A Life Unimagined
Author: Williams S Aaron
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781737404606
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Unimagined
Author: Imran Ahmad
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart "White Teeth", part "Adrian Mole", "Unimagined" is the captivatingemoir of a Muslim boy born in Pakistan, who moves to London aged one androws up torn between his Islamic identity and his desire to embrace the West.he endearing narrator recalls his childhood in a series of vivid snapshots:utrage as deserved victory is snatched away from him in the Karachi Bonnieaby contest; bitterness as he is tricked out of his collection of Tarzanubble-gum cards by junior con artists; the heady taste of success in theetropolitan Police schools quiz; joy at passing the entrance exam to theocal grammar school; uncertainty as he seeks to become a doctor (like allood Asian boys); and shock at experiencing racist abuse from pupils,eighbours and strangers. Imran's response is a determined quest to becomehe quintessential English gentleman: tie perfectly knotted, shirt pristinelyroned, hair neatly combed.;Like most boys, he has a parallel obsession withars and girls: he yearns to emulate his hero, Simon Templar in The Saint, byriving off into the distance in a Jaguar XJS and encountering danger,
Unimagined
Author: Imran Ahmad
Publisher: Paperbooks
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781907756337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImran Ahmad remembers his childhood in a series of vivid snapshots: outrage as deserved victory is snatched away from him in the Karachi Bonnie Baby contest; being tricked out of his collection of Tarzan bubblegum cards by a junior con artist; the heady taste of success in the Metropolitan Police schools quiz; joy at passing the entrance exam to the local grammar school; and shock at experiencing racist abuse from pupils, neighbors, and strangers. After moving to London from Karachi at age two, Imran's response to his strange new surroundings is to engage in an eternal quest to become the quintessential English gentleman: tie perfectly knotted, shirt pristinely ironed, hair neatly combed. Like most boys, he also has a parallel obsession with cars and girls: he yearns to go driving off into the distance in a Jaguar XJS and encountering danger, adventure, and a vivacious brunette. This is a lighthearted and amusing look at the results of East meeting West inside the head of a precocious and headstrong boy.
S.H.A.P.E.
Author: Erik Rees
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-12-28
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0310292484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how to unleash the individuality and uniqueness that God has bestowed, revealing how to tap into the mysteries of our makeup and potential, which will lead to a path of purpose, freedom, confidence, and fulfillment.
Indignation
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0547345305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.
A Life Beyond Boundaries
Author: Benedict Anderson
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 178663015X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism. Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.
Buried Dreams
Author: Lindsey R. Dennis
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1501869124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinding hope when faced with the devastating loss of your most precious dreams. At 20 weeks pregnant, Lindsey Dennis and her husband were told the child she was carrying would not live due to a fatal diagnosis. Later, in another stunning blow, they were told the same news with her second pregnancy. They chose to celebrate both lives alongside a community, both local and online, of hundreds of thousands as she carried each child to term only to bury them 14 months apart from each other. Through the crushing of their hopes and dreams, they came to know the kind of resurrection hope that can rise from the grave. This experience of infant loss revealed to Dennis how sorrow and suffering are instruments in the hands of God to forge in us a greater joy and hope than one can ever know. This kind of joy can only be discovered when we walk through the deep pain of burying our most precious dreams. Buried Dreams offers an uplifting perspective, sharing how devastating loss of personal dreams can give way to unimaginable hope and how death can give way to life. Framing her own story of staggering loss and soaring hope with biblical perspective, Dennis highlights that we can never plan for the unexpected turns of this life that sometimes lead to great personal suffering, but we can reach for the One who is there with us in the loss. Product Features: Shares how unrealized dreams can give way to unimaginable hope. Shows how sorrow and suffering are instruments in the hands of God. Rekindles hope for those who have experienced loss.
Lying Awake
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1400077753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.
The Last Gift of Time
Author: Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-07-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0307802140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond. When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and intellectual insights that brought her "to choose each day for now, to live." There are reflections on her new house and her sturdy, comfortable marriage; sweet solitude and the pleasures of sex at an advanced age; the fascination with e-mail and the joy of discovering unexpected friends. Even the encroachments of loss, pain, and sadness that come with age cannot spoil Heilbrun's moveable feast. They are merely the price of bountiful living.
Europe Un-Imagined
Author: Damien Stankiewicz
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1442628790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDamien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.
