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Homeland Security Officer

Author: Ellyn Sanna
Category: Non-Fiction
ISBN : 9781590843154
Publisher : Mason Crest
Last update : 2009-08-28
Careers with Character combines factual information about a particular career with in-depth character education strategies. The series provides readers with real-life career models and practical steps toward building character. In each volume, individuals of character work to respond appropriately to career issues. These issues involve not only right versus wrong, but also right versus right, hel

The Armenians

Author: Redgate, Anne Elizabeth
Category: Europe - General
ISBN : 9780631220374
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
Last update : 2009-05-22
This is a 3000 year history of one of Europe's most fascinating and important peoples. Situated on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, Armenia has been a pivotal point between the forces of the east and of the west over most of its long history. That history has thus been very largely one of conquest by rival empires. In the classical period Armenia was conquered successively by the Persians,

Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader

Author: Castaneda, Antonia
Category: Women's Studies - General
ISBN : 9780803259867
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials, oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors reclaim the borderlands from the distortions and violence of “ official” history and continue the recovery of a gendered Chicana/Chica

Captain`s Fury

Author: Jim Butcher, Kate Reading
Category: General
ISBN : 9780143143383
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
The fourth entry in the Codex Alera fantasy series finds Tavi of Calderon, now captain of the First Aleran Legion, facing a larger threat than anything he has previously encountered: the Vord, a force so powerful that they drove the brutal Canim from their homeland. Now, Tavi must find a way to unite Aleran and Cane -- no small task considering the centuries of enmity that stretch between the two

Come Sunday (Hardcover)

Author: Isla Morley
Category: General
ISBN : 9780374126872
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Last update : 2009-08-28
A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa. Come Sunday is that joyous, special thing: a saga that captivates from the very first page, breaking our hearts while making our spirits soar. Abbe Deighton is a woman who has lost her bearings. Once a child of the African plains, she is now settled in Hawaii, married to a min

National Strategy for Homeland Security (Paperback)

Author: George W. Bush
Category: General
ISBN : 9781600375842
Publisher : Morgan James Pub
Last update : 2009-08-28
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Rulers, Guns, and Money

Author: Jonathan A. Grant
Category: World History
ISBN : 9780674024427
Publisher : Harvard Univ Pr
Last update : 2009-08-27
The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying their own states' arsenals, causing them to seek markets beyond their own borders. Challenging the traditional view

The Puerto Rican Americans

Author: Kate A. Conley
Category: Places
ISBN : 9781590184325
Publisher : Lucent Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Congress granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917. In the following decades, thousands of Puerto Ricans journeyed to United States seeking opportunities in their adopted homeland. From establishing new communities to overcoming discrimination, this book recounts the experiences that are unique to the nation's 3.4 million Puerto Rican Americans.

God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism

Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Category: History
ISBN : 9781583483145
Publisher : toExcel
Last update : 2009-05-22
In his usual witty style, Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates the confusion and conflation of religion and nationalism throughout history, and the enormous tensions produced by interactions between the two.From Old Testament Canaan to Joan of Arc, from Puritan Massachusetts Bay to National Prayer Breakfasts, he points out the pitfalls awaiting any nation that begins to consider itself especially fav

Information Assurance For The Enterprise

Author: Corey Schou, Dan Shoemaker
Category: General Computer
ISBN : 9780072255249
Publisher : Irwin Professional Pub
Last update : 2009-08-27

Going beyond the technical coverage of computer and systems security measures, Information Assurance for the Enterprise provides readers an overarching model for information assurance for businesses, government agencies, and other enterprises needing to establish a comprehensive plan. All the components of security and how they relate are featured, and readers will also be shown how

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Things Fall Apart

Author: Mpalive Msiska, Chinua Achebe, Francis Abiola Irele
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780385474542
Publisher : Anchor Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Things do indeed fall apart in the mid-20th-century world of West Africa when the British colonize the country, disrupting the ancient ways of life that have provided meaning and structure for the inhabitants of a rural Ibo village. The hero of the story is Okonwo, a revered community leader and the character Achebe frequently uses as a kind of Everyman--the brave tribesman who tries to cling to

Video Registration

Author: Mubarak Shah;Rakesh Kumar
Category: Computer Vision
ISBN : 9781402074608
Publisher : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Last update : 2009-05-22
Written by international experts in the field, Video Registration is a survey of the state of the art in this fundamental technology. It is an essential reference to both academicians and practicing engineers working in the fields of security, surveillance, multimedia, and robotics. The increased availability of low-cost, low-power, highly accurate video imagery has resulted in a rapid growth of

The Dome

Author: Zink, David Michael
Category: Action & Adventure
ISBN : 9781424138098
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21
Once again the Captain becomes a victim of war as he attempts another peaceful lifestyle. This time its along the Atlantic coastal regions that members of the Al-Qaeda flock in numbers to Canada waiting to strike a devastated America. Anthrax is being shipped to the United States in large quantities and a stash of plutonium stolen from the Seabrook nuclear power plant. After federal funds are app

Lluvia De Oro

Author: Victor Villasenor
Category: General
ISBN : 9780385315166
Publisher : Random House Spanish
Last update : 2009-08-28
Rain of Gold, the magical Mexican-American family saga and critically acclaimed bestseller, is now available for Spanish-speaking readers in Lluvia De Oro. Rain of Gold is the captivating true story of author Victor Villasenor's Mexican-American family heritage and of the people who fled war-torn Mexico at the turn of the century to find a better life in the United States. This enchanting transla

Golden Surrender

Author: Heather X. Graham
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780440129738
Publisher : Dell Pub Co
Last update : 2009-08-28
TWO BOLD WARRIORS, TWO PROUD LANDS, UNITED BY PASSION--AND REVENGE. . . . PRINCE OLAF OF NORWAY--Lord of the Wolves, the golden Viking warrior who came in his dragon ship to forge a great kingdom in the Emerald Isle. PRINCESS ERIN--Daughter of the Irish High King, the ebony-haired beauty who swore bitter vengeance on the legendary Norseman who had brought death and destruction to her beloved home

Jesus Christ in His Homeland

Author:
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9780559721144
Publisher : Bibliolife
Last update : 2009-05-21

Jesus Christ in His Homeland

Author:
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9780559721175
Publisher : Bibliolife
Last update : 2009-05-21

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form

Author:
Category: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
ISBN : 9780521648301
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
This book presents a new paradigm for the interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as a unified literary project, displaying an artistic plan for the expression of a unified world view. The usual assumption of a distinct Socratic period in Plato's work is rejected. Literary evidence is presented from other Socratic authors to demonstrate that the Socratic dialogue was a genre of liter

The Gangster We Are All Looking for

Author: Thi Diem Thuy Le
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780375700026
Publisher : Anchor Books
Last update : 2009-08-26
This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. In 1978 six refugees--a girl, her father, and four uncles --are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress

Homeland Security

Author: Lubianetzky, Paul P.
Category: Suspense
ISBN : 9781605635859
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21

In Search of a Homeland

Author: Penelope Lively, Ian Andrew
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9781845076856
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
Taking his old father on his back and his young son by the hand, Aeneas flees the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother, Venus, with a daunting mission: Find a new homeland for his people.

The Persian Boy

Author: Mary Renault
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780394751016
Publisher : Vintage Books
Last update : 2009-08-26
It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior. - The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered h

How Patriotic Is the Patriot ACT?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism

Author: Amitai Etzioni
Category: Political Freedom & Security - General
ISBN : 9780415950473
Publisher : Routledge
Last update : 2009-05-22
In his most recent State of the Union Address, President Bush called upon Congress to enact legislation that would extend the time-limited provisions of the controversial anti-terror law known as the Patriot Act (they are scheduled to expire on December 31st, 2005). Championed by Attorney General John Ashcroft and approved by Congress in the fearful aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Pa

Voices from the Other World

Author: Raymond Stock, Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781400076666
Publisher : Random House Inc
Last update : 2009-05-19
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.

From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave t

Go for Broke: The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry

Author: Sterner, C. Douglas
Category: Military - World War II
ISBN : 9780979689611
Publisher : American Legacy Historical Press
Last update : 2009-05-21
During World War II, Japanese Americans were forcefully placed in relocation camps. Despite that, these Nesei (first generation Japanese born outside of Japan) warriors explain why they were eager to defend their American homeland, and how they became the most decorated fighting unit ever assembled in U.S. military history.

Implementing Homeland Security for Enterprise It

Author: Michael Erbschloe
Category: Security
ISBN : 9781555583125
Publisher : Digital Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
This book shows what IT in organizations need to accomplish to implement The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets and The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace which were developed by the Department of Homeland Security after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. The September 11, 2001, attacks illustrated the immense vulnerability to terror

The Everything Guide to Careers in Law Enforcement

Author: Paul Bagley
Category: Careers
ISBN : 9781598690774
Publisher : Adams Media Corp
Last update : 2009-08-28
- Employment opportunities are available in over 1,200 positions in the law enforcement field- Employment of police officers, detectives, and special agents is expected to increase as much as 35 percent through the year 2006- The only trade series book on the topic!There is no more challenging and rewarding career than law enforcement, but so few know where to start in order to break into this ex

Echoes of the Call

Author: Jeffrey Swanson
Category: Missions & Missionary Work
ISBN : 9780195068238
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
Drawing on the personal histories of one hundred evangelical missionaries in Ecuador, Echoes of the Call explores the lives of missionaries as sociological strangers. Jeffrey Swanson illustrates how missionaries are distanced, not only from their culture and homeland, but also from their own era. The work begins with Swanson's interpretation of how his own experience as a child of missionaries sh

The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir

Author: Norman Manea
Category: Literary
ISBN : 9780374529468
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was deported to concentration camps. Manea was among them, a child at the time, and his family spent four years there before they were able to return

Secret Service Agent And Careers in Federal Protection

Author: Gerry Souter
Category: Non-Fiction
ISBN : 9780766026513
Publisher : Enslow Pub Inc
Last update : 2009-08-27
- Introduces the reader to an exciting range of homeland security and antiterrorism careers- Explores the history of government agencies and how they contribute to homeland security- Offers easily accessible and timely information for book reports- Explains various education levels needed to qualify for differing careers- Special focus on one or more exciting positions in each agency- Supports th

Cruel Paradise: Life Stories of Dutch Emigrants

Author: Hylke Speerstra
Category: Essays
ISBN : 9780802828019
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Last update : 2009-05-22
Cruel Paradise deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. A skilled stylist with an unassuming presence, Hylke Speerstra brings readers along as he circles the globe interviewing transplanted Netherlanders in the United States, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Combining elements of memoir and

Journeys to Survival

Author: Iverson, Betty J.
Category: Military - General
ISBN : 9781434365378
Publisher : Authorhouse
Last update : 2009-05-21
How do ordinary citizens survive the devastation of war when it arrives on their own soil? These are the true stories of three women whose destiny was changed forever when their lives and homelands were shattered by invasion. MARYSIA''S JOURNEY begins with her deportation from Eastern Poland to a collective farm in Siberia. Annedore of DENIED ENTRANCE was refused entry to Silesia, her homeland, a

The Wish Maker (Hardcover)

Author: Ali Sethi
Category: General
ISBN : 9781594488757
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
A coming-of-age and family drama set in Pakistan, THE WISH MAKER follows Zaki Shirazi through the hope and tumult of his 1990s childhood, and then later, after a stint in the United States, his return to his drastically altered post-9/11 homeland. Raised by a progressive crusading feminist mother, Zaki spends his days in joyous friendship with his female cousin Samar Api. But his country`s demo

History of God

Author: Karen Armstrong
Category: General Religion
ISBN : 9780060743352
Publisher : Harperaudio
Last update : 2009-08-28
This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative religious study resonate with a passion that testif

Violent Sands - A Novel

Author: Young, Sean
Category: Thrillers
ISBN : 9780978655136
Publisher : Breakneck Books
Last update : 2009-05-21
THE SCROLL WILL DESTROY... For generations, the copper scroll has remained buried, concealing the treasure it protects and the prophecy it contains. Now that secret is about to be unleashed. In the right hands, the scroll could bring about ancient Israel's freedom from Roman occupation, but used improperly, it could destroy her. EVERYTHING THE MAN KNOWS... After watching Roman soldiers murder his

People of the Book

Author: Harry Mileaf
Category: Historical - General
ISBN : 9781413749786
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Sitting alone in the King David Hotel, the Israeli Jew watched his coffee eddy as he twirled his spoon in the cup, obviously deep in thought. An Arab approached, waved to a waiter, and pointed to the Jew's coffee cup, signaling that he wanted one. He sat, jostling the table, bringing the Jew out of his thoughts. Salaam, the Arab said, greeting the Jew in Arabic. Shalom, the Jew returned the greet

Sun Songs: Selected Poems

Author: Christinian, George
Category: General
ISBN : 9781424178902
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21
Through poems that both glisten with unfettered lyricism and explore psychological nuances with a knowing wink, Sun Songs is an ode to the power of spiritual fortitude in troubled times. Sacred loveafor humanity, for naturearemains George Christinianas key motif as his sensitively calibrated pieces speak of the myriad of modern anxieties regarding daily life, the creative impulse, love, and world

The Great Deluge

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Category: Weather
ISBN : 9780061148491
Publisher : Perennial
Last update : 2009-08-28
Historian Douglas Brinkley, who lives and teaches in New Orleans, provides a comprehensive account of the events of 2005?s Hurricane Katrina, as well as an analysis of the reasons why this natural disaster became a man-made tragedy. His detailed reporting of the hours and days before, during, and after the disaster seems to leave nothing out, and it is the human dimension, based on a huge number

Overblown

Author: John Mueller
Category: General
ISBN : 9781416541714
Publisher : Free Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
In this contrarian?s view of the war on terror, a security specialist argues that if we are safer now than we were before September 11, it is NOT because of the Department of Homeland Security. Without trivializing the threat of terrorism, John Mueller argues that the efforts so far have been poorly focused and unbelievably wasteful of resources, and that they have done little more than to ratche

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right

Author: Benjamin, Daniel ;Simon, Steven
Category: Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism
ISBN : 9780805081336
Publisher : Owl Books (NY)
Last update : 2009-05-22
A persuasive and utterly frightening picture of the current state of America's war on terror. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesWe are losing. Five years after the September 11 attacks, America finds its strategic position deteriorating in the global war on terror. In The Next Attack, former White House counterterrorism experts Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon show how the terrorist threat ha

