Down At The Docks

Author : Rory Nugent
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720130
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down at the Docks written by Rory Nugent and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, “the dearest place to live in, in all of New England.” But the old fishing port and manufacturing center—once one of the richest cities in New England—has withered in the modern economy. Its once-prosperous fishermen now struggle with government regulations and fished-out seas, while its empty factories now offer more work to the Fire Department than anyone else. In Down at the Docks, Rory Nugent tells the “riches to rags” story of this iconic American town through beautifully told and unsentimental portraits of its residents. Their lives inform a eulogy to the distinctive ideas, traditions, and culture that is about to disappear from the waterfront.

Author : W. Rev. Awdry
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780375825927
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down at the Docks written by W. Rev. Awdry and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas is visiting the docks and is amazed at how busy all of his friends are! He wants to help out, but the other engines say they can do it on their own. It takes a big accident for Thomas to be able to prove what a Really Useful Engine he can be.

Author : Bill Sharpsteen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520947096
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Docks written by Bill Sharpsteen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the people who have made this port, the largest in the country, one of the nation’s most vital economic enterprises. Among others, we meet a pilot who parks ships, one of the first women longshoremen, union officials and employers at odds over almost everything, an environmental activist fighting air pollution in the "diesel death zone," and those with the nearly impossible job of enforcing security. Together these stories paint a compelling picture of a critical entryway for goods coming into the country—the Port of Los Angeles is part of a complex that brings in 40% of all our waterborne cargo and 70% of all Asian imports—yet one that is also extremely vulnerable. The Docks is a rare look at a world within our world in which we find a microcosm of the labor, environmental, and security issues we collectively face.

Author : Joanne Carota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733106900
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Docks written by Joanne Carota and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a misty April morning at the rugged docks of South Boston, twenty-seven-year-old FDA marine biologist Kate Finn discovers her father's best friend, a fellow commercial fisherman, dead in his boat at Fish Pier. A tinted green codfish is stuffed inside his slicker and his lips are smeared with the same unidentifiable green liquid. Soon her father is charged with the murder. Kate vows to clear his name" -- cover, page [4]

Author : Ian Collard
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445623676
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liverpool Docks Through Time written by Ian Collard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Liverpool's docks have changed and developed over the last century

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great expectations. The uncommercial traveller written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802871836
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God in the Dock written by C. S. Lewis and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this collection of essays by C.S. Lewis. "His whole vision of life was such that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined. "It is precisely this pervasive Christianity which is demonstrated in the forty-eight essays comprising God in the Dock. Here Lewis addresses himself both to theological questions and to those which Hooper terms "semi-theological," or ethical. But whether he is discussing "Evil and God," "Miracles," "The Decline of Religion," or "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," his insight and observations are thoroughly and profoundly Christian. Drawn from a variety of sources, the essays were designed to meet a variety of needs, and among other accomplishments they serve to illustrate the many different angles from which we are able to view the Christian religion. They range from relatively popular pieces written for newspapers to more learned defenses of the faith which first appeared in The Socratic Digest. Characterized by Lewis's honesty and realism, his insight and conviction, and above all his thoroughgoing commitments to Christianity, these essays make God in the Dock very much a book for our time.--Amazon.com.

Author : Jennifer Ellis
Publisher : Moonbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780992153809
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pair of Docks written by Jennifer Ellis and published by Moonbird Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey's twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be...the future. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that will lead them from their autistic neighbor, Mark, to a strange professor who claims to know the rules of the stones, and to multiple futures-some of whose inhabitants don't want to stay put. It will take all of Abbey's analytical skills to unravel the secrets of the stones, uncover the threads that tie the futures together, thwart Mantis's plan, and, most importantly, keep her family alive-now and in the future. A Pair of Docks explores Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the meaning of time, the potential for parallel universes, and the boundary between science and witchcraft. It is the first novel in the Derivatives of Displacement series.

Author : Richard Courtney
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613878104
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down at the Docks written by Richard Courtney and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas is visiting the docks and is amazed at how busy all of his friends are! He wants to help out, but the other engines say they can do it on their own. It takes a big accident for Thomas to be able to prove what a Really Useful Engine he can be.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Gems from Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: