Dangerous Neighbors

Author : Beth Kephart
Publisher : Egmont USA
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606842904

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Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart Pdf

It is 1876, the year of the Centennial in Philadelphia. Katherine has lost her twin sister Anna in a tragic skating accident. One wickedly hot September day, Katherine sets out for the exhibition grounds to cut short the haunted life she no longer wants to live. Filled with vivid detail that artfully brings the past to life, National Book Award nominee Beth Kepart's DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS is a timeless and finely crafted novel about betrayal and guilt, hope and despair, love, loss, and new beginnings. Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review Set in Philadelphia against the back-drop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition (the first World’s Fair in the U.S.), this atmospheric novel traces the sentiments of grief-stricken Katherine, whose identical twin sister, Anna, died in a tragic accident earlier in the year. As the novel opens, Katherine, who feels responsible for Anna’s death, has decided to take her own life. Again and again, she is drawn to the exhibition grounds. Here, futuristic marvels and unexpected events-including a disastrous fire- detain her from completing her suicidal mission. Losing herself in a throng of strangers, she examines her past, recalling the development of her sister’s secret romance with a “dangerous neighbor” and the final sequence of events that led to Anna’s death. Conjuring sharp, meticulously detailed images of fair exhibitions (“The wonders of the world slide past. Parisian corsets cavorting on their pedestals. Vases on lacquered shelves. Folding beds. Walls of cutlery. The sweetest assortment of sugar-colored pills, all set to sail on a yacht”), Kephart (The Heart is Not a Size) evokes a tantalizing portrait of love, remorse, and redemption. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)

Author : James Alexander Dun
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248319

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Dangerous Neighbors by James Alexander Dun Pdf

Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of slavery. Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By focusing on both the meanings Americans gave to those events and the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one in which various groups were making sense of their new nation in relation to both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing in on Philadelphia—a revolutionary center and an enclave of antislavery activity—Dun collapses the supposed geographic and political boundaries that separated the American republic from the West Indies and Europe.

Author : Grant Heiken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107435155

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Dangerous Neighbors: Volcanoes and Cities by Grant Heiken Pdf

What are the real risks posed by a volcanic eruption near a city – what is fact and what is myth? How have volcanic eruptions affected cities in the past, and how can we learn from these events? Why do communities continue to develop in such locations, despite the obvious threat? In this fascinating book, Grant Heiken explores global examples of cities at risk from volcanoes, from Italy, the US, Mexico, Ecuador, The Philippines, Japan and New Zealand, providing historical and contemporary eruption case studies to illustrate volcanic hazards, and cities' efforts to respond to them, both good and poor. He shows that truly successful volcanic hazard mitigation cannot be accomplished without collaboration between experts in geology and natural hazards, public health, medicine, city and infrastructure planning, and civil protection. This is a topical and engaging read for anyone interested in the history and future activity of these dangerous neighbors.

Author : Michael Radu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351523714

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Dangerous Neighborhood by Michael Radu Pdf

Contemporary Turkish politics have long been roiled by cultural and social debates rooted in the legacy of modernization initiated in the 1920s by Mustafa Kemal Atati?1/2rk. Islamist challenges to Ataturk's secularism, to political corruption and economic inefficiency, and debates over the meaning of human rights, all remain open to argument-in Ankara as well as elsewhere. Undoubtedly they exert influence on Turkey's position in world affairs and reinforce its double identity between the West and the Islamic world. Dangerous Neighborhood examines Turkish foreign policy problems, both with its immediate neighbors in the Caucasus and Middle East and in its essential strategic relations with the European Union and the United States. How important is Washington for Turkey's strategic interests, considering its controversial relations with the European Union? The Kurdish problem has affected Turkey's bid for EU membership, and also its relations with the United States as the war on terrorism is pursued. Are Turkish values and national interests, based on the legacy of Atati?1/2rk, compatible with minority rights, as defined by the European Union, and if not, why not? Moreover, is there any advantage to Turkey in joining the European Union, or is the price too high, relating to human rights concessions and legal issues? These important questions are examined in this volume. In the Caucasus, Turkey is an important factor, if for no other reason than its size and common borders. Turkey's role, whether Ankara likes it or not, remains important for both Russian ambitions and local ethnic groups seeking either autonomy or independence-Chechens, Abkhaz, Circassians, among others. Ankara's dilemma is whether to support co-nationals and co-religionists or to seek normal relations with Moscow. The solution to this dilemma is debated in this volume. In other parts of the world, Turkey also plays a central role. For example, Ankara's close military and political relations with Israel contribute to a different strategic and military balance in the Middle East. Turkey's views are seldom made public, and few Turks have believed it is important to present their case. This book, with contributors from Turkey as well as the West, is intended in part to broaden understanding of Turkey's position. Dangerous Neighborhood will be of interest to political scientists, foreign policy analysts, and Middle East specialists..

Author : Jordan E. Taylor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421444499

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Misinformation Nation by Jordan E. Taylor Pdf

"To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities"--

Author : Alexander Edwin Sweet,John Armoy Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Texas
ISBN : NYPL:33433081844403

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On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas, from the Gulf to the Rio Grande by Alexander Edwin Sweet,John Armoy Knox Pdf

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015026669252

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Four Centuries of Progress ... by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Author : Alan Gallay
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300133219

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The Indian Slave Trade by Alan Gallay Pdf

This prize-winning book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves in the American South. For decades the Indian slave trade linked southern lives and created a whirlwind of violence and profit-making. Alan Gallay documents in vivid detail the operation of the slave trade, the processes by which Europeans and Native Americans became participants in it, and the profound consequences it had for the South and its peoples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015051395070

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Progress by Anonim Pdf

Issued in the interests of university and worlds congress extension.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Progress - Issued Monthly by the University Association in the Interests of University and Worlds Congress Extension by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laron Davis
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823964353

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The Caddo of Texas by Laron Davis Pdf

Describes the history, culture, government, beliefs, and current situation of the Caddo.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:41968898

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The Congressional Globe by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Richard D. Erlich
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434457752

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Coyote's Song by Richard D. Erlich Pdf

A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children's books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, "It is written in English, not academese, and will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students, scholars, and interested readers."

Author : Antoine Henri baron de Jomini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048814193

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Life of Napoleon by Antoine Henri baron de Jomini Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000463150

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Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf