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Book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory

Download or read book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory written by Annah Faulkner and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Silence, Chris discovered, is easy. If nobody asks, you never have to tell.' Christopher Bright is a well-respected conservation architect, good neighbour and friend. He has a devoted wife, two talented children and an old Rover. He plays tennis on Saturdays and enjoys a beer with his business partner after work. Life is orderly, yet an unresolved question has haunted him for as long as he can remember: Who was his birth father? Devotion to his adoptive parents has always prevented Chris from enquiring too deeply, but when his mother dies, information emerges that becomes the catalyst for changes he has never imagined. As light is cast on his father, attention turns to his birth mother, but when he goes in search of the person behind the photo, he encounters a conspiracy of silence. His quest for information, however, reveals not only the truth about his mother's life but exposes the fault lines in his own, and Chris finds the price of knowledge increasingly heavy. Nevertheless, the truth must be told ... Or must it?

Book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory  16pt Large Print Edition

Download or read book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory 16pt Large Print Edition written by Annah Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Bright is a well - respected conservation architect, good neighbour and friend. He has a devoted wife, two talented children and an old Rover. He plays tennis on Saturdays and enjoys a beer with his business partner after work. Life is orderly, yet an unresolved question has haunted him for as long as he can remember: Who was his birth father? Devotion to his adoptive parents has always prevented Chris from enquiring too deeply, but when his mother dies, information emerges that becomes the catalyst for changes he has never imagined. As light is cast on his father, attention turns to his birth mother, but when he goes in search of the person behind the photo, he encounters a conspiracy of silence. His quest for information, however, reveals not only the truth about his mother's life but exposes the fault lines in his own, and Chris finds the price of knowledge increasingly heavy. Nevertheless, the truth must be told ... Or must it?

Book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory

Download or read book Last Day in the Dynamite Factory written by Annah Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annah Faulkner's debut novel, The Beloved, won the Kibble Literary Award, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for an Emerging Queensland Author, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award. Annah and her husband live on Queensland's Sunshine Coast and spend extended time in Tasmania.

Book The Dynamite Factory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxence van der Meersch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Dynamite Factory written by Maxence van der Meersch and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Latter Day Saints  Millennial Star

Download or read book The Latter Day Saints Millennial Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State Surveillance  Political Policing and Counter Terrorism in Britain

Download or read book State Surveillance Political Policing and Counter Terrorism in Britain written by Vlad Solomon and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Little has been written on this early formative period for the British security state, which began in earnest as a response to the Fenian dynamite campaign of the 1880s. Based on newly declassified documents, Solomon weaves together separate narrative threads which converge to paint a complex picture of the institutional innovations and personal rivalries that produced Britain's first national political police. The interactions between high-ranking bureaucrats, policemen and politicians reveal how often conflicting ideas on controlling organized radicalism coalesced into a unified counter-subversive strategy. Stressing the distinctness of the early British model of political policing, the narrative goes past the confines of a scholarly account by using source material to flesh out multidimensional characters, ranging from choleric Home Secretaries to remorseful anarchist double agents embroiled in a high-stakes and often unscrupulous combination of espionage, collusion and betrayal.

Book Final Report of the Mining Regulations Commission  Appointed Under Government Notice No  537 of 1907

Download or read book Final Report of the Mining Regulations Commission Appointed Under Government Notice No 537 of 1907 written by Transvaal (Colony). Mining Regulations Commission and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power to the People

Download or read book Power to the People written by Audrey Kurth Cronin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state. In recent years, states have attempted to stem the flow of such weapons to individuals and non-state groups, but their efforts are failing. As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is an exacerbation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of advances in technologies combined with changes in who can use them. Indeed, accessible innovations in destructive force have long driven new patterns of political violence. When Nobel invented dynamite and Kalashnikov designed the AK-47, each inadvertently spurred terrorist and insurgent movements that killed millions and upended the international system. That history illuminates our own situation, in which emerging technologies are altering society and redistributing power. The twenty-first century "sharing economy" has already disrupted every institution, including the armed forces. New "open" technologies are transforming access to the means of violence. Just as importantly, higher-order functions that previously had been exclusively under state military control - mass mobilization, force projection, and systems integration - are being harnessed by non-state actors. Cronin closes by focusing on how to respond so that we both preserve the benefits of emerging technologies yet reduce the risks. Power, in the form of lethal technology, is flowing to the people, but the same technologies that empower can imperil global security - unless we act strategically.

Book The Dynamiters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Niall Whelehan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-09
  • ISBN : 1107023327
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book The Dynamiters written by Niall Whelehan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.

Book Dynamite Stories  and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives

Download or read book Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives written by Hudson Maxim and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dynamite Stories, and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives" by Hudson Maxim. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1272 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book History of the Explosives Industry in America

Download or read book History of the Explosives Industry in America written by Arthur Pine Van Gelder and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the explosives industry in the United States and Canada that discusses the technical development of the industry as well its commercial history.

Book South African Mining   Engineering Journal

Download or read book South African Mining Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South African Republic

Download or read book South African Republic written by Westminster Palace (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering

Download or read book Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Karoo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Stenson
  • Publisher : Anchor Canada
  • Release : 2009-09-08
  • ISBN : 0307372588
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book The Great Karoo written by Fred Stenson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving. The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land. The Boers have turned out to be more resilient than expected, so the British have sent a call to arms to their colonies — and an a great number of men from the Canadian prairies answer the call and join the Canadian Mounted Rifles: a unit in which they can use their own beloved horses. They assume their horses will be able to handle the desert terrain of the Great Karoo as readily as the plains of their homeland. Frank Adams, a cowboy from Pincher Creek, joins the Rifles, along with other young men from the ranches and towns nearby — a mix of cowboys and mounted policeman, who, for whatever reason, feel a desire to fight for the Empire in this far-off war. Against a landscape of extremes, Frank forms intense bonds with Ovide Smith, a French cowboy who proves to be a reluctant soldier, and Jefferson Davis, the nephew of a prominent Blood Indian chief, who is determined to prove himself in a “white man’s war.” As the young Canadians engage in battle with an entrenched and wily enemy, they are forced to realize the bounds of their own loyalty and courage, and confront the arrogance and indifference of those who have led them into conflict. For Frank, disillusionment comes quickly, and his allegiance to those from the Distict of Alberta, soon displaces any sense of patriotism to Canada or Britain, or belief that he’s fighting for a just cause. The events of the novel follow the trajectory of the war. The British strategy of burning Boer farms, destroying herds, and moving Boer families into camps weakens the Boer rebels, but they refuse to give up. The thousands of Boer women and children who die in the camp make the war ever more unpopular among liberals in Britain. (In fact, this conflict marked the first use of the term “concentration camp” in war.) Seeing the ramifications of such short-sighted military decisions, and how they affect what happens to Frank and the other Canadians, is crucial to depicting the reality of the Boer War. By focusing on the experiences of a small group of men from southern Alberta, Fred Stenson brings the reality of what it would have been like to be a soldier in this brutal war to vivid life. The Great Karoo is a deeply satisfying novel, marked by the complexities of its plot, the subtleties of its relationships, and the scale of its terrain. Exhilarating and gruesome by turns, it explores with passion and insight the lasting warmth of friendship and the legacy of devastation occasioned by war.