Foreigner 119

Author : Morgan Joseph Ruttan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1425771777
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreigner 119 written by Morgan Joseph Ruttan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Summary: With their backs against the wall, it was time for all or nothing. From the implosion of one of Korea's largest and most notorious English Academies, to the defining study of a nation in a hurry to self destruct, Morgan J. delivers a new level of understanding, for a race that forgot about why. Relive two years of study, as Morgan J. races against time to achieve the impossible, and help bring life back to a nation aging well beyond its years. In the days of globalization, and a time when peace is needed with a stabilized North Korea, these simple-mans words make a world of difference.

Author : Francie Lin
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429938633
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreigner written by Francie Lin and published by Picador. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and the curious gulf between a man's culture and his deepest self Emerson Chang is a mild mannered bachelor on the cusp of forty, a financial analyst in a neatly pressed suit, a child of Taiwanese immigrants who doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and, well, a virgin. His only real family is his mother, whose subtle manipulations have kept him close--all in the name of preserving an obscure idea of family and culture. But when his mother suddenly dies, Emerson sets out for Taipei to scatter her ashes, and to convey a surprising inheritance to his younger brother, Little P. Now enmeshed in the Taiwanese criminal underworld, Little P seems to be running some very shady business out of his uncle's karaoke bar, and he conceals a secret--a crime that has not only severed him from his family, but may have annihilated his conscience. Hoping to appease both the living and the dead, Emerson isn't about to give up the inheritance until he uncovers Little P's past, and saves what is left of his family. The Foreigner is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition, and a riveting story about what it means to be a foreigner--even in one's own family.

Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101554746
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreigner: 10th Anniversary Edition written by C. J. Cherryh and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home. Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human's fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love?

Author : Morgan Joseph Ruttan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465317278
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreigner 119 written by Morgan Joseph Ruttan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Summary: With their backs against the wall, it was time for all or nothing. From the implosion of one of Koreas largest and most notorious English Academies, to the defining study of a nation in a hurry to self destruct, Morgan J. delivers a new level of understanding, for a race that forgot about why. Relive two years of study, as Morgan J. races against time to achieve the impossible, and help bring life back to a nation aging well beyond its years. In the days of globalization, and a time when peace is needed with a stabilized North Korea, these simple-mans words make a world of difference.

Author : American-Irish Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society ... written by American-Irish Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American-Irish Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal written by American-Irish Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antony Brade written by Robert Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739112031
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, the State, and War written by Joyce P. Kaufman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, the State, and War looks at the intersection of gender, citizenship, and nationalism; marriage, intermarriage, and how states gender that relationship; and the ways in which women are used as symbols to reinforce or further nationalistic goals. Women have long struggled with issues of citizenship, identity, and the challenge of being recognized as equal members of the community. Governments use feminine imagery (e.g., mother country) to create a national identity, while simultaneously minimizing the role that women play as productive contributors to the society. Authors Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams examine the relationship of government and women in four different countries: the United States, Israel, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. In each case, numerous similarities appear: conflict plays a significant role in the definition of citizenship for women; women's movements have worked in contradiction to the state; and citizenship and marriage are gendered undertakings.

Author : Agnes C. Laut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Commonwealth written by Agnes C. Laut and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bonnie Honig
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824818
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Foreigner written by Bonnie Honig and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and the Foreigner, Bonnie Honig reverses the question: What problems might foreigners solve for us? Hers is not a conventional approach. Instead of lauding the achievements of individual foreigners, she probes a much larger issue--the symbolic politics of foreignness. In doing so she shows not only how our debates over foreignness help shore up our national or democratic identities, but how anxieties endemic to liberal democracy themselves animate ambivalence toward foreignness. Central to Honig's arguments are stories featuring ''foreign-founders,'' in which the origins or revitalization of a people depend upon a foreigner's energy, virtue, insight, or law. From such popular movies as The Wizard of Oz, Shane, and Strictly Ballroom to the biblical stories of Moses and Ruth to the myth of an immigrant America, from Rousseau to Freud, foreignness is represented not just as a threat but as a supplement for communities periodically requiring renewal. Why? Why do people tell stories in which their societies are dependent on strangers? One of Honig's most surprising conclusions is that an appreciation of the role of foreigners in (re)founding peoples works neither solely as a cosmopolitan nor a nationalist resource. For example, in America, nationalists see one archetypal foreign-founder--the naturalized immigrant--as reconfirming the allure of deeply held American values, whereas to cosmopolitans this immigrant represents the deeply transnational character of American democracy. Scholars and students of political theory, and all those concerned with the dilemmas democracy faces in accommodating difference, will find this book rich with valuable and stimulating insights.