Author : John C. Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781470164461
The One Square Mile is a community known as Oak View in the city of Huntington Beach, CA. This is the story of the renewal of Oak View, a story that began 15 years ago.
Author : Sheldon Parrish
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1465315500
This book is an historical book done from an autobiographical perspective about a small town called Roosevelt NY Located in Nassau County Roosevelt has seen great transition in race culture and economic aspects but still managed to produce such well knowns as Eddie Murphy, Julius Dr.J Erving, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Gabriel Cassius(film star and Producer) Steve White (Comedian) and many others.The author has had experiences with all these individuals as well as many others and has a compiled this project to bring those stories and the story of Roosevelt proper to engage readers . Please enjoy ONE Square Mile
Author : John Wukovits
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0593187474
For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at the end of the Tarawa Atoll. When the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their underground bunkers—and launched one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. For three straight days, attackers and defenders fought over every square inch of sand in a battle with no defined frontlines, and where there was no possibility of retreat—because there was nowhere to retreat to. It was a struggle that would leave both sides stunned and exhausted, and prove both the fighting mettle of the Americans and the fanatical devotion of the Japanese. Drawn from new sources, including participants’ letters and diaries and exclusive firsthand interviews with survivors, One Square Mile of Hell is the true story of a battle between two determined foes, neither of whom would ever look at the other in the same way again.
Author : Mark W. Falzini
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1532017510
One Square Mile: A History of Trenton Junction, New Jersey offers a view of small-town, rural American life at the turn of the century. Tracing the origins of the town back to the original Native American inhabitants, One Square Mile depicts its evolution from a small farming community to a bustling suburb, with a glimpse into the lives of the people who called Trenton Junction home.
Author : Jack House
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1845029224
Four of the world's greatest murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre during the latter part of Queen Victoria's rein. These horrific murders were committed not in the East End as expected, but in the fashionable and respectable West End of Glasgow. Madeline Smith was accused and found not guilty of lacing her doomed lover's late-night cocoa with arsenic; an eighty-three year old woman was brutally battered to death, and Jessie McPherson was brutally struck forty times with a meat cleaver, in a case considered by some authorities to be the finest in the world. However, by far the most chilling crimes are those of Dr Edward William Pritchard, "The Human Crocodile", who had the coffin lid unscrewed so that he could kiss the lips of the wife he had calculatingly murdered by slow poisoning. Glasgow is a city renowned for its crime and violence, but little has been documented about Victorian crime. This timely new edition of a classic best-seller, is the first of its kind, and is as valid today as ever.
Author : James E. Woolam
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1481757466
THE YEAR 1932 The Great Depression was in full force. The stock crashed on October 29, 1929. It was also the year most members of the Riverside High School class of 1950 were born. A brief look back reveals what our great country, and the world, looked like. As the year 1932 began Herbert Hoover was the President. He would lose the election in November to Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Roosevelt would serve as president during most of the formative years of our young lives. He served through the Great Depression and World War II. He died in 1945 and was succeeded by Harry S. Truman. Some National and International events, in the world of politics and sports: Adolph Hitler was coming to power, the atrocities he committed, war in Europe and WWII, were on the horizon. The Walt Disney Art School is created The tenth Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles New York Yankees win the World Series (so this is news) The Indianapolis 500 winner is Fred Frame with a speed of 104.144 MPH This is a peek into the year of 1932. There was certainly a great deal of exciting, powerful, and spectacular events during the year. Strictly from an unbiased point of view none of these events matched the birth of all those little babies that were destined to be the Class of 1950!
Author : Adam Bowles
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1512794007
After thirty years of living in the one square mile of Jewett City, a pastor/journalist decided to fight negative perceptions of his hometown by spending a year interviewing 120 neighbors and visitors whose lives intersect his own. In the process, Adam Bowles discovered a beautiful diversity and the untold stories of faith, family and friendship that makes this New England town shine. Now, in what is part memoir, part call-to-action, Adam shares ten community-building lessons he uncovered as he ventured out his front door to do something radical take an interest in others. In turn, the project drew national interest and became the subject of an equity and social justice initiative. The spontaneous, on-the-street interviews capture dreams that transcend the boroughs boundaries and its nearly 3,500 residents, showing just how much God is at work in the lives of ordinary people. They tell a greater story about the world we live in and the need to break down walls among our neighbors through vulnerable, courageous conversations. As division grows across the nation, its time we listen again to the stories of our neighbors, and celebrate the threads of life that unite us all.
Author : Geraint Anderson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0755361172
CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson's bestselling exposé of life in the City of London. In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London's financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile's code of silence, revealing tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky underbelly at the heart of life in the City. Drawing on his experience as a young analyst in a major investment bank, the six-figure bonuses, monstrous egos, and the everyday culture of verbal and substance abuse that fuels the world's money markets are brutally exposed as Cityboy describes his ascent up the hierarchy of this intensely competitive and morally dubious industry, and how it almost cost him his sanity.
Author : John Hayward
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Dartmoor National Park (England)
ISBN : 9780951403723
Author : Julia Reyes Taubman
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780982389607
"A sober witness to Detroit's greatness and its status as forgotten city." -Laura Berman, The Detroit News Please note: The spine of this volume is specially treated with black ink to evoke the industrial character of its subject. Over the past six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman has taken more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out a comprehensive survey of a major American city. Photographing on the ground, in the buildings and by air and water, Reyes Taubman believes that when buildings and landscape are manipulated by nature and time they become more visually compelling than almost any architectural intervention. Reyes Taubman is not pessimistic, however: "It is not a disgrace but a privilege and an obligation to listen to the stories only ruins can tell," she writes in regard to this project. "They tell us a lot about who we were, what we once valued most, and perhaps where we may be going." As Reyes Taubman scrutinizes this 138-square-mile metropolis in transition, she pays particular attention to the scale and the solidity of the buildings that characterized the former "Motor City" at the height of its industrial wealth and power. More than a photographic saturation job of a single city, Detroit: 138 Square Miles provides contextual perspective in an extended caption section in which Reyes Taubman collaborated with University of Michigan professors Robert Fishman and Michael McCulloch to emphasize the social imperatives driving her documentation. An essay by native Detroiter and bestselling author Elmore Leonard addresses the social and cultural significance of the post-industrial condition of this metropolis.
