Download or read book How to Be a Victorian A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Victorian Life written by Ruth Goodman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work “imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors” (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodman’s account of Victorian life “makes you feel as if you could pass as a native” (The New Yorker).

Download or read book How To Be a Tudor A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life written by Ruth Goodman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review). On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this “immersive, engrossing” (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing—the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.

Download or read book Oil Dusk written by John M. Cape and published by Singing Bowl Pub. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors' Notes “This world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems which cannot be solved by the same level of thinking in which they were created.” ? ALBERT EINSTEIN “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” ? J. R. R. TOLKIEN “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” ? BUDDHA “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” ? JEWISH PROVERB When we first started writing this story three years ago the idea that our nation could experience an oil crisis driven by a weak dollar seemed unlikely or at least a long way away. As we finished the final draft, recent economic events had evolved in the direction that we've suggested. Obviously oil prices are not going to remain continuously high and have returned to more comfortable levels, at least for a while. Even so, there is little doubt that the overall price trend for crude oil over the next twenty years will be upwards. As this novel suggests the path of that price trend matters. Neither of us knows what the future holds and it is our sincere hope that this story remains just a fantasy. But we also believe that as a nation we can and hopefully will transition quickly to new energy solutions – preferably renewable, sustainable, and clean – while we have enough fossil fuels to make the transition gradual, manageable and fiscally possible. This is our version of a warning order; a call to action, even if it's just a decision you make for yourself and your family. The authors have served in the military and as officers have sworn to defend our constitution, the soul of our nation, against enemies both foreign and domestic; peak oil qualifies for both. We realize that energy solutions are indeed a national security issue and a global concern. In many ways, the United States is still in a privileged position when it comes to energy. We have the world's largest known coal reserves, attractive unconventional natural gas resource plays (though the US's natural gas consumption is only about half of the size of the US's crude oil consumption as measured on a BTU basis), extraordinary wind and solar power potential, plenty of uranium, various bio-fuel initiatives, and the technicians, politicians, and investors that could energize a transition to another energy regime. We have the potential to avoid an energy train wreck. But any crude oil crisis will be one where we have to “come as we are”. While there may be possibilities to harness other energy sources over the long term, none of this matters when the world is suddenly turned upside down and we are still in a predominantly crude oil driven society. We will most likely get to confront some future crude oil disruption with something that closely resembles the energy infrastructure that existed at the time this book was published, our fleet of mostly gasoline dependent vehicles, lots of widely dispersed homes and a retail system that is profoundly transportation dependent from goods and foodstuffs from all around the world. Now would be a good time to buy a highly fuel efficient vehicle and do all the things that can reduce our individual energy footprints, but in the end, this will not be enough. We need to be investing in alternative energy resources at a scale and rate that is almost unimaginable in order to avoid some type of future disruption like the one described in this story. As odd as it may sound, we're hoping that oil prices remain at uncomfortable levels in the near future to induce our society to head in this direction sooner rather than later. The last twenty years do not suggest that we will actually do anything of this sort as long as oil prices remain cheap or even modest. We gave our characters considerably more benefits and opportunity than most of us could reasonably expect or hope for under their circumstances. Perhaps the potential reality was simply too harsh to imagine. Or, maybe serendipity or faith could indeed power a sequence of fortunate developments that would materialize for a family without such a farsighted parent. In the end, it is all about sustainability. Mankind inherited an incredible trust fund of fossil fuel energy and the party has raged for a couple hundred years. What impressive trash we will leave for future anthropologists.

Download or read book Dusk at Dawn written by Kofi Aidoo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story unfolds mostly in two imaginary countries in West Africa and North America. Years of military coups and disillusionment after political independence persuade the people of a West African country to take the suggestion of a woman genius, Aberewa Tachiwaa, and go back in their history to retrieve what they have left behind. While the prospects of the new order look promising, the Gyase-hene, Osebo Okoampa plans to subvert them and become the first paramount chief, although he is not of royal lineage. The story shows how the Achem people of the Akan migrated first through Libya and then the Sahel region of the Niger Bend to their current place in the forest region of West Africa. The story also explains how the fabulous kente cloth was created centuries ago and how its name was derived.

Download or read book Dawn to Dusk written by Susie Miles Eutsey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Andrews was a farming town outside of Clayton, Alabama, and a setting for “Dawn to Dusk,” a prose predicated on the memories of a young girl growing up in a country town on her grandmother’s farm. From 1935 to 1948 this is a credible story of my experience on how we were raised, worked on the farm, and “living off the land.” I tried to describe the land, house, what growing up on the farm was like and how farming was managed, and grandmother skills to raised crops, livestock, pigs, poultry, vegetable in the 30’s and 40’s with manual farm machinery. We were raised without a mother and father. Our mother deceased in 1932, leaving four small children. One son, and three daughters. Our grandmother,aunts,uncles help raised us. Our father deceased in 1956.

Download or read book Dawn and Dusk written by Alice Mead and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-04-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and his country has been a harsh society full of spies, secrets, and "disappearances." Still, most of the time Azad manages to live a normal life, hanging out at the bakery next door, going to school with his friend Hiwa, playing sports, and taking care of his parrot. Then Azad learns that his town may soon become a target for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Now more than ever, Azad feels torn between his divorced parents and his conflicting desires to remain in his home or escape. His father is somehow connected to the police and is rooted in the town. His mother may be part of the insurgency, yet is ready to flee. How can Azad make the choice? The story of how one boy's world was turned upside down in 1987 Iran is a timely and memorable introduction to the conflicts in the Middle East.

Download or read book Eden Dusk written by Archer Swift and published by Archer Swift Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing murder charges in a Zikalic tribunal, Ristan Abel’s suspicions of the newly arrived spacecrafts gather traction. How did they escape Earth’s demise? Where have they been for a decade? And why does everything about their Captain smell foul? As answers come, Ristan sees a chance to redeem himself. But what risks are worth taking when failure could mean the destruction of the whole planet?

Download or read book Roman Dusk written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the unsettled time when Imperial Rome totters on the brink of collapse, the vampire Ragoczy Germainus Sanct' Franciscus—the Count Saint-Germain—finds himself targeted by a corrupt Roman official and accused of bribery, tax evasion, and treason. The storm that hovers over the vampire grows darker when he is accused of corrupting Ignatia, a young virgin. Her brother, a zealous covert to the new religion of Christianity, threatens to purify Saint-Germain with fire. And fire can destroy even the undead. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Download or read book Tran Trung Tin written by Sherry Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tran Trung Tin painted in Hanoi during the 60s and 70s, conveying the experience of the Vietnamese and the essence of human emotion in his images. When he was 12, he joined the Resisitance against the French who were occupying Vietnam at the time, devoting his youth to freeing his country only to be disappointed by the repression and misery that folowed. Living in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, forbidden to express himself in words, he turned to painting to communicate the contradictions of his time.

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