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Tears from Iron

Posted on 2008-04-02 by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Author: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520934221

Category: History

Page: 360

This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.

Iron Tears

Posted on 2005-01-18 by Stanley Weintraub

America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783

Author: Stanley Weintraub

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 0743226879

Category: History

Page: 375

A dual-sided history of the Revolutionary War examines the conflict from both the colonial and British sides, documenting the nearly violent political disagreements in Parliament, as well as the American-sympathetic pacifist media criticism of King George III that may have played a major role in the war's outcome. 50,000 first printing.

A Dictionary of the English Language

Posted on 1818 by Samuel Johnson

In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: English language

Page: N.A

Behind the Iron Curtain: Tears in the Perfect Hockey "GULAG"

Posted on by N.A

Author: N.A

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

ISBN: 1434975487

Category:

Page: N.A

Iron Tears

Posted on 1992-12-01 by R. A. Lafferty,Michael Swanwick

Author: R. A. Lafferty,Michael Swanwick

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

ISBN: 1587151278

Category: Fiction

Page: 219

Tears From Heaven

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Dr. Tabowei

Author: Dr. Tabowei

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 9781453558355

Category: Philosophy

Page: 388

Tears from Heaven is a true life story (names of persons and places have been changed though) that is set in a typical African village in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The events span through a period of about twenty years. This book portrays the hydra-headed effects of ignorance in rural African society. Several unscientific practices such as belief in witchcraft being the cause of all evils, communing with the dead, and attributing misfortunes in one’s life to an enemy are evident. These are taken to such extremes that families have been torn apart, marriages broken, and people’s lives threatened. Churches are not left out too. Preachers capitalise on this ignorance and the tendency to attribute things to the supernatural to defraud their unsuspecting members. They deceive their members by claiming to hear from God, while they actually do not, pretending to have solution to all problems and performing rituals in the name of casting out evil spirits, among other things. Tears from Heaven portrays God literally crying in heaven as a result of preachers abusing his name for selfish interests. He (God) also cries seeing the pain people go through and the injustice they suffer from self-inflicted or society-inflicted harm based on false cultural beliefs. Contrary to popular belief, these inhuman practices are still held on to in many places, and reading through this book will expose this can of worms that many thought was hitherto closed or even dead. As the traditional ruler of my community, I am best positioned to tell the story because I have first-hand experience, having spent a greater part of my life with the people. It will make an interesting reading for those interested in African philosophy and culture. More so, it is set in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It also points to the fact that there are some things that science has not changed and may unfortunately not be able to change. Tears from Heaven

The Well of Tears

Posted on 2011-02-23 by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Author: Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 0330525182

Category: Fiction

Page: 496

After Jewel and Eoin have fled from their native Slievmordhu to the kingdom of Narngalis, they encounter many dangerous situations which ultimately leave Eoin in the hands of the deadly unseelie wights. With nowhere else to go Jewel finds refuge amongst the plateau-dwellers at High Darioneth. Teeming with siofra, trows and other eldritch wights their land is under the tight rule of the weathermasters and Storm Lord Avalloc, who have the power to tame and summon the winds . . . When Jewel learns that the legendary Dome of Strang is no longer guarded, she decides to continue her journey to Orielthir to unravel the mystery of the hidden stronghold and with it the truth about her father's legacy. Her discoveries lead her on further quests, accompanied by a handsome young weathermaster who has secretly fallen in love with Jewel. Together they encounter marvels and misfortunes and discover that the key to all their riddles ultimately lies with the extraordinary Well of Tears . . .

The Iron Witch

Posted on 2011-02-03 by Karen Mahoney

Author: Karen Mahoney

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 144640305X

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 304

Freak. That's what they call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood at Ironbridge High School. A horrific fey attack that killed her father when she was just a child left Donna branded with iron tattoos that cover her hands and arms - and magically enhanced strength, that she now does all she can to hide. Now, after ten years of wishing for a normal life, Donna finally accepts her role in the centuries-old war against the darkest outcasts of Faerie - the dark elves. Aided by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout, Donna must save her best friend's life - and that means betraying one of the world's greatest secrets and confronting the very thing that destroyed her family.

Tränen der Wüste

Posted on 2010-01 by Halima Bashir,Damien Lewis

Author: Halima Bashir,Damien Lewis

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783426781098

Category:

Page: 431

The vale of tears

Posted on 2012-12-06 by Joseph Hacohen,The Anonymous corrector

Author: Joseph Hacohen,The Anonymous corrector

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9401195722

Category: History

Page: 146

There were several compelling reasons which prompted me to undertake the work of translating and commenting upon the Vale of Tears by Joseph Hacohen, the sixteenth century physician and historian. First of all, those of us who have been teaching in the area of the Middle Ages have noticed over the past several years a distinct upsurge of interest in the field. Consequently, a number of Medieval Institutes, non-denominational in character and attached to major universitites, have sprung up allover the United States to relate themselves to that age which witnessed - among trying once more other things - the unparalleled struggle between two power complexes, the Church and the State. Scholars will also have to consider the Jewish Middle Ages, interconnected with the Christian Middle Ages, which lasted much longer and far beyond the Renaissance in Europe. Most of them tended to gloss over this aspect of Western Civilization which found the Jew in the juggernaut between these two powers. Students of all faiths, ecumenically oriented and truthful to the point of self-abasement are now ready, without a sense of embarrassment, to discuss this long bleak period in the history of European man, where greed, envy, suspicion and religious fanaticism had triumphed over reason and piety. Yet, beyond all of this, there was another consideration which guided me in doing this tedious and often frustrating work: the knowledge of Hebrew has been on the decline in this country.

