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Maru

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611618
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Maru written by Bessie Head and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read worldwide for her wisdom, authenticity, and skillful prose, South African–born Bessie Head (1937–1986) offers a moving and magical tale of an orphaned girl, Margaret Cadmore, who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life. The core of this otherworldly, rhapsodic work is a plot about racial injustice and prejudice with a lesson in how traditional intolerance may render whole sections of a society untouchable.

I Am Maru

Author : mugumogu
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062088416
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book I Am Maru written by mugumogu and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Maru! This round, adorable Scottish Fold cat may be an internet sensation, but he knows how to keep his celebrity status from going to his fluffy head . . . mostly. Maru and his owner, mugumogu, give readers a peek into the low-key life of the world’s most famous cat. See all his favorite hiding places—trash cans, cupboards, cereal boxes . . . if it’s cozy, he’s there—meet his treasured toys, and learn what it means to wield just the right amount of cat-titude.

Brazil-Maru

Author : Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895030
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Brazil-Maru written by Karen Tei Yamashita and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immensely entertaining." —Newsday "Poignant and remarkable." —Philadelphia Inquirer "Warm, compassionate, engaging, and thought-provoking." —Washington Post "With a subtle ominousness, Yamashita sets up her hopeful, prideful characters—and, in the process, the entire genre of pioneer lit—for a fall." —Village Voice "A splendid multi-generational novel . . . rich in history and character." —San Francisco Chronicle Particularly insightful." —Library Journal "Informative and timely." —Kirkus "Yamashita's heightened sense of passion and absurdity, and respect for inevitability and personality, infuse this engrossing multigenerational immigrant saga with energy, affection, and humor." —Booklist "This enriching novel introduces Western readers to an unusual cultural experiment, and makes vivid a crucial chapter in Japanese assimilation into the West." —Publishers Weekly The story of an idealistic band of Japanese immigrants, who arrive in Brazil in 1925 to carve a utopia out of the jungle. The dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by a new generation, all collide in this multigenerational saga. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.

The Kobayashi Maru

Author : Julia Ecklar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743419987
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Kobayashi Maru written by Julia Ecklar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short but time on their hands. Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes -- and does not make. Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became in turn Starfleet officers.

X-kit Literature Series: FET Maru

Author : Colleen Traviss-Lea
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9781868914920
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book X-kit Literature Series: FET Maru written by Colleen Traviss-Lea and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kobayashi Maru

Author : Michael A. Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101744
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Kobayashi Maru written by Michael A. Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To protect the cargo ships essential to the continuing existence of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, the captains of the United Earth's Starfleet are ordered to interstellar picket duty, with little more to do than ask "Who goes there?" into the darkness of space. Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise™ seethes with frustration, wondering if anyone else can see what he sees. A secret, closed, militaristic society, convinced that their survival hangs by a thread, who view their neighbors as a threat to their very existence -- the Spartans of ancient Greece, the Russians of the old Soviet Union, the Koreans under Kim Il-sung -- with only one goal: attain ultimate power, no matter the cost. The little-known, never-seen Romulans seem to live by these same principles. The captain realizes that the bond between the signers of the Coalition charter is fragile and likely to snap if pushed. But he knows that the Romulans are hostile, and he believes they are the force behind the cargo ship attacks. If asked, Archer can offer no proof without endangering his friend's life. To whom does he owe his loyalty: his friend, his world, the Coalition? And by choosing one, does he not risk losing all of them? What is the solution to a no-win scenario?

Maru

Author : Angela Aldana de Alvarez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462835767
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Maru written by Angela Aldana de Alvarez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro lo empec a escribir cuando mi hija se enferm, era tan grande mi dolor que senta la necesidad de desahogar todos esos sentimientos que me hacan sentir tan desgraciada. Quera comprender la vida, ser una mujer normal y aceptar lo que Dios me mandaba, pero algo, dentro de m se revelaba, y senta un gran resentimiento con Dios. Porqu nos castigaba de esa manera tan cruel?, y al mismo tiempo senta que Dios me daba la oportunidad de luchar por la vida de mi hija, que como todas las madres de la tierra que aman y luchan por ellos, esta confusin de sentimientos, me hacia mucho dao.

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Author : Rita Dhamoon
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774860685
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Unmooring the Komagata Maru written by Rita Dhamoon and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion.

The voyage and visit of the Kanrin Maru to San Francisco

Author : Graham Thomas FRSA
Publisher : Sagus
ISBN 13 : 1911489992
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The voyage and visit of the Kanrin Maru to San Francisco written by Graham Thomas FRSA and published by Sagus. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kanrin Maru was the first Japanese ship to visit the United States of America in an official capacity as the Treaty of Edo that Japan signed with the US Government in 1858 stipulated that Japan should subsequently dispatch an envoy to the US to ratify the Treaty. By March 1859 it had been agreed that a Japanese ambassador and officials would travel to Washington on the Powhatan, the US’s flagship of the East India Squadron, a voyage that was then scheduled to start a year later in February 1860. Preparations to dispatch an ambassador then began. Sometime thereafter, the Japanese government decided they would also send a ship of their own to America. Behind this decision lay three reasons. First this was a matter of pride showing that they too were capable of crossing the mighty Pacific Ocean in their own vessel; second, on a practical note, the Kanrin Maru (the vessel that made the journey) would return with news of Powhatan’s safe arrival in the US but third, she would also carry a second Ambassador in case the Powhatan failed to reach the US. This is the story of that voyage.

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru

Author : Tony Banham
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622097715
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru written by Tony Banham and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and for some, to liberation and beyond. Although never previously studied in any depth, the sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the most costly American on British "Friendly Fire" incident of the Second World War. Of the 4,500 of Hong Kong's garrison who perished during the war, 1,000 died directly or indirectly from this sinking. From American, British, Hong Kong and Japanese sources, this book reconstructs the fateful voyage of the Lisbon Maru, and the experiences of the captives, the captors, and those on board the submarine that sank her. The book will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the "Hellships" that caused the deaths of almost 20,000 Allied Prisoners of War during the Second World War, or the experiences of Allied POWs in Japan.

The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

Author : Hugh J. M. Johnston
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774825499
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Komagata Maru written by Hugh J. M. Johnston and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and expanded edition offers the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship's nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summer of 1914, only to be chased away by a Canadian warship. This story became a symbol of prejudicial immigration policies, which Canadians today reject, and served to fuel the emerging anti-British movement in India. It deserves the careful re-examination it gets in this thoroughly updated edition that provides a contemporary perspective on a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.

Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Komagata Maru

Author : Pamela Hickman
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459404378
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Komagata Maru written by Pamela Hickman and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, Canada was a very British society with anti-Asian attitudes. Although Great Britain had declared that all people from India were officially British citizens and could live anywhere in the British Commonwealth, Canada refused to accept them. This racist policy was challenged by Gurdit Singh, a Sikh businessman, who chartered a ship, the Komagata Maru, and sailed to Vancouver with over 300 fellow Indians wishing to immigrate to Canada. They were turned back, tragically. Over the years, the Canadian government gradually changed its immigration policies, first allowing entry to wives and children of Indian immigrants and later to many more immigrants from India. The Indo-Canadian community has grown throughout Canada, especially in British Columbia. Many in the community continue to celebrate their Indian heritage which enriches Canadian culture.

Report of the Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry and Some Further Documents

Author : India. Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry
Publisher : Unistar Books
ISBN 13 : 9788189899349
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry and Some Further Documents written by India. Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry and published by Unistar Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manual of the Maru Language

Author : Walter Bulmer Tate Abbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of the Maru Language written by Walter Bulmer Tate Abbey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Awa Maru - Titanic of Japan

Author : Rei Kimura
Publisher : Booksmango
ISBN 13 : 0977913171
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Awa Maru - Titanic of Japan written by Rei Kimura and published by Booksmango. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 1st of April 1945, a Japanese hospital ship that had been given 'safe passage' by the Allies, in the dead of night, was mistaken for a military vessel and torpedoed by the American submarine 'Queenfish.' It sank within minutes taking almost all of the 2007 passengers to their watery graves. This is the gripping story of the Awa Maru, the little known 'Titanic of Japan.' Follow the journey of Kyoko Tanaka, whose parents and brother had been passengers on the Awa Maru as she set sail on her own voyage of discovery. She travels from Japan to Singapore in search of the truth and a 'piece of her history' and makes poignant and touching discoveries of the lives of her parents and some of the other families as they prepared to board the Awa Maru. The lives of the doomed passengers of the Awa Maru and the events of that horrific night when they perished are all told in this book as never before.

Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company V. Motorship Buko Maru

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company V. Motorship Buko Maru written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uss Hoquiam Pf-5: Hocky Maru

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426964358
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Uss Hoquiam Pf-5: Hocky Maru written by Mark Douglas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Harrison Stewart, seaman apprentice and seaman, USN-EV, served on the USS Hoquiam (PF-5) as a radioman during the first two years of the Korean Conflict (later labeled a war.) In this third book in his series on the USS Hoquiam PF-5, he brings the experiences of young sailor in the 1950s to life. The Hoquiam, after being recommissioned in Yokosuka, Japan, sailed in harms way off the east coast of North Korea. It participated in all the east coast landings and the Hungnam evacuation. This story begins where Road to Hungnam endedback in Yokosuka on New Years Eve, 1950, for a few weeks of pier-side overhaul, as the crew winds down from Hungnam. There is hard work preparing the ship for a new assignment to Task Force Ninety-Five off Wonsan, North Korea. Still, theres time for romance and hijinks on liberty in Yokosuka and later in Sasebo, Japan. The Hoquiams crew sees a full range of work in the next assignment periodincluding work they detest with the Service Force, firing remote-controlled target aircraft for other ships to shoot at, days spent on submarine patrol (when they doubled as targets for the North Korean or Chinese gunners in Wonsan caves), convoy escort duty, and the best assignment of allshooting at the potbellied narrow-gauge trains coming down from Mongolia. Eventually, the crew of the Hoquiam again sails for Yokosuka and prepares for yet another trip to the Korean bomb line.