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Book A Token for the Journey

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  • Author : Rita Dunham
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-11-22
  • ISBN : 1499070667
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book A Token for the Journey written by Rita Dunham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say in this life only the strong survive. That if it doesnt kill you it can only make you stronger. They say for everything that happens in our lives theres a reason for it. A place where it belongs. But if you ask me, nothing cuts deeper than the knife of betrayal and I dont know where that belongs. It creeps up quietly, from a forbidden place of trust, to plant bitterness and rage in even the most vulnerable of hearts. But I guess in life there is a place for everything. Including the madness. After all, how would we ever know what lies inside until someone or something brings it out. Through pleasure or pain. Choose your poison.

Book From a Nickel to a Token

Download or read book From a Nickel to a Token written by Andrew J. Sparberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968. In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city’s public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished old elevated lines, and unified the subway systems. From then on, the IRT, BMT, and IND became one system under public control. And by 1968, that system had transformed again, into the Metropolitan Transit Authority. From LaGuardia to Lindsay, mayors were desperate to appease voters, elected officials, transit management, and labor leaders. Meanwhile, the tumult of a changing America manifested in labor disputes, economic pressures, and civil rights protests. Though great efforts were made to keep prices down, the sacred nickel fare barrier was eventually broken. By 1968, a ride cost twenty cents. Featuring many photos never before published, From a Nickel to a Token deftly captures four decades and five boroughs of grit, chaos, egos, and emotions in the unending saga of New York’s subway system.

Book Tokens of Love

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  • Author : Brandon Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780578549453
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Tokens of Love written by Brandon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokens of Love explores the Bible's most inspiring and devastating love stories to equip readers with insightful, practical lessons for healthy, happy, and holy relationships. This devotional will encourage you to earnestly seek God's will for your love life and discover the Bible as God's chosen tool to guide you along the way.

Book From a Nickel to a Token

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  • Author : Andrew J. Sparberg
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2014-11-03
  • ISBN : 0823261921
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book From a Nickel to a Token written by Andrew J. Sparberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetcars “are as dead as sailing ships,” said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue’s streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the subway system, a goal that became reality in 1940 when the separate IRT, BMT, and IND became one giant system under full public control. In this fascinating micro-history of New York’s transit system, Andrew Sparberg examines twenty specific events between 1940 and 1968, book ended by subway unification and the MTA’s creation. From a Nickel to a Token depicts a potpourri of well-remembered, partially forgotten, and totally obscure happenings drawn from the historical tapestry of New York mass transit. Sparberg deftly captures five boroughs of grit, chaos, and emotion grappling with a massive and unwieldy transit system. During these decades, the system morphed into today’s familiar network. The public sector absorbed most private surface lines operating within the five boroughs, and buses completely replaced streetcars. Elevated lines were demolished, replaced by subways or, along Manhattan’s Third Avenue, not at all. Beyond the unification of the IND, IRT, and BMT, strategic track connections were built between lines to allow a more flexible and unified operation. The oldest subway routes received much needed rehabilitation. Thousands of new subway cars and buses were purchased. The sacred nickel fare barrier was broken, and by 1968 a ride cost twenty cents. From LaGuardia to Lindsay, mayors devoted much energy to solving transit problems, keeping fares low, and appeasing voters, fellow elected officials, transit management, and labor leaders. Simultaneously, American society was experiencing tumultuous times, manifested by labor disputes, economic pressures, and civil rights protests. Featuring many photos never before published, From a Nickel to a Token is a historical trip back in time to a multitude of important events.

Book Istanbul

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  • Author : DK Publishing
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0756625017
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Istanbul written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

Book A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London

Download or read book A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London written by Stationers' Company (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journey s End

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  • Author : Jay Seaborg
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0595262570
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Journey s End written by Jay Seaborg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ponticar, a city full of corruption and power, beauty and ugliness, the center of all the Empire's strength. The city had the power to draw people from anywhere in the world and it was calling Elena, Dark, and Rolf. They found themselves being pulled into the middle of a mystery. Something was going to happen in Ponticar and they were going to be there when it did. Ponticar, where everything began, and now the end of everything as they knew it. Journey's End.

Book A Token of Elegance

Download or read book A Token of Elegance written by Martin Barnes Lorber and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - At once an important social history of tobacco and smoking and a beautiful coffee table book, A Token of Elegance is ideal for art and design historians, history students, museum professionals, and collectors- Of great interest to jewelry historians as many cigarette holders were made for their international clientele by the major jewelry firms and this is the first book where so many cigarette holders are catalogued and photographed The book offers an unprecedented look at cigarette holders through a selection of approximately 125 pieces from the collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Its introductory essay is both a social history of that world-changing leaf, tobacco, and a design history of its accoutrements. It examines the history of smoking from its pre-Columbian roots in the Americas through to the present-day worldwide e-cigarette craze, taking the reader on a journey from tobacco smoking as a sacred ritual, through the controversies of its worldwide spread, and the machine-rolled cigarette's role in the world wars and as a tool for European and American women's equality. Following the illustrated essay is a luxurious catalogue of newly commissioned photography that makes these diminutive objects pop off the pages with brilliant color and form. The collection includes cigarette holders in their simplest incarnations - the disposable promotional holders given away at trendy New York nightclubs - to their most exquisite - the work of Fabergé, Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels and other renowned jewelers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents: Foreword by Carolyn Hsu-Balcer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Tobacco's Journey from the New World to the Old: Medicine and Pleasure; Chapter 2: The Rise of Cigarette Culture: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 3: Smoking, Sociability, and a New Modern Era: From the First World War to the Second; Chapter 4: The Cigarette Holder's Peak and Fall: A New Culture of Smoking; Catalog; Appendix: Materials Used in Cigarette Holders; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits.

Book Illustrated official journal  patents

Download or read book Illustrated official journal patents written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Token of Love

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  • Author : Yolanda Cox-pierson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-07-08
  • ISBN : 9781514279120
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book A Token of Love written by Yolanda Cox-pierson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Token of Love is guidance through Yolanda's personal memoir and journey of faith, family and forgiveness. She shares intimate details about her life so that others can learn and be inspired to finding themselves through love and forgiveness. Her journey is meant to provide strength and encouragement for you to live in the fullness of whom the Creator, created you to be. We are all meant to live a fulfilling, abundant life without the barriers of the past. Forgiveness is a journey that starts with YOU. Have you ever wished for a fresh start? Have you ever tried to "Let Go" but find yourself stuck; re-living and re-telling your story from the same hurtful, angry state? If you answered YES to any of these questions then this book is foryou. A Bonus: 10 Token guidance to your own personal journey of forgiveness is included to help direct and guide you. Forgiveness is essential to unlocking your divine purpose by releasing the past you will unleash a richer future. In reading Yolanda's journey, you can elevate your life and begin your next chapter without barriers and limitations from the past. Are you ready to stop living in what was and create a new TODAY?

Book The Complete Works

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  • Author : John Bunyan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1056 pages

Download or read book The Complete Works written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All That She Carried

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  • Author : Tiya Miles
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 198485500X
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book All That She Carried written by Tiya Miles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

Book The pilgrim s progress  from this world to that which is to come  With 270 engravings

Download or read book The pilgrim s progress from this world to that which is to come With 270 engravings written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journey s End

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  • Author : Kevin Wilson
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 0297858238
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book Journey s End written by Kevin Wilson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' Observer In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues to this day, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany. Journey's End neither condemns nor condones the bombing of Dresden, but puts it in its proper context as part of a much larger campaign. To the young men who flew over Germany night after night there were other much more pressing worries: the V2 rockets that threatened their loved ones at home; the brand new German jet fighters that could strike them at speeds of over 600mph. They lived life at a heightened tempo during these final unforgiving months of the bomber war when no quarter was given on either side. As the climactic volume in Kevin Wilson's acclaimed bomber war trilogy, Journey's End chronicles the brutal endgame of a conflict that caused such devastation and tragedy on both sides.

Book Jotham s Journey

Download or read book Jotham s Journey written by Arnold Ytreeide and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely popular, exciting story for the advent season, readers follow ten-year-old Jotham across Israel as he searches for his family. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem.

Book The Complete Works of John Bunyan

Download or read book The Complete Works of John Bunyan written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book TRIP

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. ROESTONO SOEPARTO KOESOEMO
  • Publisher : PT. Rayyana Komunikasindo
  • Release : 2023-11-07
  • ISBN : 6235378343
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book TRIP written by H. ROESTONO SOEPARTO KOESOEMO and published by PT. Rayyana Komunikasindo. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current era, the vocabulary "soldier" and "student" rarely come together in one complete word, because usually someone can only become a soldier after completing their primary and secondary education as a student. However, this was not the case in the era of Indonesia’s War of Independence. At that time, the words "Student Army" were actually synonymous with the heroic role played by high school and middle school students in the armed struggle to defend independence in the period 1945-1949. Based on the dynamics of events that have occurred since the Proclamation of Independence on 17 August 1945, followed by escalation which culminated in the outbreak of fighting on 10 November 1945 in Surabaya, the resilience and fighting spirit of the young Republic was tested for the first time in a Baptism of Fire. In the midst of the vicious fighting that raged in Surabaya, a group of armed students consolidated themselves into the Student Army of the Republic of Indonesia (TRIP) East Java Command. This book immortalizes the journey of the TRIP troops' struggle. Starting from Surabaya, mid-October 1945, to TRIP's rear-guard role in protecting the retreat of Republican troops from Surabaya to defensive positions centered in Malang throughout 1946, and their subsequent withdrawal from Malang after the First Dutch Military Aggression on 21 July 1947. The struggle then continued to the interior of the slopes of Mount Kelud and Arjosari to the Tapal Kuda area and the southern coast of East Java around Banyuwangi, until the recognition of Indonesia’s sovereignty on 27 December 1949. Everything was done by walking and walking and walking, crossing hundreds of kilometers of paths in the wilderness full of thorns and venomous animals, muddy village roads, and the hot asphalt of burning roads, often barefoot with no foot gear let alone combat shoes, with weapons slung faithfully on his shoulder. In several stages, this journey even involved having to pull and push field artillery piece while repelling air attacks, moving silently as a guerrilla unit, attacking and disappearing, spreading frustration and striking fear on the part of the colonial troops! It is not surprising that Field Marshall of the TNI (Ret.) Dr. AH. Nasution wrote in his memoir entitled "Fulfilling the Call of Duty (Edition 5 Around the Indonesian War of Independence)", as follows: "...of the many incidents of patriotism and heroism that have been officially reported, the most prominent is the heroic feats demonstrated by the members of the TRIP units...". This book is about them, from them, by them, for the Indonesian nation.