Familiar Faces In Unfamiliar Places

Author : Dr. Arianne Ishaya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453567463

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This book traces the ups and downs in the regional history of California with particular focus on the Assyrian Immigrants who settled the area of Turlock-Modesto back in 1911. It tells the story of a people who dared to leave the familiar behind and embrace the unknown. Together with other early non-Assyrian pioneers, they developed the area from sand dunes to a town of vineyards and orchards. It is the story of ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. The detailed family histories take the reader to the world at large from where the members of this dispersed refugee nation have come together to form the Turlock-Modesto colony in the heartland of California. It contains poignant accounts of a people who started out with modest beginnings; but whether they came as penniless hopefuls in search of farmland, or traumatized refugees from the Middle East, they worked hard and were able to establish themselves as a stable and even well-to-do part of the Turlock-Modesto community. Changes in the history of this immigrant enclave are traced in the context of the economic and political upheavals in the Middle East where the refugees came from as well as the economic boom and bust cycles in the central California valley. This book records the mutual interaction between the region and its inhabitants. The town shaped the structure of the community as a whole as much as the community shaped the character of the town.

Author : Arianne Ishaya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1453567445

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Familiar Faces in Unfamiliar Places by Arianne Ishaya Pdf

This book traces the ups and downs in the regional history of California with particular focus on the Assyrian Immigrants who settled the area of Turlock-Modesto back in 1911. It tells the story of a people who dared to leave the familiar behind and embrace the unknown. Together with other early non-Assyrian pioneers, they developed the area from sand dunes to a town of vineyards and orchards. It is the story of ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. The detailed family histories take the reader to the world at large from where the members of this dispersed refugee nation have come together to form the Turlock-Modesto colony in the heartland of California. It contains poignant accounts of a people who started out with modest beginnings; but whether they came as penniless hopefuls in search of farmland, or traumatized refugees from the Middle East, they worked hard and were able to establish themselves as a stable and even well-to-do part of the Turlock-Modesto community. Changes in the history of this immigrant enclave are traced in the context of the economic and political upheavals in the Middle East where the refugees came from as well as the economic boom and bust cycles in the central California valley. This book records the mutual interaction between the region and its inhabitants. The town shaped the structure of the community as a whole as much as the community shaped the character of the town.

Author : Alayna Cole,Dakoda Barker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000329735

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Games as Texts by Alayna Cole,Dakoda Barker Pdf

Games as Texts provides an overview and practical steps for analysing games in terms of their representations of social structures, class, power, race, sexuality, gender, animals, nature, and ability. Each chapter applies a traditional literary theory to the narrative and mechanics of games and explores the social commentary the games encourage. This approach demonstrates to players, researchers, games media, and non-gamers how they can engage with these cultural artefacts through both critical reading and theoretical interpretations. Key Features: Explores games through various literary and theoretical lenses Provides exemplar analysis and guiding questions to help readers think critically about games Highlights the social commentary that all texts can reveal—including games—and how this impacts narrative and mechanics

Author : Joe Selma
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477281109

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Going Up North by Joe Selma Pdf

This book is about life before the Temptations and the dreams of some very young high school music students who didn't have many choices in life, but one choice was music. I was one of these students at Western - Olin High School (Renamed Jackson - Olin) in Birmingham, Alabama. In the early 1950's. We were poor with little or no chance of fulfilling our dreams at that time in the south. But one music teacher, Mr. Amos F. Gordon told us we could achieve our dreams if we were willing to work hard and stay focused on our dreams. Eddie Kendrick and Paul Williams were among these students and so was I. This is my life growing up with so many very talented schoolmates who all had the dreams of one day making our dreams come true.

Author : Matt Fulton
Publisher : H-Hour Productions, LLC
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997716900

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Active Measures: Part I by Matt Fulton Pdf

From the ashes, comes the fire. In the winter of 1990, as the Soviet empire crumbled, a small Russian special forces team entered the dense forests of West Germany and buried an insurance policy. In present day Iran, the United States’ most valuable agent uncovers a devastating secret brewing deep beneath the country’s mountainous terrain: in mere months, a faction of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards will successfully assemble a nuclear bomb. As the full might of the American Intelligence Community is mobilized to stop it, the CIA’s new director must confront a web of threats both at home and abroad, from a resentful White House chieftain, to a cunning Israeli spymaster, and the fearsome commander of the Iranian Quds Force. In Moscow—after an oil trader with ties to the Kremlin is found burned alive in his Geneva home—an aide to Russia’s adored and despotic president is caught between opposing powers. At one side is an eccentric billionaire with lofty dreams of reorienting Russia toward the West, and at the other is the autocratic strongman whose ardent quest for resurgence has brought Russia into a risky, open confrontation with NATO. In Lebanon, the Syrian civil war that raged for years across the border has reached its bloody climax. Yet in its wake, a new menace comes crawling from the shadows to feast on the remains. A brilliant CIA officer in Beirut, working desperately to penetrate an exhausted Hezbollah, is first to recognize the danger. As she begins calling on deaf ears, it is only a matter of time until the drums of war start beating again in the Middle East—and now with the greatest terrorist the world has ever known leading the charge. Warping the line between illusion and reality, amid a labyrinth of characters, plots and counter-plots that span the globe—from the halls of the Kremlin and the suburbs of northern Virginia, to the slums of Beirut and the back alleys of Tehran—comes a story of intrigue and betrayal, life and death; setting a collision course toward a firestorm that will consume thousands and blind a superpower.

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439165287

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The Burning Soul by John Connolly Pdf

Includes excerpt from The wrath of angels.

Author : Jennifer Wines
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781394180530

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Invisible Wealth by Jennifer Wines Pdf

A new paradigm of value creation, driven by your personal values. In Invisible Wealth: 5 Principles for Redefining Personal Wealth in the New Paradigm, certified wealth management advisor and entrepreneur, Jennifer Wines, delivers an insightful exploration into reimagining and redefining wealth. This book explores the technological advancements and societal shifts that have us considering everything from digital assets to digital community, all of which are organized around values. This new paradigm places a premium on intangible, or invisible, assets represented by 5 principles—money, health, knowledge, time, and relationships—each of which is attainable through your own personal, renewable resources. This paradigm shift takes on a more holistic and personalized approach to defining wealth. In this book, you’ll discover: How to use the personal wealth algorithm to identify your values, and wealth goals. How to optimize your most valuable asset, your time. How technology can support your wealth and well-being. Offering pragmatic and philosophical considerations for redefining what’s truly important to you, Invisible Wealth belongs in the hands of anyone seeking a rich life. It’s time to reimagine and redefine what wealth means to you.

Author : Yasmeen Hanoosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786736000

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The Chaldeans by Yasmeen Hanoosh Pdf

Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as 'Chaldean' by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands of assimilation in the US, together with increased hostility and sectarian violence in Iraq, gave rise to a complex and transnational identity. Faced with Islamophobia in the US, Chaldeans were at pains to emphasize a Christian identity, and appropriated the ancient, pre-Islamic history of their namesake as a means of distinction between them and other immigrants from Arab lands. In this, the first ethnographic history of the modern Chaldeans, Yasmeen Hanoosh explores these ancient-modern inflections in contemporary Chaldean identity discourses, the use of history as a collective commodity for developing and sustaining a positive community image in the present, and the use of language revival and monumental symbolism to reclaim association with Christian and pre-Christian traditions.

Author : Ed Gruver
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803285583

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Hairs Vs. Squares by Ed Gruver Pdf

Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs. Hardhats, a clash of cultures with the hirsute, mod Mustache Gang colliding with the clean-cut, conservative Big Red Machine on the game’s grandest stage. When the Oakland A’s met the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Fall Classic, more than a championship was at stake. The more than two dozen interviews bring to life a time when controversy was commonplace, both inside and outside the national pastime. In baseball, Willie Mays was traded, Hank Aaron was chasing down Babe Ruth’s home run record, and Dick Allen was helping to save the Chicago White Sox franchise while winning the American League’s Most Valuable Player award. Outside the American pastime the war in Vietnam was raging, campus protests spread throughout the country, and Watergate and the Munich Olympics headlined the tumultuous year. The 1972 Major League Baseball season was marked by the rapid rise of rookies and young stars, the fall of established teams and veterans, courageous comebacks, and personal redemptions. Along with the many unforgettable and outrageous characters inside baseball, Hairs vs. Squares emphasizes the dramatic changes that took place on and off the field in the 1970s. Owners’ lockouts, on-field fights, maverick managers, controversial trades, artificial fields, the first full five-game League Championship Series, and the closest, most competitive World Series ever, combined to make the 1972 season as complex as the social and political unrest that marked the era.

