Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn
Author: 賀川豊彦
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1924
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The agonies of a young Japanese idealist who burning with love for his fellowmen, staggers under the realization of their heart-breaking burdens, and with the stiffening of his spirit which led from dreams to action.

The Beggars' Gift

The Beggars' Gift
Author: Michael A. Corneiller
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161739548X

A tired girl wanders the street. A grungy man rifles through a Dumpster. A weary mom hauls her baby as she begs for food. Nameless and anonymous to those around them, these people are avoided, consistently ignored at best, cruelly mistreated at worst. But each has a name. Each has a past. And each life has meaning. Blinky lost his wife to cancer. Blinded by grief, he forsook his former life. Forgetting the past, he formed a bond with others who are homeless by choice. Pogo defended the woman he loved from an attacker and fled Mexico to avoid retribution. Chazz fought in a war and came home a hollow shell. They had retreated from society and met by chance on the stark streets. A children's book, given to them by a little girl, helps them retrieve, not only their lives, but the desire to make a difference for God's glory. In Michael Corneiller's thought-provoking novel, The Beggars' Gift, it takes all the King's men to seek a solution to the plague of destitution that is taking over Pimlico. The factories are closing, the workers going home, empty and broken, and this dying town's only hope is its outcasts. But one woman continues to give. Maggie Lowell opens a food pantry for the homeless. Asking for help, Maggie looks for ways to provide. For fourteen-year-old Kanie, her compassion means everything. Unwittingly involved with an intimidating robber, Kanie tries to break away while thwarting his old boss. But when he runs to what he thinks is a safe haven, the green house, he discovers a disturbing scheme. A persuasive predator is promising homeless children a better life. Can Kanie escape his new prison? Will The Beggars' Gift revive hope and save Pimlico from the economic depression? God has a plan to resurrect all the King's men, but can they find the missing children and save the entire town?

Essentials of English Grammar

Essentials of English Grammar
Author: Otto Jespersen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-05-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135662118

This book was first published in 1933, Essentials of English Grammar is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

English Farming : Past and Present

English Farming : Past and Present
Author: Rowland E. Prothero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429748728

First published in 1912, this volume presents the sixth edition of Lord Ernle’s study of English farming, updated by Sir A. Daniel Hall in the fifth edition, from the manorial system through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and the Stewarts, to large industrialised farms, the Corn Laws and the Great Depression. Lord Ernle’s volume remains the classic handbook on the subject and will be of use to students, teachers and academics of agricultural studies.

London, Past and Present

London, Past and Present
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1891
Genre: London (England)
ISBN:

Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.

Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots

Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots
Author: Peter Arnade
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501726714

The Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In 1781, John Adams observed that the American Revolution was its "transcript." Known for its many protagonists—King Philip II, the Duke of Alba, the counts of Egmont and Hornes, radical Calvinists, obstreperous townspeople, and William of Orange—the Dutch Revolt brought into relief conflicts among civic freedoms, religious dissent, representative institutions, and royal authority. Drawing on a vast array of sources-including archival documents, political and religious pamphlets, ballads, chronicles and letters, and a rich store of popular prints-Peter Arnade gives us a new history of the core years of the revolt between 1566 and 1585, showing how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action. In Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots, Arnade focuses on the political culture that took shape during the Revolt, a culture that itself fueled decades of turmoil. He sees the pulse of the Revolt in its public dramatization-the acts, words, and cultural representations that were its "daily bread and popular voice." The violent wave of radical iconoclasm that swept the southern Netherlands in 1566 is the book's pivot, setting the stage for the Duke of Alba's brutal effort to restore the authority of the Spanish crown. Arnade details the sieges and violent sacks of Dutch cities by the Army of Flanders, and the response of Dutch rebels, who touted defiant cities as the seats and guarantors of unassailable rights and freedoms. This civic patriotism hailed William of Orange as father of the fatherland, his apotheosis hearkening back to late medieval princely ritual even as it invoked new republican imagery.