The Greenhouse Conspiracy

Author:
Category: Science Fiction - High Tech
ISBN : 9780595270590
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
America had smashed bin Laden and destroyed his global networks. But now, deep inside the American homeland, a new cult of high tech terrorists is emerging, with a weapon more deadly than any ever imagined by al-Qaeda. Candice, a pugnacious researcher from FEMA, discovers that the climatic gyrations over the last decade are not natural phenomena. The weird weather has been secretly engineered by

11.11.11

Author: Stokes, Tj
Category: Thrillers
ISBN : 9781413793215
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
Daxton Riley, a stop-at-nothing fearless CIA agent, has been called in to fight the United States' most deadly attack by terrorists. It is just ten days until Veteran's Day on November 11, 2011, and Washington is honoring the men and women who have fought in all wars in the history of the United States. Despite all the buzz going on, Daxton Riley senses the trouble the nation is about to face if

A Way Into India

Author: Raghubir Singh
Category: Individual Photographer
ISBN : 9780714842110
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
The last work of one of India's greatest photographers, Raghubir Singh (1942-1999), using the famous India 'Ambassador' car as a means to look at all aspects of the country and its people.Raghubir Singh who died in 1999 was considered by many to be India's greatest photographer. A Way Into India was his last great photographic project and is a testament to his love affair with the sights, sounds

Rock N` Roll

Author: Tom Stoppard
Category: Drama
ISBN : 9780802143075
Publisher : Grove Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their g

Cheyenne Autumn

Author: Mart Sandoz
Category: General
ISBN : 9780803292123
Publisher : Univ of Nebraska Pr
Last update : 2009-05-22
In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in the Yellowstone country. This saga of their heart-breaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight is by the author of Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas and Old Jules, also available as Bison Books.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Government

Author: Mary Shaffrey, Melanie Fonder
Category: General
ISBN : 9781592573288
Publisher : Alpha Books
Last update : 2009-08-27
The most up-to-date general reference book on the history and structure of U.S. government. This overview of all the governmentas major institutions and agencies, the election process, and the creation and passing of laws and taxes has been updated with the latest information on such important issues as campaign finance reform, fundraising, and homeland security. a[ Completely updated resource se

Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland

Author: Peter Blickle
Category: Anthropology - Cultural
ISBN : 9781571133038
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
The idea of Heimat (home, homeland, native region) has been as important to German self-perceptions over the last two hundred years as the shifting notion of the German nation. While the idea of Heimat has been long neglected in English studies of German culture--among other reasons because the word Heimat has no exact equivalent in English--this book offers us the first cross-disciplinary and co

Homeland Security Preparedness and Information Systems (Hardcover)

Author: Christopher G. Reddick
Category: General Computer
ISBN : 9781605668345
Publisher : Information Science Reference
Last update : 2009-08-28
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Remember, Oh, Remember: Stories of 17th Century America with Roger Clap's Memoirs

Author: Layton, Olive ;Layton, Tim
Category: Historical - General
ISBN : 9781424188956
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21
What would motivate established and well-to-do citizens of the richest country in the world to leave their homes, brave a tempestuous sea and try to establish a society amidst savages far from their homeland? Stories of conviction, courage and conscientiousness in establishing aa city on a hill, a which grew to become our great nation, are enthusiastically told.

Material Culture and Consumer Society: Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia

Author: Mark Staniforth
Category: Australia & New Zealand - General
ISBN : 9780306473869
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Throughout history, material goods have been valued for more than their usefulness; they have also been symbols of status and wealth. During the colonial period of Australia, material goods took on an even more important role for the new arrivals to the island. Material Culture and Consumer Society argues that material goods were a necessary adjunct to the successful colonization of Australia dem

National Geographic Countries of the World

Author: Neil Kagan
Category: Places
ISBN : 9780792276661
Publisher : Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
Last update : 2009-08-27
Let National Geographic take you to Italy, a land steeped in history, art, architecture, and culture. Journey to the homeland of the Ancient Roman Empire, the tragic site of Pompeii, and the birthplace of the Renaissance. From the fabulous works of art that adorn the Vatican in Rome, to the churches of Florence, to the canals of Venice, experience a unique country alive with its own sense of styl

Beyond Psychology

Author: Reich, Wilhelm
Category: Movements - Behaviorism
ISBN : 9780374530587
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Last update : 2009-05-22
In August 1934, without warning or explanation, Wilhelm Reich was expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association. Political expediency and the organization's growing adherence to Freud's death instinct theory had prevailed over Reich's scientific efforts to understand the functioning of what Freud had termed libido . The provocative originality of Reich's work in the years to follow w

The Ordinary

Author: Jim Grimsley
Category: Science Fiction - General
ISBN : 9780765305299
Publisher : Tor Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic. The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants, all cybernetically lin

The Charismatic Leader

Author: Sikandar Hayat
Category: General
ISBN : 9780195474756
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
Last update : 2009-08-27
Hayat tells the story of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who emerged as the leader of the Muslims in British India between 1937-47. They faced a distressful situation as India advanced towards freedom. Jinnah came to their rescue, showed them a way out in a separate homeland of Pakistan, and led them in their struggle for freedom and independence.

Falcondance

Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Category: Fables/Fairy Tales
ISBN : 9780440238850
Publisher : Delacorte Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Nicias has never felt completely at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern’ s Court, despite his loyalty to Oliza Shardae Cobriana, the heir to both thrones. He is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Anhmik– and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. But when Nicias’ s visions become more like reality, his parents have no choice but to send him bac

Children of Grace

Author: Hampton, Bruce
Category: Native American
ISBN : 9780803273344
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive treaties and encroachment upon their homeland. In June 1877, the Nez Perce struck back and were soon swept into one of the most devastating Indian wars in American history. The conflict culminated in an epic twelve-hundred-mile chase as the U.

The Old Rocking Chair

Author: L. Dawn Adams
Category: Romance - Historical
ISBN : 9780595259908
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Barrett family had owned three of the largest plantations in Georgia before the Civil War. Near the end of the war, they had to flee their homes. They settled in Massachusetts, eventually owning vast textile mills. Liz, the daughter of Kathleen and Isaac Barrett, was born in Massachusetts in eighteen eighty. Her father died when she was very young and her mother married his younger brother, H

The Old Rocking Chair

Author: L. Dawn Adams
Category: Romance - Historical
ISBN : 9780595654918
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Barrett family had owned three of the largest plantations in Georgia before the Civil War. Near the end of the war, they had to flee their homes. They settled in Massachusetts, eventually owning vast textile mills. Liz, the daughter of Kathleen and Isaac Barrett, was born in Massachusetts in eighteen eighty. Her father died when she was very young and her mother married his younger brother, H

The Homeland: The Journey of Sight

Author: Mack, Robert
Category: Fantasy - General
ISBN : 9781424175680
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21
The story of a God born in an enchanted world of magical powers. He was praised even before his birth. Everyone held high hopes, but on the day of his birth, tragedy strikes. aLord, your wife has died while giving birth, and your sona]he is blind.a Every praise turned to tears, and the high expectations faded away, but one man kept his hopea]one man sacrifices everything to become what he was des

Someday a Blessing

Author: Denise Raney Thompson;Deborah Raney
Category: Personal Memoirs
ISBN : 9781413749540
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Sophie Susana Stanski was born April 2, 1925, in Poznan, Poland. Sophie and her family endured the dictatorship under Hitler's armed forces, as well as Sophie's kidnapping by the Germans. Sophie spent five long years in slavery under the rule of a German family. She was rescued and liberated by the American allied forces in 1949, only to find her family behind the Iron Curtain. Too frightened to

A Walk Through Old Salem

Author: Walter Stone, Erin Sedoris
Category: Architecture
ISBN : 9780895872319
Publisher : John F Blair Pub
Last update : 2009-08-26
Old Salem is a restored 18th- and 19th-century village that is frequently compared to Colonial Williamsburg. Within two dozen blocks are over 90 restored and reconstructed buildings, including several that are open to the public as museums.Moravians, members of an early Protestant sect called the Unity of Brethren, derived their name from their homeland, Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. P

The Oxford Book of Exile

Author:
Category: Rhetoric
ISBN : 9780192142214
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experie

Aryan Cowboys

Author: Evelyn A. Schlatter
Category: American History
ISBN : 9780292714717
Publisher : Univ of Texas Pr
Last update : 2009-08-26
Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the old ideal of the West as a land of opportunity waiting to be settled by self-reliant traditional families. Some even envision the region as a potential white homeland. Groups such as Aryan Nations, The Order, and Posse Comitatus use c

Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America

Author: Gary Hart
Category: History & Theory - General
ISBN : 9780195174281
Publisher : 101 Productions
Last update : 2009-05-22
The American democratic republic has from its founding been a paradoxical success. Simultaneously attached to state and national power, citizens' rights and citizens' duties, American democracy has uniquely turned its reliance on consent from the governed into a powerful governing of the consenting. The complex realities of the twenty-first century, however, have fundamentally challenged the unde

Minnesota Swedes Volume II: Trolle Ljungby Families in Goodhue County

Author: Lilly Setterdahl
Category: United States - State & Local - General
ISBN : 9781581128086
Publisher : UPUBLISH.COM
Last update : 2009-05-22
Many of the individuals in this study were closely related. They came from an agricultural community in Sweden dominated by a large estate. The pioneers came in search of 'free' land, and they found it in Goodhue County. Former neighbors settled close to one another. Many of the descendants are still tied to the land. The author has endeavored to trace the immigrants from cradle to grave to find

Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend

Author: Mike Sajna
Category: Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans
ISBN : 9780471417002
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Last update : 2009-05-22
" A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . . Not only is Sajna’ s work a valuable historical resource, it makes for a compelling read as well." – American History " There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the legendary war chief Crazy Horse know when he spoke these words in battle that it was his tale that people would be tel

Defenders of Ulthuan (Paperback)

Author: Graham McNeill
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN : 9781844165162
Publisher : Games Workshop Ltd
Last update : 2009-08-28
Replete with battles, magic, and dragons, this thrilling story set in the Warhammer world follows two brothers who fight for the love of the same woman against a backdrop of war, as the dark elves launch a massive invasion of the elf homeland of Ulthuan.

