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Book The Indefatigable Crusader

Download or read book The Indefatigable Crusader written by Royston Fernandes and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indefatigable Crusader takes you through an inspiring journey of struggles and battles that Eric Ozario fought, for the lesser privileged and the downtrodden. It begins with the arrival of European Missionaries in Mangalore, and the socio-cultural and economic impact of their religious conversion of the locals. Eric’s life is an interesting mix of the appalling poverty and social isolation that he had to endure in his childhood, and the colourful larger than life persona that he displayed as he grew. His bitter experiences helped him analyse the true colours of this society and its unjust model, which he chose to oppose all his life. Eric’s crusades as a young man campaigning for the people of his ghetto, is electrifying, hair-raising, stimulating and motivating. His fight, leading the Christian workers against their employer – the church, is definitely emotive to many and may even be scandalous to a few. All his struggles particularly in Christian establishments blatantly expose the duplicity of organised religion. But what may surprise many readers is the fact that Eric, despite leading the agitations, is also, a celebrated composer and singer par excellence. He is not only a distinguished artiste, but also is a creative innovator, an excellent organiser, an eminent educator, an admired leader and an illustrious, untiring Konkani activist who through his organisation Mandd Sobhann, has rejuvenated Konkani language and culture. Eric’s life is a perfect blend of the brave tiger that fought for the people and the flamboyant peacock that performed before the world – a rare combination that only a few celebrated and accomplished personalities in the history of this world possess. His stimulating and saluted life will, without doubt, inspire and awaken the revolutionary in you.

Book Medi  val Popes  Emperors  Kings  and Crusaders

Download or read book Medi val Popes Emperors Kings and Crusaders written by M. M. Busk and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusades

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-08-12
  • ISBN : 1351985728
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Crusades written by Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Volume 5 is notable for John's France's article, 'Two types of vision on the First Crusade: Stephen of Valence and Peter Bartholomew'.

Book The Social Crusader

Download or read book The Social Crusader written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crusader Armies

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  • Author : Steve Tibble
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-21
  • ISBN : 0300218141
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Crusader Armies written by Steve Tibble and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and archaeological evidence as well as more commonly cited Western sources to analyze the respective armies’ strategy, adaptation, evolution, and cultural diversity and show just how sophisticated the Crusader armies were even by today’s standards. In the first comprehensive account of the subject in sixty years, Tibble takes a fresh approach to Templars, Hospitallers, and other key Orders and makes the controversial proposition that the Crusades were driven as much by sedentary versus nomadic tribal concerns as by religious conflict. This fluently written, broad-ranging narrative provides a crucial missing piece in the study of the West’s attempts to colonize the Middle East during the Middle Ages.

Book Crusader s Torch

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  • Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1989-11-15
  • ISBN : 1466807695
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Crusader s Torch written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-11-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 1189 A.D., and war is raging all around the Mediterranean. Any woman would fear travelling among the pirates, bandits and renegade Christian knights who flock to the call of battle--but Atta Olivia Clemens has a special reason to fear... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book A History of the Crusades  Volume IV

Download or read book A History of the Crusades Volume IV written by Kenneth Meyer Setton and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. The six volumes stand as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.

Book The London Philatelist

Download or read book The London Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Evil in the Medieval Age

Download or read book The History of Evil in the Medieval Age written by Andrew Pinsent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of The History of Evil explores the philosophy of evil in the long Middle Ages. Starting from the Augustinian theme of evil as a deprivation or perversion of what is good, this period saw the maturation of concepts of natural evil, of evil as sin involving the will, and of malicious agents aiming to increase evil in general and sin in particular. Comprising fifteen chapters, the contributions address key figures of the Christian Middle Ages or traditions sharing some similar cultural backgrounds, such as medieval Judaism and Islam. Other chapters examine contemporaneous developments in the Middle East, China, India and Japan. The volume concludes with an overview of contemporary transpositions of Dante, illustrating the remarkable cultural influence of medieval accounts of evil today. This outstanding treatment of the history of evil at the crucial and determinative inception of its key concepts will appeal to those with particular interests in the ideas of evil and good.

Book The American People in the Great Depression

Download or read book The American People in the Great Depression written by David M. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly shared as legend portrays. Countless Americans eked out threadbare lives on the margins of national life. Roosevelt's New Deal wrenched opportunity from the trauma of the 1930s and created a lasting legacy of economic and social reform, but it was afflicted with shortcomings and contradictions as well. With an even hand Kennedy details the New Deal's problems and defeats, as well as its achievements. He also sheds fresh light on its incandescent but enigmatic author, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Marshalling unforgettable narratives that feature prominent leaders as well as lesser-known citizens, The American People in the Great Depression tells the story of a resilient nation finding courage in an unrelenting storm.

Book No Ordinary Joe

Download or read book No Ordinary Joe written by Daniel W. Pfaff and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines that life and career of Joseph Pulitzer III, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was the head of the Pulitzer Publishing Company, and he served as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University for thirty-one years"--Provided by publisher.

Book Ghost Empire

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  • Author : Philip Marchand
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2009-02-24
  • ISBN : 1551991756
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Ghost Empire written by Philip Marchand and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle. This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy. After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role. Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the survivals of this diaspora from late-night bars, battle reenactments, parish churches, and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. And throughout he draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.

Book Changing Times

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  • Author : Kayode Odumade
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2019-04-22
  • ISBN : 1796018929
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Changing Times written by Kayode Odumade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting international story, Banji is offered a once-in-a-lifetime job in his home country of Nigeria. After leaving his successful career in the States, he takes the job and relocates with his wife to see what adventures and growth await him in Africa. The book is packed with culture, international intrigue, Banji’s growth, family dynamics, and much more. Changing Times is a fictional story circled around passion, betrayal, loyalty, and how one man’s changed circumstance would be of a benefit to others.

Book Trilogy

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  • Author : Chinenye Ce
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9783603426
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Trilogy written by Chinenye Ce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chin Ce, one of the important voices of contemporary African writing, is author of three published works of fiction: Children of Koloko, Gamji College and The Visitor which appear together here for the first time. Children of Koloko is Chin Ce's first novel told through the eyes of young Yoyo and his friends, Buff and Dickie. The story spans the life and habits of a semi urban Nigerian town (Koloko) and her people. In the short story collection Children of Koloko Chin Ce displays his admirable craft in dialogue in his portraiture of characters who only reflect the modern sensitivities of Africa's dying values. Gamji College is Chin Ce's second published prose fiction dealing on the character of the new nation states of Africa under the various civilian and military regimes that govern them in the twenty-first century. The Visitor is a story set in the future (2040 AD) where Deego views a movie and triggers off series of experiences which draw from a history of crime and death. It features Mensa as villain and victim in a 1994 Third World country (Nigeria).

Book A Short History of Medical Ethics

Download or read book A Short History of Medical Ethics written by Albert R. Jonsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A physician says, "I have an ethical obligation never to cause the death of a patient," another responds, "My ethical obligation is to relieve pain even if the patient dies." The current argument over the role of physicians in assisting patients to die constantly refers to the ethical duties of the profession. References to the Hippocratic Oath are often heard. Many modern problems, from assisted suicide to accessible health care, raise questions about the traditional ethics of medicine and the medical profession. However, few know what the traditional ethics are and how they came into being. This book provides a brief tour of the complex story of medical ethics evolved over centuries in both Western and Eastern culture. It sets this story in the social and cultural contexts in which the work of healing was practiced and suggests that, behind the many different perceptions about the ethical duties of physicians, certain themes appear constantly, and may be relevant to modern debates. The book begins with the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece, moves through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe, and the long history of Indian 7nd Chinese medicine, ending as the problems raised modern medical science and technology challenge the settled ethics of the long tradition.

Book The French Left and the Fifth Republic

Download or read book The French Left and the Fifth Republic written by John Gaffney and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-02-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of presidentialism and the myths which underpin it. The study aims to illustrate the crucial role played by language in the political practice of representative democracy.