Download or read book Hiding in a Cave of Trunks written by Ester Benjamin Shifren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family's Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW camp.Against an impressive historical background, China-born Ester Benjamin Shifren relates the saga of her family's century-long existence in Shanghai, the city often referred to as "The Paris of the East," and details the culture and tribulations of the colorful multi-ethnic population. In the 1840s a vessel brought the Benjamins from India to Shanghai, where they prospered for five generations. Some members of the family achieved high-level diplomatic positions. Owners of prize-winning horses, the family even conducted business at the race- track, sometimes on a handshake! World War II abruptly terminated their privileged lifestyle. In 1943, the Japanese interned the Benjamins for nearly three years in a POW camp. Along with other internees they endured great hardship and loss of all worldly possessions. In 1948, shortly before the Communist takeover, the Benjamins relocated to Hong Kong, where the ensuing Korean War embargo eventually caused their irreparable financial collapse. In 1951 the family immigrated to Israel. Ester served two years in the army, married a South African, and spent thirty-six years in South Africa.After spending five years in Canada Ester immigrated to the USA in 1997 and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Ester Benjamin Shifren is an author, artist, musician, and dynamic international speaker. In 2005, in England, she was featured in the BBC1 program "We'll Meet Again," and was a guest lecturer for several days at the Imperial War Museum.
Download or read book Olad s Way written by Olu Gans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olad was the first-born son of the second son in the line of Kane, a prestigious lineage. His life was simple while he was growing up, but as he grew into a man, he realized his future was fated. His cousin, the first-born of a first-born, should have inherited the leadership and responsibilities of the clan. But, his future was also fated. His life would not continue within the clan. That knowledge had been known since they were both toddlers. So, Olad would become the leader of the people, and the keeper of the way, the law. He would not decline the position as his uncle, and then his cousin had done. Olad had accepted the position. He followed his ancient great-grandfather as he guided Olad's life and molded him into the man he would become; the clan's leader, healer, and shaman. But, he would need help. His great-grandfather was too old to offer very much more than his sage advice. Olad needed someone to walk by his side, to help him, to give him strength. But, who?
Download or read book Karst Hydrology written by W.B. White and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has its roots in the distant past of more than 20 years ago, the International Hydrologic Decade (IHD), 1964-1974. One of the stated goals of the IHD was to promote research into groundwater situations for which the state of knowledge was hopelessly inadequate. One of these problem areas was the hydrology of carbonate terrains. Position papers published early in the IHD emphasized the special problems of karst; carbonate terrains were supposed to receive a substantial amount of attention during the IHD. There were indeed many new contributions from European colleagues but, unfortunately, in the United States the good intentions were not backed up by much in the way of federal funding. Some good and interesting work was published, particularly by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), but in the academic community the subject languished. About this same time the Cave Research Foundation (CRF), organized in 1957 to promote the systematic exploration, survey, and scientific study of the great cave systems of Mammoth Cave National Park, was casting about for a broader scope for its research activities. Up until that time, CRF research had been largely restricted to detailed mineralogical and geological investigations within the caves, with the main part of the effort concentrated on exploration and survey. The decision to investigate the hydrology required a certain enlargement of vision because investigators then had to consider the entire karst drainage basin rather than isolated fragments of cave passage.
Download or read book Welcome to Paradise written by Shawn Winchell and published by Shawn Winchell. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wouldn't want to spend their honeymoon in Paradise? When their car breaks down on the way to their honeymoon, Jake and Janie Davis find themselves stranded in a small town in North Dakota. There is no mechanic, they can't find a phone, and no one seems willing to help. So much for small-town hospitality. Tired and alone, they soon discover that there is something else in this town. Something stranger than anything they could have imagined. Something that wants them gone. Left with no other choice, they will risk everything to get home. Even if it costs them their lives. Welcome to Paradise. Check out the first book in the thrilling new paranormal suspense series today!
Download or read book Hidden Nature written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future. As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova. Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.
Download or read book Hide and Seek written by H.L. Wegley and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A computer security breach within a US defense contractor's firewalls leads investigators, Lee Brandt and beautiful, brilliant Jennifer Akihara, onto the cyber-turf of terrorists, where they are detected and targeted for elimination. Lee leads them on a desperate and prayer-filled flight for survival into the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Will Jennifer's pursuit of truth about the conspiracy, and the deepest issues of life, lead her into the clutches of terrorists, into the arms of Lee Brandt, or into the arms of the God she deems untrustworthy?
Download or read book Mammoth Cave Area Wastewater Treatment Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweet Dalliance written by Lisa Bingham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introducing English as an Additional Language to Young Children written by Kay Crosse and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A definite must-have for all teachers of English confronted with early multilingualism′ - Times Educational Supplement The activities and guidance in this book will help teachers to develop the confidence and meet the individual needs of young children with English as an additional language across different settings. There are also practical and varied language teaching strategies to promote learning for children working individually or in small groups. The first part of the book focuses on the introduction and development of oral language skills and the particular needs of young "additional English language learners" settling into a new environment. It provides an introduction to the Foundation Stage curriculum and the ways in which links can be made with English as an additional language activity. The second part of the book presents practical activities grouped under the six areas of learning forming the early years curriculum. Each activity includes an appropriate objective, materials and preparation, key vocabulary to focus on and extension suggestions, as well as full guidance on how to manage the activity effectively. The book will be a valuable resource for all teachers, teaching assistants and other early years staff in day nurseries, nursery schools and other early years settings. Kay Crosse is a freelance early years consultant and was formerly head of Norland College.
Download or read book Feral written by Glenis Wilson and published by The Book Guild. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a massive storm causes a low-flying Cessna to crash in the woods on his sheep farm, it proves a catalyst for Kent Evans and his little daughter, Rachel.
Download or read book Of Panthers and Hidden Vale written by Milly M Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantelle grew up in an orphanage longing for a family to love her. A chance encounter changed her life forever-from being an orphan to becoming the princess of Kendar. Kendar will never be the same.
Download or read book Hide and Seek written by Xan Fielding and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and a dash of recklessness. Almost any stretch of his life might be described as a picaresque interlude."--Patrick Leigh FermorIn January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Working with bands of Cretan partisans, he succeeded magnificently. In this memoir of his wartime exploits, Fielding presents a portrait of the quintessential English operative--amateur, gifted, daring, and charming.From the new foreword by Robert Messenger:" 'Hide and Seek' is a classic of British war literature, an understated account of a man's coming-of-age thanks to the sudden shouldering of great responsibility. Fielding is deprecating about the dangers and his own achievements. It is typical of the quiet and reticent man who preferred to live outside the limelight and wrote matter-of-factly about the war rather than with a gloss of adventure or heroism. There's a scene, late in 1943, when Fielding and a group of partisans study the German's list of 'wanted' men. He notes 'with regrettable but only human pride that the entry under my local pseudonym, which outlined in detail my physical characteristics, aliases and activities for a period of eighteen months, took no less than three-quarters of an octavo page in closely-set small-point type.' The Germans had surely measured his worth." Xan Fielding (1918-1991) was a British writer and traveler, and a lifelong friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who served with him in Crete during World War II. (The introduction to Fermor's 'A Time of Gifts' is written as a "Letter to Xan Fielding.") Fielding also translated many novels from French, most notably, 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' and 'The Planet of the Apes'. Robert Messenger is the books editor of the 'Wall Street Journal'.
Download or read book A Legacy of Love written by Victoria Burks and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her love life in shambles, Danielle McKinnon is ready for a change...a big change. So when a letter arrives from an attorney in Georgia, stating that she's the beneficiary of a distant relative's estate, it's an opportunity she can't pass up investigating. A trip to Atlanta reveals her inheritance includes ownership of Stratford Hall, a historic, secret-laden, 200-year-old, antebellum manor in the midst of the Appalachian Hills. But while ownership of this manor seems like a dream come true, there are others determined to claim the estate for themselves. They'll stop at nothing, even threatening Dani's life in an effort to scare her off. Add to the mix her dashing new love interest, Attorney Justin Harcourt; the delightful Irish caretaker of the hall, Mrs. O'Brien; and a mysterious cowboy, who always seems to show up when she needs him most, and things couldn't get more complicated. Drama unfolds as Dani struggles over tough choices. Is her desire for a new beginning and the obligation of her birthright enough to risk all? Is her infatuation with Justin jeopardizing her new-found faith in God and the possibility for true love? In A Legacy of Love, author Victoria Burks creates an exciting story of faith, romance, and danger-leaving readers guessing till the very end!
Download or read book The Pirate s Eye written by Stephanie Marie Harrold and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Smith has lived a life of leisure in a quaint seaport town. Being the daughter of a wealthy merchant means one day marrying into another fine family. Sometimes, however, Victoria finds herself looking out at sea, dreaming of adventure. Her father warns her of the dangers of the sea, reminding her of the mysterious death of her mother during a pirates' raid many years ago. One night, her quiet port town is attacked by pirates. Victoria is kidnapped and taken away on board a mysterious ship that houses a dark secret. While on board The One-Eyed Fortune, led by the arrogant Captain Conway, Victoria learns of a cursed eye that will show the beholder of it the whereabouts of a hidden treasure. But that's not the only secret the ship holds for Victoria. Does Captain Conway know something about her mother? And who is Brock, the handsome, mysterious deckhand? Besides finding herself aboard a dangerous pirate ship, Victoria and the crew of The One-Eyed Fortune must contend with the constant threat of yet another pirate ship, captained by an evil man known as Marrow. Readers will enjoy this swashbuckling tail of adventure on the high seas. Set sail with Victoria, Captain Conway, and a gang of one-eyed pirates to find a treasure and solve a mystery seventeen years in the making!
Download or read book Hidden Hands written by Heta Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On buildings, structures, and housing in Goa; a study.
Download or read book The Demon of Table Mesa written by John Waddell and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demon of Table Mesa By: John Waddell Jacob and his two friends come across an old spirit board game they find in the attic. As the three become immersed in the game, they become a part of a story about Jacob’s ancestors, who were involved in a massacre of a Native American village, which existed in the 1800s during the Indian wars. With a desire to fix the injustices of his ancestors of the past, Jacob must travel through the “Portal to When.” When arriving in the year 1852, Jacob is adopted by the leader of the village. The Demon of Table Mesa is indeed a tale of demons—and while experiencing evil, Jacob must learn about the good and evil within himself.
Download or read book Resistance written by Naldo Rei and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naldo Rei was just six months when Indonesia invaded East Timor om December 1975. He spent the first three years of his life in the jungle, where his family had fled for safety. An unforgettable true story of courage and survival.
