Download or read book Pebbled Roads written by VJ Dunn and published by HEA Publishers LLC. This book was released on with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord definitely works in mysterious ways. In Book 4 of the Road Trip Revival Series, Pebble Roads, Jean's about to find out exactly how mysterious those ways can be. She thought witnessing to a biker gang was out of her comfort zone, but that's nothing compared to what the Lord has planned next! Join Jean and Louie on their next crazy adventure as they venture into the backwoods of West Virginia and into moonshine country! If you like stories about slightly sarcastic "well-seasoned" ladies, then Road Trip Revival series is for you! Biblically truthful and Christian-based, the series is safe for the entire family.

Download or read book Up Down Roads and a Field of Suitcases written by Hurricane Cruz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam, an Aussie journalist, has always had a penchant for the unpredictable and the chaotic. It is no wonder then, that among the many places he visits, he falls in love with a part of history - a beautiful old town in South India called Kochi, built in the era of the Dutch and Portuguese. An offer by his Australian publishing house to visit and research the culture of Kochi, whets his fascination to learn more of the town and its people, culture, literary standing and dialect. The offer paves the way to a journey that would lead to surprises, treasures, life changing decisions and long standing friends. Adam's passion for the wanderlust and his uncanny penchant for this little town and in particular, one house in it, leads him on a trip of discovery and commitment. Despite the judgement of his very clear headed friends, and adversity in all shape and form, will Adam fulfil his quest and prove that this was no freak accident after all?

Download or read book Staging Death written by Anastasia Dakouri-Hild and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.

Download or read book Up Down Roads and a Field of Suitcases written by Erica Cruz and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam, an Australian journalist, has always had a penchant for the unpredictable and the chaotic. It is no wonder then that among the many places he visits, he falls in love with a part of historya beautiful old town in South India, then called Fort Cochin. It is an offer by his Australian publishing house to visit and research the culture of old Fort Cochin, which whets his fascination to learn more of the town and its people, culture, literary standing, and dialect. The surprise offer paves the way to a journey that will lead Adam to long-forgotten treasures, unspoken stories, life-changing decisions, and long-standing friends. Follow Adam on a nostalgic journey of destiny and discovery. What sort of treasure will Adam find under the floorboards of the old town house in South Indiaa house built decades ago in the era of Dutch occupancy? Despite the judgment of his very clear-headed friends, and adversity in all shape and form, will Adam fulfill his quest and prove that this was no freak accident after all?

Download or read book Special Catalogue of the Hygiene Exhibition written by Germany. Gesundheitsamt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sarah Milbourn s Mother written by Mary Alice Mark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Miami in the early 1960s. May introduces us to The Milbourns, a family from Arkansas, The Reverend Kind, some homeless folk, a librarian and a bully or two.

Download or read book Not Fade Away written by Rebecca A. Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring and moving memoir of a young woman who is slowly losing her sight and hearing yet continues to live life to its fullest potential. Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within. Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and she was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by thirty. Then, at eighteen, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered. None of us know what we would do in the face of such devastation. What Rebecca did was rise to every challenge she faced. She was losing her vision and hearing and her body was broken, but she refused to lose her drive, her zest for life, or—maybe most important—her sense of humor. Now, at thirty-five, with only a sliver of sight and significantly deteriorated hearing, she is a psychotherapist with two masters’ degrees from Columbia University and an athlete who teaches spin classes and regularly competes in extreme endurance races. She greets every day as if it were a gift, with boundless energy, innate curiosity, and a strength of spirit that have led her to places we can’t imagine. In Not Fade Away, Rebecca tells her extraordinary story, by turns harrowing, funny, and inspiring. She meditates on what she’s lost—from the sound of a whisper to seeing a sky full of stars, and what she’s found in return—an exquisite sense of intimacy with those she is closest to, a love of silence, a profound gratitude for everything she still has, and a joy in simple pleasures that most of us forget to notice. Not Fade Away is both a memoir of the senses and a unique look at the obstacles we all face—physical, psychological, and philosophical—exploring the extraordinary powers of memory, love, and perseverance. It is a gripping story, an offering of hope and motivation, and an exquisite reminder to live each day to its fullest.

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Download or read book To Life written by Ruth Minsky Sender and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WE ARE FREE!" When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering. Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, as long as there is life, there is hope, and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home. Picking up where her acclaimed memoir The Cage leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty.

Download or read book The Battle For Oz written by Jeyna Grace and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Battle For Oz, when the great world of Oz is taken over by an evil queen from a foreign land, Dorothy Gale and Alice Liddel must band together to save the city from the witch’s destruction.

Download or read book Far from a Pleasant Land written by Beryl Carpenter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Elena Torres dreams of love and a home like any young Jewish woman, but finds herself caught up in the disastrous events of 1492. Taking on heavy responsibility, she runs the family household and helps her ailing father. Meanwhile, Sara Elenas brother Luis enlists with Columbus voyage of discovery, and older brother Raul opens a mapmaking shop rather than carry on the family translation business. When visiting the newly conquered Alhambra, Sara overhears Ferdinand and Isabellas plan to expel the Jews from Spain. She prepares herself like Queen Esther of old, and begs the queen to reconsider. Pressures mount as Morales, the sly deputy of the Inquisition, stalks Sara Elena and her family. As historic events crowd in and personal disasters overtake her, Sara Elena must make impossible choices and escape the plans of the dangerous Morales. Where will she go? Who can she trust? Will she ever reach home?

