Georgia And The Edge Of The World

Author : Robin Boyden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 1788451791

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Georgia and the Edge of the World by Robin Boyden Pdf

Georgia has grown up loving stories of adventure - but she's never allowed to have one of her own. Her adopted father won't even let her leave the city of Angleston. So Georgia creates inventions with her donkey friend, Ponky, waiting for the day she'll finally be able to see the world outside. But then everything changes. A strange bottle washes up on the shore of Angleston, promising an adventure that Georgia can't resist. It will take her on a journey to the edge of the world...

Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780230702

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Edge of Empires by Donald Rayfield Pdf

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country—until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story. Beginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.

Author : Florian Mühlfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382973

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Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia by Florian Mühlfried Pdf

The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.

Author : Christie Golden
Publisher : Random House Worlds
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345539410

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Fable: Edge of the World by Christie Golden Pdf

The official prequel novel to the Xbox 360 videogame, Fable:™ The Journey It’s been almost a decade since the events of Fable 3, when the Hero vanquished the threat across the sea and claimed his throne. As king he led Albion to an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. But on the night of his wedding to his new queen, ominous word arrives: The darkness has returned. Beyond a harrowing mountain pass, the exotic desert country Samarkand has been overrun by shadowy forces. Within the walls of its capital city, a mysterious usurper known only as the Empress has seized control. To protect his realm, the king must lead his most trusted allies into a strange land unknown to outsiders. As they forge ahead along Samarkand’s ancient Great Road, populated by undead terrors and fantastic creatures once believed to be the stuff of legend, the king is drawn ever closer to his greatest challenge yet. But soon Albion is engulfed in a war of its own. As the darkness spreads, town by town, a treacherous force has infiltrated the queen’s circle. Now the fate of all that is good rests with a faint flicker of hope . . . that somewhere, somehow, heroes still do exist. © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, Fable, Lionhead, the Lionhead logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Author : Frederick L. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015090306658

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The Center of the World, the Edge of the World by Frederick L. Brown Pdf

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101476130

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The Ragged Edge of the World by Eugene Linden Pdf

A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march. A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy? For forty years, environmental journalist and author Eugene Linden has traveled to the very sites where tradition, wildlands and the various forces of modernity collide. In The Ragged Edge of the World, he takes us from pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world's most pristine rainforest in the Congo to tell the story of the harm taking place-and the successful preservation efforts-in the world's last wild places. The Ragged Edge of the World is a critical favorite, and was an editors' pick on Oprah.com.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461724605

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Edge of the World by Anonim Pdf

Writer and explorer Charles Neider made his first trip to Antarctica in 1969, achieving a lifelong goal of seeing the frozen continent with his own eyes. During this visit and a return trip in 1970, both backed by the U. S. Navy and the National Science Foundation, Neider discovered the rigor and beauty of life so close to the South Pole. In addition to his own experiences, Edge of the World also contains Neider's accounts of Shakleton's and Scott's expeditions, and the story of his own helicopter crash and rescue on the slopes of Mt. Erebus. Neider's account is erudite, literate, and intensely personal.

Author : Debora Greger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0252063805

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Off-season at the Edge of the World by Debora Greger Pdf

Debora Greger is a stoic comedian in an age when even wit has its dark undertones. In this her fourth collection she finds Ovid in Provincetown, a right whale in Iowa, and Cleopatra in the afterworld. Nothing resides in its proper place, except the place of exile. "Characteristic wit, irony, and precision." --Publishers Weekly

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300145304

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The Bridge at the Edge of the World by James Gustave Speth Pdf

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels—they are accelerating, dramatically—and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Gus Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning and a widely respected environmentalist, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe. Speth contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism. Our vital task is now to change the operating instructions for today's destructive world economy before it is too late. The book is about how to do that.