Hardcore Bodybuilding

Posted on 1982-01-01 by Robert Kennedy

The Blood, Sweat, and Tears of Pumping Iron

Author: Robert Kennedy

Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)

ISBN: 9780806976464

Category: Bodybuilding

Page: 192

The Girl with the Iron Touch

Posted on 2014-04-01 by Kady Cross

Author: Kady Cross

Publisher: Harlequin

ISBN: 1460326601

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 304

In 1897 London, something not quite human is about to awaken When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What's left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons—or forfeit her friends' lives. With Griffin being mysteriously tormented by the Aether, Finley turns to Jack Dandy, but trusting the master criminal is as dangerous as controlling her dark side. Meanwhile, Sam is searching everywhere for Emily. He would walk into hell for her, but the choice she must make will test them more than they could imagine. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation—an automaton more human than machine. And if she's to have any chance at triumphing, she must summon a strength even she doesn't know she has….

Der Eisenturm

Posted on 2010 by Sarah Ash

Author: Sarah Ash

Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE

ISBN: 9783404206117

Category:

Page: 796

Gavril Nagarian hatte einst einen Drachendämon in seinem Innersten. Lange Zeit hat es gedauert, bis er ihn verbannen konnte. Nun ist der Drakhaoul ist fort - und mit ihm alle Furcht erregenden Kräfte Gavrils. Obwohl ihm die widernatürlichen Gelüste und Sehnsüchte des Drakhaouls nicht mehr zusetzen, hat Gavril sein Geburtsrecht und sein Volk verraten: Er hat das eisige Fürstentum Azhkendir riskiert und verloren. Gavril Nagarian wird wegen der Verbrechen gegen das Rossiyanische Reich festgenommen und wird zu lebenslanger Haft in einem Irrenhaus verurteilt: einem Eisenturm, aus dem es kein Entkommen gibt.

Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Posted on 2008-01-15 by Robert F. Ober, Jr.

Author: Robert F. Ober, Jr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 145351791X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 482

"Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger ́s policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carter ́s balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Ober ́s book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . It ́s all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike today ́s walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ́80s. I don ́t know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".

Tales of Magic Land 1

Posted on 2010-06-05 by Alexander Volkov

Author: Alexander Volkov

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 0557448255

Category:

Page: 360

This book contains translations into English of the first two Oz-inspired "Magic Land" novels by Russian author Alexander Volkov. In the first story, Ellie, a little girl from Kansas, is blown by a tornado to Magic Land, where she learns that the best things in the world are friendship and mutual assistance. In the second story, Ellie returns to Magic Land to fight an evil ruler. New edition contains revised Afterword, an article comparing the 1939 and 1959 versions of WIZARD, and a select bibliography of Volkov's other works.

The Iron Trevet

Posted on 2008-02-01 by Eugene Sue

Author: Eugene Sue

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

ISBN: 1434499251

Category: Political Science

Page: 276

Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857) was a French novelist. His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, pere, with whom he has been compared.

Iron Curtain

Posted on 2012-10-04 by Anne Applebaum

The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Author: Anne Applebaum

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 1846147344

Category: History

Page: 656

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. Applebaum describes in devastating detail how political parties, the church, the media, young people's organizations - the institutions of civil society on every level - were quickly eviscerated. She explains how the secret police services were organized, how the media came to be dominated by communists, and how all forms of opposition were undermined and destroyed. Ranging widely across new archival material and many sources unknown in English, she follows the communists' tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to power. She also chronicles individual lives to show the choices people had to make - to fight, to flee, or to collaborate. Within a remarkably short period after the end of the war, Eastern Europe had been ruthlessly Stalinized. Iron Curtain is a brilliant history of a brutal period and a haunting reminder of how fragile free societies can be. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Anne Applebaum captures in the pages of this exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning.

The iron shroud; or, Italian revenge

Posted on 1839 by Italian revenge

Author: Italian revenge

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: N.A

Breath of Iron

Posted on 2013-08-06 by Kate Cross

A Novel of the Clockwork Agents

Author: Kate Cross

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 1101615443

Category: Fiction

Page: 352

Sworn to protect England from all enemies, the Wardens of the Realm are ever vigilant. But not all battles are fought on a battlefield…sometimes they are fought in the heart. As chief surgeon for the Wardens, Evelyn Stone fears her own life is on the line when she is kidnapped by a band of pirates—only to discover that the airship captain is Gavin “Mac” MacRae—her former lover. The man whose life she once saved. The man she abandoned. Since Evelyn left, Mac made his mark as both a pirate and a pilot. But his true allegiance isn’t known. So when he asks Evie for help with a wounded woman onboard, he tells Evie that the woman is his wife—even if his feelings for Evie have never waned… As the days pass, however, the unease between Evie and Mac gives way to the old comfort they used to have. Yet, their newly ignited romance is complicated by conflicting loyalties and desires, and a betrayal that may cost them both their love and their lives.

The Iron Lady

Posted on 2011-10-25 by John Campbell

Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister

Author: John Campbell

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 1101558660

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 576

The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics. Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth-century history is undeniable. From her humble, small-town upbringing to her rise to power as the United Kingdom's first female prime minister, to her dramatic fall from grace after more than three decades of service, celebrated biographer John Campbell delves into the story of this fascinating woman's life as no one has before. The result of more than nine years of meticulous research, The Iron Lady is the only balanced, unvarnished portrait of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most vital and controversial political figures of our time.