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A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana
by Stephan F. MiescherSince its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries.The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor, and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial areas across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians.In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
A Dama de Asolo
by Siobhan Daiko Livia LinharesNão podemos mudar o passado, mas o passado pode nos mudar. Após perder o noivo em um desastre terrível, Fern visita a Itália para encontrar conforto e se dedicar à pintura, sua verdadeira paixão. Contudo, seus pesadelos com a morte se transformam em realidade quando ela começa a ouvir sussurros fantasmagóricos e ver repetidamente um pedaço de madeira queimada, que misteriosamente aparece e desaparece. Luca, um arquiteto da região, surge para salvá-la no Castelo de Asolo, quando sua mente parece ter sido tomada por Cecilia, uma jovem da corte da Rainha Catarina Cornaro, que viveu quinhentos anos atrás. Com um episódio atrás do outro, Fern passa a ver o mundo cada vez mais através dos olhos de Cecilia, que começa a ter um caso de amor com o artista Zorzo. Os ecos do passado se manifestam no presente com uma série de coincidências assustadoras, até que o passado e o presente se encontram, colocando a vida de Fern e Cecilia em risco. Será que Luca conseguirá manter Fern fora de perigo e ajudá-la a fazer as pazes com o passado? Da vila dos prazeres da Soberana Dama de Asolo aos palácios de Veneza do século XVI, o livro de Siobhan Daiko levará você a uma sensual viagem no tempo através de intrigas, romance e redenção.
A Dama e o Conde Rabugento (As Damas da Aristocracia #1)
by Linda Rae SandeEle é um rabugento. E ela é o motivo. Depois de se despedir do filho quando ele partiu para sua grande turnê pela Europa, Patience Grayson, a recém-viúva Marquesa de Billingsley, parte para o campo. Ela pretende passar pelo menos um ano morando sozinha na propriedade da família Grayson em Shropshire. Se ao menos sua carruagem conseguir chegar até a propriedade. Mas uma roda quebra, e em um local muito inconveniente. Acossado por um condado que quase faliu devido ao jogo e à bebida de seu falecido pai, Max Higgins, Conde de Greenley, não tem tido um bom dia há mais de vinte anos -- não desde que a mulher com quem ele deveria se casar o trocou por outro. Desde então, sua amargura o tornou conhecido em toda Staffordshire como o Conde Rabugento. Embora ele tenha encontrado outra mulher para ser sua condessa, a pobre mulher morreu ao dar à luz, segundo alguns, para escapar de seu mau humor. A solidão de Max em sua mansão rural em Staffordshire está prestes a ser abalada quando a causa de seu mau humor invade sua casa -- e seu quarto de dormir -- em uma noite de inverno. Será que a vida voltará a ser a mesma?
A Dame Full of Vim and Vigour
by OgilvieFirst Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Damn Near Perfect Game: Reclaiming America's Pastime
by Joe Kelly Rob BradfordBaseball’s most outspoken fireballer brings the high heat—calling out the hacks, cheats, and ridiculous rules that have tarnished the game—and pitches a-plus stuff on how to make baseball pure, fun, and damn near perfect. Baseball has an image problem. The chorus of nonbelievers gets louder every year, and the Major Leagues have made an art of tuning them out. Enter Joe Kelly: a walking, talking, fast-ball-throwing embodiment of why baseball matters. He and his All-Star team of athletes and celebrities have some things to say about what’s gone wrong with our once great game and how to fix it. A Damn Near Perfect Game is the loudest insider’s exposé of the laws and culture of Major League Baseball since Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four. From Kelly’s perspective as a two-time World Series champion and baseball’s most memeable player according to ESPN, he takes readers on a house-cleaning tour of the clubhouse, the field of play, the bullpen, the front office, the commissioner’s office, and a ballplayer’s restricted life off the field. Kelly has something to say about baseball’s rule changes (pitch clocks, limiting defensive shifts, the designated hitter); hacks (overused analytics, sign-stealing); stale promotion to new fans; and encouraging players’ emotions (let them fight, bat-flip, and talk sh*t!). Plus, he details how he aired his complaints in an illuminating meeting with commissioner Rob Manfred. And to show what happens when baseball has some piss and vinegar, Kelly gives the inside scoop on his legendary exploits—starting a bench-clearing brawl with the Yankees’ Tyler Austin, his famous “pouty face” scene when calling out the notorious sign-stealing Houston Astros, and wearing a mariachi jacket to visit the White House with his World Series champion LA Dodgers.
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
by James HunterA dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks for the dance’s name. ‘They call it America,’ he’s told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland’s glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity.
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream
by Kristy DempseyA story of little ballerinas with big dreams.Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the best ballet schools and of dancing starring roles on stage. But in Harlem in the 1950s, dreams don’t always come true—they take a lot of work and a lot of hope. And sometimes hope is hard to come by. But the first African-American prima ballerina, Janet Collins, did make her dreams come true. And those dreams inspired ballerinas everywhere, showing them that the color of their skin couldn’t stop them from becoming a star. In a lyrical tale as beautiful as a dance en pointe, Kristy Dempsey and Floyd Cooper tell the story of one little ballerina who was inspired by Janet Collins to make her own dreams come true.
A Dance for the King: The brand-new spellbinding and gripping historical drama from the star of Strictly Come Dancing (Buckingham)
by Anton Du BekeYou're invited to a show to remember at the prestigious Buckingham Hotel . . . In London 1942 the war is far from over for soldier Raymond de Guise. His wife Nancy is overjoyed to be reunited with her husband, and to introduce him to their son. But their safety is threatened once more as Raymond returns to the ballroom at the Buckingham Hotel, ordered to discover the dark secrets held by the glittering high society. On the dancefloor Raymond uncovers a dangerous relationship that could change the course of the war, and also threaten his marriage to Nancy. Can he protect his King and his family before it is too late?A DANCE FOR THE KING is a pageturning and epic wartime story filled with drama, mystery, dance and romance.
A Dance for the King: The brand-new spellbinding and gripping historical drama from the star of Strictly Come Dancing (Buckingham)
by Anton Du BekeYou're invited to a show to remember at the prestigious Buckingham Hotel . . . In London 1942 the war is far from over for soldier Raymond de Guise. His wife Nancy is overjoyed to be reunited with her husband, and to introduce him to their son. But their safety is threatened once more as Raymond returns to the ballroom at the Buckingham Hotel, ordered to discover the dark secrets held by the glittering high society. On the dancefloor Raymond uncovers a dangerous relationship that could change the course of the war, and also threaten his marriage to Nancy. Can he protect his King and his family before it is too late?A DANCE FOR THE KING is a pageturning and epic wartime story filled with drama, mystery, dance and romance.
A Dance of Assassins
by Allen F. RobertsA Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today.
A Dance of Chaos: Book 6 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #6)
by David DalglishFear comes in the hands of prophets . . . The final instalment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to obtain. The Trifect is their next target, and Alyssa Gemcroft must reach out to whatever allies she can find, even if it means casting aside longtime friends. As the chaos grows, so does the power of the dark god Karak, who lays siege to Veldaren. If the city falls, the world will suffer . . . Father or son; some choices must be made in blood. Bestselling fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power, in this final, never-before-released novel of the Shadowdance series.
A Dance of Chaos: Book 6 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #6)
by David DalglishFear comes in the hands of prophets... Upon returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, Haern the Watcher finds nothing but chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered all but a few stubborn remnants of the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to obtain. The Trifect is their next target, and Alyssa Gemcroft must reach out in desperation to whatever allies she can obtain, even if it means casting aside longtime friends. Within such chaos move the faithful to the dark god Karak, preparing for what the priest Luther had long feared: a siege of Veldaren by an army sworn to Karak's mysterious prophet. If the castle falls, all the world will suffer greatly. Through an artifact given to him by Luther, the legendary Thren Felhorn, broken, guileless, and rejected by his own son, holds the fate of the entire city in his hands. Unless Haern can stop his father, Thren will at last have the legacy of fire and destruction he has always desire. Father or son; some choices must be made in blood. Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Cloaks: Book 1 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #1)
by David DalglishThe Underworld rules the city of Veldaren. Thieves, smugglers, assassins . . . they fear only one man. Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets.Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless - everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond poison, daggers and the iron rule of his father.Assassin or protector; every choice has its consequences.Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Cloaks: Book 1 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #1)
by David DalglishThe Underworld rules the city of Veldaren. Thieves, smugglers, assassins . . . they fear only one man. Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets.Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless - everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond poison, daggers and the iron rule of his father.Assassin or protector; every choice has its consequences.Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Ghosts: Book 5 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #5)
by David DalglishIN A CITY KNOWN FOR DARKNESS, THE UNDERWORLD TREMBLES AT THE RISE OF THE SUN... A night of fire and blood heralds Muzien the Darkhand's arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, eager to spread their criminal empire to the east. Left blind and vulnerable after being attacked by the Widow, Alyssa Gemcroft struggles to hold together the remnants of the Trifect as the Sun Guild's arrival threatens to shatter whatever future her son might have left. Veldaren's only hope is in the Watcher, but Haern is no longer there. With his father, Thren Felhorn, he is traveling to the Stronghold, an ancient bastion of the dark paladins of Karak. Will they find the answers they seek? Or will the Stronghold be their final destination? Killer or savior; the line can no longer remain blurred. Fantasy author David Dalglish continues his tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power in this never-before-released novel in the Shadowdance series following A Dance of Mirrors.
