Village Diary

Author : Artur Walther
Publisher : Steidl/The Walther Collection
ISBN 13 : 9783958295926
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RongRong written by Artur Walther and published by Steidl/The Walther Collection. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RongRong's Diary: Beijing East Village presents a selection of images and diary entries made by Chinese photographer RongRong (born 1968) between 1993 and 1998, within the artistic community known as Beijing East Village--now poignantly described as "a meteor in the history of contemporary Chinese art." RongRong's acutely composed, richly expressive images captured scenes of daily life among fellow young, aspiring artists, and created definitive documents of iconic performance works by Zhang Huan and Ma Liuming, among others. Often highly challenging works, their performances and photographs would send an instant shockwave throughout the Chinese avant-garde, and later the global art scene. Revisiting these texts and images anew for this publication, RongRong has composed a personal narrative of an artist coming into his own. Beijing East Village also serves as an invaluable firsthand record of a burgeoning artistic community, its precarious political context and the real lives behind a pivotal moment in Chinese contemporary art.

Author : Miss Read
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547527179
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Diary written by Miss Read and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you’ll relish a visit to Fairacre.” —Jan Karon Miss Read once again transports readers to the picturesque English village of Fairacre with her Village Diary. Having received a beautiful diary for Christmas, she proceeds to set down a year’s worth of observations and experiences as the village school’s headmistress. And what a year it is! As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy; the earnest new infants’ teacher, Miss Jackson; and Mr. Mawne—whom the villagers would like to see the reluctant Miss Read marry . . . “Miss Read's Books . . . have deservedly received the highest praise from both English and American reviewers.” —The New York Times Book Review “Miss Read reminds us of what is really important. And if we can’t live in her world, it’s certainly a comforting place to visit.” —USA Today

Author : Moin Qazi
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9384049530
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Diary of a Heretic Banker written by Moin Qazi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "VILLAGE DIARY OF A HERETIC BANKER is more a diary than an instructive guide. The diary provides the flavour of the author’s personal experiences as a rural banker and his engagement with the poor in the remote crannies of India. The seed around which the book crystallises is the intrinsic tenacity and grit of poor rural women that can be harnessed into energetic powerhouses to drive our rural society onto the road to prosperity. The book carries in its pages the poignant nostalgia of the author for villages but it is also tinged at places with rage and despair. The message in this book is that there is no grand, universal formula for poverty reduction. The battle has to be fought on several fronts and what works in one place does not necessarily work everywhere. The way forward lies in grassroots field experiments for understanding the causal relationships in poor people’s behaviour and in learning by doing. The author’s faith in poor people’s ability to climb out of the rut is unshakeable and his core belief is gradualism. The author believes that lasting social change most often—and perhaps always—comes slowly rather than in a burst of revolutionary fervour. It is this belief that has shaped his work. He also believes that lasting change can be effected only when women are given equal opportunities for financial empowerment The author firmly believes that it is possible to eliminate poverty in our country—provided we re-examine the received wisdom of our assumptions. The poor are poor not because they are unskilled or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labour. They neither own capital, nor does anyone give them access to credit, except on the most unreasonable terms. They live on the edge, in constant fear of a catastrophe or tragedy, but they have no insurance because insurance companies consider them a losing proposition. And the State’s social safety nets are not only grossly inadequate but mired in corruption and bureaucratic red tape. During his efforts in development finance and rural development work for over three decades, the author has seen projects and strategies succeed as well as fail. He has seen misguided project designs, poor implementation and squandering of large sums of money. But he also witnessed incredible achievements. When development works well, he argues, it can transform lives by providing the underprivileged the capital and knowledge that can open up opportunities for them and reduce their poverty. "

Author : Miss Read
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618884157
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Diary written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Miss Read receives a magnificent diary for Christmas instead of the more customary bath salts, she decides she must make good use of it. In each chapter of her diary, Miss Read recounts a month in her life as headmistress of Fairacre School. With kindly humor, she relates all the difficulties and all the enjoyment of living in a small country community. Her jollity lasts even through staff problems, a village decision to marry her off, and a nagging cleaning lady. But when she writes about her younger pupils, that amusement breaks into laughter.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501157868
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of an Oxygen Thief written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Author : Miss Read
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618884162
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storm in the Village written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.

Author : Thomas Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192818997
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765 written by Thomas Turner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Pepys, Evelyn and Woodforde, thomas Turner 1729-1793 spent eleven years of his life recording the detailed minutiae of everyday village life in preindustrial England. A hardworking shopkeeper, he occupied a key position in East Hoathly, Sussex where he also served as undertaker, schoolmaster, and overseer to the poor. His massive journal--a third of which appears here--attests to his rightful place as an indispensable English diarist.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787437
Total Pages : 3905 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Author : Deepak Singh
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugauna Diary written by Deepak Singh and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugauna Diaries', a memoir based on the experience of the past and the present, captures in the form of snippets, the vibrant life of Sugauna, a village in the Madhubani district of north Bihar. Whether it be the juicy gossip of women just outside the author's study, or the quirky village life, or some outside stories related to the author's life, everything is laid bare. The book also reminisces the author's life in some Delhi publication houses or his pulls for trains. The colloquialism the book is alive with and the author's dig at the eccentricities, fads and fancies of the village, make it all the more interesting.

Author : Margot Asquith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198229771
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 written by Margot Asquith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who lead Great Britain during the first two years of World War I. Covers the early war years and Lloyd George's defeat of Asquith's government in December 1916.