The Sling and the Stone

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Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1616737557
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sling and the Stone by : Thomas X. Hammes

Download or read book The Sling and the Stone written by Thomas X. Hammes and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times – in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan…As the only Goliath left in the world, we should be worried that the world’s Davids have found a sling and stone that work." – Chapter 1, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. The War in Iraq. The War on Terror. These types of "asymmetrical" warfare are the conflicts of the 21st century – and show how difficult it is for the world's remaining superpower to battle insurgents and terrorists who will fight unconventionally in the face of superior military power. This change in military conflict may seem sudden.

The Stone Book Quartet

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007380127
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stone Book Quartet by : Alan Garner

Download or read book The Stone Book Quartet written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.

Stone

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Publisher : Portage & Main Press
ISBN 13 : 1553792270
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (537 download)

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Book Synopsis Stone by : David Robertson

Download or read book Stone written by David Robertson and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family's past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man, who came of age in the early 19th century. Following a vision quest, Stone aspires to be like his older brother, Bear, a member of the Warrior Society. But when Bear is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, Stone, the best shot and rider in his encampment, must overcome his grief and avenge his brother's death. Only then can he begin a new life with his bride, Nahoway. It is Stone's story that drives Edwin to embark on his own quest. Stone is the first book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations. Forthcoming books in this series are Book 2: Scars, the story of the orphan White Cloud, set against the smallpox epidemic of 1870-1871. Book 3: Ends/Begins, the story of Edwin's father, and the residential school saga. Book 4: The Pact, a story of redemption, as father and his son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.

Circles of Stone

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ISBN 13 : 9780671552862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (528 download)

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Book Synopsis Circles of Stone by : Joan Dahr Lambert

Download or read book Circles of Stone written by Joan Dahr Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking the narrative sweep of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and the spiritual resonance of "The Celestine Prophecy", Lambert creates an extraordinary debut novel of prehistoric life. The story of three wise women--each called Zena, yet born thousands of generations apart--who live by the ways of love and compassion, and explore the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul.

Four Generations of Stone

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Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1643505181
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Book Synopsis Four Generations of Stone by : Ron Hunter

Download or read book Four Generations of Stone written by Ron Hunter and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Generations of Stone is a fictional story about a family of strong men and women who began with one man coming to America in 1850 from England. He is compelled to follow his dream of becoming a mountain man in the American Rocky Mountains. Without the help of the First Nation Americans, the Stone family would have had a more difficult journey through all four generations of this saga. He prospered as a trapper and expanded, eventually raising cattle in what was to become Montana. The family grew and developed a vast cattle ranch as well as a thriving big game hunting business. Their adventure weaves through the expansion of America, the War Between the States, the Great War in Europe, and World War II. The fourth-generation patriarch, Dale Stone, continues to operate two family businesses and meets a difficult challenge protecting two of his big game hunting clients from being kidnapped by foreign agents.

Sacred Steel

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090306
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Steel by : Robert Stone

Download or read book Sacred Steel written by Robert Stone and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the music-driven Pentecostal worship of two related churches: the House of God and the Church of the Living God. A rare outsider who has gained the trust of members and musicians inside the church, Stone uses nearly two decades of research, interviews, and fieldwork to tell the story of a vibrant musical tradition that straddles sacred and secular contexts. Most often identified with country and western bands, steel guitar is almost unheard of in African American churches--except for the House of God and the Church of the Living God, where it has been part of worship since the 1930s. Sacred Steel traces the tradition through four generations of musicians and in some two hundred churches extending across the country from Florida to California, Michigan to Alabama. Presenting detailed portraits of musical pioneers such as brothers Troman and Willie Eason and contemporary masters such as Chuck Campbell, Glenn Lee, and Robert Randolph, Stone expertly outlines the fundamental tensions between sacred steel musicians and church hierarchy. In this thorough analysis of the tradition, Stone explores the function of the music in church meetings and its effect on the congregations. He also examines recent developments such as the growing number of female performers, the commercial appeal of the music, and younger musicians' controversial move of the music from the church to secular contexts.

Cutting for Stone

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Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184001754
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Cutting for Stone by : Abraham Verghese

Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

The Stone Book

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Publisher : Collins & World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stone Book by : Alan Garner

Download or read book The Stone Book written by Alan Garner and published by Collins & World. This book was released on 1978 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His daughter's request for a book prompts a stonemason to reveal the secret of the stone to her.

All the Light We Cannot See

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis All the Light We Cannot See by : Anthony Doerr

Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Great Leveler

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691184313
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Leveler by : Walter Scheidel

Download or read book The Great Leveler written by Walter Scheidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats

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Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786885428
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats by : Holly George-Warren

Download or read book The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats written by Holly George-Warren and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2000-07-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive illustrated collection of Beat culture from the people who made the scene--now in paperback It's been nearly fifty years since Jack Kerouac took to the road, but Beat culture continues to be a popular and influential force in today's writing, music, and art. With more than 75 contributors, this celebratory potpourri of words, illustrations, and photography contains original and previously published essays by Richard Miller, Ann Douglas, Johnny Depp, Michael McClure, Hettie Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Johnson, Richard Hell, and others. It includes rare pieces from the Rolling Stone archives by William Burroughs, Lester Bangs, and Robert Palmer as well as intimate photographs by Robert Frank, Annie Leibovitz, and rarely seen photos taken by the Beats themselves. A rich tapestry of voices and a visual treat, this treasury of Beat lore and literature is a true collector's item whose entertainment value will go on...and on. "A huge dim sum cart of a book...a first-rate companion." --Publishers Weekly "Compelling reading." --The Denver Post

Four Generations

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801491344
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Book Synopsis Four Generations by : Philip J. Greven

Download or read book Four Generations written by Philip J. Greven and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies four successive generations of life in a New England town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the nature of family life and relationships in an agrarian society.

For the Fourth Generation

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785893319
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Book Synopsis For the Fourth Generation by : Martin Sheppard

Download or read book For the Fourth Generation written by Martin Sheppard and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Fourth Generation takes its title from a family memoir by Eva O’Malley written in 1954. In it she vividly captured the characters of earlier and contemporary members of her family, and recalled her own childhood at Denton House in Oxfordshire. Her father, Sir Edward O’Malley, who had a distinguished career as a colonial judge, had married Winifred Hardcastle, one of the four daughters of Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, a brewer and politician. The second part of For the Fourth Generation contains eight other items on family members and houses. Joseph Alfred Hardcastle MP (1815-1899), born in extraordinary circumstances, in 1840 married a brewing heiress from Writtle worth £180,000 and managed to spend almost all of it. Peter Frederic O’Malley (1804-1874), born in Mayo, was the founder of the family in England. He made a highly successful career as a barrister in East Anglia, though a less successful one as a politician. His son, Sir Edward, wrote a poignant account of his own childhood, shared with his brother George, in the 1850s; while Winifred O’Malley wrote a short biography of the most talented artist in the family, her brother-in-law St Clair. The book ends with portraits of two houses, Monkswell House, on Chelsea Embankment, the home of another of Joseph Alfred Hardcastle’s daughters, Mary, Lady Monkswell, a prolific and mordant diarist; and Denton, where Eva O’Malley and her brother, the diplomat Sir Owen O’Malley, grew up together. Both the Hardcastle and O’Malley families left extensive and revealing personal records, including letters, diaries, memoirs and photographs, published and unpublished books, houses and paintings. These allow the lives and personalities of members of both families to come to life with remarkable immediacy. All those who are descended from Joseph Alfred Hardcastle or Peter Frederic O’Malley will find this book compelling.

Generation Kill

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101207612
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Generation Kill written by Evan Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

House of Stone

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547134665
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book House of Stone written by Anthony Shadid and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and institutions.

Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone

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Publisher : Transformers
ISBN 13 : 9781631402692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone written by Shane McCarthy and published by Transformers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published as: The Transformers:Drift--Empire of Stone issues #1-4 and in The Transformers Spotlight: Drift Director's cut

Stories Carved in Stone

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Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 9780971791015
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories Carved in Stone by : Mary Elaine Gage

Download or read book Stories Carved in Stone written by Mary Elaine Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: