Iuniverse sep 2003 (4 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A tender but insightful true history of what makes the alumni of the University of Maryland, Munich Campus so special. This sequel to Bavarian Crème continues to be occasionally outrageous, sometimes hilarious, but always entertaining.Like its (younger) sister campuses in Augsburg and Mannheim, UMMC was a magical place created under unique circumstances. In 2004, after a 54-year tradition, the last of these extraordinary two-year residential campuses will fade away into history. Everyone affiliated with the University of Maryland overseas can't help but to have come away from the experience uniquely tied to a special group like no other. These are some of their stories.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In All My Born Days -- Stories by a Sharecropper's Son, a historical autobiography, Kenneth R. Shipe looks back on his early life in the poverty-stricken hills of West Virginia, and recalls how his parents struggled during the Depression to scratch a living from the soil for a family of ten. He tells how a New Deal farm loan made it possible for his father to work as a sharecropper in Maryland and describes the primitive processes the Shipe family used for growing and harvesting crops, butchering animals and preserving meat.The Shipes were ruled by the forces of nature: bitter cold winters; a flood that washed over their West Virginia home; and a forest fire that surrounded their house in Maryland and had Ken and his family flat on their bellies, gasping for breath. Ken remembers humorous incidents from his days in a country schoolhouse, and how he almost lost his life when his new bicycle ran off a mountain road. And he writes about World War II, which snatched up his brothers and critical farm helpers, leading to failure of the Shipes' sharecropping venture and subsequently his own call to duty as a Marine in the Korean War.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Luz Stella wanted the world to be a better place. When she found it to be otherwise, she did not hesitate to do all in her power to change it. Bismark Pacheco was there to do his part--to save the world, and to save Luz Stella. Or was it the other way around When Pacheco loses his passport in a desperate deep water escape from a Cape Canaveral Cruise ship, the two seek help in Birmingham from their old friend Wilson Abut. The former quarterback, now a journalist, stirs the pot with his column Abut To You. Bubba Driver, the mammoth defensive tackle, runs interference. Eighty-year-old Dr. Helene Stern dodges terrorists who would destroy her Health First Clinic, and provides comfort to Siboney, the Latin beauty and unapologetic revolutionary. All are arrayed against the steely-eyed Bobby Sanchez who wants to bring down anything and anyone who would stand for an orderly world. This is Luz Stella's Tale.…