Martyrs Crossing

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501136844
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martyrs' Crossing written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476706816
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainy Season written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination.

Author : Jonneke Bekkenkamp
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567112772
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctified Aggression written by Jonneke Bekkenkamp and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the "best" of human aspirations and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire. Some of the essays here explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland (1941), the Rwandan Massacre (1994), the tragedy at Columbine High School (1999) and the emergence of the "Phineas Priesthood" of white supremacists in North America. Other contributors examine how themes of martyrology, sacrifice and the messianic continue to circulate and mutate in literature, music, drama and film. The collective conclusion is that it is not possible to control biblical and religious violence by simply identifying canonical trouble-spots, then fencing them off with barbed wire or holding peace summits around them. Nor is it always possible to draw clear lines between problem and non-problem texts, witnesses and perpetrators, victims and aggressors or "reality" and "art".

Author : Peter Jan Honigsberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234596
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Border Street written by Peter Jan Honigsberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Honigsberg considers the impact of the change that occurred in the fall of 1967, when Martin Luther King's dream of blacks and whites working together in a cooperative partnership gave way to the new cry of "Black Power." His memoir provides a glimpse into the civil rights movement and those who were forever changed by its struggle for human dignity and vision of racial justice and equality."--Jacket.

Author : Vikram Talwar
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543700756
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Abyss written by Vikram Talwar and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crossing the Abyss” is the highest form of spiritual manifestation, a universal law, in which soul slowly ascends, towards highest states of consciousness, Self in relationship to the movements of the “Celestial Kingdom” in which Reality is undeniable. All Abrahamic religions go back to the ultimate experience of Self, “I” in which truth is unified in One. “Behold, thou art one in me, a Son of God; and thus, may all become my sons Amen.” Moses 6:68. This book is an evidence based on facts and real life experiences on what lies ahead, as we may have engaged ourselves in self destructive practices in meeting the challenges of this millennium. It answers the very question about truth, as the highest form of divinity present in every human being and not a hypocritical function of blind faith, practiced by religion. Transcending mortality into immortality an “Aryan Kshatriya” of a warrior class scaling strength in character, annihilation in traits and on path to self-realization, made an Atonement post 9/11. This in service to protect all Christians and the Royal Crowns on The Path to the Royal Road in a discipline and discipleship - Raja Yoga with Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II. Enforcing withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, release of 15 MI agents in Iran, to remission in histories and celestial performances in harmonizing global deficit and establishing global financial equilibrium 2007 to 2010 with the G20. He fulfilled measure of creation in 12 celestial kingdoms and 53 godheads, at cost of $10.8 trillion. Born in family of patriots, martyrs and freedom fighters 1930 Indian Revolution the Talwar’s hail from Northwest Frontier Provinces, these Pathans who defend their motherland, the Khyber and Bolan passes from invasions 325 B.C. Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan 1200 A.D. first Anglo Afghan war in 1839-42 A.D. and ancestral heritage in wearing their name serving armies of Maharajah Ranjit Singh 1839 A.D.

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416538054
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most astute contemporary writers, Amy Wilentz, comes an irreverent, inventive portrait of the state of California and its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The prizewinning author, a lifelong easterner and an outsider in the West, takes the reader on a picaresque journey from exclusive Hollywood soirees to a fantasy city in the Mojave desert, from the La Brea Tar Pits to celebrity-besotted Sacramento, from the tents of Skid Row to surf-drunk Malibu, from a snowbird retreat near Mexico to the hippie preserve of tide-beaten Big Sur, along the way offering up sharp observations on politics, fund-raising, the water supply, the Beach Boys, earthquake preparedness, home economics, catastrophism, movie-star politicians, political movie stars, Charlie Manson, and location scouts who want to rent your house in order to make television commercials for bathroom wall cleansers or Swedish banks. Wilentz moved to Los Angeles from a Manhattan wounded by September 11, only to discover a paradise marred by fire, flood, and mudslides. In what seemed like a joke to her, a Democratic governor nicknamed Gumby was about to be ousted by an Austrian muscleman in a bizarre election promoted by a millionaire whose business was car alarms. Intrigued, she set out to find the essence of the quirky, trailblazing state. During her travels, she spots celebrities but can't quite place them, drops in on famous salons with habitués like Warren Beatty and Arianna Huffington, and visits the neglected office of one very special 9,000-year-old woman. Plunging into the traffic of California, Wilentz noodles out meaning in some of the least likely of places; she sees the political in the personal and the personal in the political. By now an expert on tremors real and imagined, she offers readers on both coasts insights into where California stands today, and America as well.

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451644000
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Fred Voodoo written by Amy Wilentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world. A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages of this book, a lover of Haiti, pursuing the heart of this beautiful and confounding land into its darkest corners and brightest clearings. Farewell, Fred Voodoo is a journey into the depths of the human soul as well as a vivid portrayal of the nation’s extraordinary people and their uncanny resilience. Haiti has found in Amy Wilentz an author of astonishing wit, sympathy, and eloquence.

Author : Marion Alphonse Habig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes of the Cross written by Marion Alphonse Habig and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally McKee
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Sally McKee and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, and movement through boundaries. The essays cover a range of topics and periods. The first section consists of literary approaches to boundaries, ranging widely in subject matter from Norman drama to sixteenth-century goodnight ballads. The second section includes mainly historical studies of such topics as social mobility in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain, post-1453 Byzantine identity, and Milanese Renaissance musical genres. Individually and as a group, the essays contribute fresh insights into well-known and some less familiar works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Contributions include: Linda Georgianna, 'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae: lessons in self-fashioning for the bastards of Britain'; Robert L.A. Clark, 'Eve and her audience in the Anglo-Norman Adam'; John Damon, 'Seinte Cecile and Cristes owene knyghtes: violence, resignation, and resistance in the Second Nun's Tale'; Elaine R. Miller, 'Linguistic identity in the Middle Ages: the case of the Spanish Jews'; Emily Steiner, 'Medieval documentary poetics and Langland's authorial identity'; Patricia Marby Harrison, 'Religious rhetoric as resistance in Early Modern goodnight ballads'; Jami Ake, 'Mary Wroth's willow poetics: revising female desire in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus'; Annabel Patterson, 'The human face divine: identity and the portrait from Locke to Chaucer'; Jonathan Harris, 'Common language and the common good: aspects of identity among Byzantine emigres in Renaissance Italy'; Nolan Gasser, 'Beata et venerabilis Virgo: music and devotion in Renaissance Milan'; Elspeth Whitney, 'Sex, lies, and depositions: Pierre de Lancre's vision of the witches' sabbath'; Laura Hunt Yungblut, 'Straungers and aliaunts: the un-English among the English in Elizabethan England'.

Author : Irving Lavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini and the Crossing of Saint Peter's written by Irving Lavin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: