Yesterday's Tomorrows
Title | Yesterday's Tomorrows PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph J. Corn |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801853999 |
From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.
Seattle
Title | Seattle PDF eBook |
Author | J. Kingston Pierce |
Publisher | Westside Publishing |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | Seattle (Wash.) |
ISBN | 9781412715775 |
Explore the fascinating world of Seattle: one of America's most important and interesting cities. Full of nostalgic old and beautiful contemporary photographs that capture the essences of the Emerald City.
All Our Yesterdays
Title | All Our Yesterdays PDF eBook |
Author | Frank B. Woodford |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2017-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814343406 |
But more important, this is a story by and about the people of Detroit, for it is the people that have made this city great.
All Our Yesterdays
Title | All Our Yesterdays PDF eBook |
Author | Cristin Terrill |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1408835207 |
A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .
“And All Our Yesterdays...” and Nine Other Stories
Title | “And All Our Yesterdays...” and Nine Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-05-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1491735333 |
The stories in "All Our Yesterdays..." and Nine Other Stories continue to explore the lives of the Cockburn family and other characters in and around the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars and the short stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories. While the events and the characters found in the ten stories exist in rural and small town settings, the themes explored have a universal appeal.
Yesterday and To-day
Title | Yesterday and To-day PDF eBook |
Author | Cyrus Redding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 982 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Yesterday in Mexico
Title | Yesterday in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | John W. F. Dulles |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 828 |
Release | 2014-07-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0292771789 |
Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told—by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretations or appraisal. The resultant book offers an interesting paradox: it is “chronicle” in the medieval sense—a straightforward record of events in chronological order, recounted with no effort at evaluation or interpretation; yet in one aspect it is a highly personal narrative, since much of its significant new material came to Dulles as a result of personal interviews with principals of the Revolution. From them he obtained firsthand versions of events and other reminiscences, and he has distilled these accounts into a work of history characterized by thorough research and objective narration. These fascinating interviews were no more important, however, than were the author’s many hours of laborious search in libraries for accounts of the events from Carranza’s last year to Calles’ final retirement from the Mexican scene. The author read scores of impassioned versions of what transpired during these fateful years, accounts written from every point of view, virtually all of them unpublished in English and many of them documents which had never been published in any language. Combining this material with the personal reminiscences, Dulles has provided a narrative rich in its new detail, dispassionate in its presentation of facts, dramatic in its description of the clash of armies and the turbulence of rough-and-tumble politics, and absorbing in its panoramic view of a people’s struggle. In it come to life the colorful men of the Revolution —Obregón, De la Huerta, Carranza, Villa, Pani, Carillo Puerto, Morones, Calles, Portes Gil, Vasconcelos, Ortiz Rubio, Garrido Canabal, Rodríguez, Cárdenas. (Dulles’ narrative of their public actions is illumined occasionally by humorous anecdotes and by intimate glimpses.) From it emerges also, as the main character, Mexico herself, struggling for self-discipline, for economic stability, for justice among her citizens, for international recognition, for democracy. This account will be prized for its encyclopedic collection of facts and for its important clarification of many notable events, among them the assassination of Carranza, the De La Huerta revolt, the assassination of Obregón, the trial of Toral, the resignation of President Ortiz Rubio, and the break between Cárdenas and Calles. More than sixty photographs supplement the text.