Riding History To Death

Author : Karol Modzelewski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538141625

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Riding History to Death by Karol Modzelewski Pdf

This powerful memoir traces the life of Karol Modzelewski, one of the preeminent Polish dissidents of the twentieth century. With humor and perception, Modzelewski describes his formative years. Born in 1937 to a Polish-born mother and Russian-Jewish father in Moscow, he spent his early schooling and underwent deep indoctrination in the Soviet Union. In 1945 he moved with his mother and stepfather, a prominent communist, to Poland when his stepfather was appointed as foreign minister in Warsaw. In the relatively “liberal” Polish atmosphere, Modzelewski gradually awoke to the realities of the party system during his university years. Modzelewski discusses the experiences and realizations that led him in 1964 to coauthor with Jacek Kuroń the famous “Open Letter to the Party,” for which he and Kuroń were imprisoned. With keen critical insight, Modzelewski describes his role as one of the leading intellectuals of the Solidarity movement. Much more than mere autobiography, this nuanced book is a profound and highly critical analysis of Polish politics over the last fifty years. Characteristically, Modzelewski refuses to portray events in black and white terms, providing a frank assessment of the country’s evolution from communism to democracy, the genesis of Polish dissidence and its success in dismantling communism, and the causes of the current crisis of democracy in Poland.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Dusty Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Western stories
ISBN : 098157954X

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Death Rides A Pale Horse by Dusty Rhodes Pdf

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781496812759

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Riding with Death by Jana Evans Braziel Pdf

On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists Andre Eugene and Jean Herard Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand Rue's urban environmental aesthetics--defined by motifs of machinic urbanism, Vodou bricolage, the postprimitivist altermodern, and performative politics--radically challenge ideas about consumption, waste, and environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative solutions to these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient social welfare, lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs. In Riding with Death, Jana Evans Braziel explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty. Influenced by urban geographers, art historians, and political theorists, the book regards the underdeveloped cities of the global South as alternate spaces for challenging the profit-driven machinations of global capitalism. Above all, Braziel presents Haitian artists who live on the most challenged Caribbean island, yet who thrive as creators reinventing refuse as art and resisting the abjection of their circumstances.

Author : Allan Ford,Nick Corble
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Sideshows
ISBN : 0752437917

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Riding the Wall of Death by Allan Ford,Nick Corble Pdf

The Wall of Death, a circus sidewhow, has thrilled and entertained audiences in the United Kingdom since the 1920s. This work offers an insight into a part of entertainment folklore.

Author : Angela Mason
Publisher : BLACK OAK MEDIA INC
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618760012

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Death Rides the Sky by Angela Mason Pdf

On an ordinary spring day in 1925, folks in the Midwest were going about business usual. Little did they know that between 1 and 4: 30 p.m. on March 18, their lives would be changed forever in an event that defined the weather in the central U.S.Nthe Tri-State Tornado.

Author : Janet Dawson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564747730

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Death Rides the Zephyr by Janet Dawson Pdf

December 23, 1952. A transcontinental train is stopped cold by a rockslide in a remote Colorado canyon. There’s a murderer aboard, one who has already killed, and will kill again unless stopped. The California Zephyr, with its run from Oakland to Chicago and back, was famous for its Vista-Domes, which provided a 360-degree view of spectacular Western scenery. It was a kind of small city populated by passengers from all walks of life and a large crew whose duty it was to keep them safe. Zephyrette Jill McLeod is the passengers’ primary point of contact. She’s armed for any emergency—with a first-aid kit, a screwdriver, and her knowledge of human nature. But can she figure out a ruthless killer's clever plot in time?

Author : John Stark Bellamy
Publisher : Cleveland of Yesteryear
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 188622885X

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Death Ride at Euclid Beach by John Stark Bellamy Pdf

The 5th book in Bellamy's popular series delivers 26 more tales of Cleveland crimes and disasters. Includes one of Cleveland's most baffling murder mysteries: the brutal murder of 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz in her suburban bedroom. Bellamy's stories are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.

Author : ,Tim
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781641382564

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Death Ride by ,Tim Pdf

Death Ride is a riveting account of the brutal murders of Mike and Frieda Kuntz and the attempted murder of their five-year-old son, Larry, who witnessed the tragic deaths of his parents. This is an amazing true story of survival and the ability to overcome unspeakable cruelty.In 1937, the young Kuntz family had made Wheat Basin, Montana, their new home. A neighbor, Frank Robideau, had come on especially hard times and decided to take action to remedy his situation. Frank forced Mike K

Author : Thomas McNulty
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359490646

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Death Rides A Palomino by Thomas McNulty Pdf

The autumn of 1893 should have been a time to celebrate the harvest, to gather in the park and listen to the barbershop quartet sing ?A Bicycle Built for Two.? But life is never that simple in the west. Instead Sheriff Bob Carter finds himself unraveling a mystery involving Vance Kane, an unscrupulous banker, and Mathew Sully, a stranger who rides into town on a palomino named Spirit. Within days the sheriff learns that Sully's arrival has forced an evil presence to reveal itself. Brandishing an ivory handled .45 Colt, Sully is intent on delivering his own brand of justice. As events spiral out of control Sheriff Carter realizes the resolution will be written in blood.

Author : Robert M. Place
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557533503

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The Fool's Journey: the History, Art, and Symbolism of the Tarot by Robert M. Place Pdf

This is one of the best resources for understanding the Tarot's mystical symbolism. It includes an updated history based on Place's The Tarot: History Symbolism and Divination, which "Booklist" said " may be the best book ever written on ...the tarot." This edition adds color illustrations of key works and comparative illustrations from the Renaissance, from alchemical texts, from ancient Egypt, and from occult sources. It views the Tarot as a 500-year visual conversation between artists, mystics, and occultists. The work is based on the 2010 Tarot exhibition at the LA Craft and Folk Art Museum, curated by Place, and includes the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, the 1st Italian printed deck, the oldest Tarot of Marseille, The 1st occult reference, the 1st occult Tarot, the 1st modern Tarot, the 1st New Age Tarot, and examples from popular modern decks including the Twilight Tarot, the Legacy Tarot, the Deviant Moon Tarot, the Annotated Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, and Place's Alchemical Tarot.

Author : Robert L. O'Connell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195119206

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Ride of the Second Horseman by Robert L. O'Connell Pdf

In times of underpopulation, slaves weretaken to provide labor. O'Connell explores the histories of the civilizations of ancient Sumeria, Egypt, Assyria, China, and the New World, showing how war came to each and how it adapted to varying circumstances. On the other hand, societies based on trade employed war much more selectively andpragmatically. Thus, Minoan Crete, long protected from marauding pastoralists, developed a wealthy mercantile society marked by unmilitaristic attitudes, equality between men and women, and a relative absence of class distinctions. In Assyria, by contrast, war came to be an end in itself, in aculture dominated by male warriors. Despite the violence in the world today, O'Connell finds reason for hope. The industrial revolution broke the old patterns of subsistence: war no longer serves the demographic purpose it once did.

Author : Robert Crossland
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039168329

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Death Calls by Robert Crossland Pdf

I wade waist-deep into the ocean to reach a body floating face down in the local harbor. Police, first responders, and onlookers quietly watch from the shoreline, but blood splotches and marks in the sand suggest that something awful has happened here. In 1981, while practicing medicine in a small community on the southern coast of British Columbia, Dr. Robert Crossland is asked if he’d be interested in becoming the local coroner. Like many, Robert has thrilled to the crusading adventures of TV coroner Wojeck and Quincy, M.E., so he takes up the challenge. But soon he is to find just how far these TV programs are from the real world of a community coroner. During the following twenty-three years, Robert will investigate and report on more than 600 sudden, unexpected deaths in his community and in the surrounding ocean, lakes, forests, and mountains. In each case, he must establish not only who has died but when, where, how, and why. As a member of the community himself, he often finds himself personally connected with those who have died. Many of the deaths are natural, of course, but a surprising number are exceptional due to complicated, startling, unforeseen, and sometimes even astonishing circumstances and findings. These are the stories of more than a hundred of these remarkable, often horrifying events. They happen in homes, at work sites, during recreation, or while travelling in boats, planes, or on roads. Some of the deaths prove controversial and Dr. Crossland participates in inquests that lead to changes in policies or procedures that reduce the risk of further deaths ... or sometimes, heartbreakingly, make no difference at all. Sudden death is always disturbing and in vivid, pithy, engaging anecdotes based on his case files and notes, Dr. Crossland shares with readers, the who, when, where, how, and why.

Author : Karsten Friis-Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8788073327

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Saxo Grammaticus by Karsten Friis-Jensen Pdf

Author : Jack LaFountain
Publisher : Jack LaFountain
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685960001

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Death Rides the Red River by Jack LaFountain Pdf

Ex-Confederate officer Vernon Carson has tried his level best to peaceably distance himself from the War. Especially from certain haunting memories. But the horror has found him again and moved in right next door. With clenched jaws and clenched fists, Vern accepts the challenge before him. He knows he must settle the score. He owes it to his slaughtered neighbor. He owes it to his savaged troops. But most of all, he owes it to himself. The dice have been thrown. Either he—or that nightmare thing he must now face—one or the other is about to be planted six feet under the dirt of Reconstructionist Texas. Don’t leave Carson to fight alone! Join him and his allies today and help defend the Lazy L Ranch against the assault of both man and man-beast.