Many Lives Intertwined

Author : Hyun Sook Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963847294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Lives Intertwined written by Hyun Sook Han and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyun Sook Han was born in Korea during a time when the Japanese occupied her country, prior to World War II. She was still only a child when the Korean War broke out and she had to flee Seoul with her family. In the horror of that experience, passing thousands of abandoned and dead children, she made a promise that she would come back to them as soon as she could. In the chaos and poverty of post-war Korea, she started on her path to fulfill that promise. In this book, Hyun Sook Han relates the very distinct lives she has led, and how they've all come together in one amazing whole. Daughter, student, refugee, wife, emigrant, social worker, mother, Korean, American, and adoption pioneer. Those who know only one of her lives will be fascinated to read about the others. --from the publisher.

Author : Jairam Ramesh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9386797275
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intertwined Lives written by Jairam Ramesh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive biography of arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant: P.N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory. Educated in the sciences and trained in law, Haksar was a diplomat by profession and a communist-turned-democratic socialist by conviction. He had known Indira Gandhi from their student days in London in the late-1930s, even though family links predated this friendship. They kept in touch, and in May 1967, she plucked him out of his diplomatic career and appointed him secretary in the prime minister’s Secretariat. This is when he emerged as her ideological beacon and moral compass, playing a pivotal role in her much-heralded achievements including the nationalization of banks, abolition of privy purses and princely privileges, the Indo-Soviet Treaty, the creation of Bangladesh, rapprochement with Sheikh Abdullah, the Simla and New Delhi Agreements with Pakistan, the emergence of the country as an agricultural, space and nuclear power and, later, the integration of Sikkim with India. This power and influence notwithstanding, Haksar chose to walk away from Indira Gandhi in January 1973. She, however, persuaded him to soon return, first as her special envoy and later as deputy chairman of the Planning Commission where he left his distinctive imprint. Exiting government once and for all in May 1977, he then continued to be associated with a number of academic institutions and became the patron for various national causes like protecting India’s secular traditions, propagating of a scientific temper, strengthening the public sector and deepening technological self-reliance. Successive prime ministers sought his counsel and in May 1987, he initiated the reconstruction of India’s relations with China. He remained an unrepentant Marxist and one of India’s most respected elder statesman and leading public figures till his death in November 1998. Drawing on Haksar’s extensive archives of official papers, memos, notes and letters, Jairam Ramesh presents a compelling chronicle of the life and times of a truly remarkable personality who decisively shaped the nation’s political and economic history in the 1960s and 1970s that continues to have relevance for today’s India as well. Written in Ramesh’s inimitable style, this work of formidable scholarship brings to life a man who is fast becoming a victim of collective amnesia.

Author : Lois W. Banner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030777340X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intertwined Lives written by Lois W. Banner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead’s best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), and Benedict’s Patterns of Culture (1934), Race (1940), and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and beyond. With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters opened to scholars in 2001—Lois Banner examines the impact of their difficult childhoods and the relationship between them in the context of their circle of family, friends, husbands, lovers, and colleagues, as well as the calamitous events of their time. She shows how Benedict inadvertently exposed Mead to charges of professional incompetence, discloses the serious errors New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman made in his famed attack on Mead’s research on Samoa, and reveals what happened in New Guinea when Mead and colleagues engaged in a ritual aimed at overturning all gender and sexual boundaries. In this illuminating and innovative work, Banner has given us the most detailed, balanced, and informative portrait of Mead and Benedict—individually and together—that we have had.

Author : Gena Showalter
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488023913
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intertwined written by Gena Showalter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of romantic paranormal suspense by the bestselling author of the White Rabbit Chronicles: “Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t stop.” —Kristin Cast, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of the House of Night series New York Times–bestselling author Gena Showalter presents the Intertwined series, featuring a sixteen-year-old boy with four other souls trapped in his head . . . Aden Stone has always been different. Despite his best efforts, he’s also been trouble. Living in a halfway house for wayward teens, he does his best to appear normal. Thanks to the souls sharing prime real estate inside his mind, he can raise the dead, time travel, possess other bodies, and predict the future—but he can’t always control the abilities. And that’s the least of his worries! Creatures of myth and legend sense him . . . and now, they are hunting him. In this dark world of intrigue and danger, vampires and werewolves are out for blood—his. Can he trust the beautiful vampiress who claims she wants to help him? Will he find love . . . or the ultimate betrayal? “This fast-paced, action-driven plot has many unexpected twists and turns . . . a unique story line and strong characters.” —School Library Journal

