So It Began

Author : Kyo Maclear
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1101918594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Began With a Page written by Kyo Maclear and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told -- a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan, where her talent flourished. But while Gyo's career grew and led her to work for Walt Disney Studios, World War II began, and with it, her family's internment. But Gyo never stopped fighting -- for herself, her vision, her family and her readers -- and later wrote and illustrated the first children's book to feature children of different races interacting together. This luminous new book beautifully and openly touches on Gyo's difficult experiences and growth. Through Julie Morstad's exquisite illustrations, alternating between striking black-and-white linework and lush colour, and Kyo Maclear's artful and accessible writing, the story of this cherished figure is told at last.

Author : Brendan Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317189167
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ‘And so began the Irish Nation’ written by Brendan Bradshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism is a particularly slippery subject to define and understand, particularly when applied to early modern Europe. In this collection of essays, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ’nationalism’ and ’national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three entirely new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish nationalism are explored and its impact on both early modern society and later generations, examined. The collection reflects especially upon the emergence of national consciousness in Ireland during a calamitous period when the late-medieval, undeveloped sense of a collective identity became suffused with patriotic sentiment and acquired a political edge bound up with notions of national sovereignty and representative self-government. The volume opens with a discussion of the historical methods employed, and an extended introductory essay tracing the history of national consciousness in Ireland from its first beginnings as recorded in the poetry of the early Christian Church to its early-modern flowering, which provides the context for the case studies addressed in the subsequent chapters. These range across a wealth of subjects, including comparisons of Tudor Wales and Ireland, Irish reactions to the ’Westward Enterprise’, the Ulster Rising of 1641, the Elizabethans and the Irish, and the two sieges of Limerick. The volume concludes with a transcription and discussion of ’A Treatise for the Reformation of Ireland, 1554-5’. The result of a lifetime’s study, this volume offers a rich and rewarding journey through a turbulent yet fascinating period of Irish history, not only illuminating political and religious developments within Ireland, but also how these affected events across the British Isles and beyond.

Author : Troy Pearsall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557485428
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then Began Men to Call on the Name of the Lord written by Troy Pearsall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas May
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Parliament of England, which began November the third 1640 written by Thomas May and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew E. Pointon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244650039
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How It All Began written by Matthew E. Pointon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob L. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110886306X
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why the Bible Began written by Jacob L. Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did no other ancient society produce a text remotely like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community, could have produced a text so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable.For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged during Babylonian exile after the shattering destruction of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible turned to the golden ages of the past, reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible is a resonant blueprint for the inspiring creation of a nation. As a response to catastrophe, it offers a powerful, message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds. Wright's Bible is thus a social, political, and even economic roadmap – one that enabled a small and obscure community located on the periphery of leading civilizations and empires, not just to come back from the brink, but ultimately to shape the world's destiny. The Bible speaks ultimately of being a united, yet diverse people, and its pages present a manual of pragmatic survival strategies in response to societal collapse.

Author : Janny Becker
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1646100727
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Began with Huntley Drinkley written by Janny Becker and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Began with Huntley Drinkley By: Janny Becker What is it that can hold our lives away from disaster? And what happens when disaster finds us anyway? How do we survive? This memoir describes the author's experience of successfully managing the potential devastation of bipolar disorder and alcoholism and is a model for approximately five million adult Americans with this syndrome. It is also a guide for anyone trying to live with their life obstacles, rather than running away from them Presented as a story rooted in a seemingly innocent practice in her family during the late 1950s, it shows twists and turns that can lead one life toward the edge of devastation, and to find its bearings again. When she was twelve years old, she was allowed to join the family in their cocktail hour as they watched NBC News with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley every evening . At their house this time was known as "Huntley Drinkley." Her parents' philosophy was that if her sister and she were allowed to drink with them, they would not experiment with alcohol outside their home where they might get into trouble . In reality what happened was her sister and she became daily drinkers like their parents, doing "Huntley Drinkley" every evening for years . The danger of that pattern, along with a diagnosis in early adulthood of bipolar disorder, sent her on a parallel path of high professional performance and a secret spiral downward, until she almost hit bottom. The conditions that can lead a person there, and save them, are the heart of this animated story of hope, self-love and resilience . This book pulls on professional and personal experiences as a person who has succeeded in living a productive and interesting life, while managing alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Becker's experiences are shared to encourage others that both diseases are treatable

Author : Pamela Jean Miller
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398455385
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How It All Began written by Pamela Jean Miller and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A most entertaining, amusing and gripping memoir, rich in action and packed with interesting characters, often in diverse places. This thrill-seeking brave adventurer leaves the reader in awe of life on the move in the years before modern technology, devoid of the internet, mobile phones, travel guides and credit cards. She paints a vivid picture of various countries throughout the globe. The many forms of transport undertaken to various destinations and the colourful characters she met along the way. During times which will never be experienced again. Through war-torn countries, many under civil unrest, behind the Iron Curtain, and across deserts and mountains. This true story is bound to enthral and also inspire. Her descriptions are told with candid honesty, dotted with humour and history, and is bound to please readers of all ages. A completely captivating memoir that will keep the reader engrossed to the very last page.

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385393477
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years Ago. How the War Began. A Series of Sketches from Original Authorities written by Edward Everett Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aelfric's Lives of saints written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: