World War II Letters
World War II Letters

Author: Bill Adler

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-11-29

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780312304317

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A collection of letters from the Allied soldiers who fought and won World War II reveals the horror, humor, and boredom of this great conflict.

The World Health Organization
The World Health Organization

Author: Marcos Cueto

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108483577

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A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

A Glimpse of Hell
A Glimpse of Hell

Author: Charles C. Thompson

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780393047141

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Probes the explosion of the center gun on the USS Iowa, a disaster that killed several sailors onboard instantly, and the fouled investigation that took followed, resulting in a large-scale cover-up that almost ruined forever the reputation of innocent men.

A Glimpse of Heaven
A Glimpse of Heaven

Author: Joanna L. Oblander

Publisher: Joanna Oblander

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780997578010

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A Glimpse of Heaven is the true story of JoAnna Oblander. In 2002, JoAnna Oblander was no stranger to God working her in life. He had already orchestrated the miraculous adoption of two children from Russia and presented her and her husband with the spirits of their unborn children. However, wracked with the physical pain of 24/7 migraines, severe depression and business failures caused by her health, she was ready to call it quits and end her life. At the conclusion of an earth-shattering day, an angel escorted her back to her pre-mortal existence. There, she was shown the plans and promises she had made with God. She returned from her near-death experience equipped with an understanding of who she truly was and with a divine sense of whom she was to become.

Glimpses of Utopia
Glimpses of Utopia

Author: Jess Scully

Publisher: Pantera Press

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1925700771

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It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing the business-as-usual mindset and putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and care, finance and government, urban planning and communication, to make them better and fairer for all. Meet the care workers reclaiming control in India and Lebanon, the people turning slums into safe havens in Kenya and Bangladesh, and champions of people-powered digital democracy in Iceland and Taiwan. There are radical bankers funding renewable energy in the USA and architects redesigning real estate in Australia, new payment systems in Italy and the Philippines that keep money in local communities, and innovators redesigning taxation to cut pollution and incentivise creative solutions. Glimpses of Utopia is a call for optimism. Humans everywhere are rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. Harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable. This book shows us how.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows
A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

Author: Jane Wilson-Howarth

Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1841624357

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Set against the backdrop of one of the most colorful countries in the world, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows is an inspiring story of courage, love and a family's determination to give their child the best life possible. In pulsating, polluted Kathmandu and an idyllic village on a river island at the foot of the Himalayas, 'Doctor Jane' and her engineer husband Simon hope to make a difference: Jane to fulfil her vision to heal and advocate for the poor, Simon to avert the floods that threaten to devastate the land every monsoon season. The Nepali people are accepting of whatever fate flings at them and here the family find sanity, compassion and joy with baby David, who in England was little more than an 'interesting case'. This is a tale of Himalayan highs and monsoon lows, of cultural complexities, unexpected wildlife and rugged terrain, of vivid color, superstition and spicy smells.

A Glimpse of Nothingness
A Glimpse of Nothingness

Author: Janwillem van de Wetering

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1466874678

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In A Glimpse of Nothingness, celebrated mystery novelist Janwillem van de Wetering offers a sequel to his earlier memoir, The Empty Mirror, which concerned the author's experiences at a Zen monastery in Japan in the middle 1960s. Originally published in 1975, A Glimpse of Nothingness chronicles van de Wetering's time at the Moon Springs Hermitage in Maine. The book offers a complete and compelling description of the Zen path pursued by one sensitive Westerner who began his quest by seeking for the sense of it all-and who eventually came to realize at least a part of it. The follow-up to this book is van de Wetering's Afterzen.