Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Throw a Nickel on the Grass, a Fighter Pilot's Life Narrative
Author: Warren KerzonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329914643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Personal history of my 22+ years as an Air Force fighter pilot starting when I first dreamed about my future career, through flight school, operational experience in France, Germany, then Test Pilot School, flight test projects, combat experience in Southeast Asia, and other assignments; short summary of follow-on 15-year career in the aerospace industry.
World's Work
Author: The Last Shift
Author: Philip LevinePublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 045149377X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Now in paperback--the final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds; telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night / to discover that rain in New York City / is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in the collection, "The Last Shift."
Home Builder's Guide to Continuous Improvement
Author: Jack B. ReVellePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420055089
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Presenting well-known tools and techniques, the Home Builder's Guide to Continuous Improvement provides important insights and necessary information to reduce cycle time duration and variation in order to improve quality and customer satisfaction and to minimize costs and accidents. Each chapter offers examples based on the authors' personal experi
Fabiola, or The church of the Catacombs
Author: Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (Cardenal)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Fabiola
Author: Nicholas Patrick WisemanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375173733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Fabiola
Author: Nicholas Patrick WisemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
TAINTED LOVE
Author: Nancy MorsePublisher: Nancy Morse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Fledgling vampire Prudence Hightower longs for love. Not the tainted love of the vampire Nicholas, but that of a mortal man - the pirate Stede Bonham. But Stede’s happy-go-lucky nature hides a secret that can destroy her faith in love as surely as Nicholas destroyed her mortality. As the French tricolor is lowered in New Orleans with the American purchase, and old-world Creoles clash with arrogant Americans, the key to reclaiming Pru’s lost soul lies with an ancient witch inhabiting the body of a powerful voodoo queen. Can she trick the witch into chanting the spell that will restore her mortal soul? Will a voodoo love potion win Stede’s love? From the muddy streets of New Orleans, to the steamy bayous throbbing with voodoo drums, to the pirate stronghold of Barataria Pru follows a tempestuous path to the heart of darkness and into the arms of the vampire who will never let her go.
Fabiola Or, the Church of the Catacombs
Author: Nicholas Patrick WisemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Author: Simon GoldhillPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.