Twenty

Author : Debra Landwehr Engle
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496723581

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Twenty by Debra Landwehr Engle Pdf

“A book to hold against your heart long after the last page is turned.” —New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs This warm and heartfelt novel will appeal to avid followers of Reese’s Book Club picks. Twenty captures the provocative moral questions presented in the works of Jodi Picoult but with a hint of mystical wonder. What happens when you decide to go…right when you finally learn how to live again…. “Along with naming me Marguerite after her favorite daisy, Mama gave me three things: Red hair that hasn’t faded. A love of nature. And a belief that somewhere between heaven and earth there is magic.” At age fifty-five, Meg’s life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer—and a bone-deep feeling that she’s through with living. Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly twenty days. Though her mother never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg swallows the little green pearls . . . Now that she’s decided to leave this world, Meg is rediscovering the joy in it. She sheds everything she no longer needs—possessions, regrets, guilt—and reconnects with those she cares for. Finally confronting the depth of her grief, she’s learning that love runs deeper still. But is it too late to choose to stay? “Twenty reminds us to live with our hearts wide open even when they’ve been broken, and how to love even when it hurts.” —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Perennials “Written with such strong and heartfelt faith in the magic and power of never-ending love, it will renew your own.” —Judy Reene Singer, author of In the Shadow of Alabama

Author : Gerard Macdonald,David W. Hursh
Publisher : Sense Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789077874165

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Twenty-first Century Schools by Gerard Macdonald,David W. Hursh Pdf

Twenty-first Century Schools traces the extension of political control over Britain's school system and, through US case studies, looks at alternative methods of organisation.

Author : Cara Hedley
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451860

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Twenty Miles by Cara Hedley Pdf

Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents have raised her in his skates. When Iz leaves her grandmother behind to play for the Winnipeg University Scarlets, she struggles to fit in on this team of hard-hitting, tough-talking women with a penchant for buffets, beer bongs and raunchy humour - and a fierce loyalty to one another and to their sport. But in their raucous midst, Iz can't quite find her own place in the game. As she moves between the rowdy hilarity of the Scarlets' dressing room and quiet, lyrical contemplations, Iz tries to navigate the ways loss plays out on the ice. Based largely on author Cara Hedley's three seasons on the University of Manitoba Bison, Twenty Miles celebrates women's hockey and offers an uncompromising look at the ways in which the sport both haunts and redeems the women who play it.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the General Counsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UVA:X030228854

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The Twenty-eight Hour Law and the Animal Quarantine Laws Annotated ... by United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the General Counsel Pdf

Author : Samuel Merwin
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066183394

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Henry Is Twenty by Samuel Merwin Pdf

This work explores the story of Henry Calverly, a famous hero of fiction in the 1920s. However, Henry wasn't a traditional hero according to that time as he had many weaknesses like arrogance, selfishness, and several vulnerabilities. The writer beautifully follows the events in the life of Henry as he turns twenty and grows into a gentleman.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442903890

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Twenty Years After (Volume 2 of 3 ) (EasyRead Large Edition) by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375018795

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The Twenty Eighth Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author : Marcus Schulzke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472220410

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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation by Marcus Schulzke Pdf

Contemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states’ warfighting capacities and their political goals. Marcus Schulzke examines eight case studies that illustrate the overall direction of military innovation and important underlying themes. He devotes three chapters to new weapons technologies (drones, cyberweapons, and nonlethal weapons), two chapters to changes in the composition of state military forces (private military contractors and special operations forces), and three chapters to strategic and tactical changes (targeted killing, population-centric counterinsurgency, and degradation). Each case study includes an accessible introduction to the topic area, an overview of the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding that topic, and the most important theoretical implications. An engaging overview of the themes that emerge with military innovation, this book will also attract readers interested in particular topic areas.

