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Download or read book A European Odyssey written by Maureen Fry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A European Odyssey is about extracts taken from my daily diary and expanded into the joys, frustrations, and occasional disasters that can befall any traveler. It was written firstly for my own pleasure and then secondly for those who would love to travel but, maybe because of ill health or family commitments, are unable to do so. It is therefore hoped that the reader gets as much enjoyment from this journey as the writer.
Book Synopsis Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey: The Politics and Economics of the Eurozone Crisis by : Robert Godby
Download or read book Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey: The Politics and Economics of the Eurozone Crisis written by Robert Godby and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration.
Book Synopsis The Art of Hospitality by : Iqbal Ahmed
Download or read book The Art of Hospitality written by Iqbal Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Food Odyssey - Lithuanian Cooking by : June Molloy Vladička
Download or read book My Food Odyssey - Lithuanian Cooking written by June Molloy Vladička and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is, essentially, a love story. The story of an Irish girl who fell in love with a Lithuanian man, then fell in love with his country and its food. The book contains nine of June's favourite traditional Lithuanian dishes, including kugelis (potato pudding), cepelinai (potato dumplings), koldūnai (pasta dumplings) and SaltibarSčiai (cold beet soup). The recipes are explained in detail with step-by-step instructions and illustrations where required, making this book ideally suited to anyone attempting these dishes for the first time. Substitute ingredients are suggested where certain ingredients might be hard to find outside of Lithuania. Each recipe is accompanied by a short preamble about June's life in Lithuania and how the recipe was developed. The book also contains a number of stunning photographs of the Lithuanian landscape and wildlife.
Book Synopsis The New Odyssey by : Patrick Kingsley
Download or read book The New Odyssey written by Patrick Kingsley and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. This is Kingsley's unparalleled account of who these voyagers are. It's about why they keep coming, and how they do it. It's about the smugglers who help them on their way, and the coastguards who rescue them at the other end. The volunteers that feed them, the hoteliers that house them, and the border guards trying to keep them out. And the politicians looking the other way. The New Odyssey is a work of original, bold reporting written with a perfect mix of compassion and authority by the journalist who knows the subject better than any other.
Download or read book Born to Travel written by Jan Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tasha Nelson--romantic, inquisitive, charming and in need of a break from life after her husband dies--asks for a leave of absence from her teaching job. She wants to get away for six months in order to try to put life together again. Little does she realize the extent of what she will discover about her inner-most self during her travels. Tasha visits some of the most exciting and amazing cities in Europe--London, Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, Verona, Rome, Salzburg. Everywhere she goes, she makes friends who influence her and lead her to important discoveries about the person hiding within. We learn later that these people are not just passing acquaintances but become lifelong friends, and because of them, Tasha's philosophy and understanding of life is changed forever. BORN TO TRAVEL is a creative nonfiction - true-life adventures of the author with embellishments of stories intertwined with facts. It's a book about love, hope, and discovery. The story is meant to be an enduring journey of revelation--not only of within but also of without.
Book Synopsis A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe by : Gábor Kármán
Download or read book A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe written by Gábor Kármán and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a Moldavian voivode in exile, as well as a court councillor of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg not only sheds light upon the extraordinarily versatile career of this individual, but also on the variety of circles in which he lived. Gábor Kármán also gives the first historical analysis of Harsányi’s contribution to Turkish studies, the Colloquia Familiaria Turcico-latina (1672).
Book Synopsis A European Odyssey by : Bailey Alexander
Download or read book A European Odyssey written by Bailey Alexander and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First a family secret, then a death, along with a series of dominos that fell, inspiring Bailey to sail across the Atlantic and live a nomadic, adventurous life in Rome, Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Prague, Bucharest, and finally Italy. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, with her own little dogs, Colette and Godot, Bailey went on a search to find a home. She had to jump off a lot of cultural cliffs for twenty years, hence the odyssey, ultimately finding herself, and some grace, not to mention a magical place called Piemonte; the secret that needs to be told.
Book Synopsis Polity and Crisis by : Massimo Fichera
Download or read book Polity and Crisis written by Massimo Fichera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European integration is an open-ended, ongoing process which has been deeply challenged by integral world capitalism. This study explores the present EU foundational dilemma, looking at the problematic relationship between the ideal model of integration and the reality of the 21st century. Including contributions from leading theorists, this volume explores the ways and extent to which the present European crisis could create a politico-legal space for new possibilities and opportunities for action. The authors discuss the current role of the EU, and whether it aspires to be a democratic polity or a functional organization based on inter-governmental bargaining. The chapters question whether the future of European integration after the crisis will be paved by decisions which conflict with its Treaty basis, and how it might come up with alternatives which would do more than echo the compulsions of the global market. Issues are analysed from a historical perspective to see what can be learnt from its past and to explore the options for the future. With contributions from prominent international legal and political scholars, the book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working in these areas.
Book Synopsis Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey by : Robert Godby
Download or read book Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey written by Robert Godby and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Book Synopsis The European Tribe by : Caryl Phillips
Download or read book The European Tribe written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak." In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations.
Book Synopsis Notes from Across the Pond by : Benita Bross Fuchs
Download or read book Notes from Across the Pond written by Benita Bross Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: Dr. Petrelli, a well-known physician in Oklahoma City, makes a trip in his own airplane to Houston for a medical convention as he had done several times in the past. This time his wife who was also his co-pilot, feeling ill, will not accompany him. After an uneventful trip, he encounters the most bizarre beings in the most unimaginable place. That makes a profound impact on Dr. Petrelli's mind, who at a certain point during this experience, tortured by the act he has committed and his wife's illness, begins to have doubts about the reality of these events, even about his own existence and the loved ones around him. An unusual thriller, with a philosophic and psychiatric touch which will make you think about your own existence in this dimension we call Earth.
Download or read book Little Brother written by Ibrahima Balde and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's own life, this heartbreaking novel about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis—for readers of The Lost Children's Archive and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the eldest son he must leave their home village in the Guinean countryside in search of work to support his family. Eventually apprenticed to a trucker in the capital, he learns that his younger brother has dropped out of school and fled to Libya to pursue the dream of finding work in Europe. Leaving behind everything, Ibrahima sets off with the aim to convince his little brother to return home and complete his education. His journey, full of hardships and sometimes on foot, takes Ibrahima north to Mali and across the Sahara Desert to the refugee camps of North Africa—to Algeria, Libya, and then back west to Morocco. Stopping along the way to recover physically or earn money, he encounters untold cruelties as well as kindness. His savings are taken at gunpoint. In the desert, he is held in a prison that serves as a slave market. In Libya, imprisoned again, he is sold to a chicken farmer but escapes for the second time. Only then, in a camp in Algeria, does he learn that his brother may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean. Grief-stricken, burdened by guilt, and unable to face his mother, he too arranges passage across the sea in a Zodiac. The author, Ibrahima Balde, was rescued at sea and found refuge in the Basque Country of Spain. Based on his true-life story told to a traditional bard from the Basque Country and retold here, Little Brother is a deeply moving, eye-opening novel that gives voice and a face to the refugee crisis, illuminating the plight of migrants from many lands.
Book Synopsis What I Learned from My Thirty-Day European Odyssey by : M. P. Prabhakaran
Download or read book What I Learned from My Thirty-Day European Odyssey written by M. P. Prabhakaran and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book authored by M.P. Prabhakaran on his world-trotting experiences. In the preface to the first book, An Indian Goes Around the World - I: Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum, he describes his passion for travel thus: "I travel, therefore I am - apologies to Descartes for twisting his noble thought." If academic qualifications are a measure of one's learning experience, he says in the same preface, he has a string of them, including a Ph.D. in Political Science from The New School for So-cial Research, New York. "But," he hastens to add, "what I learned from this prestigious American institution and, before that, from various academic institutions in India is no match for what I did from my travels around the world." In the preface to this second book, devoted exclusively to the tour he undertook through ten countries of Europe in the summer of 2009, he goes a step further and sums up his experience through a mangled version of poet Shelley's immortal words: "The more we study, the more we dis-cover our ignorance." Prabhakaran's mangled version is: "The more I travel, the more I discover my ignorance." The 2009 tour, he says, opened his mind to various aspects of European cultures he had been quite ignorant of until then. It cleansed his mind, he adds, of the many misconceptions he had about peoples and events that shaped the destiny of Europe. It convinced him, once again, that bookish knowledge is no substitute for the knowledge one gains from the people he interacts with, events he witnesses, and things he gets exposed to during his travels to new places. He shares that knowledge with readers through the pages of this book.
Book Synopsis European Odyssey by : Marilyn Henrion
Download or read book European Odyssey written by Marilyn Henrion and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed media hand-quilted artworks inspired by the architecture of European cities created by Marilyn Henrion between 2014 and 2018. Includes critical essay by Bobbie Leigh. This artist is represented in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American art and her works are included in major museum, corporate and private collections internationally.
Book Synopsis The Lost Books of the Odyssey by : Zachary Mason
Download or read book The Lost Books of the Odyssey written by Zachary Mason and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
Book Synopsis "Exterminate All the Brutes" by : Sven Lindqvist
Download or read book "Exterminate All the Brutes" written by Sven Lindqvist and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned “A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust. Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”
