Ruined City

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459819713
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruined City written by John Wilson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept, which means he can communicate through dreams with other dimensions and, under certain circumstances, travel between them. Howard discovers that our world is only one of several dimensions swirling in time and space, and that one of the others, peopled by unimaginably powerful monsters, is approaching Earth for the first time in millennia. The last time the dimensions coincided, our world was saved by the breaking of a powerful golden mask in the Chinese city of Sanxingdui. Together, Howard and Cate travel through time and space, meeting other Adepts and avoiding lurking monsters, in a quest to find the three fragments of the golden mask and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667602802
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined City written by Nevil Shute and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruined City chronicles the struggles of a British aviation company called the United Airways in the aftermath of World War II. The story follows the company's new managing director, Peter Moran, as he tries to revive the struggling airline. Moran's efforts are hindered by various challenges, including labor strikes, financial troubles, and competition from other airlines. As Moran works to turn the company around, he also becomes involved in a romantic relationship with a woman named Mary. The novel explores themes of business ethics, loyalty, love, and the struggles of post-war society. Ultimately, Moran's determination and ingenuity help him to overcome the obstacles he faces and to bring success to the United Airways.

Author : Nevil Shute Norway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined City written by Nevil Shute Norway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ruined City" by Nevil Shute Norway. 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.

Author : Jia Pingwa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806154896
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined City written by Jia Pingwa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of contemporary China’s social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Howard Goldblatt’s deft translation now gives English-speaking readers their first chance to enjoy this masterpiece of social satire by one of China’s most provocative writers. While eroticism, exoticism, and esoteric minutiae—the “pornography” that earned the opprobrium of Chinese officials—pervade Ruined City, this tale of a famous contemporary writer’s sexual and legal imbroglios is an incisive portrait of politics and culture in a rapidly changing China. In a narrative that ranges from political allegory to parody, Jia Pingwa tracks his antihero Zhuang Zhidie through progressively more involved and inevitably disappointing sexual liaisons. Set in a modern metropolis rife with power politics, corruption, and capitalist schemes, the novel evokes an unrequited romantic longing for China’s premodern, rural past, even as unfolding events caution against the trap of nostalgia. Amid comedy and chaos, the author subtly injects his concerns about the place of intellectual seriousness, censorship, and artistic integrity in the changing conditions of Chinese society. Rich with detailed description and vivid imagery, Ruined City transports readers into a world abounding with the absurdities and harshness of modern life.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined City written by Nevil Shute and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When successful banker Henry Warren arrives in a shipbuilding town in the North of England, he falls sick and is admitted to a hospital. Upon his recovery, he sees that the town's people have given up hope during the great depression. He witnesses locals dying for no reason and aims to help but faces many difficulties along the way.

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruined City written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Shellenberger
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063093634
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Fransicko written by Michael Shellenberger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem. What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them. San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.

Author : David Karmon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199766894
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruin of the Eternal City written by David Karmon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

Author : William King Tweedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined Cities of the East written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Davis
Publisher : London, Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruined Cities Within Numidian and Carthaginian Territories written by Nathan Davis and published by London, Murray. This book was released on 1862 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: