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Book Synopsis My Grandfather's Grave by : MR Steven J Herendeen
Download or read book My Grandfather's Grave written by MR Steven J Herendeen and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Grandfather's Grave, motivational speaker Steven J. Herendeen takes the reader on a journey to explore the principles of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA). He does this by sharing memories of his grandfather John for whom he felt great shame as a child. Only much later in Steven's life did he uncover the nuggets of wisdom planted within him by this odd, simple man. My Grandfather's Grave renews and makes relevant for today the tenets of PMA first defined by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. Herendeen offers up stories from his own life, and those of friends and business associates, to illustrate these influential ideas. Every person in these tales found success by learning and using a Positive Mental Attitude.
Book Synopsis The Grave on the Wall by : Brandon Shimoda
Download or read book The Grave on the Wall written by Brandon Shimoda and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle. A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle. Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life—child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen—mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the twentieth century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting. Praise for The Grave on the Wall: "Shimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories. … It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midori's life come full circle … In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb."—Booklist, starred review "In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making."—Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory "Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate."—Myriam Gurba, author of Mean “Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief—its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence—a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson."—Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems "It is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarkable exploration of how citizenship is forged by the brutal US imperial forces—through slave labor, forced detention, indiscriminate bombing, historical amnesia and wall. If someone asked me, Where are you from? I would answer, From The Grave on the Wall."—Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War "Shimoda intercedes into the absences, gaps and interstices of the present and delves the presence of mystery. This mystery is part of each of us. Shimoda outlines that mystery in silence and silhouette, in objects left behind at site-specific travels to Japan and in the disparate facts of his grandpa’s FBI file. Gratitude to Brandon Shimoda for taking on the mystery which only literature accepts as the basic challenge."—Sesshu Foster, author of City of the Future "Shimoda is a mystic writer … He puts what breaches itself (always) onto the page, so that the act of writing becomes akin to paper-making: an attention to fibers, coagulation, texture and the water-fire mixtures that signal irreversible alteration or change. … he has written a book that touches the bottom of my own soul."—Bhanu Kapil, author of Ban en Banlieue "The Grave on the Wall is a passage of aching nostalgia and relentless assembly out of which something more important than objective truth is conjured—a ritual frisson, a veracity of spirit. I am grateful to have traveled along.”—Trisha Low, The Believer
Book Synopsis Charm of Graves by : Gideon M Kressel
Download or read book Charm of Graves written by Gideon M Kressel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilities vis-a-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, when combined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in grave worship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that the dynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in a complex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity on Bedouin conduct and belief. The authors' observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are compared and augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including grave worship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading for anthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university and popular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological works and has been keenly awaited.
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Book Synopsis Native American Grave and Burial Protection Act (repatriation); Native American Repatriation of Cultural Patrimony Act; and Heard Museum Report by : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Download or read book Native American Grave and Burial Protection Act (repatriation); Native American Repatriation of Cultural Patrimony Act; and Heard Museum Report written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Then and Now written by Floyd C. Watkins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a "poetic autobiography" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his family, and contemporaries from his hometown, but keeping the poetry itself constantly at the center of his vision, Watkins shows how the poetry has grown from the experience of the boy and man and from his contemplation of his family's and his country's history. He traces through the poems a family chronicle, moving from the frontier to the late twentieth century, and set in a landscape that is clearly derived from the Kentucky of Warren's boyhood. The little town of Guthrie, divided by railroad tracks, with its two burial grounds for whites and blacks, becomes in the poems a town of both memory and imagination, peopled by characters many of whom are recognizable to Warren's contemporaries. The images of a black man fleeing through swampy woods outside the town, of a grayfaced man who led a lynch mob, of a mad druggist making a list of people to poison, all have counterparts in Guthrie's history. Then and Now is a revealing and provocative study of the poetic process in a poet who is thought of as the originator of the biographical fallacy.
Book Synopsis The Tomb of Destiny by : Peter Scott
Download or read book The Tomb of Destiny written by Peter Scott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tomb of Destiny is an historical adventure set in Edwardian England and Egypt. Charlie Waterman, our intrepid adventurer, solves an ancient riddle that will lead him ultimately to a secret sanctuary containing the lost Pharaohs of Egypt. But nasty villains are on his trail and what Charlie actually discovers at the Tomb of Destiny is beyond his wildest dreams and he soon realises that the secrets of the past may hold the key to his future happiness.
Book Synopsis Great Graves of Upstate New York by : Chuck D'Imperio
Download or read book Great Graves of Upstate New York written by Chuck D'Imperio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck DImperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous) figures in American history. The product of this labor of love is Great Graves of Upstate New York: Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends. Many of the names are familiar to any AmericanWilliam Rockefeller, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known as Mark Twain), Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, and Harriet Tubman, and four U.S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Chester Arthur. An equally colorful host of local characters who shaped the culture of Upstate New York are also featured, including: Kate Smith, The God Bless America Girl; mafia figure Joe Joe the Barber Barbara; Dr. Mary Walker, Americas only female Congressional Medal of Honor winner; Jennie Grossinger, The Catskills Innkeeper; and Ernie Davis, The Pride of the Syracuse Orangemen. From Syracuse to West Point to Binghamton, and on to Cooperstown, Niagara Falls, and Lake Placid, Great Graves of Upstate New York is not only a fact-filled volume on the regions cemeteries, museums, and historical sites, but a peek into the lives of 70 distinguished individuals who have shaped American history.
Book Synopsis That Further Shore by : John D. Feerick
Download or read book That Further Shore written by John D. Feerick and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the land of his ancestors. John D. Feerick’s life has all the elements of a modern Horatio Alger story: the poor boy who achieves success by dint of his hard work. But Feerick brought other elements to that classic American success story: his deep religious faith, his integrity, and his paramount concern for social justice. In his memoir, That Further Shore, Feerick shares his inspiring story, from his humble beginnings: born to immigrant parents in the South Bronx, going on to practice law, participating in framing the U.S. Constitution’s Twenty-Fifth Amendment, serving as dean of Fordham Law, and serving as President of the New York City Bar Association and chair of state commissions on government integrity. Beginning with Feerick’s ancestry and early life experiences, including a detailed genealogical description of Feerick’s Irish ancestors in County Mayo and his laborious quest to identify them and their relationships with one another, the book then presents an evocative survey of the now-vanished world of a working-class Irish Catholic neighborhood in the South Bronx. Feerick’s account of how he financed his education from elementary school through law school is a moving tribute to the immigrant work ethic that he inherited from his parents and shared with many young Americans of his generation. The book then traces Feerick’s career as a lawyer and how he gave up a lucrative partnership in a prestigious New York City law firm at an early age to accept the office of Dean of the Fordham School of Law at a fraction of his previous income because he felt it was time to give back something to the world. John Feerick has consistently shown his commitment to the law as a vocation as well as a profession by his efforts to protect the rights of the poor, to enable minorities to achieve their rightful places in American society, and to combat political corruption. That Further Shore is an inspiring memoir of how one humble and decent man helped to make America a more just and equitable society.
Book Synopsis Winding River Village by : Kim, Sung-Kyun
Download or read book Winding River Village written by Kim, Sung-Kyun and published by Nilacakra. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early summer, when the sun rises over Hahoe village, its beams dance on the dew-laden foliage of the mountain, and pour down over the water of the river. The air becomes particularly clear and refreshing. Smoke from breakfast-fires rises straight above each house and disappears into the infinity of blue sky. The mist hovering in valleys and swales gradually fades away. There evolves a quality of mysterious sublimity, tranquility, and serenity to the morning that launches a hopeful day in a beautiful way. Soon the cawing crows break the calmness. This village may be the distinct kind that all the great Oriental sages thought over to be a Utopia.
