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Author: Christopher Nolan
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781559705110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinnie O'Brien reflects back on her long life in rural Ireland and her struggle to hand her farm over to her youngest son.
Author: David Mosse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-10
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0520273494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age
Author: Abdallah M. Isa
Publisher: Readersmagnet LLC
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo students, Laila and Abdallah met in High School in the early 1950s. Upon graduation in 1953, Laila went to London to further her education and Abdallah opted to join the labor market as a teacher of English in a night school. After two years of working, Abdallah wanted to have a better future. He applied to and was accepted by the American University of Beirut (AUB) as a full time student. While walking on campus, Abdallah spotted Laila's sister Najwa who also was a student at the university. He asked her about Laila. Najwa said, Laila is still in London and she asked about you. Abdallah told her to please say hello to her for me. Six months later, Abdallah asked Najwa about Laila. She said well, Laila is back home in Beirut now. Abdallah said, hopefully she and I will cross paths again. A week later, on June 15, 1958, Abdallah saw a pretty young lady sitting on a bench under the Banyan tree. He approached her reluctantly and asked if she were Laila. She responded by asking if he is Abdallah. Both rekindled their relationship after five years of separation. They dated on and off for two years and decided to get engaged on October 20, 1960. They got married on December 15, 1962 after which they traveled to the United Stated as Abdallah was accepted to the graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley.
Author: Albert Wendt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1994-03-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780824815844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.
Author: Graeme Dobson
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1925877914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells of travel to the far reaches of the world where an old, mid-19th century Groote Eylandt man, spoke of chasing huge fish across cold seas and hunting furred creatures on seas hard as stone. It’s a story of great, forgotten empires on Australia’s doorstep and rich Sultans who claimed that Australia’s north as their own long before Cook laid eyes on it. It’s a story very few Australians know about. When marine biologist Graeme Dobson asked elders about the origins of a strange stone structure in the middle of a bay, off a tiny island, near the coast of Arnhem Land they replied ‘Not ours’, and so began a remarkable quest that became a mystery wrapped in an adventure, folded into history. His research took him to the far corners of Arnhem Land and into the Seas and Islands to its north. It led him back through time, past missionaries, colonists, huge fishing fleets, Dutch map-makers, Portuguese explorers-come-slavers, unknown settlers and miners, and pearl cultivating tribesmen until he finally found the answer in another bay off another tiny island, this time in the remote Indonesian Aru Islands. This is a mystery/adventure with a difference, plus fascinating insights into little discussed history of northern Australia.
Author: Cornelia Lichauco Fung
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789628509829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Lichauco was born in about 1813 in China. He married Cornelia Laochangco (1819-1900) in 1836 in Manila, Philippines.. They had five children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in China, Philippines and Hong Kong.
Author: Sheldon J. Segal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-01-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195348286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman population growth has been a topic of speculation and spirited debate since the English economist Thomas Malthus predicted that population will increase faster than the food supply, with catastrophic results. Today, even as fertility rates decline on a global scale, relentless increases in population and other population-driven factors threaten not only the food supply, but also the stability of entire regions of the world. No single individual has contributed more to our understanding of scientific matters related to human population than Sheldon Segal has. Pioneer in contraceptive research and developer of Norplant, Segal has orchestrated many of the international clinical trials of new contraceptives in the last quarter century. In this one volume Segal examines how population factors impact critical scientific elements of human affairs: contraception, family planning, environmental degradation, climate change, food and fresh water supply, and the threat of newly emerging diseases. As we follow Segal from meetings with heads of state and foreign ministers through to his impassioned, grassroots efforts to secure suitable funds for impoverished countries, we gain a behind-the-scenes perspective on how individuals and nations juggle humanitarian and scientific concerns with political agendas. Informed at every turn by Segal's keen intelligence and humane values,Under The Banyan Tree skillfully blends engaging narrative with history and analysis, providing a dramatic and all-encompassing portrait of this most basic of human concerns.
Author: Mitsuo Nakamura
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 981431191X
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Author: Anna Orenstein-Cardona
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1506484093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of a beloved banyan tree and a community that fought to save it in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Author: Jane Lasswell Hoff
Publisher: Jane Lasswell Hoff
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1545388369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis informative, fun-to-read guide takes the reader on a tour of the fifty trees of Banyan Drive in Hilo, Hawaii. Each tree is accompanied by a story of the amazing person who planted it. Princesses, movie stars, famous athletes, explorers, presidents and more - they lived in an era when Hilo, and the world, was on the brink of monumental change. The book includes a map and short history of the Waiakea Peninsula, including Liliu`okalani Gardens, Coconut Island (Moku`ola), Reed's Bay, the Hilo Breakwater and Kanakea, the Ice Pond.
