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The Far Reaches

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Author : Homer Hickam
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-06-12

The Far Reaches written by Homer Hickam and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-12 with Fiction categories.

The year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy begins the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But nothing goes as planned as young Americans go up against fanatical defenders, who revel in snipers, big guns, and human wave attacks from which there is no escape save death. As blood colors the waters around Tarawa, Josh flounders ashore through a floating graveyard of dead men and joins the survivors, determined to somehow wrest victory from disaster. Critically wounded, ,Josh expects to die. Instead, he is spun off on one of his greatest adventures when Sister Mary Kathleen, a young Irish nun, nurses him back to health, then shanghais Josh, sidekick Bosun Ready O'Neal, and three American marines to a group of beautiful tropical islands invaded by a brutal Japanese warlord. Josh and his little band must decide whether to help the Sister fight the battle she demands, return to Tarawa and the "real" war, or settle down in the romantic splendor of the South Seas. Hickam expertly weaves the adventures of these hot-blooded characters tighter and tighter until the Sister's secrets and sins are finally revealed during a horrific battle in the lair of the warlord. With an incredible eye for historical detail and the talent of a master storyteller, Homer Hickam delivers another tour de force.

At The Far Reaches Of Empire

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Author : Freeman M. Tovell
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01

At The Far Reaches Of Empire written by Freeman M. Tovell and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic resolution to the Nootka Sound controversy between Spain and Britain. Freeman Tovell’s thorough and nuanced study presents this officer as a key figure in the history of the region. Bodega's accomplishments place him in the company of Bering, Cook, Vancouver, La Pérouse, and Malaspina – those who advanced a better understanding of the geography, ethnography, and natural history of the area.

The Far Reaches

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Author : Michael D Gubser
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-30

The Far Reaches written by Michael D Gubser and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with Philosophy categories.

“By restoring morality to phenomenology, and phenomenology to East European politics, Gubser has rewritten the intellectual history of the twentieth century.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining the status of values; it also called on philosophy to renew European societies facing crisis, an aim that inspired thinkers in interwar Europe as well as later communist bloc dissidents. Despite this legacy, phenomenology continues to be largely discounted as esoteric and solipsistic, the last gasp of a Cartesian dream to base knowledge on the isolated rational mind. Intellectual histories tend to cite Husserl’s epistemological influence on philosophies like existentialism and deconstruction without considering his social or ethical imprint. And while a few recent scholars have begun to note phenomenology’s wider ethical resonance, especially in French social thought, its image as stubbornly academic continues to hold sway. The Far Reaches challenges that image by tracing the first history of phenomenological ethics and social thought in Central Europe, from its founders Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl through its reception in East Central Europe by dissident thinkers such as Jan Patocka, Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), and Václav Havel. “In his fascinating and elegantly written book, Michael Gubser leads us away from intellectual history’s traditional stomping grounds in France, Germany, and the United States, and focuses on the understudied Eastern bloc.” —Edward Baring, Modern Intellectual History

The Far Reaches

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Author : Larry Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-06-10

The Far Reaches written by Larry Kennedy and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Fiction categories.

A lone spacecraft finds a derelict space vessel and finds a mystery aboard that, after the Earths destruction, will have far-reaching consequences.

The Far Reaches Of Empire

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Author : John Grenier
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22

The Far Reaches Of Empire written by John Grenier and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with History categories.

The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every remnant of Acadian, Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia. The author demonstrates the importance of warfare in the Anglo-French competition for North America, showing especially how Anglo-Americans used brutal but effective measures to wrest control of Nova Scotia from French and Indian enemies who were no less ruthless. He explores the influence of Abenakis, Maliseets, and Mi’kmaq in shaping the region’s history, revealing them to be more than the supposed pawns of outsiders; and he describes the machinations of French officials, military officers, and Catholic priests in stirring up resistance. Arguing that the Acadians were not merely helpless victims of ethnic cleansing, Grenier shows that individual actions and larger forces of history influenced the decision to remove them. The Far Reaches of Empire illuminates the primacy of war in establishing British supremacy in northeastern North America.

To The Far Reaches

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Author : Scott Rayner
language : en
Publisher: Dantriné Saga
Release Date : 2019-02-16

To The Far Reaches written by Scott Rayner and has been published by Dantriné Saga this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-16 with Fiction categories.

The Dantriné Saga continues. Each rider Dell pulls from the Salt Road bears the same missive: Salt Bridge down. Bart Molden freed the insurgent. The party travels with the wizard Ortello. Kill all but the prince. Our strange collective are pushed and pursued to the Far Reaches as they prepare for the coming war against the dark lord Zenzel; to the home of the fearsome Uderlites, to the council of the cats, and across the pirate-infested waters of the Green Sea. The great wizard Ortello has a test for all, but perhaps none surpasses his own; keeping his apprentice safe from the threat of Zenzel while teaching him the magic he desperately needs to know.To The Far Reaches is the second novel in the Dantriné Saga, following Escape from Dantriné.

The Far Reaches Session One

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Author : W. Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-12

The Far Reaches Session One written by W. Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with categories.

Star cruisers, strange creatures, and bounty hunters are all common sight at the fringe of human-colonized space. The sector known as The Far Reaches has been torn asunder by an ongoing civil war that threatens to dissolve the stability and freedom needed to survive in the cosmic wilds. A seasoned Naval Officer and her most trusted Marine Captain search for a mysterious sympathizer of the enemy while two desperate scoundrels seek out the same man's treasure. Both parties buckle under the growing pressure of the conflict as their paths collide and the shadow of a greater threat casts itself across their fractured home.The Far Reaches: A Feeling Like Fear is the first entry in the Sci-Fi/Adventure novella series by author W.R. Bailey and the first step into a fun world, filled with memorable characters and exciting adventure.