2666
2666

Author: Roberto Bolaño

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 0374100144

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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

The Semblance of Peace
The Semblance of Peace

Author: Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9780393007091

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Sir John Wheeler-Bennett has already made distinguished contributions to the study of the earlier illusion, known as appeasement. With his new collaborator, he has made an equally distinguished study of the later illusion . . . [London] Times Literary Supplement

No Peace Before Victory
No Peace Before Victory

Author: Henry Winter Davis

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13:

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"No Peace Before Victory" is a speech directed to the citizens of Pennsylvania to discuss the impending election of the democratic president in 1834. This speech was delivered by Henry Winter Davis, an American politician on December 24, 1863, to address the impact of the election on the state of the country.

Witness to History
Witness to History

Author: Victoria Schofield

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0300179014

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Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted with all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI’s official biographer, he met and interviewed the major leaders of the postwar period, including Churchill, Coolidge, Truman, and members of the British Royal Family. A teacher at the universities of New York, Virginia, and Arizona, he also briefly supervised young Jack Kennedy’s master’s thesis at Harvard. This first biography of Wheeler-Bennett will fascinate anyone interested in the great political figures of world history during the twentieth century.

Honey from the Rock
Honey from the Rock

Author: Abraham Kuyper

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 1683592352

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Communion with the Lord is sweeter than honey. In his meditations, Abraham Kuyper reveals a side of himself unseen in his well--known theological writings. First published in 1880 and 1883 and never before translated in English, the devotions in Honey from the Rock were written for the nourishment and health of his soul. Rather than the public figure and theologian, we see a man thirsting and hungering for God's presence. Modern readers entering this sacred space will be spiritually renewed, restored, and replenished by the light of God's Word, before returning to our daily callings. James De Jong introduces these powerful devotions from Kuyper.

The Peace God Promises
The Peace God Promises

Author: Ann Spangler

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0310412161

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If God has promised to give us the “peace that passes understanding,” why do we sometimes feel so anxious? What are we so afraid of? Are there ways of living that lead to peace? Conversely, are there ways of thinking and acting that lead to anxiety and a conflicted life? How does Jesus embody peace and where did his peace come from? The Peace God Promises sets our longings for peace beside God’s promise to provide it. In her desire to experience greater peace, bestselling author Ann Spangler probes these and other questions. Exploring the stories that shape us, the memories that define us, and the relationships that connect us, she looks for ways to help us become more peaceful. What can we learn from Scripture, from Jewish tradition, from the Amish and others about rest, simplicity, healing, and peace? The stories she shares and the answers she discovers may surprise you. If you put them into practice, they may even transform you, enabling you to experience the peace God wants you to have.

Peace in World History
Peace in World History

Author: Peter N. Stearns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 113475714X

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In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the narrative gives students a clear view of the ways people across the world have understood and striven to achieve peace throughout history. Topics covered include: Comparison of the ‘pax Romana’ and ‘pax Sinica’ of Rome and China Concepts of peace in Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, and their historical impact The place of peace in the periods of expanding empires The emergence, starting in the 19th century, of formal schemes to promote peace amid increasingly destructive technologies for warfare Moving away from the view of history as a series of military conflicts, Peace in World History offers a new way of looking at world history by focusing on peace. Showing how concepts of peace have evolved over time even as they have been challenged by war and conflict, this lively and engaging narrative enables students to consider peace as a human possibility.