![]() ![]() View all 1 editions Add another edition Book Details Published in New York Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: Tragic Sense Of Life Author: Miguel de Unamuno Release Date: JanuEBook 14636 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK. ![]() Can you add one Subjects Pragmatism, Philosophy, Enlightenment Showing 1 featured edition. Urn:oclc:213435109 Scandate 20101210081739 Scanner . 224 Previews available in: English This edition doesnt have a description yet. ![]() OL8218942W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 84.79 Pages 390 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1306337623 Urn:lcp:tragicsenseoflif00unam:epub:811cdecf-3dcd-482a-a9df-b67ceb585a2c Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tragicsenseoflif00unam Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4xh0df07 Isbn 0486202577ĩ780486202570 Lccn 54004730 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:09:35 Boxid IA121919 Boxid_2 CH108401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Curatenote shipped Donor ![]()
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It took twelve thousand men, a mighty fleet, nine million pounds, a meticulous if extravagant organization and all to rescue a tiny group of British citizens held captive by a mad monster of an African king. ![]() There has never perhaps been a success like it in the history of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In the Abyssinian War of 1868, surely the strangest of all imperial campaigns, when a British Indian army invaded one of the least known and most dangerous countries on earth, and in the face of apparently insuperable hazards, and predictions of certain failure, marched and fought their way across a trackless wilderness of rocky chasm and jagged mountain to their goal, did what they had come to do, and marched out again with hardly a casualty. ![]() ![]() How and why people conduct themselves in getting actual business done is generally not often or only for the welfare of the public. ![]() ![]() Stories of Pure Altruism are only for the rubes reading the front pages of local spin-doctored sources, reader. Although the business was the construction of the first transcontinental railroad from Sacramento, California in the ancient and long-forgotten or unknown American era of 1863, and it was ultimately successful (although costly in lives and sweat besides costing millions of nineteenth-century public and private dollars), it couldn’t have been done without the mental and physical endurance of middlemen surviving destructive personal drama and strife, political corruption, and even more greedy and wealthy powerful men with strong psychopathic and narcissistic tendencies who insert themselves into the project hoping for opportunities for theft and self-aggrandizement. If readers are interested in how business is conducted in the United States, a capitalist democracy, ‘Empire Express’ by David Hayward Bain will be instructive. ![]() ![]() The occasional action scenes are intense without being overly battle-heavy. Lim can create an interesting world, and the dialogue is realistic and interesting for the most part. However, there was not as much of a Mulan storyline, nor was there as much emphasis on the actual tailoring, as I expected.įrom a technical standpoint, the writing of his book isn’t bad. I liked the twist of the Mulan figure not being a warrior, but gaining status through her skills as a creator. ![]() The premise of this book intrigued me because of the clear Mulan inspiration and the fantasy take on a country like China. Then, she is tasked with recreating the mythical dresses of the goddess Amana and must go on a journey to obtain the key elements, learning more about herself and the world than she expected. While there, she learns the scissors she has inherited are magical, and that the emperor’s enchanter seems able to see through her disguise. In Elizabeth Lim’s debut novel Spin the Dawn, a young woman named Maia disguises herself as a man to enter a competition at the imperial capital to become the emperor’s tailor. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. ![]() ![]() ![]() I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the beasts called Trollocs invade the town, the group, along with a few other unlikely companions, start a journey that will take them across the continent on their way to find the mysterious Eye of the World, an ancient artifact that could prove the difference in the battle between good and evil. Three young men, Rand, Mat, and Perrin, whose birthdays all fall within a few weeks of one another, are sought out by two strangers, one a beautiful lady named Moraine who is able to use magic, in this world called “the one power.” The other, Moraine’s bodyguard, is a large brute of a man of whom it has been said that he courts death like a lover. Just as The Lord of the Rings started small and simple with The Hobbit, so does The Eye of the World start off with simple beginnings in the small farm town of Emond’s Field in the Two Rivers district. ![]() ![]() Don’t let that fact scare you off, however. In this book series that is literally the truth (there are 2,200 characters). The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, the world is huge, and there is a cast of thousands. The Eye of the World fits squarely into the category of old-school epic fantasy. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.” “The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. ![]() ![]() The boy's sister is in love with a lad who does lucrative jobs for a crime syndicate Signora sees that the crooked becomes straight. The Signora tutors a young failure who begins to percolate in school. He does, and blighted lives begin to bloom. When he was killed in an accident, she returned to Ireland and eventually, as ``Signora,'' came to teach in the evening school that Aidan now hopes to make into a success. ![]() In a remote Sicilian village, Nora had been for years a backstreet love of the man she followed to Italy-a man who'd been forced to marry another. His marriage is loveless, his daughters distant, and he is being bumped as a candidate for a principal's position by a heavy-drinking rouÇ. Heading the list of the forlorn is 48-year-old Aidan, a teacher of Latin who dreams of Italy. Here, the transforming agent is an evening class in Italian taking place in a barracks-like school in a run-down Irish neighborhood. ![]() Binchy (The Copper Beech, 1992, etc.) once again nets a flock of middle- and lower-middle worriers, loners, and groaners, all brooding on their peculiar miseries, until an updraft of love or happy coincidences sets them free. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anansi, now a “web developer” in Tristan’s phone, is close at hand to offer advice, and several new folk heroes will aid Tristan in his quest, but he will only succeed if he can figure out a way to sew broken souls back together. ![]() Tristan must return to Alke–and reunite with his loud-mouthed sidekick, Gum Baby–in order to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation. ![]() But there’s no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge. Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. RICK RIORDAN PRESENTS TRISTAN STRONG Destroys The WorldĪ sequel to Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, featuring characters from African-American folklore.īest-selling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My favourite moments when Amanda re-explores scenes from earlier novels from different viewpoints. I highly suggest reading the novels in the recommended order. Each novel in the series builds upon the last, adding to the world story. Multiple CouplesĮach novel in the series will focuses on a different couple. Amanda does an amazing job of portraying the healing and life of these sensitive topics in an educational and positive light. There are a number of sensitive topics the women were abducted, sold as slaves and prostitutes, dealt with trauma, and there were characters with disabilities such as blindness and missing limbs. There are a few action scenes throughout the novels, however I wouldn’t place this series in the action genre relative to other sci-fi novels. High Amount of Action, Violence and/or Gore 100% ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, sure, except Richard’s controlling tendencies start making themselves known in incremental ways. Seems like normal concerns from a bride-to-be, right? ![]() Is it enough to ruin her post-wedding glow? Not really, but she is afraid of losing touch with her roommate and best friend Samantha once she’s married, and she hopes that won’t happen. Everything seems to be going well, but she keeps getting strange phone calls-mostly heavy breathing from a blocked number. The setup seems simple: Nellie is a young and idealistic pre-K teacher preparing to marry the handsome Richard. ![]() As for the twist itself? It actually surprised me, which is unusual for this jaded reader. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen put a new twist on a very old trope in this fun book. The young, vibrant woman stealing a husband isn’t a new trope, but it sure is a tired one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Determined this time to discover why Erdrich is so revered as a writer, I read on but it wasn’t easy. I tried reading Erdrich’s award winning The Round House but never made it through. Nonetheless, it creates a compelling story. Although framed as a traditional old-world way of compensating for loss, the action is jarring and incredible. The hunter has a 5-year-old son of his own in keeping with the tribe’s tradition, 5-year-old LaRose goes to live with Dusty’s family. ![]() Erdrich creates the inconceivable – trading the hunter’s young son, LaRose, for the dead boy he shot. An Ojibwe man is out hunting for deer and accidentally shoots and kills his best friend’s 5-year-old son, Dusty. National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich makes a horrible incident more tragic in her latest novel of Native American life – LaRose. ![]() |