Crossing Two Worlds

Author : Mike Duncan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541730321
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hero of Two Worlds written by Mike Duncan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830. From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the boundary - analogue universe, digital worlds written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 20-hour free course explored how information in its various forms can cross the boundary from the analogue universe into a digital world.

Author : Jeanne M. Simonelli
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610239
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Between Worlds written by Jeanne M. Simonelli and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navajo people of Canyon de Chelly must negotiate a delicate balance between the old and the new as they struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life in the midst of archaeologists, U.S. Park Service employees, and the increasing numbers of tourists who come to visit this hauntingly beautiful part of northeastern Arizona. Anthropologist-writer Jeanne Simonelli, who worked at Canyon de Chelly as a seasonal park ranger, interweaves stories of her personal experiences and friendships with canyon residents with discussions of native history and culture in the region. Focusing on the members of one extended Navajo family, Simonelli describes the small moments of their daily lives: shearing goats, baking bread, attending a solemn all-night health ceremony, washing clothes at the local laundromat, playing traditional games and contemporary sports, talking about the history of the Dinthe Navajo peopleand pondering the changes they have witnessed in the canyon and the difficulties they confront. Crossing Between Worlds is sumptuously illustrated with insightful black-and-white photographs that document the everyday activities of Navajo families in one of the most spectacular corners of the American Southwest.

Author : Hunter Manning
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523950638
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Two Worlds written by Hunter Manning and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grayson Ryker was a normal man with a happy marriage until a disastrous car accident that puts his wife, Sarah, into a coma. A strange doctor approaches Grayson with a proposition to save his wife with unapproved tests. Sarah has imagined a world inside of her head and as these experiments run their course, they're met with dire consequences. Can Sarah get out alive, and can Grayson wake her up in time?

Author : Nadya Surikova-Klein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665536764
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Nadya Surikova-Klein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a child, a semi-orphan, with an absentee mother, who was a professional athlete. The child grew up in a communist system without much parental guidance or supervision. It is a story about a weed that grew up into a flower, built a remarkable professional career, but then became a victim of the repressive political system controlled by the KGB. The book is about surviving in the communist system and escaping to the West. The book is a contrast between two worlds, two different political systems, one with liberty and personal freedom, and the other – without. All the events described in the book are historically accurate.

Author : David C. Hsiung
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813131177
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes written by David C. Hsiung and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature was always vital in Thomas MertonÕs life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings. Throughout his life, MertonÕs study of the natural world shaped his spirituality in profound ways, and he was one of the first writers to raise concern about ecological issues that have become critical in recent years. In The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton, author Monica Weis suggests that MertonÕs interest in nature, which developed significantly during his years at the Abbey of Gethsemani, laid the foundation for his growing environmental consciousness. Tracing MertonÕs awareness of the natural world from his childhood to the final years of his life, Weis explores his deepening sense of place and desire for solitude, his love and responsibility for all living things, and his evolving ecological awareness.

Author : Stephen McKenna
Publisher : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [19--]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sonia Between Two Worlds written by Stephen McKenna and published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, [19--]. This book was released on 1918 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Stott
Publisher : John of Two Worlds
ISBN 13 : 1877391603
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John of Two Worlds written by Robert Stott and published by John of Two Worlds. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fast moving adult eco-science fiction novel set in the not too distant future. John is a space-age garbage collector who is sent to clean up space junk consisting of spent rockets cases and defunct satellites that make orbiting earth hazardous. However, this turns out to be more than a straightforward clean-up task. Instead of returning to Earth John finds himself off-course being propelled at the speed of light before he lapses into unconsciousness. His first image of awareness is that he is inside a cocoon of pinkish light. Here he meets Ela who tells him that he is on the 'original' Earth and that she is his 'constructor'. He is about to glimpse the possible future fate of his world should humans continue to despoil the planet and mismanage resources. Ela introduces John to a Council who recruit him to return to his time to attempt to correct the ecological wrongs that threaten Earth's existence as a viable planet for life forms. To do this he must confront the deadly underworld moguls whose agenda is building wealth and world domination at any price. Armed with the gadgetry of his generation and with the support of the beautiful Ela, John embarks on a journey he may not survive.

Author : Dylan Emmons
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784502634
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in Two Worlds written by Dylan Emmons and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Emmons has always lived his life in two worlds. Diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of six, his school days were spent struggling to overcome the sensory and social hurdles that made fitting in with his classmates in the 'real world' so hard. An aspiring social chameleon, he attempted to blend in, despite his hidden other world of Asperger's. This book tells the story of his attempt, with the hindsight gained in adult life that it is better to spend energy learning to be happy, than learning to be 'normal'. By describing the two conflicting worlds of his childhood, Dylan Emmons reveals the reasons behind the actions, mood swings and awkwardness of children on the autism spectrum that can often appear mysterious and unprovoked to neurotypical family members, friends, teachers and professionals.

Author : Yu-Tang Daniel Lew
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595509606
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Two Worlds written by Yu-Tang Daniel Lew and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yu-Tang Daniel Lew had a long and distinguished career as a diplomat, editor and professor. He served as consul general in Vancouver, minister in Brazil, and ambassador to New Zealand and at the United Nations. He also devoted many years to teaching-first at Tsing Hua University in Beijing in 1948, later at Mackinac College in Michigan in the late '60s and then at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan from 1976 until his death in 2005. In 1974, he established the Sino-American Relations quarterly and was its editor-in-chief for all of its 30 years. A long admirer of Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Lew founded the Lincoln Society in 1984 to promote Lincoln's ideals of democracy among the Chinese. He also spent his final years teaching children the spirit of "Liang-zhi", espoused first by the philosopher Mencius. The oldest of six siblings, Dr. Lew was born on October 26, 1913 in Guangzhou, China. He attended Seattle's Broadway High School and obtained his doctorate at Harvard University. Married to Yalan Chang Lew, they had three sons.