Author : Xianliang Zhang
Publisher : New York : Harper Collins Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
For years, Zhang Xianliang has been in and out of prison and labor camps while achieving recognition as one of China's foremost writers, and this powerful autobiographical novel and insider's portrait brilliantly chronicles what it means to be Chinese in China today.
Author : Rufus Columbus Burleson
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Baptists
ISBN :
This work contains a biography of Rufus C. Burleson, a Baptist preacher and second president of Baylor University. It also includes his sermons, addresses, lectures, letters, published articles.
Author : Janet Evanovich
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345542886
While chasing after powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi, who is on the lam, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must help security specialist Ranger catch the killer of his top client's mother as a giraffe named Kevin runs wild in the streets of Trenton.
Author : Muni Rathnam Pantula
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1945497432
This book encompasses the characterisation of meteorological drought by the newly invented index called “SPI – Standardised Precipitation index” approved by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in June 2011. It is a simple index with precipitation as the only parameter and can be computed for different scales (1-3-6-12-24 months) and compared across regions with different climatic zones. The author has depicted graphs with regard to trends, onset, end, magnitude with dates of occurrence of droughts over a period of 102 years with regard to rainfall and temperature with the aid of SPI and SPEI, for Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. To characterise the agricultural drought, climatological water balance was carried for a period of 30 years for the data. In this book a composite index called “Indian drought monitor” with ten indicators and indices has been developed for releasing drought information weekly considering and incorporating review from a group of climatologists, extension agents and others across the nation. This will lead the country economically forward.
Author :
Publisher : Inland Expressions
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 193915006X
Since their inception, newspapers have always been a good source of useful information. Among the countless stories to appear in newsprint over the years, however, there are some that seem to stand out from the rest. Ranging from comical to tragic, the accounts contained in this book have been selected to provide the reader with a thought provoking experience. Examples of the tales in this book include the husband forced by his wife to sleep in the barn with the cows after refusing to bathe and the highly praised pastor that left his wife and children to elope with the church organist. Other accounts involve the almost unbelievable disregard towards the dangers posed by the deadly combination of explosives and ignorance. Read about the antics of a stray cat that had a Texas city in uproar and the hunter that found it impossible to decide which end of a stuck rifle he should be pulling on. These and many more examples of humorous, interesting, but sometimes tragic accounts that have appeared in newsprint over the years can be found in the pages of this book.
Author : Kaie Kellough
Publisher : Esplanade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550655315
"Kaie Kellough is the author of the novel Accordéon (2016). Short stories taking place in Montreal, Paris, and the South American rainforest."--
Author : Robert Jervis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1991-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195362764
Fearing the loss of Korea and Vietnam would touch off a chain reaction of other countries turning communist, the United States fought two major wars in the hinterlands of Asia. What accounts for such exaggerated alarm, and what were its consequences? Is a fear of the domino effect permanently rooted in the American strategic psyche, or has the United States now adopted a less alarmist approach? The essays in this book address these questions by examining domino thinking in United States and Soviet Cold War strategy, and in earlier historic settings. Combining theory and history in analyzing issues relevant to current public policy, Dominoes and Bandwagons examines the extent to which domino fears were a rational response, a psychological reaction, or a tactic in domestic politics.
Author : Lewis Petrinovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1489902066
Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.
Author : Carol Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031271033
This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK. The majority of deaths in prison custody in England and Wales result from natural causes, yet the experiences of people dying in prison and the impact of these deaths on the wider prison are under-researched areas. It provides a novel insight into the impact of deaths from natural causes on the prison as an institution and challenges existing work juxtaposing occupational philosophies of ‘care’ and ‘control’. It also identifies how end of life care is provided in prisons and the impact this has on culture and relationships shows how deaths from natural causes in prison custody ‘soften’ prison regimes, culture and relationships. It speaks to an international audience by drawing on the global literature including from the US.
Author : Kenneth J. Hsü
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345344908
