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Diving for Pearls

Author : Jamie O'Connell
Publisher : Bantam Press
ISBN 13 : 9781529176735
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls written by Jamie O'Connell and published by Bantam Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman's body floats in the Dubai marina. Her death alters the fates of six people, each one striving for a better life in an unforgiving city. A young Irish man comes to stay with his sister, keen to erase his troubled past in the heat of the Dubai sun. A Russian sex worker has outsmarted the system so far - but will her luck run out? A Pakistani taxi driver dreams of a future for his daughters. An Emirate man hides the truth about who he really is. An Ethiopian maid tries to carve out a path of her own. From every corner of the globe, Dubai has made promises to them all. Promises of gilded opportunities and bright new horizons, the chance to forget the past and protect long-held secrets. But Dubai breaks its promises, with deadly consequences. In a city of mirages, how do you find your way out?

Nan Goldin

Author : Lotte Dinse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783958290945
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Nan Goldin written by Lotte Dinse and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retrospective of photographer Nan Goldin's work. Diving for Pearls features photography from past exhibits and book, ranging from the early 1990s to 2015. Interspersed within are essays written by Nan Goldin, Lotte Dinse, and Glenn O'Brien.

Diving for Pearls

Author : Rachael Morlock
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508164428
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls written by Rachael Morlock and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls are beautiful flukes of nature. The only gemstones formed inside living creatures, these lustrous gems have fascinated mankind for centuries. Readers will be enchanted by this thorough study of pearls, how they're formed, how they're collected, and their historic uses. Meeting Next Generation Science Standards with a unique spin on curricular subject matter, this book is a guaranteed jaw-dropper for young scientists.

Diving for Pearls

Author : Kathleen B. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986058608
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls written by Kathleen B. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen B. Jones brings a scholar's insights and a lyrical voice to this philosophical memoir about her thirty-year fascination with Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's most controversial thinkers. With Arendt as her guide, Jones recounts stories from her own life interwoven with Arendt's life and work, demonstrating Arendt's enduring relevance to thinking about the dilemmas of modern life. Editorial Reviews "An extraordinary accomplishment! First off, the writing is beautiful. Diving for Pearls is both biography and autobiography. As a biography of Hannah Arendt it is scholarly and sensitive, guided by Arendt's own hauntingly autobiographical biography of Rahel Varnhagen. As autobiography, it is literary, honest and thoughtful in the Arendtian sense of being actively engaged in thinking. Jones adopts Arendt as a thinking partner, and moves with her toward existential responsibility and gratitude for one's own life. Arendt commented that love is a kind of friendship across the distance the world puts between us. Kathleen B. Jones shows us how love and friendship are possible even across the distance in time the world puts between generations." Daniel Maier-Katkin, author of Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness "Kathleen B. Jones has done what is rarely possible: writing with stunning intellect from the depths of her own heart. In Diving for Pearls, as in all of her work, Jones emulates Arendt by letting no thought go unexamined, no belief unchallenged, no tradition remain a sacred cow. With her typical no-holds-barred honesty, Jones weaves the fascinating story of her own life through this study of Arendt, probing the difference between what we are and who we are, to get at what it means to live authentically and ethically both as individuals and as citizens of the many communities we inhabit." Laurel Corona, author of Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance, and The Mapmaker's Daughter. "Kathleen B. Jones "slips into the skin" of Hannah Arendt to masterfully weave Arendt's thought and life together with significant moments in her own life story. What Jones finds illuminates the lives of female thinkers and the links between intellectual women across time and place. A beautifully written exploration of memory, loss, responsibility, and love, this book is an exemplar of passionate and engaged political thinking." Lori Marso, author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women.

Diving for Pearls

Author : Maggie Kay
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178099883X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls written by Maggie Kay and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part true love story and part how-to guide, Maggie Kay's book Diving For Pearls takes the reader with her on the spiritual adventure of her life and shares how she eventually found what she was longing for - deep trust in her own inner wisdom and a soul mate life partner that meets her on all levels.

Pearls and Pearling Life

Author : Edwin William Streeter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pearls and Pearling Life written by Edwin William Streeter and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pearl Diver

Author : Jeff Talarigo
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429148
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Pearl Diver written by Jeff Talarigo and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.

Our Dementia Diary

Author : Rachael Dixey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909339743
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Our Dementia Diary written by Rachael Dixey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saeed is going to learn how to dive - his father has promised to teach him! It is the start of the pearling season and this is his first trip out on the waters of the Arabian Gulf. Leaving the rest of his family behind on the shore, Saeed and his father join the crew of a pearling dhow and set out to spend the hot summer months on the high seas. He learns how the pearl divers hunt for the treasures of the seabed, and discovers the secrets and dangers of the sea.This delightful story, carefully researched from oral and written sources - some dating from more than 150 years ago - offers an insight into the way of life that sustained the Arabian Gulf right up until the discovery of oil. The winning charm of Patricia Al Fakhri's watercolors combine with Julia Johnson's narrative to make The Pearl Diver a perennial favorite with children aged 8 to 12.Since its first publication in 2003, it has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide.The Pearl Diver is a suggested resource in Hamilton Trust's Key Stage 2 unit on stories from other cultures.

Who Is Michael Jang?

Author : Michael Jang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733622011
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Who Is Michael Jang? written by Michael Jang and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diving for Pearls: Exploring Philosophy with My Father

Author : Thomas Brockelman
Publisher : Standing Stone Books
ISBN 13 : 9781636256207
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls: Exploring Philosophy with My Father written by Thomas Brockelman and published by Standing Stone Books. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Brockelman's book is a loving tribute to his philosopher father as well as an artful exploration of various important philosophical issues that are relevant to everyday life, such as the nature of religious belief, the definition of a "good" life, and the challenge of facing our own mortality. Anyone who has ever wondered "how should I live," or "am I living an honest and worthy life?" should read this book.

Diving for Pearls

Author : Katherine Thomson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459660076
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Diving for Pearls written by Katherine Thomson and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glossy resort grows in place of the old community of steel - workers. Two ordinary people, the doggedly optimistic Barbara and the resentful Den, struggle to adjust to the changes....

Deep

Author : James Nestor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547985525
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Deep written by James Nestor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the achievements of adventurous scientists, athletes and explorers to reveal how new understandings about deep-sea life, from telepathic coral to shark navigation, are expanding what is known about the natural world and the human mind. 40,000 first printing.

Arnie

Author : Arnie Duffield
Publisher : Xlibris Au
ISBN 13 : 9781664105218
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Arnie written by Arnie Duffield and published by Xlibris Au. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Arnie Duffield, who arrived at Thursday Island, in Torres Strait, the Northern tip of Australia, aged ten, in 1936 - beginning a life-time of adventure. His father worked on the famous sailing luggers, diving boats that harvested pearl shells and pearls for over 100 years up to 1980. Arnie with his father and brother, with their own hands would build their own flotilla of luggers, to operate as a family company over eventful decades: seeing the Great Depression, war and the immediate threat of invasion, a post-war boom in the region, the loss of divers and constant striving for safety at sea, failures of an industry, mounting threats to the environment. For ten years he managed an innovative project cultivating pearls for jewellery, a change from selling shells, the `mother of pearl' used for buttons and ornamentation. The tropical life provided excitement, stimulus, dangers; material for yarns, about crocodiles or sharks, drunks, bad weather at sea, a near-drowning, a mercy dash in a fast boat to save a downed pilot, and a few close shaves on bush air-strips. Arnie became a leading personality in this world, a humourist and practitioner of the wisecrack, always quick with a come-back. From childhood days observing the hectic life of the far-away little port at Thursday Island, Waiben under its traditional name; then working as a young man, repairing warships, and operating the family-owned boats, he became, he would proudly state, a master mariner and proficient ship engineer. He would revel in the island life, enjoying great freedom, getting successes and hard blows; in private life, marrying, starting a family, experiencing the stresses and joys. At 95 he is known as the "last man standing" from days when the fleet would depart under sail.

The White Divers of Broome

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Pan Australia
ISBN 13 : 1741978041
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The White Divers of Broome written by John Bailey and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Longitude and The Surgeon of Crowthorne comes a gripping work of narrative history, set in Australia's far north-west. In 1912 Broome was as much Asian as Australian, filled with the smell of unfamiliar spices and a babel of competing languages. It was a frontier town, where racial tensions simmered uneasily between whites, Asians and Aborigines; age-long inhabitants of the land around Broome who had been originally forced to skin-dive for shells, but who were now displaced and discarded as it became harder to find. In that year, twelve British Royal Navy-trained divers and their tenders were sent to Broome, urged on by a Federal Government deep in the grip of the 'White Australia' policy and anxious to rid the country of the last remaining Asian 'taint'. Their task was to master the perilous art of pearl-shell diving, and overcome the Asian stranglehold on the pearling industry, proving once and for all the supremacy of the white man over the coloured. The White Divers of Broome tells the extraordinary story of this experiment, and its fatal aftermath. Set against the backdrop of Broome, it vividly conjures up a world where lanes and slums teemed with hawkers, noodle stalls, opium dens and prostitutes more redolent of Asia than Australia; and where pearl shell mattered more than human life. The White Divers of Broome is a gripping narrative, and a window on a past that echoes with many of the same fears, prejudices and hopes as our society today.

Slaves of One Master

Author : Matthew S. Hopper
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213921
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Slaves of One Master written by Matthew S. Hopper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Whereas conventional historiography regards the Indian Ocean slave trade as fundamentally different from its Atlantic counterpart, Hopper’s study argues that both systems were influenced by global economic forces. The author goes on to dispute the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the end of the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf to the efforts of the British Royal Navy, arguing instead that Great Britain allowed the inhuman practice to continue because it was vital to the Gulf economy and therefore vital to British interests in the region. Hopper’s book links the personal stories of enslaved Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, demonstrating how the growing demand for workers created by a global demand for Persian Gulf products compelled the enslavement of these people and their transportation to eastern Arabia. His provocative and deeply researched history fills a salient gap in the literature on the African diaspora.

Bella Sara #9: Coral and the Pearl Diver

Author : Felicity Brown
Publisher : HarperFestival
ISBN 13 : 9780061687884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Bella Sara #9: Coral and the Pearl Diver written by Felicity Brown and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the world of magical horses . . . A beautiful water horse, Coral is destined to meet a special girl in need of her guidance. Coral must lead the young girl to important discoveries that will change the course of their destinies forever.

Pearls

Author : Fred Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963372390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Pearls written by Fred Ward and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth in the Fred Ward Gem Book Series, PEARLS, REVISED, has new color photographs with the latest most accurate information. Everything you need to know about pearls: culturing, buying, and caring for them. The history and lore of pearls covers natural, cultured, saltwater, freshwater, mother-of-pearl and imitation.