Triumphs and Tragedy
Author: Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780393310665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.
Author: Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780393310665
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Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1512722049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Tragedy to Triumph describes a man's struggle with the untimely deaths of three of his four children, all due to unusual circumstances. This is the story of a man learning how to deal with such a tragedy. You will follow Alex and see what happens when he lays down the grief and runs to God. The heartfelt pain was so intense that the man walked away from his business and settled in for a long season of prayer, going to God for the answers, any answers. It was during this time that God began the show Alex a better understanding of how life and death and God and His kingdom work. Fortunately for us, Alex was permitted to take notes and write down what he heard and saw. Though written in simple, down-to-earth English, you will find many profound truths direct from the throne of God.
Author: Ari Shavit
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0812984641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land “This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times “Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist “One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author: Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780985500627
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Author: Margaret Anne Barnes
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780865546134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writer Barnes tells the story of a corrupt, crime-ridden city, examining events that unfolded during 1916-1955. Phenix City had been a 19th-century refuge from law enforcement for 120 years until three men in succession challenged the status quo. To reconstruct the story the author draws on notes and private papers of the principals and investigators; depositions, trial transcripts, and court records; daily newspaper coverage; and transcripts of wire-tapped recordings of the city's gamblers and politicians. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Janet L. Heismann
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780615996561
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Author: Kelly Kennedy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1429910046
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Author: Karl B. Mcmillen (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780988412620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: CCV Digital
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9781446496626
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