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Onions in the Stew
by Betty MacdonaldOnions in the Stew is a true story about an island, a house and a family. The island, Vashon, lies "plump, curvy and green" in the icy waters of Puget Sound, and the house (dream) is the one the MacDonald ,.: a"-. family found there, after long search, '~ _'~ : and has lived in ever since.
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian BurumaIAN BURUMA RETURNS TO HIS NATIVE LAND TO EXPLORE, THROUGH THE STORY OF THE MURDER OF A FAMOUS FILMMAKER AT THE HANDS OF AN ISLAMIC EXTREMIST, THE GREAT DILEMMA OF OUR TIME IT WAS THE EMBLEMATIC CRIME of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of Vincent and iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali that "insulted the prophet Mohammed." After Bouyeri shot Van Gogh, he calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete, as if performing a ritual sacrifice, which in a very real sense he was. The murder horrified quiet, complacent, prosperous Holland, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance, and sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to the country of his childhood to investigate the event and its larger meaning. The result is his masterpiece: a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. Ian Buruma's entire life's work has led him to this story. the tale of what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West, and tolerance finds its limits.
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
by Thor HeyerdahlThis book recounts a groups' travels across the Pacific ocean on a raft
A Safe Place: The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder
by Lorenzo CarcaterraFrom the book: I was fourteen, walking on a beach in Ischia, a Mediterranean island forty miles off the coast of Naples, when I found out about my father. A white cotton towel hung around my neck, the morning sun warmed my back and soft waves rolled against a pea-green fishing boat. A cluster of children were building sand castles by the shore while three German tourists nodded in approval. It was mid-July 1969, my first summer away from home and the most peaceful time in my life. My mother, slumped and weary, stood at my side, staring out to sea. She hardly noticed the Moroccan merchant who was offering good buys on cheap goods or the beach bum selling cool slices of fresh coconut. She reached for my hand, her brown eyes softened by the passing years. "It's time you knew the truth," she said. "About your father." ...
Jaywalking with the Irish
by David MonaganFrom the book: For David Monagan, born in Connecticut to a staunch Irish-American family, a lifelong interest in Ireland was perhaps inescapable. David studied literature at Dublin's Trinity College in 1973 and '74, and he became captivated by the country. After enjoying many visits in the intervening years, in 2000 David and his family relocated from the U.S. to Cork, Republic of Ireland. David has written for numerous publications, including the Irish Times, Sunday Independent, and Irish Examiner, and in his wide travels has developed a keen eye for things baffling and marvelous, such as he finds everywhere around him in modern-day Ireland.
Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York
by Maureen E. MontgomeryFrom the book: "The subject of this book is the public world of New York society women. It covers various aspects of women's lives at the turn of the century in terms of how they negotiated the larger transformation of American culture and society, as well as in terms of the intersection of class and gender interests. In particular, it explores how women's appearance and activities signified leisure with the express intention of laying claim to high social status, and how these women were, in turn, represented in the dominant discourses of journalism and etiquette. This study therefore seeks to make explicit the diverse meanings ascribed to New York society women's activities at the turn of the century in shaping and defining an upper-class identity. Leisure is the key to this upper- class identity precisely because it was an important marker of class."
Liberal Racism
by Jim Sleeperthis is a tough-minded, provocative indictment of the failure of liberalism in the post-Civil Rights era. As Sleeper sees it, liberals once held the moral high ground because they "fought nobly to help this country rise above color." Now, however, liberals have become blinded by race and have abandoned the fight to create what Sleeper calls the "transracial belonging and civic faith for which Americans of all colors so obviously yearn." Much of what Sleeper has to say here flies in the face of politically correct received wisdom about race, but as an effort to remind Americans that all of us are fundamentally responsible for our fates, this is a much-needed corrective to race-based thinking that has proven unproductive.
Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice
by Bill LuedersCry Rape dramatically exposes the criminal justice system’s capacity for error as it recounts one woman’s courageous battle in the face of adversity. In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty’s account and focused the investigation on her. Under pressure, he got her to recant, then had her charged with falsely reporting a crime. The charges were eventually dropped, but Patty continued to demand justice, filing complaints and a federal lawsuit against the police. All were rebuffed. But later, as the result of her perseverance, a startling discovery was made. Even then, Patty’s ordeal was far from over. Other books have dealt with how police and prosecutors bend and break the law in their zeal to prevail. This one focuses instead on how the gravest injustice can be committed with the best of intentions, and how one woman’s bravery and persistence finally triumphed.
War on the Middle Class
by Lou DobbsHow The Government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream, and how to fight back.
IAS Mukhya Pariksha Capsule - Competitive Exam
by Drishti Publicationसामान्य अध्ययन की मेन्स कैप्सूल पुस्तक में भारतीय विरासत एवं संस्कृति तथा विश्व इतिहास, कला एवं संस्कृति, आधुनिक भारतीय इतिहास, विश्व का भूगोल, समाजिक न्याय शासन व्यवस्था, अंतर्राष्ट्रीय संबंध, भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था एवं आर्थिक विकास, रोजगार, कृषि, भूमि सुधार, पर्यावरण, विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी, आंतरिक सुरक्षा नीतिशास्त्र, सतयनिष्ठा, अभिरूचि और शासन व्यवस्था में किस प्रकार ईमानदारी से भूमिका निभायी जाये आदि तथ्यों का समावेश है।
Science, Social Science Volume 3 Term 2 class 6 - Tamil Nadu Board
by Tamil GovernmentThe Science textbook for standard six has been prepared following the guidelines given in the National Curriculum Framework 2005. The book is designed to maintain the paradigm shift from the primary General Science to branches as Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
My Lesbian Husband
by Barrie Jean BorichBarrie Jean Borich's memoir of her 14-year marriage is a subtle exploration of gender and the intricacies of butch-femme desire. My Lesbian Husband describes Borich's attraction to her partner, Linnea, and the slow building of their life together in a decaying neighborhood in Minneapolis. Borich traces both the pleasures and the wrenching difficulties of trying to construct a long-term union in the absence not only of legal and social but of everything that our aunts and uncles and parents take for granted: "names for their union in every language, the weddings of a square-chested prince and a big-busted, cinch-waisted princess at the end of every Disney movie, every Shakespeare comedy, not to Mary and Joseph, Hera and Zeus, and those little bride and groom figurines they have saved from their wedding cakes." This is as sharply observed and well-written a memoir as Jan Clausen's and Oranges, but a valentine rather than a valediction.
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
by Tobe Levin Sabine Eichhorst Fadumo KornFrom the book: Hailed in the German press as an author of "astonishing courage and sense of humor," anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) activist Fadumo Korn forthrightly describes her brutal circumcision at age seven and her long and agonizing path to physical and psychological recovery. As a child, Fadumo freely roams the steppes of Somalia until her mother delivers her into the hands of an excisor to undergo a horrific "ritual" cutting to make her a woman in the eyes of her tribe. When complications ensue-and escalate-Fadumo travels to the sprawling capital of Mogadishu and the household of a relative who is close to the incoming Somali president. The girl then experiences firsthand a world of incongruous luxury amid political instability in a country on the edge of civil war. Fadumo's condition later becomes so life threatening that she is sent for treatment to Germany, where she recovers. Eventually, Fadumo marries and, following corrective surgery, she bears a child. Fadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. This deftly crafted memoir, suffused with sorrow and surprising humor, is an unblinkered history of a life replete with trauma and pain as well as recovery and activism. Today Korn campaigns against FGM while remaining sensitive to the fact that many young African women value it as a passage to womanhood.
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
by John R. Killacky Bob Guterthis is an anthology of essays and short stories about gay men who are also disabled. Many of the stories and essays are taken from Bent, an on-line publication that gives voice to the often silent voices of disabled gay men.
Social Science 2 Part 2 class 10 - S.C.E.R.T. - Kerala board
by State Council of Educational Research and TrainingThe lessons in this book for Class X are so arranged as to help familiarize the physiography, climate, and soil of our country, and to develop a general awareness on the use of the potentials of modern technology in geography. This textbook also discusses concepts like the society in which we regularly interact, the economic transactions in the society, banks and their functions, and national income.
The Savage My Kinsman
by Elisabeth ElliotIn January of 1956, the world recoiled in shock with the news. Five American missionaries had been speared to death in the Equadorian jungles by Auca Indians - reportedly the most savage tribe on earth. Years later, it became clear that what had seemed to be the tragic ending of those missionaries' dreams was only the first chapter of one of the most breathtaking missionary stories of the twentieth century. The Savage, story, in text Elisabeth Elliot's territory, tells of her interactions with the Aucas after her husband's death. She learns their language and culture and teaches them about God.
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom
by Robert Nisbet"The Quest for Community" stands among the most important social critiques ever written. The first book by the man the New York Times calls "one of our most original social thinkers", Robert Nisbet's study explores how individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources of human community - the family, neighborhoods, the church, and voluntary organizations - have grown weaker. First published in 1953, this timeless work is a seminal contribution to the understanding of the spiritual and intellectual crisis of Western Society. With a new introduction by William A. Schambra that places the book in a contemporary perspective, "Quest for Community" deserves to be reread in the light of events that have confirmed its provocative thesis.
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence
by Robin W. WinksThe adventurous search for clues to scholarly hoaxes, forgeries, and lost and misleading documents, and the evaluation of evidence in man's study of his own past.
So, Now What Do I Eat? The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Convenience Foods
by Gail DavisFrom the book: Discover How to: *Shop for the most delectable vegetarian foods * Create award winning meals without spending hours in the kitchen * choose nutritious foods your kids will love * Find vegetarian foods your pets will love * Interpret food labels and know which ingredients to avoid * Buy foods you cannot find at your local store * Replace your favorite animal-based foods with delicious vegetarian alternatives that taste even better! An excellent resource!