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Author: Mary Craig
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of "Kundun" comes a powerful work that reveals the true horrors behind China's "liberation" of Tibet. 16-page insert.
Author: Young-Bok Yoo
Publisher:
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781479383856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn August 30, 2000, a commercial passenger jet arriving from China touched down at Gimpo International Airport in South Korea. There was nothing unusual about the plane or about the flight. What was miraculous was the seventy-year-old gentleman who walked down the ramp into the waiting arms of his family. That traveler was Mr. Young-Bok Yoo, and this was the end of his fifty-year journey through the darkness of hell into the daylight of freedom. Mr. Yoo was among 60,000 POWs who were never released by North Korea at the end of the Korean War. Unlike most of the others, he survived and he escaped. Today he fights for the repatriation of his fellow POWs who remain behind. Paul T. Kim's translation brings Mr. Yoo's saga to Western readers for the first time. More than a Korean story, it is an inspirational tale of the survival of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming sorrow and injustice. This book was sponsored by Korean War POW Affairs-USA, an NGO that advocates on behalf of Korean POWs and their families. To make additional donations to help POWs like Mr. Yoo, please visit: http://tearsofbloodbook.blogspot.com
Author: Kasey Snow
Publisher: Emerge Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781954966123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey both have secrets. But neither dare to speak of them...Luca feigns personal questions. When he isn't hiding behind the lens of a camera, he assumes a suave Italian façade in order to avoid acknowledging his true ethnicity and jaded past. Luca prefers black and white film because it makes the world seem simple and uncomplicated. Savannah is a small-town southern girl just trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered family after the devastating loss of her older brother, Tommy, a soldier killed on deployment in Afghanistan. With Tommy gone, Savannah floats aimlessly through nursing school, finding herself in places the two of them would frequent just to feel something again. Savannah sees the loss in Luca's eyes. She is drawn to his pain because, maybe for a moment, it lets her forget her own. As frost settles on the south Georgia streets, Luca's past boils over into the present. Perhaps, it is love. Or perhaps, they merely longed for a time and place that never existed.
Author: Richard Donkin
Publisher: Texere Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA striking narrative history of work and the individuals and events that have been responsible for its evolution. Work--a process familiar to almost everyone--has radically changed over the centuries. The author examines early societies, slavery, guilds, trade secrets, religion and unions.
Author: Elissa M. Lonsdale
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781413778465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlood, Tears, and IV's, a memoir of a combat medic, explores the challenging and emotional experiences of one twenty-four-year-old combat medic serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based out of Vicenza, Italy. Sergeant Elissa Lonsdale, the author, was sent to Iraq on the Fourth of July, 2003. She knew the situation she was going into would be a difficult one. Based on her journal she kept while she was in Iraq, this book details her most memorable situations. Some are positive, and others were difficult to put into words. With a major part of the Army still deployed and continuing to deploy, Sergeant Lonsdale wanted to share her memories, as they will stick with her always. "You realize when you get back that there is no way to erase bad memories, only ways to try and make sense of them." Sergeant Lonsdale participated in the treatment of combat casualties, including soldiers, civilians and Iraqis. She recounts in this book her many strange date-related events, such as when her convoy was ambushed on her birthday; she lost a fellow medic to a stroke; another soldier and friend was electrocuted doing his job on Christmas Eve; many missions to villages surrounded by Iraqi children; rendering care to the sick and wounded; and the bond she formed with the medics she was deployed with. Sergeant Lonsdale is still serving on active duty in the Army and currently holds a position in an emergency room as a shift leader.
Author: Neil Schaeffer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780674003927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst a magnificently embroidered backdrop of 18th-century France, Schaeffer shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination.
Author: Thomas DOOLITTLE
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Published: 1723
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Rea
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0520959590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this period—from the 1890s to the 1930s—transformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughter—jokes, play, mockery, farce, and humor—he reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern China’s first "age of irreverence." This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.
Author: Michelle F. Santos
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1491873787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicci has given up on being a successful musician and is now the hostess of the Savoy, in Harlem, circa 1920s. Men are returning from war. Prohibition causes her to turn her club into a speakeasy. Whats a club without sex, love, murder and the mob? Nicci cant stay away from excitement . Her second diary reveals her version of the Depression and Prohibition when her club becomes home to vampire killers, faeries, and more vampires. Nicci continues to pass for white. How long can she carry this secret without anyone knowing? Eventually, it will catch up with her.
Author: George Meredith
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 546
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