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Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Islands in Captivity written by Ward Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura J. Getty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680248
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture written by Laura J. Getty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters trapped on fictional islands, the book examines how individuals react when forced to make hard choices within the liminal space of a "prison" island. At stake is the perception of choice: do characters believe that they have the power to choose, or do they think that they are at the mercy of fate? The results reveal certain patterns--psychological, historical, social, and political--that exist across a variety of popular/public cultures and time periods. This book focuses on how the interplay between liminality and the Locus of Control theory creates dynamic sites of negotiated meaning. This psychological concept has never before been used for literary analysis. Offered here as an alternative to the defects of Freudian psychology, the Locus of Control theory has been proven reliable in thousands of studies, and the results have been found, with few exceptions, to be consistent in both women and men. That consistency is explored through close readings of islands found in popular culture books, films, and television shows, with suggestions for future research.
Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Islands in Captivity written by Ward Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiian sovereignty activists present their case for the right to indigenous self-rule. Read the compelling evidence.
Author : Horace Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute written by Horace Holden and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of the shipwreck, captivity and sufferings of H. Holden and B.H. Nute, who were cast away in the American ship Mentor on the islands of Palau in the year 1832.
Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591148999
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Victory in Defeat written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that draws on interviews with American POWs, as well as their Japanese captors, and diaries secretly kept by prison-camp inmates, the author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island offers a moving history of the incarceration of the American defenders of Wake Island after their surrender to the Japanese during World War II.
Author : Arnold Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A St. Helena Who's who written by Arnold Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Panella
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897335880
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Cutter's Island written by Vincent Panella and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are familiar with the Caesar of Shakespeare and Shaw. We know him primarily as the manipulative warlord and statesman. But what about the Caesar of Plutarch and Suetonius – historians who dealt with Caesar as a young man? Here, in this stunning novel, written with all the excitement and eloquence of an epic poem, we find Caesar at the age of twenty-five captured by pirates as he sails to the Island of Rhodes to study rhetoric with the renowned Apollonias Moon.
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ISBN 13 : 9789551300524
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book From Captivity to Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's Journal, during fifteen years captivity on that island ... The whole ... illustrated with a sheet map of Madagascar, and cuts. Written by himself or rather, by D. Defoe? , etc. With “A Vocabulary of the Madagascar Language.” written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Drury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Madagascar; or Robert Drury's journal during fifteen years' captivity on that island written by Robert Drury and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen S. Murphy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Captivity's Collections written by Kathleen S. Murphy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade. Plants, seeds, preserved animals and insects, and other specimens were gathered by British slave ship surgeons, mariners, and traders at slaving factories in West Africa, in ports where captive Africans disembarked, and near the British South Sea Company's trading factories in Spanish America. The specimens were displayed in British museums and herbaria, depicted in published natural histories, and discussed in the halls of scientific societies. Grounded in extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Captivity's Collections mines scientific treatises, slaving companies' records, naturalists' correspondence, and museum catalogs to recover in rich detail the scope of the slave trade's collecting operations. The book reveals the scientific and natural historical profit derived from these activities and the crucial role of specimens gathered along the routes of the slave trade on emerging ideas in natural history.
Author : C.O. Mick Jennings
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 152678310X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Escape to Japanese Captivity written by C.O. Mick Jennings and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This harrowing WWII memoir recounts the tragic ordeal of a British couple separated by war and taken prisoner by Japanese forces in Sumatra. Captain C.O. “Mick” Jennings and his wife Margery were living in British Singapore when the Japanese invaded in 1941. Margery was on her way to Australia with other British families when their ship was bombed, leading to her capture in Sumatra. When Singapore fell in February 1942, Mick and other soldiers commandeered a junk and sailed to Sumatra. With a fellow soldier, he set sail for Australia in a seventeen-foot dinghy. But after an appalling ordeal at sea, he was also captured. Despite their close proximity, Mick and Margery never saw each other again. Though they managed to exchange a few letters, Margery died of deprivation and exhaustion in May 1945, shortly before VJ day, while Mick miraculously survived. Based on personal accounts and Margery’s secret diary, this outstanding book describes in graphic detail their attempted escapes and horrific imprisonments. Above all it is a moving testimony to the couple’s courage, resilience, and ingenuity.
Author : Arnold Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332292691
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)
Download or read book A St. Helena Who's Who written by Arnold Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A St. Helena Who's Who: Or a Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon I have ventured to print this little book, which contains information concerning those who lived in St. Helena during the captivity of Napoleon, with the hope that it may be found useful to those students who share with me the delight afforded by the study of that period. The book consists of notes in expanded form, collected from various sources in leisure hours extending over many years. Although great care has been taken to be accurate, no claim is made to infallibility, and doubtless the experienced reader will note, here and there, the inevitable errors and omissions, the correction of which will be valued by me as a contribution to historical accuracy. It is doubtful if any period in the life of any man has been so minutely recorded as that which covered the captivity of Napoleon in St. Helena. It is no exaggeration to say that every day is accounted for and, during the first thirty months of the time, one might, with almost equal truth, substitute "hours" for "days." The memorialists and all who were brought into contact with the Emperor hastened, while the subject was still fresh in the memory, to commit to paper, impressions, remarks, and conversations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Irus Braverman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804784396
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Zooland written by Irus Braverman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970s. Over these decades, modern zoos have transformed themselves from places created largely for entertainment to globally connected institutions that emphasize care through conservation and education. Zoos naturalize their spaces, classify their animals, and produce spectacular experiences for their human visitors. Zoos name, register, track, and allocate their animals in global databases. Zoos both abide by and create laws and industry standards that govern their captive animals. Finally, zoos intensely govern the reproduction of captive animals, carefully calculating the life and death of these animals, deciding which of them will be sustained and which will expire. Zooland takes readers behind the exhibits into the world of zoo animals and their caretakers. And in so doing, it turns its gaze back on us to make surprising interconnections between our understandings of the human and the nonhuman.
Author : Bob Drury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Madagascar ; Or ... Journal During Fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island written by Bob Drury and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devra G. Kleiman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226440117
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Wild Mammals in Captivity written by Devra G. Kleiman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions. In one comprehensive volume, the editors have gathered the most current information from studies of animal behavior; advances in captive breeding; research in physiology, genetics, and nutrition; and new thinking in animal management and welfare. In this edition, more than three-quarters of the text is new, and information from more than seventy-five contributors is thoroughly updated. The standard text for all courses in zoo biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, in its new incarnation, continue to be used by zoo managers, animal caretakers, researchers, and anyone with an interest in how to manage animals in captive conditions.
Author : Nigel Rothfels
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801898099
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Savages and Beasts written by Nigel Rothfels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck. By the late nineteenth century, Hagenbeck had emerged as the world's undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animals—humanely, Hagenbeck advertised—for circuses around the world. When in 1907 the Hagenbeck Animal Park opened in a village near Hamburg, Germany, Hagenbeck brought together all his business interests in a revolutionary zoological park. He moved wild animals out of their cages and into "natural landscapes" alongside "primitive" peoples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific. Hagenbeck had invented a new way of imagining captivity: the animals and people on exhibit appeared to be living in the wilds of their native lands. By looking at Hagenbeck's multiple enterprises, Savages and Beasts demonstrates how seemingly enlightened ideas about the role of zoos and the nature of animal captivity developed within the essentially tawdry business of placing exotic creatures on public display. Rothfels provides both fascinating reading and much-needed historical perspective on the nature of our relationship with the animal kingdom.
