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Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557062645
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath Gray Skies written by Hugh Ashton and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a book
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher : J-Views Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781912605606
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath Gray Skies written by Hugh Ashton and published by J-Views Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history in which the American Civil War was never fought, and the Confederates form an alliance with the rising National Socialist German Workers' Party. The massive Zeppelin Bismarck crosses the Atlantic with a gift to seal the treaty.
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557088867
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath Gray Skies (hardback) written by Hugh Ashton and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath Gray Skies tells of David Slater, a private in the Army of the Confederacy in the 1920s as he takes part in the power struggles in the West's last slave-owning state.Here, the American Civil War was never fought, and the South seceded peacefully, surviving as a pariah nation into the 20th century.The new National Socialist government of Germany allies with the Confederate States of America, controlled by the CBI under the iron fist of Jefferson Davis III, and sends over a mysterious cargo on the Zeppelin Bismarck, captained by anti-Nazi Hugo Eckener.British and American Intelligence work together with the heiress to a shipping fortune, a freed Confederacy slave and rogue British agent 'Bloody Brian' Finch-Malloy to stop the arrival of the dirigible and prevent the growth of the Nazi-Confederacy alliance and the spread of slavery to other nations.Combining historical facts with a fictional past, Beneath Gray Skies gives a fascinating look at a world that easily might have been.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846148324
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath Another Sky written by Norman Davies and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. 'Human history is a tale not just of constant change but equally of perpetual locomotion', writes Norman Davies. Throughout the ages, men and women have endlessly sought the greener side of the hill. Their migrations, collisions, conquests and interactions have given rise to the spectacular profusion of cultures, races, languages and polities that now proliferates on every continent. This incessant restlessness inspired Davies's own. After decades of writing about European history, and like Tennyson's ageing Ulysses longing for one last adventure, he embarked upon an extended journey that took him right round the world to a score of hitherto unfamiliar countries. His aims were to test his powers of observation and to revel in the exotic, but equally to encounter history in a new way. Beneath Another Sky is partly a historian's travelogue, partly a highly engaging exploration of events and personalities that have fashioned today's world - and entirely sui generis. Davies's circumnavigation takes him to Baku, the Emirates, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Tasmania, Tahiti, Texas, Madeira and many places in between. At every stop, he not only describes the current scene but also excavates the layers of accumulated experience that underpin the present. He tramps round ancient temples and weird museums, summarises the complexity of Indian castes, Austronesian languages and Pacific explorations, delves into the fate of indigenous peoples and of a missing Malaysian airliner, reflects on cultural conflict in Cornwall, uncovers the Nazi origins of Frankfurt airport and lectures on imperialism in a desert oasis. 'Everything has its history', he writes, 'including the history of finding one's way or of getting lost.' The personality of the author comes across strongly - wry, romantic, occasionally grumpy, but with an endless curiosity and appetite for knowledge. As always, Norman Davies watches the historical horizon as well as what is close at hand, and brilliantly complicates our view of the past.
Author : John Rolens
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606939068
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Speaking with a Broken Mirror written by John Rolens and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking With A Broken Mirror is a collection of introspective poems reflecting the images observed in our daily surroundings and examines the aspects of our environment like a jagged piece of a broken mirror. It reiterates the things ignored or forgotten that connect us, and invites us to feel the rhythm of a pervasive spirit. Some of the poems were previously published in a limited edition, Misty- Poems from Email to Diane. This exceptional compilation reveals an expressive theme of connectedness with tones of pensive shadows and humorous light. Author Bio: ABOUT THE AUTHOR-John Rolens was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest child of three in a blue collar family. After having served three years in the Marine Corps, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southeast Missouri State University with a double major - Literature and Philosophy. Poetry reflects his experiences as a member of a biracial family, surviving lymphoma and the heartbreak of losing his wife to cancer. John currently resides in the small community of Spanish Lake, about a 40 minute bike ride from the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
Author : John Alden Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.QD/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tepecano Prayers written by John Alden Mason and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Journal of American Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography of American linguistics, 1926-1928 in v. 6, p. 69-75.
Author : Emily Inouye Huey
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338789961
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beneath the Wide Silk Sky written by Emily Inouye Huey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning, devastating, poignant: Debut author Emily Inouye Huey paints an intimate portrait of the racism faced by America's Japanese population during WWII. Perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Sharon Cameron. Sam Sakamoto doesn't have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam's focus is the farm, which her family will lose if they can't make one last payment. There's no time for her secret and unrealistic hope of becoming a photographer, no matter how skilled she's become. But Sam doesn't know that an even bigger threat looms on the horizon. On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Fury towards Japanese Americans ignites across the country. In Sam's community in Washington State, the attack gives those who already harbor prejudice an excuse to hate. As Sam's family wrestles with intensifying discrimination and even violence, Sam forges a new and unexpected friendship with her neighbor Hiro Tanaka. When he offers Sam a way to resume her photography, she realizes she can document the bigotry around her -- if she’s willing to take the risk. When the United States announces that those of Japanese descent will be forced into "relocation camps," Sam knows she must act or lose her voice forever. She engages in one last battle to leave with her identity -- and her family -- intact. Emily Inouye Huey movingly draws inspiration from her own family history to paint an intimate portrait of the lead-up to Japanese incarceration, racism on the World War II homefront, and the relationship between patriotism and protest in this stunningly lyrical debut.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Midland written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593136284
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Under a White Sky written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.
