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Facing West

Author : Lucy Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954857098

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Nico: I left my family and tiny Texas hometown fifteen years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life. But when a phone call from an attorney back home informs me that my sister passed away, leaving me custody of her newborn baby, I'm shocked out of the steady life I've built for myself running a tattoo shop in San Francisco. The thing is: I don't do babies. And I don't do small towns. Or commitment. And I especially don't do family. My plan is to go back to Hobie just long enough to sign adoption papers, giving my niece the kind of stable, loving family I could never provide. But the moment I meet my niece in the arms of Weston Wilde, my sister's best friend and the town's handsome doctor, my plans begin to change. Because suddenly, I see a different future. One with the very thing I thought I never deserved: a family. If only I can convince West that I'm not the same good-for-nothing kid ready to bolt when things get tough. Weston: There's one thing I know for sure about Nico Salerno: he was a good-for-nothing as a kid and judging by the purple-haired, tattoo'd punk who shows up at his sister's funeral, he hasn't changed. There's no way I'm letting him take custody of my best friend's baby. But the more time I spend around him, the more I realize that his rough exterior is just a shell and that beneath all the tattoos is a scared, insecure man searching for a place to belong. And pretty soon I know exactly where he belongs: in my bed and by my side. The problem is, he abandoned his family once before, how do I know that if we become a family he won't do it again? Facing West is the first in the new Forever Wilde series about the huge Wilde family from Hobie, Texas, whose patriarchs aren't above a little meddling if that's what it takes to help their grandkids find true love.

Facing West

Author : Richard Drinnon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080612928X

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American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

Facing West

Author : David R. Swartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190250829

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In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Amidst this cosmopolitan setting and in front of the most important white evangelical leaders of the United States members of the Latin American Theological Fraternity spoke out against the American Church. Fiery speeches by Ecuadorian René Padilla and Peruvian Samuel Escobar revealed a global weariness with what they described as an American style of coldly efficient mission wedded to a myopic, right-leaning politics. Their bold critiques electrified Christians from around the world. The dramatic growth of Christianity around the world in the last century has shifted the balance of power within the faith away from traditional strongholds in Europe and the United States. To be sure, evangelical populists who voted for Donald Trump have resisted certain global pressures, and Western missionaries have carried Christian Americanism abroad. But the line of influence has also run the other way. David R. Swartz demonstrates that evangelicals in the Global South spoke back to American evangelicals on matters of race, imperialism, theology, sexuality, and social justice. From the left, they pushed for racial egalitarianism, ecumenism, and more substantial development efforts. From the right, they advocated for a conservative sexual ethic grounded in postcolonial logic. As Christian immigration to the United States burgeoned in the wake of the Immigration Act of 1965, global evangelicals forced many American Christians to think more critically about their own assumptions. The United States is just one node of a sprawling global network that includes Korea, India, Switzerland, the Philippines, Guatemala, Uganda, and Thailand. Telling stories of resistance, accommodation, and cooperation, Swartz shows that evangelical networks not only go out to, but also come from, the ends of the earth.

Facing West

Author : Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174302

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When his family travels west via wagon train in 1845, Ben faces many adventures and hardships. Along with the dangers of rough weather and wild animals, Ben also fears the possibility that he might have a devastating asthma attack. As his family sets out from Missouri to Oregon, young Ben wonders whether he will have more trouble with the dangers of the journey or his debilitating asthma.

Facing West

Author : David R. Swartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190250805

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"The dramatic growth of Christianity around the world in the last century has shifted the balance of power within the faith away from the traditional strongholds of Europe and the United States to the Global South. While we typically imagine Western missionaries carrying religion to the ends of the earth, David R. Swartz shows that the line of influence has often run the other way, as evangelicals in nations such as Korea, India, and Uganda shaped the American church from abroad. Swartz tells stories of evangelicals crossing national boundaries, offering new insights into a tradition that imagines itself as simultaneously American and part of a global communion"--

A Window Facing West

Author : John S. Tarlton
Publisher : Bridge Works Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1882593464

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On reaching his 47th birthday, a man decides to test whether he is still attractive to women. Two of his pals are bragging of sexual exploits with a certain lady, so he decides to try her, only to be rebuffed. But he takes it philosophically.

Facing West

Author : John C Perry
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106012001001

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From the early years of the republic, many Americans anticipated a Pacific Age in world affairs that the United States would inevitably dominate, not in a territorial sense so much as in a cultural and commercial one. Despite the reality that Asia was of little real economic importance in American life until recently, a powerful image persisted in the American mind of the promises of riches to be found across the Pacific. This book provides the history of that dream, from the time of Spanish galleons to the hypersonic airplane of the future. With bewildering speed, the North Pacific region has come to rival the North Atlantic as a global center of manufacturing, trade and information, and the generation of wealth. The economic statistics show that the Age of the Pacific has truly arrived. Perry vividly shows that from the early years of the republic many Americans anticipated a Pacific Age in world affairs that the United States would inevitably dominate, not in a territorial sense so much as in a cultural and commercial one. Despite the reality that Asia was of little real economic importance in American life until recently, a powerful image persisted in the American mind of the promise of riches to be found across the Pacific. This book provides the history of that dream, from the time of Spanish galleons to the hypersonic airplane of the future. Countless books have been written about American-East Asian relations, but fewer books have addressed the importance of the Pacific Ocean to the United States. No one before has shown so comprehensively how Americans dominated the creation of trans-Pacific trade routes. This book will be of great interest to professional historians and the general public interested in the history of American-Pacific relations, the history of transportation, and the history of the entrepreneurial doers and dreamers who spearheaded American commerce with Asia.

Facing West

Author : Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046366160

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Catalogus bij een expositie over de cultuur en de geschiedenis van de sefardisch-joodse inwoners van verschillende gebieden in de voormalige Sovjet-Unie en Centraal-Azië.

Facing the East in the West

Author : Barbara Korte,Eva Ulrike Pirker,Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042030497

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Over the last decade, migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe have become an issue in political debates about human rights, social integration, multiculturalism and citizenship in Great Britain. The increasing number of Eastern Europeans living in Britain has provoked ambivalent and diverse responses, including representations in film and literature that range from travel writing, humorous fiction, mockumentaries, musicals, drama and children's literature to the thriller. The present volume discusses a wide range of representations of Eastern and Central Europe and its people as reflected in British literature, film and culture. The book offers new readings of authors who have influenced the cultural imagination since the nineteenth century, such as Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad and Arthur Koestler. It also discusses the work of more contemporary writers and film directors including Sacha Baron Cohen, David Cronenberg, Vesna Goldsworthy, Kapka Kassabova, Marina Lewycka, Ken Loach, Mike Phillips, Joanne K. Rowling and Rose Tremain. With its focus on post-Wall Europe, Facing the East in the Westgoes beyond discussions of migration to Britain from an established postcolonial perspective and contributes to the current exploration of 'new' European identities.

Facing America

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190284558

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Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies. The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation. This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in postbellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation.

West Facing House Plans As Per Vastu Shastra

Author : A. S. Sethu PATHI
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 170495553X

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In this book, you get the West-facing house plans as per vastu Shastra. A West-facing house is the one in which the main entrance door open in the West direction. West facing house allows you to enjoy the warm evening sun. The main advantages of the west-facing houses are, it brings more wealth and prosperity and the owner of the house doesn't have enemies. Also, the people who live in the west-facing house will be prosperous in life, they are also said to be extroverts and are loved by many people. They also make friends easily which helps them in their business and careers. In this book, you get 110 west facing house plans as per Vastu Shastra in different sizes. Also, you get the best ideas to make your dream house in the west-facing direction. This book will be more useful for students who learn to make house plan drawing as per vastu Shastra and the engineers who need vastu house plan ideas and also the people who plan to build their dream house in the west-facing. They can easily pick up the best plan in this book as per their requirements, maximum varieties of land sizes available in this book. 1bhk, 2bhk, 3bhk, 4bhk all types of house plans attached in this book. You get small to big house plans here.

110 West Facing Home Plans As Per Vastu Shastra

Author : A S SETHU PATHI
Publisher : AS SETHUPATHI
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PKEY:6610000240463

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In this book, you get the West-facing home plans as per vastu Shastra. A West-facing home is the one in which the main entrance door open in the West direction. West facing home allows you to enjoy the warm evening sun. The main advantages of the west-facing homes are, it brings more wealth and prosperity and the owner of the house doesn’t have enemies. Also, the people who live in the west-facing house will be prosperous in life, they are also said to be extroverts and are loved by many people. They also make friends easily which helps them in their business and careers. In this book, you get 110 west facing house plans as per Vastu Shastra in different sizes. Also, you get the best ideas to make your dream house in the west-facing direction. This book will be more useful for students who learn to make house plan drawing as per vastu Shastra and the engineers who need vastu house plan ideas and also the people who plan to build their dream house in the west-facing. They can easily pick up the best plan in this book as per their requirements, maximum varieties of land sizes available in this book. 1bhk, 2bhk, 3bhk, 4bhk all types of house plans attached in this book. You get small to big house plans here.

FACING WEST, Voices of Western Women

Author : Sally Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1689388587

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Anthology of "Voices of Western Women". Over 50 women have contributed short stories, poetry and prose to this second volume of FACING WEST, Voices of Western Women. It's full of fun, poignant, fully entertaining stories and poetry from women who live West and experience life differently than most other women would even want to.

Man Facing West

Author : Don Gayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1897235798

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Man Facing West presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction, sewn together with traces of autobiography. This collection is part of Don Gayton's ongoing life journal, recounting moments of his boyhood in the United States and the Peace Corps, and detailing his opinions regarding the draft and the Vietnam War. Guiding these accounts are the forces of science and geology that have shaped Gayton's career in Canada. As his stories of scheming university students, prodding 19th century scientists, and geologists time-tunneling into the prehistoric past of the prairies appear, we are always aware of Gayton's ability to transform science into magic.

Facing East from Indian Country

Author : Daniel K. Richter,Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Daniel K Richter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042728

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Facing East from Indian Country by Daniel K. Richter,Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Daniel K Richter Pdf

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States. Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating. In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity.