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Book A Bridge to Eternity   Centuries Old and New

Download or read book A Bridge to Eternity Centuries Old and New written by Steven McCann and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A Bridge to Eternity’ and ‘Centuries Old and New’ both have as their starting point a work place in the modern American business world. The first is set in the posh headquarters of a large corporation, the second in a small Eastside restaurant. My heroes, Jonah Bellamy, the middle-aged assistant CEO, and Christoff Angelis, a teenager pedaling deliveries to midtown high rises with the dream of having his own restaurant, are equally honorable men. But whereas Jonah’s decency and well-meaning are betrayed by the dark politics of billionaire trustees, Christoff’s nobility is ultimately rewarded. Jonah is left to navigate the colder elements of our society, bereft of employment, family or friends, except for his loyal secretary, his old college roommate, and a good Samaritan he meets by chance. Yet Christoff, holding onto his dream and his joy of preparing food for others, finds love and companionship. The enduring devotion of his Greek mother adds a decisive ingredient to help him triumph over the pitfalls of starting a business and the vicissitudes of life.

Book A Bridge to Eternity   Centuries Old and New

Download or read book A Bridge to Eternity Centuries Old and New written by Steven McCann and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Bridge to Eternity' and 'Centuries Old and New' both have as their starting point a work place in the modern American business world. The first is set in the posh headquarters of a large corporation, the second in a small Eastside restaurant. My heroes, Jonah Bellamy, the middle-aged assistant CEO, and Christoff Angelis, a teenager pedaling deliveries to midtown high rises with the dream of having his own restaurant, are equally honorable men. But whereas Jonah's decency and well-meaning are betrayed by the dark politics of billionaire trustees, Christoff's nobility is ultimately rewarded. Jonah is left to navigate the colder elements of our society, bereft of employment, family or friends, except for his loyal secretary, his old college roommate, and a good Samaritan he meets by chance. Yet Christoff, holding onto his dream and his joy of preparing food for others, finds love and companionship. The enduring devotion of his Greek mother adds a decisive ingredient to help him triumph over the pitfalls of starting a business and the vicissitudes of life.

Book Age Norms and Intercultural Interaction in Colonial North America

Download or read book Age Norms and Intercultural Interaction in Colonial North America written by Jason Eden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups conceptualized the human life course and how they adhered to culturally specific sets of beliefs about the young and old. Utilizing evidence drawn from a variety of secondary and primary sources, the authors also show that, as various cultural groups interacted in colonial North America, their views of specific age cohorts evolved and clashed in important ways. Although age is a category of analysis often overlooked by scholars, this book demonstrates that it was pivotal for everyone who lived in early North America, including the various Native American tribes that inhabited the eastern part of the continent. It also addresses the different ways that European colonists experienced the human life course in three geopolitical regions: New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South. It further explains how age norms played a significant role in both the development of racialized slavery in North America and in relationships between Europeans and Native Americans. This study reveals that even within the uneven power dynamic often present during colonial encounters, African American and Native American attitudes and practices related to human aging proved resilient and influential. Overall, by examining how early Americans viewed and treated children, youths, and older adults, this book is one of the first to systematically explore the deep historical roots of age norms in territories that would eventually become a part of the United States. Many of the beliefs about human aging that emerged during the colonial period continue to shape approaches to childrearing, education, health care, and numerous other issues. Furthermore, this study—in addition to providing unique and valuable historical information—offers readers alternative ways of understanding and approaching the human life course, making it relevant to both policymakers and scholars working in a variety of fields.

Book Fall of Giants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Follett
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 1101543558
  • Pages : 1010 pages

Download or read book Fall of Giants written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .

Book Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age

Download or read book Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age written by Edward H Hammett and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth century Literary Criticism

Download or read book Twentieth century Literary Criticism written by Gale Research Company and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Book Helsinki in Early Twentieth Century Literature

Download or read book Helsinki in Early Twentieth Century Literature written by Lieven Ameel and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890–1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki and fictional characters, focusing, especially, on the way in which urban public space is experienced. Particular attention is given to the description of movement through urban space. The primary material consists of a selection of more than sixty novels, collections of short stories and individual short stories. This study draws on two sets of theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, the expanding field of literary studies of the city, and on the other hand, concepts provided by humanistic and critical geography, as well as by urban studies. This study is the first monograph to examine Helsinki in literature written in Finnish. It shows that rich descriptions of urban life have formed an integral part of Finnish literature from the late nineteenth century onward.Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary Helsinki was approached from a variety of generic and thematic perspectives which were in close dialogue with international contemporary traditions and age-old images of the city, and defined by events typical of Helsinki’s own history. Helsinki literature of the 1920s and 1930s further developed the defining traits that took form around the turn of the century, adding a number of new thematic and stylistic nuances. The city experience was increasingly aestheticized and internalized. As the centre of the city became less prominent in literature,the margins of the city and specific socially defined neighbourhoods gained in importance. Many of the central characteristics of how Helsinki is experienced in the literature published during this period remain part of the ongoing discourse on literary Helsinki: Helsinki as a city of leisure and light, inviting dreamy wanderings; the experience of a city divided along the fault lines of gender,class and language; the city as a disorientating and paralyzing cesspit of vice;the city as an imago mundi, symbolic of the body politic; the city of everyday and often very mundane experiences, and the city that invites a profound sense of attachment – an environment onto which characters project their innermost sentiments.

Book Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose

Download or read book Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose written by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose and poetry selections from the Colonial Period and National Period.

Book Eternity s End

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  • Author : Jeffrey A. Carver
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2001-10-14
  • ISBN : 9780812534436
  • Pages : 676 pages

Download or read book Eternity s End written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10-14 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the War of a Thousand Suns, Kyber pirates prey on ships that venture too far off into the interstellar Flux. The pirates use a legendary ship as bait, though the Centrist Worlds' authorities deny her existence. Renwald Legroeder escapes the pirates and tells of sighting the ship--but the government wants no one to see it. Framed for treason, Renwald flees and returns to the pirates to find the truth behind the ship.

Book Scottish Notes and Queries

Download or read book Scottish Notes and Queries written by John Bulloch and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Railway Age

Download or read book The Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation Quarterly

Download or read book Transportation Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nineteenth Century and After

Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Download or read book History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century written by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the reformation in the 16 century by

Download or read book History of the reformation in the 16 century by written by J.H. Merle Dzaubigné and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the great reformation of the sixteenth century in Germany  Switzerland  etc

Download or read book History of the great reformation of the sixteenth century in Germany Switzerland etc written by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne ́ and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: