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Book Friend and Foe

    Book Details:
  • Author : David G. Weaver
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1477298452
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Friend and Foe written by David G. Weaver and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1930s, high-schooler Joe Sullivan, slightly crippled by a childhood accident and therefore ineligible for enlistment in the US Armed forces feels his future is very dim. Befriended by a Japanese maritime radio officer, Takeo Okada, Joe decides to become a ship's radioman. After obtaining an amateur radio operator's license and a commercial op's certificate, Joe maintains radio contact with his Japanese benefactor until he hears from another Japanese amateur that Takeo was lost in a ship wreck. Applying for a shipboard radio job just before his 18th birthday, Joe meets and is seduced by Kate Nelson, the company president's secretary. He becomes involved in a continuing feud with "Bull" Taylor, the ship's first mate. He learns that both his parents are killed in an auto accident. Joe, despondent over the loss of Takeo and his parents turns too whiskey and women. In a stop-over in Hawaii he meets and falls in love with a nisei, Myoshi. After a short-lived affair, Joe departs Hawaii. When his ship strikes a Japanese mine near Makin Island, Joe is the sole survivor. Rescued by native fishermen he is taken to a hospital on a French controlled island. Regaining his health, he is taken to Australia where he is induced by the officer in charge of coast watchers to serve a half-year stint on an isolated island. After reporting enemy ship movement during the Battle of the Coral Sea, Joe is unnerved when he sees a one- armed man put ashore on the opposite end of the island by Japanese navy men. He later discovers that the one armed man is his old friend. Takeo had lost an arm when attacked by sharks, and was no longer an asset to the IJN as a fighting man. The two renew their old friendship even though their countries are at war - friend and foe. They enjoy their island life even though alarmed by several incidents that threatened discovery. When the time comes for Joe to be relieved of his duty, he sadly leaves his friend alone on the island.

Book Friend  Foe  Or Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Tilson Clark
  • Publisher : Human Error Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-31
  • ISBN : 9780997347227
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Friend Foe Or Family written by Deborah Tilson Clark and published by Human Error Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this selection of ten short stories, Deborah Clark creates a community of characters and shared culture that, while part of the people, time and place of traditional Appalachia, also is set firmly in today's sensibilities. Each story features a women who is caugh up in her relationships - to her neighbors, her work, her family or her own spirituality - and is working through them, easing the efforts with humor and honesty.

Book Religion in Philanthropic Organizations

Download or read book Religion in Philanthropic Organizations written by Thomas J. Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of organizations and examines the effect assumptions about "professional" philanthropy have had on how religious philanthropies carry out their activities. Among the organizations discussed are the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches, and Catholic Charities USA. The essays focus on the work of one individual, Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse, and on more general matters such as philanthropy and Jewish identity, American Muslim philanthropy since 9/11, and the federal program that funds faith-based initiatives. The book sheds light on how religion and philanthropy function in American society, shaping and being shaped by the culture and its notions of the "common good."

Book Friend Or Foe

Download or read book Friend Or Foe written by John Sobol and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lonely mouse lived in a small house beside a great palace. In the great palace lived a cat." Each night the mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower. Is the cat my friend? he wonders. Determined to find out, he bravely makes his way into the palace through a tiny hole and climbs all the way up to the tower, where the cat sits on the windowsill. "Hello, are you friend or foe?" he squeaks. This simple story by John Sobol has a surprising outcome, giving young readers a chance to draw their own conclusions. It is perfectly complemented by Dasha Tolstikova's subtle yet striking illustrations.

Book A Friend of the Family

Download or read book A Friend of the Family written by Lisa Jewell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend � Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn�t; prize-winning novelist Sean�s got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer�s block; and Ned�s just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him � or a clue what he�s going to do with his life. If that wasn�t enough for one household, the Londons also have a new lodger � a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend � or foe � to the family?

Book Fire

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  • Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780395730812
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Fire written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses forest fires and the effect that they have on both people and the natural world.

