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Author: Eric Jackson
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789962021162
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Author: Eric Jackson
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789962021162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of State
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Lester
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Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781976793653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoughtful incursions into the nature of Panamanian culture. Not your typical travel guide -- although there are useful tips, destination descriptions and touristy suggestions. Major topics include: sexual customs, environmental problems, the disparity between rich and poor, purchasing real estate, Easter and other bloody holidays, orthodox synagogues, dogs, crime, and How Things Work in Panama. This is an excellent companion to the where-to-go, what-to-eat travel guides to Panama. It provides insights, analysis and information about the culture, customs and habits of the people in Central America.
Author: Robert Lopez
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 2023-03-14
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 195338725X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can’t quite put my finger on any of this. I’m still grappling with what I’ve lost and how I can miss something I’ve never had." Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family’s efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Little is known of Sixto—he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman—or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn’s diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto’s remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure.
Author: Michael Herr
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0307814165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Author: Kate Brown
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 022624282X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history. In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version—the real or the virtual—is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of “rustalgia” and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands. Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.
Author: Canal Zone. Governor
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 732
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dwight Carroll Miner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780714615028
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Author: Lawrence O. Ealy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1512815683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 438
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