Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1636

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Author: John Wooten
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507547779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Vinnie Depasquale is a budding young boxer in Sicily when a woman visits him in a dream and tells him to go to the sacred mountainside. When Vinnie obeys, the woman visits him again, and this time Vinnie knows who it is-the Virgin Mary. She tells him that she has seven requests for him and that in seven years, miracles will happen in Sicily for the people of the world. But when Vinnie's brother is killed and his father assumes leadership of part of a local crime family, Vinnie and his family are forced to flee the violent Mafia war in Sicily to save their lives. Vinnie arrives in America and meets Don Marenzano, who takes the young pugilist under his wing. Marenzano trains Vinnie at his own gym and does everything he can to promote Vinnie's boxing career. But Vinnie isn't so sure he can trust Marenzano; he wears a devil ring on his finger. As deceptions unravel and the body count of those close to Vinnie continues to rise, tenuous alliances form between the Depasquale and Marenzano families. And watching over everyone is the Virgin Mary, who still has a part to play in the forging of this miracle fighter.

Author: John Killen
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781591105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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John Killen's exhaustive work is a study of German air power between 1915 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, Boelke, Richtofen and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction. Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser's war; the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of the turbulent Thirties; the monoplanes designed to help Hitler in his conquest of Europe. Here are the generals who forged the air weapon of the Luftwaffe - the swaggering Goering, the playboy Udet, the ebullient Kesselring and the scapegoat Jeschonnek; here, too, are the pilots who tried to keep faith with their Fatherland despite overwhelming odds; Adolf Galland, Werner Molders, Joachim Marseille and Hanna Reitsch. Not least are the actions fought by the Luftwaffe from the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain, through the bloody struggle for Crete and the siege of Stalingrad to the fearful twilight over Berlin.

Author: Scotty McCoy
Publisher: Scotty McCoy
ISBN: 1720858209
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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In "Christ Defeats Cancer", my dad's journey with brain cancer was foretold and how he sustained a miracle after emergency brain surgery. In its sequel, "Christ Defeats Cancer 2: The Battle Continues", the continuing battle with brain cancer is continuing where it left off.From flashing back to the first book to expanding on the battle with Glioblastoma with in-depth and analytical details on minor setbacks and side effects, unforeseen and unfortunate events, and even some more miraculous and amazing news that was not told in the first book and happened after the first book's initial release and publication.Also included is a full detailed analysis on what exactly Glioblastoma is and what it does, scriptures that will instill even more hope, love, and faith in the Lord, and advice on how anyone dealing with cancer can be hopeful in receiving a miracle themselves, just like my dad has been given and our entire family and even friends witnessed such a beautiful gift from God.

Author: Naoki Hyakuta
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1647290465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Your grandfather was a coward. That is the angry recollection with which a former Zero fighter pilot greets two Japanese siblings who, typically, despite being educated, know next to nothing about a defining war in the Pacific that took place within living memory. The testimony rattles and confuses aspiring lawyer Kentaro and newly minted journalist Keiko since virtually the only fact they’ve grown up hearing about Kyuzo Miyabe is that he died a kamikaze. When the young pair digs deeper into the man’s past, other surviving comrades only seem to confirm the verdict, but its very import begins to shift in surprising ways. In addition to providing a window into the experiences of the losing side’s flyboys and a frank look at contemporary Japan’s amnesia regarding the war, this novel also undertakes a blistering critique of the folly and inhumanity of the Imperial Navy and Army and a nuanced exploration of the differences between kamikaze pilots and today’s suicide bombers. At its core, however, it is a mystery of sorts about a long-dead man’s actions and intentions and a reconfiguration of the meaning of wartime loyalty and sacrifice. A debut novel that was published when the author was fifty, The Eternal Zero has become Japan’s all-time top-selling mass-market paperback and the basis of a blockbuster film of the same name.

Author: Norbert Hanning
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811744485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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Action-packed memoir of aerial combat. Inside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fighters. Candid photos taken by the author himself.

Author: Nalini Patel
Publisher: Spectrum of thoughts
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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What are memories to you? Aren't they music, just in the form of notations ready to be explored over that piano,the only solace to you in this mad world? To preserve your precious moments we present to you "The Heartstrings".The Heartstrings is a compilation of amazing write-ups that will touch the strings of your heart and make you fall in love again. The book will take you to a mesmerising journey of different experiences from all over the world. It's about the person you're thinking of when you're running an afternoon errand, the radio is on and you're singing along at the top of your lungs, in the middle of traffic wishing they were right there beside you. It's about the one you want to spend the little moments with, the moments that will flash before your eyes one day and there's no one else you'd rather see yourself within those moments because you know that, that's when you feel like your life is worth living the most. The Book is compiled by Nalini Patel under the countenance of Srashti Behure. The co-authors have shared not just a writeup to be published but a part of their lives with you. I really hope their feelings would reach you through their words.

Author: Laszlo Mero
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300238487
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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“Consistently surprising…The Logic of Miracles breaks new ground in the relationship of probability, fate, and the ability of human beings to behold them."—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human We live in a more turbulent world than we like to think. Yet the science we use to analyze economic, financial, and statistical events mostly disregards the world’s essentially chaotic nature. We need to get used to the idea that wildly improbable events are actually part of the natural order. Here, a renowned mathematician and psychologist explains how the wild and mild worlds (which he names Wildovia and Mildovia) coexist, and that different laws apply to each. Even if we live in an ultimately wild universe, he argues, we’re better off pretending that it obeys Mildovian laws. Doing so may amount to a self-fulfilling prophecy and create an island of predictability in a very rough sea. Perched on the ragged border between economics and complexity theory, the author proposes to extend the reach of science to subjects previously considered outside its grasp: the unpredictable, unrepeatable, highly improbable events we commonly call “miracles.” “It's hard to see how miracles and math fit together. But if you accept László Mérö's invitation, you will enter a world where miracles are normal and the predictable sits side-by-side with the unpredictable. Along the way, he unveils the mathematics of the stock market and explains, in a playful yet mathematically accurate way, the roots of market crashes and earthquakes, and why ‘black swans’ are not just calamities but opportunities.”—Albert-László Barabási, author of Linked

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1700

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Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1781314780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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“Bring[s] alive the all-engulfing drama of 1940, as Hitler’s Luftwaffe attempted to establish air superiority over England. . . . Poetry and sharp politics.” —The Times During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler’s armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the country’s safety from invasion. The men and women of Fighter Command worked tirelessly in air bases scattered throughout the length and breadth of Britain to thwart the Nazi attacks; The Secret Life of Fighter Command tells their story. From setting up the ground-breaking radar systems along the coast of the Southeast of England, to the distribution of spotters of bombing waves coming along the Thames Estuary, the boffins who designed and built the guidance and detection structures to organize a winning defense umbrella, to the Wrens who plotted enemy movements and then conveyed this to the various RAF squadrons stationed in the UK’s zonal defense system—all of them played a part in maintaining the security over Britain. Through exclusive interviews with various members of this unique and world famous organization, bestselling author Sinclair McKay tells the human story of how Britain survived the Nazi onslaught and enabled our Hurricanes and Spitfires to triumph over the German air force.