To My Father S Village

Author : William Kurelek
Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Borivci (Ukraine) - Descriptions
ISBN : 0887762204

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To My Father's Village by William Kurelek Pdf

Two months before his death from cancer in 1977, William Kurelek returned to his father’s village in the Ukraine. The Soviet authorities had allowed him to spend four hours there in 1970, and the desire to return had become an obsession with him. In his diary of that trip he wrote, “Let the authorities let me come back to spend six weeks painting the real (to me) Ukrainian people…Those peasants that we met in the collective farm’s fields, the vast rolling fields, speak to me as an artist…let me live with these people as an artist…let me live with these people, dress as they dress, eat their food, sleep on the peech.” During his four weeks spent in the little village of Borivtsi, Bukovina, he had managed with incredible energy to complete 100 drawings and six paintings. They are an extraordinary legacy, a record of a search to understand the world out of which his father came and thereby himself, to solve the dilemma of the immigrant’s son, to know whether he belonged more to the Old World or the New. An extraordinary feature of the drawings is how lovingly they record the simple handmade objects of farm life: the dishes, untensils, tools, and farm implements. The drawings and paintings reproduced here are supplemented with letters written to his wife Jean during the 1970 trip and his personal photographs.

Author : Claire A. Nivola
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374356576

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Orani by Claire A. Nivola Pdf

Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.

Author : Easterine Kire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Khonoma (India)
ISBN : 9388070445

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Sky is My Father by Easterine Kire Pdf

Author : James G. Keenan,Joseph Gilbert Manning,Uri Yiftach-Firanko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781139861519

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Law and Society in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest by James G. Keenan,Joseph Gilbert Manning,Uri Yiftach-Firanko Pdf

The study of ancient law has blossomed in recent years. In English alone there have been dozens of studies devoted to classical Greek and Roman law, to the Roman legal codes, and to the legal traditions of the ancient Near East among many other topics. Legal documents written on papyrus began to be published in some abundance by the end of the nineteenth century; but even after substantial publication history, legal papyri have not received due attention from legal historians. This book blends the two usually distinct juristic scholarly traditions, classical and Egyptological, into a coherent presentation of the legal documents from Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the late Byzantine periods, all translated and accompanied by expert commentary. The volume will serve as an introduction to the rich legal sources from Egypt in the later phases of its ancient history as well as a tool to compare legal documents from other cultures.

Author : Paul Vrolijk
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385001149

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Farewell to my father by Paul Vrolijk Pdf

Paul Vrolijk recalls the last two months of his father’s life and the two months that followed his funeral in Farewell to my father. His experience included the emptying and selling of a family home that had been in the family for half a century. The book serves as a touching account of familial love, memories from youth, doubt and faith, God’s love and faithfulness working in and through all things, and the love and care of a village community. Moreover, it’s a celebration of gratitude. The author’s story encourages readers to think about what it means to die well, as well as what needs to be said and done when someone comes to the end of their life. It also serves as a helpful guide on what to expect if you’re preparing for the death of a loved one. The book serves as a bold proclamation that “nothing can separate us from the love of God.” In fact, God is always working even amid suffering, dying, and all the practical details that must be considered when someone dies

Author : Ariel Sabar
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565129962

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My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar Pdf

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.

Author : Jean Pierre Bernadin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322133000

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My father, the Father Christmas ! by Jean Pierre Bernadin Pdf

At the time of the Renaissance, Miranda is a smart little Alsatian and full of ideas, and who lives in a tiny country village. But the father of Miranda him, with really wacky ideas! Cars after dramas in the village, Nicolas is going to have the strange idea of distributing toys to children, in spite of the relentlessness of the village priest and who will do everything to defeat this strange idea, really very far - after him ! But despite the very grumpy Cure, Miranda's father will eventually become the most famous and famous man in the world, celebrated under the two different names of St. Nicholas and Santa Claus! Warning : The translation of the French has been made by the author himself and undoubtedly contains many defects, the author without excuse.

