Author : Rita Hadra Rusco
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : North Manitou Island (Mich.)
ISBN : 9781493792610
"Rita Hadra Rusco, a North Manitou Islander for nearly fifty years, has turned her love for the island into a warm story reflecting not only the island's history but the character, romance and determination of its people."--Back cover.
Author : Steven High
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1442658525
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement. The history of deindustrialization rendered in cultural terms reveals the importance of community and national identifications in how North Americans responded to the problem. Based on the plant shutdown stories told by over 130 industrial workers, and drawing on extensive archival and published sources, and songs and poetry from the time period covered, Steve High explores the central issues in the history and contemporary politics of plant closings. In so doing, this study poses new questions about group identification and solidarity in the face of often dramatic industrial transformation.
Author : Penny Jordan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459296486
She couldn't deny him this one chance Catriona found life on the remote Shetland islandhard enough without Brett Simon's maddening demands. If only her brother, Magnus, hadn'tagreed to all Brett's oil company to research a new terminal here—and to use their homeas a hotel! But Catriona didn't dare oppose Magnus. A terrible accident had shatter hisspirit, and this project seem to mean the world to him. The longer Brett stayed, though,the more Catriona felt her own sanity was at stake. Brett wanted more, much more, than shecould give him… Originally published in Sep 1982.
Author : Michael Bradley
Publisher : Manor House Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780973647747
"... an astonishing work of speculative non-fiction." - from the Foreword by John Robert Colombo "... a Grail tale to beat them all." - Mike Strobel, The Toronto Sun Swords at Sunset is Michael Bradley's bestselling non-fiction exploration of Holy Grail adventurers in North America from 1398 to 1571 (the author's research skills were also put to good use in the movie The Da Vinci Code). Bradley draws on evidence in The Book of Mormon and recently discovered artefacts from Lake Memphremagog and Niagara region to offer a convincing argument that communities of Grail refugees - who had fled the Inquisition in Europe - were established in Niagara and Vermont before being defeated by Native tribes in 1571. Swords at Sunset also examines the origins of man and the concept of the Holy Grail, offering a new and different perspective of the Western religious history that has shaped so much of the entire world's history. The book presents a thought-provoking interpretation that will astonish and intrigue.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1983
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ISBN : 142704841X
Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385542682
Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents—until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, On Sunset seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.
Author : Obi Kaufmann
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2017-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781597144025
"[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.
Author : Oliver Trager
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0684814021
Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases.
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Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Washington (State). Dept. of Highways
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bridges
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