Download or read book Fabricating an Educational Miracle written by Jinting Wu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China. In today’s China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghai’s stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility. Fabricating an Educational Miracle laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads. “This trenchant but nuanced ethnography offers a searing account of a suffocating snarl of scientism, audit culture, authoritarian pedagogy, and underhand dealings—a bureaucratic jungle that few individuals successfully navigate, and in which most instead submit to the banal disfigurement of their cultural traditions for the benefit of well-heeled tourists or to the indignities of migrant labor in inhospitable cities. Even those few who find an open door hesitate, fearful that the lure of apparent opportunity might trap them and their families in an ever-accelerating downward spiral. Wu’s deeply affecting account, leavened and enriched by a wickedly ironic eye for the revelations to be extracted from the tiniest detail, illuminates life choices and chances in contexts national, local, and personal. It represents the ethnography of knowledge and education at its compelling best.” — Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University “Jinting Wu presents a richly contextualized picture of education in contemporary rural China with a depth of knowledge and a command of ethnographic methods and appropriate theory that expands the picture beyond the confines of her research site and time. She weaves the many details together with a skill that allows the reader to understand their larger relevance and to not become overwhelmed. At the center of her ‘levels of analysis’ is the dilemma that rural youth face as they struggle to decide whether or not to seek more education beyond what is compulsory. As Wu demonstrates, such a decision is not entirely—if at all—a decision.” — John G. Richardson, Western Washington University “Theoretically sophisticated, analytically nuanced, empirically vivid, Fabricating an Educational Miracle could be the finest ethnography of education since Philip Jackson’s 1968 Life in Classrooms established the genre. Curriculum reform is no abstraction here: we become intimate with its unintended cultural and economic consequences as these are lived by actually existing individuals inhabiting a temporally heterogeneous now. Wu’s accomplishment is exceptional; it is profound.” — William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia

Download or read book If a Poem Could Live and Breathe written by Mary Calvi and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never before published—If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever. If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authenticity of first love, the heartache of loss, and how overcoming the worst of life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined.

Download or read book The Third Wave Other Stories written by Milton Queah and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Short Stories (some prize winning) written over a period of some thirty years presenting a wide ranging perspective of life. They portray experiences of individuals who in the course of their daily humdrum existence come upon momentous circumstances which jar their smug self complacency and change their entire outlook on life. A common strain which runs through all the stories is the utter vulnerability of the individual when pitted against the overpowering clatter of the machinery called life. There is a massive gush of apathetic mechanical activity out there which can anytime douse the tenuous flicker of ones own emotions. The Characters are drawn from various strata of society be they a daily wage earner, a smug sophomore, a confused young couple, a sexual pervert, a beleagured single woman, a nave teenage lover or a fling-seeking damsel well past her prime. Thrown into the cauldron of life each frantically struggle to keep their ends up. Some just succumb, while most finally resign themselves to the nebulous drift of existence, as undecipherable as the inexorable cycle of birth and death of stars.

Download or read book Iraq 2007 2012 written by Doc Cole and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is full of Army humor, and about 1-41 Field Artillery Battalion of Ft. Stewart GA, 3rd Infantry Division. It is a tale more of "Red Platoon" or "Red Steel." Still known as "Glorious Guns," we came to Ramadi Iraq during the Troop Surge of 2007. Some of us were young without plenty of experience in combat. Others like me were older and not experienced. The center of the story is me, "The Docfather." The irony of this combat experience is the akin to the movie "The Godfather." Like the Francis Ford Coppola's movie, it involves a Family "Red Platoon." The enemies of course were Al-Queda, and Iranians killing us in the middle of the night. Yet as a medic, my job was not to kill, but to heal. I have published a book like this via Fictionwise books under fiction. Truth be told, this book is anything but fiction. The blood you smell here is real. The M-4s firing bullets you hear were real. The five year old Iraqi boy who I could not save is real. For to me, God took him for a reason. Out of 38 Iraqis I tread, I lost two. One came to me with a .50 caliber round hole in his chest. By purchasing this book, you are helping not only me, but yourselves. Maybe if we change the way we wage war, or the way we spend money, we might save lives and money.

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Download or read book I Spy written by Daniel Ribacoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dan will teach you the do's and don'ts of surveillance; how to conduct a stakeout--from what to wear to what to bring; how to track down anyone anywhere; how to collect and interpret evidence; how to tell if someone is lying; how to utilize informants; how to protect your home, your valuables, and your privacy; how to go off-grid, for now or forever; how to know if you're being stalked; the fundamentals of garbage retrieval--and much, much more"--Dust jacket flap.