Shadow of the Sword

Author: Minadeo, A. P.
Category: Thrillers
ISBN : 9781424141463
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
This novel is a sequel to EEWEE Crossing, featuring T.M. (Top) Krebs, U.S. Marshal, and many of his fellow deputies, who are like he, Air Force reservists that volunteered to work with the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, engaging in counter-drug operations. This story starts just days after the terrible disasters of September 11, 2001. Top, having previously crushed the Juarez drug cartel i

Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism

Author:
Category: Judaism - Rituals & Practice
ISBN : 9780226705781
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the State of Israel? In this cogent and searching study, Aviezer Ravitzky probes Orthodoxy's divergent positions on Zionism, which range from radical condemnation to virtual beatification. Ravitzky traces the r

The Mexican Kickapoo Indians

Author: Dolores L. Latorre, Felippe Latorre
Category: General
ISBN : 9780486267425
Publisher : Dover Pubns
Last update : 2009-05-19
Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. Language, dress, foods, crafts, social organization, much more. Includes 26 illustrations.

Veiled Suite (Hardcover)

Author: Agha Shahid Ali
Category: Poetry
ISBN : 9780393068047
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
This collection gathers the life`s work of Agha Shahid Ali, who died in 2001, in exile from his homeland of Kashmir. Ali is most well-known in the West for popularizing the ghazal form of poetry, a distinct meter used mostly by Arabic and Hindi poets, featuring rhyming couplets and a repeated refrain, which is often used in Bollywood songs. But the ghazal is distinctive not only for its form,

Motherland: Writings by Irish America Women about Mothers and Daughters

Author:
Category: American - General
ISBN : 9780688175863
Publisher : Quill Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
In Motherland, Caledonia Kearns celebrates the wide diversity and experience of Irish American women and explores the bonds that tie them to their mothers and their homeland. These twenty-four pieces -- many of which have never been published in book form -- are a testament to the complexities and the blessings of the mother-daughter relationship.Kearns has compiled a rich list of acclaimed, awar

Travels With Charley

Author: John Steinbeck, Gary Sinise
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780142000700
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
Steinbeck chronicles his attempts, as he travels from Long Island to California and back, to define what it is to be American. In the end, he concedes failure: it is impossible to generalize about his complicated homeland. However, his experiences add up to a delightful account of an eager and curious human being on the road--and of Charley the aging French poodle, an excellent and civilized comp

Travels With Charley

Author: John Steinbeck, Gary Sinise
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780140053203
Publisher : Viking Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Steinbeck chronicles his attempts, as he travels from Long Island to California and back, to define what it is to be American. In the end, he concedes failure: it is impossible to generalize about his complicated homeland. However, his experiences add up to a delightful account of an eager and curious human being on the road--and of Charley the aging French poodle, an excellent and civilized comp

The Pawnee Mythology

Author:
Category: Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
ISBN : 9780803266032
Publisher : Bison
Last update : 2009-05-22
The Pawnee Mythology, originally published in 1906, preserves 148 tales of the Pawnee Indians, who farmed and hunted and lived in earth-covered lodges along the Platte River in Nebraska. The stories, collected from surviving members of four bands - Skidi, Pitahauirat, Kitkehahki, and Chaui - were generally told during intermissions of sacred ceremonies. Many were accompanied by music. George A. D

Neglected Defense: Mobilizing the Private Sector to Support Homeland Security

Author: Flynn, Stephen E.
Category: Political Freedom & Security - International Secur
ISBN : 9780876093580
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
The March 2006 furor over a Dubai firms attempt to purchase the company managing some U.S. ports illustrates the difficult homeland security challenges that exist at the nexus of privately owned critical assets as well as global interdependence. Unfortunately, nearly five years after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., federal efforts to enlist the private sector in bolster

Today`s Hot Job Targets

Author: Michael Farr, Laurence Shatkin
Category: Careers
ISBN : 9781593574246
Publisher : Jist Works
Last update : 2009-05-22
This book's 100 hot-job snapshots include information on job tasks, projected growth, openings, salary, education required, personality type, and more. The education required for the careers range from short-term on-the-job training to a bachelor's degree. The industries discussed include energy, education, health care, homeland security, information technology, financial services, advanced manuf