Author : Delight Sweetser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : UCI:31970009694933

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One Way Round the World by Delight Sweetser Pdf

Author : Laura Robson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815653554

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Minorities and the Modern Arab World by Laura Robson Pdf

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to create "minority" communities in the modern era. Bringing together the fields of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics, contributors provide fresh analyses of the construction and evolution of minority identities around the region. They examine how the category of "minority" became meaningful only with the rise of the modern nation-state and find that Middle Eastern minority nationalisms owe much of their modern self-definition to developments within diaspora populations and other transnational frameworks. The first volume to upend the conceptual frame of reference for studying Middle Eastern minority communities in nearly two decades, Minorities and the Modern Arab World represents a major intervention in modern Middle East studies.

Author : Alda Benjamen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838795

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Assyrians in Modern Iraq by Alda Benjamen Pdf

Examines the role of minorities and identity in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history through the relationship between the state and the Assyrians.

Author : Hannibal Gewargis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669812388

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The History of Assyrians in Hamadan by Hannibal Gewargis Pdf

This book is a valuable contribution to the history of historical towns and cities in Iran (former Persia). In this age of constant political upheavals when civilian populations are uprooted from their home base, many readers are interested to know what happens to these displaced communities; how they cope with homelessness, and try to resurrect their culture and national identity. The Assyrians are the main subject of this study. They were uprooted from their ancestral homes in Northwest Iran during World War I. Only a fraction survived and made their home in Hamadan as refugees. So, this book is a community study in the history of uprooted Assyrians in Hamadan. The following quote from this study is a testimony of how Assyrians have maintained their national identity and culture throughout the history of massacres ad displacements: The Assyrians do not have an independent country of their own. They are dispersed throughout the world. What has helped them to maintain their identity as a people, has been a network of social relations through family and community that have defied distance and the passage of time. Such networks bind the diaspora communities to their ancestors and place of origin. For example, individuals are identified by who they are related to and the village from where their forefathers came. To keep such connections alive, there are village reunions, and state and national conventions every year among the first generation of immigrants. Hamadan is a unique case. This is the only community that has held reunions on the basis of the town of origin (rather than the village of origin). Since the majority of Assyrians from Hamadan live in California, the reunions take place in this state. This book is also of special interest to those who trace the history of the American Protestant Missions in Iran and their contributions to the Education, health, and welfare of the host communities. In addition to the abovementioned interested readers, most of the Assyrians of Hamadan now live in the United States of America. They have pictures of their families, old churches, and monuments in Hamadan in this manuscript. They are anxious to see this manuscript in print. --Arianne Ishaya

Author : Jayan Nair
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352069729

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Floating Exception by Jayan Nair Pdf

"Venky doesn’t know what he is looking for. He belongs to a commonly found species native to the Indian subcontinent – the Indian software engineer. He’s a happy-go-lucky guy floating around in an IT company, with no particular aim in life … until his chance encounter with an astrologer on a train, who makes an unusual prediction. Venky proves the astrologer wrong, with the support of his quirky boss, and a salesman who is bad at qualifying opportunities. Nothing deters Venky – not even an encounter with illegal immigrants or having to rescue a friend from French prison, or carrying tomatoes to Japan. It all goes wrong with ‘The Assignment’. He is uprooted from his comfort zone – to a new industry, a new client and an unsupportive manager. In the cold Boston winter, it’s a fight for survival – to implement his ‘startup’ idea and to establish his credibility. Venky has help from a James Bond fan – a coding genius with a penchant for Hindi variable names. And then there is the amazing BeeMan. Will Venky continue to ‘float’ around or will he emerge ‘exceptional’? "

Author : Jesús Pérez-Moreno,Alexis Guerin-Laguette,Roberto Flores Arzú,Fu-Qiang Yu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030373788

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Mushrooms, Humans and Nature in a Changing World by Jesús Pérez-Moreno,Alexis Guerin-Laguette,Roberto Flores Arzú,Fu-Qiang Yu Pdf

This book focuses on recent advances in our understanding of wild edible mycorrhizal fungi, truffle and mushrooms and their cultivation. In addition to providing fresh insights into various topics, e.g. taxonomy, ecology, cultivation and environmental impact, it also demonstrates the clear but fragile link between wild edible mushrooms and human societies. Comprising 17 chapters written by 41 experts from 13 countries on four continents, it enables readers to grasp the importance of protecting this unique, invaluable, renewable resource in the context of climate change and unprecedented biodiversity loss. The book inspires professionals and encourages young researchers to enter this field to develop the sustainable use of wild edible mushrooms using modern tools and approaches. It also highlights the importance of protecting forested environments, saving species from extinction and generating a significant income for local populations, while keeping alive and renewing the link between humans and wild edible mushrooms so that in the future, the sustainable farming and use of edible mycorrhizal mushrooms will play a predominant role in the management and preservation of forested lands.