Black Elephant

Author : Corey Fields
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520291904

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Black Elephants in the Room by Corey Fields Pdf

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party? Black Elephants in the Room considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race and political behavior in the purported “post-racial” context of US politics. Drawing on vivid first-person accounts, the book sheds light on the different ways black identity structures African Americans' membership in the Republican Party. Moving past rhetoric and politics, we begin to see the everyday people working to reconcile their commitment to black identity with their belief in Republican principles. And at the end, we learn the importance of understanding both the meanings African Americans attach to racial identity and the political contexts in which those meanings are developed and expressed.

Author : Mina Javaherbin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545636711

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Elephant in the Dark by Mina Javaherbin Pdf

A bold, humorous rendition of "The Three Blind Men and the Elephant" maginificently illustrated by an award-winning artist! When the villagers hear of a huge and mysterious creature that has come all the way from India, they steal into the dark barn to find out what it is."It's like a snake!" says one. "It's like a tree trunk," says another. "No, it's like a fan!" argues the third. Who is right? Which of them knows the creature's true shape?Mina Javaherbin's charming and witty retelling combined with Eugene Yelchin's refreshingly brilliant illustrations bring this enlightened classic, inspired by Rumi's poem, vividly to life.

Author : Karol Nielsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803235373

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Black Elephants by Karol Nielsen Pdf

An aspiring writer and reporter, Karol Nielsen went trekking through the Peruvian Andes at the height of the Shining Path terror, looking for adventure and a good story. She found Aviv, an Israeli traveler fresh out of his mandatory military service?a war-weary veteran of the first intifada?dreaming about peace. Black Elephants follows this idealistic pair as they explore the Americas, until Aviv, inexorably drawn to his homeland, asks Karol to come with him to Israel. There, the couple?s lovingly laid plans?for Aviv to attend university, and for Karol to work on a kibbutz, study Hebrew, and get to know his family?are suddenly tested by the eruption of the first Gulf War. Nielsen?s memoir paints a poignant and harrowing picture of love during wartime. Against a backdrop of bursting bombs and air-raid sirens, gas masks and sealed rooms, relationships are frayed, and romance becomes a distant memory. This story, so candidly and clearly told, powerfully illustrates the terror, loneliness, and absurdity of war and its invisible casualties.

Author : Kevin Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Elephant hunting
ISBN : UCAL:B2838902

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Black Elephant Hunter by Kevin Duffy Pdf

Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875655116

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Hell's Half Acre by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre – a wild ’n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors. Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell’s Half Acre – its myth and its reality – can be said to be a microcosm of them all. The most famous and infamous westerners visited the Acre: Timothy (“Longhair Jim”) Courtright, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, Mary Porter, Etta Place, along with Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, and many more. For civic leaders and reformers, the Acre presented a dilemma – the very establishments they sought to close down or regulate were major contributors to the local economy. Controversial in its heyday and receiving new attention by such movies as Lonesome Dove, Hell’s Half Acre remains the subject of debate among historians and researchers today. Richard Selcer successfully separates fact from fiction, myth from reality, in this vibrant study of the men and women of Cowtown’s notorious Acre.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780900860362

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The Elephant in the Dark by Idries Shah Pdf

As our world continues to shrink, we are being brought headlong into often explosive contact with other cultures and religions. Islam continues to be for many a mysterious and misunderstood force, alien to our own cultural values. Yet, in more ways than expected, Christianity and Islam share common ground. For centuries, Sufi thinkers have been linked to both religions in certain important ideas. But, like the elephant in the dark in Jalaludin Rumi's classic fable, these ideas are not grasped in full by seizing parts of the whole and arguing for or against their supposed Christian or Islamic derivation. From a series of lectures given by Idries Shah at Geneva University, The Elephant in the Dark shifts focus to more fruitful ground, tracing documented episodes of cooperation and understanding between Christians and Moslems over the past 1,400 years.

Author : Govert Schilling,Avi Loeb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674248991

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The Elephant in the Universe by Govert Schilling,Avi Loeb Pdf

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter--and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the universe. Despite decades of research, the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We call it dark matter. In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos--some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation. Taking a holistic view of dark matter as a problem, an opportunity, and an example of science in action, The Elephant in the Universe is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the universe.

Author : Felix Marquardt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781471177392

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The New Nomads by Felix Marquardt Pdf

We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills. We've got it all wrong. Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. Our times require more migration, not less. Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it.

Author : Frank Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Burma
ISBN : IND:30000118385982

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The Land of the White Elephant by Frank Vincent Pdf

Author : Lisa Bany-Winters
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613740910

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On Stage by Lisa Bany-Winters Pdf

Lights, camera, play! With this second edition of On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids, budding thespians will have fun under the footlights as they choose from more than 125 theater games that spark creativity, boost confidence, and encourage collaboration. They'll learn all about how to make a stage performance great with improvisational games such as Freeze, Party Quirks, the Yes Game, and Gibberish; they'll make puppets, discover makeup secrets, and design and build a set. This revised and expanded edition features 35 new improvisational games and ready-to-use monologues, scenes, and short plays. Whether playing alone or in a group, everyone can have theater fun with On Stage!

Author : Heather A. Clark
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459693086

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Elephant in the Sky by Heather A. Clark Pdf

Based on a true story, the tale of a nine-year-old with mental illness, and a mother who strives to find balance between her work and family.

Author : Jenni Desmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 1592702643

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The Elephant by Jenni Desmond Pdf

From Africa to Asia, the elephant makes its home. Light on their feet, despite their great weight, these magnificent creatures appear light and graceful because they're always walking on their tip-toes. They have excellent hearing and can detect the rumblings of other elephants from six miles away. And, just like humans being right handed or left handed, elephants can be right tusked or left tusked!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044083141986

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The Bibliographer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : PRNC:32101043020864

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The Bibliographer by Henry Benjamin Wheatley Pdf

Author : Frank Ver Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Children
ISBN : OXFORD:N10497047

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Little Black Sambo and the Baby Elephant by Frank Ver Beck Pdf