Book Synopsis Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Great by : Sean D. W. Lafferty
Download or read book Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Great written by Sean D. W. Lafferty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the evolution of Roman law and society in Italy from 493, with the proclamation of the Ostrogoth Theoderic the Great as king, until about 554, when the eastern Emperor Justinian was able to re-establish imperial authority in the region. Drawing upon evidence from a variety of legal and historical sources, it investigates how Theoderic and his successors attempted to govern the peninsula in the wake of foreign invasions, the collapse of civic administration, the break-up of the Mediterranean economy, and the emergence of new forms of religious and secular authority. It challenges long-held assumptions as to just how peaceful, prosperous and Roman-like Theoderic's Italy really was. Its primary focus is the Edictum Theoderici, a significant but largely overlooked document that offers valuable historical insights into the complex and sometimes contested social, political and religious changes that marked Italy's passage from Antiquity into the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Betwixt & Between written by Xavier Night and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Green is a defense attorney wanting more from his life and career in the Grindson and Solts Firm. However, as Nathan takes on a case all to himself, he comes to find that nothing is what he believes it to be. Back and forth from dreams and nightmares, Nathan must collect himself for a case that hits closer to home than he realizes. Especially when Elaine Wyle steps into the picture. Follow Nathan Green as he tries to unravel a case while distracting visions in sleep and reality push from all sides in this puzzling mystery. Be careful, however, as everything isn’t what it always has been.
Download or read book Three Stories written by Vítězslav Hálek and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strathard written by Jean Bisbey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did one spend a million pounds for the good of humanity? I asked myself, and not for the first time. Of course it would be easy to top up Neils missionary funds. That might be for the good of orphans, lepers, and the like, but what would that do for humanity? And surely the professor would be expecting more of me. All you need, Jenny, hed said, is another challenge, a big challenge and your imagination. I had the challenge all right. Hed seen to that. But did I have the imagination equal to the challenge?
Download or read book Sword of Valor written by Tom Willard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed saga of one African-American family's contributions to the American military concludes with this novel of the first woman to join the family's ranks, serving with the 101st Airborne in the Gulf War.
Book Synopsis The Sound of Heartbeats by : Edward Reed
Download or read book The Sound of Heartbeats written by Edward Reed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah Smith is back in the little beach town of Port Island to finalize her divorce, sell her grandmother’s beach house and say goodbye to childhood memories. She’s not in Port Island to fall in love. She and Nicholas Jackson, the boy next door, did that long ago when they were kids. They weren’t supposed to. “Jacksons and Smiths don’t mix, never have, never will,” Savannah’s grandmother Grace told her. “Stay away from that girl,” Nicholas’ grandfather Henry warned. Grace Smith, widow, stayed on her side of the azaleas and her neighbor Henry Jackson, widower, stayed on his side. Now, Savannah is a school teacher and Nicholas a handyman, something neither dreamed all those summers ago when they would slip away from their grandparents to be together. It’s all still here and waiting for Savannah and Nicholas, the moonlit beach, the mimosa tree, and something they can only find with each other, the sound of heartbeats. War, a terrible accident, and years of pain find their way into the sunshine as Savannah and Nicholas unravel the mystery of why those who kept them apart as children are now bringing them together. “A life was lost, a life was saved, love was lost and love found.” A beautiful story of life and love, that will make you stop and listen to the sound of heartbeats.
Book Synopsis Harry Thomas' Memory lane by : Harry Thomas
Download or read book Harry Thomas' Memory lane written by Harry Thomas and published by Gwasg Helygain Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features photos and postcards as well as the stories behind local businesses known to us all including the Crosville Motor Company and William Roberts. This book provides accounts of local landmarks including Prestatyn Golf Course and the Point of Ayr Colliery as well as the stories of visits to the area by Princess Diana and LS Lowry.
Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
