A Hundred And One Days

2015-02-05
 |  History
A Hundred And One Days

Author: Asne Seierstad

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9780349006956

Category: History

Page: 336

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A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL In January 2003 Åsne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent. An award-winning writer, Seierstad brilliantly details the frustrations and dangers journalists faced trying to uncover the truth behind the all-pervasive propaganda. She also offers a unique portrait of Baghdad and its people, trying to go about their daily business under the constant threat of attack. Seierstad's passionate and erudite book conveys both the drama and the tragedy of her one hundred and one days in a city at war. 'Åsne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding

One Hundred Twenty-One Days

2016-04-25
 |  Fiction
One Hundred Twenty-One Days

Author: Michèle Audin

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

ISBN: 9781941920336

Category: Fiction

Page: 200

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"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."—Le Temps This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter—at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary—locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience. Michèle Audin is the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.

One Hundred Days of Solitude

2007-12-26
 |  Biography & Autobiography
One Hundred Days of Solitude

Author: Jane Dobisz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780861715381

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 162

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Inspired by her Korean Zen master's discipline of long, solitary retreats, Jane Dobisz strikes out to a lone cabin in the countryside of New England, armed with nothing but determination, modest food supplies and an intensely regimented daily practice schedule. The unfolding story of her experience is threaded through with Zen teachings and striking insights into the miracles and foibles of the human mind when left to its own devices, with little distraction at hand. Both entertaining and inspiring, 100 Days of Solitude offers a poignant testament to the benefits that reflection and retreat of any duration bring to our lives.

A Hundred Days to Richmond

1999-09-22
 |  History
A Hundred Days to Richmond

Author: Jim Leeke

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 025333537X

Category: History

Page: 306

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In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.

The Hundred Days

2022-09-15
 |  Fiction
The Hundred Days

Author: Talbot Mundy

Publisher: DigiCat

ISBN: EAN:8596547321361

Category: Fiction

Page: 148

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The Hundred Days is an adventure novel by Talbot Mundy. Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction who had much of his works published in pulp magazines. Excerpt: "It was night; that much was obvious. But I could not guess how many nights I might have lain unconscious, and it felt like aeons since that blow from behind had knocked me sprawling. There seemed to be two people in the room, or hut, or whatever it was, and one of them was crooning to herself in a language that if I ever understood I could not then remember. It was decidedly cold, and at last I shivered, whereat I felt agreeably soft fingers feeling the back of my hand."

The Hundred Days

2016-01-11
 |  Fiction
The Hundred Days

Author: Joseph Roth

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

ISBN: 9780811222792

Category: Fiction

Page: 183

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Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates. Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.”

Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days

2015-09-10
 |  Poets, English
Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days

Author: Peter Cochran

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443882385

Category: Poets, English

Page: 330

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Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, “granted” the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to some acclamation. He was, all too quickly, defeated at Waterloo. Observing all this was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse, an ardent Bonapartist. Byron, who posed as one, never answered his letters from the thick of things in Paris. This book is structured in four layers, and begins with an essay about Byron and Napoleon, which is then followed by Byron’s poems about Napoleon and Hobhouse’s diary. Hobhouse’s letters conclude the volume. Most of Hobhouse’s diary has never been published. The book is published, aptly, on the bicentenary of The Hundred Days.

A Mosaic of the Hundred Days

1984
 |  History
A Mosaic of the Hundred Days

Author: Luke S. K. Kwong

Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center

ISBN: 0674587421

Category: History

Page: 388

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This analysis of the interplay among people and of events leading up to the reform acts of 1898--the Hundred Days--and their abrupt termination presents a new interpretation of the late Ch'ing political scene. The Emperor, the Empress-Dowager, and high-court personalities are followed through the maze of motives and relationships that characterized the power structure in Peking. Of special interest is Kwong's treatment of K'ang-Yu-Wei, often viewed as the Emperor's advisor during this period and a major source of reform policy, a promincence largely derived frm his own writings and those of Liange Ch'i-ch'ao. Those sources are here examined and show to be less than objective,and K'ang's role is assessed as far more peripheral than heretofore believed

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

2021-01-05
 |  Literary Criticism
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

Author: Chingiz Aitmatov

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 9780253058683

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 368

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" . . . a rewarding book." —Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples.

Hundred Days To Greatness

2021-03-26
 |  Self-Help
Hundred Days To Greatness

Author: Sachin Sunny

Publisher: Notion Press

ISBN: 9781638067795

Category: Self-Help

Page: 362

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Everything we do deals with information. From a mother talking to a child to a scientist trying to invent the greatest invention deals with one thing - information. The choices we make, the habits and belief we acquire, and the way we act on our life depend on the information we have. Since we were children, we have been acquiring information from our experiences through the environment. These experiences were, then, registered in our brain as filters – a brain mechanism that help us to interpret the world without any effort - and with which we interpret the world around us. What will happen if these filters are wrong? How do our relationship, career and business succeed if we see the world with the preconditioned system that is built to help us survive? Every information we would receive will be misinterpreted and our communication become a form of computerized conversation with fixed answers, making us the slaves of the system. The only way to become the creator and redesign our life is to become conscious of the information we possess and override the preinstalled automatic system – a process called ‘Conscious Information Analysis’.

One Day for Peace

1972
 |  Vietnam War, 1961-1975
One Day for Peace

Author: Alexander L. Crosby

Publisher:

ISBN: PSU:000033669175

Category: Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Page: 109

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Six children form a peace committee against the Vietnam War and suffer much ridicule and descension from the community.