The Iron Bridge

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781772602067

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Under the Iron Bridge by Kathy Kacer Pdf

It’s 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city’s Jews, but even Paul’s parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when he’s starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis. When he joins the rebel organization, he finds out just how hair-raising and dangerous it is to sabotage the Third Reich and rescue Jews wherever they can. But choices have consequences, and during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, Paul must step out of the shadows and make a life-changing decision. Inspired by the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, a group that declared “Eternal War on the Hitler Youth,” Under the Iron Bridge is a tale of courage in the face of cruelty.

Author : Anton Piatigorsky
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781586422196

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The Iron Bridge by Anton Piatigorsky Pdf

The Iron Bridge delivers an inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th century's most notorious tyrants. Anton Piatigorsky pushes at the boundaries of the unexpected as he breathes fictionalized life into the adolescents who would grow up to become the most brutal dictators the world has ever known. We discover a teenaged Mao Tse-Tung refusing an arranged marriage; Idi Amin cooking for the British Army; Stalin living in a seminary; and a melodramatic young Adolf Hitler dreaming of vast architectural achievements. Pol Pot and Rafael Trujillo are also subjects of separate stories. Piatigorsky explores moments that are nothing more than vague incidents in the biographies of these men, expanding mere footnotes into entire realities. The Iron Bridge, completely imagined yet captivatingly real, captures those crucial instants in time that may well have helped to deliver some of the most infamous leaders in history. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Neil Cossons,Barrie Stuart Trinder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025979639

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The Iron Bridge by Neil Cossons,Barrie Stuart Trinder Pdf

The Iron Bridge that spans the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire is the most enduring symbol of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1779, the bridge changed forever the lives of the local people, settlement patterns, communication and the economy of the area.

Author : Edward G. Gray
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248555

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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States by Edward G. Gray Pdf

The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States. In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was a builder. He had a clear vision of success for his adopted country. It was embodied in an architectural project that he spent a decade planning: an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. When Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was thriving as America’s largest port. But the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city’s continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania’s backcountry farms and its port on the Delaware. The iron bridge was Paine’s solution. The bridge was part of Paine’s answer to the central political challenge of the new nation: how to sustain a republic as large and as geographically fragmented as the United States. The iron construction was Paine’s brilliant response to the age-old challenge of bridge technology: how to build a structure strong enough to withstand the constant battering of water, ice, and wind. The convergence of political and technological design in Paine’s plan was Enlightenment genius. And Paine drew other giants of the period as patrons: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and for a time his great ideological opponent, Edmund Burke. Paine’s dream ultimately was a casualty of the vicious political crosscurrents of revolution and the American penchant for bridges of cheap, plentiful wood. But his innovative iron design became the model for bridge construction in Britain as it led the world into the industrial revolution.

Author : Mollie Walton
Publisher : Zaffre
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838770682

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The Secrets of Ironbridge by Mollie Walton Pdf

1850s Shropshire. Returning to her mother's birthplace at the age of eighteen, Beatrice Ashford encounters a complex family she barely knows. Her great-grandmother Queenie adores her, but the privileged social position of Beatrice's family as masters of the local brickworks begins to make her uncomfortable. And then she meets Owen Malone: handsome, different, refreshing - and from a class beneath her own. They fall for each other fast, but an old family feud and growing industrial unrest threatens to drive them apart. Can they overcome their different backgrounds? And can Beatrice make amends for her family's past?

Author : Dan Levert
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525562228

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On Cold Iron by Dan Levert Pdf

When engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high standards, humility, and ethics. Each budding engineer then receives an Iron Ring to be worn on the small finger of the working hand as a reminder throughout their career. Through the story of the 1907 Quebec Bridge disaster, in which seventy-six men died, author Dan Levert teaches a powerful object lesson in what can happen when that Obligation is forgotten. Woven from transcripts of the inquiry into the collapse, the report of the commissioners, and other sources including the coroner’s inquest, On Cold Iron plays out like a fast-paced thriller. Levert recounts the original 1850s proposals to bridge the St. Lawrence near Quebec City, through the design and construction of what was to be the longest clear span bridge of any kind in the world, to its shocking collapse during construction in August 1907. The missteps, poor policies, hubris, and wrong-headed actions begin to build like a death by a thousand cuts, until its inevitable and horrifying culmination. The meticulously researched and deftly delivered story of this terrible historical event makes fascinating reading for anyone, but even more, it is a powerful cautionary tale and a clarion call for the obligation and responsibility of an engineer.

