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The Home Place

Author : J. Drew Lanham
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318755
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Home Place written by J. Drew Lanham and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic

Seamus Mallon

Author : SEAMUS. MALLON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843517870
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Mallon written by SEAMUS. MALLON and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seamus Mallon

Author : Seamus Mallon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843517702
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Mallon written by Seamus Mallon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Shared Home Place

Author : Seamus Mallon
Publisher : Lilliput Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843517740
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book A Shared Home Place written by Seamus Mallon and published by Lilliput Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace process and beyond. Its authentic voice lends it a vitality and an urgency that illuminates our recent past. In this book, Mallon describes his happy upbringing in South Armagh as a Catholic in a 90% Protestant village; his turbulent years as a constitutional politician in the violent maelstrom of near-civil war, when he was the target of both loyalist violence and republican vilification; and his central role in the peace process as the man who complemented John Hume, doing the 'spade-work' to reach a hard-won deal with the Ulster Unionists. Now in his eighty-third year, he calls for a new beginning in Northern Ireland, based on the ideal that it is a shared home place for all its people, and that Irish unity can only come about through unionist consent. His surprising and innovative proposal, based on a little-known clause in the Good Friday Agreement, shows how this might be implemented.

The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home

Author : Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393329283
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home written by Melissa Holbrook Pierson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day brings evidence of dramatic change upon the landscape. It's called progress. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home.

The Places in Between

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0156031566
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Places in Between written by Rory Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's 2002 journey by foot across Afghanistan, during which he survived the harsh elements through the kindness of tribal elders, teen soldiers, Taliban commanders, and foreign-aid workers whose stories he collected along his way. By the author of The Prince of the Marshes. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Homeplace

Author : John Lingan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544930835
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Homeplace written by John Lingan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for fame that outlasted her tragically short life. What Lingan found was a town in the midst of an identity crisis. As the U.S. economy and American culture have transformed in recent decades, the ground under centuries-old social codes has shifted, throwing old folkways into chaos. Homeplace teases apart the tangle of class, race, and family origin that still defines the town, and illuminates questions that now dominate our national conversation—about how we move into the future without pretending our past doesn't exist, about what we salvage and what we leave behind. Lingan writes in “penetrating, soulful ways about the intersection between place and personality, individual and collective, spirit and song.”* * Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

Border Ireland

Author : Cathal McCall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429996225
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Border Ireland written by Cathal McCall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief. Then came Brexit. Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering to the post-Brexit landscape. The UK's departure from the EU meant rebordering in some form. That departure also reinvigorated the push for a ‘united Ireland’ and borderlessness on the Island. As well as providing a nuanced assessment that will be of interest to followers of UK/Irish relations and European studies, this book’s analysis of processes of bordering/debordering/rebordering helps inform our understanding of borders more generally. Students and scholars of European studies, border studies, politics, and international relations, as well as anyone else with a general interest in the Irish border will find this book an insightful and historically-grounded aid to contemporary events.

The Home Place

Author : Robert Drake
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865545946
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Home Place written by Robert Drake and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this joyous reminiscence of a small-town boyhood in West Tennessee, Drake reflects upon his family's origins, flowering, and eventual decline, and ponders the meaning of their lives. It is a story with which many a Southerner who has grown up in twentieth-century America will readily identify. As a chronicle in microcosm of the gradual disintegration of the traditional extended family that has taken place all across the country in this turbulent century, it speaks to modern humankind everywhere.Drake concludes that the old tales about the home place were what held the family together long after the place itself was gone. The Drakes were rooted in the goodness of God and the joy of the Lord. The gift they had been given, a happiness based ultimately on love and joy in all God's creation, they in turn passed on to their family and all who came in contact with them.History and geography also helped give the Drakes their identities: they knew who they were because they knew where they were and when they were, with no alienation from either time or place. Their lives were thus whole and full. Their home, their family, their community were all very real entities, nourishing and sustaining the individual member while giving him a sense of belonging to something greater than himself. They gave order and meaning to his life.The times have changed, but who can say that the world of the Drakes is any less meaningful to us today? Perhaps the memories of that world constitute a rebuke to our frenetic lives. But perhaps the legacy of their lives, their times, and, above all, their great love, can still exert its healing power on modern generations.

Farming the Home Place

Author : Valerie J. Matsumoto
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711911
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Farming the Home Place written by Valerie J. Matsumoto and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a bleak pocket of the San Joachin Valley. Valerie Matsumoto chronicles conflicts within the community as well as obstacles from without as the colonists responded to the challenges of settlement, the setbacks of the Great Depression, the hardships of World War II internment, and the opportunities of postwar reconstruction. Tracing the evolution of gender and family roles of members of Cortez as well as their cultural, religious, and educational institutions, she documents the persistence and flexibility of ethnic community and demonstrates its range of meaning from geographic location and web of social relations to state of mind.

Saffy's Angel

Author : Hilary McKay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689849338
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Saffy's Angel written by Hilary McKay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Saffron, known as Saffy, discovers that she is adopted. So she sets out in search of all she remembers from her youth--a stone angel in a garden in Italy.

The Home Place

Author : Dennis Cooley
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772121193
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Home Place written by Dennis Cooley and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." —From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist with a porous yet resilient sense of "home." Although his criticism and fiction have received extensive attention, his poetry remains underexplored. This exuberantly polyvocal text, insightfully written by dennis cooley—who knew Kroetsch and worked with him for decades—seeks to correct that imbalance. The Home Place offers a dazzling, playful, and intellectually complex conversation drawing together personal recollections, Kroetsch's archival materials, and the international body of Kroetsch scholarship. For literary scholars and anyone who appreciates Canadian literature, The Home Place will represent the standard critical evaluation of Kroetsch's poetry for years to come.

The Han

Author : Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805978
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Han written by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant Han in Shanghai and Beijing, Aqsu (in Xinjiang), and the Sichuan-Yunnan border area, Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi uncovers and discusses these identity topographies. Bringing into focus the Han majority, which has long acted as an unexamined backdrop to ethnic minorities, Joniak-Luthi contributes to the emerging field of critical Han studies as she considers how the Han describe themselves - particularly what unites and divides them - as well as the functions of Han identity and the processes through which it is maintained and reproduced. The Han will appeal to scholars and students of contemporary China, anthropology, and ethnic and cultural studies.

A Place at the Table

Author : Saadia Faruqi
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 0358116686
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book A Place at the Table written by Saadia Faruqi and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara, a Pakistani American girl, and Elizabeth, a white Jewish girl, bond in a cooking class in this story about sixth grade, food, friendship, family and what it means to belong.

America's Private Land

Author :
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book America's Private Land written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of African Development

Author : Tony Binns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131749508X
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of African Development written by Tony Binns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development - past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continent's development - including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development, and development policy and practice. The volume draws on the expertise of over 60 of the world's leading scholars to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the key opportunities and challenges that confront Africa, and how such issues are being addressed. Arranged by key themes, the handbook provides not only a historical understanding of the past, but also political perspectives on the future. The chapters provide critically informed analyses of their topics by drawing upon the latest conceptual viewpoints and applied experiences in Africa in the form of case studies to offer a comprehensive examination of the opportunities, challenges, key debates and future prospects. This handbook is an invaluable state-of-the-art overview and reference concerning many different aspects of Africa's development, which will be of interest to academics in all fields of African studies, and also academics and students working in cognate disciplines such as development studies, geography, history, politics and economics.

An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit

Author : Jeffrey W. Hughes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501768611
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit written by Jeffrey W. Hughes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to tackle an environmental problem in your neighborhood but do not know where to start, An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit can help. In this handbook, Jeffrey W. Hughes shares the proven strategies you need to step up and get meaningful action done. From designing a pilot study to managing contentious public meetings and more, Hughes walks you through the essentials of effective place-based environmental efforts. Among the tools you will find here are worksheets to kickstart brainstorming, appendixes that demystify jargon you might encounter, and illuminating, real-life examples. Down-to-earth and stimulating, An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit is a launchpad for those ready to make a difference now.