Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama’s Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero Review
Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama’s Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero Overview
On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his summer palace and, with an escort of 300, journey across the highest terrain in the world and over treacherous Himalayan passes to freedom—one step ahead of pursuing Chinese soldiers.brbrMao Zedung, China’s ruthless Communist dictator, had pinned his hopes for total Tibetan submission on controlling the impressionable Dalai Lama. So beloved was the young ruler—so identified with his country’s essence—that for him to escape might mean perpetual resistance from a population unwilling to tolerate an increasingly brutal occupation. The Dalai Lama’s minders sent word to the Tibetan rebels and CIA-trained guerrillas who waited on the route:i His Holiness must escape/i—iat all costs.br/ibrIn many ways, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was unprepared for the epic journey awaiting him. Twenty-two years earlier, government search parties, guided by prophecies and omens, had arrived at the boy’s humble peasant home and subjected the two-year-old to a series of tests. After being declared the reincarnation of Tibet’s previous ruler, the boy was brought to Lhasa to learn the secrets of Buddhism and the ways of ultimate power. Forced in the ensuing two decades to cope with aching loneliness and often stifling ritual—and compelled to suppress his mischievous personality—Gyatso eventually proved himself a capable leader. But no previous Dalai Lama had ever taken on a million Communist Chinese soldiers bent on stamping out Tibetan freedom.brbrTo keep his country’s dream of independence alive by means of a government in exile, the young ruler would not only have to brave battalions of enemy soldiers and the whiteout conditions waiting on the slopes of the Himalayas’ highest peaks, he’d have to overcome a different type of blindness: the naïveté intrinsic to his sheltered palace life and his position as leader of a people who considered violence deeply taboo. brbrHis mind made up, the young Dalai Lama set off on his audacious journey to India while behind him a Chinese army rolled over Lhasa, its advance hunter patrols in fierce pursuit of the man they most coveted. The 14th’s escape was an act of daring and defiance that represented Tibet’s last hope, and so the world watched, transfixed, as the gentle monk’s journey unfolded. brbrEmotionally powerful and irresistibly page-turning, iEscape from the Land of Snows/i is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who at first wore his monk’s robes uncomfortably but was ultimately transformed by his escape into the towering figure the world knows today—a charismatic champion of free thinking and universal compassion.
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Great Quotes From Great Sports Heroes Review
Great Quotes From Great Sports Heroes Overview
America’s greatest sports personalities have often provided the most enjoyable, witty, and insightful thoughts about life. Now you can savor the words of Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, and many others, and share them with fellow fans.
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The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero Review
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The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero Overview
BRBRBRAfter saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own:BRBRSeven half-bloods shall answer the call,BRTo storm or fire the world must fall.BRAn oath to keep with a final breath,BRAnd foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.BRBRNow, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they’ll need the help of some familiar demigods./BRBRBR
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Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages Review
Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages Overview
Demonized by the Church throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, homosexuals became the scapegoats of society, constantly facing exile or a brutal death. In ‘Heroes and Exiles’ the human cost of this long exile is told through the lives of the most eminent homosexual men and women in history.
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Hero Review
Hero Feature
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BR The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he’s been asked to join the League – the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he’s gay. BRBR But becoming a member of the League opens up a new world to Thom. There, he connects with a misfit group of aspiring heroes, including Scarlett, who can control fire but not her anger; Typhoid Larry, who can make anyone sick with his touch; and Ruth, a wise old broad who can see the future. Like Thom, these heroes have things to hide; but they will have to learn to trust one another when they uncover a deadly conspiracy within the League.BRBR To survive, Thom will face challenges he never imagined. To find happiness, he’ll have to come to terms with his father’s past and discover the kind of hero he really wants to be.BRBR
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Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition Review
Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition Feature
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Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, Second Edition Overview
Winner 1991 Maxwell MedallionBRBest Special Volume PABOUT THE FIRST EDITION P”…the techniques and the case studies here are so interesting that a read will prove rewarding to ordinary trainers and fanciers alike.” —IPublishers Weekly/IPFrom the devastation of the World Trade Center to earthquakes in Central Asia, search and rescue dogs have proven invaluable in helping to find victims of disasterswhether man-made or natural. PFirst published in 1991 to critical acclaim, this newly expanded and revised edition of Search and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, contains original, updated content. Chapters describe cutting-edge training techniques used for wilderness, disaster, cadaver dogs, and water searches, and by state and federal disaster organizations such as FEMA. PSearch and Rescue Dogs: Training the K-9 Hero, 2nd Edition provides: ULLIClear, step-by-step lessons on training your dog for a variety of search and rescue operations LIWays to keep your dogand yourselfsafe in the face of disaster LIPractical information on procedures and equipment for dogs, handlers, and human volunteers LIThe ultimate experience of the interdependence of Human and Dog/ULPExtensive photographs illustrate real-life missions, including images of Ground Zero and the Pentagon taken by ARDA volunteers after September 11, 2001.
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Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory Review
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Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory Overview
DIVDuring World War II, the British military dropped several dozen parachutists from Palestine, including three women, behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. These young soldiers, most of whom had fled Europe only a few years earlier, faced a double challenge: their British mission was to find pilots who had jettisoned over enemy territory and assist them in returning to Allied-occupied lands; their Zionist mission was to contact Jewish communities, assist them in rebuilding the local Zionist movement, and, when necessary, help their members escape from the Nazis. Seven of the parachutists lost their lives in this effort. BR In iPerfect Heroes/i, an expanded and updated English adaptation of her Hebrew book iGiborim le-mofet/i, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz recounts the history of these parachutists’ wartime escapades and also analyzes the ways that various segments of Israeli society—military, political, legal, educational, youth, literary, and artistic—used the parachutists’ story over the course of fifty years to build a nationalist narrative and to promote their own partisan and, at times, contradictory agendas. Baumel-Schwartz also offers broader comparative discussions of how individuals were commemorated as WWII heroes and heroines in many countries, in service of national mythologizing and collective memory./div
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