Other People S Country

Author : Patrick McGuinness
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 9780099587033

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Other People's Countries by Patrick McGuinness Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodard's sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law. This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other people's countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.

Author : James Africanus Beale Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : CHI:19432990

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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native by James Africanus Beale Horton Pdf

Author : James Africanus Beale Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108028592

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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native by James Africanus Beale Horton Pdf

A Sierra Leonean doctor's attack on Victorian ideas about race and his call for increased self-rule in West Africa.

Author : Murray Constantine
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473214699

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The End of This Day's Business by Murray Constantine Pdf

Set more than four thousand years in the future, The End of This Day's Business depicts a truly utopian way of life, a global society in which distinct national cultures are preserved but coexist without competitive nationalism, violence, or war. Women, characterised as the reasonable sex in this society, care for the earth and all it's creatures. Only one price must be paid for this harmony. It is the subjection of men, who, stripped of their history and deprived of any knowledge of women's sacred rights, complacently accept their 'natural' inferiority. The plot turns on the desire of one woman, Grania, an artist and leader, to teacher her son what is forbidden for men to know. Risking both their lives, she tells the story of when men dominated, especially of the twentieth-century rise of fascism, and the subsequent world transformation as life-loving women took over from death-loving men.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101874776

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The English and Their History by Robert Tombs Pdf

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity. Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754071803799

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The Role of John Huang and the Riady Family in Political Fundraising by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754070198209

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The Role of Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie in Illegal Political Fundraising by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform Pdf

Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317271765

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The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding by Ray Allen Billington Pdf

This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It deals in particular with the treatment of the American War of Indepdendence, the War of 1812 and World War I. The report contains positive suggestions to authors and publishers designed to eliminate all bias and to help them achieve historical objectivity.

Author : Linda Hopkins
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781635421149

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False Self by Linda Hopkins Pdf

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship The definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis.Both gifted analyst and generational bete noire, M. Masud R. Khan (1924–1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents turned detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Khan grew up in a world of privilege that was radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London. Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, Khan was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished individuals of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller, Michael Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more. Khan’s subsequent downfall, which is powerfully narrated in this biography, offers interesting insights not only into Khan’s psychic fragility but into the world of intrigues and deceptions pervasive in the psychoanalytic community of the time. In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to a complete copy of Khan’s unpublished Work Books, which are quoted extensively. Additionally, she conducted innumerable interviews with Khan’s peers, relatives, and analysands in order to provide an in-depth and balanced account of Masud Khan as a talented and deeply conflicted individual.

Author : John Ramsay M'Culloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590635186

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A dictionary, geographical, statistical, and historical, of the various countries, places, and principal natural objects in the world by John Ramsay M'Culloch Pdf

Author : James R. Macculloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF005698343

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A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various Countries, Places, and Principal Natural Objects in the World by J. R. M'Culloch by James R. Macculloch Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Immigration and naturalization Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045380263

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Study of Problems Relating to Immigration and Naturalization and Deportation and Other Matters by United States. Congress. House Immigration and naturalization Committee Pdf

Author : Kalwant Bhopal,Uvanney Maylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134612178

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Educational Inequalities by Kalwant Bhopal,Uvanney Maylor Pdf

While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference," intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality in schools and higher education. They emphasize the importance of international perspectives and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas, and seek to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses, with an emphasis on "race," class and gender as key categories of analysis.

Author : Martin Goldsmith
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633410107

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The Zodiac by Degrees by Martin Goldsmith Pdf

The Zodiac by Degrees provides symbols and interpretations for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac. These symbols make a direct connection with your basic spiritual energies and penetrate the private language of your personal mythology. For this second edition, every one of the 360 degrees has been reexamined from extensive lists of examples. In the end, about ninety degrees have undergone major changes and all of the rest have been clarified and sharpened. The result is a symbol system of unparalleled accuracy, and an indispensable tool for both amateur and practicing astrologers.

Author : John Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10523092

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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement by John Jamieson Pdf