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Download or read book Climate Justice written by Mary Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward." -- From book jacket.
Book Synopsis Everybody Matters by : Mary Robinson
Download or read book Everybody Matters written by Mary Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account by Ireland's first female president and the former United Nations High Commissioner traces her childhood in a deeply Catholic family, her landmark wins as an activist lawyer and her struggles to advocate on behalf of human rights throughout the world. 50,000 first printing.
Download or read book Mary Robinson written by John Horgan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful biography of former Republic of Ireland president Mary Robinson, John Horgan offers a rare, close-up view of an exemplary modern woman. Declining a second term, Robinson, known as a champion of the poor, the oppressed, and underprivileged, currently continues her humanitarian work at the helm of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. 24 photos.
Download or read book Why Did I Ever written by Mary Robison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fractured her personality, Money Breton talks to herself nonstop. She glues and hammers and paints every item in her place. She forges loving inscriptions in all her books. Through it all, there is her darling puzzling daughter who lives close by but seems ever beyond reach, and her son, the damaged victim of a violent crime under police protection in New York. While both her children seem to be losing all their battles, Money tries for ways and reasons to keep battling. Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison’s devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.
Download or read book Perdita written by Paula Byrne and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait ofMary Robinson--darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful menin England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author.
Book Synopsis A Voice for Human Rights by : Mary Robinson
Download or read book A Voice for Human Rights written by Mary Robinson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson. As former President of Ireland, she was ideally positioned for passionately and eloquently arguing the case for human rights around the world. Over five tumultuous years that included the tragic events of 9/11, she offered moral leadership and vision to the global human rights movement. This volume is a unique account in Robinson's own words of her campaigns as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A Voice for Human Rights offers an edited collection of Robinson's public addresses, given between 1997 and 2002, when she served as High Commissioner. The book also provides the first in-depth account of the work of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights. With a foreword by Kofi Annan and an afterword by Louise Arbour, the current High Commissioner for Human Rights, the book will be of interest to all concerned with international human rights, international relations, development, and politics.
Download or read book Sappho and Phaon written by Mary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sappho and Phaon" by Mary Robinson is a poignant sonnet sequence that breathes life into the legendary tale of the ancient poetess Sappho's tragic love. Robinson, known as 'the English Sappho, ' was a pioneering female author and feminist trailblazer with a dramatic life story. Abandoned by her father at a young age, she turned to teaching and acting, capturing the heart of the Prince of Wales before transforming into a respected writer. In this work, Robinson reimagines Sappho not as the iconic figure of later centuries, but as the Renaissance had often portrayed her: a tortured lover, hopelessly enamored with Phaon, a boatman. Her pursuit of Phaon to Sicily and her eventual leap from the Leucadian cliffs symbolize a profound narrative of passionate love and despair. The tale likely resonated deeply with Robinson's own experiences of love and rejection. Robinson's Sappho diverges from historical accuracies, focusing instead on the emotional depth and human complexities of her characters. This sonnet sequence stands as a testament to Robinson's literary talent and her ability to weave personal anguish into timeless art. "Sappho and Phaon" invites readers to experience a moving portrayal of love, loss, and the enduring power of poetry.
Download or read book Mary Robinson written by Fergus Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the election campaign in Ireland, in which a woman constitutional lawyer, considered a rank outsider, rocked the political system to be elected President of Ireland.
Book Synopsis Housekeeping by : Marilynne Robinson
Download or read book Housekeeping written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--
Book Synopsis Nowhere to Be Home by : Maggie Lemere
Download or read book Nowhere to Be Home written by Maggie Lemere and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one of the world’s highest number of child soldiers, and the displacement of millions of people. Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”
Book Synopsis Directing Plays, Directing People by : Mary B. Robinson
Download or read book Directing Plays, Directing People written by Mary B. Robinson and published by Smith & Kraus Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directing Plays, Directing People is a vivid, engagiing [sic], personal journey through the process of making theater, written from a director's perspective"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Poems written by Mary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Give it Up, Mom written by Mary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Rayne's friendship with Wendy and Dionna gives her the support she needs as she pursues her school project, to help her mother quit smoking.
Download or read book Lyrical tales written by Maria Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Ideal by : Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Download or read book The French Ideal written by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moisture of the Earth by : Mary Robinson
Download or read book Moisture of the Earth written by Mary Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced
Book Synopsis The Ministry for the Future by : Kim Stanley Robinson
Download or read book The Ministry for the Future written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
