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Whittled Away
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Author : Padraic Fogarty
language : en
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Whittled Away written by Padraic Fogarty and has been published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Nature categories.
'Ireland's heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.' Irish Government Report, June 1969 Nature in Ireland is disappearing at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast shoals of herring, rivers bursting with salmon, and bogs alive with flocks of curlew and geese have all become folk memories. Coastal and rural communities are struggling to survive; the foundations of our tourism and agricultural sectors are being undermined. The lack of political engagement frequently sees the state in the European Court of Justice for environmental issues. Pádraic Fogarty authoritatively charts how this grim failure to manage our natural resources has impoverished our country. But all is not lost: he also reveals possibilities for the future, describing how we can fill our seas with fish, farm in tune with nature, and create forests that benefit both people and wildlife. He makes a persuasive case for the return of long-lost species like wild boar, cranes and wolves, showing how the interests of the country and its nature can be reconciled. A provocative call to arms, Whittled Away presents an alternative path that could lead us all to a brighter future.
Whittled Away
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Author : Philip McBride
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06-19
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The novel Whittled Away is the tale of Corporal Bain Gill and Private Jesús McDonald. In 1862, Bain and Jesús enlist in the Confederate army in San Antonio, Texas, joining fifty-six other Texans as soldiers in the Alamo Rifles-Company K of the Sixth Texas Infantry regiment. The two young friends, not yet twenty when they put on their first uniforms, grew up on ranches on the western edge of civilization, herding stubborn longhorns and always wary of Comanche raiders and rattlesnakes. Naïve, as are new soldiers everywhere, they come of age during the next three years, far from home, experiencing the hardships and horrors of men in combat.This is a story of soldiering, friendship and loss during America's nightmare, the Civil War. For Bain and Jesús it begins with marching to central Arkansas. There, at a river fort called Arkansas Post they endure their first frightful artillery barrage, but also learn first-hand a lesson that in the years ahead will confound the generals of both armies: Soldiers in trenches and behind breastworks usually survive and prevail. But facing a Union force of over 30,000 infantry and several armored gunboats, there is a mass surrender of the 4,000 Rebel defenders of Arkansas Post. Capture leads to a freezing boat ride upriver to prison camp where deprivation, brutality, and disease take a heavy toll. So concludes Part I of Whittled Away, setting the stage for two more years of war.After a short time in prison camp, the Confederates captured at Arkansas Post are part of a prisoner exchange. The Texans are moved by Union trains to Richmond, Virginia, ready to again take up arms for the Confederacy. General Lee is beating the Union army in Virginia, but the men of the Alamo Rifles find that no general wants to accept men who surrendered in their first battle. The survivors of Arkansas Post and prison camp are put on Confederate trains and sent to Tennessee, assigned to an army that has not been victorious. Even there, only one general, Patrick Cleburne, an Irish immigrant from Arkansas, is willing to accept the Arkansas Post veterans. During the next seven months, the Alamo Rifles redeem their stained reputations fighting in three major battles without faltering, even when the rest of the army is in retreat.Part 3 finds Bain and Jesús in Georgia in late spring of 1864 about to begin three months of ongoing fighting during the Atlanta Campaign. All summer the days are marked by brutal weather, ceaseless hardships, and death. The surviving men from San Antonio are being whittled away and there are no replacements. The Confederate well is running dry of men and supplies. Atlanta falls after three intense battles in which the new Confederate commander, General John B. Hood, tries to regain the initiative. He orders his troops out of their defensive breastworks and takes the fight to the huge Union army in aggressive, but futile, attacks. Even more of the men from San Antonio are lost.In Part 4, in the closing months of 1864, General Hood leads his shrunken army back into Tennessee. The handful of men remaining in the Alamo Rifles are among the 20,000 Confederates -more Rebels than were in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg - who are ordered forward to take the Union breastworks at Franklin. Here, Bain and Jesús are in the middle of the attack that wrecks their army. Two weeks later, the survivors of Franklin fight in bitter cold at Nashville in a last vain attempt to win in Tennessee. Whittled Away is grass-roots American military fiction, a thin slice of a vast war, seen through the eyes of a handful of young men who are not very reflective, not particularly brave, nor intentionally heroic. Mostly they carry on and make do, trying to do their duty and one day make it home.
The Embodiment Of Knowledge
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Author : William Carlos Williams
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1974
The Embodiment Of Knowledge written by William Carlos Williams and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Literary Criticism categories.
WCW, The Embodiment of Knowledge. Early essays.
Whittled People
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Author : allan lloyd trott
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Coast Guard Authorization And Oversight
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Coast Guard Authorization And Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with United States categories.
Household Reading
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Household Reading written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Religious literature categories.
The Rebellion Record
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Author : Frank Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
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Mapping Parameters Of Meaning
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Author : Martine Sekali
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
Mapping Parameters Of Meaning written by Martine Sekali and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Mapping Parameters of Meaning, an event organized by the GReG (Groupe de Réflexion sur les Grammaires) linguistics research group in the Language Department of the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre on November 19–20, 2010. The book addresses the description of meaning construction processes, and the necessity for new linguistic interface-tools to analyze it in its dynamic and multi-dimensional aspect. Syntax, grammar, prosody, discourse organization, subjective and situational filters are not considered as autonomous systems; on the contrary, they are shown to systematically converge in the process of meaning construction and interpretation. The notion of context is discussed throughout the volume, a major concern being to try and define the precise nature of the link between variable contextual parameters and stable linguistic systems. The book will be of value to anyone interested in the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in the gradual construction and interpretation of meaning in natural languages, including researchers, students and scholars of formal linguistics, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis.
Parliamentary Debates
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Author : Victoria. Parliament
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Administration Of Criminal Justice
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Administration Of Criminal Justice written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Criminal justice, Administration of categories.