Conquering the Desert of Death
Conquering the Desert of Death

Author: Charles Blackmore

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2008-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845115821

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The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the "desert of death" or the "place of no return." Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, in 1993, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. Conquering the Desert of Death is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.

Conquering Deserts
Conquering Deserts

Author: Aldo Sarti

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1617773085

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But when sickness comes, when lack is knocking at my door, when I find myself in the valley of the shadow of death, that is not the time to turn my back on faith. Those are the moments when my walk in faith becomes more real than ever. Faith does not stop when trouble comes; that's when faith truly begins. God promises good things to all believers. But he never promises a life free of trials or problems. In fact, regardless of what we do or how strong our faith is in good times, bad times will come. And it's when we walk through these spiritual deserts that the true strength of our faith is revealed. Aldo Sarti knows what it's like to face these dark times, to walk through deserts. In Conquering Deserts: Getting through Life's Darkest Days with God by Our Side, Aldo uses well-known stories from the Bible and incidents from his own life to show that God is always with us, especially during the most trying times. When we face life's most difficult challenges—divorce, financial trouble, losing loved ones—we also stand to receive faith's most precious rewards. Conquering Deserts shows readers how and why to keep their faith during the darkest times in their lives. Spiritual deserts cannot be avoided, but we can get through them, conquer them, and leave them in the past forever.

Death in the Desert
Death in the Desert

Author: Paul Iselin Wellman

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780803297227

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The author covers conflicts from 1837 through 1886 in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Important chiefs covered include Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, and Captain Jack. Army officers covered include George Crook and Nelson Miles.

Conquering the Promised Land
Conquering the Promised Land

Author: Viorel Bilauca

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1504912683

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A true story. Share the story. That is the feedback from many Romanians readers, short after this book was published in Romania. The unusual act of faith and courage to escape from atheist Romania, ten years before the revolution that took place in 1989. The story of taken final decision to escape from ideological slavery and from an administration were the terminology of Human Rights was pulled out from the Dictionary. The highest risk payed off. Leaving behind everything, including wife and children, likewise the people of Israel left Egypt after 400 years of slavery, and went to unknown... Promised Land. Now he lives in Scottsdale Arizona.

Egypt
Egypt

Author: Pierre Loti

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-24

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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"Embark on a captivating journey through the timeless landscapes and ancient wonders of Egypt with Pierre Loti in 'Egypt.' Penned by the French author in the late 19th century, this travel narrative provides readers with a poetic and insightful exploration of the mysteries and allure of the Nile Valley. As Loti delves into the iconic monuments, vibrant markets, and cultural richness of Egypt, 'Egypt' is more than a travelogue—it's a literary expedition that captures the fascination and wonder inspired by the land of pharaohs. Join Loti on this literary journey where each page unveils a new layer of discovery, making 'Egypt' an essential read for those captivated by tales of historical landscapes and the enduring magic of the Egyptian civilization."

Jewish Topographies
Jewish Topographies

Author: Julia Brauch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 131711101X

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How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and lived Jewish spaces and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Netivot, Thornhill, an Orthodox suburb of Toronto, or new virtual sites of Jewish (Second) Life on the Internet, and learns about the Jewish landkentenish movement in Interwar Poland, the Jewish connection to the sea and the culinary landscapes of Russian Jews in New York. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this anthology introduces new methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis
Postcolonial Theory and Crisis

Author: Paulo de Medeiros

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-03-18

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 3111005747

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In the millennial transition the prefix 'post' had come to signify more and more not just the realisation of a 'coming after' but also of the impossibility of not seeing the present as still very much working through the wounds of the past. Yet with the appearance of pseudo-concepts such as 'post-truth' after an equally imaginary 'death of History', the logic of the 'post', itself always already under questioning, may appear to have outlived its usefulness. How to make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present? One way might be to renew its significance as world conflicts have entered a new 'post-imperial phase' with the return of ideologies of empire in various parts of the world. The essays in this volume address those questions at both a conceptual, theoretical level, and through the analysis of specific case studies. In the Introduction Paulo de Medeiros and Sandra Ponzanesi review the main questions outlined above in relation to the current debates in the Humanities from their respective disciplinary perspectives. The volume is organised in four sections, each containing four chapters. Even though all the chapters present a reflection on Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, some focus more specifically on aspects of the crisis in a global perspective such as humanitarian crisis and the role of mediatization of conflicts, to issues related to human rights, refugees, migrancy, environmental crisis to questions of memory and postmemory as well as the critique of art and utopian thought.

Six who Changed the World
Six who Changed the World

Author: Henry Enoch Kagan

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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A study of how Moses, Jesus, Paul, Marx, Freud, and Einstein triumphed over psychological traits to make contributions of universal importance to civilization.

Each of Us a Desert
Each of Us a Desert

Author: Mark Oshiro

Publisher: Tor Teen

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1250169208

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From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted—in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey across the desert, they find their hearts could be a match... if only they can survive the nightmare-like terrors that arise when the sun goes down. Fresh off of Anger Is a Gift's smashing success, Oshiro branches out into a fantastical direction with their new YA novel, Each of Us a Desert. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.