In Honor

Author : Jessi Kirby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442416998

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In Honor by Jessi Kirby Pdf

A devastating loss leads to an unexpected road trip in what Sarah Ockler calls a “beautiful, engaging journey with heart, humor, and just a pinch of Texas sass.” Three days after learning of her brother Finn’s death, Honor receives his last letter from Iraq. Devastated, she interprets his note as a final request and spontaneously sets off to California to fulfill it. At the last minute, she’s joined by Rusty, Finn’s former best friend. Rusty is the last person Honor wants to be with—he’s cocky and obnoxious, just like Honor remembers, and she hasn’t forgiven him for turning his back on Finn when he enlisted. But as they cover the dusty miles together in Finn’s beloved 1967 Chevy Impala, long-held resentments begin to fade, and Honor and Rusty struggle to come to terms with the loss they share. As their memories of Finn merge to create a new portrait, Honor’s eyes are opened to a side of her brother she never knew—a side that shows her the true meaning of love and sacrifice.

Author : Unni Wikan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226896878

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In Honor of Fadime by Unni Wikan Pdf

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime’s relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonored her family, and only her death could remove the stain. This abhorrent crime shocked the world, and her name soon became a rallying cry in the struggle to combat so-called honor killings. Unni Wikan narrates Fadime’s heartbreaking story through her own eloquent words, along with the testimonies of her father, mother, and two sisters. What unfolds is a tale of courage and betrayal, loyalty and love, power and humiliation, and a nearly unfathomable clash of cultures. Despite enduring years of threats over her emancipated life, Fadime advocated compassion for her killer to the end, believing him to be trapped by an unyielding code of honor. Wikan puts this shocking event in context by analyzing similar honor killings throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. She also examines the concept of honor in historical and cross-cultural depth, concluding that Islam itself is not to blame—indeed, honor killings occur across religious and ethnic traditions—but rather the way that many cultures have resolutely linked honor with violence. In Honor of Fadime holds profound and timely insights into conservative Kurdish culture, but ultimately the heart of this powerful book is Fadime’s courageous and tragic story—and Wikan’s telling of it is riveting.

Author : Thrity Umrigar
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643752174

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Honor by Thrity Umrigar Pdf

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan’s women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena—a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man—Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one’s own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita’s own past. While Meena’s fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. She also finds herself increasingly drawn to Mohan, an Indian man she meets while on assignment. But the dual love stories of Honor are as different as the cultures of Meena and Smita themselves: Smita realizes she has the freedom to enter into a casual affair, knowing she can decide later how much it means to her. In this tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice, Thrity Umrigar shows us two courageous women trying to navigate how to be true to their homelands and themselves at the same time.

Author : Robert Channon,Linda Shockey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886078

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In honor of Ilse Lehiste by Robert Channon,Linda Shockey Pdf

Author : Frederick B Agard,Gerald Kelley,Adam Makkai,Velerie Becker Makkai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004655393

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Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett by Frederick B Agard,Gerald Kelley,Adam Makkai,Velerie Becker Makkai Pdf

Author : Hugo Garc¡a-Compe n,Bogdan Mielnik,Merced Montesinos
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812700476

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Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity, and Cosmology in Honor of Jerzy Pleba?ski by Hugo Garc¡a-Compe n,Bogdan Mielnik,Merced Montesinos Pdf

One of modern science's most famous and controversial figures, Jerzy Plebanski was an outstanding theoretical physicist and an author of many intriguing discoveries in general relativity and quantum theory. Known for his exceptional analytic talents, explosive character, inexhaustible energy, and bohemian nights with brandy, coffee, and enormous amounts of cigarettes, he was dedicated to both science and art, producing innumerable handwritten articles - resembling monk's calligraphy - as well as a collection of oil paintings. As a collaborator but also an antagonist of Leopold Infeld's (a coauthor of Albert Einstein's), Plebanski is recognized for designing the "heavenly" and "hyper-heavenly" equations, for introducing new variables to describe the gravitational field, for the exact solutions in Einstein's gravity and in quantum theory, for his classification of the tensor of matter, for some outstanding results in nonlinear electrodynamics, and for analyzing general relativity with continuous sources long before Chandrasekhar et al. A tribute to Plebaski's contributions and the variety of his interests, this is a unique and wide-ranging collection of invited papers, covering gravity quantization, strings, branes, supersymmetry, ideas on the deformation quantization, and lesser known results on the continuous Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff problem.

