Heading South

Author : Dany LaFerrière
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781926706887
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading South written by Dany LaFerrière and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanfan, Charlie, and Legba, aware of the draw of their adolescent, black bodies, seduce rich, middle-aged white tourists looking for respite from their colourless jobs and marriages. These “relationships” mirror the power struggle inherent in all transactions in Port-au-Prince’s seedy back streets. Heading South takes us into the world of artists, rappers, Voodoo priests, hotel owners, uptight Parisian journalists and partner-swapping Haitian lovers, all desperately trying to balance happiness with survival. Made into an award-winning film starring Charlotte Rampling, this provocative novel, translated for the first time into English, explores the lines between sexual liberation and exploitation, artistic freedom and appropriation, independence and colonialism.

Author : Tim Richards
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1760990027
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading South written by Tim Richards and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland, and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tim's journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes, and forays into personal and public histories—as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014028253X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading South, Looking North written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973. Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness.A beautifully written and deeply moving auto-biography by one of the "greatest living Latin American writers" (Newsweek), Heading South, Looking North is at once a vivid account of a life as complex and mysterious as the fictional characters Dorfman has created, and an enthralling search for a permanent home, a political cause, and a cultural identity.

Author : Kim Tolley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469624346
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading South to Teach written by Kim Tolley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity. Hutchison's eventual position as head of a respected southern academy was as close to equity as any woman could achieve in any field. By recounting Hutchison's experiences--from praying with slaves and free blacks in the streets of Raleigh and establishing an independent school in Georgia to defying North Carolina law by teaching slaves to read--Tolley offers a rich microhistory of an antebellum teacher. Hutchison's story reveals broad social and cultural shifts and opens an important window onto the world of women's work in southern education.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1662 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard of Warwick
Publisher : The Funny Book Company
ISBN 13 : 1913383490
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to The Dingle written by Howard of Warwick and published by The Funny Book Company. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Crime Comedy is now a thing. With multiple No 1 Best Sellers and nearly a quarter of a million sales, Howard of Warwick continues to muck about with the detective monk. But this one is a very funny sort of medieval mystery. Brother Hermitage wants there to be a murder? This can’t be right. In all of his previous excursions, he’s been pretty meticulous about avoiding the things. When an instruction arrives from the Normans to find a missing person, Hermitage seems keen to shirk his duty. At least that’s a familiar theme. But he’s the King’s Investigator, he doesn’t do missing persons, that must be someone else’s job. Knowing where the person may have gone missing might explain the trepidation. The clue’s in the title; De’Ath’s Dingle. That grim and dreadful monastery, which looms over Hermitage’s life like a falling loom, is calling him back. Perhaps he can try not listening. It will only be full of the old familiar faces, up to their old revolting tricks. And if someone has gone missing there, all hope is gone. But a shadow gathers in the west and the monastery is falling into darkness. Well, more darkness than normal. With Wat, Cwen and Bart, Hermitage tramps his reluctant path back to the Dingle, always hopeful that someone might be murdered on the way as a distraction. When he finally gets there, things are not at all as they should be. They should be truly awful, but this is simply peculiar. There is obviously something going on. Hermitage can see it, so why doesn’t anyone else believe him? And even when there is a murder, it doesn’t help much. Previous volumes have received comment. “Very good indeed, brilliant” BBC 5* Everything has to stop for a Hermitage book! Hilariously funny. 5* Yet another hilarious adventure for Brother Hermitage and his companions. 5* All the tales of the adventures of Hermitage the monk are genuinely funny and contain an intriguing plot

Author : I. Glenn Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190217502
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identified versus Statistical Lives written by I. Glenn Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identified lives effect describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk of great harm than those who will or already suffer similar harm, but endure unidentified. As a result of this effect, we allocate resources reactively rather than proactively, prioritizing treatment over prevention. For example, during the August 2010 gold mine cave-in in Chile, where ten to twenty million dollars was spent by the Chilean government to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground. Rather than address the many, more cost effective mine safety measures that should have been implemented, the Chilean government and international donors concentrated efforts in large-scale missions that concerned only the specific group. Such bias as illustrated through this incident raises practical and ethical questions that extend to almost every aspect of human life and politics. What can social and cognitive sciences teach us about the origin and triggers of the effect? Philosophically and ethically, is the effect a "bias" to be eliminated or is it morally justified? What implications does the effect have for health care, law, the environment and other practice domains? This volume is the first to take an interdisciplinary approach toward answering this issue of identified versus statistical lives by considering a variety of perspectives from psychology, public health, law, ethics, and public policy.

Author : Spencer Zifcak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135255458
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United Nations Reform written by Spencer Zifcak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates Kofi Annan’s endeavor to reform the United Nations, seeking to understand why it was unsuccessful in so many cases, but also how global politics and ideological divisions played so forcefully into the many intra-institutional debates.

Author : Ray Holder
Publisher : Brown Technical Publications Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas 2020 Journeyman Electrician Exam Questions and Study Guide written by Ray Holder and published by Brown Technical Publications Inc. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas 2020 Journeyman study guide will help you prepare for the exam by providing 12 practice open book exams and 2 Final Closed Book Exams. Includes Texas License Forms and Sample Applications. This book also covers most topics that are included on all Journeyman Electricians exams such as conductor sizing and protection, motors, transformers, voltage drop, over-current protection and residential and commercial load calculations. The text contains the most widely used electrical calculations and formulas the reader needs to pass the Journeyman electrical competency exam.About the AuthorRay Holder has worked in the electrical industry for more than 40 years as an apprentice, journeyman, master, field engineer, estimator, business manager, contractor, inspector, and instructor. He is a graduate of Texas State University and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Occupational Education. A certified instructor of electrical trades, he has been awarded a lifetime teaching certificate from the Texas Education Agency in the field of Vocational Education. Mr. Holder has taught thousands of students at Austin Community College; Austin Texas Odessa College at Odessa, Texas; Technical-Vocational Institute of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Howard College at San Angelo, Texas, and in the public school systems in Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas. He is currently Director of Education for Electrical Seminars, Inc. of San Marcos, Texas. Mr. Holder is an active member of the National Fire Protection Association, International Association of Electrical Inspectors, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.