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Discover the story behind the "Green Crusader" - Leonardo DiCaprio's powerful journey from Hollywood icon to leading voice for environmental action. This book delves deep into the life and work of one of the most influential figures in contemporary activism. Explore DiCaprio's passion for protecting our planet, the formation of his foundation, his powerful speeches before world leaders, and his inspiring films. From the early days of his Hollywood breakthrough to his commitment to tackling climate change, this compelling biography reveals the man behind the movement. Get a glimpse into his acting techniques, his personal life, and the driving force behind his relentless fight for a sustainable future. This is more than just a celebrity biography; it's a chronicle of a powerful movement, an examination of the power of storytelling, and a testament to the unwavering commitment of a global icon dedicated to saving our planet. Buy this book and join the crusade for a greener tomorrow.

This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the history of the crusading movement and crusade images taken by the historian, composer, artist and author.

1st Person POV Where Realism gets Smashed by Fiction and Fantasy. (EBOOK PDF Format) Mr Sai Borg is a Martial Artist with his own fight system. His fighting skills are needed as he fights the Rouge Black Gold Companies. The story line in this 1st book introduces Mr. Borg. His employer, Pops, is the President of the World Order. He is also aided by Granma. She is the brains behind the World Order. (See her introduction at www.50upfitness.com). She is assisted by a Russian retired Cold War Nuclear Physicist Mr. Stargazer. He becomes the Head Physicist at Area 52, where the 2nd Fusion Reactor Relay Complex is. He is developing fusion engines, space craft, iion suits for their space colonization program, to save humanity from this dying planet. Eventually, there will be 5x Supreme Crusaders representing each of the 5x continents of the World. Sai must battle the disbelievers, anti-World Order groups and rogue Black Gold Companies to help the World Order. All the Crusaders including Sai wear a protective suit. It is called the iion suit. (Pronounced Eon). Granma and her team of technicians design and produce those suits and the pulse weapons to go with them. They also produce electric engines, Aero Jets with their pulse engines, Skimmers, Roos sticks, Jet packs, sponge shoes. All these items are produced using alternate energy sources. No use of oil, coal or gas. Book one introduces some of the main characters and the main aims of the World Order. How the W.O. will slowly spread its influence throughout the World, - Mainly with developing its alternative energy sources. This book has many connotations, with its tongue in cheek approach to Politics, through its reported WTF TV and Head Cover TV news broadcasts. HINT: Sai gets blown up in Chapter 4; however, you the reader are lead to believe that Sai is okay?? – So can you spot the subtle hints from Chapter 4 to Chapter 14, Can the reader pick up on whether Sai is okay or in a Coma?? (After the explosion, he is always tired, gets frequent headaches, says, “where have all the birds gone?” Yes between those chapters, nothing is as it seems. (But can the reader work it out). This book is written mainly from Sais Point of View; however, Pops and Granma also have a chapter on their points of view. The main antagonist Mr. Ivan White also has a chapter from his perspective. The writer uses the I said She said, simple-ism style of writing, because it is easy to follow, great for person’s who have English as their second language and it is also a smoke screen to hide what is really happening. Yes reading simple writing can actually fool the reader. Read this book to see how. As shown in other fictional writings such as, “Game of Thrones, “a specific Glossary of meanings is added. The words aren’t all proper English, nor are they meant to be. To set ones writing apart, sometimes one needs to step out of the square.

This is the first volume in a three-volume set which will present a complete gazetteer of the 400 church buildings known to have existed in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Each entry features a description, historical explanation and, where possible pictorial representation.

Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in this century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the first volume, John F. W. Dulles paints a portrait of a rebellious youth, who had the willfulness of his prominent father and who crusaded for Communism before becoming its most outspoken foe. Recalling Lacerda's rallying cry, Brazil must be shaken up, Dulles traces the career of the journalist whose unsparing attacks on the men in power led authorities to imprison him and employ thugs who pummeled him physically. Lacerda's spirited oratory helped him become Brazil's most popular congressman, but it scared the rulers of Brazil, who prohibited the broadcast of his speeches after he returned from exile in 1956. Their effort to deprive him of his mandate stirred the entire nation and culminated in one of the most dramatic sessions ever held in the Chamber of Deputies.

From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' JONATHAN PHILLIPS. Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto. PRAISE FOR THE TEMPLARS: 'A fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. 'Dan Jones has created a gripping page-turner out of the dramatic history of the Templars' PHILIPPA GREGORY. 'The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, is an extraordinary saga of fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler. The Templars is a wonderful book!' BERNARD CORNWELL. 'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal' MAIL ON SUNDAY. 'This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' OBSERVER. 'The Templars is exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS. 'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with clarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative history, fast-paced and full of incident... Jones tells their story extremely well' SUNDAY TIMES.