Author : David Giffels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501105975

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Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels Pdf

“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)—the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project—constructing, with his father, his own coffin. David Giffels grew up fascinated by his father’s dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations it inspired. So when he enlisted his eighty-one-year-old dad to help him build his own casket, he thought of it mostly as an opportunity to sharpen his woodworking skills and to spend time together. But the unexpected deaths of his mother and, a year later, his best friend, coupled with the dawning realization that his father wouldn’t be around forever for such offbeat adventures—and neither would he—led to a harsh confrontation with mortality and loss. Over the course of several seasons, Giffels returned to his father’s barn in rural Ohio, a place cluttered with heirloom tools, exotic wood scraps, and long memory, to continue a pursuit that grew into a meditation on grief and optimism, a quest for enlightenment, and a way to cherish time with an aging parent. With wisdom and humor, Giffels grapples with some of the hardest questions we all face as he and his father saw, hammer, and sand their way through a year bowed by loss. Furnishing Eternity is “an entertaining memoir that moves through gentle absurdism to a poignant meditation on death and what comes before it” (Publishers Weekly). “Tender, witty and, like the woodworking it describes, painstakingly and subtly wrought. Furnishing Eternity continues Giffels’s unlikely literary career as the bard of Akron, Ohio…Only a very skilled engineer of a writer can transform the fits and starts, the fitted corners and sudden gouges of the assembly process into a kind of page-turning drama” (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Hiner Saleem
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429930062

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My Father's Rifle by Hiner Saleem Pdf

A young Kurd comes of age in a war-torn land. This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad--in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker--as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of its Kurdish past and hopes for a free Kurdish future. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his father's old Czech rifle, his brother who is fighting in the mountains. But before he is even of school age, Azad has experienced strafing and bombing; he watches as friends and neighbors are assassinated; and he sees his father humiliated when he tries to get food for his starving family. Forced into a refugee camp in Iran for years, his family realizes, on their return, that Saddam Hussein and his regime are destroying the autonomy he had promised their people. In a burst of adolescent impatience, Azad briefly runs off to the mountains to fight for Kurdish liberty, like his brother. But Azad has also discovered art--drawings, poetry, film--and he senses that he must find his own way to advance the Kurdish cause. My Father's Rifle ends with his heartbreaking departure from his parents and flight across the Syrian border to freedom. Stunning in its unadorned intensity, My Father's Rifle is a moving portrait of a boy who embraces the land and culture he loves, even as he leaves them.

Author : Bounchoeurn Sao,Diyana D. Sao,Karline F. Bird
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786489909

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Bending with the Wind by Bounchoeurn Sao,Diyana D. Sao,Karline F. Bird Pdf

Before the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in April 1975, Sao Bounchoeurn and San Bounriem grew up in idyllic, though vastly different, circumstances. After a secondary education, Bounchoeurn entered the army, joined the Special Forces, and worked for the Americans. He became a slave laborer after the fall of Phnom Penh and eventually escaped to Thailand. In another part of Cambodia, Bounriem lived happily spoiled and uneducated. Fleeing from the advancing Khmer Rouge, she arrived at the same refugee camp as Bounchoeurn, where they met, married, and immigrated to America. This riveting memoir chronicles the couple's childhoods, their lives under the Khmer Rouge, their journeys to Thailand and later the United States, and their efforts to forge a new life. This remarkable tale offers an intimate look inside the terrors of the Khmer Rouge and an inspiring portrait of the immigrant experience in America.

Author : H.E. Ambassador Eddie M. Turay
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491880821

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The Prophecies of a Father by H.E. Ambassador Eddie M. Turay Pdf

