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The Timor Chronicles

Author : Georgia Sky
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607998009
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Timor Chronicles written by Georgia Sky and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Amira grew up in a paradisiacal land called Timor, filled with wondrous music and beautiful creatures. Dancing daily with her mother, The Queen, Amira lived an idyllic life, only to have it torn apart by a cruel curse. Thrust into a life of abuse and denial, Amira takes on a new identity and becomes Georgia, and must try to get back to Timor and her true mother, communicating through their common language of dance. In the face of neglect, ridicule, and abuse, Amira And The Queen learn that to get back To The wonderful life they barely remember, they must have determination and infallible hope. Georgia dances to escape from her pain and refuses to give in to despair. The Queen is betrayed by the man she loves and turns to prostitution. In the magical world of Timor, The King is left to his grief and slowly falls into deep despair, pining for his wife and daughter. It is up to Amira's unyielding spirit to break the curse and restore her family to its original happy existence. In a story of sadness, loss, freedom, and hope, author Georgia Sky shows that there are heroes all around who wake up every day with a heavy heart and have only a spark of hope for companionship. Amira is one of these heroes. Discover Timor with Amira, see her struggles, and test your own Unyielding Spirit. Georgia was born in the Greek-American community of Astoria, New York. She studied professionally at Callina's School of Classical Ballet. She has always been passionate about books and literature. Georgia has cherished her time both as a medical technologist and teacher. She is currently working on another adventure in Timor and studying the dance form of Raks Sharki.

"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die"

Author : Geoffrey Robinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150176
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" written by Geoffrey Robinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial legacies -- Invasion and genocide -- Occupation and resistance -- Mobilizing the militias -- Bearing witness, tempting fate -- The vote -- A campaign of violence -- Intervention -- Justice and reconciliation.

The Boy and the Crocodile

Author : Martin Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987132628
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Boy and the Crocodile written by Martin Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boy and the Crocodile is the legend of East Timor, about how the island of Timor got its curious shape.It's also a parable about kindness, and now a children's book that is benefiting vulnerable kids.The book was illustrated by children from the Familia Hope Orphanage in East Timor, including many who lost their parents in the country's violent struggle for independence. ALL proceeds from sales go to the orphanage.We pre-sold the book in Australia to fund the production of a version in Tetum (the lingua franca of East Timor), and 4000 books are being distributed to kids throughout the country in a project called Myths & Murals.Teams from Arte Moris - a partner on the project, and an Art School in Dili dedicated to creating an East Timorese identity through art - are travelling to every district distributing books to schools, libraries and community faciliites and leading the children in creative workshops. In each place, they are also collaborating with older youth to produce large-scale murals on public walls depicting scenes from The Boy and the Crocodile - symbolically uniting the country.By buying the book, you can help raise funds for the orphanage and contribute to a brighter future for many more East Timorese kids.

Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia

Author : Ben Kiernan
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412809150
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia written by Ben Kiernan and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination, the international cover-ups that obstructed documentation of these crimes, and efforts to hold the perpetrators legally accountable. The perpetrator regimes inflicted casualties in similar proportions. Each caused the deaths of about one-fifth of the population of the nation. Cambodia's mortality was approximately 1.7 million, and approximately 170,000 perished in East Timor. In both cases, most of the deaths occurred in the five-year period from 1975 to1980. In addition, Cambodia and East Timor not only shared the experience of genocide but also of civil war, international intervention, and UN conflict resolution. U.S. policymakers supported the invading Indonesians in Timor, as well as the indigenous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Both regimes exterminated ethnic minorities, including local Chinese, as well as political dissidents. Yet the ideological fuel that ignited each conflagration was quite different. Jakarta pursued anti-communism; the Khmer Rouge were communists. In East Timor the major Indonesian goal was conquest. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge's goal was revolution. Maoist ideology influenced Pol Pot's regime, but it also influenced the East Timorese resistance to the Indonesia's occupiers. Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia is significant both for its historical documentation and for its contribution to the study of the politics and mechanisms of genocide. It is a fundamental contribution that will be read by historians, human rights activists, and genocide studies specialists.

Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation

Author : Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139852043
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation written by Awet Tewelde Weldemichael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing Ethiopia's rule over Eritrea and Indonesia's rule over East Timor, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation compares the colonialism of powerful third world countries on their small, less powerful neighbors. Through a comparative study of Eritrean and East Timorese grand strategies of liberation, this book documents the inner workings of the nationalist movements and traces the sources of government types in these countries. In doing so, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael challenges existing notions of grand strategy as a unique prerogative of the West and opposes established understanding of colonialism as an exclusively Western project on the non-Western world. In addition to showing how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated military and non-military strategies, Weldemichael emphasizes that the insurgents avoided terrorist methods when their colonizers indiscriminately bombed their countries, tortured and executed civilians, held them hostage, starved them deliberately, and continuously threatened them with harsher measures.

"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die"

Author : Geoffrey B. Robinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831830
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" written by Geoffrey B. Robinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting firsthand account of the violence in East Timor in 1999 This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" tells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. Before international forces intervened, more than half the population had been displaced and 1,500 people killed. Geoffrey Robinson, an expert in Southeast Asian history, was in East Timor with the United Nations in 1999 and provides a gripping first-person account of the violence, as well as a rigorous assessment of the politics and history behind it. Robinson debunks claims that the militias committing the violence in East Timor acted spontaneously, attributing their actions instead to the calculation of Indonesian leaders, and to a "culture of terror" within the Indonesian army. He argues that major powers—notably the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom—were complicit in the genocide of the late 1970s and the violence of 1999. At the same time, Robinson stresses that armed intervention supported by those powers in late 1999 was vital in averting a second genocide. Advocating accountability, the book chronicles the failure to bring those responsible for the violence to justice. A riveting narrative filled with personal observations, documentary evidence, and eyewitness accounts, "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" engages essential questions about political violence, international humanitarian intervention, genocide, and transitional justice.

Timor-Leste

Author : Zhingoora Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781300291985
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Timor-Leste written by Zhingoora Books and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Textiles of Timor

Author : Roy W. Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984755080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Textiles of Timor written by Roy W. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication accompanying the exhibition at the Fowler Museum, September 7, 2014-January 4, 2015.

The Teddy Bear Chronicles

Author : Xi Xi
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 988237185X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Teddy Bear Chronicles written by Xi Xi and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a most unusual book. For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award-winning poetry and fiction. This time, she has chosen to write about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the mobility of her right hand. She made the bears herself from scratch, choosing some of her favourite characters from history and legend such as the Taoist philosopher Master Zhuang, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, and Beauty and the Beast. She also created exquisite items of clothing for them and wove a series of delightfully witty essays around them, giving her readers fascinating insights into Chinese culture, and into the ways in which Chinese clothing and fashion have evolved through the ages. This is a book for all who love literature and teddy bears.

Chronicles of Dissent

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 164259671X
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Dissent written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine. This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, looking back on conversations and engagement with Chomsky’s ideas that now spans decades, as well as a classic essay by Alexander Cockburn on Chomsky that served as the introduction to one of the original volumes.

The Finn Chronicles: Year One

Author : Gwen Romack
Publisher : Gwen Romack
ISBN 13 : 9781735247304
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Finn Chronicles: Year One written by Gwen Romack and published by Gwen Romack. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Training rescued hoomans is a stressful and tiring job, but someone has to do it. Get ready for lots of laughs and awww-moments, because The Finn Chronicles is a unique story told by an extraordinary dog. He's irreverent, funny, and full of sass. Based on his real life, join Finn as he issues weekly reports back to the K9 Rescue Headquarters on the strange behaviors and rituals of his rescue-hoomans. With sarcastic wit, he observes the curious world around him, heroically saves his unwitting hoomans from dangers (see also: evil electric toothbrush), and shares his musings about the often-lackluster level of service he feels he receives.

Timor, the book of the story-teller

Author : Geoffrey Stephen Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646266862
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Timor, the book of the story-teller written by Geoffrey Stephen Hull and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Challenge the Strong Wind

Author : David Webster
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774863005
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Challenge the Strong Wind written by David Webster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor during that period. Canada initially followed key allies in endorsing Indonesian rule, but Canadian civil society groups promoted an alternative foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. Ottawa eventually yielded to pressure from these NGOs and pushed like-minded countries to join it in supporting Timorese self-determination. David Webster draws on untapped government and non-government archival sources, demonstrating that a clear-eyed view of international history must include both state and non-state perspectives.

The pilgrim's progress

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The pilgrim's progress written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mai Kolia Tetun

Author : Geoffrey Hull
Publisher : Caritas Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mai Kolia Tetun written by Geoffrey Hull and published by Caritas Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the island of Timor some twenty languages and dialects are spoken, and the Tetum taught in this book is not the rural or 'classical' variety of the language, but Tetum-Praca, the structurally simpler and lexically richer verancular of Dili which, during the centuries of Portugese rule, spread from the capital throughout the eastern half of the island as a lingua franca. Although Tetum has no official status today, it is the language in which East Timorese from different regions prefer to communicate, and it remains very much alive in the colonies of East Timorese that have grown up in Australia and Portugal since 1975. Tetum is also widely used by the East Timorese Catholic Church in its worship and everyday dealings with the people, and it is now becoming the vehicle of a modern literature." -- Inside back cover.

Economists with Guns

Author : Bradley R. Simpson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477952X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Economists with Guns written by Bradley R. Simpson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development. Drawing on newly declassified archival material, Simpson examines how Americans and Indonesians imagined the country's development in the 1950s and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in the 1960s in favor of Suharto's military regime. Far from viewing development as a path to democracy, this book highlights the evolving commitment of Americans and Indonesians to authoritarianism in the 1960s on.

East Timor

Author : Irena Cristalis
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136536
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book East Timor written by Irena Cristalis and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists to refuse to be evacuated during the nightmarish Indonesian withdrawl, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith with the East Timorese whose story she wanted to tell.Her book is a vivid first-hand account of the lives of individual Timorese during the long decades of Indonesia 's repressive occupation, their often heroic struggle for freedom, and their efforts to cope with the dramatic historic shifts engulfing them and their endeavours to rebuild their homeland. Based on years of research, and lengthy interviews with East Timor 's leaders, priests, nuns, students and guerrilla fighters, this moving and extremely readable book is at the same time also an exploration of the complexities of the country's internal politics.