Light History

Paris Is Not Dead explores the past, present, and future of the City of Light through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city's progressive, cosmopolitan, and open-minded character--at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they're shifting in the opposite direction. This is the Paris many tourists too often miss: immigrant-heavy districts such as the 18th arrondissement, where crowded street markets still define everyday life. Stangler brings this view of the city to life.

The Secret of Eliza’s Journal By Taylor Hunter Kimball I never expected to find a murder buried in my own family’s past. Ephraim, Utah, was supposed to be my fresh start—a quiet town where I could teach criminal justice at Snow College, restore forgotten pioneer graves, and leave behind the chaos of big-city crime. But the day I uncovered my ancestor’s hidden journal, everything changed. Eliza Kimball’s words weren’t just faded ink on fragile pages—they were a confession. A warning. A key to a mystery that refused to stay buried. As I pored over her 19th-century entries, I ...

From the best-selling author of The Lightouse Stevensons, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure and, in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposed to be so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by the minister....

In all times and in all places, it has been universal to humankind to mark the darkest days of the year with a festival striving for the coming of the light. In our own culture, many of us call our midwinter festival Christmas—that great season that celebrates not merely light, but the coming of the Light of the World. Covering almost a thousand years of history, these scenes take the reader to: Saxon Scotland, Medieval England, Post-Regency England, Pioneer America, Depression Era America, 1970s America, and a contemporary monastery in England. Customs have changed, struggles have varied...

Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished.

¿Quiénes fueron las pioneras del rock argentino? ¿Cuál fue la tradición rockera femenina que se fue gestando desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días? ¿Por qué la historia casi no las registra? Romina Zanellato, periodista especializada en música y feminismo, se propone narrar por primera vez en forma integral la participación de las mujeres en el rock argentino, aquellas que estuvieron allí desde el principio, y las opresiones que sufrieron para poder hacer su música.

James Cook gilt als bedeutendster Entdecker nach Kolumbus. Freilich: Ohne Tupaia, Maheine und Mai wären seine Reisen unmöglich gewesen. Sie führten Cook in die Welt der Südsee ein, bewahrten seine Schiffe vor gefährlichen Korallenriffen und ersparten es ihm, in Neuseeland von den Maori als Eindringling massakriert zu werden.

The crown prince would love nothing more than to make the newly appointed castle healer his wife, but she has no intentions of becoming the future ruler of Gilvary. Will he ever convince her otherwise? Prince Reagan Barnali never expected to end up as ruler of Gilvary, but after the death of his father and older brother, he has no choice but to take the reins. He is worried about his mother who has suffered a break down in health since her husband’s death, and he also has the sole responsibility of his two younger brothers. Despite all of these burdens, he still has time to think about ...

This book is a fascinating insight into the workings of a World War I battalion in action, from the digging of trenches to the organisation of a solid defensive position and the patrolling of no-man’s land. It's also sprinkled with occasional amusing anecdotes that show the spirit of man shining in even the most desperate of situations.

Gerard Massey’s massive Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World–first published in 1907 and the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar–redefines the roots of Christianity via Egypt, proposing that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs.

In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world, those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. The digestion of a cataclysmic event can take generations. But in this fascinating audiobook, Carpenter brings together all those who did their best to communicate what they saw in the moment so that it could never be lost.

Listen to Beacon Lights of History, Volume Five with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Volume Five continues the commentary on world history begun in the first four volumes. This volume looks at some of the main religious figures of the Middle Ages, as well as social issues like the Crusades and the feudal system.

Here is the full story of Bangkok’s original renowned red light district with the city’s history as a backdrop. From the time of Bangkok’s founding, early development, World War II, Vietnam years, CIA involvement and later influx of go go bars and night time entertainment.. The story is told by the previous owner of a popular go go bar who later worked at the acclaimed Patpong Museum.

In a world alive with unseen forces, Hidden Struggle: Jesus, Angels, and Demons in Light of Enoch invites you to explore the spiritual battleground that shaped Jesus’s ministry. Drawing from the ancient Book of Enoch and the vibrant narratives of the Gospels, this book uncovers how first-century Jewish culture understood angels, demons, and the cosmic struggle between good and evil. Step into the dusty roads and crowded markets of Galilee, where Jesus confronted rebellious spirits and restored broken lives. Each encounter reveals His power to dismantle spiritual oppression and heal ...

Can the lighthouse keeper lead Ann's broken heart home? The last thing Jeb Miller ever expected to see washing up on the shore of his little island was the body of a woman—but there she was. When it turns out she's still alive, he has a problem. The ports are closed, and no one will be out to see him for weeks. He'll be forced to share his little cottage with the woman he found shackled at the wrists and ankles. Not knowing her past, he isn't sure what to think of her. Despite her past, the more Jeb gets to know Ann, the more he wants to keep not just the lighthouse—he wants to keep her...

It is a historical peculiarity of landscape painting that it begins with the artificial, and only after that proceeds towards the natural. For example, landscape paintings, and especially fanciful Nilotic panoramas, were one of the genres produced by artists in Pompeii. When, with the Renaissance, landscape painting once again started to establish itself after a long interval, the representations of the surrounding world that artists began to produce as a separate and independent genre, rather than simply as a background for human figures, were usually more fanciful than real.

THEIR SON HAS BEEN SHOT. WILL HE SURVIVE? Tensions are rising near ancient Potawatomi burial mounds on the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee. The Indian tribe’s descendants remain in the area and legal testimony from one of them sends a murderer to prison. Cronies of this criminal now seek lethal revenge for their own evil power. The lake is also the vacation home of Jack McCabe who becomes the unexpected heir to a pharmaceutical company and its highly coveted drug. A blackmail scheme by a former employee soon threatens the loss of the drug's formula. This extortion plot leads Interpol on a ...

On every street, in every city, the Paragons are hunted. Drones and mercenary teams break apart families and take captive anyone with a hint of power. Whispers in the dark hint at their destination: a grim prison where dire experiments seek to extract the secrets in the Paragon’s genes. Those left free scurry from one hideout to another, trying to stay one step ahead of annihilation. It’s a race with only one sure end, unless Celice and the remaining heroes can find the key to stopping the slaughter. That key? The Factory, a vast center producing Paragon-killing machines in the hills ...

In the early 19th century, a series of murders took place in and around London that shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes - a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders - was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight but also by the efforts of some of the keenest minds of the period to uncover the most gruesome details of the killings.

Pursuit of knowledge, beauty, and human perception through harmonious balance between intellectual development (light) and moral refinement (sweetness)