The Killing Wind

Author : Hecheng Tan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190622527

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The Killing Wind by Hecheng Tan Pdf

Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4.000 'class enemies' were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9.000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional conflict that rocked China during the Cultural Revolution. Years after the massacre, journalist Tan Hecheng was sent to Daoxian to report on an official investigation into the killings

Author : John Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN : 0091104602

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The Killing Wind by John Lee Pdf

Author : Jeanne McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biological warfare
ISBN : UCAL:B4243728

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The Killing Winds by Jeanne McDermott Pdf

Describes the historical, political, and technical environments in which the menace of biological warfare is developing.

Author : Clare Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671769391

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The Killing Winds by Clare Francis Pdf

Daisy Field, an idealistic environmental journalist, does her best to fight the world's most powerful agrochemical corporation, which will go to any length to cover up its role in the death of a rock star's wife. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Kelly C. Sedinger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978109520

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The Chilling Killing Wind by Kelly C. Sedinger Pdf

Tonight, former detective John Lazarus will finally put his old life behind him. He has a new job as a teacher, a new home, and a new love. All he has to do is get through tonight's execution of Roy Edgar Chalmers, the last of the three men who killed John's wife in a botched robbery. Once Chalmers is dead, John Lazarus will be done with his old life at last.But tomorrow the murders will start: strange, violent crimes whose only connection is the pair of voices exhorting the perpetrators to kill. As an occasional police consultant, John Lazarus will increasingly suspect that something abnormal is at the heart of these killings. And when Roy Edgar Chalmers, not nearly so dead as he should be, approaches him for help, John Lazarus will realize that maybe his old life isn't quite done with him....

Author : Clare Francis
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480479210

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The Killing Winds by Clare Francis Pdf

A chilling mystery of environmental disasters and corporate greed from international bestselling author Clare Francis Daisy Field is a tough young environmental lawyer and activist, campaigning against an international conglomerate marketing agrochemicals with nasty side effects. Their profitable pesticide, Silveron, appears to be causing serious illness in the British farming community, but Daisy is struggling to prove it. When famous pop star Nick Mackenzie loses his wife to a crop-spraying incident, it seems that Daisy has finally found the powerful, deep-pocketed ally she needs. But will the handsome musician remain on her side or will he be persuaded that Daisy is fighting a lost cause? And what about the hired thug who seems to be anticipating Daisy’s every move? Originally published in the UK under the title Requiem (1991), The Killing Winds takes us from the Scottish highlands to corporate London and from Chicago to New York City.

Author : Dan Kurzman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015013516052

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A Killing Wind by Dan Kurzman Pdf

BASED ON HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS AND THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS, REFLECTS THE PASSIONATE DRAMA OF THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT. IT IS A TALE, TOLD IN DETAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME, OF TERROR AND TORMENT, GUILT AND INNOCENCE. IT IS THE ENTIRE BHOPAL STORY TO DATE-THE BACKGROUND, THE HOUR-BY-HOUR EVENTS, THE DIFFICULT DECISIONS, AND THE BITTER AFTERMATH. KURZMAN WAS GIVEN UNIQUE ACCESS TO UNION CARBIDE COMPANY DOCUMENTS AND PERSONNEL AND TO INDIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN HIS RESEARCH. HE REVEALS THE AGONIES ENDURED BY THE GAS VICTIMS.

Author : Elliott West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040165527

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The Contested Plains by Elliott West Pdf

Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent.

Author : Thomas Digby Pigott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B3319884

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London Birds and London Insects by Thomas Digby Pigott Pdf

Author : James Brown (editor, of Elgin.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:600076016

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The round table club: or, Conversations, scenical, scientific [&c.]. by James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) Pdf

Author : Athanaïs Mialaret Michelet ("Mme. Jules Michelet, "),Madame Jules Michelet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Natural history
ISBN : NYPL:33433007668472

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Nature by Athanaïs Mialaret Michelet ("Mme. Jules Michelet, "),Madame Jules Michelet Pdf

Author : Madame Athénaïs MICHELET
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022100436

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Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea. From the French ... [by W. H. D. Adams]. With ... designs by Giacomelli, etc by Madame Athénaïs MICHELET Pdf

Author : J. F. Freedman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480423985

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A Killing in the Valley by J. F. Freedman Pdf

In this legal thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Against the Wind, breaking into a mansion for a laugh turns into a sobering crime. Maria Estrada, a hard-partying girl with family ties to some of the toughest gangsters in California, had no idea an old mansion could be so beautiful. The boy who broke into it with her had a feeling she might be impressed. But by the time the night is over, Maria has been brutally killed, and the boy is nowhere to be found. It’s up to PI Kate Blanchard and Luke Garrison, a criminal lawyer, to decipher what happened in the grand old mansion. To bring Maria’s killer to justice, they must locate the elusive connection between the poverty where she was raised and the affluence of where she died.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385690706

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Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami Pdf

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

Author : Lisa H. Newton,Catherine K. Dillingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033083695

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Watersheds by Lisa H. Newton,Catherine K. Dillingham Pdf

A casebook in environmental ethics that presents the classic cases with adequate detail so the students experience real situations in order to learn how serious and complex the issues are. The authors present a balanced, impartial account of these events that will interest and challenge students.