Facing The Flag
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Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726506033 |
‘Facing the Flag’ is one of the stories that cemented Verne’s reputation as one of the pioneers of science-fiction. It centres around a brilliant scientist, Thomas Roch, who has invented the ultimate weapon, known as ‘The Fulgurator.’ However, when his creation is refused by every government on Earth, Roch’s sanity begins to crumble. Interning him to a mental health facility ought to be the end of the tale. However, Verne throws in some twists and turns, a liberal sprinkling of pirates, and an underground lair that wouldn’t look out of place in a James Bond film. A prescient book, many of Verne’s predictions, in terms of technology and moral scruples, have come to pass. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who became known as the ‘Father of Science Fiction.’ He wrote more than 60 novels, including ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ (1864), ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (1870) which was also released as a film, starring James Mason, and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873), which has been released as a TV drama, featuring former Dr Who star, David Tennant.
Author | : Bill McKibben |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1250823595 |
One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing—knowing—that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang “Kumbaya” at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth—The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon—could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.
Author | : K. Michael Prince |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570035272 |
The definitive history of South Carolina's Confederate flag controversy and 2005 finalist for Popular Culture Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine.
Author | : Sarah L. Thomson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2003-06-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0060504161 |
"Stars and Stripes" celebrates the history and symbolism of the flag. Full color.
Author | : United States |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Communication |
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Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-07-11 |
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Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages extraordinaires series.
Author | : Linwood Taft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Community theater |
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"He offers this volume as a contribution towards building up and extending community interests, with the hope that it may be of value to those communities that are seeking some worthy expression of the life of their communities through the celebration of anniversaries of which they are proud and which they wish to commemorate." -- Preface.
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Federal Charters, Holidays, and Celebrations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Flags |
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