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Author : Elizabeth Constantia Agnew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Convent Prize Book written by Elizabeth Constantia Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor C. Agnew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The convent prize book, a selection of verses by the authoress of 'Geraldine'. written by Eleanor C. Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astrid M. Eckert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190690062
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book West Germany and the Iron Curtain written by Astrid M. Eckert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These border regions constituted the Federal Republic's most sensitive geographical space where it had to confront partition and engage its socialist neighbor East Germany in concrete ways. Each issue that arose in these borderlands - from economic deficiencies, border tourism, environmental pollution, landscape change, and the siting decision for a major nuclear facility - was magnified and mediated by the presence of what became the most militarized border of its day, the Iron Curtain. In topical chapters, the book addresses the economic consequences of the border for West Germany, which defined the border regions as depressed areas, and examines the cultural practice of western tourism to the Iron Curtain. At the heart of this deeply-researched book stands an environmental history of the Iron Curtain that explores transboundary pollution, landscape change, and a planned nuclear industrial site at Gorleben that was meant to bring jobs into the depressed border regions. The book traces these subjects across the caesura of 1989/90, thereby integrating the "long" postwar era with the post-unification decades. As Eckert demonstrates, the borderlands that emerged with partition and disappeared with reunification did not merely mirror some larger developments in the Federal Republic's history but actually helped to shape them.
Author : Stuart Kells
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522876609
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Convent written by Stuart Kells and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was behind the wall and the wire? The local people knew . . . fine courtyards . . . an old swimming pool . . . dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Abbotsford Convent was this haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had gone. In its prime it had been a school, a refuge, a retreat, a workhouse and a prison—the single largest charitable institution in the southern hemisphere. In the late 1990s a proposed high-density development threatened the idyllic riverside location, sparking outrage in the local community and further afield. Years of protesting, negotiating and fundraising followed and the convent, now on Australia’s National Heritage List, has started a new life as a vibrant centre for art and culture. The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of the site’s rich history and the efforts to preserve it. It is an uplifting tale of community activism—a tangible reminder that the magic of the past can endure and what people-power can achieve.
Author : Kathleen Rowntree
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552997324
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (973 download)
Download or read book A Prize for Sister Catherine written by Kathleen Rowntree and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This racy comedy of manners is woven into a story that combines compassion, ambition, sex and intrigue, jealousy, madness and death.
Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169888
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Paradise written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times
Author : Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535148
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Fire and Roses written by Nancy Lusignan Schultz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking story of the night an angry mob burned down a quiet Massachusetts convent -- and the larger story of anti-Papist and anti-feminist sentiment.
Author : Alice McDermott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712174
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Ninth Hour written by Alice McDermott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
Author : Linda Howard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439187878
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Dream Man written by Linda Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had she finally met the man she longed for...or was she dreaming? Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing -- the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened -- had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop. Detective Dane Hollister of the Orlando police department had never met anyone like Marlie. He had doubts about her clairvoyance, but there was no doubt how much he desired her. Her soft, sweet scent set his blood afire, and he wanted to wrap her in his arms and chase the sadness from her eyes. To Marlie, Dane was all heat and hard muscle, and he made her body come alive as it never had before. But not even she could foresee where their passion would lead: a hungry quest for the elusive, dreamy ecstasies of love...and a dangerous journey into the twisted mind of a madman who would threaten their happiness and their lives....
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca J. Lester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938205
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Jesus in Our Wombs written by Rebecca J. Lester and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants--young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written, finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation they view as a political stance against modernity. Lester explains that the Postulants work toward what they see as an "authentic" femininity--one that has been eclipsed by the values of modern society. The outcome of this process has political as well as personal consequences. The Sisters learn to understand their very intimate experiences of "the Call"--and their choices in answering it--as politically relevant declarations of self. Readers become intimately acquainted with the personalities, family backgrounds, friendships, and aspirations of the Postulants as Lester relates the practices and experiences of their daily lives. Combining compassionate, engaged ethnography with an incisive and provocative theoretical analysis of embodied selves, Jesus in Our Wombs delivers a profound analysis of what Lester calls the convent's "technology of embodiment" on multiple levels--from the phenomenological to the political.
Author : Kathryn Burns
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322917
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Colonial Habits written by Kathryn Burns and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social and economic history of Peru that reflects the influence of the convents on colonial and post-colonial society.
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ... written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Monk of the Monastery of Yuste; Or, The Last Days of the Emperor Charles V. An Historical Legend of the Sixteenth Century. From the Spanish written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373882
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
Author : H. M. Boudon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368186000
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Book of Perpetual Adoration written by H. M. Boudon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen O'Meara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Connemara written by Kathleen O'Meara and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
