Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments of incandescent transformation. These poems remind us to behold the extraordinary in the ordinary, and that the secret workings of the divine occur even through the difficult: "the painful paring of your hollow bones has made you light." Drawing on the beauty of the natural world, the devastating effects of drought and wildfires, tender moments of daily experience, and lessons of the saints, the poet creates a landscape of light and darkness, with unexpected turns into divine presence and absence. Through a spiral of red-tailed hawks, the nest of a mourning dove, the parting of waters, and the ripeness of a persimmon, this shimmering collection invites the reader to singular and transfiguring flight. Litany of Flights (from the forthcoming collection) First, the winged movement, steady, forward. Scrub jays in flitting progress, hawks in predator glide, a ringing up, a knife-sharp slope down. Second, the effortless type, wind-splayed, motionless pinions in thermal recline, as the Psalmist says, blessings breeze his love even in sleep. Third, the hungry, against the gale, the destination singular and the sun dipping crimson. Fourth, the metallic, business or pleasure. Fifth, the whirring kind, all hummingbird. A picnic, apples and chocolate in the garden with roses, both flower and child. You miss it when it's gone. Sixth, a baffling flight of stairs, winding upward, passage and yet vehicle, spiraling to unseen landings—hope courses in the kaleidoscopic lights. Seventh, soar to the sun. Eighth, melt in bitter hubris. You know the story. Ninth, escape. A flight out of Egypt, a path through the sea cleared by divine hand. The times you ran, the times you were left behind in lament. Tenth, only rotting in the belly of a whale tames your stubborn turn from Nineveh. Eleventh, flights of despair and of yearning, two sides of one letting go, hard-earned release back into the wild, unbound by expectation, featherlike. Twelfth, in a moment, caught up high by the Beloved, the one making all things work together, wings, body, arch, air—caught up, like the Shulamite bride, to regions beyond aeronautical wisdom, transported in joy. See, he says, the painful paring of your hollow bones has made you light.
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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides 2001 paperback. USA WW2 Bataan Prisoners Of War Rescue. Very good condition. A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite US Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of the Bataan Death March left in the camp.
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What happens when trust is poisoned by jealousy? Othello is one of William Shakespeare's most powerful and emotionally devastating tragedies. Set against the backdrop of war and political intrigue, the play tells the story of Othello, a respected general whose deep love for his wife Desdemona is slowly destroyed by deception and doubt. At the center of the drama is Iago, one of literature's most chilling villains, whose calculated lies manipulate emotions and unravel lives. As suspicion replaces reason, Shakespeare exposes how jealousy, insecurity, and racism can corrupt judgment and lead to irreversible tragedy. This timeless play explores love, honor, betrayal, and the destructive power of false belief. Inside this eBook, you'll experience: A gripping psychological tragedy driven by manipulation One of Shakespeare's most complex heroes and villains Themes of jealousy, trust, and moral collapse A haunting examination of human vulnerability Widely studied and performed across the world, Othello remains essential reading for anyone interested in classic drama and the darker sides of human nature. Witness the tragedy born from deception. Buy now and experience one of Shakespeare's most intense plays.
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The Defenders is a 1953 science fiction novelette by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel. The story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. In 1956, the story was adapted for the radio program X Minus One by George Lefferts. Eight years ago a nuclear war began between the United States and the Soviet Union. American survivors evacuated to gigantic bunkers miles under ground. Sophisticated, radioactivity-immune robots called "leadys" continue fighting the war on the devastated surface that is far too dangerous for humans. The Soviets have similarly evacuated underground, and each side builds powerful weapons and vehicles for the remote-controlled war they only see from film that the robots deliver. The security department asks Taylor, an American war planner, to observe the interrogation of a leady regarding the progress of the war. Although the robot reports that lethal radioactivity and sophisticated new Soviet weapons continue to make the surface dangerous for humans, the observers find that the leady is not radioactive. Taylor learns that this is the second such robot the security department has found; it assigns him to an expedition, wearing lead suits, to investigate the truth about surface conditions. Taylor's group surprises the leadys at the surface and demands to see the outside. Although the robots attempt to delay the humans as long as possible, the group discovers outside the bunker an undamaged valley with forests, animals, and a farm. The leadys reveal that the war ended as soon as the humans evacuated because the robots could not see a rational purpose for it. Analyzing history, they found that groups of humans warred with each other until they matured to overcome conflict. Humanity is almost ready for a single culture, the current worldwide division into American and Soviet sides being the final step.
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Author: Hampton Sides. Title: Ghost Soldiers. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2002. Item Weight: 352g. Item Width: 19mm. Topic: Military History. Genre: History.
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The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide their needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge. The two main characters, Vashti and her son Kuno, live on opposite sides of the world. Vashti is content with her life, which, like most inhabitants of the world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas'. Kuno, however, is a sensualist and a rebel. He persuades a reluctant Vashti to endure the journey (and the resultant unwelcome personal interaction) to his room. There, he tells her of his disenchantment with the sanitised, mechanical world. He confides to her that he has visited the surface of the Earth without permission, and that he saw other humans living outside the world of the Machine. However, the Machine recaptured him, and he has been threatened with 'Homelessness', that is, expulsion from the underground environment and presumed death.
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Author: Hampton Sides. Title: Ghost Soldiers. Topic: Military History. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Item Height: 203mm. Condition: New.
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<div> <div> <p>William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their surprise endings.</p> <p>He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. </p> </div> <div> A collection of Short Storys by William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) <div> <br> </div> <div> <div> THE TRIMMED LAMP </div> <div> A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT </div> <div> THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL </div> <div> THE PENDULUM </div> <div> TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN </div> <div> THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS </div> <div> THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY </div> <div> THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON </div> <div> BRICKDUST ROW </div> <div> THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER </div> <div> VANITY AND SOME SABLES </div> <div> THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE </div> <div> THE PURPLE DRESS </div> <div> THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99 </div> <div> THE LOST BLEND </div> <div> A HARLEM TRAGEDY </div> <div> "THE GUILTY PARTY" </div> <div> ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS </div> <div> A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM </div> <div> THE LAST LEAF </div> <div> THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST </div> <div> THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION </div> <div> THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT </div> <div> THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER </div> <div> ELSIE IN NEW YORK </div> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <b>THE<br> TRIMMED LAMP (excerpt)</b> <br> <p>Of course there are two sides to the question. Let<br> us look at the other. We often hear "shop-girls" spoken of.<br> No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make<br> their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an<br> adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on<br> Fifth Avenue as "marriage-girls."</p> <br> <p>Lo...
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Iran's relationship with nuclear technology began not with defiance but with American encouragement. Under the Shah, the United States actively supported Tehran's nuclear program as part of its Cold War strategy in the region. Decades later, that same program became the centerpiece of one of the most consequential diplomatic standoffs of the modern era. Iran's Nuclear Path traces this full arc—from the Atoms for Peace initiative of the 1950s through the Islamic Revolution, the secret enrichment programs, the IAEA inspections, and the successive rounds of international sanctions that reshaped the Iranian economy and its place in the world. Drawing on declassified diplomatic cables, treaty records, IAEA documentation, and firsthand accounts from negotiators and analysts, each chapter examines a distinct phase of Iran's nuclear history. The book does not argue for or against any nation's position. Instead, it reconstructs how decisions were made, what information policymakers had, and how domestic politics on all sides shaped outcomes that continue to define the region today. The result is a rigorous, balanced account of how a single technology became the fulcrum of Middle Eastern geopolitics—and why the question of Iran's nuclear future remains unresolved. For readers seeking to understand one of the defining strategic tensions of our time, this is an indispensable historical record.
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Author: Hampton Sides. Title: Ghost Soldiers. Format: CD. Type: Leaders & Notable People. Item Weight: 147g. Item Width: 28mm. Item Length: 129mm. Item Height: 150mm.
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The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated territories on earth, and one of the least understood. Decades of conflict, competing nationalisms, and geopolitical interference have produced a humanitarian crisis that continues to deepen—yet public discourse often reduces it to headlines stripped of historical context. Gaza Chronicles sets out to restore that context, tracing the roots of the present conflict through the twentieth century's most consequential territorial disputes. This book draws on documentary records, eyewitness testimony, UN reports, and investigative journalism to examine how Gaza became what it is today: a territory shaped by the 1948 displacement, the 1967 occupation, successive blockades, and recurring military escalations. Each chapter examines a distinct layer of the crisis—political, legal, humanitarian, and human—without reducing complex realities to simple narratives of blame. At its core, Gaza Chronicles is a history of ordinary people caught inside extraordinary institutional failures. It examines how international law has been applied and evaded, how aid systems have functioned and collapsed, and how civilian populations on multiple sides have borne the cost of decisions made far above them. For readers seeking honest historical understanding over partisan positioning, this book offers an essential foundation.
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Title: Hellhound on his Trail. Author: Hampton Sides. Subtitle: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin. Format: Paperback. Type: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB.
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Few conflicts in modern history have generated more commentary and less genuine historical understanding than the struggle over Palestine and Israel. Behind the daily headlines lies a layered, century-long record of competing nationalisms, colonial decisions, broken agreements, and civilian populations repeatedly sacrificed to geopolitical calculation. Endless Conflict begins where understanding must begin—with the late Ottoman period, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and the competing promises made by European powers to Arab and Jewish communities whose aspirations were never genuinely reconciled. Drawing on British Mandate archives, UN partition records, diplomatic correspondence, and the testimony of displaced communities on both sides, each chapter examines a distinct turning point: the 1948 Nakba and Israeli War of Independence, the 1967 occupation and its territorial consequences, the Oslo Accords and their structural limitations, and the successive cycles of violence that have defined the decades since. The book treats neither population as a monolith and neither leadership as a reliable representative of the people living with the consequences of its decisions. The final section examines the international legal framework that governs—or fails to govern—the conflict: UN resolutions systematically unenforced, ICC proceedings contested, and humanitarian obligations observed selectively by all parties with the power to act. Endless Conflict is not an argument for any political outcome. It is a rigorous historical examination of how this conflict was made, how it has been sustained, and what the documentary record reveals about why every proposed resolution has so far fallen short of peace.
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This book is in good condition with some stains on the pages as shown.
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