Download or read book The Pretend Villages written by Christopher Sims and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehearsing war: behind the scenes of the US military forces

Download or read book It Takes a Village written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.

Download or read book Place of the Pretend People written by Carolyn Kremers and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning narrative written by a teacher of the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Tununak ""is a memoir worth reading, "" reports the ""Anchorage Daily News.""

Download or read book Kill Class written by Nomi Stone and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kill class is based on two years of fieldwork the author conducted within combat trainings in simulated Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America"--

Download or read book All that Remains written by Walid Khalidi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Villages of Britain written by Clive Aslet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 1091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's villages are world famous for their loveliness and idiosyncratic charm. Each village is different; travel across the country and you will unearth a joyous variety, from straggly Leintwardine in Herefordshire to BBC-film-perfect Askrigg in Yorkshire to higgledy-piggledy tourist hub Polperro in Cornwall to Miserden in Gloucestershire, with its staggeringly beautiful gardens, to Pittenweemin Fife, still eking a living from fishing, to the warring villages of Donhead St. Mary and Donhead St. Andrew in Wiltshire. History and architecture account for some differences-the memorials in churches, the details of door frames and chimney stacks-but there are also differences of spirit, and in how life is lived there today. What are the thriving local businesses? What are they selling in the shops-or are there shops at all? What are the traditions, old or invented? Who are the people who make these communities work? In this captivating volume, Clive Aslet draws on thirty years of travel in the countryside working for Britain's Country Life magazine to give us a living, personal, and opinionated history of five hundred of Britain's most beautiful and vibrant villages. Meticulously researched and drawing from conversations with local residents, publicans, and vicars, this book is both an indispensable gazetteer for anyone planning to tour the countryside and a portrait of rural Britain in a time of change.

Download or read book Pretend I m Not Here written by Barbara Feinman Todd and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national’s capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway. Barbara Feinman Todd has spent a lifetime helping other people tell their stories. In the early 1980s, she worked for Bob Woodward, first as his research assistant in the paper’s investigative unit and, later, as his personal researcher for Veil, his bestselling book about the CIA. Next she helped Carl Bernstein, who was struggling to finish his memoir, Loyalties. She then assisted legendary editor Ben Bradlee on his acclaimed autobiography A Good Life, and she worked with Hillary Clinton on her bestselling It Takes a Village. Feinman Todd’s involvement with Mrs. Clinton made headlines when the First Lady neglected to acknowledge her role in the book’s creation, and later, when a disclosure to Woodward about the Clinton White House appeared in one of his books. These events haunted Feinman Todd for the next two decades until she confronted her past and discovered something startling. Revealing what it’s like to get into the heads and hearts of some of Washington’s most compelling and powerful figures, Feinman Todd offers authentic portraits that go beyond the carefully polished public personas that are the standard fare of the Washington publicity factory. At its heart, Pretend I’m Not Here is a funny and forthcoming story of a young woman in a male-dominated world trying to find her own voice while eloquently speaking for others.

Download or read book The Secrets of a Small English Village written by Roy Gould and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village’s matriarch, Chantry Bowman-Leggett, has a dilemma. Thirteen dead bodies have been found in the Old Rectory after attending a ‘Swingers party’. Does she call the police or would it be better for the village if the bodies were just made to disappear? Along with the dead bodies, there are secrets buried in the village. And then Detective Inspector Lore comes sniffing around and even more drastic action is called for...

Download or read book Monique and the Mango Rains written by Kris Holloway and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote corner of West Africa, Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the authors decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Moniques unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse in village life and learn firsthand the rhythms of Moniques world, they come to know her as a friend, as a mother, and as an inspired woman who struggled to find her place in a male-dominated world.

Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Download or read book Pretend You Don t See Her written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed in the federal witness protection program after seeing a murder, Manhattan real-estate agent Lacey Farrell nevertheless must solve the case before she becomes the next victim.

Download or read book My MS and E written by Kevin Byrne and published by NEVER STOP NEVER QUIT. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My MS and E is a children’s picture book depicting a typical interaction between Kevin and his daughter, Eleanor. They share an unbreakable father-daughter bond, even in the face of his ongoing struggles with multiple sclerosis. There are two versions of this story. When the story was first written, Eleanor refused to read it with me unless there were pictures. The second version is the original picture board used to read this to my daughter at bedtime.

Download or read book Running Out of Time written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

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Download or read book Prose written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet thoroughly apt metaphors to illuminate her ideas. This volume—edited by the poet, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic, and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz—includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Here are her famous as well as her lesser-known stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and—for the first time—her original draft of Brazil, the Time/Life volume she repudiated in its published version, and the correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson, the author of the first book-length volume devoted to Bishop.

Download or read book Marie Cadieux and the Fever Coast written by David Gennard and published by Prana Creative. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marie Cadieux is so vividly imagined that I’m already excited for her next adventure! Gripping, skilfully evoked, beautifully written. Strongly Recommend.” Caroline Cauchi “They don’t call it the fever coast for nothing. People go there, and they die.” Marie Cadieux Artist. Saboteur. Spy. Meet Marie Cadieux. 1889. Marie Cadieux has grown accustomed to life as an artist in Parisian high society. But the U.S. government expects more from their undercover spy. They want the Panama Canal. When a murder leads to plans capable of saving the flawed canal construction, Marie’s status changes to active. Now, her only chance of freedom from a life of spying lies in the jungle on the other side of the world. Can Marie sabotage the building of the Panama Canal and evade two rival detectives seeking justice? Maybe… But only if she can survive, the fever coast. David Gennard’s historical adventure-thriller is a page-turning debut you won’t want to miss.