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Child Soldiers

Author : Myriam Denov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487159
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Child Soldiers written by Myriam Denov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse.

Moonlight

Author : Lisa Kessler
Publisher : Entangled: Select Otherworld
ISBN 13 : 1622661087
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Moonlight written by Lisa Kessler and published by Entangled: Select Otherworld. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rancher Adam Sloan is more than meets the eye. As the heir to his Pack, the sexy werewolf's biggest challenge is keeping his kin's true nature under wraps. But a group of jaguar shifters threatens to reveal the pack, blasting into town killing humans in plain sight. And when he smells one at the local diner, his standing orders are to take her out. Lana Turpin doesn't realize she's a moving target. Raised in the foster system, she only knows that she blacks out during the new moon and wakes up without remembering a thing. But now she's being tracked by some strange organization that wants her back—even though she's never stepped foot inside their compound. And the stranger across the diner is watching her like an enemy. It should be a simple mission for Adam, but when he touches the frustratingly beautiful Lana, his inner wolf howls...mate. Now, the two must find and stop the people who hunt her...and Adam must keep his own family from killing the only woman he will ever love. Each book in the Moon series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Reading Order: Book #1 Moonlight Book #2 Hunter's Moon Book #3 Blood Moon Book #4 Harvest Moon Book #5 Ice Moon Book #6 Blue Moon Book #7 Wolf Moon Book #8 New Moon

Race Mixing

Author : Suzanne W. Jones
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883934
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Race Mixing written by Suzanne W. Jones and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through children's eyes, herald the reemergence of the racially mixed character, investigate acts of racial violence, and interrogate both rural and urban racial dynamics. Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers—including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe—illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation of black and white southern writers challenged the mythic unity of southern communities in order to lay bare racial divisions, Jones finds in the novels of contemporary writers a challenge to the mythic sameness within racial communities—and a broader definition of community and identity. Closely reading these stories about race in America, Race Mixing ultimately points to new ways of thinking about race relations. "We need these fictions," Jones writes, "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past, fragment individuals, prejudge people, and divide communities."

Popular French Romanticism

Author : James Smith Allen
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815622321
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Popular French Romanticism written by James Smith Allen and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Paris book world of this period, Allen reveals how the rise of a new popular literature—jolly chansonniers, the roman-feuilletons or serial novels, melodramas, gothic and sentimental novels, dramatic nationalistic histories—by such authors as Dumas, Sand, Lamennais, Ancelot, Desnoyer, and de Kock coincided with remarkable developments in the production, distribution, and consumption of books. Allen's research ranges from a survey of the then-popular romantic titles and authors and the trade catalogs of booksellers and lending libraries, to the police records of their activities, diaries and journals of working people, and military conscript records and ministerial literacy statistics. The result is a remarkable picture of the exchange between elite and popular culture, the interaction between ideas and their material reality, and the relationship between the literature and the history of France in the romantic period.

The Politics of Gay Rights

Author : Craig A. Rimmerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226719986
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Gay Rights written by Craig A. Rimmerman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume thoroughly investigate the politics of the gay and lesbian movement, beginning with its political organizations and tactics. The essays also address the strategies and ideology of conservative opposition groups.

A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets

Author : Roland Philipps
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608581
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets written by Roland Philipps and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] lively and beautifully engineered biography." —John Banville, New York Review of Books Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the extent of this shrewd, secretive man’s betrayal has never fully been explored. Drawing on formerly classified files, A Spy Named Orphan documents the extraordinary story of a model diplomat leading a chilling double-life until his exposure and defection to the USSR. Philipps describes a man prone to alcoholic rages, who rose through the ranks of the British Foreign Office while secretly transmitting through his Soviet handlers reams of diplomatic and military intelligence on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. A mesmerizing tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the man codenamed "Orphan."

The Cleaner of Kastoria

Author : Jacqueline Paizis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244967636
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book The Cleaner of Kastoria written by Jacqueline Paizis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cleaner of Kastoria enters the past and present of Dina, a young village girl whose wild decision sets her on an unforgetable odyssey through the horrors and tragedy of the Greek civil war. Leading her Democratic Army unit of girls through icy rivers and bloody battles she is haunted by memories of her young husband. Dina still guards her dark secrets in the aftermath of the Colonels' dictatorship of 1974. As a housecleaner Dina faces her final challenge from Vassiliki the monarchist

Dear Appalachia

Author : Emily Satterwhite
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813130107
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Dear Appalachia written by Emily Satterwhite and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers’ geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers’ faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an “authentic” America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why.

Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140606
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature written by Luz Elena Ramirez and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

Since 1948

Author : Nancy E. Berg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438480504
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Since 1948 written by Nancy E. Berg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical notice. These trends ushered in not only the discovery and recovery of literary works but also a major rethinking of literary history. In Since 1948, scholars consider how recent voices have succeeded older ones and reverberated in concert with them; how linguistic and geographical boundaries have blurred; how genres have shifted; and how canon and competition have shaped Israeli culture. Charting surprising trajectories of a vibrant, challenging, and dynamic literature, the contributors analyze texts composed in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic; by Jews and non-Jews; and by Israelis abroad as well as writers in Israel. What emerges is a portrait of Israeli literature as neither minor nor regional, but rather as transnational, multilingual, and worthy of international attention.

Gay Rights, Military Wrongs

Author : Craig A. Rimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135638330
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Gay Rights, Military Wrongs written by Craig A. Rimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. From 1980 to 1990 nearly 17,000 service members were discharged from the military because of their homosexuality. This book places the debate of homosexual military service in its historical, theoretical, and political context. Timely and compelling, with all the court options in the highly published cases of Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, Gay Rights, Military Wrongs, reports on the state of prejudice and discrimination facing today's homosexual military personnel and their prospects for future equality.

Frank R. Stockton

Author : Martin I. J. Griffin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512816469
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Frank R. Stockton written by Martin I. J. Griffin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms

Author : The Feminist Review Collective
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134718861
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms written by The Feminist Review Collective and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India; Re-imaginings of science and subjectivity in anglophone science fiction; and the political and intellectual complexities at stake in the project of lesbian studies in the UK. Contributions from these diverse fields come together to give critical attention to the complex terrain of Feminism in the 1990s.

Life Course Perspectives on Military Service

Author : Janet M. Wilmoth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136161953
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Life Course Perspectives on Military Service written by Janet M. Wilmoth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don’t know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and prisons, is a key social institution that engages individuals in early adulthood and shapes processes of cumulative (dis)advantage over the life course. The chapters provide topical synthesizes of the vast but diffuse research literatures on military service and the life course, while the volume as a whole helps to set the agenda for the next generation of data collection and scholarship. Chapter authors pay particular attention to how the military has changed over time; how experiences of military service vary across cohorts and persons with different characteristics; how military service affects the lives of service members’ spouses, children, and families; and the linkages between research and policy.

The Global History of the Balfour Declaration

Author : Maryanne A. Rhett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317312767
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Global History of the Balfour Declaration written by Maryanne A. Rhett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at the outset of the twentieth century. Embedded in this examination are gendered, racial, nationalistic, and imperial considerations. The work posits that the Balfour Declaration was a specific tool designed by the manipulation of these ideas. Once established, the Declaration helped, and hindered, established imperial powers like the British, nascent imperial powers like the Japanese and Indians, and emerging nationalist movements like the Zionists, Irish, Palestinians, and East Africans, to advocate for their own vision of national definition.

Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning

Author : Ronald T. Sion
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457783
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning written by Ronald T. Sion and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley, author of eleven novels, remains one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, his work resistant to passing fads in literature. This critical biography explores Huxley's lifelong quest for self-actualization by intertwining the events of his life and details of the creative period that produced each book. Considering Huxley's letters, essays and interviews in its examination of the thematic content of each novel, the text finds a man striving for the intellectual growth that would yield a sound philosophical and spiritual view of life, one he infused into his work.

Savannah Tempest

Author : Edgar W. Butler
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141221453X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Savannah Tempest written by Edgar W. Butler and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah Tempest is a new novel from the second era of two-Savannahs, one free and one oppressed, twisted together from slavery and hammered out through the lives of Jewish fertilizer merchants Ludlow Cohen and Gilbert Wilkins. Compelled to serve as confederate undercover agents with secessionist and Klu Klux Klan member Mike Paine, their lives take a different turn during the turbulent aftermath of the Civil War and the unyielding demand of the Klu Klux Klan organizers to re-enslave Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Negro freedmen. Without the influence of Eliza Andrews and Amora Conte, Sociologist/Historian and novelist Dr. Edgar W. Butlers gripping story, would be as incomplete as Gone With the Wind without Scarlett OHara. Set in 19th century Georgia, this story unfolds among some of the souths historic events. While General W. T. Sherman was presenting Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift, Ludlow Cohen was unknowingly experiencing some relation-ships that would impact the rest of his life and Savannah. The author weaves an arsenal of emotionsfear, hate, love, rage, and forbidden sex, that inflamed the smoldering frustrations of life in post-Civil War Savannah. The book culminates in a duel between Ludlow and Mike Paine, a leader of the Klu Klux Klan. This illustrated book had benefit of the wonderful work of many graphic artists of the era who helped visualize the panorama. Diaries, newspapers, censuses, academic books and articles were utilized in recording authentic words and sentiments of persons from all of these sources.