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Author: Ann Jonas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1990-10-26
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0688099866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A visual stunner....The format is wonderfully inventive--once the traveler arrives in the city, the book is flipped over and read back to the beginning, with the black-and-white pictures taking on new meanings....Sure to delight and fascinate."--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Mark Wyman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1501732625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist resentment and heavy-handed Americanization programs, and a complex of other problems.... Wyman's 'nine broad conclusions' about the returnees deserve to be read by everyone concerned with international migration.
Author: Tim Matson
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlong the way he meets an unforgettable cabal of characters who populate the funeral underground - among them the Undertaker and the Crusader, the Anatomist and the Astrologer, the Organist and the Grave-digger - and learns why the living always get the last word, and why when sprinkling ashes it's best to use a wide-mouthed urn."--Jacket.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004375961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRound Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Author: Neil F. Comins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-02-21
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0231542895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become part of the human experience. Scientists, engineers, and investors are working hard to make space tourism and colonization a reality. As astronauts can attest, extraterrestrial travel is incomparably thrilling. To make the most of the experience requires serious physical and mental adaptations in virtually every aspect of life, from eating to intimacy. Everyone who goes into space sees Earth and life on it from a profoundly different perspective than they had before liftoff. Astronomer and former NASA/ASEE scientist Neil F. Comins has written the go-to book for anyone interested in space exploration. He describes the wonders that travelers will encounter—weightlessness, unparalleled views of Earth and the cosmos, and the opportunity to walk on another world—as well as the dangers: radiation, projectiles, unbreathable atmospheres, and potential equipment failures. He also provides insights into specific trips to destinations including suborbital flights, space stations, the Moon, asteroids, comets, and Mars—the top candidate for colonization. Although many challenges are technical, Comins outlines them in clear language for all readers. He synthesizes key issues and cutting-edge research in astronomy, physics, biology, psychology, and sociology to create a complete manual for the ultimate voyage.
Author: Maribel Vargas Moses
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2014-05-19
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1496905431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetri’s Round Trip will entertain children as well as illustrate principles that are important for children to distinguish as they move through life. Detri’s adventure reveals several important life lessons for children such as persistence, self-esteem and self-control. One such lesson is how to face ones fears... showing how one can let them go and render them powerless. Detri’s book will show children why their imaginary worlds are important and will teach them how to overcome their obstacles. “The characters are endearing and show a descriptive and creative way to teach the valuable lesson of love. A wonderful book written with true compassion and heart.” — Laura A. Berggren: Entrepreneur, Artist, and emphatic mother of 10 beautiful souls “The journey of Detri kept pulling me onward in the reading to discover more of his journey of self-discovery with new friends... It is a unique way to share these life’s lessons. It was a lovely journey for me too.” — Leslie Moe, Retired Teacher and Grandmother
Author: Timothy Green Beckley
Publisher:
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781606110911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDOES SATAN DRIVE A FLYING SAUCER? ARE DEMONS KIDNAPPING HUMANS AND PERFORMING SADISTIC EXPERIMENTS ON THEM ? IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLOOD SACRIFICES AND ANIMALS AS WELL AS HUMAN MUTILATIONS ATTRIBUTED TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1402247028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does."—Los Angeles Times The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga, The Immigrants is a transcendent work of historical fiction. In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself. The first novel of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is fast-paced, emotional historical fiction that captures the wide range of relationships across Immigrant America during the tumultuous defining events of the early twentieth century. NOW A MOTION PICTURE
Author: Rick Steves
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780912528540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1466869380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious exposé of our first-world privileges and assumptions. In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"--with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave"--he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark. A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right. "Galeano's outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope." -Los Angeles Times, front page
