Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Whirl of the Wheel Books


Three children whirl back in time through an enchanted potter’s wheel into the reality of evacuation in 1940s Britain. Only two return. A whispering house, blue and gold spotted china cats that come to life, an enigmatic guardian of the potter’s wheel who is all-things purple, and the recurrence of a Lysander aircraft and its crew. Whirl of the Wheel pulls feisty Connie, her brother Charlie-Mouse, and school pest Malcolm into dangers on the homefront and towards a military operations secret that will save their home. The children hit trouble when Malcolm fails to return to the present day. This adventure for children and young adults will keep you guessing . . .
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The Zen Experience Books


Beginning with Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism it shows Zen as it was created by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Gradual and sudden enlightenment, shock enlightenment, the koan, the migration of Zen to Japan. With anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work restores Zen to its living, human form.

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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Books


Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Big Prince Whitten, the black Seminole Abraham, and General Georges Biassou were Atlantic creoles, Africans who found their way to freedom by actively engaging in the most important political events of their day. These men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds, who were fluent in multiple languages and familiar with African, American, and European cultures, migrated across the new worlds imperial boundaries in search of freedom and a safe haven. Yet, until now, their extraordinary lives and exploits have been hidden from posterity.

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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets Books


The entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the industrial revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets, from Andy Kessler, an award-winning financial analyst, engineer and hedge fund manager. This brilliant book is a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments.Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. In the style of James Burke, it connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today. Presented with his trademark wit and smart-ass assessments, How We Got Here offers readers an original and refreshing look at history.

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The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States Books


History of civil rights in nineteenth and early-twentieth century America. There are stories of heroic people who stood up for their own rights and those of others, but also terrible betrayals of freedom of spech and religion and association, as well as racism and intolerance. This book serves as a warning that the promise of liberty is meaningful only if liberty is ensured for all people, including those we don’t agree with or don’t understand.

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Paging Dr. Leff Books


How did a young patriotic kid from Brooklyn, end up as a captain in the air force on an air base in Thailand, only to discover that the military he respected was illegally bombing villagers in Laos, discriminating against black soldiers and stacking the deck against corpsmen coming clean with the truth of their experience? Why did President Nixon later appoint this man to work in his administration under John Erlichman? Paging Doctor Leff: Pride, Patriotism and Protest is the biography of an idealistic boy from New York who joined the civil air patrol for God and country and never looked back. Dr. Arnie Leff has fought many wars, overseas and at home. He stood up to his superiors during Viet Nam; worked for the White House to evaluate and create drug treatment programs; and has pulled no punches with his often-controversial opinions about drugs, euthanasia, health care, and medical marijuana.

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2 Free History E books


These ebooks include:-

1. Olivia’s Mine by Janine McCaw (Fiction, History)
2. Battle of the River Plate by Russell Phillips (Non Fiction, History)

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