[PDF] Days Of The Past eBook

Author : Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0425288080

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The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now available in paperback. In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story of the civil rights movement in America of the 20th century. Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change. Rich, compelling storytelling is Ms. Taylor's hallmark, and she fulfills expectations as she brings to a close the stirring family story that has absorbed her for over forty years. It is a story she was born to tell.

Author : 京二·渡辺
Publisher :
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9784866581408

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"Remnants of Days Past, by Kyoji Watanabe, is an epic journey into Japan's past. It is a comprehensive look at the Tokugawa rule and the Edo period, an age in which the civilization of "Old Japan" was still on display and which, for better or worse, ceased to exist with the advent of modernization. Watanabe covers in great detail several topics pertaining to this civilization, including the status and position of the various social classes, views of women and children, attitudes towards sex, labor, and the body and religious beliefs, as well as the unique cosmology behind this civilization. Watanabe makes use of a number of works written by foreign observers who visited Japan from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji to support his views. As the author writes in the book, "What is important in my mind is the reality that the civilization of 'Old Japan' developed through a universal desire, as well as the ideas behind this desire, to make it as comfortable as possible for human existence." This is a massive work that takes an in-depth look at what modern Japan has lost"--

Author : Eliezer Segal
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1552381315

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This collection of essays from various topics in Jewish history and traditional religious literature demonstrates the diverse aspects of Jewish tradition that can still speak with familiarity to modern 'western' culture. Though the essays are on topics such as religious custom and scholarship, community, liturgy, and interfaith relationships, they are designed for a non-academic audience, using humour and insight to stress themes that speak to contemporary situations.

Author : David C. King
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780613165433

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Discusses pioneer life and presents related projects and activities

Author : Christopher Hammann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2016-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365529991

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A fantasy that starts with two people but running out of time and space, there are events that may not be as they seem. Follow Aelan and Alex and a short adventure that will lead to a grand story. Find out if their love can pass through the gates of life and death.

Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393329011

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Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.

Author : Sandra Ailey Petree
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0874215315

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For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life. The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught poorly prepared by severe high plains snowstorms in October and November 1856. The combined fatalities of the Martin and Willie companies made this the worst disaster in the history of overland travel. Patience = s father was one of those who died. After reaching Utah, Patience took the unusual step for a Mormon of marrying a soldier, John Rozsa, stationed at Camp Floyd. The troops there had made up the Utah Expedition, sent to ensure federal authority over the Mormons. Rozsa was a Hungarian immigrant and Mormon convert. When the Utah troops were recalled for the Civil War, Patience accompanied her husband, as an army laundress, to Washington, D.C., running a boarding house while Rozsa fought. After the war, he died at Fort Leavenworth of consumption, and Patience returned alone to Utah, where she became a cook at a mining camp in American Fork Canyon. Her autobiography ends there in 1872, though she lived till 1922.

Author : David C. King
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1998-07-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780471239192

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Now the kids of today can walk in the boots of wranglers of the Wild West. This new activity-packed addition to the American Kids in History Series transports readers to a cattle ranch near Cheyenne, deep in the Wyoming territory of the 1870s.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Author : Chris Claremont
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9780871355829

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Relive the legendary first journey into the dystopian future of 2013 where Sentinels stalk the Earth, and the X-men are humanity's only hope.. umtil they die! Also featureing the first apperance of Alpha Flight, the return of the Wendigo, the history of the X men of Cyclops... am a demon for Christmas!?