Author : Gregory Butler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0595409199
September 11th, 2001 changed the face of New York City forever. 7 towers lay in ruins-and 2,900 people were lost. New York's construction workers reacted by rushing to the scene-using their special skills to rescue the living and recover the remains of the dead. The city's real estate developers, contractors and public officials had private profit and restoring business as usual as their first priorities.
Author : Angelina J Steffort
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category :
ISBN : 9783903357242
With evil rising, every secret can change the course of history. The curse is broken. The Fae are free. And so is Gandrett-at least to walk away from the palace at Lei'Vreah, from the King of Fae who she supposedly is in love with, from the prince who almost died in her arms. Her friends are out there, needing her help. Mckenzie who is struggling at the Phornian court, and Addie, for who any help might come too late. And her brother- When Gandrett returns to Everrun in the hope of breaking free from the Order at last, she isn't prepared for the mission the Meister sends her on-or for what it will cost her. At least she has a new friend who is ready to fight and die at her side. If only it weren't for the Fae prince she left behind in Ulfray, and the promise he made, she would sleep better-and think better. But something is changing within Gandrett, and there is no denying that eventually, it may cost her everything.
Author : Uwe Tellkamp
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 024100490X
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989.
Author : Julia Wertz
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0316501220
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.
Author : Mary Martina Dockter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1543463673
My philosophy for writing poetry is to stretch the boundaries, to go beyond and explore the vast universe of thought. Lifes journey is a quest for knowledge; its in this search that we enter the labyrinth.
Author : Mary Martina Dockter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1465324933
When thinking about the title for this book....early on, I thought of the idea that man will fade from sight but will never vanish....Life is good and bad, happy and sad....We come and go with nothing to show....But our souls in the mist thus the title for this....EVANESCE.... ....Enjoy......God Bless....
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1445615452
Full-colour guide to the towers built to defend England's coastline. Built to defend against Napoleon's forces, the Martello towers have played a part in both the First and Second World Wars and many are still visible along the coasts of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk.
Author : Derek Dalton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136165525
Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a general topic no single text has sought to explore dark tourism in spaces where crime - mass murder, genocide, State sanctioned torture and violence - has occurred as an organising theme. Dark Tourism and Crime explores the socio-cultural contours of this unique type of tourism and explains why spaces/places where crime has occurred fascinate and attract tourists. The book is marked by an ethics of respect for the suffering a place has experienced and an imperative to learn something tangible about the history and legacy of that suffering. Based on empirical ethnographic research it takes the reader from the remnants of Auschwitz concentration camp to the tranquil Australian island of Tasmania to explore precisely what things a dark tourist might encounter - architecture, art installations, gardens, memorials, physical traces of crime - and how these things invoke and evoke past crimes. This volume furthers understanding of dark tourism and will be of interest to students, researchers and academics of criminology, tourism and cultural studies.
Author : Myra King
Publisher : Apley Towers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781782262770
Set in the shade of Giant's Throne Mountain on the South African coast of the Indian Ocean, this adventure- and friendship-filled series stars the students of a horseback riding school, Apley Towers, who learn valuable life lessons with horses and humans alike.
Author : Carole McDonnell
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434443817
Sickly fifteen year old Prince Psal, the son of the nature-blessed warrior-king Nahas, should have been named Crown Prince of all Wheel Clan lands. A priest-physician like his friend Ephan, Psal lacks a warrior's heart, yet he desires to earn Nahas's respect and become a clan chief. If he cannot do this, he must escape his clan altogether. But his love for Cassia, the daughter of his father's enemy, and his own weaknesses work against him. When war comes, Psal defends Ktwala and her daughter Mahari, wronged by Nahas, and speaks out against the atrocities his clan commits, further jeopardizing his future. And now the mysterious towers that keep humans safe from the Creator's ancient curse are rebelling. A prophecy exists-not that Psal believes such matters-of three great ones who will find the Constant Tower and break the power of the third moon. Could Psal, Ephan, and Mahari be those great ones? Psal must risk losing his father's respect to find his destiny, and with his friends face the dangers of the unmaking night to find the Constant Tower and save all of humanity. "Carole McDonnell is a first-class world-builder. A unique, powerhouse epic, The Constant Towers is a treasure trove of great characters, compelling cultural details and political machinations, all lovingly detailed in evocative prose. Yay!" - Stefan Petrucha, author Dead Mann Walking
