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Chasing Dreams in Lefkas

Author : Diane Griffith
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606930478
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Dreams in Lefkas written by Diane Griffith and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring and true adventure story is about the author and her husband's journey to find beauty and meaning on the little known Island of Lefkas. The realistic descriptions of the people and places in the evocatively Greek environment take you right there with them, sharing in this heart-warming venture. The text moves along at a comfortable pace, and the prose is vivid and full of memorable images that contrast the Island's beauty with their traveling hardships. Follow them on their journey and find out if they found the secret of true happiness, or were they merely chasing dreams? Note from the author: I wrote this book because I wanted to share some unforgettable experiences with other dreamers who might not have had the opportunity to 'opt out of the rat race' the way my husband, Tony and I did in 1991. It was a way out of a depressing situation when Tony was made redundant shortly before his 50th birthday. When you have reached rock bottom there is nowhere else to go, but up. When you lose all material things sometimes if you are determined you can overcome all difficulties, but you have to have a dream and follow it. Then you can gain so much more. Because we live in a pre-planned society rare opportunities are often missed. It is only when we look back we wonder why we never saw them at the time. Why did we hesitate? Why did we lose our dreams? Maybe in the great scheme of things there is a reason for everything. Maybe the drastic change in our circumstances was an opportunity for us to find our dream and have the adventure of a lifetime... This is what I want to share in the hope that it will help people in today's economic crisis to take on a challenge, to find a dream and do something that they might never have done. Then they can look back and say, "I'm glad we had that recession."

Travel, Tourism, and Identity

Author : Gabriel R. Ricci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351301101
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Travel, Tourism, and Identity written by Gabriel R. Ricci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups. Whether such contact is the result of tourism, seeking exile, or relocating abroad, the volume's contributors demonstrate how one's identity, cultural assumptions, and worldview can be brought into question. In some cases, the traveller finds that bridging the social and cultural gap between himself and the new society is fairly easy. In other cases, the traveller discovers that reorienting himself requires absorbing a new cultural history and traditions. The contributors argue that making these adjustments will surely enhance the traveller's or tourist's experience; otherwise the traveller or tourist will be at risk of becoming a marginalized figure, one disconnected from the society that surrounds him. This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series features a collection of essays on travel and tourism. The essays cover a range of topics from historical travels to modern social identities. They discuss ancient travels, contemporary travels in Europe, Africa and sustainable eco-tourism, and the politics of tourism. Essays also address experiences of Grenada's "Spice Island" identity, and the effects of globalization and migrations on personal identity.

Blue Horizons

Author : Nataša Rogelja
Publisher : Založba ZRC
ISBN 13 : 9610500080
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Blue Horizons written by Nataša Rogelja and published by Založba ZRC. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of opening of internal borders within the EU and rapid development of affordable navigation technology, there is a constantly increasing number of people in the Mediterranean who have adopted a lifestyle that revolves around living working and traveling on sailing boats. On the ground of ethnography among liveaboards in Greece the book discusses the following questions: How can we conceptualise these novel forms of movements that seem to sit uncomfortably in between the standard dichotomized division of work within migration studies and wider social sciences: internal/international migration, temporary/permanent, migration/tourism? How do we theoretically and methodologically situate these individuals that are statistically often invisible and seem to evade the common categories of describing a mobile person, such as migrant or tourist? In order to answer these questions, the author explores ethnographically the connection between the maritime environment, sea imaginaries and lifestyle migration. It puts forward six crew portraits in order to highlight details from individuals’ lives on a longer time perspective but also to place the individual stories, sea imaginaries and people’s experiences with the maritime environment in dialogue with each other. This makes it possible to better understand the expectations, aspirations and experiences of maritime lifestyle migrants and to discuss further the idea of temporarily unbelonging in practice. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Z odprtjem internih mej v EU in zavoljo hitrega razvoja lahko dostopne navigacijske tehnologije je v okviru Mediterana opaziti naraščanje števila ljudi iz zahodne Evrope, ki so razvili poseben življenjski stil – združevanje dela, potovanja in vsakdanjega življenja na jadrnicah. V knjigi so etnografsko osvetljena sledeča vprašanja: Kako konceptualizirati te nove oblike gibanj, ki zavzemajo neudobno, vmesno pozicijo med standardnimi dihotomijami znotraj migracijskih študij kot tudi širše družbenih ved: notranje / mednarodne migracije; začasne / trajne migracije; migracije / turizem? Kako teoretično in metodološko umestiti tovrstne posameznike, ki so statistično pogosto nevidni in za katere se zdi, da se uspejo izognejo standardnim kategorizacijam mobilnih oseb (migrant, turist)? V iskanju odgovorov na zgoraj zastavljena vprašanja avtorica s pomočjo etnografske metode raziskuje povezavo med morjem, imaginariji morja in življenjsko-stilskimi migracijami. V ospredje postavlja šest etnografskih portretov, skozi katere osvetljuje podrobnosti iz življenj posameznikov v daljšem časovnem obdobju, imaginarije morja in fizične izkušnje z morskim okoljem. Na ta način lahko bolje razumem pričakovanja, aspiracije in izkušnje pomorskih življenjsko-stilskih migrantov in poglobimo razprave o začasnem nepripadanju v praksi.

The French Revolution in Global Perspective

Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467470
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution in Global Perspective written by Suzanne Desan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues. Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University

Granny's Magic Garden

Author : Diane Griffith
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606939254
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Granny's Magic Garden written by Diane Griffith and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George and Freddie share the same Daddy as Harvey and Saffie, so they are a very special kind of family. All of them love to hear stories from their Granny about the mystical things that go on in her garden during the night. Also, some amazing things sometimes happen when they play in her garden during the day. Join George, Freddie, Harvey and Saffie as they explore the wonders of Granny's Magic Garden! Author Diane Griffith was born in Scotland, spent her childhood in Wales, and grew up in Merseyside, England. Now she lives in Cyprus with her husband Tony and elderly mother. Diane began telling the stories found in Granny's Magic Garden to her own grandchildren, who enjoyed them so much that she wanted to share them with other children. A writer in many genres, Diane's other publications include Chasing Dreams in Lefkas, a true adventure story, also published by Eloquent Books, as well as the upcoming It Mattered Yesterday and A Moment to Remember, both romantic fiction.

Hearing Homer's Song

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520945
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Homer's Song written by Robert Kanigel and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.

The Summer of My Greek Taverna

Author : Tom Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074324771X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Summer of My Greek Taverna written by Tom Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Stone was living in a drafty apartment in Crete, teaching English to bored civil servants when a phone call changed his life.

A Moment to Remember: To Forgive, Divine

Author : Diane Griffith
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160976952X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Moment to Remember: To Forgive, Divine written by Diane Griffith and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison and Rob are childhood playmates in the small village of Sarn, North Wales. Although Alison moves away with her parents, she longs to return to be with her grandparents and Rob. In A Moment to Remember: To Forgive, Divine, a sad turn of events takes Alison back home, and she and Rob are re-united. They grow up within the tangled relationships of close family life and hidden secrets. Alison finds her feelings for Rob are changing into young love. She moves again with her parents to Liverpool. Rob surprises Alison at her eighteenth birthday party, and the following year they get married. They are delighted when their baby son is born. Then Alison's happiness is turned upside down when Rob leaves her for another woman. Alison also meets someone, a young man who makes her world brighter. As she gets to know him, she finds that through their troubles they are drawn together. Meanwhile, Rob is sorry he ever left his wife. When Alison hears from Rob, she is relieved but still angry, until she remembers something her grandfather told her when she was a child. His advice gives her the strength to meet with her husband. As her grandfather said, "To err is human, To Forgive Divine."

Amazing Grace

Author : Lee Albert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418402893
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Grace written by Lee Albert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was chosen meekly to die an inner death but had one gift hidden in his meek voice, the gift of editing to starkness the quest that had entombed his captured soul. Now the world can hear this childs plea as he brings to life the Holy Grail Quest. Born into a culture of sexual ignorance and denial, he is unable to realize his deepest dreams due to inexplicable fears and a deep sense of shame. His life however is held together by a sense of the divine experience, born from a love of singing. He is driven to succeed and travels through 36 countries over 21 years. Eventually realizing he is a captive prisoner he turns for help to a little know African plant. He then watches in horror as his soul releases itself and begins a journey of reclamation. We see through the authors naked self the underlying factors which give rise to modern Ireland as he struggles and ultimately succeeds to free himself from their chains - the Irish psyche and its history are laid bare. This, the first of three books, paves the way for an eclectic look at spirituality in the modern world in the context of African Spirituality, Western History and the banished Child within and offers a powerfully effective old way adapted to the 21st century to heal the hurt and pain that lies in all of us.

Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet

Author : Jess Stearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553126044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet written by Jess Stearn and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life and prophecies of the American mystic who accomplished medical cures and foresaw future events.

The Satanic Witch

Author : Anton Szandor LaVey
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1932595589
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Satanic Witch written by Anton Szandor LaVey and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, may be the most notoriously familiar for his Satanic Bible, but The Satanic Witch best reflects the discoveries Anton made in his younger days working the carny shows and Mitt Camps. This is undiluted Gypsy lore regarding the forbidden knowledge of seduction and manipulation. The Satanic Witch is not designed for Barbie Dolls, but women cunning and crafty enough to employ the workable formulas within, which instantly surpass the entire catalogue of self-help tomes and New Age idiocies. The Introduction — Peggy Nadramia, High Priestess of the Church of Satan, tells us how this book changed her life. The Afterword — Blanche Barton, Anton LaVey’s biographer, Chairmistress of the Council of Nine, and mother of Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey, Anton’s third child, informs us how The Satanic Witch came to pass and influence the behavior of so many women.

Shamans

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082644637X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Shamans written by Ronald Hutton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their ability to enter trances, to change into the bodies of other creatures, and to fly through the northern skies, shamans are the subject of both popular and scholarly fascination. In Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination Ronald Hutton looks at what is really known about both the shamans of Siberia and about others spread throughout the world. He traces the growth of knowledge of shamans in Imperial and Stalinist Russia, descibes local variations and different types of shamanism, and explores more recent western influences on its history and modern practice. This is a challenging book by one of the world's leading authorities on Paganism.

Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481336
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Words in Blood, Like Flowers written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Nietzsche claim to have "written in blood"? Why did Heidegger remain silent after World War II about his participation in the Nazi Party? How did Hölderlin's voice and the voices of other, more ancient poets come to echo in philosophy? Words in Blood, Like Flowers is a classical expression of continental philosophy that critically engages the intersection of poetry, art, music, politics, and the erotic in an exploration of the power they have over us. While focusing on three key figures—Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger—this volume covers a wide range of material, from the Ancient Greeks to the vicissitudes of the politics of our times, and approaches these and other questions within their hermeneutic and historical contexts. Working from primary texts and a wide range of scholarly sources in French, German, and English, this book is an important contribution to philosophy's most ancient quarrels not only with poetry, but also with music and erotic love.

The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation

Author : Panteleymon Anastasakis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823262014
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation written by Panteleymon Anastasakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axis forces (Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria) occupied Greece from 1941 to 1944. The unimaginable hardships caused by foreign occupation were compounded by the flight of the government days before enemy forces reached Athens. This national crisis forced the Church of Greece, an institution accustomed to playing a central political and social role during times of crisis, to fill the political vacuum. Led by Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, the clergy sought to maintain the cultural, spiritual, and territorial integrity of the nation during this harrowing period. Circumstances forced the clergy to create a working relationship with the major political actors, including the Axis authorities, their Greek allies, and the growing armed resistance movements, especially the communist-led National Liberation Front. In so doing the church straddled a fine line between collaboration and resistance—individual clerics, for instance, negotiated with Axis authorities to gain small concessions, while simultaneously resisting policies deemed detrimental to the nation. Drawing on official archives—of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the British Foreign Office, the U.S. State Department, and the Greek Holy Synod—alongside an impressive breadth of published literature, this book provides a refreshingly nuanced account of the Greek clergy’s complex response to the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. The author’s comprehensive portrait of the reaction of Damaskinos and his colleagues, including tensions and divisions within the clergy, provides a uniquely balanced exploration of the critical role they played during the occupation. It helps readers understand how and why traditional institutions such as the Church played a central social and political role in moments of social upheaval and distress. Indeed, as this book convincingly shows, the Church was the only institution capable of holding Greek society together during World War II. While The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation elucidates the significant differences between the Greek case and those of other territories in Axis-occupied Europe, it also offers fresh insight into the similarities. Greek clerics dealt with many of the same challenges clerics faced in other parts of Hitler’s empire, including exceptionally brutal reprisal policies, deprivation and hunger, and the complete collapse of the social and political order caused by years of enemy occupation. By examining these challenges, this illuminating new book is an important contribution not only to Greek historiography but also to the broader literatures on the Holocaust, collaboration and resistance during World War II, and church–state relations during times of crisis.

Albanian Identities

Author : Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341891
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Albanian Identities written by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this study critically de-construct Albanian myths and offer insights into Albanian history and politics. They conclude with contemporary Albanian critiques of the origins and functions of Albanian politics and ideologies.

Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art

Author : Sarah P. Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691001609
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art written by Sarah P. Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the myths surrounding Daidalos as an example to describe the profound influence of the Near East on ancient Greece's artistic and literary origins.

Lifestyle Migration

Author : Michaela Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131710515X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Lifestyle Migration written by Michaela Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.