Fateful

Author : Claudia Gray
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062049224
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful written by Claudia Gray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old maid Tess Davies is determined to escape the wealthy, troubled family she serves. It’s 1912, and Tess has been trapped in the employ of the Lisles for years, amid painful memories and twisted secrets. But now the Lisle family is headed to America, with Tess in tow. Once the ship they’re sailing on—the RMS Titanic—reaches its destination, Tess plans to strike out and create a new lifefor herself. Her single-minded focus shatters when she meets Alec, a handsome first-class passenger who captivates her instantly. But Alec has secrets of his own. He’s in a hurry to leave Europe, and whispers aboard the ship say it’s because of the tragic end of his last affair with the French actress who died so gruesomely and so mysteriously. . . . Soon Tess will learn just how dark Alec’s past truly is. The danger they face is no ordinary enemy: werewolves exist and are stalking him—and now her, too. Her growing love for Alec will put Tess in mortal peril, and fate will do the same before their journey on the Titanic is over. In Fateful, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray delivers paranormal adventure, dark suspense, and alluring romance set against the opulent backdrop of the Titanic’s first—and last—voyage.

Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674426134
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Ties written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether it is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in their future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China.

Author : John B Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512216
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Rendezvous written by John B Lundstrom and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat that won him awards, including the Medal of Honor. They also explain his key role in developing tactics and night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese. In addition, the authors investigate events leading up to O'Hare's disappearance in 1943 while intercepting torpedo bombers headed for the Enterprise. First published in 1997, this biography utilizes O'Hare family papers and U.S. and Japanese war records as well as eyewitness interviews. It is essential reading for a true understanding of the development of the combat naval aviation and the talents of the universally admired and well-liked Butch O'Hare.

Author : Karl Inderfurth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195159653
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Decisions written by Karl Inderfurth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Security Council is the most important formal institution inthe government of the United States for the creation and implementation offoreign and defense policy. The Council's four principal members - thePresident, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense - areresponsible for incredibly vast decisions of war and peace, diplomacy,international trade, and covert operations. Yet, despite its obvious importance,the NSC has been subject to relatively little scholarly scrutiny, and remainsmisunderstood by most IR students. This edited collection, built upon the firstedition originally published under the title Decisions of the Highest Order atBrooks-Cole, presents a collection of seminal articles, essays, and documentsdrawn from a variety of sources, that will offer revealing coverage of keytopics such as the rise of the National Security Adviser to a position ofprominence, key challenges to the NSC, and the role of the NSC in a post-ColdWar environment.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915048
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Choices written by Ian Kershaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.

Author : Tanvi Madan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353057566
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Triangle written by Tanvi Madan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Asian century, the outcome of the geopolitical rivalry between China and India is of increasing concern. Where once the United States developed separate relationships with each of the two Asian giants, those relations now appear to be intertwined. A major issue is China's growing global influence and how it might alter the dynamics among the three nations. In Fateful Triangle, Tanvi Madan argues that China's influence on the US-India relationship is not a recent phenomenon. Rather, US and Indian perceptions of and policy towards China significantly shaped US-India relations in three crucial decades, from 1949 to 1979. Fateful Triangle updates our understanding of the diplomatic history of US-India relations, highlighting China's central role in it, and provides historical context for the interactions among the three countries.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976525
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fateful Triangle written by Stuart Hall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race: the sliding signifier -- Ethnicity and difference in global times -- Nations and diasporas

Author : Royan Harris
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475926446
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fateful Betrayal written by Royan Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When government documents wind up in the wrong hands, US Air Force Sergeant Tafari Spencer becomes the face of the scandaland now he must prove his innocence in the face of a massive government conspiracy. He is charged with helping notorious Jamaican scammers who have attempted to acquire US visas fraudulently. To make matters worse, he has reason to suspect that he has been betrayed by someone close to himvery close to him. His life in a tailspin, Tafari must rely on inexperienced military lawyers to defend him. The evidence tying him to a Jamaican visa fraud ring is circumstantial at bestbut hes about to learn how little of a difference that makes with the islands legal sharks. And once hes acquitted of human trafficking charges in Jamaica, he is cleared to travel back to America to face further criminal prosecution from the US Department of State, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and ultimately the ICE, the most feared beast in the bureaucratic jungle. In a time when the issue of illegal immigration and human trafficking is plaguing America, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. As the prosecutors circle like vultures, Tafaris friends pray for his deliverance. As the scammers in Jamaica vow to silence him and his family before he testifies, another story is about to unfold. Under pressure to send a strong message, the legal landscape changes, offering no safe haven for Tafari and his legal team. Staying out of jail seems next to impossible, but for Tafari, jail will be the least of his worries.

Author : David Halliburton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804764980
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fateful Discourse of Worldly Things written by David Halliburton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad interdisciplinary and comparative study of the ways in which we discursively "make" the world and its things aims to go beyond the "poetic thinking" of Heidegger toward a more pragmatic way of interpreting concrete social, cultural, and political experience. The book outlines three constitutive functions of world-making. Endowing signifies the direct provision of the "wherewithal" that must come into being if anything else is to come into being. Enabling develops or facilitates what is endowed; it is a kind of education in being-in-the-world. Entitling embraces the realm of justice and decision; it concerns what is right for human beings to have and do and be. Placing these functions in contemporary contexts, the book offers as an alternative some perspectives of American pragmatism (Dewey, Peirce, James, Mead, Buchler) and Continental philosophy (Arendt, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Husserl, Barthes, Gramsci). The book closely examines the thinking of Hobbes, Descartes, Vico, Calderón, and Jefferson and several literary figures and thinkers (Yeats, Emerson, Hopkins, Baudelaire, Pascal, Rilke, Frost, Brecht). Throughout, the book investigates and questions the tradition of possessive individualism interpreted by modern scholars, notably Pocock. The book is in five parts. Part I argues a need to move beyond deconstructing toward reconstructing. Part II considers the interactions of endowing, enabling, and entitling. In Part III, the author explores the ways in which discourse works in the Cartesian discourse of reason, and the phenomenon of Manifest Destiny as rendered by Frost. The focus of Part IV is incorporating, which builds on Merleau-Ponty's concept of flesh, or the process by which the body acts and becomes fully worldly. Part V addresses the phenomena of experience in a variety of modes, including the role of story and natality, experimental theater, the epistolary novel, and representations of the heroic Lucretia. A postscript, exploring the "conclusion" with which scholarly books typically end, offers a perspectivist reading of the final text, Emerson's "Experience."

Author : Hermann Beck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845454968
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fateful Alliance written by Hermann Beck and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 January 1933, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. This book analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis and offers a re-interpretation of the Nazi seizure of power - the decisive months between 30 January and 14 July 1933. The Machtergreifung is characterized here as a period of all-pervasive violence and lawlessness with incessant conflicts between Nazis and German Nationals and Nazi attacks on the conservative Bürgertum, a far cry from the traditional depiction of the takeover as a relatively bloodless, virtually sterile assumption of power by one vast impersonal apparatus wresting control from another. The author scrutinizes the revolutionary character of the Nazi seizure of power, the Nazis' attacks on the conservative Bürgertum and its values, and National Socialism's co-optation of conservative symbols of state power to serve radically new goals, while addressing the issue of why the DNVP was complicit in this and paradoxically participated in eroding the foundations of its very own principles and bases of support.