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Download or read book Perjury written by Allen Weinstein and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 3, 1948, "Time" magazine editor Whittaker Chambers made a stunning allegation before the House Un-American Activities Committee: Alger Hiss, former high-ranking State Department official, had served with him in the Communist underground. Hiss's defense was the gripping story of its day, and the question of his guilt remains an enigma. This book provides fascinating insights into the case and into the American political life of the 1930s and 1940s. of photos.
Download or read book Hiss-s-s-s! written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar wants a snake more than anything, but his mom is unenthusiastic to say the least. However, the family strikes a compromise: Omar can get a corn snake; but it must stay inside his room, where his mom will not have to set eyes on it. So when Arrow escapes, Omar has to keep it a secret. But with an inquisitive little sister and parents mindful of odd behavior, it's not easy.
Book Synopsis Hiss! Pop! Boom! by : Tricia Morrissey
Download or read book Hiss! Pop! Boom! written by Tricia Morrissey and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiss! and Pop! snap the firecrackers. Boom! says the drum to the Lion Dancer. Chinese New Year is here! Beautiful Chinese brush painting and elegant calligraphy illustrate each moment of the New Year celebration. Share the traditions with your child, and learn a few new things too!
Download or read book Rescuing the Planet written by Tony Hiss and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, resounding call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050—thereby saving millions of its species—and a candid assessment of the health of our planet and our role in conserving it, from the award-winning author of The Experience of Place and veteran New Yorker staff writer. "An upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam." —The Wall Street Journal Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism" that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups already involved in this fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. And he introduces us to the engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other "Half Earthers" like Hiss himself who are allied in their dedication to the unifying, essential cause of saving our own planet from ourselves. Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, Rescuing the Planet is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth.
Download or read book In Motion written by Tony Hiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though previously undescribed) experience that can happen to us when we travel, a special understanding and ability that can leave us feeling exhilarated. He illustrates how throughout human history - from our ancestors walking upright for the first time to astronauts walking on the moon - we have repeatedly availed ourselves of this seemingly elusive quality, which he calls 'Deep Travel.' The sensation of Deep Travel can overtake us, Hiss says, whenever we tap into a sophisticated, wide-awake awareness we all possess. With a wealth of examples - from evocative accounts of his own journeys to celebrated travel writing across the centuries - Hiss identifies and rescues this powerful capacity and sets out simple techniques for accessing it no matter where we are. And this is only a jumping-off point for an original and penetrating explanation of how Deep Travel radically alters our perception of not only where we are but also when we are, by placing us in an 'extended present,' and how it acts as an open-sesame to enlarge and enrich the world around us. Going even further, he investigates how we can remain absolutely still but travel in time itself, as our horizons move backward to include layers of nature and human culture that have gone before, or project us forward to consider what our actions will mean to those who will inhabit our spot on earth a few generations from now. Whether travel takes you around the corner or around the world, once you've read In Motion, no journey will ever feel the same.
Book Synopsis The Experience of Place by : Tony Hiss
Download or read book The Experience of Place written by Tony Hiss and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some places--the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper--affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.
Download or read book Alger Hiss written by Christina Shelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence analytic failures.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Hiss Case by : Athan G. Theoharis
Download or read book Beyond the Hiss Case written by Athan G. Theoharis and published by Philadelphia : Temple University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hiss and Hers written by M. C. Beaton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If only the bossy, beloved Agatha Raisin were as lucky at finding the right man as she is at catching killers in Beaton's "New York Times"-bestselling mystery series.
Book Synopsis Snakes Slither and Hiss by : Fiona Lock
Download or read book Snakes Slither and Hiss written by Fiona Lock and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about snakes Encourage your child to read. Read it together and discover all about snakes: from hissing to slithering, little to large and choose which one you like best. DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading. Pre-Level 1 have simple sentences, limited vocabulary, word repetition, picture word strips and large type � read them together with children who are just beginning to learn and with early or reluctant readers. Over 80 DK Readers in the series.
Book Synopsis Alger Hiss and the Battle for History by : Susan Jacoby
Download or read book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948, that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this work, the author turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions.
Download or read book Hiss Me Deadly written by Bruce Hale and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chet Gecko is hired by Principal Zero to investigate the disappearance of valuable items from Emerson Hicky Elementary--including Mama Gecko's pearls.
Download or read book Hiss of Death written by Rita Mae Brown and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Rita Mae Brown's The Big Cat Nap. Ah, spring! The brighter days and singing birds have a way of lifting people’s spirits, as well as those of their animal companions. But the season can also bring out the first blossoms of murder. As the redbuds open in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is especially excited—until a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Surviving this journey will be tough, but Harry has her animal friends—and her ever-helpful husband, Fair—to support her. Others are considerably less fortunate: A promising nurse’s lifeless body is discovered without a mark on her. Then another hospital employee, who had seemed in perfect health, is also found dead. There’s a mystery afoot—and that’s one thing Harry and her menagerie can’t keep their noses out of.
Book Synopsis Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism by : Lewis Hartshorn
Download or read book Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism written by Lewis Hartshorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials. Chambers claimed that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938 for transmittal to the Soviet Union. Hiss denied the charges but was found guilty at his second trial (the jury could not reach a decision in the first). Hiss was not charged with espionage because of the statute of limitations. The main focus of this narrative concentrates on the early months of the affair, from August 1948 when Chambers appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and denounced Hiss and several others as underground Communists, to the following December when Hiss was indicted for perjury. The truth emerges as the story unfolds, based in part on grand jury records unsealed by court order in 1999, leading to the conclusion that the stories Whittaker Chambers told the authorities and later published about himself and Alger Hiss in the Communist underground are completely fraudulent.
Book Synopsis Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul by : Patrick Swan
Download or read book Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul written by Patrick Swan and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Whittaker Chambers's spiritual autobiography "Witness, " Swan anthologizes 23 of the best essays ever written on Chambers and Alger Hiss by Leslie Fiedler, Arthur Koestler, and William F. Buckley Jr. These writers comment on the two men while expressing their own divergent opinions on the nature of communism (and anticommunism), liberalism, and many other issues.
Download or read book The Adventures of Jack Scratch written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PIRATES! CURSES! CUTLASSES! Meet Jack Scratch. Pint sized hero. Swashbuckler. Adventurer... and singer of pirate ditties! Together with Cap'n Catnip - The World's Greatest Mariner - and his Uncle Silver, Jack is about to embark on a quest to find the fabled treasure of the Hiss-paniola! And he'll encounter a whole lot of trouble along the way.
Book Synopsis Purr More, Hiss Less by : Allia Zobel Nolan
Download or read book Purr More, Hiss Less written by Allia Zobel Nolan and published by HCI. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdom with a Side of Whiskers... If you've ever shared your home or your heart with a special kitty, you know that cats know that we mere humans have much to learn from our furry friends. Purr More, Hiss Less celebrates this special bond by pairing eclectic pearls of feline wisdom with the watercolor splendor of artist Erika Oller. The result? The purr-fect reminder that, as every cat knows, "Life is precious-even if you have nine of them."
