Social Science
Land, Sea and Home
Author: John Hines
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000161083
Category: Social Science
Page: 488
View: 440
This book provides a realistic historical and geographical perspective to begin closest to the Scandinavian homelands of Vikings and the Viking ideology and material culture, by looking at new research into aspects of their use of the sea, maritime communications and trade.
Government publications
A Guide to American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky
Author: Patricia A. Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951P00900658X
Category: Government publications
Page: 72
View: 278
Biography & Autobiography
Of Land, Sea and Sky
Author: Malcolm Snook
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781425157593
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 303
View: 357
This is the story, not just of one manOs life, but of many inspirational characters. ItOs a story of growing up rejecting the herd mentality. A story about going your own way, in life, in business, in sport, music and dance. Playing the violin in an East London School, is not the easy route to popularity. Joining an arctic expedition in the school summer break while the other kids hang out on the street, is not the norm. Learning to sail while everyone else kicks balls around, youOve got to know your own mind, early on. Running a parachute club when youOre almost the youngest person there and surrounded by tough military types and competitive skydivers, takes nerve. Becoming, the youngest advanced instructor and chief instructor in the country, a test jumper for BritainOs biggest parachute manufacturer and a display jumper for British Aerospace; these are not things experienced by all skydivers. Racing cars and motorcycles and paying for it all from a salary, sacrificing relationships, a social life and much else besides, just to make it to the starting grid. This is not the story of a Lauda or a Schumaker, but it will inform many a motor-sport enthusiast and advise anyone thinking of taking the plunge. The good and the bad characters one meets in business, from inspiration and mentoring to hypocrisy and politics, itOs all here. Discover business ideas as yet un-tried and the problems associated with taking big ideas to major players. Thinking of starting a business, or taking on a partner? Read and learn from the experiences of this author, donOt do it the hard way. From great highs to suicidal lows, from attempting the conventional, to sailing away and leaving it all behind this book will surprise and inform from first to the last.
Religion
By Land, Sea, and Sky
Author: Morgan Daimler
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780557495122
Category: Religion
Page: 206
View: 639
This book is a selection of modernized, paganized prayers and charms from volumes one and two of Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, intended for use by Druids, Celtic Reconstructionists, or others interested in Celtic spiritulaity. The Carmina Gadelica is a six volume collection of prayers, charms, and folklore from Scotland assembled around 1900 by Alexander Carmichael. This book represents modernized, re-paganized versions of selected prayers and charms from the first two volumes of the series. It is designed to be used by Celtic Polytheists, Druids, or anyone else interested in Celtic Spirituality. All original deity references have been replaced with the names of Irish gods, and the language has been modernized, but otherwise the content has been kept as true to the original as possible.
Juvenile Fiction
Land, Sea and Air
Author: Joann Ellen Sisco
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781496916860
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 102
View: 762
It seemed that Wildwood Village Summer Camp had just about everything about feathers. It was possible to look up, around and down. Feathers everywhere. Looking up would be the way to see a bird with tail feathers longer than his body, a bird with bad manners, and also one hardly bigger than a pinkie finger. Looking around, it is possible to see them swimming, or scratching in the ground for something too small to see. There were feathers in every direction, especially when Shang, the rooster, decided to fight with Screamer, the peacock, and it was unlikely that either of them knew what the fight was about!
History
Wales and the Britons, 350-1064
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198217312
Category: History
Page: 816
View: 213
The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.
Political Science
Land, Sea or Air?
Author: Michael D. Hobkirk
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781349220113
Category: Political Science
Page: 208
View: 399
Throughout history many nations have had to make hard choices between a land and a maritime strategy. This study covers the history of such choices, beginning with the Persian invasion of Greece in 490BC and ending with the many and various choices facing the Western world in the aftermath of the Cold War. If many wars of the past are now seen as the outcome of maritime/land strategies, the lessons learned from them and discussed in this book can provide some answers to those who have to consider wars of the future.
Travel
Of Land, Sea & Sky
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781387832521
Category: Travel
Page: 146
View: 298
A dip-into book for the bedside table, the beach or the morning train. A collection of travel and expat living experiences, observations of diverse characters, many of them unusual, many of them stubborn or eccentric and yet lovable. A book of alternative definitions and hilarious jots - eg. 'You have no idea how much it cost to keep the old man in poverty' - Mountbatten talking about Gandhi, or, 'Two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm' Thomas Beecham commenting on the harpsichord. Much more seriously, a book describing the unnecessary hardship and oppression suffered by the ordinary people of Iraq during the 'era' of Saddam Hussein, and the murderous acts of an army captain on the last day of Iraqi occupation in Kuwait.
History
War by Land, Sea, and Air
Author: David Jablonsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300155686
Category: History
Page: 401
View: 698
In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower’s efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military—a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower’s presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower’s approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.
Education
Land Education
Author: Kate McCoy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317329602
Category: Education
Page: 156
View: 344
This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the specifics of geography and community matter for how environmental education can be engaged. This edited volume suggests how place-based pedagogies can respond to issues of colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty. Through dynamic new empirical and conceptual studies, international contributors examine settler colonialism, Indigenous cosmologies, Indigenous land rights, and language as key aspects of Land Education. The book invites readers to rethink 'pedagogies of place' from various Indigenous, postcolonial, and decolonizing perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.
Caribbean Area
Sea and Land
Author: Harry C Black Professor of History Philip J Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197555446
Category: Caribbean Area
Page: 465
View: 790
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and as far away as Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to the region and the environmental transformations that followed. It then turns to the even more dramatic changes that accompanied the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the fifteenth century. Throughout it argues that the constant arrival, dispersal, and mingling of new plants and animals gave rise to a creole ecology. Particular attention is given to the emergence of Black slavery, sugarcane, and the plantation system, an unholy trinity that thoroughly transformed the region's demographic and physical landscapes and made the Caribbean a vital site in the creation of the modern western world. Increased attention to issues concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate have now made the environment and ecology of the Caribbean a central historical concern. Sea and Land is an effort to integrate that research in a new general environmental history of the region. Intended for scholars and students alike, it aims to foster both a fuller appreciation of the extent to which environmental factors shaped historical developments in the Caribbean, and the extent to which human actions have transformed the biophysical environment of the region over time. The combined work of eminent authors of environment and Latin American and Caribbean history, Sea and Land offers a unique approach to a region characterized by Edenic nature and paradisiacal qualities, as well as dangers, diseases, and disasters.
Dayton (Oh.)
History of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Author: J. C. Gobrecht
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:32044020480711
Category: Dayton (Oh.)
Page: 302
View: 165
