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Author | : Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-03-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307378950 |
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Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young Ngũgĩ displayed what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning, yet it was unimaginable that he would grow up to become a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and critic. In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ deftly etches a bygone era, bearing witness to the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war. Speaking to the human right to dream even in the worst of times, this rich memoir of an African childhood abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
Author | : William Joyce |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442481463 |
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Academy Award winner William Joyce’s Guardians recruit Sanderson ManSnoozy, the sleepy legend also known as the Sandman, to their cause in this fourth chapter book adventure. When the Man in the Moon brought together the Guardians, he warned them that they would face some terrible evils as they strove to protect the children of earth. But nothing could have prepared them for this: Pitch has disappeared and taken Katherine with him. And now the Guardians are not only down one member, but a young girl is missing. Fortunately, MiM knows just the man to join the team. Sanderson ManSnoozy—known in most circles as the Sandman—may be sleepy, but he’s also stalwart and clever and has a precocious ability to utilize sand in myriad ways. If the other Guardians can just convince Sandy that good can triumph evil, that good dreams can banish nightmares, they’ll have themselves quite a squad. But if they can’t…they might never see Katherine again.
Author | : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307378837 |
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Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his thirst for learning that singled him out, and the political struggles that shaped his life.
Author | : Kevin Starr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195168976 |
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This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultural force it has been in America ever since.
Author | : Lynda Van Devanter |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1991-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780446392518 |
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Lynda Van Devanter--author of the backlist classic Home Before Morning, which inspired the TV show "China Beach"--edited this powerful collection of poems reminiscent of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. All author proceeds from the book will go to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. 6 photographs.
Author | : Marc Auge |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1999-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780745313849 |
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Continues Augé's critical exploration of contemporary modernity with an examination of the role of dreams, myth and fiction in the age of satellite TV and the Internet.
Author | : J. Y. Wong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2002-11-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521526197 |
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Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520282280 |
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"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."--
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Publisher | : UN |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
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'When I close my eyes, I dream of peace.', said 14 year old Aleksandar, just after enduring a dressing change of the terrible burn wounds he suffered from a Molotov cocktail explosion. His words became the title of this book, which presents the thoughts & paintings of children in the former Yugoslavia, as they deal with war related psychological trauma. The material was gathered by UNICEF during its work in the former Yugoslavia.
Author | : Julia Lovell |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468313231 |
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This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.