Author: Frans Coetzee
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195174410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the sheer scale and reach of the conflict, the book's twelve chapters include sufficient narrative and analysis to enable students to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source.
Author: Richard Collier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800325913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jerald Walker
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807036080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jerry would be eleven years old. Jerry’s parents were particularly vulnerable to the promise of relief from the world’s hardships. When they joined the church, in 1960, they were living in a two-room apartment in a dangerous Chicago housing project with the first four of their seven children, and, most significantly, they both were blind, having lost their sight to childhood accidents. They took comfort in the belief that they had been chosen for a special afterlife, even if it meant following a religion with a white supremacist ideology and dutifully sending tithes to Armstrong, whose church boasted more than 100,000 members and more than $80 million in annual revenues at its height. When the prophecy of the 1972 Great Tribulation does not materialize, Jerry is considerably less disappointed than relieved. When the 1975 end-time prophecy also fails, he finally begins to question his faith and imagine the possibility of choosing a destiny of his own.
Author: Eva March Tappan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Monika Davies
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1644913321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn are four opinionated sisters, each responsible for their season of the year. However, when Mother Nature gives them a challenging task, will they find the beauty and purpose in a different season? This hi-lo book uses a mix of poetry and prose to captivate students. With full-color illustrations and a compelling story, this short, 32-page chapter book will appeal to reluctant readers.
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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 164491512X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn are four opinionated sisters, each responsible for their season of the year. However, when Mother Nature gives them a challenging task, will they find the beauty and purpose in a different season? This chapter book engages readers through a mix of poetry and prose. The full-color illustrations, short chapter format, and compelling text build reading comprehension and fluency. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a content-area focused lesson plan.
Author: Monika Davies
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 0743970896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn are four opinionated sisters, each responsible for their season of the year. However, when Mother Nature gives them a challenging task, will they find the beauty and purpose in a different season? This hi-lo book uses a mix of poetry and prose to captivate students. With full-color illustrations and a compelling story, this short, 32-page chapter book will appeal to reluctant readers.
Author: Douglas Ord
Publisher: Douglas Ord / Lear's Shadow
ISBN: 1896260721
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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A first impression of Putin through the lens of Columbine may be that it displays an unhealthy recall of the Columbine High School massacre, as a singular and horrible event that deserves consignment to the past. The view is probable that this should be the case especially for the two perpetrators. There are grounds, however, for suggesting that Columbine may have been a peculiarly and even uniquely resonant event: the blood-event in which a focused, articulate, and unapologetic will to destruction of the human world both announced itself to the world and entered it. What is offered here is a reading of archives that begins with recognition of a syntax of resemblance between two performative mass murderers with big ambitions: Eric Harris and Vladimir Putin. The text organizes thought in an unusual way, drawing in method from David Hume and Gilles Deleuze as will be credited. A reader accustomed to the usual bandwidth of both public and academic discourse is asked to set aside expectations and proceed with an open mind.
Author: George Griffith
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1913487296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3889
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The late Victorian writer and noted explorer, George Griffith was a pioneering author of science fiction, who enjoyed tremendous success in Britain. Published in 1893, his debut novel and most celebrated work, ‘The Angel of the Revolution’ was the first best-selling ‘scientific romance’ and Griffith’s success paved the way for subsequent authors of the genre, notably H. G. Wells. This comprehensive eBook presents Griffith’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Griffith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * 15 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Valdar the Oft-Born’, ‘The Gold-Finder’ and the final masterpiece ‘The Lord of Labour’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many works are fully illustrated with their original Victorian and Edwardian artwork * Rare short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Griffith’s rare non-fiction * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Angel of the Revolution (1893) Olga Romanoff (1894) The Outlaws of the Air (1895) Valdar the Oft-Born (1895) Briton or Boer? A Tale of the Fight for Africa (1897) The Romance of Golden Star (1897) The Gold-Finder (1898) The Virgin of the Sun (1898) A Honeymoon in Space (1901) The Missionary (1902) The World Masters (1903) A Mayfair Magician (1905) The Mummy and Miss Nitocris (1906) The World Peril of 1910 (1907) The Lord of Labour (1911) The Shorter Fiction Gambles with Destiny (1899) Stories of Other Worlds (1900) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction The Criminal Lunatic Asylum (1900) In an Unknown Prison Land (1901) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
