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Book The Long Iron Tracks

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. W. Nelson
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2020-10-02
  • ISBN : 1725278014
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book The Long Iron Tracks written by A. W. Nelson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Iron Tracks is an imaginative short story that follows the transformative journey of a steam engine named Courage as he encounters the risen person of Jesus in the form of an engineer. The story begins with Courage lying stuck and rusted on a network of iron tracks. In the midst of his despair, the engineer invites Courage to participate in a series of restorative events that bring Courage, his friends, and nature itself into greater communion with the Creator. Courage explores the world of the Creator, following the voice of the Engineer and the roaring pull of the Lion whistle that he bears, through the darkness of a forest and the fury of a hurricane. Along this journey, Courage wrestles with the nature of fear, justice, and the Christian identity, before finally coming face to face with the Creator. This encounter proves both sustaining and breathtaking, as Courage realizes that the Creator's intent has always been to find him and restore him to his true self; and that, despite the gnawing fear inside of him, Courage will never be alone.

Book Function and Fantasy  Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Function and Fantasy Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of iron – and later steel – construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century. Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart – for the first time – the global reach of iron’s architectural reception, from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into architecture’s traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of its structural and ornamental roles. The book is divided into three sections. Formations considers the rising tension between the desire to translate traditional architectural motifs into iron and the nascent feeling that iron buildings were themselves creating an entirely new field of aesthetic expression. Exchanges charts the commercial and cultural interactions that took place between British iron foundries and clients in far-flung locations such as Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria and Australia. Expressing colonial control as well as local agency, iron buildings struck a balance between pre-fabricated functionalism and a desire to convey beauty, value and often exoticism through ornament. Transformations looks at the place of the aesthetics of iron architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period in which iron ornament sought to harmonize wide social ambitions while offering the tantalizing possibility that iron architecture as a whole could transform the fundamental meanings of ornament. Taken together, these chapters call for a re-evaluation of modernism’s supposedly rationalist interest in nineteenth-century iron structures, one that has potentially radical implications for the recent ornamental turn in contemporary architecture.

Book Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report

Download or read book Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report written by Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iron Tracks

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  • Author : Aharon Appelfeld
  • Publisher : Schocken
  • Release : 2016-11-02
  • ISBN : 0307486397
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Iron Tracks written by Aharon Appelfeld and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind? Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive today." Ever since he was released from a concentration camp forty years earlier, Erwin Siegelbaum has been obsessively riding the trains of postwar Austria. His days are filled with drink, his nights with brief love affairs and the torments of his nightmares. What keeps him sane is his mission to collect the menorahs, kiddush cups, and holy books that have survived their vanished owners. And the hope that one day he will find the Nazi officer who murdered his parents—and have the strength to kill him. A haunting exploration of one survivor's complex, wrenching, inner world, The Iron Tracks is distinguished by the depth of insight and the distinctively stark, elegant style that have won Aharon Appelfeld recognition as one of the world's great writers.

Book Iron Confederacies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-10-12
  • ISBN : 0807876100
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Iron Confederacies written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.

Book Polar Region Explorers 2 Book Bundle

Download or read book Polar Region Explorers 2 Book Bundle written by Anthony Dalton and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Anthony Dalton’s outstanding writing on Canada's polar regions, their history, and their greatest explorers. “Dalton does an excellent job ... a very enjoyable read.”— Bios Newsletter Includes: River Rough, River Smooth Manitoba’s Hayes River runs over 600 km, from Norway House to Hudson Bay. Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, it became a major fur trade route from the 17th to 19th centuries. This is the account of the author’s journey on the Hayes in the company of modern-day voyageurs reliving the past. Arctic Naturalist J. Dewey Soper was the last of the great pioneer naturalists in Canada, and spent many years in the Arctic, where he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose and charted the final unknown region of Baffin Islands coastline.

Book Best Little Stories from the White House

Download or read book Best Little Stories from the White House written by C. Brian Kelly and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the White House's impressive facade lies the long history of the men who have lived and governed within it's walls. From births to deaths, weddings to funerals, the White House has seen it all. In Best Little Stories from the White House, author C. Brian Kelly takes us on a tour of the White House's fascinating history, giving us a glimpse of the most memorable presidential moments: Theodore Roosevelt 's children once snuck their pony upstairs in the White House elevator to cheer up their sick brother. Winston Churchill once suffered a minor heart episode while struggling with a stuck window in the White House. John Quincy Adams was known to skinny-dip in the Potomac. Woodrow Wilson liked to chase up and down the White House corridors playing "rooster fighting" with his daughter Nellie.

Book No Excuses

Download or read book No Excuses written by J. Larry Simpson I and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No Excuses” is the true story of a boy traveling across America with his family and their fifty-foot-long trailer full of adventures in the 1950’s. Going to fifteen schools, in ten states, and twenty-four moves, Larry ventured his life from adventure to adventure. From the ‘Muscadine highway,’ to ‘the runaway tractor’ the trailer boy lived thrilling escapades. You will become a part of this soul stirring journey from Gallatin to the Mojave Desert or dancing at the Black Hawk Grill. The author bids you to join him in the ‘53 Ford, descending the wicked Sitgreaves Pass pushed by the sixteen thousand pounds of the Simpson’s home on wheels. Travel with the ‘kid’ as he makes his own and others’ lives a ‘gala affair’. High thrilling adventure awaits you with joy and tears from this one blessed life. The trailer boy’s inspiring story will move you to live your only life fully without excuses.

Book Pearly Ripples

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  • Author : Prajna R
  • Publisher : JEC PUBLICATION
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 935850319X
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Pearly Ripples written by Prajna R and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearly Ripples, is dedicated to all the writers, poets and dreamers whose unwavering courage and creative expressions illuminate the world. Their presence makes the world a better place and fills me with hope and happiness! This anthology is my humble tribute to their remarkable contributions. I hope it echoes their spirit of hope!

Book Nuclear Tracks in Solids

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  • Author : Robert Louis Fleischer
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1975-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520026650
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Nuclear Tracks in Solids written by Robert Louis Fleischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering     New Edition  Mostly Rewritten  and Augmented  Etc

Download or read book An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering New Edition Mostly Rewritten and Augmented Etc written by Dennis Hart Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Course of Civil Engineering

Download or read book Course of Civil Engineering written by D. H. Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering     Edited by Professor Barlow

Download or read book An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering Edited by Professor Barlow written by Dennis Hart Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iron Trade Review

Download or read book Iron Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge

Download or read book The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fourth Annual Symposium on Hot Laboratories and Equipment

Download or read book Fourth Annual Symposium on Hot Laboratories and Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist

Download or read book Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist written by Samuel H. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: