Download or read book Desolation of a City written by Charles Phythian-Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly documented case-study of urban crisis and decline in late-medieval England.
Download or read book City of Desolation written by John Ward and published by Montréal : Studio 9. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake and Helen and her dad, blasted into beyond by terrifying events at the conclusion of part two of the trilogy, find themselves alone in a strange land with no memory of what came before. In fact, they are in Hell, a new Hell run by grey-faced bureaucrats and a military clique.
Download or read book Great Cities of the World in Their Glory and in Their Desolation Embracing Cities of Europe Asia Africa and America written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
Download or read book Desolation s Wake written by Henry J. Olsen and published by Henry J. Olsen. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead metropolis. A strength-sapping bionic arm. A long-forgotten friend. John Osborne has a four-week lease on life. His survival depends on finding the Northland Core, an enigmatic power source hidden within the forsaken ruins of Minneapolis. With a whole city to scour and time growing short, John needs all the help he can get. When his former commanding officer arrives in Minneapolis and offers to assist, John can hardly refuse. But he's soon to discover that in this Desolation-ravaged world help comes at a high price. Every twitch of John's arm draws death closer. Can John unravel the mysteries of the Minneapple in time? Or will he become another corpse rotting in the murky swells of Desolation's wake? The body count continues to climb in this bullet-riddled third installment of The Northland Chronicles.
Download or read book Great Cities of the World in Their Glory and in Their Desolation written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Cities written by Flame Tree Studio and published by Flame Tree Illustrated. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient civilisations in Vietnam, the lost cities of the Amazon, the cities and towns of humankind have fought for space against the overwhelming power of nature. We think we’ve mastered it, but discoveries across the world show abandoned cities, their proud buildings now flooded, overtaken by the forests, nature taking back what once was its own, with the slow, relentlessness of time. But there are modern places too, towns built by corrupt local officials that were never occupied, amusement parks closed due to terrible tragedy, settlements sinking ineluctably into the mud, cities destroyed by radiation, these are the remnants of a generation, an entire society wiped from the earth, leaving only dismembered traces of memory. This exotic, powerful new book evokes the eerie, haunted places that retain small touches of humanity: a car with only one wheel, a battered doll, torn shirts on a washing line, a broken ferris wheel, all of them are shattered dreams that dwell now only in the imagination.
Download or read book Desolation Canyon written by P. J. Tracy and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazzling new series, and in Desolation Canyon, fans get a deeper look into the complex characters who call Los Angeles home. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support – they refuse to address anything difficult, and she’s afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of recovery. The days off are the hardest, because they give Margaret time to think. A moment of weakness leads to cocktails with a colleague—an attraction she knows could be dangerous —at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air bar. A stroll through the grounds leads to a grim discovery beneath the surface of Swan Lake: the body of a successful attorney who made his fortune in international trade. It initially appears to be death by misadventure, but the case is anything but straightforward. As a series of shocking revelations emerge, Nolan finds herself confronting a sinister cabal that just might destroy her and everyone she loves.
Download or read book A Desolation Called Peace written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Now a USA Today bestseller! Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021 Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021 "[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called Empire A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . . Also by Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Desolation Road written by Ian McDonald and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ’Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel), to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town’s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child – grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with – and married – the same woman. REVIEWS “Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It’s an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics... Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrne’s Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury’s entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again.” – Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) “McDonald’s first novel, it absolutely bowled me over when it came out, and while I have read everything he’s published since, and admire all of it and like most of it, this remains my favourite... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable... If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint, because it isn’t like anything else and yet it is coming from a knowledge of what the genre can do and can be and making something new out of it.” – Jo Walton (Tor.com) “This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis... Extraordinary and more than that!” – Philip José Farmer
Download or read book The Book of Mormon written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abomination of Desolation written by Rev. John C. Martin III and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. Martins original plan was to preach through the Gospel of Matthew word by word, verse by verse; and to do so from a new, fresh translation from the original language. Preaching through the Gospel, with all of its references to other books of the Bible, and in its own history, is an ideal way for a preacher to give his people a thorough understanding of the inspired Scripture. It wasnt long before the idea of a huge sermonic commentary came up. And then came the idea of some interim books. This book is the fourth (and maybe the last) in the interim series. What will eventually come to pass, Lord willing, is a 3500 page commentary, with a new translation of the text, of the Gospel of Matthew. It will be published in (probably) six volumes. In the meantime this book, Abomination of Desolation, is published as a stand-alone book. The three previous ones are: The Beatitudes and the Lords Prayer, The Sermon On the Mount, and Jesus On Divorce. Abomination of Desolation is a thorough exegesis of chapters twenty-four and twenty-five of the Gospel of Matthew. It explicitly follows the text of what Jesus Christ told His disciples while on the Mount of Olives before His crucifixion.
Download or read book The Saturday Magazine Published Under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion Derived from the Literal Fulfiment of Prophecy written by Alexander Keith and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rotherham s Emphasized Bible written by and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Double-column pages; foreword by John R. Kohlenberger III) A literal translation of the original text with symbols that allow the non-reader of Greek and Hebrew to discover the force and intent of the original.
