Socialist Dreams And Beauty Queens

Author : Jamie Maslin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781629140667

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Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens by Jamie Maslin Pdf

Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of “firebrand,” “populist,” “anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in trouble—arrested by knife-wielding police officers and inoculated with an unwanted vaccination. After a terrifying start in Caracas, he soon leaves the teeming city and travels to the places tourists never see, staying on the couches of people he befriended online just days earlier, and meeting everyone from fervent social revolutionaries to the country’s wealthy elite. He sets off in search of mile-high waterfalls, flat topped jungle plateaus, rolling deserts, and the famous lightning that appears suddenly in the sky with no rain or thunder. Visiting sprawling slums and opulent mansions, Maslin offers a fascinating and timely social, cultural, and historical introduction to a country increasingly in the headlines. Often irreverent, frequently informative, and habitually funny, this is the remarkable account of a young adventurer’s journey through a breathtakingly beautiful and dynamic country where the politics of oil and social revolution are never far from the surface.

Author : Jamie Maslin
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616082215

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Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens by Jamie Maslin Pdf

"Intrepid, observant, funny, and charming."---Booklist --

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693851

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Going Places by Robert Burgin Pdf

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610691642

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Ethnic Groups of the Americas by James B. Minahan Pdf

Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Combining up-to-date information with extensive historical and cultural background, the encyclopedia covers approximately 150 groups arranged alphabetically. Each engaging entry offers a short introduction detailing names, population estimates, language, and religion. This is followed by a history of the group through the turn of the 19th century, with background on societal organization and culture and expanded information on language and religious beliefs. The last section of each entry discusses the group in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including information on its present situation. Readers will also learn about demographic trends and major population centers, parallels with other groups, typical ways of life, and relations with neighbors. Major events and notable challenges are documented, as are key figures who played a significant political or cultural role in the group's history. Each entry also provides a list for further reading and research.

Author : Gustave Le Bon
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041941179

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The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon Pdf

Author : Jamie Maslin
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602397910

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Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn by Jamie Maslin Pdf

This work presents a hilarious, charming, and astonishing account of one Westerner's life-altering rambles across Iran and the secret counterculture world he discovers. 24 color illustrations.

Author : Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781593764203

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The End of Boys by Peter Brown Hoffmeister Pdf

A powerful memoir “about a difficult childhood . . . tough stuff, honest and real”—The Oregonian Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings on a daily basis, yet even that sometimes proved too much for him. Over the years, he watched his mother disintegrate into her own form of mania, while his father—a scholar and doctor who had once played semi-pro baseball—was strict and pushed Peter particularly hard. He wanted only the best from his son, but in the process taught Peter to expect only the worst from himself. In the midst of his chaotic home life, Peter began to hear a voice—an insistent, monotone that would periodically dictate his actions. When Peter finally entered public school he started to break free from his father’s control—only to fall sway to the voice more and more. His obsessive-compulsive behavior morphed into ruthless competition in sports and, ultimately, into lies, violence, and drugs. The End of Boys follows Hoffmeister to the very brink of sanity and back, in a harrowing and heartbreaking account of the trauma of adolescence and the redemption available to us all, if only we choose to find it. “Peter Brown Hoffmeister calls every sense into play, providing rich imagery, grounded reflection, and the tension inherent in a coming-of-age tale in which drugs, violence, and a genetic tendency toward OCD conspire.” —Los Angeles Review “The End of Boys takes no prisoners with its gritty, entrancing realism . . . a chilling and captivating read . . . a voice that is refreshingly new.” —Eugene Weekly

Author : Sofija Stefanovic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501165764

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Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic Pdf

“Sofija Stefanovic’s beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art? Stefanovic hits all her marks, and she keeps us in her thrall.” —Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist “Funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places. I loved it.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy A funny, dark, and tender memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in Belgrade, the capital of socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her, ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic's early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state. As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history. Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Baby-Sitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist who yearns to take control of her own story. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia introduces a vital new voice to the immigrant narrative.

Author : Rashmi Doraiswamy,Latika Padgaonkar
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9788183282086

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Asian Film Journeys by Rashmi Doraiswamy,Latika Padgaonkar Pdf

For lovers of Asian cinema and for those simply curious to know its trends and moods, experiments and innovations since it strode the world stage with assurance in the mid- 80s, Asian Film Journeys is a feast. It presents a selection of articles that appeared in the pages of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly between 1988 and 2004, articles that closely tracked the bold new film narrative of both the well-known and the lesser-known cinemas as it unfolded. The Quarterly remained, for fifteen years, the one and only serious yet lively platform for writing on the cinemas of Asian countries. Given that the writers were mostly Asian-apart from some keen and long-standing followers of Asian cinema from the West-the magazine offered, for the first time, a truly authentic point of view, a look at films from within their cultures. The book gives a bird’s eye view of the style and substance, art and craft of these cinemas and captures some of the Asian air it let in!

Author : Soner Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786722362

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The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay Pdf

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.

Author : Algie Martin Simons,Charles H. Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : PRNC:32101076886223

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The International Socialist Review by Algie Martin Simons,Charles H. Kerr Pdf

Author : Peter Kropotkin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780486311180

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The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Pdf

Written by a Russian prince who renounced his title, this work promotes an anarchist market economy — a system of autonomous cooperative collectives. A century after its initial publication, it remains fresh and relevant.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387077957

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Socialism And The Family by H. G. Wells Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015067491855

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Cinemaya by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789522227522

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Fashion Meets Socialism by Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev Pdf

This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final goal, Communism. What was typical of this complex and extensive system of fashion was that it was always loyally subservient to the principles of the planned socialist economy. This did not by any means indicate that everything the designers and other fashion professionals did was dictated entirely from above by the central planning agencies. Neither did it mean that their professional judgment would have been only secondary to ideological and political standards set by the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, as our study shows, the Soviet fashion professionals had a lot of autonomy. They were eager and willing to exercise their own judgment in matters of taste and to set the agenda of beauty and style for Soviet citizens. The present book is the first comprehensive and systematic history of the development of fashion and fashion institutions in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Our study makes use of rich empirical and historical material that has been made available for the first time for scientific analysis and discussion. The main sources for our study came from the state, party and departmental archives of the former Soviet Union. We also make extensive use of oral history and the writings published in Soviet popular and professional press.