A Dance of Ghosts: Book 5 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #5)
by David DalglishIn a city known for darkness, the underworld trembles at the rise of the Sun . . . He is known as the Muzien the Darkhand, and a night of fire and blood heralds his arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, its thieves and smugglers eager to spread their criminal empire to the east.Left blind and vulnerable after her attack by the Widow, Alyssa Gemcroft struggles to hold together the remnants of the Trifect as the Sun Guild's arrival threatens to shatter whatever future her son might have left.Veldaren's only hope is in the Watcher, but Haern is no longer there. He travels west with his father, Thren Felhorn, whose own thief guild has been crushed by the might of the encroaching Sun Guild. Their destination: the Stronghold, an ancient bastion of the dark paladins of Karak. Together, Haern hopes to discover a shred of something good within his father. But as much as Haern tries to change his father, will it be his father who ends up changing him?Killer or saviour; the line can no longer remain blurred.Bestselling fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Mirrors: Book 3 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #3)
by David DalglishOne has conquered a city. The other covets an entire nation.Haern is the King's Watcher, protector against thieves and nobles who would fill the night with blood. Yet hundreds of miles away, an assassin known as the Wraith has begun slaughtering those in power, leaving the symbol of the Watcher in mockery. When Haern travels south to confront this copycat, he finds a city ruled by the corrupt, the greedy and the dangerous. Rioters fill the streets and the threat of war hangs over everything. To forge peace, Haern must confront the deadly Wraith, a killer who would shape the kingdom's future with the blade of his sword. Man or God; what happens when the lines are blurred?Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Mirrors: Book 3 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #3)
by David DalglishOne has conquered a city. The other covets an entire nation.Haern is the King's Watcher, protector against thieves and nobles who would fill the night with blood. Yet hundreds of miles away, an assassin known as the Wraith has begun slaughtering those in power, leaving the symbol of the Watcher in mockery. When Haern travels south to confront this copycat, he finds a city ruled by the corrupt, the greedy and the dangerous. Rioters fill the streets and the threat of war hangs over everything. To forge peace, Haern must confront the deadly Wraith, a killer who would shape the kingdom's future with the blade of his sword. Man or God; what happens when the lines are blurred?Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
A Dance of Shadows: Book 4 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #4)
by David Dalglish'Prove that you can stand against the darkness and live'Haern is the King's Watcher, born an assassin only to become the city of Veldaren's protector against the thief guilds.When Lord Victor Kane attacks the city, determined stamp out all corruption, foreign gangs pour in amidst the chaos in an attempt to overthrow the current lords of the underworld.And when a mysterious killer known as the Widow begins mutilating thieves, paranoia engulfs the city. Haern knows someone is behind the turmoil, pulling strings. If he doesn't find out who - and soon - his beloved city will burn.Light or darkness: where will the line be drawn?Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power in this fourth novel of the Shadowdance series, previously released as Blood of the Underworld.
A Dance of Shadows: Book 4 of Shadowdance (Shadowdance #4)
by David Dalglish'Prove that you can stand against the darkness and live'Haern is the King's Watcher, born an assassin only to become the city of Veldaren's protector against the thief guilds.When Lord Victor Kane attacks the city, determined stamp out all corruption, foreign gangs pour in amidst the chaos in an attempt to overthrow the current lords of the underworld.And when a mysterious killer known as the Widow begins mutilating thieves, paranoia engulfs the city. Haern knows someone is behind the turmoil, pulling strings. If he doesn't find out who - and soon - his beloved city will burn.Light or darkness: where will the line be drawn?Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power in this fourth novel of the Shadowdance series, previously released as Blood of the Underworld.
A Dance to Save the Debutante (Those Roguish Rosemonts #1)
by Eva ShepherdEnjoy this fun, flirty Victorian romp from Eva Shepherd…A jaded rakeAnd an innocent debutante… Seeing Miss Sophia Cooper being rebuffed by a reprobate duke, Lord Ethan Rosemont does the gentlemanly thing and dances with her himself. He discovers she&’s no damsel in distress but an intelligent woman who&’s had enough of the marriage mart. It would be all too easy to give in to the desire fizzing between them—but only if this rake is willing to save her reputation by marrying her himself…From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.Those Roguish RosemontsBook 1: A Dance to Save the Debutante
A Dance to the Music of Time (The First Movement)
by Anthony PowellAnthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. "A Dance to the Music of Time" opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of "A Dance to the Music of Time", Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.
A Dance to the Music of Time (The Second Movement)
by Anthony PowellAnthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: Books Do Furnish a Room Temporary Kings Hearing Secret Harmonies "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician. "--Chicago Tribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's. "--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience. "--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
A Dance with Danger
by Jeannie LinA promise sworn on the edge of a sword After a failed assassination attempt on a corrupt general, Bao Yang is a wanted man. Taking refuge with an ally, Yang accidentally compromises the man's daughter when they're discovered alone. To save her honor, he must marry the beautiful Jin-mei immediately! In Yang's arms, Jin-mei feels alive for the first time. She's determined not to lose him, even if it means joining his perilous mission... But when she realizes just how destructive Yang's path could be, can she convince him that their life together could be so much sweeter than revenge?
A Dance with Fate: Warrior Bards 2 (Warrior Bards #2)
by Juliet MarillierA young woman who is both a bard--and a warrior--seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series.The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for the accident, she agrees to go to Dau's home as a bond servant for the span of one year. There, she soon learns that Oakhill is a place of dark secrets. The vicious Crow Folk still threaten both worlds. And Dau, battling the demon of despair, is not an easy man to help.When Liobhan and Dau start to expose the rot at the center of Oakhill, they place themselves in deadly danger. For their enemy wields great power and will stop at nothing to get his way. It will take all the skills of a Swan Island warrior and a touch of the uncanny to give them a hope of survival. . . .