Download or read book Screams of Burning Horses written by Michael Dean Kiggans and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . what we must strive for at the present moment is that every electric power station we build shall actually become a stronghold of enlightenment and that it should be devoted, so to speak, to the electrical education of the masses. . . . . . . it must be realized and remembered that we cannot institute electrification when we have illiterates. Our commission will endeavour to put an end to illiteracy—but that is not enough. It has done a good deal compared with what existed before, but it has done little compared with what has to be done. In addition to literacy, we need cultured, enlightened and educated toilers; the majority of the peasants must definitely realize the tasks confronting us. V. I. Lenin The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets *************** Jackson Banner stared out into the weary gray, early morning rain, and the huge substation switchyard, listening to the incoming high voltage transmission lines sizzling. *************** Screams of Burning Horses is about the last day of Jackson Banner’s life.

Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1882 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tales from Sacred Wind written by Cratis D. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a log cabin on Caines Creek, Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1911. To use his own terms, he was "a complete mountaineer." This book is an edited compilation of Williams' memoirs of his childhood. These autobiographical reminiscences often take the form of a folktale, with individual titles such as "Preacher Lang Gets Drunk" and "The Double Murder at Sledges." Schooled initially in traditional stories and ballads, he learned to read by the light of his grandfather's whiskey still and excelled at the local one-room school. After becoming the first person from Caines Creek to attend and graduate from the county high school in Louisa, he taught in one-room schools while pursuing his own education. He earned both a BA and MA from the University of Kentucky before moving to Appalachian State Teacher's College in 1942; later he earned a Ph.D. from New York University and then returned to Appalachian State.

Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang is a captivating narrative that brings the legendary figure of Helen of Troy to life. Known as the "face that launched a thousand ships," Helen's story is a timeless tale of beauty, love, and conflict. Lang's expert storytelling and meticulous research paint a vivid picture of Helen's life and the era she lived in. This is not just a tale of an individual, but a glimpse into the world of ancient Greek mythology. Ready to embark on an epic journey into the heart of Greek legend? Look no further than Helen of Troy. Grab your copy today!

Download or read book Masinissa Ally of Carthage written by Rob Edmunds and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masinissa: Ally of Carthage is the first part of the story of the experiences of the Numidian Prince and later King Masinissa during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Masinissa’s involvement in the war was substantial, even pivotal, and he is still revered today across North Africa as the founding father of the Amazigh/Berber people. The story begins in 2013 BC in Carthage, which has been Masinissa’s home for several years. He has fallen in love with Sophonisba, the beautiful daughter of one of the most senior Carthaginian generals. The two make promises to one another before Masinissa embarks west to enter the war as the commander of a substantial cavalry division. In terms of the wider world, Rome and Carthage – the most powerful nations of the time – have been at war for five years, ever since Hannibal crossed the Alpine passes and inflicted catastrophic and crippling defeats on the Roman armies at the battles of Trebia, Lake Trasimene and, most devastatingly, at Cannae, where an army of nearly 90,000 Romans was completely destroyed. The main theatres of war at this moment are the Roman siege of the Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily – which is being innovatively and belligerently defended, not least by the philosopher and scientist Archimedes – and the war in Iberia, which Masinissa is about to join with his Numidian forces.

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Download or read book The Brazen Serpent Chronicles written by R· Dennis Baird and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armies fight great battles, but individuals fight the greatest and most difficult campaigns within their own minds. These struggles do not involve the loss of men, equipment, or land; rather they revolve around the loss or attainment of character, integrity, and inner peace. From the Manual of Discipline found in the library of Vindry--author unknown Enter the world of The Brazen Serpent Chronicles, and discover a delightful journey into the lives of Widseth, Vera, and Fyan. Widseth must discover keys to unleash powers of light to rescue his mother from a terrifying descent into the darkness on nonentity. Vera is a young dragon of light called to the world before fully trained. She struggles to fulfill her potential before she can be overwhelmed by the controlling darkness of the ancient Dragon Master. Fyan seeks to master courage to lead his people against the horror of a resurrected evil that can control dragons of darkness. Join adventure in a fascinating world filled with history and cultures. Delve into characters driven by pain, sorrow, love, and hope. Light reveals the evil hidden by darkness, and darkness manipulates light to deceive individuals if they stray from their principles. Where will you stand?

Download or read book Make It Scream Make It Burn written by Leslie Jamison and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book. With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth. Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. The result is a provocative reminder of the joy and sustenance that can be found in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay One of the fall's most anticipated books: Time, Entertainment Weekly, O, Oprah Magazine, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Esquire, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, BuzzFeed, BookPage, The Millions, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Lit Hub, Women's Day, AV Club, Nylon, Bustle, Goop, Goodreads, Book Riot, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Pacific Standard, The Week, and Romper.

Download or read book Beside a Burning Sea written by John Shors and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances. View our feature on John Shors' Beside a Burning Sea. One moment, the World War II hospital ship Benevolence is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercy—to save wounded American soldiers. The next, Benevolence is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island. Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their company—and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their making—a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving. With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countries—all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.

Download or read book They Burn the Thistles written by Yashar Kemal and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force. Memed—introduced in Kemal’s legendary first novel, Memed, My Hawk, and a recurrent character in many of his books—is one of the few truly mythic figures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In They Burn the Thistles, one of the finest of Kemal’s novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at wit’s end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.

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