Author : Mollie Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 1528878566

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The Daughters of Ironbridge by Mollie Walton Pdf

Together can they overcome hardship, poverty, and disaster? Anny Woodvine's family has worked at the ironworks for as long as she can remember. The brightest child in her road and the first in her family to learn to read, Anny has big dreams. The moment she is asked to run messages to the big house, she's ready to grab the opportunity with both hands. Margaret King, only daughter of the King family, is surrounded by privilege and wealth. But behind closed doors all is not what it seems. When Anny arrives, Margaret finds her first ally and friend. Together they plan to change their lives. But as disaster looms over the ironworks and the King House, Margaret and Anny find themselves surrounded by secrets and betrayal. Can they hold true to each other and find a way to overcome their fate?

Author : David E. Morse
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015002480433

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The Iron Bridge by David E. Morse Pdf

A woman from the 21st century travels back in time to 1773 England to cause the collapse of a bridge under construction. An ecological commune in the U.S. hopes this will derail the Industrial Revolution, thus saving the world from its consequences.

Author : Stuart Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bridges in art
ISBN : UOM:39015015251336

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A View from the Iron Bridge by Stuart Smith Pdf

Author : Edith Sheffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199314614

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Burned Bridge by Edith Sheffer Pdf

Foundations : Burned Bridge -- Insecurity : border mayhem -- Inequality : economic divides -- Kickoff : political skirmishing -- Shock : border closure and deportation -- Shift : everyday boundaries -- Surveillance : individual controls -- Home : life in the prohibited zone -- Fault line : life in the fortifications -- Disconnect : East-West relations -- Epilogue : new divides

Author : Greg Malone
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307401342

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Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by Greg Malone Pdf

The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic island. The twists and turns are as dramatic as any spy novel and extremely surprising, since the "official" version of Newfoundland history has held for over fifty years almost without question. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders will change all that.

Author : Cyrus Stearns
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559398374

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King of the Empty Plain by Cyrus Stearns Pdf

King of the Empty Plain is familiar to every Tibetan yet nearly unknown in the rest of the world. Tangtong Gyalpo's incredible lifespan, profound teachings, unprecedented engineering feats, eccentric deeds, and creation of Tibetan opera have earned this fascinating figure a unique status in Tibetan culture. Believed to be the great Indian master Padmasambhava appearing again in the world to benefit living beings, he discovered techniques for achieving longevity that are still held in highest esteem and are frequently taught six hundred years later. His construction of fifty-eight iron suspension bridges, sixty wooden bridges, 118 ferries, 111 stupa monuments, and countless temples and monasteries in Tibet and Bhutan remains an awe-inspiring accomplishment. This book is a detailed study of the life and legacy of this great master. An extensive introduction discusses Tangtong Gyalpo's Dharma traditions, the question of his amazing longevity, his "crazy" activities manifested to enhance his own realization and to benefit others, and his astonishing engineering and architectural achievements. The book includes a complete translation of the most famous Tibetan biography of Tangtong Gyalpo, as well as the Tibetan text and English translation of a unique early manuscript describing his miraculous death. The text is further enriched with ten color plates and seventy-seven black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson in collaboration with the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art, British
ISBN : 0500012229

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Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace by Asa Briggs Pdf

The dramatic changes brought about by industrialization in Europe and America are documented in paintings, engravings, and early photographs

Author : Neil Cossons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0239991877

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The Iron Bridge by Neil Cossons Pdf

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920405

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To Hope and Back by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Lisa and Sol board the luxury ocean liner St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. Lisa and her family are in first class; Sol and his parents are below in tourist class. Both children have mixed feelings Ð theyÕre excited to be beginning this voyage to a better life, but sad to be leaving their old lives behind. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the 937 passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years. As the ship sets sail for Cuba, the atmosphere is optimistic. The passengers feel fortunate to have been able to buy landing permits, and their German captain, Gustave Shršder, is determined to get them to safety. The captainÕs voice alternates with Sol and LisaÕs, revealing the details they didnÕt know. As HitlerÕs propaganda machine turns Cuba against them, the mood on board changes to despair. The St. Louis and its Jewish passengers are turned away Ð first from Cuba, then the United States, and then Canada. This was the tragic true history of the St. Louis. Denied entry from port after port, the captain was forced to return his passengers to Europe, where many died in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of Sol and Lisa Ð both of whom survived the war and shared their experiences with Kathy Kacer Ð we see the injustice and heartbreak that were caused by the prejudice and ignorance of so many.