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The Maddest Idea

Author : James Nelson
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552160513
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James Nelson and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the enthrallingRevolution at Seaseries In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched - to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington despatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to hunt the traitor down, while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship, and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause, as well as by their own private fears, Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy - the greatest military power on earth... A powerful saga of the American Revolution - a stirring maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O'Brian.

The Maddest Idea

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064908
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James L. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched—to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington dispatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to hunt the traitor down, while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship, and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause, as well as by their own private fears, Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy—the greatest military power on earth. This is a powerful saga of the American Revolution—a stirring maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O’Brian.

The Maddest Idea

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea written by James L. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Maddest Idea in the World

Author : Harris R. Zeiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Idea in the World written by Harris R. Zeiler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fairyland

Author : Sumner Locke Elliott
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922148172
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Fairyland written by Sumner Locke Elliott and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You. Drawing heavily on Locke Elliott's own experiences, Fairyland charts the life of Seaton Daly, an aspiring writer coming to terms with his homosexuality in the repressive atmosphere of inner-city Sydney during the 1930s and '40s. Lonely and naive, Daly dreams of escaping to the 'promised land' of the United States. Fairyland is an intimate, affecting, sometimes harrowing portrayal of a lifelong search for love. Sumner Locke Elliott's 'coming out' novel, it was first published in 1990, the year before his death. This new edition comes with an introduction by Dennis Altman. Sumner Locke Elliott was born in Sydney. His mother was the writer Helena Sumner Locke. She died of eclampsia the day after his birth, and the boy was raised by his aunts. Careful, He Might Hear You was Elliott's debut novel. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1963, was translated into a number of languages and became an international bestseller. In 1983 it was made into an outstanding film directed by Carl Schultz, starring Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin and Nicholas Gledhill. Elliott wrote ten novels in all. He won the Patrick White Literary Award in 1977. After a lifetime of concealing his homosexuality, he spent his final years living with his partner Whitfield Cook. Sumner Locke Elliott died in New York City in 1991. 'Beautifully written and moving...an elegantly crafted novel of lasting importance.' Dennis Altman

The Maddest Obsession

Author : Danielle Lori
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Maddest Obsession written by Danielle Lori and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: This is a special edition cover. The content is the same as the original work. She fears the dark. He rules it. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it's just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. Nobody can crack Gianna's facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along. Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he'd envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he's never been tempted to veer off course. But perhaps one should never say never . . . One winter night and their lives intertwine. She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other's looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. Nowhere in Christian's plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She's chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes. All along, she doesn't even know that she's his-his frustration, his fascination. His maddest obsession.

Idle Ideas in 1905

Author : Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368622455
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Idle Ideas in 1905 written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Abyss Above

Author : Silke-Maria Weineck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488284
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Abyss Above written by Silke-Maria Weineck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called "the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry," Weineck explores key texts from antiquity to modernity in order to understand why we have come to associate art with irrationality. She shows that the philosophy of madness concedes to the mad a privilege that continues to haunt the Western dream of reason, and that the theory of creative madness always strains the discourse on authenticity, pitching the controlled, repeatable, but restrained labor of philosophy against the spontaneous production of poetic texts said to be, by definition, unique.

Truth and Experience

Author : Gaetano Chiurazzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443887943
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Truth and Experience written by Gaetano Chiurazzi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirit of this book is explorative. It meets the contemporary challenge posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated.The distinction between experience and truth has become subject to finitude; how then can these words and concepts be defined? What might be understood by experience and truth, when the distinction between them is not transformed once and for all (eternally), but once and again (historically)?The contributors to the book investigate a wide range of questions revolving around this challenge to the contemporary understanding of experience and truth. They do so through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics, while also shedding new light on phenomenological and hermeneutic thought as such – on the distinction between phenomenology and hermeneutics, as well as on the interrelation between such philosophical thought and other fields of thought and culture.

Silent Film's Last Hurrah

Author : David Meuel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668957
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Silent Film's Last Hurrah written by David Meuel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts--in the face of inescapable technological change--to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

The First Salute

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307798577
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The First Salute written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible. She sheds new light on the key role played by the contending navies, paints a magnificent portrait of George Washington, and recounts in riveting detail the decisive campaign of the war at Yorktown. By turns lyrical and gripping, The First Salute is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation. Praise for The First Salute “Nothing in a novel could be more thrilling than the moment in this glorious history when French soldiers arrive [to] see a tall, familiar figure: George Washington. . . . It is only part of Tuchman’s genius that she can reconstitute such scenes with so much precision and passion.”—People “Tuchman writes narrative history in the great tradition. . . . A persuasive book, which brings us entertaining pictures, scenes and characters.”—Chicago Tribune “[A] tightly woven narrative, ingeniously structured.”—The Christian Science Monitor

John Adams

Author : Anne Burleigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351510665
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book John Adams written by Anne Burleigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society.

Mad Stacks

Author : Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Haunted Computer Books
ISBN 13 : 1614759219
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Mad Stacks written by Scott Nicholson and published by Haunted Computer Books. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." - J.A. Konrath, THE LIST BAD STACKS is the complete text of three story collections covering suspense, psychological mystery, and paranormal tales. A total of 29 stories originally published in professional magazines and anthologies such as Writers of the Future, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Crimewave, and more. The box set of 118,000 words also includes a bonus essay. Scott Nicholson is the international bestselling author of 15 novels, six screenplays, four children’s books, and four comic book series, as well as 80 short stories. His novels include LIQUID FEAR, CHRONIC FEAR, THE HARVEST, AS I DIE LYING, THE RED CHURCH, DISINTEGRATION, and more. Send your questions to his Amazon Author Central page by clicking on his name below the book title at the top of the page. Guest contributors include Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Tim Lebbon, William Meikle, and John Everson. Look for the other Kindle box sets in the series, ODD STACKS and BAD STACKS, to complete your Nicholson story collection!

United States Security Interests in the Post-cold-war World

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book United States Security Interests in the Post-cold-war World written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zambia

Author : Andrew Sardanis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736981
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Zambia written by Andrew Sardanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the incoming government, presented with an immense uphill task of rebuilding the infrastructure of government and administration – civil service, law, local government and economic development. Sardanis was a minister at the heart of the government and later a highly successful entrepreneur. As a friend and colleague of many of the most prominent names in post-independence Zambia – from the presidencies of founding leader Kenneth Kaunda to the incumbent Michael Sata – he uses his unique eyewitness experience to provide an inside view of a country in transition. He looks at the highs and lows of Zambia's political development: a purposeful beginning followed by many blunders; confusion, at times bordering on chaos, interspersed with flashes of sensible action and good work. This book provides a detailed examination of the major events in Zambia's history since independence and their effect on the country's development and progress, based on Sardanis's in-depth knowledge of Zambia and its people and the inner workings of its government.

Surface Warfare

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Surface Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Road to Annapolis

Author : William P. Leeman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833835
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Long Road to Annapolis written by William P. Leeman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description