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The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories

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Author : Sudhā Mūrti
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143330066
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories written by Sudhā Mūrti and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess thinks she was a bird, a coconut that cost a thousand rupees, and a shepherd with a bag of words...Kings and misers, princes and paupers, wise men and foolish boys, the funniest and oddest men and women come alive in this sparkling new collection of stories. The clever princess will only marry the man who can ask her a question she cannot answer; the orphan boy outwits his greedy uncles with a bag of ash; and an old couple in distress is saved by a magic drum. Sudha Murty's grandparents told her some of these stories when she was a child; others she heard from her friends from around the world. These delightful and timeless folktales have been her favourites for years, and she has recounted them many times over to the young people in her life. With this collection, they will be enjoyed by many more readers, of all ages. Age group of target audience is 8+.

Roma and Gypsy-Travellers in Europe

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Author : Angus Bancroft
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780754639213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Roma and Gypsy-Travellers in Europe written by Angus Bancroft and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first account of Roma and Gypsy-Travellers from a pan-European perspective. With a comparative focus on Britain and the Czech Republic, it considers their contemporary experiences and needs in the context of their relationship with the rest of society".--BOOKJACKET.

Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools

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Author : Chris Derrington
Publisher : Trentham Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gypsy Traveller Students in Secondary Schools written by Chris Derrington and published by Trentham Books Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the findings from the first British national longitudinal study of Gypsy Traveller students in secondary schools. This unique phenomenological study, sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation, documents the educational experience of 44 Gypsy Travellers in secondary schools since 2000.

Young Turk: A Novel

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Author : Moris Farhi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628720565
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Young Turk: A Novel written by Moris Farhi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a writer whose international acclaim can now spread to US shores comes a wise, craftily spun, and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage, and the forging of conscience-'a novel of startling integrity and beauty' (Independent on Sunday). In the beginning there is death, says one narrator in this enthralling 'treasure of a novel' (Alan Silletoe), but after that there is life: robust, riotous, nave, sensual, tragic, and profound. Through a series of 13 linked stories connected by a circle of young friends, Moris Farhi writes of the trials and joys of children coming of age in an increasingly dangerous and politicized world: Turkey just before, during, and after World War II. The death at the beginning is that of a girl endowed with second sight, who sees the war and the Holocaust coming and can't bear the gift of life. For Musa, a boy allowed into the women's bath like a fly in a bowl of naked fruit, the change comes when one woman notices his manhood. Bilal, a Jew, sets off for occupied Greece to rescue his relatives and never comes back. Davut participates in a plot to save a poet who is a national hero and anathema to the ruling party, and finds his innocence abused by the plotters. Here is a novel that captures the richness of a moment in history and the timeless aspirations of youth. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Age of Orphans

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Author : Laleh Khadivi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191583
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Orphans written by Laleh Khadivi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20th century everyman, cast out from the clan in the name of nation, progress and modernity who cannot help but leave behind a shadow that yearns for the impossible dreams of love, land and home. Before following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy: in love with his Maman, fascinated by birds and the rugged Zagros mountains, dutiful to his stern and powerful Baba. But after he becomes orphaned in a massacre by the armies of Iran's new Shah, Reza Pahlavi I.; he is taken in by the very army that has killed his parents, re-named Reza Khourdi, and indoctrinated into the modern, seductive ways of the newly minted nation, careful to hide his Kurdish origins with every step. The Age of Orphans follows Reza on his meteoric rise in ranks, his marriage to a proud Tehrani woman and his eventual deployment, as Capitan, back to the Zagros Mountains and the ever-defiant Kurds. Here Reza is responsible for policing, and sometimes killing, his own people, and it is here that his carefully crafted persona begins to fissure and crack.

Tegonni

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Author : Femi Osofisan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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A Designated Man

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Author : Moris Farhi
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846591163
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book A Designated Man written by Moris Farhi and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osip returns home to a remote island in theMediterranean, hoping that it will provide hima haven after the traumas of war. On his arrival, he narrowly escapes death at the hands of Bostan, a supreme feudist. The island, he discovers, is still governed by the archaic code of honour which has condemned the inhabitants to perpetual bloodshed and obliterated countless families, including Osip's own. Helped by the aged Kokona, and by her earthy lover, Dev, Osip restores the watermill he has inherited. Soon, he and Bostan cross paths again. Beguiled by Bostan,Osip befriends him.When Bostan is ambushed by other feudists and left for dead, Osip rushes to his aid. While dressing his wounds, he discovers Bostan's true identity. When Bostan recovers, the two of them set out to end the eternal feuding. A deeply affecting fable that resounds with hope.

Shumaisi

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Author : Turkī Ḥamad
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Shumaisi written by Turkī Ḥamad and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of al-Hamad's explosive Saudi coming of age trilogy.

Tokyo Cancelled

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Author : Rana Dasgupta
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199704
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Cancelled written by Rana Dasgupta and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen strangers stranded in an Asian airport spin tales that “outdo Arabian Nights for inventiveness” in this debut novel (The Guardian). Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they huddle by the baggage carousels and tell each other stories. So begins Tokyo Cancelled, a unique literary adventure that combines a modern landscape with a timeless, fairy-tale ethos. In his delightful debut, Dasgupta brings to life a cast of extraordinary individuals—some lost, some confused, some happy—in a world that remains ineffable, inexplicable, and wonderful. A Ukrainian merchant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; Robert De Niro’s son masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a man who manipulates other people’s memories has to confront his own past; a Japanese entrepreneur risks everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl has a strange encounter with a German man who is mapping the world. Told by people on a journey, these stories “tackle themes of transit, dislocation and uprootedness” in a “sprawling, experimental project achieves an exotic luster” (Publishers Weekly).

Dreams of Speaking

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Author : Gail Jones
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1741667232
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of Speaking written by Gail Jones and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving novel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty Lights and Five Bells. She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction, the summoning of remote meanings, an extra dimension - supernatural, sure. There had to be a lost sublimity, of something once strange, now familiar, tame.''We must talk, Alice Black, about this world of modern things. This buzzing world." Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. Like Alice, he is culturally and geographically displaced. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings become a mutual support for each other a long way from home. This novel from prize-winning author Gail Jones is distinguished in its honesty and intelligence. From the boundlessness of space walking to the frustrating constrictions of one person's daily existence, Dreams of Speaking paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone.

History of Education

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Author : Deirdre Raftery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134915691
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book History of Education written by Deirdre Raftery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned to mark the 40th Anniversary of History of Education, and containing articles from leading international scholars, this is a unique and important volume. Over the past forty years, scholars working in the history of education have engaged with histories of religion, gender, science and culture, and have developed comparative research on areas such as education, race and class. This volume demonstrates the richness of such work, bringing together some of the leading international scholars writing in the field of history of education today, and providing readers with original and theoretically informed research. Each author draws on the wealth of material that has appeared in the leading SSCI-indexed journal History of Education, over the past forty years, providing readers with not only incisive studies of major themes, but delivering invaluable research bibliographies. A ‘must have’ for university libraries and a ‘must own’ for historians. This book was originally published as a special issue of History of Education.

The Bus Stopped

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Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447230930
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Bus Stopped written by Tabish Khair and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very angry bus driver, abandoned by his wife and going nowhere in his career; a sanctimonious conductor; a hijra, or eunuch, a remnant of India's Muslim glory days; a nervous, half-Indian businessman clutching a briefcase-full of cash; a right-wing Hindu matriarch; a young boy returning to his village after robbing his employer . . . They meet – and witness a tragic event – only because they are all travelling on the same bus, in the same direction, on the same day. With exceptional poise and beguiling simplicity, Khair introduces a range of voices, thoughts, ideas and identities, allowing each individual’s story to unfold gradually. ‘A novel that reflects deeply into the nature and circumstances of human mobility in our modern, unforgiving world’ Siddhartha Deb, Outlook ‘There is much to enjoy here . . . The twist at the end is hilarious. Khair’s talent is as a miniaturist’ Fiona Hook, The Times ‘It’s a fine work: short, sweet and brutal’ James Smart, Sunday Herald ‘A lyrical journey through small-town India’ Independent ‘[The Bus Stopped] allows stories to emerge with immediacy and leisure, with abrupt shafts of humour’ Guardian

The Bridge

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Author : Geert Mak
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009953214X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge written by Geert Mak and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul s Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe. Geert Mak introduces us to the woman who sells lottery tickets, the cigarette vendors, and the best pickpockets in Europe. He tells us about the pride of the cobbler and the tea-seller's homesickness. And he describes the role of honor in Turkish culture, the temptations of fundamentalism and violence, and the urge to survive, even in the face of despair. These stories of the bridge s denizens are interwoven with vignettes illuminating moments in the history of Istanbul and Turkey and shedding light on Turkey s relationship with Europe and the West, the Armenian question, the migration from the Turkish countryside to the city, and the demise of the Ottoman Empire."

Skylark Farm

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Author : Antonia Arslan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095670
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylark Farm written by Antonia Arslan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, wrenching debut chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915. After forty years in Venice, Yerwant is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead in the Anatolian hills of Turkey. But as joyful preparations begin, Italy enters the Great War and closes its borders. At the same time, in Turkey, the Young Turks, determined to rid their nation of minorities, force his family on a brutal march of hunger and humiliation. We follow Yerwant's relatives as they strain to stay alive and as four children set out on a daring course to reach Yerwant—and safety—in Italy. A novel as lyrical and poignant as a fable.

Gilgamesh

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Author : Joan London
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219947X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Joan London and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book from the author of The Golden Age. “A remarkable study of a young woman’s most literal rite of passage” (The Baltimore Sun). Gilgamesh is a rich, spare, and evocative novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, a debut that marked the emergence of a world-class talent. It is 1937, and the modern world is waiting to erupt. On a farm in rural Australia, seventeen-year-old Edith lives with her mother and her sister, Frances. One afternoon two men, her English cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram, arrive—taking the long way home from an archaeological dig in Iraq—to captivate Edith with tales of a world far beyond the narrow horizon of her small town of Nunderup. One such story is the epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient Mesopotamian king who traveled the world in search of eternal life. Two years later, in 1939, Edith and her young son, Jim, set off on their own journey, to Soviet Armenia, where they are trapped by the outbreak of war. Rich, spare, and evocative, Gilgamesh won The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. “Bold and beautiful . . . [An] astonishing saga . . . A woman as epic hero? It’s high time.” —Cathleen Medwick, O, The Oprah Magazine

Hikayat

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Author : Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846591686
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Hikayat written by Roseanne Saad Khalaf and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lebanon's golden age, through years of civil conflict and its aftermath, these women offer a captivating portrait of a country in flux. Well-known authors such as Emily Nasarallah, Hanan al-Shaykh and Alawiya Sobh, alongside newer voices, share he desire to push boundaries, tackling subjects from the crippling effects of war in past decades, through longing for romantic adventures in a conservative society, to the functioning of families across the divides of emigration and generational conflict. The characters in these stories are on the brink of something - whether it be religious or social divides, or sexual awakening. The language reflects the great tension, and the great beauty in their transformation. And the collection as a whole reveals the rich diversity of the complex multi-cultural society out of which these stories have emerged. 'In turn lyrical, sensuous, comic and ironic ... rare and fascinating ...' Independent 'Some truly insightful, engaging work ...' New Statesman

Facts and Fancies about Java

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Author : Augusta de Wit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Facts and Fancies about Java written by Augusta de Wit and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: