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Download or read book Dear Burma written by Randy Rosenthal and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2007, American neuroscientist James Stone decides to become a Buddhist monk and flies to Rangoon, Burma—now known as Yangon, Myanmar. Despite being hot and humid, Rangoon is like a Buddhist Disneyland, and at the iconic Shwedagon Pagoda, James meets U Nanda, a flamboyant monk who brings him to a nearby monastery, where he takes vows. Dissatisfied with the laxity of mainstream monastic life, James joins an intensive Vipassana meditation course, where he meets Daw Vira, a beautiful but mysterious British nun whom he follows to an idyllic monastery in the middle of the country. James wants to stay there forever, but his plans are diverted when he and Vira leave on a pilgrimage, participate in the massive anti-government protests known as the Saffron Revolution, and are then confined in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison. By the time Cyclone Nargis brings destruction to the country, James admits that his desire for Vira is stronger than his desire to achieve enlightenment. Written as a letter from James to his brother, Dear Burma is ultimately a love story—the story of an impossible love between a monk and a nun, and a love letter to Buddhism and a Burma now lost.
Book Synopsis Ballads of Burma (anecdotal and Analytical) by : M. C. Conway Poole
Download or read book Ballads of Burma (anecdotal and Analytical) written by M. C. Conway Poole and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burma written by Benedict Rogers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED For more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Accused of crimes against humanity, they have brutally mistreated their people. Yet, in the last few years, the pace of change has been breathtaking. Much is now hoped for. However, Burma is one of the most ethnically diverse nations in Southeast Asia: there are roughly seven major ethnic groups living along its borders. They have a long history of conflict with the government and have been cruelly treated by the current regime. Their future affects the country as a whole, as Benedict Rogers explains. Drawing heavily on his many fact-finding visits both inside Burma and along its frontiers, he gives a unique appraisal of the current ethnic situation and its implications for the nation as a whole. Wide-ranging, expertly researched, and full of brand new accounts of the courage and determination of the Burmese people, Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads explains the country's conflicted history, as well as its contemporary struggle for justice. Burma stands poised for freedom, or for further repression. No one can be sure. This fascinating and accessible book describes what is really happening inside this beautiful, secretive, and potentially prosperous country.
Book Synopsis Churchill Cold War Warrior by : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Download or read book Churchill Cold War Warrior written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston Churchill’s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unraveling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons by reuniting the 'Big Three'.
Download or read book Hunk City written by James Wilcox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astute and comical dissection of the culture wars-by the author of the much-loved Modern Baptists For More Than twenty years, James Wilcox has been cherished by reviewers and readers alike as one of the most talented American humorists. Since his classic Modern Baptists (picked by Harold Bloom as one of the few contemporary novels in his Western Canon), Wilcox has been charting the intricate spiritual topography of the South with inimitable wit and empathy. His "real comic genius" (Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review) has never been so brilliantly deployed as in this hilarious look at the peculiarly American cultural divisions of our times.
Download or read book I Was The Cat written by Paul Tobin and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Was the Cat
Book Synopsis The Changing Face of Southeast Asia by : Amry Vandenbosch
Download or read book The Changing Face of Southeast Asia written by Amry Vandenbosch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia, whose alienation might tilt the balance of power in favor of the Communist bloc, has become the focus of American foreign policy. Amry Vandenbosch and Richard Butwell here trace the development of the eight nations which comprise Southeast Asia and appraise their current role in international affairs. Although led to adopt state forms similar to those of the departing colonial powers, each nation traditionally had quite different political systems. It is the authors' thesis that their historical patterns of political and social behavior are re-emerging and that the chief differences among the national political systems and related ways of life can largely be explained in these terms. They feel that the main changes in Southeast Asia in the past two decades reflect the peculiar wedding of such historical considerations and the worldwide forces of democracy, communism, and economic development. Southeast Asia, the authors hold, can be viewed as a single collective political entity, for no country is free from direct or indirect influence from its neighbors and this interaction is increasing in quantity and intensity. The pattern of political development, the authors assert, is much colored by national variations of common occurrences, but paradoxically Southeast Asia has never meant more in terms of an interdependent unit historically than it does today.
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Download or read book The Baptist Missionary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baptist Missionary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
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Download or read book News (American Baptist Burma Mission) written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 2382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Burmese Loneliness by : Colin Metcalfe Enriquez
Download or read book A Burmese Loneliness written by Colin Metcalfe Enriquez and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Documents on Communism in Burma, 1945-1977 by : Klaus Fleischmann
Download or read book Documents on Communism in Burma, 1945-1977 written by Klaus Fleischmann and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Burma Research Society by : Burma Research Society
Download or read book The Journal of the Burma Research Society written by Burma Research Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