Author : Mohammad Ali Jazayery,Edgar C. Polomé,Werner Winter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9027977178

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Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill: General and theoretical linguistics by Mohammad Ali Jazayery,Edgar C. Polomé,Werner Winter Pdf

Author : Borzu Sabahi,Nicholas J. Birch,Ian A. Laird,José Antonio Rivas
Publisher : Juris Publishing, Inc.
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : International law
ISBN : 9781578233472

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Revolution in the International Rule of Law: Essays in Honor of Don Wallace, Jr. by Borzu Sabahi,Nicholas J. Birch,Ian A. Laird,José Antonio Rivas Pdf

As the title suggests, A Revolution in the International Rule of Law: Essays in Honor of Don Wallace, Jr. is a European style Festschrift or Liber Amicorum, and compiles short essays by eminent scholars and practitioners who have known Prof. Wallace during his long and distinguished career as a Professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and, among others, as the Chairman of the International Law Institute, the U.S. Delegate to UNCITRAL, the Legal Adviser to the USAID, President of the ABA Section on International Law, presiding officer of the UNIDROIT Foundation, and Of Counsel to a number of prominent international law firms including Winston & Strawn LLP, Morgan Lewis LLP, Arnold & Porter LLP, and Shearman & Sterling LLP. The primary topics covered in the book are: Foreign Investment and Political RiskInternational Investment Law and ArbitrationUnification of Private LawCommercial Law ReformPublic ProcurementRule of Law and Transitional JusticeInternational Business Law and Human RightsLegal Aspects of the United States' Foreign Affairs: Public International Law, Separation of Powers and Terrorism. Professor Wallace's friends, including the co-editors, have submitted 45 essays including a biographical piece prepared by the editors to this volume.

Author : Arlington M Fink,Wolfgang Kliemann,Richard K Miller
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814555272

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Delay And Differential Equations - Proceedings In Honor Of George Seifert On His Retirement by Arlington M Fink,Wolfgang Kliemann,Richard K Miller Pdf

This is a collection of lectures by leading research mathematicians on the very latest work on qualitative theory of solutions of dynamical systems, ordinary differential equations, delay-differential equations, Volterra integrodifferential equations and partial differential equations.

Author : Thomas A. DeBlack
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 1610753909

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Southern Elite & Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. (p) by Thomas A. DeBlack Pdf

Contents -- Foreword / James C. Cobb -- Introduction / Randy Finley and Thomas A. DeBlack -- Publications by Willard B. Gatewood Jr. -- In the Shadow of the Revolution: Savannah's First Generation of Free African American Elite in the New Republic, 1790-1830 / Whittington B. Johnson -- "A Model Man of Chicot County": Lycurgus Johnson and Social Change / Thomas A. DeBlack -- "I Go To Set the Captives Free": The Activism of Richard Harvey Cain, Nationalist Churchman and Reconstruction-Era Leader / Bernard E. Powers Jr. -- "This Dreadful Whirlpool" of Civil War: Edward W. Gantt and the Quest for Distinction / Randy Finley -- James Carroll Napier (1845-1940): From Plantation to the City / Bobby L. Lovett -- Robert E. Lee Wilson and the Making of a Post-Civil War Plantation / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Reward for Party Service: Emily Newell Blair and Political Patronage in the New Deal / Virginia Laas -- "A Generous and Exemplary Womanhood": Hattie Rutherford Watson and NYA Camp Bethune in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1937 / Fon Gordon -- Tufted Titans: Dalton, Georgia's Carpet Elite / Thomas Deaton -- Sara Alderman Murphy and the Little Rock Panel of American Women: A Prescription to Heal the Wounds of the Little Rock School Crisis / Paula C. Barnes -- Notes -- List of Contributors

