The Latter Fire
Title | The Latter Fire PDF eBook |
Author | James Swallow |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-02-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476783152 |
"Based upon Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry."
Fire and Sword
Title | Fire and Sword PDF eBook |
Author | Leland H. Gentry |
Publisher | Greg Kofford Books |
Total Pages | 642 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
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Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares. The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment--represents a moment of intense crisis in Mormon history. Representing the greatest extremes of devotion and violence, commitment and intolerance, physical suffering and terror--mobbings, battles, massacres, and political “knockdowns”--it shadowed the Mormon psyche for a century. Leland Gentry was the first to step beyond this disturbing period as a one-sided symbol of religious persecution and move toward understanding it with careful documentation and evenhanded analysis. In Fire and Sword, Todd Compton collaborates with Gentry to update this foundational work with four decades of new scholarship, more insightful critical theory, and the wealth of resources that have become electronically available in the last few years. Compton gives full credit to Leland Gentry's extraordinary achievement, particularly in documenting the existence of Danites and in attempting to tell the Missourians’ side of the story; but he also goes far beyond it, gracefully drawing into the dialogue signal interpretations written since Gentry and introducing the raw urgency of personal writings, eyewitness journalists, and bemused politicians seesawing between human compassion and partisan harshness. In the lush Missouri landscape of the Mormon imagination where Adam and Eve had walked out of the garden and where Adam would return to preside over his posterity, the towering religious creativity of Joseph Smith and clash of religious stereotypes created a swift and traumatic frontier drama that changed the Church.
A Fire Upon The Deep
Title | A Fire Upon The Deep PDF eBook |
Author | Vernor Vinge |
Publisher | Tor Science Fiction |
Total Pages | 626 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429981989 |
Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Fighting Fire
Title | Fighting Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Paul |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999-06-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312970000 |
Caroline Paul, one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department, writes about what it's like to be a firefighter: the daily routine of the fire house, and the dangers and thrills of risking one's life fighting this elemental force. In remarkably gripping prose she shows readers what life is like for a woman in what has traditionally been a man's world. Caroline was named one of "People" magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998. Martin's Press.
Pale Fire
Title | Pale Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2024-02-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
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The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
Fire and Water Engineering
Title | Fire and Water Engineering PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 670 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Fire prevention |
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Annual Progress Report of Forest Administration in the Central, Oudh and School Circles of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Title | Annual Progress Report of Forest Administration in the Central, Oudh and School Circles of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh PDF eBook |
Author | United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Forest Department |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
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