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The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960's through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia.<br><br>"This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on...
| Автор | Naomi F. Collins |
"Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark , the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.' This phrase describes the experience of reading Chejfec's novel. . . . These moments, when Chejfec combines exquisite prose with the human yearning for truth and beauty, keep us reading, weighing the novel's contradictions, sifting through the narrator's abstract reflections in search of his life’s...
| Автор | Sergio Chejfec |
Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's «Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015»"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."—Gabriel García Marquez"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability."—Natasha Wimmer, The Nation"It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on my list...
| Автор | Мерсе Родореда |
This novella, poetry and these short stories cover the entire range of human emotion.<br><br>The novella, Showbiz, tells the story of an unusual man's great achievements and reach for an ideal, only to have everything he is and has accomplished defeated by the nature of his inner being and those who prey on it. His close friend experiences, in tandem, his own fulfillment and loss. Both are engulfed by the shallowness and cynicism of politics. <br><br>The poems...
| Автор | Allan Boone's Wargon |
Before World War II in Germany, two young boys–-one Jewish one Christian–-play football on the same team, little knowing that their paths will cross again on a war-torn battlefield.<br><br>Max Tepper–-the son of Jewish immigrants. Max becomes the target of anti-Semitism at a very young age. Hopeful for a better future, he enrolls in the university eager to become a physician like his father. But at the outbreak of World War II, things change.Max becomes...
| Автор | Sheldon Cohen |
"Smokey and the Fouke Monster" tells a most interesting and unusual true story of how the town of Fouke, Arkansas became the center of attention for Monster hunters in the early and mid-seventies but also, how this one mysterious creature's unwelcomed presence lead to the making of the now infamous movie "The Legend Of Boggy Creek". The book tells of the risks and pitfalls sometimes associated with the business side of life and how it came to pass that...
| Автор | Smokey Crabtree |
The Greatest Meeting <br><br>This is the saga of the impassioned journeys of two men, their true premonitions of a mystical meeting, and their self-discoveries. Full of compelling adventure, love and betrayal, joy and sadness, their stories have never before been told. <br><br>This extraordinary true historical novel takes place in Central Asia, and the Middle East; toady's Turkey in the thirteenth century during the tumultuous time of Changiz Khan's...
| Автор | None |
Linking Science and Science History with Culture – Essential Science for the Non-scientist. <br>The Davey Dialogues is an easy-to-understand history and background to key discoveries which have altered our perception of our universe and of ourselves, couched as a dialogue between the writer and a mysterious extra-terrestrial being with an agenda that may surprise you. <br>The dialogues provide background on the historical development of carefully selected scientific topics which are...
| Автор | John C. Madden |
LoveDance unveils Mary Magdalen as the Divine Daughter and essential partner to Yeshua the Divine Son in a love story as passionate as Gone with the Wind as intriguing as The Da Vinci Code as transformative as The Celestine Prophesy and as enlightening as The Secret.<br><br>Mary Magdalen unveils HERstory…Join her Journey …Heal your Soul <br><br>I am a healer. I am a woman. I am the voice of one forgotten.<br>The time is ripe for the Divine Daughter to be...
| Автор | Deborah Maragopoulos FNP |
THE FIRST TUNNEL RATS<br><br>This is the thrilling, hilarious and inspiring true story of a ragtag band of Aussie Army Engineers who redefined the word heroes … and reinvented larrikin too.<br><br>Among the first Australians to fight in Vietnam, they faced death every day defusing Viet Cong booby traps—then partied all night in a casino they'd built in secret.<br><br>They led hundreds of American troops to safety, but fought US military...
| Автор | Sandy MacGregor |
As a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Ontario, Henrietta listened intently to dinner table stories about her parents' lives before and after WWII.<br>She never tired of the accounts of the family legend, Bill O'Neill, a Canadian soldier who briefly stayed in her parents' tiny home in Holland during the war. Impressed by his kindness and evident bravery her parents gave him a copy of their wedding portrait as a souvenir. <br>As she grew up, Henrietta did...
