Villages

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746596

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Toronto's Lost Villages by Ron Brown Pdf

Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto’s relentless growth. Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.

Author : Mary Rose Donnelly
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770860667

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Great Village by Mary Rose Donnelly Pdf

Retired schoolteacher Flossy O’Reilly has spent almost all of her eight decades in the seaside community of Great Village, Nova Scotia. It is now a quiet Maritime village: where relationships between friends and family move at the pace of the tides; where there is no rush because, sooner or later, everyone finds out what they need to know with a trip to the general store. When Ruth, the teenaged granddaughter of an old friend, arrives from Ontario for a three-week stay, time suddenly catches up with Great Village. As Flossy watches the sometimes tactless young woman grow into her own, she begins to question whether maintaining the calm surface of her life was worth keeping secrets from and about those closest to her — or if everyone could benefit from a little more candour. With grace, patience, and wisdom, Mary Rose Donnelly paints a rich portrait of life in small-town Nova Scotia, and of relationships as charming as they are complex.

Author : Quilted Lizard, The
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979203341

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Happy Villages Expanded Edit by Quilted Lizard, The Pdf

Author : John B. Carman,Chilkuri Vasantha Rao
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802871633

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Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009 by John B. Carman,Chilkuri Vasantha Rao Pdf

This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was uncertain. Would they grow through conversions or slowly dissolve into the larger Hindu society around them? John Carman and Chilkuri Vasantha Rao s carefully gathered research fifty years later reveals both the decline of many older congregations and the surprising emergence of new Pentecostal and Baptist churches that emphasize the healing power of Christ. Significantly, the new congregations largely cut across caste lines, including both high castes and outcastes (Dalits). Carman and Vasantha Rao pay particular attention to the social, political, and religious environment of these Indian village Christians, including their adaptation of indigenous Hindu practices into their Christian faith and observances.

Author : Justin Ling
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771048661

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Missing from the Village by Justin Ling Pdf

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards An Indigo Best Book of 2020 Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community. In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the search was shut down, on paper classified as "open but suspended." By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators' steps, convinced there was evidence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there was a threat to the community. In early 2019, landscaper Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight men. There is so much more to the story than that. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, Missing from the Village recounts how a serial killer was allowed to stalk the city, how the community responded, and offers a window into the lives of these eight men and the friends and family left behind. Telling a story that goes well beyond Toronto, and back decades, Justin Ling draws on extensive interviews with those who experienced the investigation first-hand, including the detectives who eventually caught McArthur, and reveals how systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the structures of policing fail queer communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0340254874

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AA Book of British Villages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hiroshi Kato,Erina Iwasaki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004317390

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Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village by Hiroshi Kato,Erina Iwasaki Pdf

Rashda:The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village offers an detailed analysis and description on the history and life under the uncertainty of water supply of an Egyptian oasis village based on various kinds of data and information.

Author : Alina Mungiu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789639776784

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A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu Pdf

This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”

Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781481430876

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It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton Pdf

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Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400862399

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The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village by Ruth Behar Pdf

This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarÁa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the villagers, in turn, to weather demographic, political, and economic crises over the centuries. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Liam Frink
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531097

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A Tale of Three Villages by Liam Frink Pdf

"The book is an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from the time of European/Russian contact through the mid-twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ann Waswo,Nishida Yoshiaki
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700717484

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Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-century Japan by Ann Waswo,Nishida Yoshiaki Pdf

Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort. This book presents a range of original, in-depth work, including work by Japanese scholars, that seeks to move beyond such stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present.

Author : Chris Baker
Publisher : Chris Baker
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Escape from the Village by Chris Baker Pdf

"An eleven-year-old girl and boy live in an isolated village with 258 other citizens. Nobody has a name, and everything is calculated to break their spirits so that they surrender to an existence of gray routine. "But they have each other. They each have a passion: music and art. And a mysterious force is guiding them and protecting them. "When the savagery of those in control finally transforms the girl, the boy must help her find herself again. The path is an amazing journey through which they discover the depths of their humanity and a startling method to shake the village at its roots. Perhaps they can shift the world toward happiness. "Escape from the Village is an homage to true friendship which can sustain the human spirit even against physical and spiritual torture. It is a touching love story like no other." --Wendy McElroy She draws the pictures. He makes the music. They both share a big secret. There is no music or art in the village where a pre-adolescent boy and girl. They go to a mysterious house where they make music and art, while other citizens can not go there. Their creativity separates them from their peers in many ways. They will soon discover that there is much more being kept from them. Take the grim dystopia of the Hunger Games and combine it with the charm of Moonrise Kingdom--the result is Escape from the Village.

Author : Jette Bukh
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9171061525

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The Village Woman in Ghana by Jette Bukh Pdf

The Ewe is spread across the border between Ghana and Togo. Presents a case study of a village economy, Tsito.

Author : Camilla Sten
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250249265

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The Lost Village by Camilla Sten Pdf

*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR "Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review "[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to Shirley Jackson." - South Florida Sun Sentinel A Most Anticipated Book Goodreads * Publishers Weekly * Crime Reads * Popsugar * Bookish * #1 Loanstar Pick in Canada An Indie Next pick! A Library Reads Pick! The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened. But there will be no turning back. Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: They are not alone. They’re looking for the truth... But what if it finds them first? Come find out. "RELENTLESSLY CREEPY." —Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger (An NPR Best Horror Novel) "IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP READING." —Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Island "Readers will revel in the chills." - Booklist