The Prophecies of A Father is a remarkable piece of literary work. The writer, His Excellency Ambassador Eddie M. Turay is very sincere and passionate in the presentation of his facts. The facts relate to the culture, traditions, customs and party politics of his country. The writers sincerity and passion revolves around the traditional beliefs and faith of his benevolent father in his ancestral spirits, late Paramount Chief Kande Turay of Sanda Chiefdom. He reveals that the late man was an animist who despite neither believed nor practiced Christianity and Islam, yet he gave him the freedom and support to become a practicing Christian. His father was not only liberal towards the two mainstream religions (Christianity and Islam) but he was a great admirer of the Whitemans education. That was why he gave him his blessings and support to pursue education for which he will ever remain grateful. Paramount Chieftaincy is one of the oldest and respectable political institutions in this part of the African Continent. The writer has thrown enlightening lights on the way it works in the Sanda Chiefdom, Northern Sierra Leone. One more amazing revelation of the book is the prophecies of the writers father. As the title of the book, it is befitting because all that his father prophesied have come to pass. His father did prophesise that the writer will dine and drink with Royalties, Prime Ministers and Presidents at home and abroad, which has come to pass. In terms of his countrys national politics, he paints the picture of the political culture that existed at the time. It bordered on dysfunctional tendencies, which was disturbing to him as an espouser of democracy and social justice. Thus, educated and trained in the ethics of social justice and fairness, the Ambassador was determined to challenge these vices. Ironically, it was his zealousness to challenge them that made him steal the heart of late President Siaka P. Stevens. The President was impressed, so he convinced him to drop his legal practice and become a politician where he would have the opportunity to fully inculcate and defend the values of fair play and social justice as espoused by democratic ethos, particularly at the grassroots levels of the nations politics. The writer skilfully draws the contrasts between the Old and New APC, and above all, the successful leadership of President Ernest Bai Koroma (Leader of the APC). He registers his unwavering support for the New APC Party of which he is a profound member and her admirable leadership. This book is an eye-catching read as well as educative for its sincerity, passion, fun, simple and quality language and buttressed by ideal concepts. HE Ambassador Eddie M. Turays colleagues in the Diplomatic Service, Foreign Office as well as politicians and educational institutions at home and abroad will find this book a handy resource material on Sierra Leone politics.

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803226403

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Good Neighbors, Bad Times by Mimi Schwartz Pdf

Drawing on her father's stories about his boyhood in Germany, the author looks at the history of life in one small German village before, during and after the Nazis and at the integral relationships among Jewish and Christian neighbors, including the rescue of the town's Torah by Christians on Kristallnacht. Reprint.

Author : S. W. Wahclellaspirit
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781503590830

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The Majestic Columbia River Gorge by S. W. Wahclellaspirit Pdf

His interests include the Native American history of the Northwest. This, the second manuscript of the series of three, pertains to the lives of those who walked the lands and worshipped everything they were offered from the Great Spirit above. Though the natives believed in spirituality, their beliefs were not far from understanding there is a God that offered mankind everything they would need to survive on a day-to-day basis. It is in that testament of their survival and toward their beliefs that these stories may bring one to hear the call of the coyote and the warning of the crow as they look down upon you and lead you safely across the many trails you may follow in your life. Steve now lives in the Portland, Oregon, area with his beloved wife, Joan.

Author : Shawn Li Song Seah
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811226700

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My Father's Kampung: A History Of Aukang And Punggol by Shawn Li Song Seah Pdf

Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol as it traces a son's journey to better understand and appreciate the kampung life his father lived. The book is rich in personal stories and oral histories of those who lived there from the 1940s to 1970s, brought to life by Seah's passionate narrative as well as illustrations and photos.This book is supported by the National Heritage Board, with Forewords by Robert Yeo and Montfort Alumni.

Author : Nagaraju Gundemeda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443868303

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Education and Hegemony by Nagaraju Gundemeda Pdf

Globalization is a multidimensional concept that encompasses the politico-economic, socio-cultural and educational spheres of contemporary societies across time and space. The ideological convictions and methodological subscriptions of social scientists guide the discourse on globalization to unravel the meanings and implications for institutions, individuals and social groups in shaping and changing their everyday life experiences. Globalization unleashed major lessons and has played a key role in shaping the educational systems of developing countries, including India. In this context, this book: (1) maps the multiple epistemological traditions to approach the conceptual formulations of the globalization of education; (2) examines the socioeconomic context of the globalization of education in India; (3) analyzes the local responses to processes associated with the knowledge discourse; and (4) examines the relation between the globalization of education and its implications on the functioning of institutional structures, such as caste, class, gender, marriage in general, and the education system in particular. The book proposes various secondary readings and empirical observations of the global political and regional social economies that have, in fact, been guiding the Indian education system. The institutional engagement with globalization needs to be located within the framework of social mobility either to extend or retain the social position of groups within the current social hierarchy. This book proposes that the globalization of education not only hegemonizes the nature and direction of education, but also hierarchizes the production and consumption of knowledge systems. The hierarchical knowledge system tends to legitimize market-driven education by simultaneously marginalizing the other multiple streams of knowledge systems. The marginalisation of liberal knowledge creates a one-dimensional pedagogy which tends to erase the tradition of critical reasoning which questions the oppressive elements of the state and suppressive values of the civil society.