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Author: State Library of Massachusetts

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Published: 1902

Total Pages: 322

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Strangers on the Western Front
Strangers on the Western Front

Author: Guoqi Xu

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-02-18

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0674049993

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These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China's reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe---across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic---and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. --

Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous
Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous

Author: Dick B.

Publisher: Good Book Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781885803856

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A.A. Co-founder Dr. Bob stated he had had "excellent training" in the Bible as a youngster in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. This title is a guide to that training and to the multi-volume resource compendium that describes the major influences on his training. They include the Town of St. Johnsbury, the Congregational Churches, his own church--the North Congregational Church, Sunday School, Christian Endeavor Society, the enormous impact of the Fairbanks family on the community and church and educational system, Dr. Bob's own deep family involvement in the church and town activities, the St. Johnsbury Academy, the town library (Athenaeum) and Fairbanks Museum, the YMCA, and the Great Awakening of 1875 that brought revivals, Gospel meetings, conversions, prayer, and Bible study to the fore.