Author : Sheila Hamanaka
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Famous authors and illustrators present a collection of prose and poetry exploring aspects of peace, from issues of personal and community violence to international conflict, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the environmental dangers of nuclear proliferation.
Author : Anthony Rene Brent
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936400391
Olivia does not surrender to the fears that paralyse her mother and other adults when they encounter the cicadas. She approaches lifes challenges with a positive attitude.
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300240554
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.
Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780452288195
Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author : A. Walter Dorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317183401
Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations; aircraft serving as the 'eyes in sky' to keep watch for the world organization; and combat aircraft enforcing the peace. Rich poignant case studies illuminate the past and present use of UN air power, pointing the way for the future. This book impressively fills the large gap in the current literature on peace operations, on the United Nations and on air power generally.
Author : Panja Jurgens
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN :
Despite poverty, violence, and despair, there are angels among us, walking the streets of New York City. For Panja Jurgens's thought-provoking photo essay, New Yorkers of every stripe strapped on a pair of pure white wings and, if only for a moment, transcended their own realities to imagine the possibilities of world peace. Some put their hopes into poetic words; others revealed their feelings through gestures and poses. Photographed in a wide variety of locations long before September 11, the images portray firefighters, nurses, artists, veterans, bikers, clerics, children, immigrants: a cross section of the peoples and cultures that make the city unique. Jurgens could not have picked a more appropriate, promise-filled place. A meditation by popular German rock star Udo Lindenberg introduces the 105 duotone photographs.
Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Bantam Books for Young Readers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553487725
Batman prefers to work alone–but the Justice League needs him to be a team player if they’re going to keep the World Assembly meeting peaceful. With tensions simmering between two European countries, Batman follows his own instincts instead of working with the group. Hawkgirl demands to go with him, determined to help. But with two clashing styles of fighting, they’re going to have to learn to deal with each other before they can save the world. And that might take more time than the World Assembly can spare.
Author : Ron Dick
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Measures how the world has been changed by the first human flight, examining military aviation after World War II, the safety of flight, the future of aviation, and centenary attempts to recreate the Wright brothers' first flights.
Author : Bonner Frank Fellers
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258265373
Author : Jean Edward Smith
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 140006693X
In his magisterial bestseller "FDR," Smith provided a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's 34th president.
