The Gradual
Title | The Gradual PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Priest |
Publisher | Titan Books (US, CA) |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2016-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1785653040 |
A composer’s tour of a mysterious chain of islands reveals startling truths in this “brilliant, meditative fantasy” by the multiple award-winning author of The Prestige (Barnes & Noble) Alesandro Sussken is a composer living in Glaund, a fascist state constantly at war with another equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches glimpses of islands in the far distance from the shore, and they feed into the music he composes. But all knowledge of the other islands is forbidden by the military junta, until he is unexpectedly sent on a cultural tour. And what he discovers on his journey will change his perceptions of his home, his music, and the ways of the islands themselves. Bringing him answers where he could not have foreseen them. A rich and involving tale playing with the lot of the creative mind, the rigors of living under war and the nature of time itself, this is multi award-winning, master storyteller Christopher Priest at his absolute best.
Sudden and Gradual
Title | Sudden and Gradual PDF eBook |
Author | Peter N. Gregory |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN | 9788120808195 |
This volume examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism seeing it as part of a recurrent polarity in Chinese history and thought. Sudden and Gradual includes essays by Luis O. Gomez on the philosophical implications of the debate in China and Tibet, Whalen Lai on Taodheng`s theory of sudden enlightenment, Neal Donner on Chih-i`s system of T`ien-t`ai, John R. McRae on Shen-Hui`s sudden enlgihtenment` and its precedents in Northern Ch`an, Peter N. Gregory on Tsung-.i`s theory of sudden enlightenment .
The Gradual Elephant
Title | The Gradual Elephant PDF eBook |
Author | H. S. Toshack |
Publisher | WordSmith |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cats |
ISBN | 0956323618 |
Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery
Title | Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Heyrick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1824 |
Genre | Enslaved persons |
ISBN |
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
Title | Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions PDF eBook |
Author | Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1824 |
Genre | Antislavery movements |
ISBN |
The Little Gradual, Or The Chorister's Companion
Title | The Little Gradual, Or The Chorister's Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle (formerly Phillipps.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Gradual failure : the air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966
Title | Gradual failure : the air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966 PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Van Staaveren |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1428990186 |
Of the many facets of the American war in Southeast Asia debated by U.S. authorities in Washington, by the military services and the public, none has proved more controversial than the air war against North Vietnam. The air war s inauguration with the nickname Rolling Thunder followed an eleven-year American effort to induce communist North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty without openly attacking its territory. Thus, Rolling Thunder was a new military program in what had been a relatively low-key attempt by the United States to win the war within South Vietnam against insurgent communist Viet Cong forces, aided and abetted by the north. The present volume covers the first phase of the Rolling Thunder campaign from March 1965 to late 1966. It begins with a description of the planning and execution of two initial limited air strikes, nicknamed Flaming Dart I and II. The Flaming Dart strikes were carried out against North Vietnam in February 1965 as the precursors to a regular, albeit limited, Rolling Thunder air program launched the following month. Before proceeding with an account of Rolling Thunder, its roots are traced in the events that compelled the United States to adopt an anti-communist containment policy in Southeast Asia after the defeat of French forces by the communist Vietnamese in May 1954.