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Dew Of Death

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Author : Joel A. Vilensky
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-07

Dew Of Death written by Joel A. Vilensky and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-07 with History categories.

"Dr. Vilensky raises important concerns regarding the threats posed by lewisite and other weapons of mass destruction. As he describes, non-proliferation programs are a vital component in the War on Terror." -- Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator "Joel Vilensky's book is a detailed and immensely useful account of the development and history of one of the major chemical weapons.... We will always know how to make lewisite, the 'Dew of Death,' but that does not mean that we should, or be compelled to accept such weapons in our lives." -- from the Foreword by Richard Butler, former head of UN Special Commission to Disarm Iraq In 1919, when the Great War was over, the New York Times reported on a new chemical weapon with "the fragrance of geranium blossoms," a poison gas that was "the climax of this country's achievements in the lethal arts." The name of this substance was lewisite and this is its story -- the story of an American weapon of mass destruction. Discovered by accident by a graduate student and priest in a chemistry laboratory at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., lewisite was developed into a weapon by Winford Lewis, who became its namesake, working with a team led by James Conant, later president of Harvard and head of government oversight for the U.S.'s atomic bomb program, the Manhattan Project. After a powerful German counterattack in the spring of 1918, the government began frantic production of lewisite in hopes of delivering 3,000 tons of the stuff to be ready for use in Europe the following year. The end of war came just as the first shipment was being prepared. It was dumped into the sea, but not forgotten. Joel A. Vilensky tells the intriguing story of the discovery and development of lewisite and its curious history. During World War II, the United States produced more than 20,000 tons of lewisite, testing it on soldiers and secretly dropping it from airplanes. In the end, the substance was abandoned as a weapon because it was too unstable under most combat conditions. But a weapon once discovered never disappears. It was used by Japan in Manchuria and by Iraq in its war with Iran. The Soviet Union was once a major manufacturer. Strangely enough, although it was developed for lethal purposes, lewisite led to an effective treatment for a rare neurological disease.

The Foggy Foggy Dew

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Author : Charity Blackstock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959

The Foggy Foggy Dew written by Charity Blackstock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Bible categories.

Dale Loves Sophie To Death

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Author : Robb Forman Dew
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2008-12-14

Dale Loves Sophie To Death written by Robb Forman Dew and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-14 with Fiction categories.

Robb Forman Dew's cult first novel explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells the story of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown.

Dust Or Dew

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Author : Janet Smith
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke
Release Date : 2012

Dust Or Dew written by Janet Smith and has been published by James Clarke this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.

Dust or Dew addresses the question of Israel's unique contribution to beliefs about afterlife in the Ancient Near East as hinted at in Psalm 49. Dust or Dew shows which other readings, from the literature of both ancient Israel and its neighbours, enriches our understanding not only of the psalm but also of Israel's developing concepts of sheol and redemption for the righteous.

An Essay On Dew

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Author : William Charles Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839

An Essay On Dew written by William Charles Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Animal magnetism categories.

The Dew Breaker

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Author : Edwidge Danticat
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18

The Dew Breaker written by Edwidge Danticat and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.

We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light.

The Dew Drop Ed By J K

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Author : J. K
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848

The Dew Drop Ed By J K written by J. K and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.

The Truth Of The Matter

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Author : Robb Forman Dew
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2008-12-21

The Truth Of The Matter written by Robb Forman Dew and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-21 with Fiction categories.

From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

Masters Of The Dew

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Author : Jacques Roumain
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1978

Masters Of The Dew written by Jacques Roumain and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Africa categories.

This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.

The Art Of Death

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Author : Edwidge Danticat
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2017-07-11

The Art Of Death written by Edwidge Danticat and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her introduction. “I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.” The book moves outward from the shock of her mother’s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat’s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison’s Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat’s mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.