Although it attempts to interpret what happened it does not purport to be a detailed survey of the historical and sociological aspects of the Montgomery story. .This is not a drama with only one actor. More precisely it is the chronicle of 50,000 Blacks who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. It is the story of Negro leaders of many faiths and divided allegiances, who came together in the bond of a cause they knew was right. And of the Negro followers, many of them beyond middle age, who walked to work and home again as much as 12 miles a day for over a year rather than submit to the discourtesies and humiliation of segregated buses. .There is also another side to the picture: it is the white community of Montgomery, long led or intimidated by a few extremists, that finally turned in disgust on the perpetrators of crime in the name of segregation. The change should not be exaggerated...Yet by the end of the bus struggle it was clear that the vast majority of Montgomery whites preferred peace and law to the excesses performed in its name. And even though the many saw segregation as right because it was the tradition, there were always the courageous few who saw the injustice and fought against it side by side with Blacks.

    Anthropologist and naturalist, Dr. Eiseley reveals life's endless mysteries in his own experiences, departing from their immediacy into meditations on the long past, wandering—intimate with nature—along the paths and byways of time, and then returning to the present.

    First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.

    In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society. Mardy's work as one of the earliest female voices for the wilderness movement earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book of great originality and scholarship serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also encompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence.

    He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.

    There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, and happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today's social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes's classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.

    Sharing the stories of his travels and his encounters with people all over the world, Buscaglia reminds us that we are all people who have the potential to share ourselves with ourselves as well as others. A lover of life and people, Buscaglia's insight into our hearts and souls, his reassurance as to our essential good natures, is a much-needed reminder of our connectedness to one and all Table Of Contents: Foreword Introduction Chapter I The Start Chapter II The Stages of Growth Toward Full Humanness The Fully Functioning Infant and Child The Fully Functioning Adolescent The Fully Functioning Mature Person The Fully Functioning Intimate Person The Fully Functioning Old Person Chapter III Some Vital Views on the Fully Functioning Person The Way of Taoism The Way of Confucianism The Way of Buddhism The Way of Hinduism The Way of Islam The Way of Judaism The Way of Christianity Chapter IV Growing as the Fully Functioning Person The Role of Death The Role of Self-Determination The Role of Connectiveness The Role of Purpose The Role of Communication The Role of Doubt and Spirituality The Role of Frustration and Pain The Role of Intimacy and Love Chapter V The Challenge of Your Fully Functioning Personhood Special Features: Personhood

    How they mastered their situation, what they did, thought and observed are the subject of The Sheltering Desert. In it lies the vastness of the landscape, the clear skies, nature's silence in the joy or suffering of her creatures, and the stillness in which the reader, too, may take refuge from the wrongs of civilization.

    First published in 1957 to critical and popular acclaim, his memoir has become a cult favorite in intelligence circles. He chronicles his experiences from his time as a junior officer fleeing a tedious training assignment in Louisiana to his rigorous OSS training rituals in the United States, England, and Scotland for its Special Operations unit. Quick to pick up on the skills necessary for behind-the-lines intelligence work, Hall became an expert instructor, but was only reluctantly given operational duties because of his reputation as an iconoclast. In his droll storytelling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. His last assignment in the war zone came when then Capt. William Colby, the future head of the CIA, handpicked him to lead the second section of a Norwegian special operations group into Norway via Sweden.

    

    Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, he provides a conceptual framework for the examination of literature. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, he applies "scientific" method in an effort to change the character of criticism from the casual to the causal, from the random and intuitive to the systematic.Harold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world.

    Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard against Nazi interlopers - an unlikely scenario given the cruel climate. But one day, a footprint was spotted on desolate Sabine Island, along with other obvious signs of the enemy. escaped to the nearest hunting hut only to have the Germans pursue on foot. In the dead of the Arctic night, the men escaped capture at the last instant and, without their coats or sled dogs, walked fifty-six miles to get back to base. While the Sledge Patrol had only hunting rifles, resilience and their knowledge of outdoor survival, the Germans were armed with machine guns and grenades and greatly outnumbered them.

    Maxwell presents his impressions of these secluded people, along with numerous photos. Although intended as a travel book, this make more of a historical or sociological study now, given the...turmoil in Iraq.--Library Journal.

    For them -- and their parents and caregivers -- the ordinary patterns of life are profoundly disrupted. As families struggle with a serious condition that can at any moment become life-threatening, the stress is often overwhelming. Now this invaluable reference provides the practical help and reassurance parents have been waiting for.To write this book, Marianne Barber, whose son has serious food allergies, teamed up with a pediatric allergy specialist and a psychologist who treats many people with severe allergies. The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies addresses in detail the practical, physical, and emotional issues kids and their families face, including vital information on:--handling emergencies --stocking a kitchen with safe, appealing foods--helping a child adjust easily in school --dealing with the stress that having a food-allergic child puts on family relationships--eating in restaurants and travelingComprehensive and authoritative, this book is certain to become the bible for anyone with a food-allergic child.

