Download or read book Muffled Echoes written by Amy Fried and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago the Iran-Contra affair swept the headlines as the nation watched an indignant Lt. Col. Oliver North testify before a congressional committee. Although polls showed that most Americans were critical of North's actions and ambivalent toward the man himself, media coverage left the opposite impression, with its broadcasts of "Ollie-for-president" rallies and stories of congressional aides overwhelmed by a torrent of pro-North mail. In this book, public opinion is more than the sum of a pollster's tally; instead, Amy Fried defines it as a political tool, integral to the political process, where vested interests compete to legitimize their interpretation of the public voice. Fried explores the construction, interpretation, and uses of public opinion, raising important questions about the media and the role of special interest groups in determining policy.
Download or read book Muffled Echoes written by G. K. Parks and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waking up alone, scared, and hurt with no recollection of the last twelve hours could be a sick joke, but this is far worse than some twisted prank. Federal agent Alexis Parker can't remember where she was or how she ended up unconscious outside a parking garage. The evidence found on her body is inconclusive. Was it an accident, or did she pass out drunk after a night of partying? The briefest flashes from her memory and the sudden uneasiness when in close proximity to others are the only indications that something sinister is brewing, but her colleagues won't listen.Just as Alex starts to doubt her conviction that this wasn't an accident, she experiences an intensely vivid dream. Maybe there's a reason she can't remember those twelve hours. Maybe she needs to forget what happened. Afraid of what she knows and even more terrified of what she doesn't, Alex embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind those missing hours, and may the consequences be damned.Retracing her steps, Alex becomes embroiled in the most dangerous investigation of her career. The stakes have never been this high or the fear this overwhelming. While she struggles to carry out her duties and uphold the oath she took when she joined the Office of International Operations, she can't deny that taking the easy way out has never held more appeal, especially when failure certainly means death.The tenth installment of the series revitalizes the very essence of Alexis Parker and demonstrates precisely what makes her tick, promising plenty of action, suspense, and intrigue along the way.
Download or read book The Last Stand of Fox Company written by Bob Drury and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox’s Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Research of Chinese Culture written by Pei-kai Cheng and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field. The theme of the volume is 'New Perspectives on Research of Chinese Culture', introducing the latest trends and new developments in the research into Chinese history, humanities, music and geography. The articles are written by well-known scholars in the field who examine Chinese culture from various new perspectives adopting different research methods.
Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia Felix written by Henry Handel Richardson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in mid-1800s Ballarat during the gold rush, 'Australia Felix' is a historical fiction novel based on the life of the author's father, Henry Handel Richardson. The story follows Richard Mahony, a Scottish doctor who runs a store and marries a younger woman named Mary. As their lives progress, the reader is immersed in the Australian culture of the time and witnesses the ups and downs of a doctor's life.
Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cleft and Other Odd Tales written by Gahan Wilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gahan Wilson is one of the masters of macabre cartooning, ranked with Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, and Gary Larson. He is also a masterful storyteller. From the horror of "blot" to the gentle unease of "Campfire Story," from the classic oral-horror style of "The Marble Boy" to the science fiction scares of "It Twineth Round Thee in Thy Joy," the collection in The Cleft and Other Odd Tales shows Wilson at his very best. Originally published in Playboy, Omni, and notable anthologies such as Again, Dangerous Visions, Wilson's short fiction is gathered here for the first time. The 24 stories are each accompainied by an original, full-page illustration done especially for this volume. Gahan Wilson has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement. His most recent cartoon collection is Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder. His latest CD-ROM is Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book A Matter of Pride and Other Stories written by Nicholasa Mohr and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories featuring Hispanic protagonists. In one story, a New York woman on holiday in Puerto Rico is given a lesson in being a good wife by tolerating a mistress, another story chronicles the effect on a family of a son who sells drugs.
Download or read book Anti Racist Scholarship written by James Joseph Scheurich and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers discussion and examples of how white scholars can use anti-racist scholarship as part of the long-term civil rights struggle to create real equality in the United States.
