Author: T. H. Watkins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805065060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who lived through it.
Surviving the Hungry Years
Author: Jimmy Lane
Publisher: Discovery Press (WV)
ISBN: 9780966724653
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Distributed by: Cumberland House Publishing, 431 Harding Industrial Drive, Nashville, TN 37211. Toll-free: 1-888-439-2665; (615) 832-1171; Fax (615) 832-0633; E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Publisher: Discovery Press (WV)
ISBN: 9780966724653
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Distributed by: Cumberland House Publishing, 431 Harding Industrial Drive, Nashville, TN 37211. Toll-free: 1-888-439-2665; (615) 832-1171; Fax (615) 832-0633; E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide
Author: Creek Stewart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440328552
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Put the Odds in Your Favor! Train like a Tribute before you enter the Arena using this wilderness survival guide--you don't have to live in Panem to put these survival skills to use. Experience the adventure of life in District 12 by learning and practicing the survival skills used by Katniss, Peeta, Gale and their friends. Some of the survival skills you'll learn: • Building temporary shelters to protect from rain, cold, wind and sun. • Finding and purifying water--even when there are no streams or lakes nearby. • Building and using fire for cooking, signaling, warmth and making tools. • Identifying and cooking wild edible plants. • Building Gale's famous twitch-up snares. • Peeta's camouflage techniques. • Katniss's hunting and stalking skills. • Making your own survival bow and arrows and other tools. • The materials you need to create a forage bag like Katniss's. • Survival first aid. • Navigation tips and tricks for travel, rescue and evasion. Detailed photos and step-by-step instructions will help you master each skill. The real-life skills found in The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide will help you in any wilderness or disaster survival situation. Start your training today.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440328552
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Put the Odds in Your Favor! Train like a Tribute before you enter the Arena using this wilderness survival guide--you don't have to live in Panem to put these survival skills to use. Experience the adventure of life in District 12 by learning and practicing the survival skills used by Katniss, Peeta, Gale and their friends. Some of the survival skills you'll learn: • Building temporary shelters to protect from rain, cold, wind and sun. • Finding and purifying water--even when there are no streams or lakes nearby. • Building and using fire for cooking, signaling, warmth and making tools. • Identifying and cooking wild edible plants. • Building Gale's famous twitch-up snares. • Peeta's camouflage techniques. • Katniss's hunting and stalking skills. • Making your own survival bow and arrows and other tools. • The materials you need to create a forage bag like Katniss's. • Survival first aid. • Navigation tips and tricks for travel, rescue and evasion. Detailed photos and step-by-step instructions will help you master each skill. The real-life skills found in The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide will help you in any wilderness or disaster survival situation. Start your training today.
Hungry
Author: H. A. Swain
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250061849
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250061849
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?
Years of Dust
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142425796
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the Dust Bowl's imact on the land and the people. Both a tale of natural destruction and a tribute to those who refused to give up, this is a beautiful exploration of an important time in our country's past.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142425796
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the Dust Bowl's imact on the land and the people. Both a tale of natural destruction and a tribute to those who refused to give up, this is a beautiful exploration of an important time in our country's past.
Unsettling Food Politics
Author: Christopher Mayes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786600986
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements. This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault’s method of genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization of the present to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular, the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary Australia.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786600986
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements. This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault’s method of genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization of the present to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular, the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary Australia.
Artwork
Author: Herbert Francis Wauthier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Every Falling Star
Author: Sungju Lee
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 161312340X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 161312340X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Reich TV
Author: Jeff Pearce
Publisher: Gallivant Books
ISBN: 098681802X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Germans had television in the early years of the Hitler regime. Now see what happens when TV changes the history of Nazi Germany and World War Two! The BBC has lured the Marx Brothers away from America to London so they can perform a variety show each week that's transmitted all the way into Berlin. Their producer is the young, hard-drinking, womanizing Dylan Thomas, who goes from hating foreign politics to being obsessed with stopping the Nazis. Meanwhile, on the night of the Reichstag Fire, young English correspondent George Orwell manages to explore the ruins and makes a startling discovery: the burned bodies of five men handcuffed together, one of them a Brown Shirt and another a high-ranking army officer. Orwell has to team up with a roving band of pirate signal broadcasters to expose the truth about the fire-and the secret of a terrifying new weapon in Nazi hands. Espionage, murder, sabotage and betrayal. They'll all be exposed on Reich TV, culminating in the most sensational trial of the century.
Publisher: Gallivant Books
ISBN: 098681802X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Germans had television in the early years of the Hitler regime. Now see what happens when TV changes the history of Nazi Germany and World War Two! The BBC has lured the Marx Brothers away from America to London so they can perform a variety show each week that's transmitted all the way into Berlin. Their producer is the young, hard-drinking, womanizing Dylan Thomas, who goes from hating foreign politics to being obsessed with stopping the Nazis. Meanwhile, on the night of the Reichstag Fire, young English correspondent George Orwell manages to explore the ruins and makes a startling discovery: the burned bodies of five men handcuffed together, one of them a Brown Shirt and another a high-ranking army officer. Orwell has to team up with a roving band of pirate signal broadcasters to expose the truth about the fire-and the secret of a terrifying new weapon in Nazi hands. Espionage, murder, sabotage and betrayal. They'll all be exposed on Reich TV, culminating in the most sensational trial of the century.
Bessie Quinn: Survivor Spirit
Author: Ursula Howard
Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1914151321
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Bessie Quinn was an early 20th century New Woman, a mother living her love story in the enchanted world of the Garden City. When she died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, her shattered husband abandoned her memory, belongings and life history. Her disappearance reverberated down generations. Starting with only an Arts and Crafts kettle, one photo and a linen smock, Ursula has restored her grandmother to life. After long searches she found Bessie in the Scottish Borders, eighth child of working-class Irish parents who’d fled hunger after the Great Famine of the 1840s. This biography of a poor family unearths hard journeys of love, luck and loss, weaving historical fact with memory and imagination into a compelling story.
Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1914151321
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Bessie Quinn was an early 20th century New Woman, a mother living her love story in the enchanted world of the Garden City. When she died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, her shattered husband abandoned her memory, belongings and life history. Her disappearance reverberated down generations. Starting with only an Arts and Crafts kettle, one photo and a linen smock, Ursula has restored her grandmother to life. After long searches she found Bessie in the Scottish Borders, eighth child of working-class Irish parents who’d fled hunger after the Great Famine of the 1840s. This biography of a poor family unearths hard journeys of love, luck and loss, weaving historical fact with memory and imagination into a compelling story.
Helena's Hunger
Author: Monika Arenth
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477158944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Helena is fourteen years old when she experienced the nationally organized forceful deportation of her family from their native Bohemia into West Germany. For more than four years she and her family along with thousands of others were transported via cattle-cars into various refugee camps, where they survived under most deplorable living conditions. Deprived of most basic amenities, they suffered extreme heat and cold, but foremost; starvation and disease. This journey into the depth of despair is not without hope. It is an account of survival that glitters and sparks with love and truth.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477158944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Helena is fourteen years old when she experienced the nationally organized forceful deportation of her family from their native Bohemia into West Germany. For more than four years she and her family along with thousands of others were transported via cattle-cars into various refugee camps, where they survived under most deplorable living conditions. Deprived of most basic amenities, they suffered extreme heat and cold, but foremost; starvation and disease. This journey into the depth of despair is not without hope. It is an account of survival that glitters and sparks with love and truth.