The Jungfrau Watch

Author: Natan, Rene
Category: Thrillers
ISBN : 9781424139606
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
His homeland in disarray, his political beliefs doomed, and his criminal activities exposed, Alesh Stefanich, a high-profile member of the Red Brigades, has to leave his operative basis in Italy. Under false identity, he finds asylum in Canada, where he decides to be a law-abiding citizen. His former controller, however, Johannes Volpieren, also settles in Canada, where he establishes a network b

Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus

Author: H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics
ISBN : 9781587150920
Publisher : Wildside Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
Moon of Israel (1918) was one of the earliest Haggard books to be filmed (in 1924, as a silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz). The movie adaptation has been released both as Moon of Israel and The Slave Queen. Interestingly, Paramount bought the original film and suppressed it so it wouldn?t complete with the release of DeMille?s original silent version of The Ten Commandments.As a book, it is

The Iron Curtain

Author: Robert Vaughan
Category: General
ISBN : 9781585866380
Publisher : E-Reads Publication
Last update : 2009-05-22
Volume six of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles begins with the emergence of a new America from the fiery furor of World War II, an America ready and eager to grasp the future. But the country cannot escape the shadows of the past horrors nor the obligation to the brave souls who fought for liberty and peace. As the defeated Germany faces herfate at Nuremberg and a Red scare makes its mark in

The Ioway Indians

Author:
Category: United States - General
ISBN : 9780806127286
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Last update : 2009-08-28
This account is the first extensive ethnohistory of the Ioway Indians, whose influence - out of all proportion to their numbers - stemmed partly from the strategic location of their homeland between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Beginning with archaeological sites in northeast Iowa, Martha Royce Blaine traces Ioway history from ancient to modern times. In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen

The Obm: The Office of Behavioral Management and the Coming Age of Surveillance

Author: Boland, John
Category: Suspense
ISBN : 9781424105076
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
The OBM is a political suspense novel about Casey Patton, dean of a private college in Arkansas, and her efforts to expose the federal Office of Behavioral Management's secret surveillance experiments. In 2025, an era of shifting tectonic plates, spyware development, and conservative domestic policies, the Office of Behavioral Management, an outgrowth of the Patriot Act, carries out secret initia

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esquire Written by Himself and Catherine a Story

Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Category: Classics
ISBN : 9780548024829
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-21
1902. With illustrations by the author. Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece, but he also showed great skill in writing historical fiction with fine attention to period manners and customs and a dispassionate sympathy for his character's actions. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Thackeray's first substantial work, concerns the life and times of the title character and narrator, a roguish Irishman.

Of Our Fathers' Legacy

Author:
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9780557008889
Publisher : Lulu.com
Last update : 2009-05-21
OF OUR FATHERS'' LEGACY is the history of Peter Webner who abandoned his homeland to seek freedom in early 1800''s America. He lived in German-American towns of middle Pennsylvania, until his luck ran out -- he and his wife died leaving most of their children to be bound out until they became adults. What follows is a story told many times in the Land of Opportunity. Son David is released from hi

Mystic Wolf

Author: Gullick, Veronique
Category: Fantasy - General
ISBN : 9781413785623
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
Enter the world of shapeshifters, magic spells, jealousy, desire, murder and a hidden prophecy. In England of 1696, Lady Treasure Lynn Mercedes is a shapeshifter from the Amazon Indian Rainforest. She loves her homeland in the Mystic Mountains, but when sheas kidnapped and whisked off to a different land by her evil great uncle, she wants nothing more than to return to her beloved homeland until

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esquire Written by Himself and Catherine a Story

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classics
ISBN : 9781417928255
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
1902. With illustrations by the author. Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece, but he also showed great skill in writing historical fiction with fine attention to period manners and customs and a dispassionate sympathy for his character's actions. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Thackeray's first substantial work, concerns the life and times of the title character and narrator, a roguish Irishman.

Forced Migration And Mental Health

Author: INGLEBY, DAVID (EDT)
Category: Mental Health
ISBN : 9780387226927
Publisher : Springer Verlag
Last update : 2009-05-22
Although forced migration is not new in human history it has become, in our time, one of the world's major problems. In the last few decades, armed conflict and political unrest have created vast numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons. This has led, in turn to increasing involvement of professional care workers and agencies, both governmental and nongovernmental. While there is

Her Hidden Story

Author: Richard Ronald Choo
Category: Personal Memoirs
ISBN : 9781598000337
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
This is an inspiring story of the incredible strength of one woman, Francis Choo, and her everlasting endurance over life's many heartaches during times of crisis. For years she has privately kept this story to herself until now. Author Richard Choo brings you this in-depth look into his mother's life, one that consisted of a turbulent period as a child and as an adult. Share her horrifying ordea

Iphigenia: The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored

Author:
Category: General
ISBN : 9780292715714
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Last update : 2009-05-22
.,. I didn''t want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me... The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother''s house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her father''s death has sent her back to a forgotten homeland, where rigid decorum gov

