Download or read book Hugger Mugger Cloak and Dagger written by Yashera Vinthe and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yashera Vinthe, the author, attempts to answer some of the haunting questions that plague us human beings – especially at a time when we arrive at a crossroads in our lives – questions that bother us sometimes to the point of despair, depression or even suicide. Questions like “Is this all there is to life?”, “Why do I feel so empty inside?”, “What am I missing in life?”, Why does life seem so unfair?”, “Why am I not happy?”, “How do I get to live a fulfilled and abundant life?”, and variations of these. A very few of us escape these questions, while the vast majority of us continue to suffer in silence or ignorance. Yashera paints a picture of the dilemmas she faced and the path she finally chose to pursue when faced with her own crossroads. Her answers to some of these questions are forthrightly hard hitting and even brutal at times, but her bold and different perspective on life are surprisingly comforting and believable and even do-able. She hopes her book will aid suffering people find relief in her straightforward discourse and guide them in their pursuit of joy.
Download or read book The Yellow Cross written by Rene Weis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the tenets set forth by Rome, found themselves the focus of ruthless repression. In systematic waves of brutal persecution, thousands of Cathars were captured, summarily tried, and burned at the stake as heretics. Yet so ardent was their faith that during the years 1290 to 1329, the Cathars rose up one last time. René Weis tells the dramatic and moving story of these thirty years, offering a rich medieval tale of faith, adventure, sex, and courage. Having spent years exploring a rich trove of untouched information, including trial records and interrogation transcripts, Weis creates a remarkably detailed portrait of the last great gasp of the movement and the day-to-day life of the individual Cathars in their villages. This is an exceptionally vivid re-creation of a fascinating, and otherwise lost, world.
Download or read book Oxford Thesaurus of English written by Maurice Waite and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The leading single-volume English thesaurus explores the richness of the English language with hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms, and thousands of example sentences drawn from the Oxford English Corpus; finds the word you need quickly with carefully chosen and arranged synonyms; broadens your vocabulary and finds solutions to word puzzles and crosswords with hundreds of thematic word lists; and helps express yourself more accurately with hundreds of 'Choose the Right Word' boxes exploring the difference between similar words." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Shadow Warrior written by Randall B. Woods and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life and career of William Egan Colby, one of the most controversial figures of the postwar period: World War II commando, Cold War spy, Saigon CIA station chief, and eventual CIA director under Nixon and Ford, he played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events in 20th-century history.
Download or read book Challenging the Secret Government written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal 'son of Watergate.' Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms. For all of its post-Watergate zeal, the press hesitated to break its long tradition of deference in national security coverage. Congress, too, was unwilling to challenge the executive branch in national security matters. Reports of the demise of the executive branch were greatly exaggerated, and the result of the 'year of intelligence' was a return to the status quo. American History/Journalism
Download or read book Wedge written by Mark Riebling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophetic when first published, even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself. Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and re-creates -- battle by battle, bungle by bungle -- the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA -- and the rival personalities of cops and spies -- have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths. A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda -- Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence. Gripping and authoritative -- and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001 -- Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.
Download or read book Twin Tracks written by James Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world. Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter," Burke's twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft. Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.
Download or read book Language Learning with Technology written by Graham Stanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Contains over 130 practical classroom activities suitable for beginners to more advanced learners, incorporating a wide range of up-to-date tools, such as mobile technologies and social networking"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Roget s II written by Peter Mark Roget and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, is the essential writing tool for every classroom, home, and office, providing all the features that have made Roget's a trusted name for 100 years. The most accessible and easy-to-use thesaurus available, Roget's II includes: Clear, accurate definitions for every synonym group, so you can find just the word you're looking for. Complete alphabetical listing of all synonyms, fully cross-referenced to the main entries. Unique category index of related words and words of opposite meaning to expand and enrich your word choices. With 35,000 synonyms listed and defined, Roget's II is an effective tool for students, writers, professionals, or anyone searching for just the right word!
Download or read book Roget s II written by Penguin Books Staff and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1985-08-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesaurus just contains synonyms.
Download or read book Roget s II Desk Thesaurus written by Roget and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roget's II Desk Thesaurus combines the features of Roget's II: The New Thesaurus with a convenient trim size, making it indispensable for use in the home, at school, or in the office. Over 35,000 entries are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. This volume includes examples of words in context at all definitions and thousands of helpful cross-references. The unique format of the Desk Thesaurus makes it the most user-friendly thesaurus available.
Download or read book Mallarm and Circumstance written by Roger Pearson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his Unfolding Mallarme: The Development of a Poetic Art, this book is the second in Roger Pearson's authoritative two-volume study of the work of Stephanie Mallarme (1842-1898), and the first comprehensive study of Mallarme's 'poetry of circumstance' in any language. For Mallarme,in a world without God, the role of the poet is to break the silence with language and to confer upon the contingency of circumstance a therapeutic semblance of formal and semantic pattern. Literature provides a 'translation of silence', 'intimate galas' in which the mysterious drama of the humancondition is performed for and by the reader on the stage of the verse poem, the prose poem, and what Mallarme calls the 'poeme critique'. In Part 1, Pearson examines the prose poems within the context of Mallarme's writing about the theatre. In Part II, he focuses on the 'circumstanzas' - thefamous 'Tombeaux', 'Hommages', 'Eventails', and 'vers de circonstance' - in which Mallarme invests the quotidian with the 'glorious lie' of poetry. In a series of close readings Pearson demonstrates how complex poetic structures, and especially the sonnet, may serve to guide the human search formeaning and shape our anguish in a 'ceremony of the Book.'
Download or read book Compact American Thesaurus written by Houghton Mifflin Company and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clear and useful format of the Compact American Thesaurus helps you select the right word right away. Here is an alphabetically arranged thesaurus in which main entries are fully defined with example sentences, synonym groups, and idioms. Synonyms listed at main entries are also entered on their own, where they act as cross-references to all the entries in which they are included. Contains over 17,000 entries, complete, precise definitions for all synonyms, example sentences showing word use in context, idiomatic phrases included in synonym lists, and cross-references to all synonyms.
Download or read book Roget s II written by Peter Mark Roget, M.D., F.R.S. and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roget s II New Thesaurus written by Brenda Jackson and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesaurus just contains synonyms.
Download or read book The Oxford Compact Thesaurus written by Maurice Waite and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the Oxford Compact Thesaurus forms part of a new range of Oxford Thesauruses derived from the New Oxford Thesaurus of English. It is ideal for helping you pinpoint exactly the right word for a particular situation, whether you are writing a letter, preparing a report,composing an essay, writing creatively, or solving a crossword. Over 325,000 alternative words cover everyday vocabulary as well as more unusual and specialist words, and there is clear labelling of informal, dialect, literary, and technical items. The closest and most useful alternative words aregiven first, with words which are closest in meaning to the entry word given in capitals. Other useful features include thousands of example phrases helping you to select the correct word, and opposites and related terms clearly marked.
Download or read book Roget s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases written by George W. Davidson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for speakers and writers of English, this thesaurus groups words thematically, thus offering the writer and speaker a creative and subtle means of finding new ways to express their thoughts.
