Ordered To Die

Author : Edward J. Erickson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313095580

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Ordered to Die by Edward J. Erickson Pdf

The first general history in English of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Ordered to Die is based on newly available Turkish archival and official sources. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Ottoman Army performed astonishingly well in the field and managed to keep fighting until the end of the war, long after many other armies had quit the field. It fought a multi-front war against sophisticated and capable enemies, including Great Britain, France, and Russia. Erickson challenges conventional thinking about Ottoman war aims, Ottoman military effectiveness, and the influence of German assistance. Written at the strategic and operational levels, this study frames the Turkish military contributions in a unitary manner by establishing linkages between campaigns and theaters. It also contains the first detailed discussion of Ottoman operations in Galicia, Romania, and Macedonia. Erickson provides a wealth of information on Ottoman Army organization, deployments, strategy, and staff procedures. He examines with particular attention the army's role in the Armenian deportations and the intelligence available to the Turks in 1914 and 1915. Appendixes include biographies of important commanders, the efforts of the Ottoman Air Force, Ottoman casualties, as well as a wartime chronology.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Ray Robertson
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771960953

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How to Die by Ray Robertson Pdf

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

Author : Mindy Avra Portnoy
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512497083

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Where Do People Go When They Die? by Mindy Avra Portnoy Pdf

In this touching narrative, young children ask, "Where do people go when they die?" Each child asks an adult that they trust--a father, a mother, a grandfather, an aunt, a teacher--and, although the reassuring answers they receive are all different, each leads back to the same simple truth: when people die, "They go to God. Who is everywhere." With an afterward and helpful suggestions about how to explain death to children, readers will find insight into one of the emotional issues we all struggle with.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S.C.M. Paine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136841682

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Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars by Bruce A. Elleman,S.C.M. Paine Pdf

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea power and its expeditionary forces the advantage. The technical term for these theatres is ‘peripheral operations.’ The subject of peripheral campaigns in naval expeditionary warfare is central to the British, the US, and the Australian way of war in the past and in the future. All three are reluctant to engage large land forces because of the high human and economic costs. Instead, they rely as much as possible on sea and air power, and the latter is most often in the form of carrier-based aviation. In order to exert pressure on their enemies, they have often opened additional theaters in on-going, regional, and civil wars. This book contains thirteen case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia whose collected case studies examine the most important peripheral operations of the last two centuries. This book will be of much interest to students of naval warfare, military history, strategic studies and security studies.

Author : Matthew Bennardo,David Malki !,Ryan North
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455529407

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This Is How You Die by Matthew Bennardo,David Malki !,Ryan North Pdf

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death. THIS IS HOW YOU DIE Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances-just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. OLD AGE, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does. This addictive anthology--sinister, witty, existential, and fascinating--collects the best of the thousands of story submissions the editors received in the wake of the success of the first volume, and exceeds the first in every way.

Author : City of London (England). Court of Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1700
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020851988

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Com' Concil' tent' ... Septimo die Junii 1700, etc. [An Order relating to the printing of two Acts dated 20 July, 1631 and 15 June, 1694, dealing with the election of Sheriffs. With copies of the Acts.] B.L. by City of London (England). Court of Common Council Pdf

Author : Edward Myers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101651551

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When Parents Die by Edward Myers Pdf

The topics range from the psychological responses to a parent's death such as shock, depression, and guilt, to the practical consequences such as dealing with estates and funerals.

Author : Adam Silvera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780063240827

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The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera Pdf

In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. #1 New York Times bestseller! It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident. Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever—one of them receives a call, and the other doesn’t. Though neither boy is certain how the day will end, they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking. Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest. * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400889488

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How to Die by Seneca Pdf

Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca "It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Seneca's remarkable meditations on death and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out. Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life. He stresses the universality of death, its importance as life's final rite of passage, and its ability to liberate us from pain, slavery, or political oppression. Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.

Author : William Downes GRIFFITH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026604794

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The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy; with an Appendix of Statutes, Orders and Forms. Partly Founded on the Eleventh Edition of Mr. Archbold's Treatise. By W. D. G. ... Assisted by C. A. Holmes, Etc. (A Supplement to Griffith&Holmes's Treatise on the Bankrupt Laws ... By C. A. Holmes.). by William Downes GRIFFITH Pdf

Author : Anne Budgell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
ISBN : 1894725549

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We All Expected to Die by Anne Budgell Pdf

A harrowing account of loss and survival during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and its devastating impact on Labrador.

Author : S. P. Cerasano,Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134711871

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Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama by S. P. Cerasano,Marion Wynne-Davies Pdf

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: * this century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot * specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics * a preface and introduction explaining this selection and contexts of the materials * a bibliography of secondary sources Playwrights covered include Joanna Lumley, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth and the Cavendish sisters.

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748124435

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An Order For Death by Susanna Gregory Pdf

The seventh chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. It is a time of division and denomination at the great University. The Carmelites and the Dominicans are at theological loggerheads, so much so that the more fanatical members are willing to swap rational judgement for a deadlier form of debate. And no sooner is Carmelite friar Faricius found stabbed than a Junior Proctor is found hanging from the walls of the Dominican Friary. What was Faricius doing out when he had not been given permission to wander? How are the nuns at the nearby convent of St Radegund involved? And who is brokering trouble between Cambridge and its rival University at Oxford? The longer their enquiries go on, the more Bartholomew and Michael realise that the murders are less to do with high-minded academic principles, and more to do with far baser instincts. 'A first-rate treat for mystery lovers' (Historical Novels Review) 'Susanna Gregory has an extraordinary ability to conjure up a strong sense of time and place' (Choice)

Author : Danielle Paige
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062423801

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Order of the Wicked by Danielle Paige Pdf

Good is Wicked and Wicked is Good in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series! This digital original novella is the seventh installment in the series’ prequel arc, and reveals how some members of the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked came to be. Dorothy Gale’s armies killed Lanadel’s entire family, and she’s determined to seek revenge. She sets off to find the elusive, secretive group known as the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. They’re rumored to be training their own army to defeat Dorothy. But when she finds them, Lanadel soon learns that she’s seriously underprepared both in fighting skills, as well as magical abilities, and she has to prove herself in order to join the Order and become one of them. Danielle Paige delivers a dark and compelling reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, perfect for fans of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Beastly by Alex Flinn, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire, and follows some of literature’s most beloved characters as their lives intertwine to bring about the downfall of Oz.