A Landing on the Sun
Title | A Landing on the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Frayn |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312421908 |
From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, "an unconditional triumph" (The Washington Post Book World) For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there have been rumors. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly, from the archives in the Cabinet Office Registry, Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchild's last months. It begins to emerge that, at a time when America had just put men on the moon, the British were involved in an even bolder project, and that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight, but as powerful and dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared.
Jump at the Sun
Title | Jump at the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia D. Williams |
Publisher | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1534419136 |
From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.
Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun
Title | Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun PDF eBook |
Author | J. Black |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 2010-05-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230277586 |
Even casual observers will be familiar with the Cherry Blossom or Sakura tress of Japan. When in full bloom the sight is spectacular but it sadly only takes a week until the tree is bare. In a longer cycle of nations and business, we see, unfortunately, a similar pattern for Japanese Multinational Corporations.
Bubble in the Sun
Title | Bubble in the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Knowlton |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982128380 |
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.
Una Terra Nel Sole: A Land in the Sun
Title | Una Terra Nel Sole: A Land in the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Lino Concas |
Publisher | Austin Macauley Publishers |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1528968425 |
Questa pubblicazione e’ una raccolta bilingue di poesie del Tempo del Sogno (Dreamtime), originariamente scritte in italiano da Lino Concas e accompagnate dalla traduzione inglese di John Gatt-Rutter. Le poesie esprimono il fascino e l’identificazione del poeta con la cultura antica degli Aborigeni australiani conosciuta come “Dreamtime” (Tempo del Sogno) e i traumi storici della colonizzazione bianca. Esse sono diverse da qualsiasi altra poesia sull’esperienza aborigena, e sono una creazione unica sia tematicamente che nel loro linguaggio poetico. Le poesie vengono accompagnate dalle fotografie del “Dreamtime” (Tempo del Sogno ) e dal materiale informativo , incluse le scuse per la “Stolen Generation” del Primo Ministro Kevin Rudd, 2008. Questa pubblicazione mira ad avere un ampio impatto tra i lettori sia di lingua italiana che di lingua inglese, e va oltre una semplice lettura di poesie. This publication is a bilingual collection of Dreamtime poems, originally written in Italian by Lino Concas, and accompanied by English translation by John Gatt-Rutter. The poems express the poet’s fascination and identification with the age-old culture of Australia’s Aborigines known as Dreaming or Dreamtime and the traumas of white settlement. They are unlike any other poetry about the Aboriginal experience and are a unique creation both thematically and in their poetic language. The poems will be backed up with Dreamtime photography and informative material, including the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2008 “Sorry Speech” about the Stolen Generation. This publication aims at making a wide impact among both Italophone and non-italophone readers, and goes beyond a simple reading of poetry.
Land with No Sun
Title | Land with No Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Arthurs |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0811732908 |
'You know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne were in the thick of it, humping eighty-pound rucksacks through triple-canopy jungle and chasing down the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. As sergeant major for a battalion of 800 men, it was Ted Arthur's job to see them through this jungle hell and get them back home again. Command Sergeant Major Ted G. Arthurs served with the 4th Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, in Vietnam. He fought in the battles of Dakto and the Tet Offensive.' (Back of Book)
From Black Land To Fifth Sun
Title | From Black Land To Fifth Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Fagan |
Publisher | Perseus Books |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1998-05-04 |
Genre | Religion |
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A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people, explaining how cutting-edge science can take readers beyond the artifacts and into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship and ritual sacrifice. Photos.