Author : Mo-lin Ge,Choo Hiap Oh,Kok Khoo Phua
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814471565

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Proceedings Of The Conference In Honor Of C N Yang's 85th Birthday: Statistical Physics, High Energy, Condensed Matter And Mathematical Physics by Mo-lin Ge,Choo Hiap Oh,Kok Khoo Phua Pdf

The Conference on Statistical Physics, High Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematical Physics was held in honor of Professor Chen-Ning Yang's 85th birthday in Singapore in Oct-Nov 2007. The conference paid tribute to the breadth and depth of Professor Yang's achievements in physics and science education since he received his Nobel Prize in Physics fifty years ago.This notable birthday volume is a collection of the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists who had worked closely with him or who have been influenced to some extent by his work.

Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545695206

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Code of Honor by Alan Gratz Pdf

A timely, nonstop action-adventure about the War on Terror -- and a family torn apart. Kamran Smith has it all. He's the star of the football team, dates the most popular girl in school, and can't wait to join the Army like his big brother, Darius. Although Kamran's family hails from Iran, Kamran has always felt 100% American. Accepted. And then everything implodes.Darius is accused of being a terrorist. Kamran refuses to believe it, but the evidence is there -- Darius has been filmed making threats against his country, hinting at an upcoming deadly attack. Kamran's friends turn on him -- suddenly, in their eyes, he's a terrorist, too.Kamran knows it's up to him to clear his brother's name. In a race against time, Kamran must piece together a series of clues and codes that will lead him to Darius -- and the truth.But is it a truth Kamran is ready to face? And is he putting his own life at risk?

Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625791016

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The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition by David Weber Pdf

Now with new content! RIGHT WOMAN, WRONG PLACE It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the so-called "Republic" of Haven--and the planet Grayson is just the right strategic place to make a very good ally indeed. But Her Majesty's Foreign Office had overlooked a "minor cultural difference" when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet Grayson are without rank or rights; Honor's very presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet. At first Honor doesn't take it personally; where she comes from gender discrimination is barely a historical memory, right up there in significance to fear of the left-handed. But in time such treatment as she receives from the Graysonites does become wearing, and Honor would withdraw if she could--but then Grayson's fratricidal sister planet attacks without warning and she must stay and prevail, not just for Honor's honor, but for her sovereign's, for--THE HONOR OF THE QUEEN. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Old-fashioned space opera is alive and well [in] David Weber's The Honor of the Queen. . . ." ¾Science Fiction Age "The Honor of the Queen . . . is worth shouting about. . . . I want more!" ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "In terms of space combat, I think David Weber may be the best writer around . . . a top-notch read." ¾FosFax

Author : David Weber,David Drake,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618241597

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More Than Honor by David Weber,David Drake,S. M. Stirling Pdf

DAVID WEBER In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction with his top-selling novels of Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now two more military SF world-beaters join him in Honor's universe, bringing their own celebrated skills in this homage to Honor. DAVID DRAKE Creator of Hammer's Slammer's S. M. STIRLING Creator of the Draka At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : James Bowman
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594031984

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Honor by James Bowman Pdf

"From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of honor was inseparable from the story of mankind. Today, an acquaintance with the concept of honor is indispensable to understanding the culture of the Islamic world and its sense of grievance against the West, where honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three-quarters of a century." "James Bowman draws from an wealth of sources across many centuries to illuminate honor's curious history in our own culture, and he discovers that Western honor was always different from that found elsewhere. Its idiosyncratic qualities derived partly from the classical tradition but mainly from the Judeo-Christian heritage, whose emphases on individual morality and, more recently, on sincerity and authenticity in private and personal life have acted as continual challenges to the traditional notion of honor as it is still maintained in other parts of the world. These challenges to honor and the accommodations with it that they ultimately produced are a fundamental theme in our own culture's distinctive history; and the eventual collapse of the honor culture in the West is the background against which the War on Terror and the Clash of Civilizations ought to be seen."--Jacket.