City Of The Sun

Author : Tommaso Campanella
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425019420
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of the Sun written by Tommaso Campanella and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale, "The City of the Sun" is told to author by a sea captain about his visit to an island Taprobane. The Protagonist describes his search for this land where the labor is divided equally among people who work for common good and not for money. The novel certainly depicts the author's utopian vision and reflects the idealism and revolutionary trends of thought in the age of reason. Appealing!

Author : David Levien
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385525338
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of the Sun written by David Levien and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective Frank Behr has been perfectly content living a solitary life, working on a few simple cases, and attempting to move on from his painful past. But when Paul and Carol Gabriel ask him to help them find their missing son, he can hardly refuse. Going against everything he fears—Behr's been around too long to hope for a happy ending—he enters into an uneasy partnership with Paul on a quest for the truth that will become both dangerous and haunting. Richly textured and crackling with suspense on every page, City of the Sun masterfully takes readers on an investigation like no other.www.davidlevien.com

Author : Juliana Maio
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626340528
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of the Sun written by Juliana Maio and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as “Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans’ unrelenting advance across North Africa. Meanwhile, as refugees, soldiers, and spies stream into the city, the Nazis conspire with the emerging Muslim Brotherhood to fuel the Egyptian people’s seething resentment against their British overlords. Ambitious American journalist Mickey Connolly has come to Cairo to report on the true state of the war. Facing expulsion by the British for not playing by their rules, he accepts a deal from the U.S. embassy that allows him to remain in the country. His covert mission: to infiltrate the city’s thriving Jewish community and locate a refugee nuclear scientist who could be key to America’s new weapons program. But Mickey is not the only one looking for the elusive scientist. A Nazi spy is also desperate to find him—and the race is on. Into this mix an enigmatic young woman appears, a refugee herself. Her fate becomes intertwined with Mickey’s, giving rise to a story of passion, entangled commitments, and half-truths. Deftly blending the romantic noir of the classic film Casablanca with a riveting, suspenseful narrative and vivid historical detail, City of the Sun offers a stunning portrayal of a time and place that was not only pivotal for the war, but also sowed much of the turbulence in today’s Middle East.

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295959894
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen 13660 written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048683266X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Atlantis and The City of the Sun written by Francis Bacon and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy — but despite their authors' differences, both of these utopian visions reflect the spirit of 17th-century philosophy.

Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774160080
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heliopolis written by Agnieszka Dobrowolska and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in the early years of the twentieth century the Belgian businessman Edouard Empain began to turn his dream of building an entirely new satellite city in the desert outside Cairo into a reality, he followed the then novel urban-planning concept of the 'garden city'. But in naming his creation, he turned back to one of the most ancient sites in Egypt, the solar temple of Heliopolis, the biblical On, and in its architecture he sought inspiration in the heritage of Cairo's Islamic tradition. When the city, known as 'New Egypt' in Arabic, was completed, a half-hour tram ride through the desert was needed to reach it. Today, Heliopolis has been enveloped within the huge and ever-growing metropolis of Cairo. However, despite rapid development, overpopulation, and increasing traffic, Heliopolis has retained much of its original character and charm, and the captivating atmosphere of Egypt's Belle Epoque is still tangible. Its houses, mosques, and churches, designed to imitate various styles of the past, have become historic buildings in their own right. This fully illustrated book introduces the reader to the history and development of Heliopolis through its architecture and its inhabitants past and present. Color and archival black-and-white photographs throughout are supplemented by line drawings by architect Jaroslaw Dobrowolski, author of The Living Stones of Cairo (AUC Press, 2001).

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596528796
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green City In the Sun written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families—one British, one African—and their battle over Kenya’s destiny in the twentieth century. In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites. After Wachera curses the Trevertons, a series of tragedies threatens to destroy what the once-great family fought to create. But the fates of future generations of these two remarkable families are inextricably bound. A bold and brilliant achievement, Green City in the Sun brims with all the drama, violence, and fierce beauty of the Kenyan landscape.

Author : Janeen Webb
Publisher : Ifwg Publishing Australia
ISBN 13 : 9781922556141
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five Star Republic written by Janeen Webb and published by Ifwg Publishing Australia. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The date is 1854. The place is the Australia. Men driven beyond endurance take arms against British redcoats. The stockade falls. But from the ashes will rise a new revolution-a revolution powered by the sun. And this one will not fail.

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun City written by Tove Jansson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida. In works like The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as well as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart, but as full-blooded people, with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. And so it is no wonder that in her travels through America in the 1970s, she became fascinated with what was then a particularly American instution, the retirement home, where older people live in their particular tightly knit worlds. She describes this world through several of its residents and employees making their way in an America riven by cultural divides and facing the death of its dream, as they confront their own mortality.

Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628942819
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of the Sun written by Michael Martin and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: