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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Author : David Frick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467535
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Kith, Kin, and Neighbors written by David Frick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno's inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster's shoulder as he made his survey of the city's intramural houses in preparation for King Wladyslaw IV's visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno's neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.

The Good Neighbor 2

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606144407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Good Neighbor 2 written by Holly Black and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Rue Silver's life is not what it appears to be. Her mother is a faerie, and has been taken back to the faerie realm. As Rue goes to bring her back, she must travel deep into an inhuman world. At the same time, the faerie realm is venturing into our world too, and taking its toll on those Rue loves. When her grandfather's plans threaten Rue's city, she realizes that she's the only one who can stop him. But is Rue a human or a faerie? Where does she fit? How does she know the difference between love and enchantment?

Kin: A Graphic Novel (The Good Neighbors, Book 1)

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545328896
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Kin: A Graphic Novel (The Good Neighbors, Book 1) written by Holly Black and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the amazing imagination of bestselling author Holly Black, a mysterious and wonderful teen graphic novel masterpiece.Rue Silver's mother has disappeared . . . and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it's not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn't kill her mother -- instead, he broke a promise to Rue's faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue's mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her -- and must also defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world.

Killing Neighbors

Author : Lee Ann Fujii
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457378
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Killing Neighbors written by Lee Ann Fujii and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives behind and specific contexts surrounding the Rwandan genocide, Lee Ann Fujii focuses on individual actions rather than sweeping categories. Fujii argues that ethnic hatred and fear do not satisfactorily explain the mobilization of Rwandans one against another. Fujii's extensive interviews in Rwandan prisons and two rural communities form the basis for her claim that mass participation in the genocide was not the result of ethnic antagonisms. Rather, the social context of action was critical. Strong group dynamics and established local ties shaped patterns of recruitment for and participation in the genocide. This web of social interactions bound people to power holders and killing groups. People joined and continued to participate in the genocide over time, Fujii shows, because killing in large groups conferred identity on those who acted destructively. The perpetrators of the genocide produced new groups centered on destroying prior bonds by killing kith and kin.

Portraits

Author : Stan Proper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961999285
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Portraits written by Stan Proper and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kith

Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141039459
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Kith written by Jay Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many Western children unhappy? Why has childhood become so unnatural? Why are we scared to let our kids be free? In Kith, Jay Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic, as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, she explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood. It is a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be a child, and it is central to all our experiences, young and old. 'Scintillating, passionate, supremely honest. Adults and children need more books like this.' Literary Review 'A subterranean book. We excavate it to refind the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours.' John Berger 'Griffiths' understanding of how it feels to be a child is extraordinary, and her writing is as vivid as poetry.' Mail on Sunday 'I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself.' Independent

Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World

Author : Rachel S. Hallote
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World written by Rachel S. Hallote and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Hallote's Book examins the archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their antecedents, and successors.

We and Our Neighbors, Or The Records of an Unfashionable Street

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We and Our Neighbors, Or The Records of an Unfashionable Street written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farmer in the Sky

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618246623
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Farmer in the Sky written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." ¾Robert A. Heinlein, from Time Enough for Love. Be Prepared _ Or Die! Bill Lermer travels with his father, stepmother and stepsister to colonize a Jovian moon in the process of being terraformed. Out here, self-reliance is the key to survival¾and Bill finds that his Boy Scout motto isn't merely a pretty saying. It's a necessary rule for survival! This is it: what we think is the best of the classic Robert Heinlein adventure novels that influenced a generation of engineers and space scientists and still set the heart racing and the mind afire! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000

Author : Theodore R. Weeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091914
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 written by Theodore R. Weeks and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of Vilnius, the present-day capital of Lithuania, have spoken various languages and professed different religions while living together in relative harmony over the years. The city has played a significant role in the history and development of at least three separate cultures—Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish—and until very recently, no single cultural-linguistic group composed the clear majority of its population. Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 is the first study to undertake a balanced assessment of this particularly diverse city. Theodore Weeks examines Vilnius as a physical entity where people lived, worked, and died; as the object of rhetorical struggles between disparate cultures; and as a space where the state attempted to legitimize a specific version of cultural politics through street names, monuments, and urban planning. In investigating these aspects, Weeks avoids promoting any one national narrative of the history of the city, while acknowledging the importance of national cultures and their opposing myths of the city's identity. The story of Vilnius as a multicultural city and the negotiations that allowed several national groups to inhabit a single urban space can provide lessons that are easily applied to other diverse cities. This study will appeal to scholars of Eastern Europe, urban studies, and multiculturalism, as well as general readers interested in the region.

Ice-Candy-Man

Author : Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181197
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Ice-Candy-Man written by Bapsi Sidhwa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.

Things Fall Apart

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0385474547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

The Modern Faerie Tales

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534453822
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Faerie Tales written by Holly Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Black’s acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series is now available in this special bind-up edition featuring all three books! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself as an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death. This special bind-up edition includes Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside.

Hugh Hefner's First Funeral and Other True Tales of Love and Death in Chicago

Author : Pat Colander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996608114
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Hugh Hefner's First Funeral and Other True Tales of Love and Death in Chicago written by Pat Colander and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Colander was a writer for The Reader and The Chicago Tribune in the 1970s and 1980s, and covered some of the most offbeat stories during that time. Seven of those tales of love and death in Chicago are featured in this incredible book.Featuring a beautiful cover photograph from Barry Butler and memorable illustrations from artist Dave Mosele, Hugh Hefner's First Funeral and other True Tales of Love and Death in Chicago is a gritty trip into Chicago's past. Before the last page is devoured, the reader will track the Tylenol killer(s), get inside the mind of a tortured artist, meet the woman behind the women at Playboy Magazine, follow along with a shocking murder trial, spend time with a legendary Chicago attorney, and tour the old Cook County morgue.Hugh Hefner's First Funeral and other True Tales of Love and Death in Chicago is shocking, gruesome, and gritty, and will remain in your heart and mind long after you finish reading the final page.

In the Light of Evolution

Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Sackler Colloquium
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Light of Evolution written by National Academy of Sciences and published by Sackler Colloquium. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.

The Last Train North

Author : Clifton L. Taulbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Train North written by Clifton L. Taulbert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where his memoir, When We Were Colored, left off, Taulbert recounts his 1963 migration from the small segregated Mississippi town of his birth to the big integrated city of St. Louis, where opportunity was everywhere. The realities of the North sometimes fall short of his fantasies, but he never loses sight of his dreams.

Southern Kith and Kin

Author : Jewel Davis Scarborough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Southern Kith and Kin written by Jewel Davis Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestors include: Captain Edmond Scarborough (1584-1634) of North Walsham, England; and Virginia -- John Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Virginia; and his grandson, William Davis (1798-1870) of Georgia and Salem, Alabama -- Thomas Lockett (d. 1686) of England and Henrico County, Virginia.