Author: Alan G. Wasenius
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543430538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Diner owner Maxie Thermopolis and his business associate, Tom Puglisi, get in a beaucoup of trouble when they are framed as bootleggers in the spring of 1927. The bootleggers who did it are the local sheriff and a fake preacher. Maxie has to convince a bunch of bumbling government agents that he is on their side. In proving their innocence, Tom and his friends involve Maxie in a world where he is a fish out of water.
Maxie Thermopolis or Don’T Drink the Giggle Water
Author: Alan G. Wasenius
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543430538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Diner owner Maxie Thermopolis and his business associate, Tom Puglisi, get in a beaucoup of trouble when they are framed as bootleggers in the spring of 1927. The bootleggers who did it are the local sheriff and a fake preacher. Maxie has to convince a bunch of bumbling government agents that he is on their side. In proving their innocence, Tom and his friends involve Maxie in a world where he is a fish out of water.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543430538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Diner owner Maxie Thermopolis and his business associate, Tom Puglisi, get in a beaucoup of trouble when they are framed as bootleggers in the spring of 1927. The bootleggers who did it are the local sheriff and a fake preacher. Maxie has to convince a bunch of bumbling government agents that he is on their side. In proving their innocence, Tom and his friends involve Maxie in a world where he is a fish out of water.
Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone
Author: Thomas Turiano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974561943
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone provides a general history of mountaineering in the Greater Yellowstone region, and features 107 of the region's most prominent summits. Guidebook information, natural history, and mountaineering history is provided for each summit"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974561943
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone provides a general history of mountaineering in the Greater Yellowstone region, and features 107 of the region's most prominent summits. Guidebook information, natural history, and mountaineering history is provided for each summit"--
Return to the Middle Kingdom
Author: Yuan-tsung Chen
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402756979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The author chronicles three generations of her late husband's family, all of who fought against the injustices they encountered in their homeland of China.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402756979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The author chronicles three generations of her late husband's family, all of who fought against the injustices they encountered in their homeland of China.
The Dragon's Village
Author: Yuan-Tsung Chen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People's Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that distant world in words that open it up to Western readers in the clearest, most vivid terms. Shanghai, 1949: we look through the eyes of Guan Ling-ling, a headstrong, idealistic seventeen-year-old. As her family departs for Hong Kong, Ling-ling boldly chooses to stay, and joins a revolutionary theater group which soon leaves the city to carry out the new reforms in the Chinese countryside. After a scant few weeks' preparation, this city-bred schoolgirl suddenly finds herself in one of China's most remote and impoverished areas, a world so far from her own experience that she can barely understand the lives she has been sent to change. On her very first night in Longxiang ("the Dragon's Village"), a dusty hamlet far in the northwest, Ling-ling's life is threatened by agents of a defiant landlord. From that moment on, an unrelenting flood of events engulfs her: plot and counterplot, acts of violence, midnight raids, dramatic personal revelations, even glimmers of first love, all set against a canvas of revolutionary upheaval. Chen carries us on an incredible voyage against China at a critical moment in modern history. No novelist has focused so clearly or so closely on the faces of revolution, or on the physical and social landscapes in which it was played out, from the urbane circles of Shanghai to the parched fields and desolate families in tiny Longxiang. We are wholly involved in Ling-ling's struggle to assume the unfamiliar garb of soldier and teacher, and can recognize in it an adolescent's painful path to maturity. Yuan-tsung Chen was born in Shanghai and educated in a missionary school for girls there. She has just graduated from high school in 1949, and soon went to work at the Film Bureau in Peking. In 1951, she joined she joined land reform workers in Gansu Province, the setting of this, her first book. It was the first of several agrarian campaigns in which she took part over the next twenty years.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People's Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that distant world in words that open it up to Western readers in the clearest, most vivid terms. Shanghai, 1949: we look through the eyes of Guan Ling-ling, a headstrong, idealistic seventeen-year-old. As her family departs for Hong Kong, Ling-ling boldly chooses to stay, and joins a revolutionary theater group which soon leaves the city to carry out the new reforms in the Chinese countryside. After a scant few weeks' preparation, this city-bred schoolgirl suddenly finds herself in one of China's most remote and impoverished areas, a world so far from her own experience that she can barely understand the lives she has been sent to change. On her very first night in Longxiang ("the Dragon's Village"), a dusty hamlet far in the northwest, Ling-ling's life is threatened by agents of a defiant landlord. From that moment on, an unrelenting flood of events engulfs her: plot and counterplot, acts of violence, midnight raids, dramatic personal revelations, even glimmers of first love, all set against a canvas of revolutionary upheaval. Chen carries us on an incredible voyage against China at a critical moment in modern history. No novelist has focused so clearly or so closely on the faces of revolution, or on the physical and social landscapes in which it was played out, from the urbane circles of Shanghai to the parched fields and desolate families in tiny Longxiang. We are wholly involved in Ling-ling's struggle to assume the unfamiliar garb of soldier and teacher, and can recognize in it an adolescent's painful path to maturity. Yuan-tsung Chen was born in Shanghai and educated in a missionary school for girls there. She has just graduated from high school in 1949, and soon went to work at the Film Bureau in Peking. In 1951, she joined she joined land reform workers in Gansu Province, the setting of this, her first book. It was the first of several agrarian campaigns in which she took part over the next twenty years.
Searching for Yellowstone
Author: Paul Schullery
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780972152211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780972152211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.
Driven Wild
Author: Paul S. Sutter
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989904
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989904
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
In the Shadow of Mahatma
Author: Sita Gandhi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Gandhi`S Grand Daughter Recounts Her Childhood Years At Phoenix Settlement Recalls Encounters With Racial Discrimination And Her Time In India. The Second Half Of The Book Consists Of Gandhi`S Letters To His Grand-Daughter And Her Parents. Contents Covers- Notes From A Daughter, Sita`S Story, My Childhood At Phoenix Settlement, In India With Bapuji, Letters From Gandhi.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Gandhi`S Grand Daughter Recounts Her Childhood Years At Phoenix Settlement Recalls Encounters With Racial Discrimination And Her Time In India. The Second Half Of The Book Consists Of Gandhi`S Letters To His Grand-Daughter And Her Parents. Contents Covers- Notes From A Daughter, Sita`S Story, My Childhood At Phoenix Settlement, In India With Bapuji, Letters From Gandhi.
The Yellowstone Story
Author: Aubrey L. Haines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yellowstone National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
My Prayer Journal
Author: Ann Ann Wise
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727480078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
My Prayer Journal This beautiful prayer journal contains 100 pages to take notes and reflect on your relationship with Christ. It's perfect for both travel and fitting right on your bedside table. Whether it's for group Bible Study or personal worship, this prayer journal is the perfect tool to build a stronger relationship with Christ! DETAILS: - 100 pages for tracking daily prayer. - Features the daily prompt * "Today's Verse" * "Lord teach me to..." * "I am thankful for..." * "Prayer Requests" - Great size - Can easily fit into a purse or tote bag - Great gift for all occasions - Product Measures: 8" x 10"
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727480078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
My Prayer Journal This beautiful prayer journal contains 100 pages to take notes and reflect on your relationship with Christ. It's perfect for both travel and fitting right on your bedside table. Whether it's for group Bible Study or personal worship, this prayer journal is the perfect tool to build a stronger relationship with Christ! DETAILS: - 100 pages for tracking daily prayer. - Features the daily prompt * "Today's Verse" * "Lord teach me to..." * "I am thankful for..." * "Prayer Requests" - Great size - Can easily fit into a purse or tote bag - Great gift for all occasions - Product Measures: 8" x 10"