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Book Striking a Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise Raw
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2011-03-10
  • ISBN : 1441121048
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Striking a Light written by Louise Raw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it. She provides unequivocal evidence to show that the matchwomen greatly influenced the Dock Strike of 1889, which until now was thought to be the key event of new unionism, and repositions them as the mothers of the modern labour movement. Returning to the stories of the women themselves, and by interviewing their relatives today, Raw is able to construct a new history which challenges existing accounts of the strike itself and radically alters the accepted history of the labour movement in Britain.

Book Ye that Have Faith

Download or read book Ye that Have Faith written by Bryceson Treharne and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Road Home

Download or read book The Lost Road Home written by Milly Balzarini and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?The Lost Road Home provides veterans and loved ones with the direction they need for help and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).?Do you know a veteran changed by the experience of war? Have you noticed impatience, explosive anger, alcohol or drug abuse, hopelessness, isolation, depression or reckless behavior? If so, you may know someone suffering from PTSD.In The Lost Road Home, Milly Balzarini shares the poignant, heart-wrenching stories of veterans from wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Korea and World War II suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. For these veterans, their world had changed. They had changed. Many felt lost and isolated because they returned to a world that refused to hear, or couldn?t understand, the trauma they had experienced in war. Because of these readjustment problems, an estimated 150,000 veterans from Vietnam alone committed suicide. Even today an estimated 6,200 veterans, including soldiers returning from Iraq, commit suicide each year?that?s 18 veterans a day, a rate twice that of the national average. This book provides help to veterans and families coping with post-traumatic stress disorder and shares the practical, real-world symptoms of PTSD along with how to get the medical and financial help so desperately needed.

Book Spiritus Magis

Download or read book Spiritus Magis written by Paul Totah and published by U.S. Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Will Survive

Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.

Book Lime Land Leisure

Download or read book Lime Land Leisure written by Charles N. Hollinshed and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition

Download or read book Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition written by Thomas McFarland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Day 9 at Wooreen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Hunter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-05
  • ISBN : 9781925642766
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Day 9 at Wooreen written by Rob Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day 9 at Wooreen paints a vivid picture of the Wooreen State School kidnapping of 1977. Written through the teacher's eyes, this gripping tale gives insight into the trauma experienced by the victims, the timely heroism of logging truck driver Robin Smith, and the bravery and commitment of the Victorian Police Force. The state school kidnappings of the 1970s shocked Australia. They stand as two of Victoria's most audacious and notorious crimes. The author celebrates the healing that is possible from such pain and torment, giving the reader renewed hope in a troubled world.

Book Any Day Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Cann
  • Publisher : Adelita Limited
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780955201776
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Any Day Now written by Kevin Cann and published by Adelita Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and highly visual chronology charting the rise of one of the most formidable artists of all time - David Bowie - from his birth in London in 1947 to the height of his success in 1974 with the release of his album Diamond Dogs and his departure from the UK. Author Kevin Cann is an associate of Bowie and has acted as his archivist for nearly 20 years - allowing him unprecedented access to extremely rare photographs and memorabilia which are here combined with interviews with over 100 of Bowie's friends and associates.

Book Ugliness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gretchen E. Henderson
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 1780235240
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Ugliness written by Gretchen E. Henderson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Ugly as sin', 'ugly duckling', 'rear its ugly head'. The word 'ugly' is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around 'feared and dreaded', ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination. Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley's monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Ugly dolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste. Henderson digs into the muck of ugliness, moving beyond the traditional philosophic argument or mere opposition to beauty, and emerges with more than a selection of fascinating tidbits. Following ugly bodies and dismantling ugly senses across periods and continents, [this book] draws on a wealth of fields to cross cultures and times, delineating the changing map of ugliness as it charges the public imagination. Illustrated with a range of artefacts, this book offers a refreshing perspective that moves beyond the surface to ask what 'ugly' truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift"--

Book Time Examined

Download or read book Time Examined written by Mika Vainio and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fresh from the Farm 6pk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rigby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781418914219
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Fresh from the Farm 6pk written by Rigby and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Marvellous Things Heard

Download or read book On Marvellous Things Heard written by Gretchen E. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived formally from Aristotle's Minor Work of the same title, my variation of "On Marvellous Things [Seen and] Heard" explores a range of literary appropriations of art and music, in terms of translation and metamorphosis. Part investigation, part inventory, and part invention (in the musical sense: a composition in simple counterpoint), this dissertation indirectly assays the narrating subject as she directly assays literatures that presume to speak, and not speak, of sounds and silences. Structured as a triptych (I. Critical Introductions, II. Creative Body, III. Critical Conclusions), three essays serve to frame the hybrid Galerie de Difformité at the collection's core. Adhering to natural processes of deformation and reformation, "On Marvellous Things Seen and Heard" draws upon a variety of disciplines and approaches, including museum studies, art history, disability studies, and music. In the vein of the "open work" (to borrow Umberto Eco's term), this critical and creative collection straddles literary genres to challenge their boundaries.

Book Clark Family

Download or read book Clark Family written by Clark (Family) and published by . This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers of Francis and Caroline Clark and descendants including John Howard Clark, Matthew Symonds Clark, Caroline Emily Clark, Susan Mary Crompton and Shirley Kate Beckwith. Comprises extracts from letters, copies of journals, plan of North Park Lands, observation notebooks of M.S. Clark relating to ornithology, school certificates, an account of the Boarding-Out Society, literary manuscript Greencreek, genealogy of Clark/Hill family, minutes of Jubilee 150 Clark Family Reunion Committee, photograph album, visitor's book, printed material and literary manuscript by J.H. Clark, and family tree of the descendants of Francis and Caroline Clark compiled by James Crompton.

Book Clark Family Correspondence

Download or read book Clark Family Correspondence written by Clark family and published by . This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most are letters from Edward H. Clark, Jr. to his parents while enrolled at the Hill School, a prep academy in Pottstown, Pa. Also included are several letters, one addressed to Mrs. [Phoebe Apperson] Hearst, from a portrait painter named Ethel Rosenberg.

Book Clark s Other Journal

Download or read book Clark s Other Journal written by William Clark and published by . This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: