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Author : Arthur R. Seder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Smith Family Odyssey written by Arthur R. Seder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Kilson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021519
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Black Intellectual's Odyssey written by Martin Kilson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University—the country's oldest HBCU—to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member. This is as much a story of his travels from the racist margins of twentieth-century America to one of the nation's most prestigious institutions as it is a portrait of the places that shaped him. He gives a sweeping sociological tour of Ambler as a multiethnic, working-class company town while sketching the social, economic, and racial elements that marked everyday life. From narrating the area's history of persistent racism and the racial politics in the integrated schools to describing the Black church's role in buttressing the town's small Black community, Kilson vividly renders his experience of northern small-town life during the 1930s and 1940s. At Lincoln University, Kilson's liberal political views coalesced as he became active in the local NAACP chapter. While at Lincoln and during his graduate work at Harvard, Kilson observed how class, political, and racial dynamics influenced his peers' political engagement, diverse career paths, and relationships with white people. As a young professor, Kilson made a point of assisting Harvard's African American students in adapting to life at a white institution. Throughout his career, Kilson engaged in pioneering scholarship while mentoring countless students. A Black Intellectual's Odyssey features contributions from three of his students: a foreword by Cornel West and an afterword by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.
Author : Sitiki
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047951
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of an African Slave written by Sitiki and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently discovered as a hand-written document in the Buckingham Smith Collection at the New York Historical Society, this remarkable first-person narrative traces the life of Sitiki, whose name was changed to Jack Smith after his enslavement in America. Captured and sold into slavery in Africa as a five-year-old, Sitiki traveled to America as a cabin boy. Eventually sold by the ship's captain to Josiah Smith of Savannah, Georgia, he lived there and in Connecticut with his new master. Captured by the British during the War of 1812, he was returned to the Smiths, to be freed only after the Civil War. He went on to become the first black Methodist minister in St. Augustine, Florida, where he established his own church. Patricia Griffin does not leave the story at the conclusion of the slave narrative, but explores Sitiki's experiences and places them in clear and valuable context. She presents the narrative unencumbered, allowing Sitiki’s authority, compassion, and personality to speak for itself.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Renner Family Odyssey written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Pollock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400739974
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book An Epidemiological Odyssey written by George Pollock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the nineteenth century to form the English public health service are clearly highlighted. However the main emphasis of the narrative is on developments from the Second World War onwards, in some of which the author has had a degree of personal involvement as a schoolchild, medical student, hospital doctor, Army doctor and public health physician. The work as a whole reveals the persisting nature of communicable diseases throughout history and strongly argues that, although the relevant importance of individual infections may vary over time, man’s struggle against the microbiological world can never be relaxed. How England has been affected is described in detail and evidence is put forward to suggest that complacency (or at least misjudgement) concerning the ever-present risks of emerging and re-emerging infections, led unwisely to the dismantling in 1974 of its established arrangements for their control, along with the subsequent need, frequently repeated, to create new structures for this purpose. This book will appeal strongly to all students and practitioners of public health along with those interested in English social history.
Author : Marshall Garvey
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669801543
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Ellwood’s Odyssey written by Marshall Garvey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellwood’s Odyssey is a unique historical fiction drama centered around people and families who face oppression and overcome it with success. The book begins with a man, Ellwood Washington, growing up in Los Angeles. Inspired by his father, he seeks greatness. His skills on the baseball field take him to the battlefield of the Korean War. His talents are required by his commanders to lead a perilous mission and capture a South Korean spy. These life events eventually lead to another hero that must overcome his uncertainties. His travels take him across the globe as he tries to answer questions about his family and capabilities. As it turns out, his odyssey of self-discovery is just beginning.
Author : David Bowles
Publisher : Plum Creek Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0977748480
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Children of the Revolution written by David Bowles and published by Plum Creek Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of the Revolution is the story of the progeny of patriot Adam Mitchell, who fought during the American Revolution at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781. This pivotal battle culminated in his cornfields, which adjoined the one-acre site of the first Guilford County, North Carolina courthouse. The hundred-year odyssey of the Westward Sagas is not about war, but how it affected the Mitchell family. Children of the Revolution: Book 3 in the Westward Sagas Series takes up where Adam’s Daughters: Book 2 left off—in Tennessee shortly after statehood. The series continues with the next generation of the Mitchell Family. Peggy, the protagonist in Adam’s Daughters, takes on a stronger role as she matures into a confident woman courted by British nobility. Children of the Revolution uncovers the untold reason North Carolina never ratified the U.S. Constitution. Adventure, intrigue, romance and tragedy are woven into the story of the first generation of Americans.
Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571329217
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead written by Simon Armitage and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar-room brawl, he becomes Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by the authorities, damned by religious leaders, pursued by those looking for vengeance and head-hunted by fanatics, his odyssey begins. Plunged into the ancient past, Odysseus must now contend with all the unworldly beings and unnatural phenomena that stand in his way. The Cyclops, the Sirens, witches, whirlpools and flesh-eating armies must all be overcome in the struggle for survival and the long voyage back home. Simon Armitage's The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in September 2015 then toured the UK in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
Author : Arun S. Wagh
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662440472
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Odysseys in the Pursuit of Enlightenment written by Arun S. Wagh and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on an enchanting journey into the lives of fourteen genius scientists who lived during the enlightenment period to the mid-twentieth century. They suffered ethnic, gender, sexual prejudices, cultural and religious taboos, poverty, and epidemics. Most lived a very short life. And yet, their intuition and perseverance prevailed, and their pioneering discoveries changed the world. Their tragic lives faded away over time. However, the fruits of their work, including computer and nuclear technologies, space science, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering, have shaped our lives. When we look back, their inspirational life stories appear more fictional than real. Each story takes the reader into varying times, places, customs, and environments. The book should interest not only a science nerd but also an armchair reader who loves fiction.
Author : Ita Buttrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1761428586
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)
Download or read book A Passionate Life written by Ita Buttrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appealing and lively autobiography by one of Australia's most distinguished journalists, A Passionate Life will strike a chord with working women everywhere. An updated edition, now including an epilogue. Kerry Packer described her as a ‘dedicated and brilliant journalist who has achieved greatness in her industry very early and so quickly’ and ‘a jewel beyond price’. Cold Chisel wrote a song about her. Rupert Murdoch was so impressed by her talents, he asked her to be the editor-in-chief of both the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs – and in doing so, become the first woman ever to edit a major Australian metropolitan newspaper. In her extraordinary career, spanning over fifty years, Ita Buttrose has been involved in every aspect of the media, from newspapers and magazines to television and radio. From her creation of a new type of women’s magazine in Cleo and then ITA, to her appointment as the youngest-ever editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, a passionate love of journalism has driven her every step of the way. Refreshingly candid about the challenges she has faced as a professional woman, not only in her career but also in her love life and as a mother, A Passionate Life describes those groundbreaking years with Ita’s trademark clarity, precision and wit.
Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 087910080X
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)
Download or read book D.W. Griffith written by Richard Schickel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He transformed a nickelodeon novelty into a new art form and a powerful, glamorous American industry. He codified the rules and techniques of screen story-telling, and pioneered the conventions that brought films to life, from surging spectacle to soul-baring close-ups. A poor farm boy from the South, Griffith rose to fame with The Birth of a Nation, a cinematic masterpiece stained by the racism that infected his heritage. Though he went on to direct some of the most legendary films of the silent era, Griffith was doomed by his over-reaching drives, and he died an embittered man, shunned by the community he had largely created. His story is told here with unsparing truth and compelling narrative sweep.
Author : Ann Zwicker Kerr
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604341
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Come with Me from Lebanon written by Ann Zwicker Kerr and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president of the American University of Beirut. She retraces in detail the events that brought them to the Middle East, and reaches back into her childhood to describe a lifelong affinity for Lebanon. For a young American woman caring for a family in Lebanon and Egypt, life was like nothing she had ever known, but Ann Kerr approached it with a sense of adventure, which would help her deal with the beauty, chaos, and the ultimate horror of life during the country’s most volatile years of the last three decades. The personal saga of her family and the events surrounding her husband’s untimely death merge with the political episodes that have shaped U.S.-Arab relations since World War II.
Author : Jeannie Gayle Pool
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461737346
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band written by Jeannie Gayle Pool and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band, Jeannie Gayle Pool profiles the fascinating life of this multi-talented saxophone player, arranger, bandleader, and advocate for women instrumental musicians. Based on oral history interviews and Gilbert's collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia, this book includes many materials not previously available on all-women bands from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
Author : Linda Griffith
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 9780670844517
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The New American Farm Cookbook written by Linda Griffith and published by Avery. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best naturally and organically grown ingredients from farms and purveyors across the nation.
Author : Grace Gillam Davidson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806346698
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Early Records of Georgia written by Grace Gillam Davidson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bahous Sally Bahous
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440195056
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Under Olive Trees written by Bahous Sally Bahous and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Israel attacked Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria on June 5, 1967, husband and wife, Sally Bahous and Delmas Allen, knew that to ensure their safety they must soon leave Beirut, Lebanon, which had been their home for the last four years. With their three young children Carrie, Jimbo, and Sudie they boarded the USS Exilona bound for the United States. At that time more than forty years ago, author Sally Bahous didn't realize she would never return to Beirut. Based on letters Sally and Delmas wrote to their parents during the four years they lived in Beirut, this memoir vividly conveys the richness of Palestinian family life, history, and culture before and after Israel took possession of Palestinian lands, the political forces that originated and sustained Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, and the injustice to the people that followed. Through a detailed portrayal of the daily lives of Sally's family in the Palestinian community already in exile in Beirut, Under Olive Trees describes the events and attitudes that led to that exile. Interwoven throughout are easy to- follow memories of life in Palestine before the exile to Beirut. Bahous paints a beautiful portrait of a life enriched by family and friends.
Author : Lawrence T. McDonnell
Publisher : Cambridge Studies on the Ameri
ISBN 13 : 1107184932
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Performing Disunion written by Lawrence T. McDonnell and published by Cambridge Studies on the Ameri. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the causes of the American Civil War, highlighting the role played by ordinary men in the secession debate and process.