Book Friend Or Foe

Download or read book Friend Or Foe written by Tim A. Flener and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great help in developing relationships, or while you advise/ teach others in maintaining Biblical friendships. A fun read to accompany us in our daily interactions with the community God has placed us in "Friend or Foe" can be read a page a day during the morning, as you prepare to connect with friends, other students or family. Chapter titles include: Not for sale. I'm Sorry. Words. One Another, and more. The book contains a page for everyday of the month and can be re read every month or as an easy read in one or two sittings. Great for teens and their mentors!

Book Friend Or Foe

Download or read book Friend Or Foe written by Michael Morpurgo and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend or Foe is a gripping World War II story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. Then one night the skyline of the moor is lit up with gun flashes, and the distant crump of bombing miles away brings the war back to them and shatters their new-found peace. When a German bomber crashes, the boys feel they should hate the airmen inside. But one of them saves David's life ... In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie's War, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Friend or Foe is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history. From the author of War Horse (now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg) comes a stunning children's story - loved by kids, teachers and parents alike. Michael Morpurgo has written more than forty books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal four times.

Book Friend   Foe

Download or read book Friend Foe written by Adam Galinsky and published by Currency. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate with others. In FRIEND AND FOE, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hardwired to compete or cooperate, we have evolved to do both. In every relationship, from co-workers to friends to spouses to siblings we are both friends and foes. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want. Here, Galinsky and Schweitzer draw on original, cutting edge research from their own labs and from across the social sciences as well as vivid real-world examples to show how to maximize success in work and in life by deftly navigating the tension between cooperation and competition. They offer insights and advice ranging from: how to gain power and keep it, how to build trust and repair trust once it’s broken, how to diffuse workplace conflict and bias, how to find the right comparisons to motivate us and make us happier, and how to succeed in negotiations – ensuring that we achieve our own goals and satisfy those of our counterparts. Along the way, they pose and offer surprising answers to a number of perplexing puzzles: when does too much talent undermine success; why can acting less competently gain you status and authority, where do many gender differences in the workplace really come from, how can you use deception to build trust, and why do you want to go last on American Idol and in many interview situations, but make the first offer when negotiating the sale of a new car. We perform at our very best when we hold cooperation and competition in the right balance. This book is a guide for navigating our social and professional worlds by learning when to cooperate as a friend and when to compete as a foe—and how to be better at both.

Book Doing the Ordained Thing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ral Waltower
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1493188496
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Doing the Ordained Thing written by Ral Waltower and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside of every person God created He placed a seed that has an instruction from Him of who He created you to be and what He created for you to do. No matter where you were born, whether on the wrong or the right side of tracks God has an ordained purpose for you. This purpose was sown into the fabric of who you are and if properly stirred and nourished you would naturally grow into the existence of the real you. Unfortunately, due to the pressures of the world around us, expectations of others, a divergent relationship with your Manufacturer, our ordained purpose either gets lost or is suppressed beyond all recognition. This book is inspired by the Holy Spirit to awaken, challenge and move you to begin Doing the Ordained Thing. You are not too young, old, poor, busy or tired to start walking into who you really are. Aren’t you tired of being someone else? If so, the pages in this book, if applied, will move you in the direction of Doing the Ordained Thing. Come along for the ride and see what the Lord has in store for you.

Book Click  Click  Who s There

Download or read book Click Click Who s There written by Koh and published by Lhk Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... This book provides a non-intimidating, non-technical approach to help you build a solid foundation for your family to live ethically and safely in the online world. The one or two hours it will take to read this book might be one of the greatest investments you make.

Book Friend Or Foe 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mimi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-13
  • ISBN : 9781952936579
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Friend Or Foe 2 written by Mimi and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sisterhood that had been tighter than a whore's dress has been completely destroyed. After discovering that her husband has fathered a child with her best friend, SASHA, in an extreme state of emotional vulnerability, falls for NASIR, a man who is definitely forbidden fruit. And with that, comes the drama! JADE has been infected with HIV, a shocking development that has her drowning in alcohol abuse. At the same time, the sisterhood she shared with her friends is in tatters and it seems nothing can repair the women's bond. But all hope is not lost. Meanwhile, CARMEN and DENISE are facing their own dilemmas. Will Carmen be able to hold it together or will she try to end it all? Unforgivable Sins turn to Unforgivable Betrayal as more secrets unfold, and the question remains: is it FRIEND OR FOE?

Book The Family Friend

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Family Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unbelievable

Download or read book Unbelievable written by A. Mark Man and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbelievable begins in Philadelphia,.. PA, in the late 1940s with an..adolescent trying to understand life.. as a man. He's not aware of rich or.. poor, happy or sad, black and white,. or the real difference between man. and woman. Sometimes naïve about life, family, and friends, he tries to adjust to the various situations that come to him during his life. His feelings of equality to other men pertaining to brains, bravery, and brute strength is always questioned through his life. He deals with problems of envy, lust, hate, grief, and forgiveness in his own way. Always wanting to be a better person, he separates in his mind right from wrong and searches for people to trust in his life ahead. His ups and downs and depressions cause him to withdraw from a normal life. He develops addictions and desires to constantly overcome to make him a better person. His writing skill of poems and jokes and his belief in God will get him through knowing God's purpose in life is not to be questioned by mortal man. His personal tragedies in his life overwhelms him to the brink of suicide. However, his memories of a few people that influence his life brings him back to reality. He's determined not to give in and take his own life. Instead of giving up, he turns his life around to make himself a better person.

Book The Family treasury of Sunday reading  ed  by A  Cameron  W  Arnot    Continued as  The Christian monthly and family treasury

Download or read book The Family treasury of Sunday reading ed by A Cameron W Arnot Continued as The Christian monthly and family treasury written by rev Andrew Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Friend or Foe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nils Hägerdal
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2021-07-06
  • ISBN : 0231553722
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Friend or Foe written by Nils Hägerdal and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When civil conflicts break out in plural societies, violence often occurs along group divides—running the risk of spiraling into ethnic cleansing. Yet for militants who do not seek ethnic separation as a political goal, indiscriminate attacks are detrimental to their cause. Under what circumstances are such combatants more or less likely to commit ethnic violence? Nils Hägerdal examines the Lebanese civil war to offer a new theory that highlights the interplay of ethnicity and intelligence gathering. He shows that when militias can obtain reliable intelligence—particularly in demographically intermixed areas where information can cross ethnic boundaries—they are likely to refrain from indiscriminate tactics. Access to local intelligence helps armed groups distinguish between neutral and hostile non-coethnics to target individual opponents while leaving civilians in peace. Conversely, when militias struggle to access local information, they often fall back on ethnicity as a proxy for political allegiance, with bloody consequences. As intelligence capabilities shape the course of sectarian strife, the role of ethnicity can vary even within a particular conflict. Hägerdal conducted sixteen months of fieldwork in Lebanon, interviewing former militia fighters and commanders and collecting novel statistical evidence. He combines documentation by government agencies, NGOs, local news media, and the United Nations with firsthand narratives by participants to provide an unparalleled account of the processes that generate violence or coexistence when a diverse society descends into armed conflict. Theoretically innovative and descriptively rich, Friend or Foe sheds new light on the logic and dynamics of ethnic violence in civil wars.

Book Diary of a Patient  Her Illness  Family  and Friends

Download or read book Diary of a Patient Her Illness Family and Friends written by Joyce Pleasant and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about a woman who at the age of 50 years old started having signs and symptoms of an incurable disease that nearly killed her several times and threatened her family's survival. It's about how real is the( marriage vows through sickness and in health)when the one you love is sick for years. It's about over-commitment, sacrifice and love that leads to exhaustion and sickness when not enough helpers support the person who takes care of the sick. It's about feelings of hopelessness when there is no medical insurance to ensure needed care or money to buy medication to keep you alive for one more day. It's about having the courage to not give up even when your body is racked with pain and your physical appearance scares You and others when they look at you and they sometimes want to look away because of the suffering that is seen and felt. It's about prayer's to the Creator of All life that did get answered over and over again.