Download or read book Secret Wakefield written by Paul L. Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Wakefield's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Download or read book Wakefield written by Andrei Codrescu and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day Faust embarks on a wild romp through the peculiar and preposterous American landscape When the Devil shows up in Wakefield’s living room to announce that his time is up, the bookish “de-motivational” speaker tries to strike a deal. The Devil agrees to prolong Wakefield’s life—for now—on the condition that within the next year he finds a more authentic existence. For Wakefield, who is estranged from his family, nearly friendless, and excellent at his job of lowering expectations in a positivity-crazed world, living “authentically” is a tall order. But he will try: an extra 12 months might be worth it. Wakefield’s bargain sets in motion a cross-country quest to find his life’s purpose. Along the way, he encounters an array of all-American weirdness from plastic surgeons and sadomasochistic strippers to phony New Age yoga gurus and billion-dollar tech start-ups. Codrescu’s astute observations and quick wit illuminate the comedy found in our national culture of narcissism and self-improvement.
Download or read book Wakefield written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wakefield was written in the year 1837 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.
Download or read book Wakefield in 50 Buildings written by Peter Thornborrow and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of Wakefield through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Deckade written by Michael J. Flores and published by To Be Continued LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle of the Cities written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping advances and retreats of the opposing armies across eastern Europe. Yet no one has concentrated on these city battles before or has sought to tell the story of the campaigns through the fighting that took place in and around them. That is Anthony Tucker-Jones’s purpose in this concise and vivid history of the urban war on the Eastern Front. Early in the war, during the Wehrmacht’s crushing offensives of 1941 and 1942, the Red Army was forced out of a series of key cities. Moscow was threatened, Leningrad surrounded. Then, after the climactic battle at Stalingrad, the Red Army with increasing confidence, speed and power drove the Germans from the Soviet and East European capitals they had occupied. The final urban battles were fought in Germany's cities, culminating in Berlin. As he traces the course of the fighting for each city, Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the local circumstances, the opposing forces, the strategic significance and the tactics employed. He focuses not only on the destruction and cruelty of such warfare, but on the heroism displayed on both sides and on the fate of the civilians who found themselves on the front line.
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Download or read book The Doctor Who Fooled the World written by Brian Deer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
Download or read book The Aeroplane and Astronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of the Tarot written by Robert Swiryn and published by Robert Swiryn. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could the teachings of an 13th Century heretical sect be revealed in a deck of tarot cards? Robert Swiryn's The Secret of the Tarot provides a fascinating look of how the Cathars, a group of religious heretics targeted for destruction by the Roman Catholic Church and the King of France, may have managed to preserve their history and spiritual messages in the Tarot of Marseilles. Besides a gripping exploration of the history of the Cathars' fate, this thought-provoking book offers a unique vision of the tarot as it examines the ideas, spiritual messages, and colorful personalities behind each card. www.thesecretofthetarot.com
Download or read book Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping Secrets written by Francine Pascal and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield written by Gaynor Haliday and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the men of Wakefield, but apart from a couple of well-documented individuals, the women of Wakefield have remained largely ignored. Yet many women in this prosperous West Riding town worked hard to improve their lives and those of other women. Whether this was healthcare, housing, working conditions or providing refuge and training so that girls with no means of support could be made fit for employment, Wakefield’s women worked separately and together to achieve their mutual goals. Some were active campaigners and lobbyists, others chose vocations that quietly improved the lives of the women around them. Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield uses historical newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, annual reports, first-hand stories and research into census returns to illustrate how women’s lives changed over a 100 year period and reveal some of those Wakefield women whose influence made things happen.
Download or read book Life s Pages written by Barbara E. Lithander and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life’s Pages invites you on a journey back in time and entices you to travel through this true story about a remarkable little girl and the two families that loved and shared her.Against the backdrop of Prohibition and the Great Depression, the characters come to life once more, weaving themselves into your heart as they survive some of life’s most difficult, and unimaginable events. Courage and hope move them forward, as they choose to fully live and enjoy each page of their life’s journey, taking the reader with them as they continue forward–one page at a time.Life’s Pages is a beautiful story, simply written, and generously shared–a slice of Americana everyone can appreciate and enjoy.
Download or read book Vivia Or The Secret of Power written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle Against the Luddites written by Paul L Dawson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy. This was not the first time the Greys had drawn their swords during the Napoleonic Wars – but it was their first against Napoleon’s troops. Three years earlier they had attacked workers in Halifax protesting at the introduction of machinery in the wool trade. Taking their name from Ned Ludd, who had smashed up knitting frames in Nottingham, the Luddites saw the emergence of mechanization as a threat to their livelihood, with machines replacing men. In response they took matters into their own hands by wrecking the new equipment. Industrial unrest had gathered pace throughout the 18th century and exploded in an unpresented wave of violence in 1799. Outbreaks of machine-breaking developed rapidly into strikes in a battle of capital against labor. A court battle ensued, culminating in new legislation in 1806 that backed the capitalists. This act, coupled with the impact of the Continental system introduced by Napoleon, which closed European and American ports to British merchants, heralded the largest economic depression of the era. Famine, pestilence and rising employment all fueled the fires of Luddism. Months of violence swept across the West Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire which saw one factory boss murdered; other factory owners began shooting protesting workers. The disturbances resulted in the mobilizing of thousands of regular soldiers – at one time there were as many British soldiers fighting the Luddites than there were fighting Napoleon on the Iberian Peninsula. As well as exploring these events, Paul L. Dawson also uncovers the origins of Luddism and their allies in the middle classes. The Napoleonic Wars marked the end of centuries old way of life in agriculture, textile production and the wider economy. The dramatic changes in Britain between 1790 and 1815 created a unique set of social grievances by those left behind by the unprecedented changes that were surging through the Britain which exploded into bitter fighting across large swathes of the country. With present day concerns over computerization replacing labor, this is a story that echoes down the centuries.
Download or read book Wakefield s Course written by Mazo de la Roche and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wakefield's Course" (Whiteoaks of Jalna) by Mazo de la Roche. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
