Author : Roland Wilbur Charles
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Transports
ISBN :
"This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.
Author : Vance O. Mitchell
Publisher : Air Force History & Museums Program
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : April Walker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2017-03-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781542484787
April Walker opens not just her business practices but her whole heart in this book. Launching a business is an emotional roller coaster ride and Walker shines her light on that right up front, encouraging us to keep dreaming big and "move the mountains in your head." -Peggy Northrop, cofounder, Shebooks and PaperQuilt; former Editor-in-Chief, Reader's Digest and More. In life, we can either make excuses or create results. In this book that Rosie Perez describes as "reinvigorating and inspiring," April Walker shares principles needed for the passion pursuit. In this handbook, WalkerGems: Get Your A$% Off The Couch, whether you're employed, in startup mode, or desire fuel for the entrepreneurial journey, it prepares you to GO and GROW, moving forward towards success. Providing wisdom with experience, Walker covers many aspects that are translatable to life, helping one to push past fear, with practical, actionable and activating gems. As an easy-to-digest must read, this guide is encapsulated with useful information, quotes, hashtags, pictures, and facts. This book knocks down apprehensions and offers essential advice to what can be often overwhelming and intimidating, especially in the beginning.
Author : Sandra Gulland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2002-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743213572
Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
Author : Gregory Rabassa
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811216654
Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating, If This Be Treason traces Rabassa's career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar's Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.
Author : Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786251523
Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.
Author : Hamideh Sedghi
Publisher :
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780511296574
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
Author : Melanie Oppenheimer
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781877007286
Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Author : William Shawcross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0743226763
This magnificently illustrated volume, produced in cooperation with BBC Books in London, combines an insightful text by noted historian Shawcross with personal recollections and over 100 remarkable images chronicling the half-century reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Full color and b&w.
Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781382573
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