    

    Peale shows in example after example, drawn from life, how the magic of attitude can perform miracles in your daily existence. He proves that only with deep and honest belief -- in yourself, your work, and in God -- can these miracles occur. He also makes clear that achievement of lasting fulfillment is an active process and shows youHow to put positive thinking into actionHow to use the magnificent power of beliefHow to learn from your mistakesHow enthusiasm can work wonders for youHow to attain self-confidenceHow to live above pain and sufferingHow to lift depression and live vitally

    He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire. "I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954. The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York. Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read.Why I am not a Christian --Has religion made useful contributions to civilization? --What I believe --Do we survive death? --Seems, madam? Nay, it is --Free man's worship --On Catholic and Protestant skeptics --Life in the Middle Ages --Fate of Thomas Paine --Nice people --New generation --Our sexual ethics --Freedom and the colleges --Can religion cure our troubles? --Religion and morals --Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was prevented from teaching at the College of the City of New York

    

    Here, for the first time, is a unique and much-needed contemporary profile of the great bay inside California's Golden Gate.San Francisco Bay profoundly affects the weather, lives, and economy of the two million people living around its hundreds of miles of shoreline. It is one of the world's seven most beautiful harbors, a body of water almost everyone knows but almost no one knows very much about.In San Francisco Bay the reader can learn about every aspect of this great inland sea: how it serves as livelihood for thousands of fishermen, sailors, and longshoremen; as a home for the swarming colonies of marine life in its depths; as the source of most of the salt used in the West and of raw materials for scores of other products; as a giant thermostat affecting not only the climate of the cities around its shore but that of California's great Central Valley as well.What forces of nature created this sometimes gleaming, sometimes misty inner sea? How is the Bay responsible for the waterfall effect of the fog in Sausalito, the T-fog in Berkeley, the glacial effect on San Francisco's peninsula? What unusual stories does it have to tell about sunken treasure ships, historic old ferries, and the world-renowned bridges?

    For advanced undergraduate or graduate physics and engineering students.

    Smith did what many people dream of doing: He broke out of his workaday rut and became free as a bird. Beset by tension problems and advised by his doctor to find a relaxing hobby, he bought a nine year old used plane - and learned how to fly. Since originally published, Smith has logged more than 4,500 hours aloft. He and his family have flown all over the US, Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. This book is a sort of a love story - the love of a man for the freedom of flight in a light airplane.

    

    Personal account of the first phase of the Barbarossa campaign up to early 1942, written by a German doctor who served with the Wehrmacht in this theatre of operations.

    "I will never put a fourth column on my schedule board," Ancier recalls Tinker telling him. "There will only be three." Today, fewer than twenty years later, FOX is routinely referred to as one of the "Big Four" television networks while more recent arrivals like UPN, PAX, and the WB strive to be number five. The Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, and the many executives who have worked at the FOX network over the years changed the rules of the game. They showed it was possible to build and sustain a fourth American television network through innovations in prime-time shows, sports, children's entertainment, news, and new business models that challenged the assumptions of how the industry operated. Daniel Kimmel's lively account of the FOX story carries the reader from the launch of the ill-fated Joan Rivers Show in 1986 to the challenging media environment of the twenty-first century--an environment FOX helped create. The Fourth Network is filled with behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing, outsized personalities, improbable risk-takers, and the triumphs and disasters that led to such signature television series as The Simpsons, Beverly Hills 90210, The X Files, and America's Most Wanted. For better or worse--or perhaps a bit of both--the story of the rise of FOX is the story of contemporary American television.

    The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. The Naval Base was under constant air attack. Due to the courage and tenacity of the crews by the time the Malta-based submarines were at full strength a staggering 50% of Axis shipping bound for Africa failed to arrive at its destination. The submarines sank some 75 enemy vessels totalling 400,000 tons.Periscope Patrol picks out the highlights of their actions and sets them against the bombed-out background of Malta, the island awarded the George Cross for its single handed stand. This is a hugely readable and informative account of submarine warfare at its toughest and roughest.

    

    His perspicacious observation of bartenders, cab drivers, children, guys at ball games, and even strangers in the street has delighted readers for many years. This volume includes most of the stories in his three previously published collections: Third Avenue, New York, A Man Gets Around and My Son Johnny as well as twenty additional stories.McNulty had an ear for the uncommon nuances in common speech--the single phrase that lifted a character above the crowd--an eye for the precise detail which told more in a few words than lesser writers could convey in pages. Most of all, he had a delight in living and a love of humanity which made him one of the warmest, wittiest writers of our day. This is a wonderful collection of his best works.

     Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier compiled with the cheerful candour of the subject himself. An Englishman by birth, Arthur Upfield tried his luck in Australia. After a short spell as a waiter in Adelaide, Upfield felt drawn towards the Interior where he became a boundary-rider, offside-driver, cattle-drover, opal-gouger, rabbit-trapper, vermin fence patroller and manager of a camel station, drifting through the strange terrains and unusual company which were later to become the subject of his novels. He also tells how he unwittingly provided a real outback murderer with a 'fool-proof' method of disposing of a body, and who was the original on whom the character of 'Bony' was based.

    

    

    They do not pretend to explain any observation in molecular terms but, by showing the necessary relationships between different physical properties, they reduce otherwise disconnected results to compact order, and predict new effects. This classic title, first published in 1957, is a systematic exposition of principles, with examples of applications, especially to changes of places and the conditions for stability. In all this entropy is a key concept.

    Morgan's account of his work as a trainer with the O.S.S. during World War II.

    The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.

    (First of eight volumes) All known sources for Shakespeare's complete works, compiled by Geoffrey Bullough, late Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London.As well as absorbing introductory notes on each play, Bullough discusses what sources may have given Shakespeare his ideas, ranging from commonly known stories to popular scholarly texts of his era, examining how much information we have about the connection between these works and Shakespeare's.Volume I contains sources of:The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice.

    This edition comprises eight essays, given as public lectures and Prefaces to LiteratureGoethe's Faust (1938)Goeth's Career as a Man of Letters (1932)Goethe and Tolstoy (1922)Anna Karenina (1939)Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)Schopenhauer (1938)Freud and the Future (1936)Voyage with Don Quixote (1934)

    With his keen sense of past glories and tragedies of this cockpit of the world and a shrewd eye from the present, he is the ideal guide.

    

    The Civil War had stated. This book takes you inside the walls of Sumter at that historic moment. It is a close-focus dramatic account of the intrigues, the conflicts of principle and policy, the clash of personalities that led up to that dawn-and to the battle that followed. You will meet the Union commander of Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson, a loyal and courageous officer tormented by his love for the South and his hatred of bloodshed. You will see him striving for nearly four desperate months both to arm Sumter and to prevent a showdown there. You will watch his adversaries-a fiery South Carolina governor; a U.S. Secretary of War secretly aiding the Secessionist cause; and Anderson's former pupil and comrade-in-arms, now a Confederate general-as they try to trap him into firing the first shot, to undermine the morale of his garrison and the faith of his supporters in the North, and to prevent supplies and reinforcements from reaching him. You will be with Anderson when last-minute negotiations fail and he has no choice but to await the first shot. And you will be at the battle itself-the thirty-four hour bombardment which the tiny Federal garrison valiantly endured, even though they were outmanned and outgunned, their supplies were depleted, and they had begun to fear that the Union fleet standing in the storm-lashed waters at the harbor entrance could not help them,. Roy Meredith has drawn on the letters, diaries, news dispatches and official papers of the period to re-create the personal and public drama, the causes and consequences of a crucial episode in our history.

    Brief descriptions of the consequences of those patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence and who, by doing so, risked everything they possessed - even their very lives.

    All that I can say of it is that it is tragic and beautiful, and obviously authentic in every finely drawn detail of its background, like a Persian miniature on ivory.It is a Failure Story on the epic scale, though the enemy that destroys Ghazan, the Ilkhan, or hereditary leader of a tribe of 100,000 Falqanis, is 'progress', as enforced by the corrupt politicians of Teheran at the insistence of dollar-happy foreign missions, determined to enforce settlement, if need be at the point of a sword, upon those who have been nomads for seven centuries.The story, though its undertones are intensely moving, is all the more effective for being told passionlessly, and the sense of the thin, sunny air of the mountains, set above the cypress-lined valleys that are the very essence of the Persia I remember, is here captured with a magical skill and power.- Cedric Salter in the Broadsheet. From the World Books edition flyleaf.

    Rather novel-like in tone, Williams' account includes much of interest on the country and its peoples, as well as his trip to the Andaman Islands (also owned by India, as they still are) which he refers to in his earlier books 'Elephant Bill' and 'Bandoola'.

    

    Bringing his keen intellect to bear on the places around him, Krutch crafted some of the most memorable and important works of nature writing extant.Whether anticipating the arguments of biologists who now ascribe high levels of cognition to the so-called lower animals, recognizing the importance of nature for a well-lived life, or seeing nature as an elaborately interconnected, interdependent network, Krutch’s seminal work contains lessons just as resonant today as they were when the book was first written.Lavishly illustrated with thirteen beautiful woodcuts by Paul Landacre, an all-but-lost yet important Los Angeles artist whom Rockwell Kent called “the best American wood engraver working,” The Great Chain of Life will be cherished by new generations of readers.

    

    There is also a lot of valuable information about managing the habitat so as rear the game birds, partridge, pheasant, grouse and the like, and for wild birds such as woodcock. Rats are listed as the biggest predator of nests.

    The field guide to more than 100 pests and diseases allows gardeners to pinpoint their problem -- and solution -- quickly and easily, making Rodale's Pest and Disease Problem Solver an invaluable resource for the most up-to-date organic solutions for every plant problem imaginable.

    

    He has taken many well-known historical events and shown how "historical detective work" has uncovered the truth about them. And these up-to-date verdicts of careful students are often very, very different from the stories we learned as school children. His book may prove disillusioning about certain persons and events in history, but never about the truly great, or about history itself. You will find in it no smart-alecky debunking. Like many others, Thornton began to sense the true greatness of George Washington only after the "plaster saint" image created by the cherry tree legend had been smashed. In the expectation that readers will want to go deeper into some of the subjects discussed, the author has appended to each chapter an informal chat suggesting further trails that can be followed with pleasure.

    A short sketch of the life of the great statesman Salazar.https://epdf.tips/the-story-of-a-grea...

    

    Stuart Cloete, whose books have been one of the richest and most entertaining sources of our knowledge of South Africa, writes now of a year's travel, accompanied by his wife, from the Cape to the deserts of the north.In this we face the paradoxes of the Dark Continent, hear the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the African - particularly the African woman - towers above all the others challenging that uneasy land.

    Contents: IntroductionHellenistic AgeLiknonDionysos LiknitesGreek lands in the Roman AgeBacchic mysteries in ItalyAppendix on a relief in the Carl Milles CollectionChild in the Bacchic mysteriesAfterlifeOrphic and Pythagorean influencesConclusion

    In a lifetime which spanned almost a century, 1834 – 1934, he wrote – in addition to a number of other pursuits – probably more books than any other man has done. One of the last of the great “Squarsons” or squire-parsons, rector of the remote parish of Lew Trenchard in Devon, he married a mill-girl from Yorkshire and became the father of fifteen children. This notable novelist, historian, Christian propagandist and antiquary was a pioneer in the archaeology of Dartmoor, and the first to collect and record the vanishing folksongs of the West. The man who gave ‘Uncle Tom Cobbley’ to the world was also the author of ‘Onward Christian Soldiers.’ He began writing at the time of the Crimean war, and lived to see the aftermath of the First World War of this century.William Purcell gives a humorously affectionate account of this life of prodigious activity and versatility, lived for the most part in almost total seclusion and obscurity. He analyses the puzzle of Baring-Gould’s lack of advancement in the Church, the popularity in their own day of his books, and the reasons for his subsequent neglect. There emerges from this fascinating biography a picture of a country parson in the great tradition of Herbert and Keble, not admittedly of their genius, but nevertheless one of the strangest, most varied and interesting characters of the Church of England.”

    Occupation, with excellent information on purges.

    Hutchison brings his uncanny ability to stand back and appraise familiar things, his warmly humorous relish for incongruities and quirks of character, his deep sense of the poetry of history and the widely contrasting beauty of Canada's vast share of this continent — in a word, all the ingredients that make his books best-sellers.From Newfoundland to British Columbia, Bruce Hutchison reports the the progress of the nation. Against the background of his historical and political knowledge, this book is itself a tremendous contribution to Canada's process of becoming "a nation in mind" as well as by constitution.This is a glowing and vastly entertaining report that will rouse discussion in each of the ten provinces that it analyzes.

    May Theigaard Watts, the distinguished naturalist, recreates the history of many regions by their revealing plant life. In every chapter, she describes a different location—a neighbor's yard, a forest in the Great Smokies, a mountaintop, and other sites. In each instance, she explains the plants she sees and what they mean, skillfully building up evidence for a picture of the place's past.

    It thus constitutes and essential work of reference as well as a volume which, in the freshness of its approach, out-dates all other books on the fascinating story of art.

    The text allows readers to learn the fundamentals of reading and writing kana without the aid of a teacher.

    While drawing on her memories of childhood in the north counties of England, Alison Uttley shares the sights, sounds, smells and stories of a year in Buckinghamshire.

    Records the author's response to human violence and carnality in this fable of the ancient world and pre-Columbian America.