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Book So Wild a Dream CC

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  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780812433272
  • Pages : pages

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Book So Wild the Dream

Download or read book So Wild the Dream written by Saliee O'Brien and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book TV Guide

Download or read book TV Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Program Guide

Download or read book Program Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Respectable Citizens

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  • Author : Lara A. Campbell
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2009-10-21
  • ISBN : 1442697040
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Respectable Citizens written by Lara A. Campbell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s. Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.

Book The Best War Ever

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  • Author : Michael C. C. Adams
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2015-05-15
  • ISBN : 1421416689
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book The Best War Ever written by Michael C. C. Adams and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most readable—and searingly honest—short book ever written on this pivotal conflict. Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. Although we did not seek the conflict—or so we believed—Americans nevertheless rallied in support of the war effort, and the nation's soldiers, all twelve million of them, were proud to fight. But according to historian Michael C. C. Adams, our memory of the war era as a golden age is distorted. It has left us with a misleading—even dangerous—legacy, one enhanced by the nostalgia-tinged retrospectives of Stephen E. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Disputing many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues in The Best War Ever that our celebratory experience of World War II is marred by darker and more sordid realities. In the book, originally published in 1994, Adams challenges stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. The Best War Ever charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s and reveals the realities of ground combat: no moral triumph, it was in truth a brutal slog across a blasted landscape. Adams also exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans. Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, shell-shocked soldiers grappled with emotional and physical trauma, rigorously enforced segregation, and rampant venereal disease. In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. The revised book also incorporates substantial developments that have occurred in our understanding of the course and character of the war, particularly in terms of the human consequences of fighting. In a new chapter, "The Life Cycle of a Myth," Adams charts image-making about the war from its inception to the present. He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace.

Book The Battle for Rome

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  • Author : Robert Katz
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-05-11
  • ISBN : 0743217330
  • Pages : 742 pages

Download or read book The Battle for Rome written by Robert Katz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control over the destiny of the Eternal City. In The Battle for Rome, Robert Katz vividly recreates the drama of the occupation and offers new information from recently declassified documents to explain the intentions of the rival forces. One of the enduring myths of World War II is the legend that Rome was an "open city," free from military activity. In fact the German occupation was brutal, beginning almost immediately with the first roundup of Jews in Italy. Rome was a strategic prize that the Germans and the Allies fought bitterly to win. The Allied advance up the Italian peninsula from Salerno and Anzio in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war was designed to capture the Italian capital. Dominating the city in his own way was Pope Pius XII, who used his authority in a ceaseless effort to spare Rome, especially the Vatican and the papal properties, from destruction. But historical documents demonstrate that the Pope was as concerned about the Partisans as he was about the Nazis, regarding the Partisans as harbingers of Communism in the Eternal City. The Roman Resistance was a coalition of political parties that agreed on little beyond liberating Rome, but the Partisans, the organized military arm of the coalition, became increasingly active and effective as the occupation lengthened. Katz tells the story of two young Partisans, Elena and Paolo, who fought side by side, became lovers, and later played a central role in the most significant guerrilla action of the occupation. In retaliation for this action, the Germans committed the Ardeatine Caves Massacre, slaying hundreds of Roman men and boys. The Pope's decision not to intervene in that atrocity has been a source of controversy and debate among historians for decades, but drawing on Vatican documents, Katz authoritatively examines the matter. Katz takes readers into the occupied city to witness the desperate efforts of the key actors: OSS undercover agent Peter Tompkins, struggling to forge an effective spy network among the Partisans; German diplomats, working against their own government to save Rome even as they condoned the Nazi repression of its citizens; Pope Pius XII, anxiously trying to protect the Vatican at the risk of depending on the occupying Germans, who maintained order by increasingly draconian measures; and the U.S. and British commanders, who disagreed about the best way to engage the enemy, turning the final advance into a race to be first to take Rome. The Battle for Rome is a landmark work that draws on newly released documents and firsthand testimony gathered over decades to offer the finest account yet of one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.

Book So Wild a Dream

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  • Author : Christopher Florentz
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 9780719535147
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book So Wild a Dream written by Christopher Florentz and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1977 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love  Violet

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  • Author : Charlotte Sullivan Wild
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • Release : 2022-01-04
  • ISBN : 0374390681
  • Pages : 21 pages

Download or read book Love Violet written by Charlotte Sullivan Wild and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonewall Book Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Charlotte Huck Honor Book Perfect for Valentine's Day, Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chua is a touching picture book about friendship and the courage it takes to share your feelings. Only one person makes Violet’s heart skip Of all the kids in Violet's class, only one leaves her speechless: Mira, the girl with the cheery laugh who races like the wind. If only they could adventure together! But every time Violet tries to tell Mira how she feels, Violet goes shy. As Valentine's Day approaches, Violet is determined to tell Mira just how special she is. Charlene Chua’s luminous watercolors bring to life this sweet and gentle picture book about friendship, love, and the courage it takes to share your heart.

Book The Marlburian

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  • Author : Marlborough coll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1882
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book The Marlburian written by Marlborough coll and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bill Mauldin

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  • Author : Todd DePastino
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780393061833
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Bill Mauldin written by Todd DePastino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes.--From publisher description.

Book Dream Deck

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  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780811831413
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Dream Deck written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of North Dakota

Download or read book Encyclopedia of North Dakota written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of North Dakota contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.

Book All He Wants

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  • Author : C.C. Gibbs
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2013-07-09
  • ISBN : 1455528315
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book All He Wants written by C.C. Gibbs and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Knight is a man who is always in control. A self-made billionaire by the age of twenty-three, a genius of innovation, and CEO of a global tech empire, Knight always gets what he wants. And he wants Kate Hart. . . A rising star of cyber forensics, Kate is well aware of Knight's reputation as a master manipulator, uncompromising leader, and demanding lover. But she's determined to stay cool and professional-no matter how hot and bothered her new boss makes her feel. First he appears in her dreams. Then he comes to her in the night. And so begins a journey of erotic awakening and discovery as rich and powerful as Knight himself. In locales from the sultry red-light district of Amsterdam to the private sexual playgrounds of Hong Kong, Kate will shed every inhibition and surrender every part of herself-body, mind, and soul-to give her lover all he craves, all he needs, and all he demands . . .

Book New York Magazine

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  • Release : 1984-02-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-02-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book AB Bookman s Weekly

Download or read book AB Bookman s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Magazine

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  • Release : 1986-04-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-04-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.