Download or read book Twisted Reunions The Keeper Chronicles Book 2 written by Kester James Finley and published by Kester James Finley. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three people can keep a secret if two are dead. For Truddie Mae, the fallout from the Harvester includes emotional burdens. Members have come and gone, and secrets have been uncovered. Wishing to leave it all behind her, she’ll soon find it has ways of keeping up. A simple excursion leads to a discovery threatening the Keepers on every level. Forced to act as leader, she must rally remaining teammates and dig deeper into the mystery of their magical lives. New threats and unseen forces strike back, this time with more bite. Evil attacks from every direction leading to an outcome that will haunt the Keepers forever. Sometimes the past rises to the top no matter how deep you bury the bodies. Navigating a surge of supernatural villainy alongside others, she’ll quickly realize reunions aren’t always happy and that some can be downright devilishly twisted. Struggling to maintain the veil while dodging a conspiracy, will her group unearth the agenda meant to end them before it finally does or will her past doom them all?
Download or read book Comics and Novelization written by Benoît Glaude and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics form but rather on a literary corpus that remains virtually unexplored: comics-related novels. The purpose of this volume is to inventory French comics-related novels and to study them. Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of bande dessinée through its novels, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Although the comic strip – including the aptly named "graphic novel" – has sometimes been regarded as the disciple of an unsurpassable literary model, do these under-studied adaptations in novel form not rather indicate a mutual relationship, or even an emulation, between the two media?
Download or read book Complete In the Service of Dragons The Complete Series written by Robert Stanek and published by RP Books & Audio. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 complete novels. The Elves of the Reaches returned from exile, bringing grave news. War came to the Kingdoms, and many perished in the turmoil and unrest. An attempt was made to kidnap a princess and assassinate a king. Now, from the ancient past a dark power returns. Reading order for the Ruin Mist books: Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #1, 2, 3, 4 In the Service of Dragons #1, 2, 3, 4 The Dragon, the Wizard & the Great Door A Legacy of Dragons Breath of Fire Living Fire A Daughter of Kings #1, 2, 3, 4
Download or read book The Ardent Flame written by Frances Winwar and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kindling the Word written by Rahel Kern and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment that Marie von Sivers met Rudolf Steiner in 1902, their relationship became key to the development of Anthroposophy. Marie Steiner's immense contribution is well known in the fields of eurythmy, speech, and the arts, as well as in her management and publication of Steiner's literary estate--indeed, she assisted in almost every aspect of Rudolf Steiner's work. So why has she been so neglected by the anthroposophic movement? Driven by this central question, the authors of this penetrating study concluded that the karma and mission of Marie Steiner-von Sivers is vitally important to the present and future spiritual and cultural development of the West. They evaluate not only Marie's twenty-three-year partnership with Rudolf Steiner, but also her three previous incarnations--in the ancient Orphic Mysteries, as the Neoplatonist Hypatia, and as Albertus Magnus. The lives, acts, cultural legacies, and thought of these various personalities are addressed through a series of lucid essays, interspersed with studies on the missions of both Rudolf and Marie Steiner. Supplementing these are short extracts from literature that reverberate with the word, helping to reveal the intimately intertwined karmic missions of Marie Steiner-von Sivers and Rudolf Steiner, her work companion and soul partner.
Download or read book Chandos written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Princess written by Gaelen Foley and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Reader, I'm so proud to introduce Gaelen Foley, a captivating new writer who will sweep you away with this unforgettable story of forbidden love and wondrous destiny. Darius Santiago is the King's most trusted man, a master spy and assassin. He is handsome, charming, ruthless, and he has one weakness--the stunning Princess Serafina. She is all he has ever wanted and everything he cannot have. Serafina has worshipped Darius from afar her whole life, knowing that deep in the reaches of her soul, where she is not royalty but a flesh and blood woman, she belongs to this dangerous, untouchable man. Unable to suppress their desire any longer, they are swept into a daring dance of passion destined to consume them both until a deadly enemy threatens to destroy their new love. PRINCESS is historical romance at its best--full of adventure, intrigue, and pageantry--from an amazingly talented new author whose storytelling career is just beginning. . . . Enjoy! Shauna Summers Senior Editor The Ballantine Publishing Group