Author : Cynthia C. Combs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317206798

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Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Cynthia C. Combs Pdf

Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon. Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analyzing it as a form of political violence, this text presents the most essential concepts, the latest data, and numerous case studies to promote effective analysis of terrorist acts. Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century objectively breaks down the who-what-why-how of terrorism, giving readers a way both to understand patterns of behavior and to more critically evaluate forthcoming patterns. New to the 8th Edition Provides a more intense exploration of religion as a primary cause of contemporary terrorism. Focuses on the role of social media in recruitment and propaganda. Examines the radicalization and recruitment by ISIS to fighting and to domestic young people to carry out attacks at home. Explores the growing threat – and reality – of cyber attacks. Updates the material on the networking of terrorism today.

Author : Stephanie LeMenager,Teresa Shewry,Ken Hiltner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136710513

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Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie LeMenager,Teresa Shewry,Ken Hiltner Pdf

Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, the collection brings into focus recent ecocritical concern for the long durations through which environmental imaginations have been shaped. Contributors also address problems of scale, including environmental institutions and imaginations that complicate conventional rubrics such as the national, local, and global. Finally, this collection brings together a set of scholars who are interested in drawing on both the sciences and the humanities in order to find compelling stories for engaging ecological processes such as global climate change, peak oil production, nuclear proliferation, and food scarcity. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century offers powerful proof that cultural criticism is itself ecologically resilient, evolving to meet the imaginative challenges of twenty-first-century environmental crises.

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : UCD:31175010154816

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Reports of the Immigration Commission: Immigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts) by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : Alexandros Schismenos,Nikos Ioannou,Chris Spannos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350123397

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Castoriadis and Autonomy in the Twenty-first Century by Alexandros Schismenos,Nikos Ioannou,Chris Spannos Pdf

To what degree can the philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis help analyze and evaluate our current social reality in relation to the project of autonomy? How meaningful is his political proposition for direct democracy in the 21st century? What significance do the concepts of social time and social space have in the determination of political freedom? Castoriadis and Autonomy in the 21st Century presents basic concepts of Castoriadian philosophy, including the social-historical plane, ontological creativity, and social and individual time that provide the theoretical tools to evaluate the historical phenomena of our era. Drawing from Greece's own turbulent past and the current global crisis to reveal new significances of social freedom, global solidarity and movements of direct democracy, this book explores social autonomy and human freedom today through critical dialogue with Castoriadis' ideas.

Author : Nathaniel Papahawk Goldberg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456894955

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Twenty-Four Years of Mondays by Nathaniel Papahawk Goldberg Pdf

Twenty Four Years of Mondays is a novel that takes place in New Yorks East Village, the home of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and a host of others at the end of the Beat Generation. The book sketches the life of Gideon Polinsky, his love for the deceased writer Herman Hesse culminating in a bizarre existence as a hopeless madman caught up in several lifestyles. It is a dilemma of the very guts of the creative mind with its madness, its hunger, its suffering, and building to a crescendo within existence where the end connects the reader to the horror of possibility. Gideons lifestyle is extremely diverse, relentlessly packed with a raw, devouring painful side of life capturing the verve and passion of Greenwich Village in the early 60s.

Author : Mary Blake
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385341029

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Twenty-six Hours a Day by Mary Blake Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Ole J. Mjøs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350348738

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An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century by Ole J. Mjøs Pdf

An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough introduction to the field of global media today. The book presents the key changes taking place as the global media landscape evolves, and the main theories of the field, that explain these developments. Tracing, first, the formative development of an international and global media landscape throughout the 20th century from the telegraph, television and film export, and transnational television to the Internet, the book then focuses on developments in the 21st century. This includes: the digitization of the global media and communications sector; the popularization of the Internet and digital infrastructure such as the smartphone and platforms; the emergence of global online media and services; the production and distribution of digital media content; and the exploitation of user data. Case studies illustrate key developments throughout the book. The book shows how the field is characterized by a continuity of critical concerns in relation to power, influence, and domination; media user empowerment and exploitation; and social and sustainable development and democratic conditions, as well as geopolitical shifts, in a global context.