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Author : Beth Bagwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615629162
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oakland written by Beth Bagwell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : White-Spunner Barney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137239
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Berlin written by White-Spunner Barney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people—from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, and reunification of the twentieth century. There has always been a particular fervor about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and a feeling of the unexpected. Throughout history, it has been a city of tensions: geographical, political, religious, and artistic. In the nineteenth-century, political tension became acute between a city that was increasingly democratic, home to Marx and Hegel, and one of the most autocratic regimes in Europe. Artistic tension, between free thinking and liberal movements started to find themselves in direct contention with the formal official culture. Underlying all of this was the ethnic tension—between multi-racial Berliners and the Prussians. Berlin may have been the capital of Prussia but it was never a Prussian city. Then there is war. Few European cities have suffered from war as Berlin has over the centuries. It was sacked by the Hapsburg armies in the Thirty Years War; by the Austrians and the Russians in the eighteenth century; by the French, with great violence, in the early nineteenth century; by the Russians again in 1945 and subsequently occupied, more benignly, by the Allied Powers from 1945 until 1994. Nor can many cities boast such a diverse and controversial number of international figures: Frederick the Great and Bismarck; Hegel and Marx; Mahler, Dietrich, and Bowie. Authors Christopher Isherwood, Bertolt Brecht, and Thomas Mann gave Berlin a cultural history that is as varied as it was groundbreaking. The story vividly told in Berlin also attempts to answer to one of the greatest enigmas of the twentieth century: How could a people as civilized, ordered, and religious as the Germans support first a Kaiser and then the Nazis in inflicting such misery on Europe? Berlin was never as supportive of the Kaiser in 1914 as the rest of Germany; it was the revolution in Berlin in 1918 that lead to the Kaiser's abdication. Nor was Berlin initially supportive of Hitler, being home to much of the opposition to the Nazis; although paradoxically Berlin suffered more than any other German city from Hitler’s travesties. In revealing the often-untold history of Berlin, Barney White-Spunner addresses this quixotic question that lies at the heart of Germany’s uniquely fascinating capital city.
Author : Julie Dillemuth
Publisher : American Psychological Association
ISBN 13 : 1433819295
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucy in the City written by Julie Dillemuth and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has to find her way home. Faced with the challenge of being on her own, Lucy tunes in to her surroundings for the first time and discovers that she can re-trace her steps using smells, sights, and sounds. At its heart, the story focuses on developing spatial thinking, understanding the world around us, and using concepts of space for problem-solving. Includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers.”
Author : Rosamund Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909208827
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Story Cities written by Rosamund Davies and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres, guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, parks, stations & ports; the streets, alleys, dead ends & the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.
Author : Virginius Dabney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934303
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Richmond written by Virginius Dabney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding to its most recent urban and suburban developments.
Author : ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Story of a City written by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed memoir, the award-winning Arab novelist of political repression and exile describes his childhood in Amman at the beginning of the 1940s when it was little more than a village.
Author : Priyanka Champaneri
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632062542
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of Good Death written by Priyanka Champaneri and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go. Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the time is past, he tells them. Detach. After ten years in the timeless city, Pramesh can nearly persuade himself that here, there is no past or future. He lives contentedly at the death hostel with his wife, Shobha, their young daughter, Rani, the hostel priests, his hapless but winning assistant, and the constant flow of families with their dying. But one day the past arrives in the lifeless form of a man pulled from the river—a man with an uncanny resemblance to Pramesh. Called “twins” in their childhood village, he and his cousin Sagar are inseparable until Pramesh leaves to see the outside world and Sagar stays to tend the land. After Pramesh marries Shobha, defying his family’s wishes, a rift opens up between the cousins that he has long since tried to forget. Do not look back. Detach. But for Shobha, Sagar’s reemergence casts a shadow over the life she’s built for her family. Soon, an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the death hostel, the dying mysteriously continue to live, and Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth, and redemption. Told in lush, vivid detail and with an unforgettable cast of characters, The City of Good Death is a remarkable debut novel of family and love, memory and ritual, and the ways in which we honor the living and the dead. PRAISE FOR THE CITY OF GOOD DEATH “In Champaneri’s ambitious, vivid debut, the dying come to the holy city of Kashi to die a good death that frees them from the burden of reincarnation…. In sharp prose, Champaneri explores the power of stories—those the characters tell themselves, those told about them, and those they believe. . . . This epic, magical story of death teems with life.” —Publishers Weekly “Brimming with characters whose lives overlap and whose stories interweave, Champaneri’s exquisite debut delves into the consequences of the past, and how stories that are told can become reality even when they contain barely a shred of truth. As Pramesh discovers, the bitterness of past wounds can bring hope for redemption and life.” —Bridget Thoreson, Booklist “Lush prose evokes the thick, close atmosphere of Kashi and the intricate religious practices upon which life and death depend. Rumor and superstition hold sway over even the most level-headed people, twisting what’s explainable into something extraordinary—with tragic consequences. . . . The City of Good Death is a breathtaking, unforgettable novel about how remembering the past is just as important as moving on.” —Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews, Starred Review "Champaneri’s Kashi is teeming and vivid . . . the book frequently charms, and it's as full of humor, warmth, and mystery as Kashi’s own marketplace." —Kirkus Reviews “The City of Good Death is the debut novel of Priyanka Champaneri but it has the confidence of a master storyteller. Drawing on the rich literary traditions of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, Champaneri’s epic saga will satisfy armchair travelers thirsty for adventure, and sick of looking out their windows.” —Chicago Review of Books "In intricate detail and with remarkable skill, Champaneri writes a powerful tale about the pull of the past and our aching need to understand the mysteries and misunderstandings that thwart our relationships. An atmospheric and immersive debut with a rich cast of characters you won’t soon forget." —Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop
Author : Danièle Chadych
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233003016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paris written by Danièle Chadych and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intriguing, concise history of Paris, beautifully illustrated by works from the archives of the museums of Paris, this delightful book takes the reader on a journey from the earliest settlement in the area via the grand architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and brings them right up to the present day and the ever-changing landscape of Europe's biggest metropolis. Acknowledging along the way the people and events that have helped to shape its history - from the Sun King to one of the world's most significant and bloodiest revolutions, to the artists, writers and entertainers who have sought and found inspiration from the city's streets, Paris is unique in containing 20 facsimile documents that highlight key moments from the city's magnificent history."--Publisher's description.
Author : Muhammad Khudayyir
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603811
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Basrayatha written by Muhammad Khudayyir and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created through stories, experiences, and folklore. By turns a memoir, a travelog, a love letter, and a meditation, Basrayatha summons up a city long gone, yet which lives on in the memories and imaginations of its people. In the tradition of Calvino and Borges, Khudayyir's mesmerizing work itself illuminates and enriches the story of this magnificent city.
Author : Jim (Author) Krane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786491954
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dubai written by Jim (Author) Krane and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
