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- 2012-07
- in Fiction
- William P. Bekkala
City of Seven Rivers
Author: William P. Bekkala
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 369
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Ethan Hurley, a young boy living next to an eccentric and reclusive neighbor, begins to suspect that his neighbor is hiding his true identity. Ethan believes his neighbor is actually Arden Hennessey, the bombardier on the Enola Gay and the man who dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II-- even though all accounts say Hennessey, racked with his guilt, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge on the 10th anniversary of the bombing.
- 2012-11-15
- in History
- Sanjeev Sanyal
Land of seven rivers
History of India's Geography
Author: Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 278
View: 651
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DID THE GREAT FLOOD OF INDIAN LEGEND ACTUALLY HAPPEN? WHY DID THE BUDDHA WALK TO SARNATH TO GIVE HIS FIRST SERMON? HOW DID THE EUROPEANS MAP INDIA? The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? Why was the world’s highest mountain named after George Everest? Moving from the geological beginnings of the subcontinent to present-day Gurgaon, Land of the Seven Rivers is riveting, wry and full of surprises. It is the most entertaining history of India you will ever read.
- 2017-11-28
- in Juvenile Nonfiction
- Sanjeev Sanyal
The Incredible History of India's Geography
Author: Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 264
View: 115
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Could you be related to a blonde Lithuanian? Did you know that India is the only country that has both lions and tigers? Who found out how tall Mt Everest is? If you've ever wanted to know the answers to questions like these, this is the book for you. In here you will find various things you never expected, such as the fact that we still greet each other like the Harappans did and that people used to think India was full of one-eyed giants. And, sneakily, you'll also know more about India's history and geography by the end of it. Full of quirky pictures and crazy trivia, this book takes you on a fantastic journey through the incredible history of India's geography.
- 2003-08
- in Friendship
- Edward Hoagland
Seven Rivers West
Author: Edward Hoagland
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN:
Category: Friendship
Page: 0
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A fantastic Western romp by one of America's finest writers.
- 1996-11-04
- in Drama
- Robert Lepage
Seven Streams Of The River Ota
Author: Robert Lepage
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN:
Category: Drama
Page: 121
View: 742
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"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" (Independent on Sunday) Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is striking: the city where survival itself seemed unimaginable today incarnates the notion of renaissance. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's The Seven Streams of the River Ota makes Hiroshima a literal and metaphoric site for theatrical journey through the last half-century. In The Seven Streams, Hiroshima is a mirror in which seeming opposites - East and West, tragedy and comedy, male and female, life and death - are revealed as reflections of the same reality.
- 2012-05-20
- in History
- Stéphane Castonguay
Urban Rivers
Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America
Author: Stéphane Castonguay
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 293
View: 287
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in floodplains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interacted from the seventeenth century to the present. Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes away from population centers. In many cases, potable water for cities now had to be drawn from distant sites. These developments required significant infrastructural improvements, creating social conflicts over land jurisdiction and affecting the lives and livelihood of nonurban populations. The effective reach of cities extended and urban space was remade. By the mid-twentieth century, new technologies and specialists emerged to combat the effects of industrialization. Gradually, the health of urban rivers improved. From protoindustrial fisheries, mills, and transportation networks, through industrial hydroelectric plants and sewage systems, to postindustrial reclamation and recreational use, Urban Rivers documents how Western societies dealt with the needs of mass populations while maintaining the viability of their natural resources. The lessons drawn from this study will be particularly relevant to today's emerging urban economies situated along rivers and waterways.
- 2007-04-01
- in Fiction
- Harry Turtledove
Between the Rivers
Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 415
View: 316
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At the sun-drenched dawn of human history, in the great plain between the two great rivers, are the cities of men. And each city is ruled by its god. But the god of the city of Gibil is lazy and has let the men of his city develop the habit of thinking for themselves. Now the men of Gibil have begun to devise arithmetic, and commerce, and are sending expeditions to trade with other lands. They're starting to think that perhaps men needn't always be subject to the whims of gods. This has the other god worried. And well they might be...because human cleverness, once awakened, isn't likely to be easily squelched.
- 2017-09-30
- in Biography & Autobiography
- Tanya Talaga
Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Author: Tanya Talaga
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN:
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 311
View: 106
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Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
- 2020-06-23
- in History
- John Hersey
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 210
View: 718
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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
- 2013-03-26
- in Religion
- Diana L Eck
India
A Sacred Geography
Author: Diana L Eck
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN:
Category: Religion
Page: 578
View: 700
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A spiritual history of the world's most religiously complex and diverse society, from one of Harvard's most respected scholars. India: A Sacred Geography is the culmination of more than a decade's work from the renowned Harvard scholar Diana L. Eck. The book explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this rich and profound place, as well as providing a basic introduction to Hindu religious ideas and how those ideas influence our understanding of the modern sense of "India" as a nation.