| Автор | Henrietta T. O'Neill |
Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. Stalin was the "eminence gris" behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power. Stalin envisioned World War II as a replay of World War I, in which the Europeans would destroy each other and be ripe for conquest. Stalin forged the mightiest political control apparatus and largest military machine in the world. In the process tens of millions were executed or perished in the vast Gulag. Stalin planned to use this...
| Автор | James Ph.D. Edwards |
The Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civil War and through to the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "War on Terrorism."
| Автор | Howard Boone's Zinn |
In 2010, Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District when no other Democrat would. Operating on a budget considered minuscule by today's standards, and refusing donations, he ran as an unashamed progressive Democrat in a predominantly Republican district. In Unlikely Candidate, Lieber reveals the inside story of his unconventional campaign, shares the lessons he learned about contemporary electoral politics, and suggests ways to fix our broken...
| Автор | Arthur Sr. Lieber |
In his debut novel, William Robison begins the story of a young time traveler and his retrieval team. Set in the midst of world history, this is a story of adventure, romance, and heroism that is part history lesson and part action movie, and all kinds of fun…<br><br>Lanz Franco's life is going nowhere – and fast – until the death of his brother. All at once, Lanz Franco wanders into the desert, discovers a fantastic city out of time, learns that he is a time traveler, and...
| Автор | William Robison III |
Imagine sitting across from a member of the German Secret State Police and negotiating with him to allow for the release of Jewish youngsters and for the establishment of a Jewish school. What can a teenager do when forced to march past the gallows and see how two of his campmates were hung? These are just some of the very real experiences that afflicted the 46 featured Holocaust survivors, who remained resilient and went on to rebuild their lives in the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia,...
| Автор | Shlomit Editor Kriger |
America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present.<br><br>"Rollins examines the roles of language, satire, and film in reflecting the American consciousness through such diverse sources as Orestes Brownson, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Will Rogers, and Hollywood. Readers of America Reflected are in for a delightful voyage as they travel through American history and culture with Peter Rollins as...
| Автор | Peter C. Rollins |
Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road.<br><br>Blue Blood...
| Автор | Art MD Chansky |
Introduction<br>By Lee Streiff<br><br>"In 1937 James Streiff and Bob Parks created 'the Epic of the Martian Empire'; in 1942 Paul Carter added his vision of the Cosmic Vortex to it, and the Universe was never the same again…" Lee Streiff<br><br>Once we lived in the world of the Martian Empire, but that now seems like a long time ago – it all began in those last remaining years before World War II changed our...
| Автор | Lee CDN Streiff |
This is the story of a man and woman in love, with all the doubt, hesitation, delusion, jealousy, desire, passion, ecstasy and pain<br>of people thus enthralled.<br><br>The man, Robert, is every joy, every fear, every terrible thought and high-minded aspiration, every conceit, every strength and weakness of mind and body that any man has ever felt and known but only reluctantly acknowledged in himself. Nia reflects the tenderness, hope, fear, suffering, attempted dignity and...
| Автор | Allan Inc. Wargon |
As Green as Paradise is a lyrical weave of a governor's story, once a conquistador. It is a tale of loves lost and dreams unfulfilled, of characters condemned to forge ahead in a world at once old and new.<br><br>The avocado carver was once a conquistador. This time, though, he aims to arrive in peace, as a governor, leading his relatives across the sea to a new world where they will found a settlement in a green valley. Yet his hopes for harmony with the indigenous people do...
| Автор | Adam OSB Lifshey |
This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century, not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But, author Robert M. Price argues, this is merely another case of "pseudepigraphy," the genre of fictive "as if" authorship common to the Bible as well. Price urges readers to a new appreciation...
| Автор | Robert M. Price |
The voice on the tape recordings is that of an old man we all believe is dead. His incredible story whips us along on a fascinating, engrossing speedboat ride so entirely believable that readers are left wondering what is real and what is not. In fact, many of the events here are true. Many of the people in the book are real. The narrator in the book describes a dramatic escape from the Minsk Ghetto during WWII, being chased by killers across North America, murder, betrayal and sun-drenched...
| Автор | Lowell Ph.D. Green |
Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of the organization, of the 1960s, and of the process of social change. Includes a new introduction by the author.
| Автор | Howard Boone's Zinn |