Like Smoke

Author : James O. Gump
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284551
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dust Rose Like Smoke written by James O. Gump and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined barbarian tribesmen stunned an imperial nation. Although the similarities between the two frontier encounters have long been noted, James O. Gump’s book The Dust Rose Like Smoke is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context. “This study issues a challenge to American exceptionalism,” he writes. Viewing both episodes as part of a global pattern of intensified conflict in the latter 1800s resulting from Western domination over a vast portion of the globe, Gump’s comparative study persuasively traces the origins and aftermath of both episodes. He examines the complicated ways in which Lakota and Zulu leadership sought to protect indigenous interests while Western leadership calculated their subjugation to imperial authority. The second edition includes a new preface from the author, revised and expanded chapters, and an interview with Leonard Little Finger (great-great-grandson of Ghost Dance leader Big Foot), whose story connects Wounded Knee and Nelson Mandela.

Author : Jon Hassler
Publisher : Afton Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9781736102114
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days Like Smoke written by Jon Hassler and published by Afton Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the story of Jon Hassler's early years. His poignant remembrance of family and friends, of youthful calamities and triumphs, show what shaped him and opened his path to become one of Minnesota's best-loved and iconic writers. Memoirs are written from the vantage point of age. Here, his close examination of memory-what endures and why-unfold the pivotal moments of his growing up. Family, friends, new neighborhoods and old, questions of faith and doubt-all had deep meaning, he comes to see. In this book, Hassler also confirms William Faulkner's opinion: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past'"--

Author : Isaac Lind
Publisher : Headland Publications LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like Smoke in the Wind written by Isaac Lind and published by Headland Publications LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lt. Josie Facundo’s first appointment as an officer in the Salvation Army, they send her to the rural small town of Kayne. It’s a picturesque small town where everyone knows each other, but also a town where not everyone gets along. Under the surface, there is a divide of hatred and grudge that no one ever talks about, One day, an old man misname Josie as Deirdre Chisholm, a girl that died in a tragic accident four decades earlier. Josie is stunned by the reaction the name stirs up, and why no one has ever mentioned her or the accident before. What really happened to Deirdre? And how is this connected to the conflicts in the town today? Josie is certain that the answer to these questions will be the way to heal this broken community. This leads her on a search where the evidence is buried deep, and someone is working against her. Someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder.

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374279127
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Author : Devra Davis
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465015221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Smoke Ran Like Water written by Devra Davis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2003-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change.

Author : Jack Sleight
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811741915
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Book of Smoke Cooking Meat, Fish & Game written by Jack Sleight and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to smoke a variety of foods, including turkey, cheese, sausage, fish, beef, nuts, wild game. A classic reference.

Author : Jack Sleight
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811721950
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Book of Smoke-cooking Meat, Fish & Game written by Jack Sleight and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to smoke a variety of foods, including turkey, cheese, sausage, fish, beef, nuts, wild game. A classic reference.

Author : Gianluigi Ciaramellari
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041647038
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clouds Of Smoke... The Story written by Gianluigi Ciaramellari and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damien is the charismatic owner of an electronic cigarette store in Florence. He’s wise, spiritual, rich and above all, he has a healing power that comes from water, like steam. Desperate souls come to Damien’s store unknowingly searching for help. Like Sonia, a beautiful girl consumed by a cancer; or Massimo, overwhelmed by serious economic problems; or Giorgio, a wealthy young man who is apparently shallow, but hides a past of anguish and darkness

Author : Andre Pohlman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465320369
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Smoke & Ashes written by Andre Pohlman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stena Wagner and her son find themselves on a train to Warsaw hours before Germany attacks Poland and World War II begins. The train is bombed and they desperately try to reach Warsaw one-step ahead of the advancing German armies. In Warsaw, the Polish Resistance Movement recruits Stena. Then, in the dangerous streets of Warsaw, in the crowded Ghetto, in the clandestine radio listening post, and in the dark forest of the Tatry Mountains, Stena fights for her and her sons survival using her wit, courage, and a medallion for luck. In Budapest, the Gestapo arrests Stena and her son joins up with a gang of orphan boys to hunt for food. As the Russian armies approach Budapest, Stena escapes from prison, and the son finds himself again in a boarding school. Together they weather the bitter winter and the ravages of war. A Russian captain arrests Stena, and the son runs away from his brutal headmaster to look for his mother. Mother and son find each other outside a Polish camp set up by the Russian Authorities. "I took out all the necessary papers that made me Madam Lattermant and you his son," says Stena, as they travel to a camp set up for the French. In Odessa, the Russian authorities refuse to recognize French citizenship acquired during the war. "Mother slipped into a deep-blue funk. Nobody could reach her not even Michel. Mother the once vibrant self-assured woman was melting away. I kept my distance. I didn't want to add to her misery," says the son.

Author : Django Wexler
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 0765397242
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship of Smoke and Steel written by Django Wexler and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship of Smoke and Steel is the launch of Django Wexler's cinematic, action-packed epic fantasy Wells of Sorcery trilogy. In the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss Isoka enforces the will of her criminal masters with the power of Melos, the Well of Combat. The money she collects goes to keep her little sister living in comfort, far from the bloody streets they grew up on. When Isoka's magic is discovered by the government, she's arrested and brought to the Emperor's spymaster, who sends her on an impossible mission: steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship—a ship from which no one has ever returned. If she fails, her sister’s life is forfeit. On board Soliton, nothing is as simple as it seems. Isoka tries to get close to the ship's mysterious captain, but to do it she must become part of the brutal crew and join their endless battles against twisted creatures. She doesn't expect to have to contend with feelings for a charismatic fighter who shares her combat magic, or for a fearless princess who wields an even darker power. “Truly epic, fierce, and exhilarating, Ship of Smoke and Steel will capture you and lock you away. With magical combat sequences fit for the big screen, the action is almost as breathtaking as the intrigue.” —Morgan Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series