Sterile Sky

Author : E.E. Sule
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288765

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Sterile Sky by E.E. Sule Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for African literature. E.E. Sule's debut novel, Sterile Sky, presents a community wrecked by religious conflict and a young boy hunting for a better future. On the day that Murtala comes of age, violent riots break out in his home city of Kano – leading to unspeakable tragedy within his own family. While chaos threatens to erase everything he holds dear, Murtala is stalked by monsters both real and imagined. A gifted student, he grows desperate to escape from the web of poverty and religious extremism that surrounds him. An immensely poignant and powerful novel, Sterile Sky captures the religious conflicts of modern Nigeria and the enduring hope for peace. 'An ambitious work that tells the definitive story of an important moment in Nigeria's sociopolitical history.' Sanya Osha

Author : Emmanuel E. Sule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Kano (Nigeria)
ISBN : 0435152165

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Sterile Sky by Emmanuel E. Sule Pdf

Author : Erik Trump,Jake Parcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666908213

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The Architecture of Survival by Erik Trump,Jake Parcell Pdf

The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.

Author : Shirin E. Edwin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438486406

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The Space of the Transnational by Shirin E. Edwin Pdf

This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters between Muslim and non-Muslim women in a selection of African and Southeast Asian fictions and essays, this book highlights women's assertive activisms to redefine transnationalism, understood as relationships across national boundaries, as transgeography. Ummah-building strategies shift the space of, or respatialize, transnational relationships, focusing on connections between communities, groups, and affiliations within the same nation. Such a respatialization also enables a more equitable and inclusive remediation of the citizenship of gendered and religious citizens to the nation-state and the transnational sphere of relationships.

Author : Angelo de Gubernatis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Animals
ISBN : BSB:BSB11006397

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Zoological Mythology Or The Legends of Animals by Angelo de Gubernatis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF005708818

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Zoological Mythology, Or The Legends of Animals by Angelo De Gubernatis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mortimer Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600092752

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The Inn of Strange Meetings and Other Poems by Mortimer Collins Pdf

Author : Simon Smith,Anna Castriota
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622733514

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Looking at the Sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism by Simon Smith,Anna Castriota Pdf

Every kind of exploration is touched in some way by a philosophy of persons; touched and often vitally enhanced. This collection sets out to mine this rich seam of influence, bringing together authors keen to strike new developments and applications. Together, they have put their philosophy of persons to work in fields as wide-ranging as the moral and the metaphysical, the practical and the political, the cultural and the cosmological. In doing so, they have drawn on and illustrated the depth and breadth of modern Personalist thought, demonstrating its crucial relevance to debates across the entire philosophical spectrum. Whether they are familiar with the Personalist tradition or no, readers from every corner of the philosophical world will find much here to challenge and stimulate them. Most importantly, they will find a new and badly needed philosophical perspective.

Author : Sanoj Kumar
Publisher : Sanoj Kumar
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781637142745

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Liliput by Sanoj Kumar Pdf

Children are the one who have the potential to change the future of our nature. They are the one who have the potential possibilities for the new creation. They are great imitators so treat them well so that they can imitate some good things. There are no seven wonders in their eyes but they have seven millions. As the name suggests of this book, all contents and cover, style are totally related to the nature of any children that's they have. Liliput is an anthology based on children and their behaviour which is composed of different write-ups submitted by different writers on children's day theme which is compiled and edited by Sanoj Kumar.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015071372646

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Generation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keorapetse Kgositsile
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781496222091

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Keorapetse Kgositsile by Keorapetse Kgositsile Pdf

Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and George Kent. This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile's new and collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime, Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or movements, documenting the struggle against racism, Western imperialism, and racial capitalism, and celebrating human creativity, particularly music, as an inherent and essential aspect of the global liberation struggle. This collection demonstrates the commitment to equality, justice, and egalitarianism fostered by cultural workers within the mass liberation movement. As the introduction notes, Kgositsile had an "undisputed ability to honor the truth in all its complexity, with a musicality that draws on the repository of memory and history, rebuilt through the rhythms and cadences of jazz." Addressing themes of Black solidarity, displacement, and anticolonialism, Kgositsile's prose is fiery, witty, and filled with conviction. This collection showcases a voice that wanted to change the world--and did.

Author : Gary L Morton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986699429

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Cult of the Comet by Gary L Morton Pdf

Cult of the Comet takes place in a dark future. It features a fallen astronaut turned gritty private eye and a cult leader on a mission to grab interstellar travel. A Motherland Security police state and evil elders rule most of the world. Mutants control the rest. The race is on as a comet, which is the final visitation of an alien race, heads for perihelion at earth. This is a full length novel with action and twists from beginning to end.

Author : Sam Solecki
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802085431

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Ragas of Longing by Sam Solecki Pdf

Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume.

Author : Hachette India
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789350098998

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Hachette Children's Yearbook & Infopedia 2014 by Hachette India Pdf

Now know more than ever before! 5th BESTSELLING EDITION! It's a fact-finder, it's an almanac, it's a GK book, it's a notable notes diary. . . Yes, it's indispensable for every student who wants to know what in the world is going on. The Hachette Children's Yearbook & Infopedia 2014 is a ready reference book that's jam-packed with interesting and essential information. It's the perfect tool for homework and projects for every student. Inside the Earth, Out There in Space, All About India, Science Secrets, Climate Change, History Timelines, Countries of the World, Must-watch Movies, Digital Updates, Sports Spotlights, 2014 Countdown, and much, much more. Facts and stats about Indian states, and every country in the world!

Author : Osha, Sanya
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780798304443

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The Social Contract in Africa by Osha, Sanya Pdf

This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape. Others address the aftermath of large scale societal violence and trauma that pervade the African context. The contributions indicate the range of challenges confronting African societies in the postmodern era. They also illustrate the sheer resilience and inventiveness of those societies in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. What is the nature of political power in contemporary Africa as constituted from below instead of being a state driven phenomenon? What constitutes sovereignty without recourse to the usual academic responses and discourses? These two questions loom behind most of the deliberations contained in this book with contributions from an impressive field of international scholars.