Whoredom in Kimmage
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Irish women taking a more visible role in contemporary society and the obstacles they are facing along the way.
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The Art of Fact
Author: Kevin Kerrane
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-08-03
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 0684846306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and illuminating survey of literary journalism with both historical and international scope, this anthology is the only one of its kind. In a series of sparkling readings, Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda trace the evolution of the so-called "new" journalism back to the 18th century.
A Likely Story
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMahoney recalls her summer as a domestic servant for the famous playwright.
For the Benefit of Those Who See
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0316248703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind . . . She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
The Early Arrival of Dreams
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780618035496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable memoir captures both the dreams and the grim realities her Chinese students faced within the confines of an oppressive political regime.
Down the Nile
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2007-07-11
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0316007323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.
The Singular Pilgrim
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004-05
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780618446650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn "enlightening but also very funny" (Paul Theroux) account of one woman's personal quest to find the roots of belief among modern religious pilgrims.
My Path Leads to Tibet
Author: Sabriye Tenberken
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781559706582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefying everyone+s advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who she learned had been abandoned by society and left to die. Traveling on horseback throughout the country, she sought them out, devised a Braille alphabet in Tibetan, equipped her charges with canes for the first time, and set up a school for the blind. Her efforts were crowned with such success that hundreds of young blind Tibetans, instilled with a newfound pride and an education, have now become self-supporting. A tale that will leave no reader unmoved, it demonstrates anew the power of the positive spirit to overcome the most daunting odds.
Europeans
Author: Åke Daun
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9185509744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial scientists, a rehabilitation researcher, a folklorist, a political commentator, and other contributors survey some of the differences in European culture and discuss the complex topic of national identity in Europe. This volume forms a fascinating mosaic of European diversity, revealing idiosyncrasies such as that it is rude to interrupt in Sweden, that acting normal is quite silly enough in the Netherlands, how Poles banter about heroes, how Icelandic national identity fits into a Nordic and international context, why reunified Germany is one country and two cultures, and whether there is such a thing as a Belgian national identity.
Black Powder, White Lace
Author: Margaret M. Mulrooney
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-12-09
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1644532824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.