Author : Donna Brown
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163525485X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives Intertwined written by Donna Brown and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmares and claustrophobia plague World War II veteran Eric Stone. His German twin brother died in his arms and that later led to him being imprisoned. Troubled and restless, Eric leaves his relatives in Colorado and rides a motorcycle to the California coast. Is he searching for happiness, a place he can really call home, or trying to fulfill a promise to his dying Hawaiian friend who wanted to teach him how to ride a surfboard? Eric told him he would somehow learn. Eric only knows his uncle, Colonel James Stone, will be home soon, and right now he's too angry to confront him. Near the coast, a car runs Eric off the road then rams the Arroyo Grande high school bus. Though injured, Eric hobbles to the site. His assistance to the injured students endears him to families in the coastal town. He stays all summer, manages to fulfill his promise, makes many good friends, and falls in love with Kathy Ryan, but almost loses, all he gains.

Author : Sandra Gulland
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 0684856069
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B written by Sandra Gulland and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 1999-08-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.

Author : Wanda Nunley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469157098
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives Intertwined written by Wanda Nunley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the life and love story of Wanda Lee Kirby Nunley, Darrell Louis Nunley and Jesus Christ. Darrell and Wanda met at age 10 and 15 in Logan, Texas which is in East Texas on the Texas Border with Logansport, Louisiana and both already knew Jesus. The author is from Houston, Texas where she lives with her husband of 58 years. Darrell is from Logansport, LA. They were married at ages 14 and 19, have been through a lot and endured much. Their lifes journey has been full of exciting events all along the way from birth to old age with Jesus Christ holding everything in his hands. Jesus is and has been a very important partner with both of them from early in their individual lives as well as together. The know Jesus has and always will be the third strand of a platted cord keeping them closely knitted together.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191745
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom and Jack written by Henry Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock. In true Oedipal fashion, Pollock even fell in love with Benton's wife. Pollock later broke away from his mentor artistically, rocketing to superstardom with his stunning drip compositions. But he never lost touch with Benton or his ideas-in fact, his breakthrough abstractions reveal a strong debt to Benton's teachings. I n an epic story that ranges from the cafés and salons of Gertrude Stein's Paris to the highways of the American West, Henry Adams, acclaimed author of Eakins Revealed, unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Author : Gena Showalter
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488023964
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unraveled written by Gena Showalter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author: In an Oklahoma town, a teen has escaped life as an outcast—but his powers are about to pull him into a supernatural war . . . Since coming to Crossroads, Oklahoma, former outcast Aden Stone has been living the good life. Never mind that one of his best friends is a werewolf, his girlfriend is a vampire princess who hungers for his blood, and he’s supposed to be crowned Vampire King—while still a human! Well, kind of. With four—oops, three now—human souls living inside his head, Aden has always been “different” himself. These souls can time-travel, raise the dead, possess another’s mind and, his least favorite these days, tell the future. The forecast for Aden? A knife through the heart. A war is brewing between the creatures of the dark, and Aden is somehow at the center of it all. But he isn’t about to lie down and accept his destiny without a fight. Not when his new friends have his back, not when Victoria has risked her own future to be with him, and not when he has a reason to live for the first time in his life. . . . Praise for Intertwined “Strong characterization. . . . a fast-paced plot.” —Publishers Weekly “Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t stop.” —Kristin Cast, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of the House of Night series “Many unexpected twists and turns . . . a unique story line.” —School Library Journal

Author : Nichole Van
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991639113
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intertwine written by Nichole Van and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is not a river. It is a vast cosmic sea. Where each life exists as rippling circles on its surface, past and future being eternally present. And occasionally, one expanding ring intertwines with that of another, weaving the lives of two people together. . . . In 2012, Emme Wilde can't find the right guy. She wants to feel that swept-off-your-feet dizziness of true love. But so far, her dating life has come up short. Star Trek geek? Nice but too serious. Hippy artist? Cute but too vulnerable. Instead, Emme obsesses over the portrait of an unknown man in an old locket. Granted, a seriously dreamy guy with delicious, wind-swept hair she just itches to run her fingers through. But still. Dead men may be great listeners, but they are not exactly boyfriend material. Emme travels to England, determined to uncover his history and conquer the strong connection she feels. In 1812, James Knight has given up finding the right woman. All he wants is someone to share his love of adventure. Instead, his life has become a Shakespearean drama. His brother languishes in a tragic star-crossed romance. His beloved sister clings to life, slowly dying of consumption. But then he finds a beautiful mystery woman, dripping wet and half-dead, beneath a tree on his estate. Now if he can uncover her history, perhaps adventure-and romance-will find him at last.