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Swimming in the Daylight

Author : Lisa C. Paul

Publisher : Skyhorse

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 47,10 MB

Release : 2014-08-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1629140392

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In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American college student living in Moscow and working as a nanny, enters Inna Meiman’s house for her first Russian language lesson. And so begins a two year friendship and fight for Inna’s life. Swimming in the Daylight chronicles Inna’s struggle to shed her refusnik status and to be granted a visa to travel to America, seeking medical treatment for the cancer that is slowly killing her. Inna reveals an indomitable spirit as she endures a perverse reality as a citizen of the Soviet Union—she must deny invitations from countries in the West to receive life-saving cancer treatment due to her inability to receive a visa from her own government. This refusal, Inna explains to Lisa, is the Soviet authorities’ way of persecuting her and her husband Naum, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group fighting for human rights in the USSR. Spurred by outrage and the desire to help her friend, Lisa returns to the United States, vowing to do all she can to get Inna out of Moscow. Lisa stages a hunger strike, holds a press conference, and galvanizes American politicians to fight for Inna’s freedom. All these efforts eventually succeed in pursuing Mikhail Gorbachev to issue Inna a visa in December 1986, and she finally steps foot on American soil. At a time when international strife seems insurmountable and worries at home seem to paralyze, this story will teach people everywhere that it is the courage inside that defines a person and can change the future.



Daylighting

Author : Derek Phillips

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 20,84 MB

Release : 2012-05-23

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 113641200X

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Daylighting offers a general theory and introduction to the use of natural light in architecture. The fourth of Derek Phillip's lighting books draws on his experience to illustrate how best to bring natural light into building design. As sustainability becomes a core principal for designers, daylighting comes to the fore as an alternative to artificial, energy consuming, light. Here, Phillips makes a rational argument for considering daylight first, outlining the arguments in favour of a daylight approach, and goes on to show, through a series of beautifully illustrated case studies, how architects have created buildings in which natural light has been shown to play a major strategic role in the development of the design of a building.



Chasing the Daylight

Author : Joanna Rakowski

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 14,51 MB

Release : 2023-06-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1669869393

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What is it like to be part of the world’s most powerful armed forces at the dawn of the 21st century? Does a military tale have to be about the men going to war? You’ll find out here. Joanna is a fragile, romantic, former ballerina. After a painful rift with her beloved friend and mentor, she joins the U.S. Army. Her dream is to become an Intelligence Officer. She faces a formidable task, but she embarks on a four-year journey to accomplish her goal. The story whirls us into the center of the rigorous army training and transports us into the reality that only less than one percent of the U.S. population would ever experience.



Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape

Author : Otto Fränzle

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 14,33 MB

Release : 2008-06-24

Category : Science

ISBN : 3540758119

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This volume is an essential text for scientists from a huge variety of disciplines, from ecologists to geographers and soil scientists. It provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District of northern Germany. The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes. These operate in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other.



Daylight at Night

Author : Lynda Charow

Publisher : Lynda Charow

Page : 42 pages

File Size : 25,10 MB

Release : 2010-11-14

Category :

ISBN : 1452455562

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Victoria is a bubbly 12 year old that lives in the coastal town of Saint Clair Shores, MI. She and her friends set out to save the annual 4th of July fireworks from being cancelled because of the lack of funds raised to have them that year. Join her and her friends as they decide what they can do to keep the holiday tradition alive.



Shadow In the Daylight

Author : KaLyn Cooper

Publisher : Black Swan Publishing

Page : 199 pages

File Size : 39,37 MB

Release : 2022-08-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1970145307

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He was done with missions…but Charley wasn’t done with him. After he left the Navy, stripped of his SEAL Trident and his pride, Andrew did a quick covert job for Charley before parting ways. As the Security Officer aboard a cruise ship, he invited several SEAL friends to travel as his guests through the Panama Canal. He never imagined he’d need his highly trained skills for another of Charley’s missions in the middle of the cruise. Kendra had worked her way up the male-dominated bridge crew, first in the U.S. Navy then for Monarch Cruise Lines, to Staff Captain, second in command of a huge cruise ship. Her crew was well trained and respectful…except for the too sexy, bossy Security Officer who reported directly to her. After succumbing to him, she discovers she enjoys their life together. When all hell breaks loose, and Charley needs both of them for her next mission, will Kendra be able to keep him in her life with all the odds stacked against them?



From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight

Author : Bruce Ross

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 48,59 MB

Release : 2012-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1475907451

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Bruce Ross knew something was wrong. He felt displaced and isolated from friends, family, and society. He had no one to turn to, and so he tried to cope with it himself. The fact that he had a disease called depression never entered his mind. He, like so many people, thought that only other people suffered from depression, not someone who appeared to be a well-adjusted, middle class person. From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight chronicles Ross's journey and struggles with depression, from his high school years until middle age. During this time, his promising start in life transformed into a dusk, in which Ross lived twenty-four hours of each day in a gloomy and unsettled existence. With eloquence and charm, he recaptures the joys of his childhood in Dartmouth, growing up with his buddies. Gradually, those times faded, and he found himself in the middle of his teenage years and the beginnings of his depression. Ross lived with the pain of depression and its "twin sister," Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), for more than thirty-five years before achieving a breakthrough thanks to the experimental procedure known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). This exciting advancement in medical science shows great promise for depression sufferers in North America and around the world. From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight is the candid and revealing story of the trials and tribulations of living with depression and the relief DBS finally brought.



Devil's Pool

Author :

Publisher :

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 10,84 MB

Release : 2021-09

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9781954119000

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Made at a swimming hole in Philadelphia where bathing is illegal, the Devil's Pool photographs recognize the human need to revel in our physical selves and commune with the natural world.



An Hour Before Daylight

Author : Jimmy Carter

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 37,61 MB

Release : 2001-06-29

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 074321725X

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“An American classic.” —The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black. Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.



From Midnight to Daylight

Author : Brenda E. Rocker

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 50,77 MB

Release : 2008-09

Category :

ISBN : 1438912676

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This inspiring story will teach you to appreciate life and live each day as if it is your last. Brenda E. Rocker has spent the last decade of her life surviving breast cancer. Hopefully through her testimonial she can save someone from what she encounters through her battle to overcome breast cancer. Throughout the book she stresses the significance of early detection being the key to life. She contributes her triumphant victory to having faith and keeping her trust in God. She acknowledges that through love and support from her husband, family, and friends gave her the strength and courage to survive this deadly disease. Her relentless determination in being her own advocate in implementing her medical treatments was fundamental in her surviving breast cancer which steals the lives of thousands of women around the world each year. If her book From Midnight to Daylight can inspire women all over the world to defeat breast cancer then it has been well worth the time and effort invested in the writing of her book. And most of all she recommends that you take the time everyday to tell your loved ones how precious they are; because you never know what tomorrow may bring.