Download or read book Idylls of the Sea and Other Marine Sketches Esprios Classics written by Frank Thomas Bullen and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Thomas Bullen (April 5, 1857 - March 1, 1915), British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9, his aunt, who was his guardian, died. He then left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and travelled to all parts of the world in various capacities including that of second mate of the Harbinger and chief mate of the Day Dawn, under Capt. John R. H. Ward jun in 1879 when she was dismasted and disabled. Having spent 15 years of his life at sea, since the tender age of 12, he would later describe the hardships of his early life thus: I have been beaten by a negro lad as big again as myself, and only a Frenchman interfered on my behalf.
Download or read book Idylls of the Sea written by Frank Thomas Bullen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Exceptionalism written by Deborah L. Madsen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. She explains how this sense of spiritual and political destiny has shaped American culture and how it has promoted exciting counter arguments from Native American and Chicano perspectives and in the contemporary writings of authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison.
Download or read book Being Red A Memoir written by Howard Fast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition brings the story of 20th-century Southern politics up to the present day and the virtual triumph of Southern Republicanism. It considers the changes in party politics, leadership, civil rights and black participation in Southern politics.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Aleph written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative that blends the story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
Download or read book The Development of International Law written by Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Believing that changes in International Law have been ultimately an expression of changes in the state system of the world and in the practice of the nations, we have tried, as it were, to cut into the procession of history at fixed points, to select some central theme at each stage, and to treat it in the light of history and law. In this attempt we arrived at a division of history from our point of view into three major periods which we have termed respectively those of the Prince, of the Judge, and of the Concert. In the first period, the scholar is still in the age of the dissolving Holy Roman Empire; in the second, commercial and dynastic wars - above all, the long-drawn-out struggle between France and England - dominate the scene; in the third and last, it is the voice of some force other than that of pure nationalism which, whatever the reason, reasserts itself. No division of this kind can be wholly satisfactory, but it is our belief that under one or another of these headings almost every issue which has interest for the historian of the Law of Nations can be conveniently treated." -- from the Preface by the author.
Download or read book Cherokee by Blood written by Jerry Wright Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1904 the Eastern Cherokees won large cash settlements from the United States because of violations of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. Over a million dollars was appropriated by Congress to settle the claims. The payments were to go to all living pers
Download or read book Patently Ridiculous written by Richard Ross and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After months of research at the U.S. Patent Office--the repository of delightfully improbable dreams--Ross amassed a collection of some of the most unique, odd, and awe-inspiring patent applications ever seen over the last century.
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Download or read book Safely Rest written by David Colley and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1945 to 1950, the United States returned 178,000 dead American servicemen back home and reburied another 80,000 in overseas cemeteries at their families' request. Never before had a nation returned so many of its fallen warriors from distant battlefields. But another 78,000 servicemen were missing in action, their bodies never to be found, their families never to know the peace of closure. Safely Restrecalls this virtually forgotten episode of WWII through the recollections of the survivors and the letters and histories of the dead themselves. It tells of those who struggled to absorb their loss and rebuild their lives-and of those who would never be able to move on. Most memorably, it tells of Lt. Jesse D. "Red" Franks, Jr.--first reported missing, then dead, then alive-and of his extraordinarily devoted father, who gave up everything to work as a missionary in war-torn Europe for years until he discovered what truly happened to his son. If World War II was the "Great Crusade," then its dead are the true heroes of the war. And this is their story.
Download or read book Johnny Critelli written by Frank Lentricchia and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Utica, New York, in the 1950s, Johnny Critelli evokes the richness, conflicts, lusts, and longings of an Italian-American community trying to embrace American culture as it clings to its own. In Utica, food, family, religion, and Joe DiMaggio are equally transcendent. Every extra penny in town in invested in Little League in a romantic homage to athletic greatness and to a Yankee line-up studded with Italian-American names. At the heart of this story are three generations of the author's own family and Johnny Critelli, a mythical orphan who may have disappeared years before Lentricchia's birth, but who continues to obsess him. Raw and rapturous, this novel extols the creativity of the mind and tenacity of the spirit. The Knifemen is an explosive, blunt-force evocation of the evil voices inside men. It presents a chilling, rapid descent into the mental hell of Richard Assisi, a respectable gynecologist and apparently decent man, who turns self-hatred onto everyone around him, especially those who love him most. Richard is a man moving through ordinary rooms and saying familiar things, but all the while with slaughter and misogyny in his heart. Intensely compelling, The Knifemen dissects the metaphysics of maleness, exposing the primordial lurch toward violence and blood lust.
Download or read book What You Made of It written by C. K. Stead and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like Sister Hollywood and My Name Was Judas, criticism in the London Review of Books and the Financial Times, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet and critic. It is also a period when Stead's fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument - from The Bone People to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer's flat. What was it like to be Allen Curnow's designated 'Critic across the Crescent'; or alternatively to be labelled 'the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit'? How did poems emerge from time and place, sometimes as naturally as 'leaves to a tree', sometimes effortfully? And how did novels about individual men and women retell stories of war (World War II, Yugoslavia, Iraq) and peace? Covering Stead's travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, What You Made of It takes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers - and all in Stead's famously lucid 'story-telling' prose.
Download or read book Social Welfare Handbook written by Chayma Hamdani and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare is an essential aspect for the development of a nation. This book presents, for the first time, an extensive, internationally-focused collection of cutting-edge work from leading academics. Its multi-disciplinary approach and relative viewpoint encourages an examination of the most pressing social welfare issues of the day. The book intends to simplify some of the doubts regarding social welfare, and talks about the pros and cons of privatization. It presents a variety of social welfare paradoxes and innovations; and sets up a clear set of economic frameworks with which to comprehend the conditions under which the change in social welfare can be obtained.
Download or read book When I Grow Up written by Bernice Rubens and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2005 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocation of her life, Bernice Rubens escorts us, with an array of stories - through her wartime childhood, her first 'major folly', through stints as a teacher, lady's maid, and actress, before stumbling upon a career that bemused her to the end of her days.
Download or read book Spiritual Classics written by Richard J. Foster and published by Fount. This book was released on 1999 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year's plan of carefully selected spiritual readings from ancient and contemporary writers with questions, exercises and commentary for individual or group use. The result is a wealth of spiritual treasures to enrich and delight. Richard Foster's best-selling Celebration of Discipline provides the framework for this new work. The twelve spiritual disciplines featured are now developed as the themes for selected readings and study helps. The 12 spiritual disciplines are: Inward disciplines Prayer Meditation Fasting Study Outward disciplines Simplicity Solitude Submission Service Corporate disciplines Confession Worship Guidance Celebration Christian classic writers will include Augustine of Hippo, John Henry Newman, Thomas Merton, as well as 20th century authors such as, Simone Weil, Catherine Marshall and Joyce Huggett. Each reading will be followed by an introduction to the life and work of that author, as well as relevant scriptural quotations, questions for discussion, suggested exercises and a reflective commentary by Richard Foster.
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