Author : Stephen Schwartz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0887381219
In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it's defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco's Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the 'front'. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985.
Author : Stephen Schwartz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN : 9781412818926
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1407019317
It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long-resting ghosts of the past come careering back into the present.
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306821257
As a precursor to such landmark works as "On the Road "and "The Dharma Bums," this is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, and spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom.
Author : Jim Scott
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1770673237
Book 2 in the Wanderings and Sojourns series focuses upon the author’s time during two decades spent mostly among the islands that lazily stretch from the Eastern Caribbean to Florida. From his first ever game of golf on a waterlogged Montserrat course to a boarding by the Coastguard in the Gulf Stream, his appendectomy at a maternity clinic in Antigua to battling a monster hurricane or diving for treasure in the Virgin Islands, he recounts with wry wit and candour, and his typical not-quite-conformist attitude and insight, just some of the episodes that made his life in the islands so fascinating. www.caridiangroup.com
Author : Edward L. Beach
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612515460
Hailed as heart stopping and almost unbearably suspenseful, Edward L. Beach's third novel is set fifteen years after the end of World War II as the US Navy converts its fleet of conventional submarines to nuclear-powered ships. The book focuses on the USS Cushing, whose sixteen missile silos carry more explosive power than all the munitions used in both world wars. The submarine is on a secret mission to the Arctic Ocean to determine whether her missiles are effective when fired from beneath the ice. When the Cushing is incapacitated with a suspicious Russian sub lurking in the vicinity, the scene is set for a dramatic novel rich in all the technical detail and submarine lore that have entertained millions of readers of Captain Beach's other fictional works.
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Page : 866 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Joseph Ratzinger
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681493349
Written over three decades ago, Cardinal Ratzinger's profound treatise on the true meaning of Christian brotherhood is perhaps even more timely and important now as a clear statement on the biblical grounds for cooperation among believing Christians. In treating Christian brotherhood from the perspective of salvation history, Ratzinger opens up the meaning of both the Old and New Testament in this most essential area. After establishing the distinctively Christian sense of brotherhood (vis-À-vis Judaism, Hellenism, Stoicism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism), he shows how fraternal charity can only be perfected through God's fatherhood, Christ's divine sonship, and our brotherhood in Christ.
Author : Robert L Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317262980
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters created a sea of change in labour and race relations in the US. For the first time in US history, a black labour union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and archival research, this new book tells the story of the union and its charismatic leader C.L. Dellums, starting from the BSCP's origins as the first national union of black workers in 1925. In 1937, the BSCP made history when it compelled one of the largest US corporations - the Pullman Company - to recognize and negotiate a contract with a black workers' union. C. L. Dellums was a leading civil rights activist as well as a labor leader. In 1948, he was chosen to be the first West Coast Regional Director of the NAACP. This book is an inspiring testament to both him and the unions transformative impact on US society.
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Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English literature
ISBN :
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