Unimagined

Author : Imran Ahmad
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000109983761

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Unimagined by Imran Ahmad Pdf

Part "White Teeth", part "Adrian Mole", "Unimagined" is the captivatingemoir of a Muslim boy born in Pakistan, who moves to London aged one androws up torn between his Islamic identity and his desire to embrace the West.he endearing narrator recalls his childhood in a series of vivid snapshots:utrage as deserved victory is snatched away from him in the Karachi Bonnieaby contest; bitterness as he is tricked out of his collection of Tarzanubble-gum cards by junior con artists; the heady taste of success in theetropolitan Police schools quiz; joy at passing the entrance exam to theocal grammar school; uncertainty as he seeks to become a doctor (like allood Asian boys); and shock at experiencing racist abuse from pupils,eighbours and strangers. Imran's response is a determined quest to becomehe quintessential English gentleman: tie perfectly knotted, shirt pristinelyroned, hair neatly combed.;Like most boys, he has a parallel obsession withars and girls: he yearns to emulate his hero, Simon Templar in The Saint, byriving off into the distance in a Jaguar XJS and encountering danger,

Author : Robert Thornton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520942653

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Unimagined Community by Robert Thornton Pdf

This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks—rather than changes in individual behavior—were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.

Author : Damien Stankiewicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442628793

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Europe Un-Imagined by Damien Stankiewicz Pdf

Damien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.

Author : Leon Strous,Roger Johnson,David Alan Grier,Doron Swade
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030642464

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Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges by Leon Strous,Roger Johnson,David Alan Grier,Doron Swade Pdf

This Festschrift, Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges, is the first Festschrift in the IFIP AICT series. It examines key challenges facing the ICT community today. While addressing the contemporary challenges, the book provides the opportunity to look back to help understand the contemporary scene and identify appropriate future responses to them. Experts in different areas of the ICT scene have contributed to this IFIP 60th anniversary book, which will be a key input to the ICT community worldwide on setting policy priorities and agendas for the coming decade. In addition, a number of contributions look specifically at the role of professionals and of national, regional, and global organizations in disseminating the benefits of ICT to humanity worldwide.

Author : Imran Ahmad
Publisher : Paperbooks
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907756337

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Unimagined by Imran Ahmad Pdf

Imran Ahmad remembers his childhood in a series of vivid snapshots: outrage as deserved victory is snatched away from him in the Karachi Bonnie Baby contest; being tricked out of his collection of Tarzan bubblegum cards by a junior con artist; the heady taste of success in the Metropolitan Police schools quiz; joy at passing the entrance exam to the local grammar school; and shock at experiencing racist abuse from pupils, neighbors, and strangers. After moving to London from Karachi at age two, Imran's response to his strange new surroundings is to engage in an eternal quest to become the quintessential English gentleman: tie perfectly knotted, shirt pristinely ironed, hair neatly combed. Like most boys, he also has a parallel obsession with cars and girls: he yearns to go driving off into the distance in a Jaguar XJS and encountering danger, adventure, and a vivacious brunette. This is a lighthearted and amusing look at the results of East meeting West inside the head of a precocious and headstrong boy.

Author : Williams S Aaron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737404605

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A Life Unimagined by Williams S Aaron Pdf

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 052100070X

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Memory and Power in Post-War Europe by Jan-Werner Müller Pdf

This book is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly.

Author : Imran Ahmad
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455510450

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The Perfect Gentleman by Imran Ahmad Pdf

Both deliciously funny and deeply insightful, THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN is a beguiling multi-layered memoir that has touched the hearts of readers all over the world. At the age of one, Imran Ahmad moved from Pakistan to London, growing up torn between his Islamic identity and his desire to embrace the West. Join Imran in his lifelong struggle against corruption and injustice, and as he grapples with some of Life's most profound questions. What does God do exactly? Do you automatically go to Hell for following the wrong religion? How do you persuade a beautiful woman to become your girlfriend (and would driving a Jaguar XJS help?) Can you maintain a James Bond persona without the vodka, cigarettes and women - even whilst your parents are trying to arrange your marriage? Imran's unimagined journey makes thoughtful, compelling, and downright delightful reading. With a unique style and unflinching honesty, THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN addresses serious issues in an extraordinarily light way, and will leave readers both thinking deeply and laughing out loud.

Author : Kim Thuy
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644211168

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Em by Kim Thuy Pdf

A novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling Ru Finalist of the New Academy Prize in Literature Finalist Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner du Prix du Gran Public au salon du livre de Montreal Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Winner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thúy's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through. Written in Kim Thúy's trademark style, near to prose poetry, Em reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees--and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived.

Author : Damien Stankiewicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442624801

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Europe Un-Imagined by Damien Stankiewicz Pdf

Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world’s first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the "European culture channel" and was launched in 1991 with a French-German intergovernmental mandate to produce television and other media that promoted pan-European community and culture. Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel. He argues that the reproduction of nationalism often goes unacknowledged and unremarked upon, and questions whether something like a European "imagination" can be produced. Stankiewicz describes the challenges that ARTE staff face, including rapidly changing media technologies and audiences, unreflective national stereotyping, and unwieldy bureaucratic infrastructure, which ultimately limit the channel’s abilities to cultivate a transnational, "European" public. Europe Un-Imagined challenges its readers to find new ways of thinking about how people belong in the world beyond the problematic logics of national categorization.

Author : Charles A. Dundee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532631054

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Voices of the Soul by Charles A. Dundee Pdf

Occasionally, the day-to-day monotony of life is unexpectedly interrupted by thoughts and experiences—beautiful and profound, or painful and sad. Depending on the person, these moments may be instantly forgotten or even go unrecognized. But these moments are crucial because they lift us from the mundane into the experience of the transcendent or facilitate our demise into what Hobbes called “life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Lucidly written in both verse and prose, Voices of the Soul is at once existential and simple in the revelation of the sacred. A provocatively straightforward exposé, these poems fully engage the revealing power and beauty of nature and explore what it means to be human—a complex enigma discovered in the inspired nuances of the poetic imagination. In a materialistic age of disbelief, isolation, anxiety, and spiritual yearning, the words you’ll discover in this book—written with emotional urgency—moving, powerful, and beautifully transparent, will revitalize and sustain your mind, body, and soul reminding us that we are not alone—and more importantly, that we’re a dynamic part of an ineffable and meaningful cosmos.

Author : Charles H. Carver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049214252

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America Today by Charles H. Carver Pdf

Author : Leslie Nathan Broughton,Benjamin Franklin Stelter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015002027101

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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning by Leslie Nathan Broughton,Benjamin Franklin Stelter Pdf

Author : Lucinda Herring
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623172930

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Reimagining Death by Lucinda Herring Pdf

Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death and do so in creative and healing ways. Reimagining Death offers stories and guidance for home funeral vigils, advance after-death care directives, green burials, and conscious dying. When we bring art and beauty, meaningful ritual, and joy to ease our loss and sorrow, we are greening the gateway of death and returning home to ourselves, to the wisdom of our bodies, and to the earth.

Author : Mark Wilson Flanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036943020

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Film Theory of James Agee by Mark Wilson Flanders Pdf