Vale of Tears
Title | Vale of Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Peter T. King |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publishing |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2003-11-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1461625831 |
In his inimitable "two track" style of creating a fictional future and flashing back to actual events in recent history, Peter T. King once again places Congressman Sean Cross at the center of international terrorism, this time coming from radical Islam in cahoots with the Irish Republican Army. The "reality-based" track gives a minute-by-minute account of September 11, 2001 and its effect on the cities of New York and Washington, and continues with month-by-month accounts up until September 11, 2002. A leading congressional Republican, King offers keen insight into President Bush's inner circle in the days immediately following the attacks. In King's fictional future New York once again comes under attack, and it falls upon the resourceful Sean Cross to uncover the odd bedfellows that comprise this latest conspiracy to visit terror on American soil.
The Vale of Tears
Title | The Vale of Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781988065212 |
An epic journey across borders, The Vale of Tears chronicles close to two years in the life of Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung as he seeks an escape route from Nazi-occupied Europe. In this rare, near day-byday account, Rabbi Hirschprung illuminates what life was like for an Orthodox rabbi fleeing persecution, finding inspiration and hope in Jewish scripture and psalms as he navigates the darkness of wartime to a safe harbour in Kobe, Japan.
Vale of Tears
Title | Vale of Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Levine |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1995-12-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520203437 |
"A brilliant and sensitive portrayal not only of Canudos, but of the sertão more generally. By making the defenders of Canudos less spectacular and exceptional, [Levine] has rescued them from the museum of curiosities and restored them to the mainstream of backland life. It is about time we had such nuanced understanding about this tragic misunderstanding."—Steven C. Topik, Luso-Brazilian Review
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Title | A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Feiffer |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1998-03-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0062059262 |
‘Prince Roger sets out eagerly on a quest and finds a few adventures, a lot of friends, a damsel or two in distress (not!) and himself, in the end. A ‘carrier of joy’ whose mere presence causes everyone to laugh uncontrollably, Roger finds cruelty and kindness equally amusing, and expects his quest to be a lark. It’s anything but: As Roger passes through the Forever Forest, nearly starves at the Dastardly Divide, sees people at their worst in the Valley of Vengeance, and temporarily despairs in the Mountains of Malice, he sobers up, learns to care for others, becomes an expert peacemaker, does Good Deeds, and falls in love with Lady Sadie, who says what she thinks as she repeatedly saves his bacon.’—K. ‘Feiffer’s worldly-wise, confiding tone and sense of the absurd are highly congenial, and the drawings are a vintage Feiffer delight.’—Publishers Weekly. 100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1995 (NY Public Library)
The Vale of Tears (Emek Habacha)
Title | The Vale of Tears (Emek Habacha) PDF eBook |
Author | J. Hacohen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9401027412 |
There were several compelling reasons which prompted me to undertake the work of translating and commenting upon the Vale of Tears by Joseph of all, those of Hacohen, the sixteenth century physician and historian. First us who have been teaching in the area of the Middle Ages have noticed over the past several years a distinct upsurge of interest in the field. Consequently, a number of Medieval Institutes, non-denominational in character and attached to major universitites, have sprung up all over the United States trying once more to relate themselves to that age which witnessed - among other things - the unparalleled struggle between two power complexes, the Church and the State. Scholars will also have to consider the Jewish Middle Ages, interconnected with the Christian Middle Ages, which lasted much longer and far beyond the Renaissance in Europe. Most of them tended to gloss over this aspect of Western Civilization which found the Jew in the juggernaut between these two powers. Students of all faiths, ecumenically oriented and truthful to the point of self-abasement are now ready, without a sense of embarrassment, to discuss this long bleak period in the history of European man, where greed, envy, suspicion and religious fanaticism had triumphed over reason and piety. Yet, beyond all of this, there was another consideration which guided me in doing this tedious and often frustrating work: the knowledge of Hebrew has been on the decline in this country.
Criticism of Heaven
Title | Criticism of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Boer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004161112 |
Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the instersections between Marxism and theology in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zižek and Theodor Adorno.
Vale of Tears - untold stories of violence in Manipur
Title | Vale of Tears - untold stories of violence in Manipur PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Shilshi |
Publisher | Blue Rose Publishers |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2020-08-24 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
This book tells stories of some very chilling violent incidents that took place in insurgency torn state of Manipur during the 1990s, described as seen on the ground by the Author. Stories of innocent public suffering as victims of security force excesses, and inhuman tactics used during communal and ethnic clashes, which conveys how the common men got trapped in conflict situations, unable to predict what awaits them, when, where and how. The book also points out shortcomings in the system, both at institutional and ground level, and force incompetency in tackling insurgency and guerilla tactics especially in crowded urban settings.