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Author: Ladan Osman
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566895446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems steeped in the Somali tradition refract the streets of Ferguson, the halls of Guantanamo, and the fields near Abu Ghraib through the myth of Adam and Eve to ask: What does it mean to be a refugee?
Author: Jan Breytenbach
Publisher: Protea Boekhuis
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781485302599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Jan Breytenbach, a legend in military circles, and the founder of South African Special Forces ‒ the Recces ‒ describes how he discovered that Military Intelligence was involved in illegal wildlife trade with Jonas Savimbi. To his horror and astonishment, senior officers were also using the MI created ivory-smuggling routes for their own corrupt ends. A must-read on a little known topic of the South African Border War, Angolan Civil War, and the de facto genocide of southern Africa's Big Five, particularly the elephant.
Author: Sharon Van Orman
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781690026808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe had been a queen, but could she be a leader?After the great battle which left Eve dead and Adam despondent with grief, their daughter Luluwa steps in to fill the leadership void. Sworn to protect Nyssla, an infant nephilim, with the help of her immortal lover Kesbeel they learn of brewing mutiny among The Fallen. Luluwa has many powerful allies including the archangels. But she has just as many enemies who thrive on chaos. Amidst the backdrop of dazzling cities and epic mountain vistas can Luluwa keep everything together long enough to prepare for the coming war?
Author: Jan Breytenbach
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book deals mainly with the illegal ivory and teak trade from South-Eastern Angola that was conducted to finance UNITA, and condoned by the South African military and nature conservation officials. Jan Breytenbach was a senior SADF officer (who led the attack on Kassinge - which he tries to justify in the book), and later a nature conservation official in Namibia who unsuccessfully attempted to stop this trade.
Author: Kalman Glantz
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780393700732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the qualities humans developed in order to become successful hunter-gatherers, describes the problems these qualities cause today, and explains how psychotherapy can help
Author: Paul Reyes
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780805091236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"— enters and empties—foreclosed homes in Florida, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of his own family and the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. Grounded in Florida and Reyes family history, and with character-driven visits to the dark corners of this crisis—including with those who are calling for revolution—Reyes explores the human element of this frightening rattling of the American Dream. From examining the unique "ecosystems" of each failed mortgage to witnessing parts of abandoned Florida returning to its wild natural state, Reyes takes the reader far from the machinations of Wall Street to the sun-baked side streets where the true costs of this crisis can be seen. The result is an extraordinary book about the allure and dream of home—and a portrait of an America where the exiled insist on the right to their own America dreams, even as the terms are forcibly redrawn.
Author: Mark R. Schwehn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-02-24
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0195179730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExiles From Eden sounds a call to the American academic community to begin seeking a solution to the many problems facing higher education today by rediscovering a proper sense of its vocation. Schwehn argues that the modern university has forgotten its spiritual foundations and that it needs to reappropriate those foundations before it can creatively and responsibly reform itself. The first part of the book offers a critical examination of the ethos of the modern academy, especially its understanding of knowledge, teaching, and learning. Schwehn then formulates a description of the "new cultural context" within which the world of higher learning is presently situated. Finally, he develops a view of knowledge and inquiry that is linked essentially to character, friendship, and community. In the process, he demonstrates that the practice of certain spiritual virtues is and always has been essential to the process of genuine learning - even within the secular academy. Schwehn critiques philosophies of higher education he sees as misguided, from Weber and Henry Adams to Derek Bok, Allan Bloom, and William G. Perry, Jr., drawing out valid insights, while always showing the theological underpinnings of the so-called secular thinkers. He emphasizes the importance of community, drawing on both the secular communitarian theory of Richard Rorty and that of the Christian theorist Parker Palmer. Finally, he outlines his own prescription for a classroom-centered spiritual community of scholars. Exiles From Eden examines the relationship between religion and higher learning in a way that is at once historical and philosophical and that is both critical and constructive. It calls for nothing lessthan a reunion of the intellectual, the moral, and the spiritual virtues within the world of higher education in America. It will engage all those concerned with higher education in America today: faculty, students, parents, alumni, administrators, trustees, and foundation officers.
Author: Ladan Osman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 0803278594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.
Author: Matthew S. Harmon
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0830843825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.
Author: Alan R. Marcus
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses lingering questions about government resettlement of Native Canadians and its impact on their lives.
