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Reluctant Return

Author : David W. Weiss
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253112781
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Return written by David W. Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." -- Hadassah Magazine "In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews David Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences.

The Marine's Reluctant Return

Author : Sabrina York
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369710622
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Marine's Reluctant Return written by Sabrina York and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second chance definitely worth coming home for in New York Times bestseller Sabrina York's latest entry in The Stirling Ranch miniseries! She’d been the girl he’d always loved. Until she married his best friend. Now Crystal Stoker was a widowed single mom and Luke Stirling was trying his best to avoid her. That was proving impossible in their small town, especially when Luke learned her young son needed help that only he could provide. The injured marine was just looking for a little peace and quiet—not expecting any second chances, especially ones he didn’t dare accept. From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. The Stirling Ranch Book 1: Accidental Homecoming Book 2: Recipe for a Homecoming Book 3: The Marine's Reluctant Return

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373355
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious, and possibly armed, American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the “valuation” of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with regal Erica promises entrée into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. Elegant and compelling, Mohsin Hamid’s second novel is a devastating exploration of our divided and yet ultimately indivisible world. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America. I noticed that you were looking for something; more than looking, in fact you seemed to be on a mission, and since I am both a native of this city and a speaker of your language, I thought I might offer you my services as a bridge.” —from The Reluctant Fundamentalist

S.T.A.R. Philosophy

Author : Nina Brown
Publisher : Ballymena LLC
ISBN 13 : 0982676913
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book S.T.A.R. Philosophy written by Nina Brown and published by Ballymena LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to energetically awaken within the reader the remembrance of our human divinity. In so doing, the wisdom it imparts serves as a reminder that our purpose is not to seek perfection but to realize that we are perfection expressing itself. We then become the divine beings we were intended to be, conscious creators.

Patient X

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052552178X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Patient X written by David Peace and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace—acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero—weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa’s rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.

Two cines con nino

Author : Erin K. Hogan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474436129
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Two cines con nino written by Erin K. Hogan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and works

Acorns: Windows High-Tide Foghat

Author : Joshua Morris
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475966350
Total Pages : 973 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Acorns: Windows High-Tide Foghat written by Joshua Morris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acorns delineates the future of humanity as a reunification of intellect with the Deep Self. Having chosen to focus upon ego (established securely by the time of Christ), much more beta brain wave development will destroy our species and others, which process has already begun. We create our own realities through beliefs, intents and desires and we were in and out of probabilities constantly. Feelings follow beliefs, not the other way around.

Late Leisure: Poems

Author : Eleanor Ross Taylor
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141229
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Late Leisure: Poems written by Eleanor Ross Taylor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity

Author : Karl F. Zender
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807133558
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity written by Karl F. Zender and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life expectancy in Shakespearean times averaged only about twenty-five to thirty-five years, but those who survived the illnesses of infancy and childhood could look forward to a long life with nearly the same level of confidence as someone living now. But even so long ago, some faced conflicts in their middle and later years that remain familiar today. In Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity, Karl F. Zender explores William Shakespeare's depictions of middle age by examining the relationships between middle-aged parents -- mainly fathers -- and their children in five of his greatest plays. He finds that the middle-aged characters in King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest -- much like their modern counterparts -- experience a fear of aging and debility. Representations of middle age occur throughout the Shakespearean canon, in forms ranging from Jaques' "seven ages" speech in As You Like It to the emphasis -- almost an obsession -- in many plays on relations between the generations. Lear, Zender shows, tries to forestall the approach of old age with a fantasy of literal rebirth in his relationship with Cordelia. Macbeth depicts an even more urgent struggle against midlife decline, while in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare portrays two characters in midlife crisis who attempt to redefine their identities by memorializing their former status and power, now lost. Drawing on Erik Erikson's theory of generativity -- a midlife shift from advancing one's own career to aiding a younger generation -- Zender explores the difficulties Shakespeare's characters face as they transfer power and authority to their children and others in the next generation. Paying careful attention to the plays' moral and ethical implications, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's innovative depiction of the midlife experience focuses on internal psychological understanding rather than external actions such as ceremony and ritual. Illuminating and engaging, Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity offers a fresh analysis of several of Shakespeare's most important plays and explores a profound, centuries-old perspective on the challenges inherent in middle age.

The Belated Witness

Author : Michael G. Levine
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755559
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Belated Witness written by Michael G. Levine and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.

Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture

Author : Lifongo J. Vetinde
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739192558
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture written by Lifongo J. Vetinde and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene's oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with documenting the past in an attempt to present a balanced and nuanced view of African history. While these studies, unquestionably contribute to a better understanding of his works, they collectively ignore Sembene’s relentless preoccupation with culture in his entire career as a writer and filmmaker. The collection of essays in Sembene and the Politics of Culture sets out to fill that gap as the contributors at once foreground Sembene’s fixation on the centrality of culture in the articulation of the discourse of national consciousness and reevaluate his intellectual and artistic legacy within an overarching framework of African liberation. The contributors critically reassess the ideological underpinnings of Sembene’s thoughts, his role as one of the foundational pillars of African cultural production, and his relevance in current discourses of nationhood. They do so through a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches that draw on linguistics, feminist theory, film theory, historiography, Marxist criticism, psychoanalysis and a host of other approaches that give novel insights in the critical analysis of the works under study. In the part entitled “Testimonies," a collection of conversations with people who worked closely with Sembene, each of the interlocutors provide illuminating insights into the man's life and work. The variety of themes and critical approaches in this critical anthology will certainly be of interest not only to students and scholars of African literature and cinema at various levels of intellectual and cultural sophistication but also anyone interested in the analysis of the nexus between power, culture, and the discourse of liberation.

Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments

Author : Troy Sternberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317165098
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments written by Troy Sternberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global events highlight how hazards can lead to significant financial losses, increased mortality rates and political instability. This book examines climate hazard crises in contemporary Asia, identifying how hazards from the Middle East through South and Central Asia and China have the power to reshape our globalised world. In an era of changing climates, knowledge of hazard dynamics is essential to mitigating disasters and strengthening livelihoods and societies across Asia. By integrating human exposure to climate factors and disaster episodes, the book explores the environmental forces that drive disasters and their social implications. Focusing on a range of Asian countries, landscapes and themes, the chapters address several scales (province, national, regional), different hazards (drought, flood, temperature, storms, dust), environments (desert, temperate, mountain, coastal) and issues (vulnerability, development, management, politics) to present a diverse, comprehensive evaluation of climate hazards in Asia. This book offers an understanding of the challenges climate hazards present, their critical nature and the effort needed to mitigate climate hazards in 21st-century Asia. Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments is vital reading for those interested and engaged in Asia’s development and well-being today and will be of interest to those working in Geography, Development Studies, Environmental Sciences, Sociology and Political Science.

Chronicles of Aetheria

Author : Callum Arnold
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460220617
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Aetheria written by Callum Arnold and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles of Aetheria is a tale of adventure and daring, of love and romance, but most of all, it is a testament to the power of family. Ezekiel Bright-Talon is a young, handsome knight who is employed by the king of the realm named Aetheria. However, the king's treachery has been uncovered, and in order to save his beloved, he must overcome several challenges. Ezekiel is not alone in this fight, for his older brother Kalleth, and his enigmatic Uncle Bruinen and many others stand beside him. However, a tyrannical king isn't the only evil to plague Aetheria. The Bright-Talon clan has a more ancient foe to face, one whose hatred spans all dimensions. A hatred that will stop at nothing to destroy Ezekiel and all that he loves. Even as this malevolent force builds in strength, unexpected heroes are called into the service of justice and peace....

Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen

Author : Helen Rayson-Hill
Publisher : Interactive Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922332380
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen written by Helen Rayson-Hill and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her father’s dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France, who marries her to his monkish son. The pious French Court considers her education and intellect shameful. She is accused of emulating men, regarded as her betters. It is emphasised she is there to breed, look decorative, and keep her eloquent mouth shut. Eleanor longs to break free. The opportunity arises to lead an army on the Second Crusade. Eleanor grasps the chance and rides to the Holy Land accompanying Louis, now king. In Antioch, the young Queen discovers unexpected love and a prophesy. Her disastrous marriage to Louis is annulled at her request. Single, Eleanor attracts unwanted adventurers. Ambushed, she evades capture realising she must remarry. She weds young Henry Plantagenet, attractive and no monk, beginning a mighty dynasty. This is Book 1 in a series about Eleanor.

The Abridgment

Author : United States. President
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Abridgment written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Salvadoran Imaginaries

Author : Cecilia M. Rivas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813564638
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Salvadoran Imaginaries written by Cecilia M. Rivas and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravaged by civil war throughout the 1980s and 1990s, El Salvador has now emerged as a study in contradictions. It is a country where urban call centers and shopping malls exist alongside rural poverty. It is a land now at peace but still grappling with a legacy of violence. It is a place marked by deep social divides, yet offering a surprising abundance of inclusive spaces. Above all, it is a nation without borders, as widespread emigration during the war has led Salvadorans to develop a truly transnational sense of identity. In Salvadoran Imaginaries, Cecilia M. Rivas takes us on a journey through twenty-first century El Salvador and to the diverse range of sites where the nation’s postwar identity is being forged. Combining field ethnography with media research, Rivas deftly toggles between the physical spaces where the new El Salvador is starting to emerge and the virtual spaces where Salvadoran identity is being imagined, including newspapers, literature, and digital media. This interdisciplinary approach enables her to explore the multitude of ways that Salvadorans negotiate between reality and representation, between local neighborhoods and transnational imagined communities, between present conditions and dreams for the future. Everyday life in El Salvador may seem like a simple matter, but Rivas digs deeper, across many different layers of society, revealing a wealth of complex feelings that the nation’s citizens have about power, opportunity, safety, migration, and community. Filled with first-hand interviews and unique archival research, Salvadoran Imaginaries offers a fresh take on an emerging nation and its people.

The Poison Machine

Author : Robert J. Lloyd
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199763
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Poison Machine written by Robert J. Lloyd and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lloyd once again infuses his world with the sights, sounds, and smells of the late 17th century...for what’s bound to be one of the best historical novels of the year." — CrimeReads In a thrilling sequel to The Bloodless Boy —a New York Times Best New Historical Novel of 2021 — combining the color and adventure of Alexandre Dumas and the thrills of Frederick Forsyth — early scientists Harry Hunt and Robert Hooke of the Royal Society stumble on a plot to kill the Queen of England . . . London, 1679 — A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper’s nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt — estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke — is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery — the skeleton of a dwarf. Harry is able to confirm that the skeleton is that of Captain Jeffrey Hudson, a prominent member of the court once famously given to the Queen in a pie. Except no one knew Hudson was dead, because another man had been impersonating him. The hunt for the impersonator, clearly working as a spy, will take Harry to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues, and back, with encounters along the way with a flying man and a cross-dressing swordswoman — and to the uncovering of a plot to kill the Queen and all the Catholic members of her court. But where? When? The Poison Machine is a nail-biting and brilliantly imagined historical thriller that will delight readers of its critically acclaimed predecessor, The Bloodless Boy.