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Book Synopsis An Inconvenient Shadow by : Senna Tagboto
Download or read book An Inconvenient Shadow written by Senna Tagboto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is inspired by the true story of my ancestor who was born to a Danish father and an African mother on the Guinea or West Coast of Africa in the 1800’s. After his father leaves Africa, he has this idea to go to Denmark to visit him. He is thrown overboard shortly after the ship sets sail and he ends up two countries over in the country of Benin. His story is told when he makes his way back to his hometown Keta and is part of the legends of the bravery and exploits of our ancestors. Though this novel is a fictional account of what happened to my ancestor, the timelines stating the onset of colonization, the historical events in the Caribbean and Europe are accurate. This is a really a fictional story is woven around historically accurate events. In 1850, when Hans Køndo Quist, Kø, decides to leave his family in Quitta, a small town on the Guinea (West) Coast of Africa, to visit his Danish father in Denmark, he causes a major pandemonium! He braves the discrimination and malice of his foes, herculean hurricanes, and backbreaking labor aboard the ship, “The Pharaoh”. But a beautiful blue-eyed vixen causes him to be thrown overboard. He finds himself between the devil and the deep, blue sea when he wakes up on an Island in the Caribbean, in the shanty of a young, exotic prostitute, Daffodil. Kø, Daffodil and some recently emancipated slaves whom he meets on the Island are desperate for one thing ... to leave the island and achieve true freedom. There is only one person who can help them get off the Island...Daffodil’s lover, a red-haired Scottish pirate with a nefarious agenda! By masterful planning, guerrilla warfare and outright war, they intercept pirates’ plans, steal his ship and he finally finds the truth about his birth and the circumstances of his father’s seeming abandonment.
Book Synopsis An Inconvenient History by : Charles Park
Download or read book An Inconvenient History written by Charles Park and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan was the first non-Western country to achieve a high level of modernization during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based on this, Japan increased its national power by invading, colonizing, and occupying Asian countries. Such events at the time were considered as a light for Japan but it was a huge tragedy and a dark shadow cast over Asian countries. After the war, Japan did not put in effort to change such shadow into light. Therefore, the shadow that was cast from the light of Japan's history in the early 20th century is still hanging over Asia today in the 21st century. This book straightforwardly depicts the light shined by Japan's history and the shadow cast from that light. It particularly focuses on the facts and causes of the shadow of Japan's history, which has been neglected so far. Thus, when people learn and hear candidly about the shadow cast by Japan's history, many of them will feel uncomfortable and be astonished. However, if such uncomfortableness is not confronted and overcome, reconciliation in Asia and Japan's genuine development cannot be sought. Therefore, by revealing the true character of the shadow cast by Japan's history, this book seeks to confront head-on the uncomfortableness that has been avoided to this day and tries to find a method of resolution. Franz Kafka said, "A book must be the axe that breaks the frozen sea inside us." The author wishes this book to become 'Kafka's axe' that breaks the uncomfortableness of the shadow of Japan's history and allows future-oriented reconciliation and development. Furthermore, this book offers an opportunity to understand Japan and Asia's past, present, and future from diverse angles.
Book Synopsis The Shadow Elephant by : Nadine Robert
Download or read book The Shadow Elephant written by Nadine Robert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle story about sadness showing that sometimes all you need to feel better is the openness of someone who accepts you as you are.
Download or read book Global Shadows written by James Ferguson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Alabama by : Judy Reene Singer
Download or read book In the Shadow of Alabama written by Judy Reene Singer and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estranged daughter returns home to discover her father’s WWII history in a “beautifully written” novel of family rifts and the burdens of racism (Historical Novel Society). Rachel Fleischer has good reasons not to be at her father’s deathbed. Foaling season is at hand and her horses are becoming restless. But her horse manager, Malachi—more of a father to Rachel than Marty ever was—convinces her to go. When a stranger at her father’s funeral delivers an odd gift and an apology, Rachel is drawn into the epic story of her father’s World War II experience and the scandal that would cast a shadow on his life. As she learns about his time as a Jewish sergeant in charge of a platoon of black soldiers in 1940s Alabama, she finally begins to free herself from the past and choose a life waiting in the wings. “Prepare for Singer to keep you up all night ricocheting between a present day horse farm, family traumas, and the unthinkable racism in the military during WWII. The long arm of war travels through generations in this emotional drama.” —New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline Sheehan
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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of 'just Wars' by : Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Download or read book In the Shadow of 'just Wars' written by Médecins sans frontières (Association) and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays written by scholars, journalists and humanitarian relief workers look at humanitarian crises of the past five years for their successes and failures, and suggest that humanitarian action has often failed to live up to its ideals. These essays expose the shortcomings of the various humanitarian organizations, particularly the U.N., and illuminate the complex moral and political debate that surrounds even the most basic relief operations.
Book Synopsis An Inconvenient Shadow by : Senna Tagboto
Download or read book An Inconvenient Shadow written by Senna Tagboto and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is inspired by the true story of my ancestor who was born to a Danish father and an African mother on the Guinea or West Coast of Africa in the 1800's. After his father leaves Africa, he has this idea to go to Denmark to visit him. He is thrown overboard shortly after the ship sets sail and he ends up two countries over in the country of Benin. His story is told when he makes his way back to his hometown Keta and is part of the legends of the bravery and exploits of our ancestors. Though this novel is a fictional account of what happened to my ancestor, the timelines stating the onset of colonization, the historical events in the Caribbean and Europe are accurate. This is a really a fictional story is woven around historically accurate events. In 1850, when Hans Køndo Quist, Kø, decides to leave his family in Quitta, a small town on the Guinea (West) Coast of Africa, to visit his Danish father in Denmark, he causes a major pandemonium! He braves the discrimination and malice of his foes, herculean hurricanes, and backbreaking labor aboard the ship, "The Pharaoh". But a beautiful blue-eyed vixen causes him to be thrown overboard. He finds himself between the devil and the deep, blue sea when he wakes up on an Island in the Caribbean, in the shanty of a young, exotic prostitute, Daffodil. Kø, Daffodil and some recently emancipated slaves whom he meets on the Island are desperate for one thing ... to leave the island and achieve true freedom. There is only one person who can help them get off the Island...Daffodil's lover, a red-haired Scottish pirate with a nefarious agenda! By masterful planning, guerrilla warfare and outright war, they intercept pirates' plans, steal his ship and he finally finds the truth about his birth and the circumstances of his father's seeming abandonment.
Book Synopsis Out of Mao's Shadow by : Philip P. Pan
Download or read book Out of Mao's Shadow written by Philip P. Pan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis American Gas-light Journal and Chemical Repertory by :
Download or read book American Gas-light Journal and Chemical Repertory written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Gas Light Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conrad's Shadow written by Nidesh Lawtoo and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.
Download or read book Illuminating Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illuminating Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Light and Lighting and Environmental Design by :
Download or read book Light and Lighting and Environmental Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of the Cypress by : Thomas Steinbeck
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Cypress written by Thomas Steinbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Steinbeck has been praised by Publishers Weekly for his stylistic brilliance and “accomplished voice.” Now, his enthralling novel In the Shadow of the Cypress blends history and suspense with literary mastery and brings vivid realism to California’s rich heritage. In 1906, the Chinese in California lived in the shadows. Their alien customs, traditions, and language hid what they valued from their neighbors . . . and left them open to scorn and prejudice. Their communities were ruled—and divided—by the necessity of survival among the many would-be masters surrounding them, by struggles between powerful tongs, and by duty to their ancestors. Then, in the wake of natural disaster, fate brought to light artifacts of incredible value along the Monterey coast: an ancient Chinese jade seal and a plaque inscribed in a trio of languages lost to all but scholars of antiquity. At first, chance placed control of those treasures in the hands of outsiders—the wayward Irishman who’d discovered them and a marine scholar who was determined to explore their secrets. The path to the truth, however, would prove to be as tangled as the roots of the ancient cypress that had guarded these treasures for so long, for there are some secrets the Chinese were not ready to share. Whether by fate, by subtle design, or by some intricate combination of the two, the artifacts disappeared again . . . before it could be proved that they must have come there ages before Europeans ever touched the wild and beautiful California coast. Nearly a century would pass before an unconventional young American scientist unearths evidence of this great discovery and its mysterious disappearance. Taking up the challenge, he begins to assemble a new generation of explorers to resume theperilous search into the ocean’s depth . . . and theshadows of history. Armed with cutting-edge, moderntechnology, and drawing on connections to powerful families at home and abroad, this time Americans and Chinese will follow together the path of secrets that have long proved as elusive as the ancient treasures that held them. This striking debut novel by a masterful writer weaves together two fascinating eras into one remarkable tale. In the Shadow of the Cypress is an evocative, dramatic story that depicts California in all its multicultural variety, with a suspense that draws the reader inexorably on until the very last page.
Book Synopsis Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows by : Ryan Calejo
Download or read book Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows written by Ryan Calejo and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perfect pick for kids who love Rick Riordan.” —Booklist (starred review) “A winner for all kids, but it will be especially loved by Latinx and Hispanic families.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Lightning Thief meets the Story Thieves series in this middle grade fantasy inspired by Hispanic folklore, legends, and myths from the Iberian Peninsula and Central and South America. Charlie Hernández has always been proud of his Latin American heritage. He loves the culture, the art, and especially the myths. Thanks to his abuela’s stories, Charlie possesses an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the monsters and ghouls who have spent the last five hundred years haunting the imaginations of children all across the Iberian Peninsula, as well as Central and South America. And even though his grandmother sometimes hinted that the tales might be more than mere myth, Charlie’s always been a pragmatist. Even barely out of diapers, he knew the stories were just make-believe—nothing more than intricately woven fables meant to keep little kids from misbehaving. But when Charlie begins to experience freaky bodily manifestations—ones all too similar to those described by his grandma in his favorite legend—he is suddenly swept up in a world where the mythical beings he’s spent his entire life hearing about seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Hispanic folklore and into his life. And even stranger, they seem to know more about him than he knows about himself. Soon, Charlie finds himself in the middle of an ancient battle between La Liga, a secret society of legendary mythological beings sworn to protect the Land of the Living, and La Mano Peluda (a.k.a. the Hairy Hand), a cabal of evil spirits determined to rule mankind. With only the help of his lifelong crush, Violet Rey, and his grandmother’s stories to guide him, Charlie must navigate a world where monsters and brujas rule and things he couldn’t possibly imagine go bump in the night. That is, if he has any hope of discovering what’s happening to him and saving his missing parents (oh, and maybe even the world). No pressure, muchacho.
Book Synopsis An Inconvenient Match by : Janet Dean
Download or read book An Inconvenient Match written by Janet Dean and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.
