Download or read book Shadows of Life Reflections of Victory written by La'Shel Lovejoy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fourteen La'Shel nearly lost her life. Although never fully recovered, she refused to be held back. She has a passion to uplift anyone on the road of life itself. The permeating vein throughout her poetry is in reflecting on life itself and seeing the victory: our responses determine who we become. This is a very victorious young woman!
Download or read book Churchill Son written by Josh Ireland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph “Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did in The Splendid and the Vile.”―Kirkus • “Fascinating… well-researched and well-written.”—Andrew Roberts • “Beautifully written… A triumph.”—Damien Lewis • “Fascinating, acute and touching.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know Winston Churchill: the bulldog grimace, the ever-present cigar, the wit and wisdom that led Great Britain through the Second World War. Yet away from the House of Commons and the Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill was a loving family man who doted on his children, none more so than Randolph, his only boy and Winston's anointed heir to the Churchill legacy. Randolph may have been born in his father's shadow, but his father, who had been neglected by his own parents, was determined to see him go far. For decades, throughout Winston's climb to greatness, father and son were inseparable—dining with Britain's elite, gossiping and swilling Champagne at high society parties, holidaying on the French Riviera, touring Prohibition-era America. Captivated by Winston's power, bravery, and charisma, Randolph worshipped his father, and Winston obsessed over his son's future. But their love was complex and combustible, complicated by money, class, and privilege, shaded with ambition, outsize expectations, resentments, and failures. Deeply researched and magnificently written, Churchill & Son is a revealing and surprising portrait of one of history's most celebrated figures.
Download or read book Reflections on Victory written by Arthur Capel and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unlock Your Victory Code written by Christine Hardy and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you'll discover in the book: Filled with insightful messages and written in a personal and engaging style, Unlock Your Victory Code: The Key to Hope, Perseverance, and Triumph will guide your transformation from frustrated to fantastic! Exercises and questionnaires steer you towards achieving your personal goals--from physical well-being to finding your purpose in life. The text includes everything from living a mindful life to living joyfully, healthfully, and abundantly in any circumstance. This engaging workbook will help you identify and change your self-defeating behavior patterns in order to become a successful, fulfilled person. Through positive, encouraging messages, the author of Unlock Your Victory Code, Christine Hardy, provides step-by-step, achievable instructions to help you become the triumphant person you always knew you could be. Reading this book is the first step in your journey towards a happy, purposeful, and victorious life.
Download or read book Lights and Shadows of German Life written by M. M. Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labour Life and Literature written by Frederick Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creative Victory written by Tomas and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of readers around the world have been captivated by the writings of Carlos Casteneda. Now Tomas speaks to the compelling heart of that collective work through an inspirational commentary on the Toltec process of power.
Download or read book Foreshadows written by John Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reflection written by TLJ Heaven and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world we create will be a sustainable one. One without humanity. One without all those you love. We will reward you with being one of the last men to view the ashes of the world you currently know. And then we will let you die. To rectify the tragic loss of his eldest daughter Rebecca, Doctor Johnathan Grunge searched for solutions through his genetic studies. It was time for Doctor Grunge to unveil his years of research to the public domain. He was never aware of the full implications of his experiments. His focus was not shifted away from his DNA program, to the monster he created in the dark. The monster that kept him sleepless at night... The monster that lurked over his family...
Download or read book Churchill s Shadow The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill written by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture. Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft aphorisms, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England. And yet Churchill was also very often in the wrong: he brazenly contradicted his own previous political stances, was a disastrous military strategist, and inspired dislike and distrust through much of his life. Before 1939 he doubted the efficacy of tank and submarine warfare, opposed the bombing of cities only to reverse his position, shamelessly exploited the researchers and ghostwriters who wrote much of the journalism and the books published so lucratively under his name, and had an inordinate fondness for alcohol that once found him drinking whisky before breakfast. When he was appointed to the cabinet for the first time in 1908, a perceptive journalist called him “the most interesting problem of personal speculation in English politics.” More than a hundred years later, he remains a source of adulation, as well as misunderstanding. This revelatory new book takes on Churchill in his entirety, separating the man from the myth that he so carefully cultivated, and scrutinizing his legacy on both sides of the Atlantic. In effervescent prose, shot through with sly wit, Geoffrey Wheatcroft illuminates key moments and controversies in Churchill’s career—from the tragedy of Gallipoli, to his shocking imperialist and racist attitudes, dealings with Ireland, support for Zionism, and complicated engagement with European integration. Charting the evolution and appropriation of Churchill’s reputation through to the present day, Churchill’s Shadow colorfully renders the nuance and complexity of this giant of modern politics.
Download or read book Hope in the Dark written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Download or read book Paradise Is Life written by Joseph J. Capriccioso and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the love that makes you younger. With passion realized, you are one step closer. Dreams come true, blessing you. Take a chance on this romance. You are stronger than the darkness that searches. Confidence grows from her positive. The journey continues as one man learns that paradise is life! Paradise Is Life is the third book in the Tomorrows Song saga!
Download or read book Reflections on the Life and Death of Lord Clive written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Half in Shadow written by Shanna Greene Benjamin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.
Download or read book The Nature Book written by Tom Comitta and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part sweeping evocation of Earth’s rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a “literary supercut” that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction’s traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.
Download or read book Reflections written by Mark Zeitoun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as a water engineer, negotiator, and commentator, Mark Zeitoun provides a unique insider's account of our complex relationship with water. He explains how un-checked assumptions about water mix with political and economic systems to create an insatiable and ruinous thirst for ever more water. He shows how we use water to lethal effect in wars, and demolish drinking-water systems with wanton disregard. He questions why we transform the most majestic of rivers into canals which spark international conflict and challenge our capacity for preventative diplomacy. The answers reflect more about our society than we might care to admit. If we are to restore water's inner grace, Zeitoun argues, we should worry not so much about 'saving' water, but about what we do with it when it's in our hands. Reflections draws upon the author's decades of experience teaching and communicating complex water issues, and replaces widely held myths with new concepts from around the globe. He brings attention to the dissonance between how we see and feel about water and what we do with it, calling upon readers to develop an informed ethos of water that reflects the restorative nature of this essential resource.
Download or read book Reflections of Light written by Justin Skarott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonie and Riggs are outwitted by an opponent called Mulciber when they find themselves stranded on an alien world far from Earth, this is a world of giants. How will they make it back? Meanwhile mankind has invented Cruisers, spaceships that look like cars, beginning a new technological age. Yet Antonie believes that these Cruisers are a mistake for the Earth, what will he do to intervene? There is a new enemy, the Dark Kaltasean from the Shadow Assembly. And of course there is Santorias the spirit guide and Katelin Antonies’ girlfriend. Somebody close is going to betray Antonie, who? In addition 250 years into the future there is a war between Earth and an alien race bringing mankind to the brink of extinction. 500 years into the future Earth is plagued by civil war. In the present however things are building to a climax when Antonie is possessed by a lost God who takes on an entire army, Riggs counters the situation by also becoming God possessed. Who will survive the final battle?
