The Dragon's Tail

The Dragon's Tail
Title The Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Adam Williams
Publisher Hachette UK
Total Pages 608
Release 2012-03-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1848947984

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Harry Airton, a Scottish fisherman, has China in his blood. A chance encounter with a spook during the Korean War gives him the opportunity to return to the land of his birth and serve his goverment at the same time. They hatch a long-term plan to create the perfect spy: a triple agent with a cover that cant be broken, because its genuine. What Harry doesnt realise is that if he is setting the perfect trap, the Communist Chinese may also be finding the perfect bait. And that as the Cold War escalates and China marches towards Cultural Revolution and the end of the twentieth-century, the fates of two people who love each other are entirely unimportant.

The Dragon's Tail

The Dragon's Tail
Title The Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Barton C. Hacker
Publisher Univ of California Press
Total Pages 276
Release 1987-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 9780520058521

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Discusses tolerance and protection standards, and looks at the Los Alamos and Trinity testing sites

A Dragon's Tail

A Dragon's Tail
Title A Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Martin Baynton
Publisher Candlewick Press
Total Pages 97
Release 2008
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0763639303

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Dragon has a bad case of Curly Tail, and Skyleaf, a rare plant, is the only cure. Jane and Gunther set off to find it on the mountaintop overlooking the sea. The mountaintop where the edges are crumbly and dangerous.

Chasing the Dragon's Tail

Chasing the Dragon's Tail
Title Chasing the Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Yoshio Manaka
Publisher Paradigm Publications
Total Pages 500
Release 1995
Genre Acupuncture
ISBN 9780912111322

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The text introduces Dr Manaka's major clinical and theoretical accomplishments by describing how the 'X-signal system' is the foundation of human topography, function, and response. In essence, the X-signal system defines qi, yin-yang, and the five phases as clinical events, rather than as abstract theories. The text gives Western readers the first complete description of this treatment system.

Under the Dragon's Tail

Under the Dragon's Tail
Title Under the Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Maureen Jennings
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages 306
Release 2009-02-24
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1551992817

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Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients’ condition, her contempt for them and her greed leaves every one of them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when this malicious woman is murdered. What is a shock, though, is that a week later a young boy is found dead in Dolly’s squalid kitchen. Now, Murdoch isn’t sure if he’s hunting one murderer – or two.

A Dragon's Tail

A Dragon's Tail
Title A Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author M. C. Varley
Publisher
Total Pages 32
Release 1992
Genre Dragons
ISBN 9780717283989

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The Dragon's Tail

The Dragon's Tail
Title The Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Robert A. Jacobs
Publisher Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages 172
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9781558497276

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When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of "the basic power of the universe." Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: "Here the long pilgrimage of man on Earth turns towards darkness or towards light." American nuclear scientists, aware of the dangers their work involved, referred to one of their most critical experiments as "tickling the dragon's tail." Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most Americans may not have been sure what an atomic bomb was or how it worked. But they did sense that it had fundamentally changed the future of the human race. In this book, Robert Jacobs analyzes the early impact of nuclear weapons on American culture and society. He does so by examining a broad range of stories, or "nuclear narratives," that sought to come to grips with the implications of the bomb's unprecedented and almost unimaginable power. Beginning with what he calls the "primary nuclear narrative," which depicted atomic power as a critical agent of social change that would either destroy the world or transform it for the better, Jacobs explores a variety of common themes and images related to the destructive power of the bomb, the effects of radiation, and ways of surviving nuclear war. He looks at civil defense pamphlets, magazines, novels, and films to recover the stories the U.S. government told its citizens and soldiers as well as those presented in popular culture. According to Jacobs, this early period of Cold War nuclear culture?from 1945 to the banning of above-ground testing in 1963?was distinctive for two reasons: not only did atmospheric testing make Americans keenly aware of the presence of nuclear weapons in their lives, but radioactive fallout from the tests also made these weapons a serious threat to public health, separate from yet directly linked to the danger of nuclear war.