Lightning East To West

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159752610X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lightning East to West written by James W. Douglass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.

Author : Jim DeFelice
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062496794
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Like Lightning written by Jim DeFelice and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction "A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." —True West "This rollicking account of the daring enterprise known as the Pony Express brings its era and its legendary characters to life." —San Francisco Chronicle The new definitive history of the Pony Express by the #1 bestselling coauthor of American Sniper, illustrated with 50 images On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like “Bronco Charlie” and “Sawed-Off Jim” galloped at speed over a vast and unforgiving landscape, etching an irresistible tale that passed into myth almost instantly. Equally an improbable success and a business disaster, the Pony Express came and went in just eighteen months, but not before uniting and captivating a nation on the brink of being torn apart. Jim DeFelice’s brilliantly entertaining West Like Lightning is the first major history of the Pony Express to put its birth, life, and legacy into the full context of the American story. The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company—or “Pony Express,” as it came to be known—was part of a plan by William Russell, Alexander Majors, and William Waddell to create the next American Express, a transportation and financial juggernaut that already dominated commerce back east. All that stood in their way were almost two thousand miles of uninhabited desert, ice-capped mountains, oceanic plains roamed by Indian tribes, whitewater-choked rivers, and harsh, unsettled wilderness. The Pony used a relay system of courageous horseback riders to ferry mail halfway across a continent in just ten days. The challenges the riders faced were enormous, yet the Pony Express succeeded, delivering thousands of letters at record speed. The service instantly became the most direct means of communication between the eastern United States and its far western territories, helping to firmly connect them to the Union. Populated with cast of characters including Abraham Lincoln (news of whose electoral victory the Express delivered to California), Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody (who fed the legend of the Express in his Wild West Show), and Mark Twain (who celebrated the riders in Roughing It), West Like Lightning masterfully traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri—the edge of the civilized world—west to Sacramento, the capital of California, then booming from the gold rush. Jim DeFelice, who traveled the Pony’s route in his research, plumbs the legends, myths, and surprising truth of the service, exploring its lasting relevance today as a symbol of American enterprise, audacity, and daring.

Author : Michael Bull
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449702627
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bible Matrix written by Michael Bull and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wish someone could give you a big handle on the entire Bible without years of study? Well, this book not only promises to give you that big handle—it will deliver on the promise. You should be asking, how is this possible? The Bible is one story told over and over again, with many variations on the same theme. This structure is the Bible’s DNA. This basic seven-point pattern is the heartbeat of the Creation. It is the cycle of a human day and a human life. It is the pattern of the Tabernacle. It is the process of agriculture. It undergirds the speeches and Laws of God. It orders the rise and fall of nations and empires. It is also the structure of our worship. It is the rhythm of Christ, and it will open the Bible for you like never before.

Author : Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society written by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.

Author : Gaetano Casati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha written by Gaetano Casati and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings, Waldorf Conference on Long-Range Geographic Estimation of Lightning Sources, September 11-16, 1972 written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra, Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Weather Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Cunningham Shimeall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book The Second Coming of Christ written by Richard Cunningham Shimeall and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Dunn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004297251
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Lightning from the East written by Emily Dunn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightning from the East uncovers the teachings and activities of Chinese Protestant-related new religious movements such as the Church of Almighty God, how Chinese authorities and Christians have responded to them, and how they fit with Chinese religion and global Christianity.