Download or read book Gordo and Chico written by Elizabeth Hope and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gordo, a gopher—or so he thinks—embarks on an epic journey to the National Park to flee the destruction of his home, he is joined by his newfound friend Chico, a feisty caterpillar, who is en route to Mexico to find his long-lost family. Along the way, they encounter odd creatures, make new friends, and escape from all sorts of dangers. And in the end, they make the greatest discovery of all, that their friendship is beyond appearances and comes straight from their hearts.
Download or read book Ring Around the Sun written by Nelson Martin and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coot Boldt and Narlow Montgomery sauntered across the wooden bridge into Juarez. Coot was dead set on honoring a lifelong friend’s resolve that the pair aid him in running munitions to Pancho Villa, while Narlow held back. A legless lad on a board with skate wheels in the gritty dust of Juarez Avenue tugged at Narlow’s trousers whose galluses must have been tied to his heartstrings. He bent to drop a dollar in the boy’s cup. The boy’s death-glaze-black eyes gleamed up, demanded more for Mexico than a coin. Coot and Narlow began shipping German-made Mausers and cartridges by rail to their contact in Tornillo, Texas, downstream from El Paso on the Rio Grande. German spies and operatives along the border were busy assuring that Uncle Sam embroiled itself in Mexico’s revolution and kept its long blue nose out of the European War. President Wilson’s munitions embargo dried up Villa’s supply, but the “Federales” sources were limited only by the government’s ability to crank their presses. Coot and Narlow ignored the embargo, flying munitions deep into Chihuahua in a Curtiss Pusher biwing. Would they be caught by US border guards and be the government’s guest at Leavenworth, or shot while fleeing from an arranged “Federale” escape?
Download or read book The Mission written by John Turnure and published by Jota Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost and broken souls are lured by a supernatural force to a mysterious jungle sanctuary. Will they find safety at The Mission or die lonely deaths? For over 200 years, missionaries, adventurers, slaves, scientists, guerrillas, and narcos encounter natural and supernatural wonders on their separate journeys through an unforgiving, sometimes surreal, and often deadly landscape as they flee brutal persecutors and their own demons. Hidden deep in Colombia's Amazon jungle lies The Mission, a paradisical refuge for the lost established by outlaw Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century. The Mission has thrived over the centuries, and all are welcome there. But not everyone will find the path. Who will discover the secret that leads to The Mission?
Download or read book Predicting the Unthinkable Anticipating the Impossible written by Georgie Anne Geyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. In the 1990s, the world was stunned by wars that raged across post-Yugoslavia and their viciousness - but Geyer on a trip to Belgrade in 1989, interviewed top officials and anticipated the conflicts. When 9/11 occurred, she used common sense and said, 'This was inevitable - the terrorists had already attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and criminals always return to the scene of the crime.'Geyer argues that while the United States was being praised everywhere during this era of 'indispensable power' as the 'greatest power the world has known,' it actually had started on the road to decline. It had won the Cold War, but had immediately embarked upon more Vietnam-like small wars of tremendous cost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Across the board, it was no longer paying its way, while its domestic culture was being vulgarized at every turn.This book explains how, when, and where these declines happened. Geyer studies the history of nations and of peoples, observes human nature, particularly as influenced by religion and ideology; and is a close analyst of the acts of men and women when they perceive they have been humiliated by others or by history. She warns Americans and journalists that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us and that we must employ predictions to strengthen our nation and its principles.
Download or read book The Harkness Hoot written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undercover War Black OPS Book 1 written by Michael Kasner and published by Caliber Books. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Action/Adventure novelist Michael Kasner comes a covert military thriller series! Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. BLACK OPS - BOOK ONE: AMERICA CAUGHT IN A CARIBBEAN UPRISING! The strident call to action comes from Cuba as an unprecedented wave of violence against Americans that Castro’s inheritors can’t-or won’t- control. When the U.S. offers of military support are turned down, the five member Black OPS force is dispatched on a clandestine down and dirty mission... In the tradition of Don Pendleton's Executioner Mack Bolan and Warren Murphy's Destroyer classic paperback book series!
Download or read book The Chicken Coop Gang written by Robert W. Millner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the Chicken Coup Gang interesting and fun is that it is based upon true stories that actually happened to the author Robert W. Millner and his two sisters Nancy and Ginny. These three people are portrayed in the book as Eric, the eldest, Mindy, three years younger, and Cindy, the baby of the family, a year younger than Nancy. The children have a mother who doesn’t have to work and a father who is a band director as well as a professional accordionist. The family leaves Long Island every summer to spend the entire summer vacation at a family resort in the Catskill Mountains. The children believed the stories about old Rip Van Winkle bowling in the mountains with the Dutch sailors every time there was a thunder storm. Two more girls came to Pleasant View Lodge with their mother Mildred and father, a saxophone player and violinist named Peter. The children would often explore the lodge and found several fun places to play; the old barn full of fresh hay, the rec. room with ping pong tables and pinball machines and the old chicken coup at the edge of the woods. It was here they met and formed the Chicken Coup Gang. These five children were very creative. After all, what do you do all summer at a summer resort? This book is about those funny and sometimes scary adventures including the Masquerade Ball, the whimsical talent show, the lady in the closet, the moving tea cup, free money and much more. At the end of the book is a chapter entitled “Personal Growth”. When the author was a boy and watched t.v., he especially enjoyed a story with a meaningful ending. The same holds true for this book. The Personal Growth page is designed to ask you roughly five thought questions. See what answers you would come up with. Compare them with the answers of your brother, sister or best friend. Also included is a page to help you with words you may not be familiar with. It’s titled “Words and Their Meaning”. What words don’t you know? This is the first in a series of books about the exciting adventures of Eric, Mindy and Cindy.
Download or read book Formaci n de palabras y ense anza del espa ol LE L2 written by David Serrano-Dolader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formación de palabras y enseñanza del español LE/L2 offers a unique combination of theory and practice that guides the reader through the main processes of word formation in Spanish. It provides a detailed analysis of the role of lexical creation in the acquisition of L2 Spanish vocabulary, as well as over a hundred practical self-reflection activities. Key features: • Comprehensive theoretical explanations of word formation, including theoretical and pedagogical principles and their implementation in the teaching of L2 Spanish; • Step-by-step pedagogical introductions to the full range of lexical creation mechanisms in Spanish language, including prefixation, emotive and nonemotive suffixation and composition; • Carefully-chosen lists of relevant issues on lexical morphology with immediate applicability to the teaching of L2 Spanish; • Guided activities with an answer key, which helps the reader to connect theory with practice and to become familiar with the key aspects of Spanish lexical morphology; • Guidelines on how to tackle the teaching of Spanish word formation and vocabulary in an effective and engaging way. Written in a clear and accessible manner, Formación de palabras y enseñanza del español LE/L2 is an essential resource for teachers of Spanish at all levels. It is also an excellent reference book for language teachers who wish to integrate word formation into the teaching of the Spanish language.
Download or read book The Salt War written by Ira Compton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregorio Montoya does not want to become involved but when the Mexicans challenge Charlie Howard's authority to place a tariff on the pure white crystals of salt that nature has deposited in the dry lakes at the foot of Guadalupe Peak, he cannot help himself. He risks everything, including his future with Maria. Even the infamous Billy the Kid tries to keep Gregorio out of trouble, but it is to no avail. Although acceptable under American law, the Mexicans feel that no one person should own a mineral deposit that is supposed to be for everyone. It should stay as it was under Spanish law—the commodity was placed there by God and is free to whoever wants to haul it to market. For generations, it is the way Mexican peasants obtain cash when the Rio Grande River washes out their crops or the locusts come. Whenever their harvests fail, they travel the seventy miles for cart loads of the crystals. A newly organized Texas Ranger detachment tries to stop the onrush of battle, but, for the first and only time in Texas history, the commander surrenders to the enemy, and Judge Charles Howard, along with two of his confederates, is executed by the mob. The three executions end the skirmish and send Gregorio and Maria fleeing into Mexico.
Download or read book Another Day of Life written by Ryszard Kapuscinski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers—from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal—fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
Download or read book Using Spanish Synonyms written by R. E. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail differences between Spanish synonyms.
Download or read book El Cordero Al Matadero written by Pete Delohery and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El cordero al matadero Situada contra el teln de fondo del vvidamente descrito boxeo profesional, esta novela de Pete Delohery, curtida aunque magnficamente llena de garra, se centra en tres hombres cuyas vidas se encuentran en una encrucijada. Mike McGann tiene 32 aos, ya est viejo para ser boxeador y le ha prometido demasiadas veces a su esposa, Madge, que, definitivamente, este es su ltimo combate. Por eso, cuando ella se entera de que planea pelear contra Rufus Hilliard, apodado Huracn por la fuerza de sus puetazos, Madge se marcha. El boxeo fue para Rufus el modo de huir de los barrios bajos de Brooklyn; aunque su corrupto representante lo hace actuar como un matn amenazador frente a los medios, l es mucho ms inteligente; sospecha que le han tendido una trampa para que pierda la pelea contra McGann. Est en lo cierto: un repugnante mafioso conocido como El Gordo est presionando al ayudante del preparador, Charlie OConell, un apostador y alcohlico empedernido, para que adultere el agua de Rufus y este quede incapacitado. Lo har Charlie? Qu ganar en el cuadriltero: la experiencia de Mike o la fuerza bruta de Rufus? Las respuestas no son tan importantes como los retratos conmovedores que crea Delohery de tres hombres, todos lastimados por un mundo cruel, quienes huyen de sus demonios personales hacia la nica redencin imperfecta que tienen a su alcance: la victoria en una pelea. El autor hace un trabajo excelente al describir los pros y los contras del boxeo, al confrontar la estremecedora declaracin de un mdico acerca del porcentaje de luchadores que sufren de dao cerebral mensurable (muy elevado) con la elocuencia simple de un luchador joven que dice: El buen doctor nunca conoci la pesadilla de la pobreza y ruego que nunca tenga que conocer lo que significa no tener un lugar donde estar parado, ser menos que un hombre. (Algunos de los puntos suspensivos del autor se han eliminado en la oracin anterior; a los comentarios los pronuncia un intrprete que titubea mientras traduce la declaracin del luchador). El final es tremendamente repentino y la venganza de Charlie al Gordo es tan desagradable como inverosmil, pero esta historia sincera provoca un fuerte impacto emocional. Tambin disponible en edicin de tapa dura y libro electrnico.
Download or read book Catalogue of the State Museum of California written by California State Mining Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Engineering Economy written by Eugene Lodewick Grant and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War 1936 written by José E. Alvarez and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, the Spanish Foreign Legion was the most well equipped, thoroughly trained, and battle-tested unit in the Spanish Army, and with its fearsome reputation for brutality and savagery, the Legion was not only critical to the eventual victory of Franco and the Nationalists, but was also a powerful propaganda tool the Nationalists used to intimidate and terrorize its enemies. Drawing upon Spanish military archival sources, the Legion’s own diary of operations and relevant secondary sources, Alvarez recounts the pivotal role played by the Spanish Foreign Legion in the initial months of the Spanish Civil War, a war that was not only between Spaniards, but that pitted the political ideology of Communism and Socialism against that of Fascism and Nazism.
Download or read book Latin America Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Care Administration written by Jorge Hidalgo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on critical care administration. The text reviews important aspects and considerations involved in developing an efficient, cost-effective critical care program, while maintaining a safe and high-quality work environment. Major topics covered include different models of critical care services, planning and budgeting, administration support, staffing models, tele/smart ICU, protocols and guidelines, and disaster preparedness and management. Written by experts in the field, Critical Care Administration: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a practical, handy resource for critical care professionals involved in the administration and management of ICUs.
