Citizens In A Strange Land

Author : Hermann Wellenreuther
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271069616

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Citizens in a Strange Land by Hermann Wellenreuther Pdf

In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.

Author : Hermann Wellenreuther
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271061009

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Citizens in a Strange Land by Hermann Wellenreuther Pdf

In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444710236

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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time. Epic, ambitious and entertaining, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND caused controversy and uproar when it was first published and is still topical and challenging today. Twenty-five years ago, the first manned mission to Mars was lost, and all hands presumed dead. But someone survived... Born on the doomed spaceship and raised by the Martians who saved his life, Valentine Michael Smith has never seen a human being until the day a second expedition to Mars discovers him. Upon his return to Earth, a young nurse named Jill Boardman sneaks into Smith's hospital room and shares a glass of water with him, a simple act for her but a sacred ritual on Mars. Now, connected by an incredible bond, Smith, Jill and a writer named Jubal must fight to protect a right we all take for granted: the right to love.

Author : WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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STRANGE LANDS AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE by WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS Pdf

Author : Charles J. Chaput
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781627796750

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Strangers in a Strange Land by Charles J. Chaput Pdf

A vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians—and particularly Catholics--can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square. From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed. The reasons include, but aren't limited to, economic changes that widen the gulf between rich and poor; problems in the content and execution of the education system; the decline of traditional religious belief among young people; the shift from organized religion among adults to unbelief or individualized spiritualities; changes in legal theory and erosion in respect for civil and natural law; significant demographic shifts; profound new patterns in sexual behavior and identity; the growth of federal power and its disregard for religious rights; the growing isolation and elitism of the leadership classes; and the decline of a sustaining sense of family and community.

Author : John B. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780761871507

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Strangers in a Stranger Land by John B. Simon Pdf

What did it feel like to be an openly Jewish soldier fighting alongside German troops in WWII? Could a Jewish nurse work safely in a field hospital operating theater under the supervision of German army doctors? Several hundred members of Finland’s tiny Jewish community found themselves in absurd situations like this, yet not a single one was harmed by the Germans or deported to concentration or extermination camps. In fact, Finland was the only European country fighting on either side in WWII that lost not a single Jewish citizen to the Nazi’s “Final Solution.” Strangers in a Stranger Land explores the unique dilemma of Finland’s Jews in the form of a meticulously researched novel. Where did these immigrant Jews—the last in Europe to achieve citizenship status—come from? What was life like from their arrival in Finland in the early nineteenth century to the time when their grandchildren perversely found themselves on “the wrong side” of WWII? And how could young lovers plan for the future when not only their enemies but also their country’s allies threatened their very existence? Seven years researching Finland’s National Archives plus numerous in-depth interviews with surviving Finnish Jewish war veterans provide the background for a narrative exploration of love, friendship, and commitment but also uncertainty and terror under circumstances that were unique in the annals of “The Good War.” The novel’s protagonists—Benjamin, David and Rachel—adopt varying survival strategies as they struggle with involvement in a brutal conflict and questions posed by their dual loyalty as Finnish citizens and Zionists committed to the creation of a Jewish homeland. Tensions mount as the three young adults painfully work through a relationship love triangle and try to fulfill their commitments as both Jews and Finns while their country desperately seeks to extricate itself from an unwinnable war.

Author : Malcolm Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Church work with older people
ISBN : 0953049469

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In a Strange Land-- by Malcolm Goldsmith Pdf

Author : C. Andrew Doyle
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640652026

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Citizen by C. Andrew Doyle Pdf

A must-read for Christians struggling with the present political conversation Citizen helps Christians find our place in the politics of the world. In these pages, Bishop Andy Doyle offers a Christian virtue ethic grounded in fresh anthropology. He offers a vision of the individual Christian within the reign of God and the life of the broader community. He adds to the conversation in both church and culture by offering a renewed theological underpinning to the complex nature of Christianity in a post-modern world. How did we get here? Is this the way it has to be? Are there implications for conversations about politics within the church? Doyle contends that our current debates are not about one partisan narrative winning, but communities of diversity being unified by a relationship with God's grand narrative. Crafting a deep theological conversation with a unified approach to the Old and New Testament, Citizen asks, what does it truly mean to live in community?

Author : William Stringfellow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592448746

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An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow Pdf

From 'An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land': America is a fallen nation. Americans exist in time, in the era biblically called the Fall. America is a demonic principality, or conglomeration of principalities and powers in which death furnishes the meaning, in which death is the reigning idol. Enshrined in multifarious forms and guises, it enslaves human beings, exacts human sacrifices, captures and captivates Presidents as well as intimidating and dehumanizing ordinary citizens. Strong statements, yes, but timely in the biblical context which forms William Stringfellow's perspective of our contemporary situation. Identifying America as a fallen nation with the parable of Babylon in the Book of Revelation - not with Jerusalem the holy nation, as Americans are naively and vainly wont to do - Dr. Stringfellow issues as trenchant an indictment of our society as has been made since Philip Wylie's 'Generation of Vipers'. Shockingly prophetic, dismaying, and sobering, William Stringfellow's rigorous biblical theology will surely offend the self-righteous. But the citizen of Jerusalem, alien in Babylon, will welcome the bluntness and insight with which he speaks.

Author : Kinga Frojimovics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : UOM:39015079248129

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I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land by Kinga Frojimovics Pdf

From 1933-45 ca. 20-25,000 Jewish refugees lived, for various periods, in Hungary; in addition, a number of Jews entered the country in the fall of 1939 as part of the wave of Polish military and civil refugees. The National Central Alien Control Office (Külföldieket Ellenőrző Országos Központi Hatóság, KEOKH) affiliated with the Interior Ministry, was established in order to supervise the foreigners (Jewish and non-Jewish) living in Hungary. Rapidly, the KEOKH turned into a "de-Jewification commando", predating the Eichmann commando, which came to Hungary after the country's German occupation in 1944. The KEOKH not only prevented attempts by alien Jews to obtain a citizenship certificate, but also re-classified many Jews born in Hungary as "alien". It participated in deportations of these Jews from Hungary, in full knowledge that such deportations meant death, as in the deportations to Kamenets-Podolskii in 1941 and to Slovakia in 1942 and later. These policies of the Hungarian state and society contrast with the policies concerning Polish non-Jewish refugees. The Hungarian political elite, that was prepared to break the law and confront its German allies in order to admit tens of thousands of Poles, deported the "undesirable" Jews in 1941-44. In 1944 thousands of Jews, both refugees and Hungarians, tried to flee the country only to be confronted with a tightening of border controls in Hungary and a reluctance to admit them by neighboring countries.

Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620973981

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Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Pdf

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441783588

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Starship Troopers by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf

In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Stranger Journalism
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399135866

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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars, arrives on Earth's stunning Western culture with his superhuman abilities.

Author : Chris Rhatigan,Katherine Tomlinson
Publisher : All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Strangers in a Strange Land by Chris Rhatigan,Katherine Tomlinson Pdf

Strangers in a Strange Land: Immigrant Stories is an anthology that explores immigration in poems, essays, and short stories by a diverse collection of authors who offer their own experiences, observations, and speculations. From searing poetry drawn from a Native American perspective to essays chronicling the marginalization of LGBT people, to the crime fiction of new Americans and writers whose ancestors were brought to the country in bondage, Strangers in a Strange Land examines the intersection of hope and despair that defines the immigrant experience. With works by Walter Koenig, Linda Rodriguez, Patricia Abbott, Gerri Leen, Teresa Roman, R.C. Barnes, James B. Nicola, Eric Beetner, Katherine Tomlinson, Heath Lowrance, Kimmy Dee, Mark Rogers, Sheikha A., Mark Hauer, Berkeley Hunt, Manuel Royal, Kathleen Alcalá, Christine Mathewson, Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw, Zoe Chang, and James L’Etoile.

Author : David Weissbrodt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191563270

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The Human Rights of Non-citizens by David Weissbrodt Pdf

Non-citizens include asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, immigrants, non-immigrants, migrant workers, refugees, stateless persons, and trafficked persons. This book argues that regardless of their citizenship status, non-citizens should, by virtue of their essential humanity, enjoy all human rights unless exceptional distinctions serve a legitimate State objective and are proportional to the achievement of that objective. Non-citizens should have freedom from arbitrary arrest, arbitrary killing, child labour, forced labour, inhuman treatment, invasions of privacy, refoulement, slavery, unfair trial, and violations of humanitarian law. Additionally, non-citizens should have the right to consular protection; equality; freedom of religion and belief; labour rights (for example, as to collective bargaining, workers' compensation, healthy and safe working conditions, etc.); the right to marry; peaceful association and assembly; protection as minors; social, cultural, and economic rights. There is a large gap, however, between the rights that international human rights law guarantee to non-citizens and the realities they face. In many countries, non-citizens are confronted with institutional and endemic discrimination and suffering. The situation has worsened since 11 September 2001, as several governments have detained or otherwise violated the rights of non-citizens in response to fears of terrorism. This book attempts to understand and respond to the challenges of international human rights law guarantees for non-citizens human rights.