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Author : Jose Y. Dalisay (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soledad's Sister written by Jose Y. Dalisay (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marguerite Feitlowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199840373
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Lexicon of Terror written by Marguerite Feitlowitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Author : Carlos M. Piocos III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000345297
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration written by Carlos M. Piocos III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women presented in films, fiction, and performance to show how the emotionality of these texts contribute to the emergence and vitality of women’s social movements in Southeast Asia. By placing literary and filmic narratives of Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore within existing conversations concerning migration policies, the book offers an innovative approach towards examining contemporary issues of Asian migration. Furthermore, through rich ethnographic accounts, the book unpacks themes of belonging and displacement, shame and desire, victimhood and resistance, sacrifice, and grief to show that the stories of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women don't just depict their everyday lives and practices but also reveal how they mediate and make sense of the fraught politics of gendered labor diaspora and globalization. Contributing to the "affective turn" of feminist and transnational scholarship, the book draws insight from the importance and centrality of affect, emotions, and feelings in shaping discourses on women’s subjectivity, labor, and mobility. In addition, the book demonstrates the issues of vulnerability and agency inherent in debates on social exclusion, human rights, development, and nation-building in Southeast Asia. Offering an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to analyses of Asian migration, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, literary and cultural studies, film studies, gender and women’s studies, and migration studies.
Author : Tom Sykes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755602889
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Imagining Manila written by Tom Sykes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political history. Through analysis of novels, memoirs, travelogues and journalism written about Manila by Westerners since the early eighteenth century, Tom Sykes builds a picture of Western attitudes towards the city and the wider Philippines, and the mechanics by which these came to dominate the discourse. This study uncovers to what extent Western literary tropes and representational models have informed understandings of the Philippines, in the West and elsewhere, and the types of counter-narrative which have emerged in the Philippines in response to them.
Author : R. H. Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595229603
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Plain Sight written by R. H. Wood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial espionage in the hi-tech world; the Chinese wanted their share and Divinity Netware was the prize. Black helicopters and secret military units-and those were the good guys. Rick and Connie's marriage was the envy of their friends, and their daughter had just married the love of her life. So why did they find solace in the arms of others and what did it have to do with the Chinese? As their marriage crumbled, the United States moved just as quickly toward a nuclear confrontation with Communist China. The nation watched them breaking up, and the President watched his only hope for peace evaporate. But then, in the world of espionage, things are never what they seem.
Author : Sarai Walker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054437343X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Dietland written by Sarai Walker and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club
Author : Soledad O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101466111
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Next Big Story written by Soledad O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastating Haiti earthquake, and to the historic 2008 U.S. elections and high profile interviews with everyday Americans. Drawing on her own unique background as well as her experiences at the front lines of the most provocative issues in today's society, and from her work on the acclaimed documentaries Black in America and Latino in America, O'Brien offers her candid, clear-eyed take on where we are as a country and where we're going. What emerges is both an inspiring message of hope and a glimpse into the heart and soul of one of America's most straight-talking reporters.
Author : Jose Y. Dalisay
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 1936182122
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Download or read book In Flight written by Jose Y. Dalisay and published by IPG. This book was released on 2011 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional exploration of the Philippines, these novels illustrate the connection between a people and their beloved native land. The first novel, Killing Time in a Warm Place, is based in part on the author's own experiences as a student protester and his subsequent capture, imprisonment, and torture during the Marcos dictatorship. His subsequent assimilation to a new society as a speechwriter for the government is depicted, followed by his self-imposed exile to the United States and his eventual return to the islands upon the death of his father, where he is forced to confront past betrayals. The second tale, Soledad’s Sister, delves into the dark side of immigrant and outsourced labor that is endemic worldwide. Following the mysterious death of a young Filipina woman working as an au pair in Saudi Arabia, the narrative chronicles a local policeman’s search to claim her body, locate her next of kin, and give her a proper burial in her native soil. With deep insight into contemporary Philippine culture, this collection captures a nation attempting to reinvent itself in the eyes of the world.
Author : João Biehl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846803
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book When People Come First written by João Biehl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A people-centered approach to global health When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast. When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.
Author : Linda Dacey
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 9781425807740
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book 50 Leveled Math Problems Level 2 written by Linda Dacey and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process, and ideas for formative assessment of students' problem-solving abilities. It also includes 50 mini-lessons and a dstudent activity sheet featuring a problem tiered at three levels, plus digital resources that inc electronic versions of activity sheets. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.
Author : Jo-anne Hughson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631584859
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Diversity and Changing Values in Address written by Jo-anne Hughson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of pronouns, and also give pronouns a different social significance. For the first time, this study discusses and analyses these paradigms in the context of inter-varietal contact in a third country, with English as an additional contact language. A multiplicity of data collection methods made it possible to uncover many new insights into address behaviour. New definitions for address pronouns are proposed, and issues arising from address are discussed, such as: awareness, proficiency, avoidance, accommodation, and uncertainty. In addition, some unexpected practices emerged, which call into question all previously accepted norms of usage.
Author : Judith A. Barrett
Publisher : Wobbly Creek, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1953870392
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Danger on the Rise written by Judith A. Barrett and published by Wobbly Creek, LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel and Stuart and their small team rush to rescue two families in Alabama. Will they divert to another critical mission? Timing is everything. Failure means death. Angel and Stuart lead the team to save two families that are endangered by the onslaught of the ruthless cartel but learn of a second critical rescue mission then a third. Do they change their plans or complete their current mission? The wrong choice leads to certain death.
Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481692
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty written by Ulrike Wiethaus and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty is an innovative collection of essays offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of sovereignty for Indigenous nations. Presenting contemporary initiatives and scholarship in the humanities on behalf of First Peoples, the volume affirms and explores the dynamic interplay between tribal community action and reflection, academic work, and the commonalities shared by Indigenous nations globally.
Author : Angie Cruz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743217462
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Soledad written by Angie Cruz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Angie Cruz takes readers on a journey as one young woman must confront not only her own past of growing up in Washington Heights, but also her mother's. At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tía Gorda calls with the news that Soledad's mother has lapsed into an emotional coma, she insists that Soledad's return is the only cure. Fighting the memories of open hydrants, leering men, and slick-skinned teen girls with raunchy mouths and snapping gum, Soledad moves home to West 164th Street. As she tries to tame her cousin Flaca's raucous behavior and to resist falling for Richie—a soulful, intense man from the neighborhood—she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother's past and salvaging their damaged relationship. Evocative and wise, Soledad is a wondrous story of culture and chaos, family and integrity, myth and mysticism, from a Latina literary light.
Author : Tom Sykes
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909930822
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Realm of the Punisher written by Tom Sykes and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed more than 12,000 people so far. Over the last nine years, British writer Tom Sykes has travelled extensively in the Philippines in order to understand the Duterte phenomenon, interviewing friends and enemies of 'The Punisher' - as he is known - in politics, the media, the arts and civil society. Sykes witnesses anti-government demonstrations in the capital Manila and visits the provincial city of Davao, where Duterte began his crusade against crime using police and vigilante death squads. By delving into Duterte's troubled childhood of violent rebellion, Sykes discovers what motivates the man today in his pursuit of a merciless 'war on the poor' - as Amnesty has described it - that has no end in sight. The Realm of the Punisher also examines oppressed and marginalized groups in the modern Philippines through encounters with a transgender rights campaigner, an 86-year-old former sex slave to the Japanese in the Second World War, a public artist who must work while under attack from Maoist rebels, and slum-dwellers resisting violent eviction by a real estate company. The past is never far away from these present-day problems and Sykes' travels to festivals, cemeteries, war memorials and a tomb housing an embalmed corpse reveal the ways in which key figures in Philippine history - from José Rizal to Ferdinand Marcos - have influenced current affairs. Funny, tragic, enlightening and uncompromising - and infused with the author's strong sense of social justice - The Realm of the Punisher is the first major travel book by a Westerner to explore Duterte's Philippines.
Author : James Knight
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733625975
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book A Theory of Moments written by James Knight and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching forty, with the predictable mortgage, career and comfortable surburan lifestyle, James Knight knew he was one of the lucky ones. He loved his wife and he had his health (occasionally the black dog would bite, but he'd learnt to manage this...most of the time), yet something wasn't quite right. Married less than a year, he and Clare weren't finding time for each other or themselves. Surely there must be more to life than the daily commute, the occasional trip away and rampant consumerism? The death of a good friend's mother gave James the perspective he needed to set out on a year-long journey through Latin America and Africa with Clare, doing voluntary work, learning Spanish and dancing whereever and whenever they could. This trip would change their lives in ways they never expected, teaching them that cherishing every moment is what matters above all else.