Author : Gela Chkvanava,Dato Kardava,Ina Archuashvili,Erekle Deisadze,Shota Iatashvili,Lado Kilasonia,Zviad Kvaratskhelia,Iva Pezuashvili,Bacho Kvirtia,Rusudan Rukhadze
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910974315

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The Book of Tbilisi by Gela Chkvanava,Dato Kardava,Ina Archuashvili,Erekle Deisadze,Shota Iatashvili,Lado Kilasonia,Zviad Kvaratskhelia,Iva Pezuashvili,Bacho Kvirtia,Rusudan Rukhadze Pdf

A rookie reporter, searching for his first big story, re-opens a murder case that once saw crowds of protestors surround Tbilisi's central police station... A piece of romantic graffiti chalked outside a new apartment block sends its residents into a social media frenzy, trying to identify the two lovers implicated by it.... A war-orphaned teenager looks after his dying sister in an abandoned railway carriage on the edge of town, hoping that someday soon the state will take care of them... In the 26 years since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union, the country and its capital, Tbilisi, have endured unimaginable hardships: one coup d'état, two wars with Russia, the cancer of organised crime, and prolonged periods of brutalising, economic depression. Now, as the city begins to flourish again – drawing hordes of tourists with its eclectic architecture and famous, welcoming spirit – it's difficult to reconcile the recent past with this glamorous and exotic present. With wit, warmth, heartbreaking realism, and a distinctly Georgian sense of neighbourliness, these ten stories do just that. 'Acts as an introduction to a literature quite neglected by the Anglophone world... the language consistently has the direct, clean and unadorned quality of great fiction.' – Luke Kennard. ‘A soaring, searing collection – important new stories that are sure to live long in the memory.’ – Eley Williams, author of Attrib. Published with the support of the Georgian National Book Center and the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.

Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442483897

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My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson Pdf

Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this “heartfelt, bittersweet, and ever-so-clever coming-of-age fantasy” (School Library Journal, starred review) named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice. Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood has lived in Cliffden, Maine, her whole life. She’s a typical girl in an atypical world: one where sasquatches helped to win the Civil War, where dragons glide over Route 1 on their way south for the winter (sometimes burning down a T.J. Maxx or an Applebee’s along the way), where giants hide in caves near LA and mermaids hunt along the beaches, and where Dark Clouds come for people when they die. To Gracie it’s all pretty ho-hum…until a Cloud comes looking for her little brother Sam, turning her small-town life upside down. Determined to protect Sam against all odds, her parents pack the family into a used Winnebago and set out on an epic search for a safe place that most people say doesn’t exist: The Extraordinary World. It’s rumored to lie at the ends of the earth, and no one has ever made it there and lived to tell the tale. To reach it, the Lockwoods will have to learn to believe in each other—and to trust that the world holds more possibilities than they’ve ever imagined.

Author : Robin Boyden
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780711252080

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Gerald Needs a Friend by Robin Boyden Pdf

A fun, heartfelt new picture book about the joy of play time and the power of making friends.

Author : Thomas Eugene Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gosiute Indians
ISBN : UCR:31210021995988

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To the Edge of the World and Back by Thomas Eugene Long Pdf

Author : Eugene Huskey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538117095

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Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World by Eugene Huskey Pdf

This unique work provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Drawing on three decades of personal encounters with ordinary citizens and leading public figures, Eugene Huskey takes readers on a journey through the unlikely birth and tumultuous development of Central Asia’s most open society. Starting with the heady, romantic first days of independence and moving through the popular uprisings and inter-ethnic violence of recent years, he chronicles the struggles of a new state to establish a democratic order and to find its place in the international community, while caught between China, the Middle East, and the Russian world. At the center are the very human stories of leaders and citizens trying to navigate the transition from communism, where identities, property, and the rules of the political game were constantly in dispute. With citizens of independent Kyrgyzstan stripped of their Soviet identity, the book illustrates how alternative loyalties based on kinship, geography, statehood, and religion competed for prominence in ways that often complicated the new country’s political, social, and economic development.

Author : Brandon West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681405

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At the Edge of Existence by Brandon West Pdf

Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional. Instead, they claim to be true even when they are not. Such stories blur the line between fiction and reality, pushing audiences to consider where fiction ends and reality begins. These kinds of horror stories comprise the understudied subgenre of liminal horror. As the first book on this subject, this volume surveys a variety of liminal horror films. It discusses the different variations within liminal horror's sub-genres and considers why horror films are obsessed with the natures of, and borders between, fiction and reality. After first laying out the basic traits of the horror genre in the context of liminality, this book then dives into film more specifically and how the medium is uniquely situated to explore the movement between the fictional and the real. Through lenses such as dreaming, memory, and perception, the following chapters explore the role liminal horror plays in the the human psyche's subconscious/unconscious, and the various functions of the human mind in perceiving, or misperceiving, reality.