Child Of All Nations

Author : Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101615324

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Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Pdf

In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This Earth of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.

Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141908823

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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun Pdf

Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.

Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590203011

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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun Pdf

"A delicious novel about an irreverent thirteen year old, Child of All Nations smokes and so does its heroine."-Erica Jong

Author : Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101615348

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Footsteps by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Pdf

As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reason to believe that he can leave behind the tragedies of the past. But Minke can no more escape his past than he can escape his situation as part of an oppressed people under a foreign power. As his world begins to fall apart, Minke draws a small but fervent group around him to fight back against colonial exploitation. During the struggle, Minke finds love, friendship, and betrayal—with tragic consequences. And he goes from wanting to understand his world to wanting to change it. Pramoedya's full literary genius is again evident in the remarkable characters that populate the novel—and in his depiction of a people's painful emergence from colonial domination and the shackles of tradition.

Author : Tamara Starblanket
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780998694788

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Suffer the Little Children by Tamara Starblanket Pdf

Originally approved as a master of laws thesis by a respected Canadian university, this book tackles one of the most compelling issues of our time—the crime of genocide—and whether in fact it can be said to have occurred in relation to the many Original Nations on Great Turtle Island now claimed by a state called Canada. It has been hailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenous and other scholars engaged with this issue, impacting not just Canada but states worldwide where entrapped Indigenous nations face absorption by a dominating colonial state. Starblanket unpacks Canada’s role in the removal of cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention, though the disappearance of an Original Nation by forced assimilation was regarded by many states as equally genocidal as destruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek to tailor the definition of genocide to escape its own crimes which were then even ongoing? The crime of genocide, to be held as such under current international law, must address the complicated issue of mens rea (not just the commission of a crime, but the specific intent to do so). This book permits readers to make a judgment on whether or not this was the case. Starblanket examines how genocide was operationalized in Canada, focused primarily on breaking the intergenerational transmission of culture from parents to children. Seeking to absorb the new generations into a different cultural identity—English-speaking, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian—Canada seized children from their parents, and oversaw and enforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs, languages and traditions, replacing them by those still in process of being established by the emerging Canadian state.

Author : Children
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590225772

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Children of all nations by Children Pdf

Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453265253

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The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead Pdf

“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789740608

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Let the Nations be Glad by John Piper Pdf

'Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate.' John Piper's contemporary classic draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defence of God's supremacy in all things, providing a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching 'all nations'. Let the Nations Be Glad! is a trusted resource for missionaries, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, seminary students, and all who want to connect their labours to God's global purposes. This third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the 'prosperity gospel'.

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789601961

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Villains of All Nations by Marcus Rediker Pdf

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.

Author : Jeannine Carrière
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633985

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Walking This Path Together by Jeannine Carrière Pdf

Walking This Path Together is an edited collection devoted to improving the lives of children and families that come to the attention of child welfare authorities by demonstrating and advocating for socially just child welfare practices. In this new, updated edition, authors provide special consideration to the historical and political context of child welfare in Canada and theoretical ideas and concrete practices that support practitioners, educators and students who are looking for anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial perspectives on child welfare practice.

Author : Joyce Perreault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995012717

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All Creation Represented by Joyce Perreault Pdf

Author : Habits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900055027

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Habits, Manners and Customs of All Nations: for the Instruction of the Young. Illustrated with ... Engravings by Habits Pdf

Author : Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:47228326

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Stories about Children of All Nations by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut Pdf

Author : Y. B. Mangunwijaya
Publisher : Lontar Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 6029144200

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The Weaverbirds by Y. B. Mangunwijaya Pdf

A landmark novel, The Weaverbirds is a tale of physical and spiritual struggles. The story spans from the formative days of Indonesia's independence to Indonesia's oil crisis in the mid 1970s. Larasati, the precious daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antana, and Setadewa, the army-brat son of Capt. And Mrs. Brajabasuki, are childhood friends. But when they are older, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the country's political spectrum. Even with their many differences, their relationship offers guidance to survival in a chaotic world.

Author : Sharon Detrick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004638693

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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by Sharon Detrick Pdf

This book provides a commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989. Part One contains a general introduction to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and deals with matters such as the drafting history, the contents, direct application, horizontal effects, limitations, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention's final provisions. Part Two contains an article-by-article commentary, the aim of which is not to give an interpretation of the precise nature and scope of States parties' obligations but, rather, to identify the materials, or sources, which provide guidance in that regard. In the identification of such materials, attention has been paid to the general rules of treaty interpretation, as set forth in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.