Bound by Struggle
Author: Zeev Maoz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780472112746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the origins and dynamics of enduring rivalries between countries
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Phoenix Bound
Author: Angie K. Elliston
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781944783853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHROUGH THE EYES OF THE ADOPTIVE MOTHERThis is part of the forward by Dr. Ronald Steven Federici, Board-Certified Developmental Neuropsychologist, Father of Eight Internationally AdoptedChildren from Severely Traumatic Backgrounds.Phoenix Bound makes no secret of the severity of abuse, neglect, deprivation, chaos and confusion that their children have experienced in their home countries in addition to the unwillingness of American medicine and psychological professionals to understand and support their cause. This is an incredible book highlighting the resiliency of the human spirit of the children in addition to the incredible commitment of parents who have taken on the most damagedchildren in which traditional psychology would have failed them every time and the parents, themselves along with their own "network" have found ways forpositive change and rehabilitation on their "Phoenix Bound Quest."
Freedom's Frontier
Author: Stacey L. Smith
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-08-12
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1469607697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
The End
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 1359
ISBN-13: 1448190800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian). * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. The End reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. It is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - from his ambitions to his doubts and frailties. 'Epic... It creates a world that absorbs you utterly' Sunday Times 'Compulsively addictive' Daily Telegraph 'My Struggle has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century' Guardian 'A mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art' Spectator
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Author: Angela Carstensen
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 083899315X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.
Bound Feet & Western Dress
Author: Pang-Mei Chang
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0307792242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.
Struggle
Author: Sara Zyskind
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA teenage boy struggles to stay alive in Nazi-occupied Poland and then as he travels aboard a cattle train bound for Auschwitz.
Freedom Bound
Author: Christopher Tomlins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1139490931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.
Sisters in the Struggle
Author: Bettye Collier-Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2001-08
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0814716024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
Embrace the Struggle
Author: Zig Ziglar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-10-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 143915533X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter years of speaking and writing bestsellers on the value of having a positive attitude, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar is faced with putting his words into action after a fall leaves him with a head injury. In Embrace the Struggle, Ziglar shares a personal account of his accident and offers encouragement through his firsthand experience of overcoming his most difficult challenge. One of the leading stars in the “positive thinking” movement, Zig Ziglar has made a career out of telling people how to have a positive attitude, no matter what their circumstances are. But when a fall down a stairway onto a marble floor leaves him with a head injury, he is challenged with how to put the principles he’d been speaking about into practice. Ziglar’s willingness to be transparent has him back writing and speaking with renewed energy before audiences in the tens of thousands to show that life on life’s terms is still well worth living. Embrace the Struggle affirms the validity of the principles Ziglar has held true his entire life and includes not only his account of living positively through difficult circumstances; it also includes heartwarming stories of real people who encouraged him with how they put into practice these vital principles.