Unbeaten Tracks In Japan

Author: Bird, Isabella L.
Category: Asia - Japan
ISBN : 9781590481509
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Suffering from an unspecified illness, Isabella Bird left her English home in 1878 journeying to Japan to improve her health. Her unorthodox cure consisted of buying a local horse and exploring the islands of the reclusive Japanese homeland. The Long Rider author carefully documented various aspects of the fascinating culture she discovered, describing a host of subjects ranging from Children's G

Unbeaten Tracks In Japan

Author: Bird, Isabella L.
Category: Asia - Japan
ISBN : 9781590481516
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Suffering from an unspecified illness, Isabella Bird left her English home in 1878 journeying to Japan to improve her health. Her unorthodox cure consisted of buying a local horse and exploring the islands of the reclusive Japanese homeland. The Long Rider author carefully documented various aspects of the fascinating culture she discovered, describing a host of subjects ranging from Children's G

Silver Mage

Author:
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9781906510169
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-21
In the first age of Andeira, men and dragons brought together the two halves of the elemental magic of the world to create a union through which their magic, and the world, could support and renew itself. When war broke out, that union was destroyed - deliberately severed by the ancient mages in a desperate attempt to stop their enemies. They knew the price of their actions: the dragons would dis

Morbid to the Max

Author: Chmielewski, Paul
Category: Action & Adventure
ISBN : 9780595422272
Publisher : iUniverse
Last update : 2009-05-21
Style, sex, and laugh-out-loud screw ups-nobody pens them like author Paul Chmielewski or lives them like Max Snow, the stylist-turned-amateur PI who has somehow managed to luck his way through two gritty Metro Detroit area adventures in-Murder to the Max and Mafia to the Max. When an opportunity to demonstrate his skill as a private investigator presents itself in the form of Special Agent Rolan

My Journey with Joseph

Author:
Category: Uncategorized
ISBN : 9781409205487
Publisher : Lulu Press
Last update : 2009-05-21
This is a true story so extraordinary that it defies all logic. The author, Alan J. Porter has been psychic from a young age. Later in his life, clairvoyancy gave him a greater understanding and knowledge to the purpose and meaning of life. Through his gift of art, he would later realise that Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indian tribe was one of his spirit guides. In 2004 a friend of Alan''s, Gar

Haunted Heritage and Other Stories

Author: Williams, Albert
Category: General
ISBN : 9781424106806
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
aHaunted Heritagea is a tale about Margaret, a Dominican nurse returning to her homeland accompanied by her British husband. She soon becomes the joke of the village when she appears to be overtaken by bouts of manic depression as diagnosed by a psychiatrist. But as the story unfolds, to the bemusement of her husband, Phillip, Margaret is later hailed as one of the townas famous residents when no

An American Mecca: A New Muslim Homeland

Author: Ali, Murad C.
Category: Religious - Muslim
ISBN : 9781424109470
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
Muslims are a new and emerging group on the American scene. Within the next few generations they will have the population size and political influence to change American life as we know it. Public schools, political parties, and national demographics will begin to take on a more Islamic flavor as this population begins to exert their influence. In order for Muslims to truly participate in America

Burning Books on Fenwick Street

Author: C. Lee Dravis
Category: General
ISBN : 9781592868858
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Under terrorist attack, wracked with racial strife, foreign wars, and a busted economy, America elects a new chief executive. Conservative Christian Matthew Winslow Dobbs captures the presidency on a platform of patriotism and faith. Implementing Godas revealed plan, and in the name of homeland security, Dobbs proposes a single constitutional amendment. Soon, suburbanite John Kolzig finds himself

Neitherworld Book Two Ishpiming

Author: Baker, Scott
Category: General
ISBN : 9781430327882
Publisher : Lulu.com
Last update : 2009-05-21
Archaeologist Samantha Horner continues her quest into the strange disappearances of her team members from Blue Heron Island - now including her own! As she awakens on the Neitherworld, she finds herself surrounded by alien-altered life forms both friendly and hostile. What is the connection between the unseen aliens and the powerful 17th century Ojibwe shaman Voice-in-the-Sky? The shocking secre

Ladysmith

Author: Giles Foden
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780375708374
Publisher : Random House Inc
Last update : 2009-05-22
From the author of the Whitbread Award--winning The Last King of Scotland, comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman who finds love and freedom in the midst of a devastating war. The year is 1899, and the South African town of Ladysmith is surrounded by Boer forces. For four long months bread is thickened with laundry starch and soldier''s horses are kil

Trophy Kid

Author: Steve Atinsky
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780385901819
Publisher : Delacorte Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joe is the ultimate trophy kid. His adoptive parents are Hollywood's favorite power couple, Academy Award-winning actress Greta Powell and actor/director/political candidate Robert Francis. Life with them has been one big photo-op since Joe became a war orphan at the ripe old age of three. And what better way for Greta and Robert to celebrate how far Joe's come--and how much the