl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190924667
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Signs, Wonders, and Gifts written by Jennifer Eyl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically, these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers from the influence of so-called paganism. In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts, Jennifer Eyl masterfully argues that Paul did, in fact, engage in range of divinatory and wonder-working practices that were widely recognized and accepted across the ancient Mediterranean. Eyl redescribes, reclassifies, and recontextualizes Paul's repertoire vis-á-vis such widespread, similar practices. Situating these activities within the larger framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity, she demonstrates that divine powers and divine communication were bestowed as benefactions toward Paul and his gentile followers in proportion to their faithfulness and loyalty.
Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Minnesota History written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
Author : Gerard Lemos
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030017747X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The End of the Chinese Dream written by Gerard Lemos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality. Preparing this book Gerard Lemos asked hundreds of Chinese men and women living in Chongqing, an industrial mega-city, about their wishes and fears. The lives they describe expose the myth of China's harmonious society. Hundreds of millions of everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social and health problems as well as personal, family, and financial anxieties--while they watch their communities and traditions being destroyed.Lemos investigates a China beyond the foreigners' beaten track. This is a revealing account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives, from education to health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. Taken together, the stories of these men and women bring to light a broken society, one whose people are frustrated, angry, sad, and often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings and analyzes how China's community and social problems threaten the ambitious nation's hopes for a prosperous and cohesive future. Lemos explains why protests will continue and a divided and self-serving leadership will not make people's dreams come true.
Author : Andrew R. Black
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174092
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Buried Dreams written by Andrew R. Black and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
