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9 Highland Road

Author : Michael Winerip
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307820505
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book 9 Highland Road written by Michael Winerip and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Julie Callahan came to the house at 9 Highland Road in Glen Cove, New York, she had spent a good part of her young life in mental hospitals, her mental and emotional coherence nearly destroyed by a childhood of sexual abuse. Fred Grasso, a schizophrenic, had lived in a filthy single-room occupancy hotel. At 9 Highland Road they and their housemates were given a decent alternative to lives in institutions or in the streets. It was a place in which some even found the chance to get better. This perfectly observed and passionately imagined book takes us inside one of the supervised group homes that, in an age of shrinking state budgets and psychotropic drugs, have emerged as the backbone of America's mental health system. As it follows the progress and setbacks of residents, their families, and counselors and notes the embittered resistance their presence initially aroused in the neighborhood, 9 Highland Road succeeds in opening the locked world of mental illness. It does so with an empathy and insight that will change forever the way we understand and act in relation to that world.

Road through the Rain Forest

Author : David Hayano
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478632178
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Road through the Rain Forest written by David Hayano and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live the Awa, subsisting on root crops and raising domestic pigs. Like many cultures, the Awa must deal with and find solutions to the problems of human social existence: inevitable and rapid culture change, interpersonal squabbles, lying and deceit, adultery, sorcery, and unexpected death. They wait ambivalently for the building of a road that would put them in direct contact with the encroaching world of trade stores, outdoor markets, schools, and the government station. In the middle of this walks an anthropologist who learns that fieldwork is first and foremost about understanding lives, both his and theirs. This book is a personal narrative that provides an intimate glimpse of the actual conduct of fieldwork among diverse individuals with remarkably distinct views of their own culture. It is an account of intertwined lives—of living anthropology—and a road of hope and promise, despair and tragedy.

Highland Hopes

Author : Gary E. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764224522
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Highland Hopes written by Gary E. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Porter is determined to escape the confines of her mountain home and her strained relationship with her father.

Living Leaders of the World

Author : Lew Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Living Leaders of the World written by Lew Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000598586
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia by : Jelle J.P. Wouters

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia written by Jelle J.P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.

A History of the Highland Clearances

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000081613
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.

Living the California Dream

Author : Alison Rose Jefferson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229061
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Living the California Dream written by Alison Rose Jefferson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

The Desire of Every Living Thing

Author : Don Gillmor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307363651
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Desire of Every Living Thing written by Don Gillmor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ancestors. The Desire of Every Living Thing is also the story of the New World, the story of Winnipeg, the story of this country. Both an evocative family memoir and a brilliant feat of historical imagination, the book's most moving theme is how the discarded past haunts and shapes our lives without us even noticing.

Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar

Author : Zoë Crossland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107470714
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar written by Zoë Crossland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history and textual sources.

Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances

Author : Richards Eric Richards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472001
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances written by Richards Eric Richards and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual in Highland history. This outstanding new book, however, gives a balanced assessment of the man, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life. Richard's book is an account of Sellar's life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.

The Highland Clearances Trail

Author : Rob Gibson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913025853
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Highland Clearances Trail written by Rob Gibson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances Trail answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. Taking you around the significant sites of the Highland Clearances this vivid guide gives a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland's history. Perthshire, Ross-Shire, Arran, Sutherland and Caithness are among the many areas covered. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, The Highland Clearances Trail provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.

Highland Heritage

Author : Celeste Ray
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625806
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Highland Heritage written by Celeste Ray and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.

Highland Agnes, Or, the Triumph of Faith in Humble Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Highland Agnes, Or, the Triumph of Faith in Humble Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Highland Clearances

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905244
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.

Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age

Author : John Holmes Agnew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age written by John Holmes Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

News - National Live Stock Producers Association

Author : National Live Stock Producers Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book News - National Live Stock Producers Association written by National Live Stock Producers Association and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Schraalenburgh (South Church), Bergenfield, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1724-1800

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Schraalenburgh (South Church), Bergenfield, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1724-1800 written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: