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A World that was

Author : Ronald Murray Berndt,Catherine Helen Berndt,John E. Stanton
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0774804785

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A World that was by Ronald Murray Berndt,Catherine Helen Berndt,John E. Stanton Pdf

This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations. For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down - a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of what would become, but not until recently, the finished manuscript. The book's range is encyclopaedic and engrossing - sometimes dramatic. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization. A World That Was is a unique contribution to Australia's cultural history. There is simply no comparable body of work, nor is there ever likely to be.

The World that was Ours

Author : Hilda Bernstein
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Anti-apartheid movements
ISBN : IND:30000110616442

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The World that was Ours by Hilda Bernstein Pdf

An intimate memoir about the 1964 Rivonia Trial in South Africa during Apartheid.

How the World Was Made

Author : K B Napier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780244718961

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This book could have been ten times longer, but it serves the purpose of introducing Christians to the truth concerning the beginning of the world and the universe. The first three chapters of Genesis describe historical facts, not myths, as the Hebrew texts prove. Most quotes are by scientists. Evolutionists jealously guard their failed hypothesis, because, as they say, they "cannot let God get a foothold in science". In itself this is an admission of anxiety, that truth will one day be shown... and it is NOT found in scientism, which is the fake version of science. There are absolutely NO proofs for evolution. But, how many know this? Evolutionists are so scared of this truth getting out they will resort to legal restraints!! They are so afraid, they enforce evolution-only in schools by intimidation and false science, and denigrate students in universities for daring to question evolutionary orthodoxy. Yet, genuine scientists KNOW evolution is fake! They hate God. That's it!!

There Once Was a World

Author : Yaffa Eliach
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0316232394

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There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach Pdf

For 900 years the Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944 almost every Jew was murdered and with them died a way of life that had survived for centuries. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history of the shtetl.

The World That Never Was

Author : Alex Butterworth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446468647

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The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspiritors were blamed and the public whipped into a frenzy of anxiety. The reality was rather different. These dramatic events were only the most visible part of a longer, clandestine struggle waged between the forces of revolution and reaction, in which little was as it seemed. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age. Both intimate and panoramic, it is a story with uncanny resonances for today.

When the World was Black Part Two

Author : Supreme understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When the World Was Black: The Untold History of the World’s First Civilizations (Volume Two of The Science of Self series) has been published in TWO parts. Why two? Because there are far too many stories that remain untold. We had over 200,000 years of Black history to tell – from the southern tip of Chile to the northernmost isles of Europe – and you can’t do that justice in a 300-page book. So there are two parts, each consisting of 360 pages of groundbreaking history, digging deep into the story of all the world’s original people. Part One covers the Black origins of all the world’s oldest cultures and societies, spanning more than 200,000 years of human history. Part Two tells the stories of the Black men and women who introduced urban civilization to the world over the last 20,000 years, up to the time of European contact. Each part has over 100 helpful maps, graphs, and photos, an 8-page full-color insert in the center, and over 300 footnotes and references for further research. “In this book, you’ll learn about the history of Black people. I don’t mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. I’m talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that. In this book, we’ll cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can’t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more.” “Part Two covers history from 20,000 years ago to the point of European contact. This is the time that prehistoric cultures grew into ancient urban civilizations, a transition known to historians as the “Neolithic Revolution.”

The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0374292787

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The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] by Thomas L. Friedman Pdf

Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

When the World Was New

Author : Gifford Michael Rodney
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504965569

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When the World Was New by Gifford Michael Rodney Pdf

I thought about when God first made man. I thought about when God saved the world with eight people. I thought about the new world that is coming when Jesus comes back to this earth to rule. I just write these truths as the Lord gives them to me. I was a country boy that didnt know too much of anything, but this one thing I know: the Lord is coming back to take away all the people that are ready to go back with him. John said, I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth. The old Heaven and the old Earth is passing away and will be no more. A new beginning. So I just like to write, to tell a story about God.

When the World Was Black Part One

Author : Supreme Understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When the World Was Black: The Untold History of the World’s First Civilizations (Volume Two of The Science of Self series) has been published in TWO parts. Why two? Because there are far too many stories that remain untold. We had over 200,000 years of Black history to tell – from the southern tip of Chile to the northernmost isles of Europe – and you can’t do that justice in a 300-page book. So there are two parts, each consisting of 360 pages of groundbreaking history, digging deep into the story of all the world’s original people. Part One covers the Black origins of all the world’s oldest cultures and societies, spanning more than 200,000 years of human history. Part Two tells the stories of the Black men and women who introduced urban civilization to the world over the last 20,000 years, up to the time of European contact. Each part has over 100 helpful maps, graphs, and photos, an 8-page full-color insert in the center, and over 300 footnotes and references for further research. “In this book, you’ll learn about the history of Black people. I don’t mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. I’m talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that. In this book, we’ll cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can’t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more.” “Part Two covers history from 20,000 years ago to the point of European contact. This is the time that prehistoric cultures grew into ancient urban civilizations, a transition known to historians as the “Neolithic Revolution.”

How The World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500772270

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From politics and war, to jeans and sneakers: a look at America’s influence on the world from an international perspective On the day after 9/11, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing “We Are All Americans Now.” Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called “the American Century,” during which the US was to raise all men “from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist calls a little lower than angels.” When America suddenly emerged as a global power in the postwar period, the world—with pockets of resistance from France, Russia, and Japan in particular—was happy to be remade in the US image. America dazzled, and sometimes intimidated, older, staler, less innovative cultures. The affluence it placed on display was something to which most other countries aspired, and it was this fantasy that helped win the Cold War. Fast forward to today and the Chinese state news agency Xinhua, days before a possible financial default by the US government, calling for a de-Americanized world. A context for Peter Conrad’s grand tale is, inevitably, politics, war, and commerce, but for the most part he draws on his brilliant repertoire of cultural skills to assess, surprise, invigorate, and delight us with his kaleidoscopic presentation of the movies and music, jeans and sneakers, food and refrigerators, novels and paintings that have shaped so much of the world in our lifetimes.

The World Book Encyclopedia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

The Future Life

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Future life
ISBN : BL:A0021757917

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A Library of the World's Best Literature

Author : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Charles Henry Warner,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Authors
ISBN : SRLF:D0007615933

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A Library of the World's Best Literature by Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Charles Henry Warner,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner Pdf