My Home, My Land
Author | : Abū Iyād |
Publisher | : Times Books(NY) |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abū Iyād |
Publisher | : Times Books(NY) |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Miss Monifa Austin |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2018-07-24 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1546289089 |
When seven year old Shania returns back to Jamaica, her homeland for the first time in three years, she is reunited with her family and meets her cousin Tamika. Together the inseparable pair make mischief in the parish of St. James and at the last minute she decides she wants to stay. Will her mother get her back in time before their flight leaves?
Author | : Ari Shavit |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812984641 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land “This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times “Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist “One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author | : George Littlechild |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780613613903 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada.
Author | : Andy Warner |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1452170274 |
From a New York Times bestselling author, “fascinating tales of intentional communities . . . and utopian visions . . . in a funny, enlightening graphic format” (School Library Journal). Tired of your country’s bad politics? Feeling powerless to change things? Start your own utopia instead! This nonfiction graphic novel collects the stories of 30 self-made places around the world built with a dream of utopia, whether a safe haven, an inspiring structure, or a better-run country. These are the empowering and eccentric visions of creators who struck out against the laws of their homelands, the approval of their peers, and even nature itself to reshape the world around them. Readers will travel around the globe, from the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands to the Indian rock garden of Nek Chand, the micronation of Sealand to the pirate-founded, anti-slavery community of Libertatia. Organized into five chapters: intentional communities, micronations, failed utopias, visionary environments, and strange dreams, This Land is My Land is infused with the hope that tomorrow will be better than today, a conviction universally depicted through the stories of people who were dissatisfied with the status quo and chose to build something better. This informative, fun history makes a great coffee table book and conversation starter. “Colorful fauvist drawings and maps...bring these would-be ‘better tomorrows’ to life with grace and verve.” —Martha Cornog, Library Journal Xpress “Rich, amusing. . . . [A] good example of what history comics can do.” —The Beat “Warner and Dam have infused these often-absurd stories with joy and a measure of dignity.” —NPR Named a 2020 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by The Young Adult Services Association (YALSA).
Author | : Sebastião Salgado |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9788869655371 |
The Salt of the Earth is an award-winning documentary by Wim Wenders, inspirated by From my Land to the Planet.
Author | : Rudolfo Anaya |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504021657 |
“Filled with ghosts, devils, and tricksters . . . This appealing volume will add diversity to folklore collections.” —Library Journal Rich in the folklore of his ancestors, Rudolfo Anaya’s tales will delight young readers from across the globe. In stories both original and passed down, this bestselling and American Book Award–winning author incorporates powerful themes of family, faith, and choosing the right path in life. In “Lupe and la Llorona,” a seventh grader searches for the legendary Llorona; in “The Shepherd Who Knew the Language of Animals,” a shepherd named Abel saves a snake and gains the ability to understand the language of animals; In “Dulcinea,” a fifteen-year-old dances with the Devil. Other tales feature coyotes, ravens, a woodcutter who tries to cheat death, the Virgin Mary, a golden carp, and a young Latino who seeks immortality. Deeply rooted in ancient mythological beliefs and based on the folklore and traditions of Mexican and Native American cuentistas, these accounts of enchantment are as beautiful and mysterious as the Rio Grande itself—and serve as a testament to the lost art of oral storytelling. This ebook features illustrations by Amy Córdova.
Author | : Jay Morrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781943686582 |
Jay, "Mr. Real Estate," Morrison has authored another informative, step-by-step guide that every aspiring homeowner should read on their journey to becoming "Lord of Their Land"! As a follow-up to the pop-culture phenomenon Hip Hop 2 Homeowners, Jay breaks down the psychological, financial, and physical framework needed to be a property owner in America. Lord of My Land should be circulated in every library, taught in every school, and adopted by every home in America. The wisdom shared in this book also serves as a reference for current homeowners to peruse to ensure they went about the process the right way when they purchased. No stone is left unturned, and this quick read offers future homeowners the true peace of mind they deserve so they may proudly proclaim, "I too am Lord of My Land!"
Author | : Julia Reed |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250166349 |
A collection of essays written for the column "The high & the low" in the magazine Garden & gun.
Author | : Reja-e Busailah |
Publisher | : Institute for Palestine Studies USA Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Blind children |
ISBN | : 9780887280009 |
In this remarkable book, Reja-e Busailah takes us on two parallel journeys. The first is to Palestine before the Nakba, which we discover with all our senses¿smelling, touching, and feeling the place thanks to an autobiographical narrative laced with poetry and the memory of words rooted in the land. And the second is to the self, which the author has fashioned into a reflection of life: here, the young boy uses the light of words to help illuminate our own vision, enabling us to transcend the surface of things and plumb their depth. What Busailah has done is to make words into eyes with which to see what the seeing eye cannot. He makes the reader privy to secrets that only sightless poets, from Homer to Abu al-`Ala¿ al-Ma¿arri, glean, beholding with words what their eyes could not discern.With In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood, Busailah has given us what life denied him, and in his hands, the memoir is transformed from a personal story into the chronicle of a country whose memory others have sought to erase. In this way, the tapestry of Palestine is rewoven, its map redrawn, thanks to the actual experience of life. This book also enriches the corpus of Arab and Palestinian autobiographical literature. On the Arab side, Taha Hussein's The Days is the iconic work. Its equivalent in the more specifically Palestinian realm is represented by at least two books, both of them by men of Jerusalem: The First Well by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Out of Place by Edward Said.